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nrvHE gale this week has prompted people to


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1959 Hillman Minx; grey; all extras; low mileage £515 1960 Vauxhall Victor Super; fitted heater; good tyres and sound throughout ............................ iouu


1961 Bedford “ Romany” 4 Berth Caravan; finished Dormobile white/red flash. Care­ free touring at home or abroad, no need to worry about accommodation or hotel bills. The LAST one at BARGAIN PRICE of £650


1959 Vauxhall Victor De luxe; heater; radio ....... £495 1958 Vauxhall Victor Estate Car; heater; s/clean £485


1956 (Sept.) Hillman Minx Ser 1; new engine done 4,000 miles; heater; s/clean; good


1957 Ford Angi'ia’ lOOE; heater; well shod ........... £250 1958 Vauxhall Cresta; choice of two; cheap at £4o5 1958 Vauxhall Velox; cheap family car ............... £410 1955 Austin 4 door A30; green; heater; good tyres .....................................................................


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recollect other severe storms in Clitheroe and district.


My picture recalls a storm


which caused flooding in parts of Clitheroe and district 10 years ago—in 'August, 1952. An A.A. Scout Is seen pushing a stranded car on to dry land at Sawley, where the rive: overflowed its banks under the tremendous weight of flood


water.


j Those of my readers who i reside in Brook Street, Clith- ■ eroe, will no doubt recall that on that occasion they were roused by the police at three o’clock on the Sunday morn­ ing because Mearley Brook threatened to invade their


homes. Wooden barricades were


hurriedly erected and carpets taken up, but the water sub­ sided and the houses escaped flooding.


The alarm followed the


heaviest rain of the summer. A total of 2.12 Inches of rain fell in the Clitheroe area over that weekend.


LINK SEVERED A LINK with the days of the


■*-* horse-drawn vehicle has


been severed by the death of Mr. John Briggs, of De Lacy Street, Clitheroe.


Mr. Briggs’ s p a r k l i n g


humour, especially about incidents concerning the time when he drove a horse and cart on country coal rounds, endeared him to many.


In the days before rural


roads became busy with motor traffic, Mr. Briggs need have no worry about guiding the horse for the animal, knowing every inch of the way, would take him home without any attention from the driver.


“Jack” , as he was known to


most people, was a kindly soul who never came out with a wrong word. “Courtesy costs nothing” , was his favourite


saying. IN AUSTRIA A FEW years ago Mr. Robin Parker, of 2a Kirk-


moor Road, Clitheroe, went out to Austria to help to build homes for refugees, and now I hear he is again in Austria, but this time he is teaching.


Having taught himself


German, Mr. Parker has been teaching Latin in a school in Lad Ischl, near Saltzburg, for three months and at the same time seeing quite a lot of Austria and learning about the Austrian way of life.


He writes home to say


lessons begin at 6-30, and there is a long break later until 2 p.m. Lessons do- not end until eight o’clock.


The football season has


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finished, so he has been learning to ski and feels he is now mastering some of the technique. Because of the snow, the women use sledges instead of baskets for their


shopping.


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and you are almost certain to see a local name, so I was not surprised to find several people who are known in this i district are mentioned in this ; week’s programmes.


On Sunday morning for


instance, a former Vicar of | Clitheroe, the Rev. H. A. Bland, ! now Vicar of Lancaster, was preaching at Sung Eucharist at Lancaster Priory, which was televised by A.B.C. Television.


Mr. Bland left Clitheroe in


1950 to become Rector of Morecambe Parish Church and was appointed Vicar of Lancaster five years later.


On Sunday afternoon, three


local motor cyclists, Jim Smith, of Littlemoor View, Clitheroe, Stephen 3. Dugdale. of Mitton Road, Whalley, and John B. Smithson, of Brunger- ley Avenue, Clitheroe .all took part in a motor-cycle scramble which was also televised by


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A.B.C. The scramble was organised


by Accrington and District Motor-Cycle Club at Green Haworth, Accrington.


born actor John Stratton will be taking part in a play on B.B.C. Television entitled “The problem of Mary Winshaw.”


