'•'13. Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, July 21, 1961. RJJL§ULE (in conjunction with W. C. Standerwick)
COACH EXCURSIONS from.
CLITHEROE, 16. Welleate; WHALLEY, Bus Station CHATBURN. Brown Cow
Clitheroe Whalley Chatburn p.m. 6-30
p.m. 6-40
10-0 10-0
12-40 12-40 2-0
12-0 G-30
10-0 10-0
a.m. 8-40
12-40 6-30
10-0 10-0
8-30 p.m.
a.m. 7-30
12-40 12-40 6-30
10-0
12-40 2-0
12-0 p.m.
10-0 10-0
a.m. 8-30
12-40 12-40 2-0
6-30 a.m.
10-0 8-40
p.m. 2-0
6-30 p.m.
a.m. 8-40
p.m.
8-30 8-40
a.m. 7-30
p.m.
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6-15
a.m. 8-50
9-50 9-50
12-50 6-15
8-20 9-50 9-50
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a.m. 7-40
12-50 12-50 6-45
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8-20 8-50 9-50 9-50 p.m.
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SATURDAY, 22nd JULY
BLACKPOOL. Dancing and Theatres ............................ . . .4 /6
SUNDAY, 23rd JULY
8-40 CLEETHORPES ................... ..20/0 —
10-10 SEVEN LAKES TO U R ___ .15/9 10-10 YORKSHIRE DALES......... p.m
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CHESTER ZOO ................. NEW BRIGHTON ............. SOUTHPORT ......................
HIGHER HODDER. SETTLE and WIGGLESWORTH . . .3/6
a.m. MONDAY. 24th JULY —
10-10 p.m.
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10-10 WINDERMERE. ULLSWATER. PENRITH AND SHAP . . .15/3 SETTLE, MORECAMBE and BLACKPOOL ...................
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G-40 RIBBLE VALLEY SETTLE 4/6 TUESDAY, 25th JULY
10-10 WINDERMERE & BOWNESS 12/0 10-10 YORKSHIRE SPAS and p.m.
8-40
— RIBBLE VALLEY ............... . .4 /3 a.m. WEDNESDAY. 26th JULY
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9-50 p.m.
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10-10 HARROGATE. RIPON and FOUNTAINS ABBEY
P.m. CIRCULAR ........................ .10/9 —.
2-10 BOLTON ABBEY and ILKLEY ..............................
p.m. 12-50 12-50 2-10 6-15
9-50 9-50
a.m. 8-20
a.m.
10-10 p.m.
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a.m. 9-50
8-50
p.m. 2-10 6-15
THURSDAY, 27th JULY
10-10 WINDERMERE. CONISTON and GRANGE ................. 13/3 YORK and HARROGATE
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6-40 RIBBLE VALLEY & SETTLE 4/6 FRIDAY. 28th JULY
— SOUTHPORT .......................... BLACKPOOL ...........................
NEW BRIGHTON ...............
10-10 p.m.
DERBYSHIRE DALES ___ 14/3
HIGHER HODDER. SETTLE and WIGGLESWORTH . . . .3/6
COACHES AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE PARTIES Book at Local Office:
CLITHEROE. 16. Welleate. Tel. 176. Or at Local Agency:
Mr. Whitaker, Park Villas. Whalley. Tel. 2279.
MORECAMBE ..................... 11/3 RIBBLE VALLEY ................. .4/0
INGLETON. KIRKBY LONS- DALE. GRANGE and
CIRCULAR ........................ 11/9 .9/3
8-40 REDCAR CIRCULAR ......... 18/6
CHESTER ZOO ................... SOUTHPORT ........................
.8/6 .7/0
.6/9
HAREWOOD HOUSE . . . .10/0 PICRMERE LAKE ............... . .7/6 SOUTHPORT ........................ . .7/0
THE DUKERIES ................. .16/3 SOUTHPORT ........................ . .7/0 .10/9
RHYL ...................................... .15/9 SCARBOROUGH .................. . 17/G
BROWSHOLME HALL. HODDER and RIBBLE VALLEYS . .3/6
. .9/3 . .7/0
RHYL ........................’............. ..15 /9 DERBYSHIRE DALES . .
