COUNTRY DIARY


e. 2, James Haydock; call: 1. James Hay-


\loo:'hou>e. pt :i group t\a.-.s: 1. 5.


R. Ma*on; 3. J. Moo:*-


•<it-d Ayrshire* or Avr- 1. J. K. Usnd’.cy. Gis- K. Baines: 3. James.


SEY CATTLE Keith. Scarborough.


fry. bcAwvon the ages years at date of show: nett: 2. J. H. Howard: tun. O.^baldeston. milk, which has pro- lir"t ancl only calf


jo of 2; years: 1, J H. M;ivi> Allaun: 3. H. A.


• in milk with second nt calf (2nd or later . J. H. Howard. any age: 1. J. H. I A. Garnett; 3, Mavis


,SSES FOR HORSES e with foal at foot: 1. .Michael’s: 2. A. Card-


Rawcliffe; 3. James


z Houghton. < kiing. foaled 1955 or , be taken into con- n . Hull: 2. A. Gard-


Holleran. lv foal: 1. F. Wilham- . Che*.: 2. R. Hull; 3.


'Idimi. th e property of endent on farming for 1. F. Williamson; 2. . Hull.


OPEN CLASSES LONK Parker. Gisburn.


iamb: 1. F. E. Dugdale: . Dugdale. Dutton; 3.


rling ram: 1, Mrs. F. 2 . F. Clark.


two shear or over: 1.


Vugdaie; 2. Mrs. F. E. hime* Yates. Thornley. ik. gimmer lambs: 1. ugdale. i: shearling gimmers:


;. F. E. Dugdale: 3. F.


t ewes, to have suckled ear: 1. Mrs. F. E. Dug- Yates: 3. F. Clark, te Lonk. ewes, to have this year (restricted


oi Clitheroc and Bow- h of the National .o::): 1. James Yates;


D HORNED SHEEP Drinkall. Chorley.


m iamb, other than •pli Huddleston. Chip- 3. R. E. Wood, Gar-


ihearlinp ram. other L. I. C. Smith. Dunsop l . E. Wood; 3. I. C.


other than Lonk: 3 Wood.


ned Gimmer Jambs, ink: 1. J. Huddleston; 1: 3. Campbell Smith, rd shearling gimmers, .m k : 1. R. E. Wood;


.rd ewes, other th an e suckled lambs this impbell Smith. ied ewes, other than •e suckicd lambs this ted to members of Bowland Branch of Farmers' Union: 1. F.


.BRED SHEEP Thompson, Penrith;


y, Crawshawbooth.


1. any breed: 1. John rings. Pendleton; 2. ollegc: 3. CAV.S. Ltd..


ner lambs: 1. J. W. Bradford; 2. John


yvwick; 3. C.W.S. Ltd. Miearling gimmers: 1.


2. Stonyhurst College, t wes to have suckled


-*ar: 1. C.W.S. Ltd.: 2. oliege. lambs: 1. Stonyhurst AW.S. Ltd.; 3. J. M.


is^-bred fat lambs y e lb. to butcher: 1.


eo half-bred ewes, to lamb.-, this year: 1.


ham Leicester cross imer.s: l. Stonyhurst


onyhurst College, ham Leicester cross suckled lambs th is


1. Stonyhurst College. ORSE SECTION


REN’S RIDING 12.2 h.h.: 1. Miss H.


lisburn; 2, Diana thwich; 3. Linda


y. n - 13.2 h.h.: 1, J. le: 2, Miss H. Dickin-


i Regard. tinued on page 6)


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right: Mrs. R. ad, wife of the


y show jumping s. ! ; Unfamiliar shape was basking shark


boisdale in South Uist, also in the Outer Hebrides. This again was by sea—a short trip and promising to be less vio­ lent than that we experienced when crossing the Minch.


more than 147 miles by sea, and this two-hour journey would bring the total to 174 miles.


Already we had travelled


p.m., the Claymore, always within sight of the Outer Isles, headed for Lochboisdale.


So, leaving Castlebay at 5


leaving, my attention was drawn to a huge triangular object just out to sea. Then, before glasses could be turned on to the unfamiliar shape, an islander quickly estab­ lished it as a basking shark.