, PLAY “ JULIUS CZESEAR” is "once


I ** again one of the plays ' set for the G.C.E. English Literature examination and I


[ expect local students will be endeavouring to see at least one performance of the play besides studying the speeches.


They will be interested, I am


sure, to hear that the Fylde College Theatre Group will be


; giving a performance of the j play—in the Tower Circus, I Blackpool.


! i am sure this will be an


excellent setting for a play with all the movement and drama of Csesear” and it will certainly allow plenty of scope for the battlefield scenes.


The play will be given in


March. Other plays by Shakespeare presented by the Group at the Tower have included “Hamlet” , “Macbeth",


a n d “The Merchant of Venice” .


IN CANADA, TOO


J T is just 12 months since A shooting began at Worsaw Hill Farm, Worston, for the film “Whistle down the Wind”, and since then local children taking part in it have been seen on screens all over the country and abroad.


The film has been popular'


in many areas, and I hear that Clltheronians and people who formerly lived in other parts of the Ribble Valley have made special efforts to see the film when it arrived in their district.


Abroad, too, the film has


aroused a great deal of interest, and in Canada it was so succesful that it was shown for a second week at some cinemas.


A visitor to the Dominion


while “Whistle down the Wind” was being shown was Mr. Arthur Bradshaw, of Chatburn, who was chief booking clerk at Clitheroe Railway Station until his retirement.


He felt very much at home


when lie saw the advertise­ ments for the film.


IN AND OUT AND Bargains


ROUND ABOUT By “QUIS”


Whitehall man inspects Pendle caravan site


rriHE site of two caravans X behind the Wellsprings


Hotel Nick O’Pendle, was in­ spected last week by Mr. G. Borough-Copeley, a Ministry of Housing and Local Govern­ ment inspector.


Last July, the hotel owner,


Mr. Orville Lowe, requested planning permission for the caravans from Clitheroe Rural District Council, but this was refused.


It was agreed that an appeal


be made against the decision by correspondence instead of through a local inquiry.


The Council refused the


application because, uniter the County Development Plan, the land was in an area of great landscape value. It was° also within a proposed conservation area.


The Council claimed that


siting the caravans on the proposed exposed slope would also spoil the view.


Mr. Lowe has now left with


bis family to have a holiday and to live in Spain. The hotel is being managed for


him. The inspector will report to


the Minister, whose decision will be made known later.


Visiting t’sick T)EAR, dear, whatever’s the


^ matter? Tha looks proper poorly, owd lad! Tlia's wasted away to near


Ah've never sin thee look so baa Th’art as white as the missis's weshing,


nothing,


Tlia’s lost near a stone overneet, Don't tell me as tha's feeling better,


A blind chap could see th art not reet!


,


Tha looks in a very queer state, Ah’d ask for a second opinion, Mek sartin afore it's too late! Efter all th’art no longer a chicken,


Hes ta been getting freight treatment?


Tha's come to a crisis i’ life, Thee try and get owd of a


.


And leave matters straight for the wife!


lawyer, . , . ,


Thi face 'as gone proper ’aggard Thi cheeks is all 'oiler and


Ah tell thee, owd moil, if ah looked like thee,


shrunk,


What'll become of thi pidgins, If onything 'appens to thee? If it meks thee feel aisy ah’ll tek


Ah'd be welly afeart ah were sunk.


Tha knows they'll be 'appy wi me.


'em,


So Charlie, thee think about it, Tha knows not the 'our nor the


Tha weant want to bother wi details,


day,


If tha should be tccken away! All well, ah'd better be moving, Ah must say them grapes tasted


Ah 'ope as mi visit as cheered thee,


nice,


Keep smiling lad, that's my advice!


JIMIFEL Show trip


(TWENTY members of Clith- A eroe branch of the Young


Conservative Association had a


t r i p to Manchester,


arranged by Miss C. Black­ burn, to see “The Ken Dodd Show” last week.


THIS WAS NEWS .