.14/3 . .9/3 . .8/6
"Mamma’s earrings were a bit of a shock
TTOW would you like to be given a lovely pair of golden AA earrings—but then have your ears pierced with a stock ing needle so that you could wear them?
Mrs. Norah Grives, who re turned yesterday to Ghana after spending five months with her mother, Mrs. A. Scho field, at 1, Old Row, Barrow.
" It did not really hurt,” Mrs.
Grives told me on Tuesday, " but I was a bit apprehen sive.
“Ghanians are very gener
ous once they get to know you and I have had several neck laces given to me, including a St. Christopher medal for this last journey.
HOLYWELL & PANTASAPH 13/9
whom I have known for years gave me the earrings, and when I saw them I did not know what to do so I pointed to my ears and said, ‘See mam ma, no holes’.
“An old African woman “I could have dropped when
she just waved her hand and made signs that she wanted a sewing needle! But every where I went wearing my ear rings there were cries of appro val.”
This has been Mrs. Grives’;
tenth trip back to England in eleven years in Africa. Her husband is a civil engineer who was formerly a Royal Engineer stationed at Low Moor.
- As he is engaged on various building projects the family moves around Ghana, and on the night before catching her ’plane a few months ago Mrs. Grives was putting up curtains In a flat into which they had moved only two weeks before.
“We are overlooking the har
bour at Tackoradi, where my husband is engaged on build ing a new barracks for the Ghanian Army,” Mrs. Grives explained. "The funny thing is we were last in Tackoradi nine years ago, and we have moved all over Ghana.
“ There is such a lot of build
S. W. ALLEN, F.B.O.A. (HONS.) OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN
CONTACT LENS PRACTITIONER
ing work going on in Ghana now and the shops and stores are very modern and attrac tive. There are many Indian and Syrian shops, too, but you can always tell one from the other easily by the smell of incense which is burnt in the Indian shops.”
She is enthusiastic, too, Telephone: Clitheroe 1176.
5, MARKET PLACE, CLITHEROE.
about the fabrics and fashions there, especially the native cloth, known as kente, which is hand woven silk, each j-L-ce being a harrow strip lour inches long.
These are sewn together to
make garments and a man’.; traditional garments can cost anything from £75 to £100.
HAVE A CLEAN SWEEP.........................
VACUUM CHIMNEY SWEEPING, HOUSES SCRUBBED OUT, ANY TYPE OF COOKER OR DOMESTIC BOILERS CARPETS CLEANED----- by Modern Electric Machines.
G. E. PARKER
33, SALTHILL ROAD Tel.: Clitheroe 10G3.
smart, but on special occasions the national costume is always worn. I shall never forget the day the Gold Coast became
“ The girls are also very That Is what happened to
Ghana, for there was a state ball in the evening and the costumes of kente cloth were really magnificent,” she told me.
‘ Ghana is rather interna tional, and among the friends
of my husband and myself, and our son, Peter, who is 18, are Ghanian, Syrian, French and Japanese.
“Peter is training to be a
civil engineer, too, and al though he loves the life there he always says he likes to come back here and see Pendle.”
■ Peter was born in Clitheroe and on his eight visits back he has been a temporary pup;i at Ribblesdale Modern Schooi. '
youth anywhere enjoying it self. Mrs. Grives thinks Ghana
has a great future, although it will take time.
any kind in Ghana, and one of the best illustrations I can
“There is no colour bar cf ■
give you of this is to tel] you that I have stood in the street talking to Africans about the troubles in other parts of Africa. What the Ghanians want to know is ‘Why does it happen? Why can’t they be like us?’.”
WALLPAPER MARKS FROM PICTURE FRAMES
marks when moved. This is largely due to a lack of air cir culating behind the picture. If two good-sized drawing pins are stuck into the frame at the bottom so that the domed shaped heads are against the wall the dust which makes the mark won’t settle so easily be cause of air circulation. Cheap too!
TXT ALLPAPER is expensive ’ ’ and pictures leave behind
NO LADDERS TO THIS SUCCESS
TF you dry your nylons out A of doors, the wind some times wraps them round the line, something catches and you’ve got a ladder. Silly isn’t it? Very well, then, stop it at once by dropping a penny^r side the stockings before hn® ing them up—two pennie^j a strong wind!
