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1 CLITHEROE TO-DAY


How does the market town for Bowland and the Pendle country measure up to modern life?


W7HEN I slipped across the *» Yorkshire border, a mere


by W. R. MITCHELL Reproduced with acknowledgment to THE DALESMAN


couple of miles into Lanca- shire to observe that distinc- five species, the Clitheronian, in his .native haunts, there were no witches zooming round Pendle Hill—they must have been grounded because of low cloud—and across the broad Ribble Valley the Bow- land fells were cloudy, too, like


happened to the Forest of Bowland, but now I know. It has assumed a strange new


a cluster of ■ venerable grand- their shoulders. X used to wonder what had


metallic form, and has taken root in the streets of Clitheroe. This “forest," thickest in the town centre, consists of dozens of signs which stand like leaf­ less trees, supported by posts coloured black-and-white or black-and-yellow.


signs is “No.” It was “No parking,” “No waiting,” “No entry.” One tough little post near the Library had Its arms full of directions. What a mess! During the first hour of my visit I actually saw more posts than people.


The operative word on these


Does the Clitheronian like ordering visitors about and. like Mr. Molotov, does he say little else but “No”? I quickly discovered that the signs are strictly in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Transport, and they relate to A59, the trunk road which cuts through the heart of the town. Local people seemed as annoyed as I was at their presence, and one man observed: “In Cll therlo e


steals the attention and i directs the thoughts to a lusty


ndustrial giant. The I.C.I. is well established here, and makes catalysts, the explan­ ation of which I had forgotten seconds after it was given to me! Many Clitheronians particularly women, concern themselves with the manu­ facture of clothing.


made at Clitheroe, including th e ubiquitous


spreader,” and one firm has an extensive business concerned with the conversion of four- wheeled trucks into trucks with six wheels, using a patented third axle.


Agricultural machinery is “muck


manufacturer of oil stoves and clothes driers, repair centre for vehicles used by the Milk Marketing Board throughout the whole of the North Country, and a firm which is equipped to produce the biggest castings bet ween Birmingham and Glasgow, and which also makes firegrates for all-night burning.


There are two corn mills, a


and the borough ranges in altitude from the banks of the Ribble, at 170 feet above the sea, to Four Lane Ends, which is 380 feet higher than sea level.


Clitheroe has 2,385 acres, TRAFFIC PROBLEMS


rFHE trunk road does not A permit the town centre to


they’ve made a dog’s life into a heaven!”


when I asked the way to the Town Hall and discovered that local government officials are not under one roof. The Surveyor works in what was once the local Masonic temple in Church Street. The Public Health Office, though in the same general rabbit warren of small rooms, is actually entered from York Street. The Treasurer has his staff in a Church Street build­ ing which used to be a private house, and the Town Clerk Is accommodated in a sub­ stantial building not far from the Castle Keep.


There was another surprise T*lashona: Clitharoe 1176.


5, MARKET PLACE, CLITHEROE.


borough in Lancashire (the oldest, for the record, is Wigan), has no large hall since the One used by local


Clitheroe, second oldest


organisations was disposed of by the local Co-operative


Society, to become a ware­ house.


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sibility of building Council offices, public baths and an assembly hall. It has not yet reached the planning stage, but has at least been talked about.


ci I am assured that the Coun­ l is considering the pos­


should be accused of simply picking holes in the Lanca­ shire way of life, and ignoring the good points, I hasten to add that I found Clitheroe a pleasant, friendly town.


Lest I, a Yorkshireman,


hosts of Yorkshire people who regard it as their market town —and by executives in many Lancashire industries who are moving here to be on the “sunny side of Pendle.” The population is now over 12,000, and rising all the time.


This is an opinion shared by BASICALLY VICTORIAN


TjtROM an architectural point I of view, Clitheroe is basic­ ally Victorian, yet it started out life in earnest with the building of Castle and church on two limestone knolls way back in the 12th century. The houses of the people huddled in between.


appeared, and with it has gone the Borough Band which until recent times entertained people at the bandstand in the shadow of the Castle rock. The church of St. Mary Magdalene still keeps Christianity alive on the other knoll, having 14,000 Communicants a year and, like the parish church of Chesterfield, possessing a spire which twists.


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people busied themselves with farming and, to a more limited extent, with quarrying, mean­ while staring with ill- concealed interest at the travellers on the road, now A59, an important highway between Lancashire and Yorkshire because, near Skip- ton, it makes use of the Aire Gap through the Pennines.


In the early days, the local


else but mills and workpeople’s homes. King Cotton came to Cllttheroe. and the town’s development was particularly swift in the first half of last century, yet industry was not to dominate the p l a c e completely.


transformed many Lancashire towns until they became little


The Industrial Revolution


the fringe of the industrial development. It kept a broad perimeter of green fields, and never lost its interest in the farmers and the produce of the land. I have a strong feel­ ing that the Clitheronian has


Clitheroe, indeed was at


be quiet. A59 actually runs on the ridge of a hill, which means that the streets slope down on either side of it and the greatest difficulty would be experienced in widening the route.


able (and so, it would seem, is the forest of signs), though lengthy hold-ups of traffic are rare, and the Borough Council is helping to solve one traffic problem by. providing new parking spaces.


Traffic problems are inevit­


moment will take 70 vehicles, and street parking accom­ modates another 60 or 70.