Within half - an - hour of *


the gulls to form the familiar retinue in our wake. Then South Uist—an island which from a study of the map, and other sources, would have many subjects for the bird watcher and also furnish some items of interest for the camera.


Fulmars also joined up with


an attraction for duck and waders, as, looking at the map, the island was deeply cut and fretted with sea and freshwater lochs.


accommodation just over the hill overlooking the loch.


f o u n d STRONG WIND -


ing morning, we took the road to Daliburgh. A s t r o n g northerly wind came from the sea—a wind which was to keep us company for the next few days.


After breakfast the follow­


Stacks and rows of peat arranged in neat formation


Cafe raid: Boy sent to


approved school


JUOR breaking and entering a lock-up cafe in Clitheroe


Castle grounds, and commit­ ting wilful damage to property


In a Clitheroe school, an 11- year-old schoolboy was com­ mitted to an approved school for three years by Clitheroe Juvenile Panel on Wednesday.


siding, said it was obvious that the boy could not get the necessary supervision at home. He would receive psychiatric treatment at the approved school.


Aid. J. W. D. Critchley, pre­


r 'LITHEROE Juvenile Panel u on Wednesday comprised


I


dd. J. W. D. Critchley, Mr. D. tawson, Mrs. V. Bush.


No doubt the place would be


rrHE next leg of our journey was from Barra to Loch-


"were to be seen everywhere. On the lochs, some well scattered with water lilies, were the odd pair of tufted duck. Others provided the shelduck and mallard with ideal surroundings.


place with scattered thatched cottages and crofts by the roadside. Many are, however, disappearing, as the more modern concrete houses, often just adjoining the thatched dwelling, are completed. In­ deed it would be safe to say not only of Uist but of the Outer Isles in general, that the more picturesque cottages will soon be a memory.


Daliburgh Is a delightful


I began to read of these parts, my scrutiny of the maps re­ vealed a spot by the West coast near Milton marked “Ruins of Flora MacDonald’s birthplace.”


not far from the spot and asked our way from a crofter who, with his son aged about five, was walking his cattle from the machair across the rougher ground to the road where we were standing.


Beyond Daliburgh, we were WITHOUT SHOES


Uist, and, with most of the village hidden from view, our first impression was not so encouraging. We


By 7 p.m. we had set foot on


as we walked along I could not help but notice the absence of footgear on the wee fellow. The rough ground held no terrors as he ran oblivious to the stones by the roadside.


•He gave us the details, and


quite common not so long ago, and it was a regular custom in the Highlands for the children to cast all footwear as soon as the call of the first cuckoo was heard.


Such practices were indeed


the ruined cottage which lies less than half-a-mile from the road. As we examined the very sturdy roofless walls, the mind went to those dark days when Flora MacDonald took such risks in her devotion


We parted and were soon at When in the winter of 1961


first met near Ormacled, four miles to the north of this, her birthplace.


towards Prince Charlie. Flora and Prince Charlie


great change in the general scene since those days. Then to the east the view was In direct contrast to the flat area reaching out to the west.


I doubt if there has been CAPTURE THE EYE


than 2,000 feet, and Hecla capture the eye, and, in the morning light, demanded a photograph.


across the machair to the west coast and we ate our lunch o v e r l o o k i n g the Atlantic. From this shore, as one looks west, the next land is that of America.


It Is no great distance


of the power of the sea, and now, although as we could not have wished for anything more peaceful, the huge piles of seaweed spoke of more turbulent days.


Everywhere we noticed signs


relaxation from the anxieties and tension of this modern age, this is the place anyone could recommend.


For those who wish to seek


white sand, Arm and dazzling in the sunshine. Eiders and shelduck were by the tide edge.


We walked along miles of


to a strange object in the sand. I dismissed it as a half- buried boat. She, however, was more curious.


Suddenly my wife pointed


ing, but by her gesture saw her find was of importance. I followed to find the object was a half-buried 18-foot porpoise. Small wonder why the party of great black- backed gulls were waiting not far away. They had already been gorging themseves on the soft flesh.