SMELLING ASH-TRAYS
left to smoulder. Prevent this by putting some ordinary bak ing soda in the bottom of the ash trays. It stops them burn ing at once and best of ail stops that smell.
TJ NS TUB BED cigarettes make a horrible smell ’f
JEAN MILLER -4. TN 1561 it was decided to
A build this bridge at Lower Hodder, framed here in tile arch of the more recent bridge and now, 400 years later, the spot attracts many visitors.
The bridge is popularly
known as “Cromwell’s Bridge” but it is more likely that Cromwell crossed the river at Higher Hodder shortly before the Battle of Preston in August, 1648. when he thor oughly defeated tile Royal army.
The contract for the build ing of the bridge js dated 30th
Off to Russia and Scandinavia
TWO old boys of Clitheroe A Royal Grammar School, Brian Dugdale. of De Lacy Street. Clitheroe, and Keith Davies, of Worston, left Clithe roe on Monday on the first stage of their trip to Russia and Scandinavia.
They are taking part in an
expedition organised by Bristol University Rover Crew, and special research work will be carried out for the British Museum by the 19 students from Bristol and Leeds who are taking part.
rp<HE Red Lion Hotel, Ripley, A Derbyshire, which dates from 1675, is being rebuilt 8ft. further back from the road.
COUNTRY DIARY__ At last: A golden eagle is seen
Y ou wil1 Perhaps recall when I first set out on my hunt
for the golden eagle that 1 promised to give a true picture of my adventures.
There was to be no added
colour or distractions. If I failed, then there would be no beating about the bush. If 1 succeeded, then my experience would be given in full as it actually happened, It was, I said, to be the truth and no thing but the truth.
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intended to see as much of my new surroundings as possible. So far I have given some idea of my surroundings, and in no way attempted to hide my failures.
when, to be quite frank, my chances of achieving success were very slender indeed. As you will have noted, all my ex cursions have ended in failure so far as the eagle was con cerned.
I had now reached the point,
It always seemed as if I was just too late. At each point I
was confronted with, “ Oh! Yes! the eagle. Now if you had only been here a couple of years ago.”
Still, I am not easily de
feated, and so I changed my headquarters in the hope that the last few days of my holi days would produce the de sired results.
ANOTHER PART
TYURING my enquiries it was A"/ suggested I move to an other part of the island to con tact some crofters. Judging from the map, it was a wild piece of ground and this was certainly the actual picture. I had now only one day left to track down my quarry, and so, favoured by the weather, I set out from my new headquarters in glorious sunshine.
After an hour’s walk, I came
to a croft on which all my hopes were resting. Imagine my feelings when I was again confronted with—"They have
nested. But I am afraid I can not help you now.
again began to rise, “ you go along and see Frazer. He may be able to help.”
But,” and here my hopes Frazer’s place was some dis
tance away, and in half an hour I was within hailing dis tance of the cottage. It was a beautiful morning, sunny and very fresh, and one which I shall never forget.
Before reaching the cottage,
I came to a small building which, in our own district, would be referred to as an out- barn. A dog came enquiringly round the corner, gave me a friendly wag of the tail and turned towards the open door.
thought it time to pause, just as a woman full of apologies
Having heard movements, i
for her rough appearance, peered round the door. WIFE
FRAZER’S
QHE said she ° wife, and I immediately told her of my business. I was told her husband would ou
was Frazer’s
more she said, “ Bore he comes.” I shook hands with her husband and again re peated my tale.
down at any time from the cottage. Before we could say much
the land not far from the building, he took hold of my arm and faced the glen. He then pointed to a rocky point.
“See that!” he said, going on
to say, “ Follow to' the left and you will see a dark patch of heather near the edge of the cliff.”
Again I nodded, “Well,” he
continued, “ opposite you will pick out a rocky outcrop.”
DISTANT SCENE
over the distant scene again in order not to make any mis take.”
“Right,” Frazer said, “head
straight down the bog, cut across to the right until you reach the trees and then fol low these to the vital spot.”
Quite frankly, I was too ex
cited to note the heat of the sun or indeed the wet patches in the bog. At times I floun dered in my haste, but nothing short of barbed wire could stop me now.
I covered the mile in record
time, and when confronted with an old water-filled peat cutting took the risk of getting wet feet by heading straight across.