25 YEARS AGO February 19th, 1937


A FTER long discussion, A Clitheroe Town Council


adopted a superannuation scheme for the 34 officials and members of the clerical staff as well as the 103 workmen employed by the Corporation. *


* *


■jVfRS. R. C. ASSHETON was - ’ J- elected a member of the Grants Committee, associated with the National Advisory Council appointed by the Government in connection with plans for physical train­


ing and recreation. fJ'HE


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meeting In the club. The subject for discussion was “The pen Is mightier than the sword.” The speakers were Mr. E. Swarbrick, Mr. R. T. Ingham. Mr. B. Winckley, Mr. J. Brown, Mr. J. Ryan, and Miss C. Wharton. Father Biezer presided. *


• )« * *


Q IR WILLIAM BRASS, M.P. ^ for Clitheroe Division, was


a guest at a reception given at 10 Downing Street by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister. $


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Pageant. The author of the pageant was Mr. A. Langshaw


O EHEARSALS were in full swing for the Coronation


and the producer Mr.L.Hardy, The music was being arranged by Mr. H. B. Shaw, while Mr. F. J. Hargraves was co­


operating with Mr. Hardy in the production. *


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A T Blackburn Camera Club’s -TA- 35th annual exhibition


Mr. B. Cooper, of Prospect House, Clitheroe, gained the St inworth Shield for the best print in the exhibition and the first award in the natural history section.


_ Catholic Debating Soc­ iety was re-formed at a


50 YEARS AGO February 23rtl, 1912


TlfR- WILLIAM GiARNETT, -W-L head of the firm of Thomas Garnett and Sons, Low Moor Mills, died after a fall at his home. Mr. Garnett had been Mayor of Clitheroe three times and was a freeman of the borough. *


$ *


/CLITHEROE Parish Church '-z Amateur Operatic Society ■rave performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “The Gondoliers.” T h e principals were: Mr. F. Kelly, Miss E. Dickinson, Miss E. Halliwell, Mr. B. E. Jones, Mr. A Langshaw, M i s s M. Satterthwaite, Miss N. Hard- acre, Mr. W. Kay and Mr. J. Frickett. Also in tlis Ccj<s>t were Misses Langford. A. Dickinson, P. Oddie and J. Ellis, Messrs. W. R. Smallham, r Cowperthwaite, P. Townley Vnd R H. Smithies. Mrs. W. a Garnett was the producer and Mr. H. B. Shaw the conductor. *


* #


TAAMAGE estimated at more IX than £10,000 was caused


hv a fire which broke out in a mule-spinning room of Messrs. Stuttard’s Victoria Mil l,


Sabden. * * *


nP'HE final returns of district I ballots on the question of


raising the age of half-timers from 12 to 13 years, taken by , [be United Textile Factory , Workers’ Association, revealed | only 29,933 m iavour of the j Minnie The number voting > Gainst was 116,573, with


ffSlS neutral or not voting. '


* * WALTER CLAYTON of 3-1- Low Moor, was presented


nriih an illuminated address wll“ „ timepiece by the Union


Street Cooperative Society in recognition of long services as n member of the committee, * d a i auditor and treasurer.


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SENSELESS SLAUGHTER


IF you will pardon the expres­ sion, I call it damn silly. '


Every year about 6,000 people die ; in road accidents, and it is more than likely that some of you reading this will die in the same way this year.


This senseless slaughter in­ creases sickeningly every year. Thousands of families who sit together round the breakfast table will sit minus one member for the evening meal.


Told in terms of human suffer­


ing, misery and heartbreak, the story is grim indeed.


Who is to blame? You and I


are to blame. Yes, that means YOU, sitting smugly there and thinking “ it can’t happen to me.”


chances are that sometime, some­ where, you will be involved in a road accident.


It CAN happen to you, and the And then what happens? Sup­


pose you lose an arm, or a leg, or an eye. It’s too late then to regret the fact that you were driving just a little too fast.


who’s knocked down. It happens every day, and to most people it’s no longer news. But to you it’s news all right. It’s the most horrible thing that ever happened


Suppose it’s your little girl


to you. It was only the other day,


wasn’t it, when that fool came out of that side road without stopping? Are you sure that fool is never you?


Remember when you stepped


off the pavement to walk round that group of people? A lorry just missed you, didn’t it? It might not have done. They don’t always do.