I sat on the machair wait­ NATURALIST


THIS WAS NEWS . . . 25 YEARS AGO August Gill, 1937


serving three generations. *


# #


when a Blackburn Higher Div­ ision Police Force team met a team of local medical and legal men. Martindale. play­ ing for the police, bowled a rubber ball at Constantine who, wearing a policeman’s coat, lashed 'the ball to the


A COMIC charity cricket match was played at Read


boundary with a truncheon. $ * ft


Clitheroe was more than double that for a comparable town, said Mr. J. A. Speed,


R l B S-k E (In conjunction with W. C. Standerwlck)


COACH EXCURSIONS from


CLITHEROE: 16, Wellgate: WHALLEY: Bus Station CHATBURN: Brown Cow


C Dep.litheroe Whalley Dep.


p.m. 6-40


a.m. 7-20


p.m. 12-10 12-50 2-10


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*8-50 p.m. 9- 50


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10-10 10-10 pan.


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SATURDAY, 4th AUGUST BLACKPOOL. Dancing and Theatres ............................ 4/6


LLANGOLLEN CIRCULAR .. 15/0 KESWICK & THE LAKES 15/0 YORK and HARROGATE ..11/9


WHITBY, SALTBURN and REDCAR ............................ 20/0


_ BROWSHOLME HALL. HODDER and RIBBLE VALLEYS ..3/6


— SOUTHPORT ..........................7/0 CHESTER ZOO ...................8/6


— HIGHER HODDER. SETTLE and WIGGLESWORTH---- 3/6


a.m. MONDAY. 6th AUGUST 50


_ DERBYSHIRE DALES and CHATSWORTH ’.................14/3


10-10 p.m.


KESWICK & THE LAKES . . 15/0


CHESTER ZOO .....................8/6 SOUTHPORT ......................... 7/0


TUESDAY. 7th AUGUST


THE DUKERIES TOUR---- 16/3 BOWNESS-ON-WINDER- MERE ................................. 12/0


MORECAMBE .......................7/3 SOUTHPORT


.7 /0


WEDNESDAY. 8th AUGUST LLANGOLLEN CIRCULAR ...15/0


GRANGE OVER SANDS ..10/6 MORECAMBE ......................... 7/3


p.m. a.m.


10-10 p.m.


50 50


ajn.


NEW BRIGHTON ..................9/3 SOUTHPORT .......................... 7/0


THURSDAY. 9th AUGUST


AYSGARTH, RICHMOND and INGLETON ...................... CHESTER ZOO .................


BUXTON and BEAUTIFUL DOVEDALE .....................


BOWNESS ON WINDER- MERE ...............................


FRIDAY. 10th AUGUST Booh at Local Office:


CLITHEROE, 16, Wellgate. Tel. 176. Or at Local Agency:


Mr. Whitaker, Park Villas, Whalley. Tel. 227*.


SUNDAY. 5th AUGUST COVENTRY. An opportunity to visit this 20th century city with magnificent cathedral ..18/6


r r«E average cost of medi- } cine for insured people In


IVYR. RICHARD HARTLEY, X,JL of Top Row, Downham, was awarded a diploma and cash prize for service at the Royal Lancashire Show. Mr. Hartley had worked on Down- ham Hall Farm for 54 years,


* # #


secretary of Lancashire Insur­ ance Committee in an address


to the Rotary Club of Clith­ eroe.


"PUBLIC subscriptions en- A sured that the old Saddle Bridge at Bashall Eaves, which was In a bad state of repair, would not be demol­ ished. * * *


/"'ILITHEROE unseated Rib- blesdale Wanderers from


5 &


the head of the Ribblesdale League table, a position they had held since the beginning of the season.<


YJROSPECTS for the grouse A shooting season on local moors were said to be better than for many years, with Pendle In particularly fine fettle.


50 YEARS AGO August Gth, 1912


TT was announced that Lord A Derby was to lay the foun­ dation stone of Clitheroe’s new secondary school. *


» *


at foot, belonging to Mr. Wells, of Jumbles Farm, Hurst Green was killed. Several cows in the district were also struck by lightning. * * *


TOURING a storm, a mare, 1 valued at £40, with foal


fete at St. Paul’s Church, Low Moor, which was opened by Canon Downham, Rural Dean of Whalley. The sale raised £75.


TTHE storm also interfered A with the summer sale and


* * *


T )R . W. E. MUSSON presen- ted prizes at Clitheroe


Grammar School. The head­ master, Mr. C. M. Henderson, reported that two pupils had passed the Cambridge Syndi­ cate senior examinations.