After a while I stopped and
concerned with what to me were the most encouraging words I have heard for a long, long time. “ Oh, you are look ing for the eagles!”
He was in no way outwardly
the vicinity?” You could have knocked mo
“ Yes,” I said, " are they in
down with a feather when he explained how sorry he was that he could not go along with me. He had lost two cows and had to go searching for them.
It was incredible. His man
ner was so casual as if he were telling me of a blackbird nest in a nearby bush. Was he jok ing? Taking me to a rise m
turned to see if Frazer was watching my progress, but found I was Mone. As far as I could see, I was the only human in this wild yet beauti ful territory.
The sun had no pity, per
spiration flowed freely. But what of such trivialities with success so close at hand.
With binocular slung round
my neck ready for any possi bility, I hurried on realising this was my last chance. To morrow I had to begin my re turn journey. Then in the dis tance I saw a sight enough to gladden the heart of any ornithologist. Yes, it was an
eagle. NATURALIST.
“T FOLLOWED his directions A very carefully, and went
December, 1561, and it was to
be completed by Michaelmas 1563.
“Roger Crosseley in the Countie of lane fremason of thonc pte And Sr Richard Shyrburrt knyghl Rye Shyr- burn of baylay Edmundc Shyrburn John Holden gent and James Shottylworth of thothcr pte.”
The contract was between
these were taken down shortly after the new bridge was built in the 1820’s.
below the old bridge and there appears to have been a. wooden bridge long before Sir Richard’s time.
There are traces of a ford Sir Richard Shircburn, who
for £70 and at one time it had battlements or parapets, but according to one acount
The bridge was to be built i S
lived from 1523 until 1594, was the builder of Elizabethan Stonyhurst. Edmund Sliire- burn was a cousin of Sir Rich
ard, probably a branch of the family that lived at Wolf House, near Chipping.
tion of the bridge lie was pro bably living at Shircburn House between Hurst Green and Dutton. Richard Shirc burn, of Bailey, was probably an uncle of Sir Richard and lived at Bailey Hall.
At tile time of the construc There are some photographs
which were taken a hundred years ago which show a thatched house on the Lanca shire bank between the two bridges, and this has been described as the Bridge Inn,
but it could be a corruption of Bridge End House.
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Tl/TR. J. COWELL, of The ' -LTA Cottage, Worston, this week described to me the tiny island of Tristan Da Cunha, often called the world’s lone liest isle, where, he says, violence and crime are un known.
oil the beaten track, lying between South Africa and Soutjj America in the South Atlantic. The island was formed by a volcano, now ex
This Shangri-La is certainly
tinct, and has an area of only 30 square miles. Money lias little use on the
island, and birds’ eggs and potatoes are often used as currency. The menfolk farm and fish, while the women
sew, spin and knit and the children play. The secret of their happi
ness may lie in the fact that the postman, with his news of the outside world of conflict, arrives only five times a year.
all the island’s natural advan tages he is surprised that the population is only 300, and adds that if “Ernie” smiles on him perhaps it will increase to 301.
Mr. Cowell says that with RESTING PLACE
f)LD people are making good ^ use of the two seats out side the Social Club in Well- gate.
been inscribed “ With the compliments of the Social Club,” because many people thought they had been placed there by the Town Council. In actual fact, they were provided by the committee out of club funds.
WOAD ODE
rJiHE ancient Britons, so I read. Were primitive and wild,
This is a fact of history. That is known to every child. They had the oddest customs, As all savage peoples do, And by far the most peculiar, Was to paint their faces blue!
But now that we are civilised, Such habits we abhor, To desecrate a lovely thing. Is something to deplore, So when I see a pretty girl Go tripping down the road, It gives me quite a shock to see, Her eyelids stained with woad!
Our ladies are reverting? Are they content with eyelids —A mere male cannot tell— Perhaps before the year is out They’ll paint -their ears as well!
I wonder what this indicates? Am I right in asserting, That to their former savage state, ,
The seats have recently
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Then, moving on from eyes and ears,
With cerulean noses, And this will open wide the door, To ev'ry shade and hue, No wonder that we fathers Find the outlook pretty blue I JIMIFEL.