And how about that fellow that


shot through the lights at red? If you hadn’t been so quick in putting your brakes on there could have been a nasty acci­ dent, another hysterical wife waiting . . . waiting.


And of course, YOU can drive


quite competently when you’ve had a few drinks, can’t you? But what did that Coroner say the other day . . . “ Were it not for the fact that this man had had too much to drink he would probably have . . . ” And, do you know, that man also thought he could “ take it.”


And you, lady. You'll be doing


your shopping to-morrow, won’t you? You’ll cross at the zebra, and you know all the traffic will stop. You know you have the right of way. But that doosn t mean that if you suddenly dash on to the road a car won t knock you down.


Nice dog, isn’t it? Well trained, obedient, sensible, so it doesn't need a lead. You know it will always keep “ at heel.” Suppose, just suppose, it ran into the road, a car skidded out of con­ trol, and knocked down two ] little boys.


And you have a dog, have you? It wasn’t the driver’s fault. It j


wasn’t even the dog’s fault. It was your fault, and you know it. And you’ll remember that day, and those little boy’s screams, for the rest of your life.


We know you can drive from


Clitheroe to Whalley in five minutes when you put your foot down. But you can do it in less than 10 minutes if you drive like a normal, sensible man instead of a dangerous one.


swapping for a human life? MOTORIST.


Are those few minutes worth Clitheroe. HOUSES NEEDED


T UNDERSTAND that Clitheroe Town Council have pledged


themselves not to build any more Council houses for the time being, and, while appreciating the economic situation which has precipitated this move, I can only deplore and condemn it.


The same economic situation


has also made it virtually im­ possible, and certainly highly impracticable, for young couples to buy private houses, due to the high interest rates demanded by those prepared to arrange mort­ gages, the large deposits neces­ sary, and the extreme difficulty in obtaining a mortgage at all.


of money, and would not mind paying the Council a fair and economic rent for a decent house, and yet our representatives in their wisdom are denying them the chance to do so.


These young people have plenty If only the councillors knew


of the despair, disappointment and heartbreak caused by the fruitless weekly trips round the estate agents their hearts would soften.


irreparable damage caused by friction whilst living with in­ laws, or by living in unsuitable, often unhealthy, and always highly-priced flats they would realise that human happiness and dignity cannot be valued in terms of pounds.


The demand for Council houses


is likely to increase, and unless something is done to accommo­ date the people on the waiting list, the position is likely to become so serious that eventually


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people will leave Clitheroe to seek greener pastures elsewhere.


■'f the disastrous consequences such an exodus would bring on the town.


BINMEN THANKED


AT AY I, through your columns, express my appreciation of


the work done by the refuse col­ lection men employed by Clith­ eroe Rural District Council.


No matter what the_ weather


or conditions, they maintain an efficient and regular service so that it is almost possible to set one’s watch by the time of their arrival.


ticularly in weather such as we have experienced this winter, and I am sure all householders in the Council’s area will join me in saying “ thank you ” to the men


Their job is no easy one, par­ who do this work. HOUSEHOLDER. IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED


y oU R readers will be aware x that Clitheroe Liberal Asso­


ciation has recently been in communication with the Council regarding the unsatisfactory con­ ditions for traffic at the junction of Pimlico Road, Well Terrace and Waddington Road.


The Liberal Association has


been pressing for the adoption of some means of indicating to motorists that the major traffic flow is, in fact, round the corner from Well Terrace to Pimlico Road, and that vehicles pro­ ceeding from Pimlico Road to Waddington Road are cutting across this traffic flow.


I was not surprised, therefore,


to see recently a report of a minor accident at this road


junction. Perhaps improvements will


now be carried out before a major accident occurs.


MARTIN STRANGE.


124, Pimlico Road, Clitheroe. INVALIDS’ THANKS


Toe H, Clitheroe, for the excellent party they gave for us once again last week.


ON behalf of all the guests I should like to thank I should also like to thank


the Catholic Revue Company for the excellent entertain­


ment which we all enjoyed so much, the Rotary Club of * Clitheroe for providing trans­ port, and all other helpers.


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