Winders’ and Warpers’ Asso­ ciation, the secretary Mr. A. H. Cottam, reported that not­ withstanding the formation of a rival company, the position of the Association was never stronger.* * ft


AT the half-yearly meeting of Clitheroe Weavers’,


children’s competitions in the Women’s Institutes section of Clitheroe Show on Saturday, Miss Ericka Newsam, the only daughter of M\ and Mrs. Eric Newsam, of Lccmings Farm, Waddington, became the first holder of the “Advertiser and Times” Cup, awarded for the competitor with most points


Winning two first prizes, two thirds and one reserve in the Ben More, rising to more


ERICKA WINS NEW CUP Motorist cleared of drive-drink charge


£A Alan Southworth, aged 46, of Chatburn Road, Clibheroe, was found not guilty at the County Sessions at Preston yesterday week of being In charge of a car while unfit to drive through drink and was discharged.


■ A PAINT manufacturer,


ing, said that at 10-45 p.m. on May 3rd two police officers went to the car park of the Waggon and Horses Hotel in Pimlico Road, Clitheroe.


Mr. Mark Carlisle, prosecut­


worth came out of the hotel and one of the officers, P.C. John Scott, went to him and asked him if a large black Daimler car on the forecourt was his and if he had driven it.


After a short time, South-


mine. I did drive it.” P.C. Scott noticed his breath


Southworth said, “ It is


smelled strongly of drink and he stood with his fee1' wide apart, swaying slightly. He spoke slowly and deliberately with a certain amount of slurring.


just come from home and when the officer asked nlm where he had been he said “ I have been in several public houses in Clitheroe.”


The accused said he had


Southworth had difficulty in negotiating the station steps.


Taken to the police station,


in the children’s section. Ericka, who is 14, attends the Clitheroe Girls’ Gvammar


Taylor, who noticed that when asked questions he delayed before speaking and his words were slurred.


School and is interested in sport, athletics and music as well as handicrafts.


LABOUR PARTY CALL FOR COTTON PLAN


alarm at the future of the in­ dustry, and blames this on Government policy and “ its apparent Intention to enter the Common Market.”


tive to prepare, in conjunction with organisations of workers In the industry, an up-to-date plan for the industry.


It urges the National Execu­


to submit a resolution on sim­ ilar lines, calling for “drastic cuts in the import of textiles into this country until suffi­ cient new Industries are dir­ ected to the North-West to bring full employment and to stop the drift of skilled work­ ers to the South.”


Accrington Labour Party are


Party, which includes Billing- ton and Langho area, have declared in a resolution that "the attempts to dismember British Railways can only result in increased chaos on our roads and a breakdown in communications, particularly in rural and semi-rural areas."


Darwen Divisional Labour


conference to believe that on social, economic and humani­ tarian grounds an integrated transport system, in which the railways play an important part, is essential and to re­ assert that this is the aim of the next Labour Government.


The resolution also asks the


Liberals hold summer school


lege, Cambridge, from to-day until Tuesday, takes as Its subject "Britain’s Economic Future.”


fTHE Liberal Summer School A to be held at Girton Col­


tion have given a scholarship to this summer school to Mr. David Todd, of 15, The Old Hall, Downham.


Clitheroe Liberal Associa­


rew McFadyean, Professor A. D. C. Peterson and Michael Shanks.


Speakers include Sir And­


of the problems associated with the negotiations for the entry of Britain into the Com­ mon Market.


rpHE Mayor, Alderman C. T. A Mitchell, welcomed mem­ bers of the North-Western Municipal Engineers to Clith­ eroe. They visited the Isis cement works, Horrocksford tar macadam works and the Corporation waterworks.


Cyclist hurt


on Sunday, when she was Involved in collision with a car on the little bridge.


A CYCLIST was slightly injured at Dunsop Bridge


She was Margaret Ward, of Belvedere Road, Leyland, who received bruising to her leg. The car driver was Alexander Malcolm, of Queensway, Wad- dington.


FIVE FOXES DESTROYED


T^IVE foxes were destroyed A In the Samlesbury area on Sunday by two Clitheroe men, Mr. D. Pinch, of Bolland Pros­ pect, and Mr. J. Bond, of Standen Road, who had with them three terriers.


eroe district have lost stock over recent months due to marauding foxes.


so far this year to 15. Poultry keepers in the Clith­


Appointed J.P.