If fashion so disposes, One day our daughters will parade
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By '■ QUIS ’ SMALL SCREEN
B.B.C. Television programme on Friday night devoted to the Russian spaceman Major Ga garin for the programme was presented by Clitheronian Mr. Bryan Cowgill, a former editor of the “Advertiser & Times.”
QLITHERONIANs had a special interest in the
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in which he had a five-minute spot.
Recently, Mr. Cowgill has
been more concerned with ten nis for he was executive pro ducer. at Wimbledon. Since joining the B.B.C. several years ago, he has, of course, been chiefly concerned with the popular “Sportsview” and "Grandstand” programmes.
the “Advertiser & Times” edi torial staff concerned with television is Mr. Jack Williams now staffman in the Birming ham area for “Angling Times.'’
Another former member of Mr. Williams, who left Clith
eroe in 1958, is resident host of 20-minute programme “Hook,
Line and Sinker,” which goes out on Thursday evenings un til the end of August from the ATV studios in Birmingham. The programme, which unfor tunately, cannot be seen by viewers in this area, began in June and is devoted entirely to angling.
Jack is no stranger to tele vision for, he tells me, he has
the Midlands, incidentally, Jack occasionally meets people who have associations with Clitheroe. One man he met was stationed at Low Moor Mill while serving in the Army.
During his travels around SHOW SEASON
Clitheroe Show will be staged on August 5th, and later in the month there will be Whalley and St. James’s horticultural shows. September will see the Hodder Valley Show. All this makes for a great
^>NCE again we shall soon be in the local show season.
already done two weekly pro grammes each lasting for three months, “Look Around” and “Midlands Magazine.” and
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photograph of her son dancing' at a typical international Fri day-night dance in Accra, t’->e capital. African girls were'also dancing, and others looked on at the scene—a. picture cf
His mother showed me a THRE TWO BRIDGES OVER THE HODDER AT GREAT MITTON
AT W Peacefu
GET in the hea valley scenery
at Eaves Hall La: Friday, will event:: will not be permai
Focal point of ti
a dramatic view o eroe Parish Chun
has two walls me completely of glas caravanners1 can scenery even in weather.
The lounge, Arne
building are a sho toilets, wash basin and cold showers.
Also included in
The site compri acre plateau surrou
acres of woodland o sheltered on the no Bradford Fell, boun west- by a valley fl; Japanese larch
• trees, and on the e the Drakehouse rav ed with various foi
The site takes
from the three stre run through its and after joining meet become West brook which, in t into the Ribble abo ter mile from the s
Britclifl’e. of Fence W. H. Riley, of Bu of the original caravans — bou? House Wood becaust mon interest in gro At the same time interested in th< hobby of caravanni
The directors,
granted by Bowl; District Council in and since that timi laid 2,000 square roadway, using abo of stone, 2,400 fee pipes to provide s- five points spread site and for the ma and cleared loose ti streams running ti site.
Planning permi. Part of the site
prepared, fenced a: with 13,000 small planting will couth large part of the been re-stocked.
ton, chairman of tl Committee of Bow who opened the si was “astonished” gress made since the committee vis on a cold, dismal ary prior to giving
ASTONISHING P Mrs. A. W. Dow,
“It is an absolut
lous site,” she sale derful transform
taken place in the; months. The site one of the most
Donkeys
tural shows suffered consider ably as a result of the wet weather of the past week, and it is to be hoped that Clith eroe Show will be favoured with sunshine. A visit to an agricultural show is a pleasant way of spending a summer’s day, but if it rains then it can be most unpleasant.
deal of work for the secretar ies and other officials of the different shows. But they are always equal to the demands, and the result is usually a first rate show. I notice that some agricul
It may seem an
their teeth stoppet •with a gold tooth But have you i
suffer with their develop bad teeth them. Put these two st
of it? Doctors an teeth because they —food which pol; Eskimos, who
with their teeth troubles start. The link betwe
the sweets and chi form acid in the eat a great deal o
dings, as well as Civilised food
overcooked, and g Teeth were ma
vegetables and fr suck lazily at a t< No one is sugg
cave at the end c in their den. But A raw apple oi
"something to ch radishes and crisj some work to d The other sid
foods which pro milk, cheese and
cooked for the Don’t pour
al
you cook vegeta boiling water fo as cauliflower at In the summ
chopped mint a mean bread and insist on cakes 1
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