LTA Southern, of The Cottage, Read, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace.


Tl/TRS. A nne tte Virginia ■


This brings their total bag The school will study some


at Brighton in October, calls for a plan for cotton. The resolution expresses


A resolution from the Clithsroe Divisional Labour Party, to be submitted to the Labour Party annual conference


Mystery of the missing Hodder fish


T^ISH have disappeared from A the Hodder above Croas- dale Beck at Slaidburn, and cattle are refusing to drink water from the river.


ih: a letter from a member of the Ribble Fisheries Associa­ tion to the Lancashire River Board. Tha letter suggested that accumulations of grey sludge at Whitewell, lower down the stream, has a lot to do with the absence of brown trout.


These complaints are made


Groasdale, an examination had revealed an abundance of insect life which was far in excess of that found in Croas- dale Beck.


has told the River Board that, while in no way wishing to diminish the concern of anglers, he woujld point out that immediately


The river bailiff for the area a b o v e


the river became rocky and narrow, with an absence of gravel and low state of water. These factors, together with the fact that only two spawn­ ing tributaries of poor quality emptied into that stretch of river, might well be the major causes contributing to the absence of trout.


ROCKY AND NARROW Towards Stocks Reservoir


Officer, who investigated the complaint, has reported that there is no evidence of com­ pensation water from Fylde Water Board’s reservoirs being of a polluting nature. A re­ cent sample had been classi­ fied as “very clean.”


The Board’s Chief Pollution


of had been caused as a result of a fracture in the Water Board’s new aqueduct to Blackburn. Large quantities of water had escaped, causing some erosion and a serious discolouration of the river for a few days.


The grey sludge complained


that cattle would not drink the water, the officer said in times of dry weather it might be that there was an Increase in the soluble solids content in the water. It would be so small during normal weather as to be not chemically or vis­ ually dectectable.


Regarding the complaint He was seen by Insp. W.


police surgeon Dr. John Mac­ donald, who examined the accused and, although finding he was not sober, declined to certify him unfit to drive.


The inspector called for FIT TO DRIVE


Dennis Cassidy, of Clitheroe, said after Dr. Macdonald concluded his examination the defendent carried out certain tests for him, which he did normally. “ I con­ sidered he was perfectly fit to drive a car,” he added.


For the defence, Dr. Anthony 1/ i n


Mr. D. C. Waddington, said that after calling on a cus­ tomer in Clitheroe on his way home from work he had two bottles of light ale and two


Southworth, defended by


gins and then went home for a meal. About nine o’clock he


arrived at a Clitheroe hotel looking for a b u s i n e s s acquaintance who was not there. He had two half pints of beer, and another half pint at a second public house. He then went home.


cigarettes he went to the Waggon and Horses and had half a pint of beer. When he came out he was met by the police.


Finding he was without V* H


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burn Road, Clitheroe, the licensee of the Waggon and Horses, Frank Robert Smith, and Vincent Earnshaw, of Chatburn Road, said there was nothing unusual about the defendent’s manner in the Wagon and Horses.


James Wilkinson, of Chat­


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ings, Mr. Waddington applied for defendent’s costs, saying that before the magistrates it was known that two doctors had thought him fit to drive. The application was refused.


At the end of the proceed­


Philip Kershaw, ordered that Anthony David Haworth, a schoolmaster, of Sunnymeade, Grindleton, attend the next Sessions in September to show why he did not attend the trial.


The Deputy Chairman, Mr.


prosecution witness by the magistrates


evidence as to Southworth’s driving.


He was bound over as a a ft er giving


Carlisle said the police had been told that Haworth was on holiday In Italy and said he was content for the trial proceed without him.


Before the trial started, Mr.


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VILLAGES TO COMBINE FOR PAGEANT AND PARTY


"PARLEY, which has won this year’s competition for Lan- cashire’s best-kept village, will take on a festive air on


party and pageant. To give the show the auth­


There is to be a garden


entic touch, history books with the dress of the periods to be portrayed have been borrowed from the County library.


chairman, but women of Bar­


hired, says Mlrs. Emily Met­ calfe, the Women’s Institute


Some costumes are being


August 18th when villagers from Read, Roughlee and New- church join the people of Barley in a day of entertainment.


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