The only large park at the


variable, though heavy on summer week-ends, when


Traffic on the trunk road is


there is a migration by towns­ folk in Yorkshire to the Lancashire coast. A count was taken of vehicles on a July Tuesday in I960, between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m.; the number entering Clitheroe at the Chatburn end was 1,138—and 1,140 went out at the other side, giving a difference of only two!


ber, when an eighb-hour period revealed that 2,694 vehicles came in to town and 2,711 went out.


a The census-taker^ were ’coif gain on a Sunday in Septem­


known as a holiday centre, and as a place of residence away from the heavily- populated and industrialised towns of Lancashire.


Clitheroe is becoming better


always s a t i s f a c to r y, to generalise, but I will try. What can be said about the average Clitheronian? He is a cheerful person, with an individualistic outlook on life, and a dry humour of the type that flourishes well on either


It is not easy, and not


side of the border. He is in­ quisitive, with a fondness for finding out about other people’s business.


Indeed, Clitheroe holds the British record for the highest poll in a General Election.


He is very civic-minded.


population using the ballot boxes was 91.64 per cent.


In 1950 the proportion of the


interest in what the Council has been doing. The townfolk also tend to read all the reported speeches of the


Mayor!


The Clitheronian is proud of Lancashire and its heritage, and that pride may have been intensified by a close prox­ imity to the county of the White Rose, as though it is felt that “we’re pretty near to these Yorkshire tykes; we must hold our tails up!”


MAYOR-MAKING


-t*- for tradition, consider Mayor-making. The present Mayor, Mr. William Sharpies, is in his second year of office. When he was elected, there was a procession through the streets, and at the Mayor’s dinner in the evening punch was brewed from a closely guarded recipe which is only used on this occasion.


AS an example of his love


(those who were attending for the first time), and they uttered the words: “Prosper- ation to the Corporation.” One man has actually been a “colt” for many years!


It was sipped by the “colts”


day, there was an even bigger procession to the church attended by the Mayor.


joyed by the townspeople, and a torchlight procession is particularly well-rated. The folk of Low Moor have been known for years as the “Bacon Eaters,” and they usually turn up with a model of a pig on wheels, which is solemnly pushed round the streets.


Processions are always en­


faces, new accents in Clitheroe to-day the community itself is


Although there are new


still closely-knitted, and you i have to be careful when talk­


close relationships. Kick a man at the top of


ng to 'ideal people because of


Castle Street, it is said, and by the time you have walked to the bottom you will see five other men rubbing their shins!


attracts its admiring crowds, but that Edisford Bridge is now so popular that it has been called “Little Blackpool” in summer.


I gather that the Castle still


county border. On the Clith­ eroe side, land has been bought by the Council for development that will include a parking space and sports facilities.


The bridge itself is on the


Council houses which have been built in Clitheroe, private building is now a significant feature of local life. Each year the figure for houses under construction has been rising, and at the present time there were 120 buildings on the way up.


Quite apart from 587


75 per cent, were for. people who were actually coming into the town from elsewhere.


Of the houses sold last year,


duled for development for residential purposes, per head of population, is higher in Clitheroe than in any other town in the district. Some newcomers are spending up to £6,000 and £7,000 on new homes.


The acreage of land sched- THE MARKET


TVTARKETS are held here on ITA Tuesdays and Saturdays,


and Council enterprise has in­ cluded the creation of permanent brick structures to replace the old wooden


tpwn of contrasts, well geared to the 1960’s, with virtually no unemployment, a variety of industries, a strong connection with agriculture and with the purses of country people for many miles around.


Clitheroe is a lively, lovely


of traffic signs I have ever seen in a town this size. Next time I go to Clitheroe I shall feel like taking an oxy- acetylene outfit and attempt some pruning of this new- style forest!


Alas, it has the biggest crop


COUNTRY COOKERY


SITTING down to stuffed roast pork and apple sauce


reminds us that this is one of the tastiest traditional meals there is.


fer not to have to carve a joint and would like four people bo “ eat it all up," pork chops are vour choice.


If there is a day you would pre­


frying, cook the chops in the oven together with the accom­ paniments and the result is— stuffed roast pork and apple


To save last minute grilling ov


sauce! Four pork chops; 1 cooking


apple; 4oz. sage and onion stuffing; lib. creamed potatoes


sheds and stalls which had i been used for years. The market is popular, and among the most modern in the North. There is a waiting list of people who want to become tenants. A modern cafe stands on.the market ground.


The auction mart is kept i busy—and so Clitheroe retains


my visit, it seemed that the town would be robbed of one link with the outdoors — the Hellifield-Blackburn railway. When a public inquiry was held, Clitheroe put forward a strong case for the retention of the service.


ts strong link with the countryside. At the time of


will remain, and the river will flow—is more a statement of fact than an inspiration.


n e v e r really become a “townie.” How can he have -a thoroughly urban complex when the fields—are only minutes away from his homes, and the skyline is crowned by Pendle and the Bowland


Clitheroe’s motto—The rock


fells? To-dav cotton is still a


major employer of local labour; but the massive chimney of the Ribble Cement Works


continue,” for the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, still a vital part of local life, received a charter from Queen Mary in 1554. The Girl’s Grammar School, founded in 1915, is no longer housed in the same buildings. A fine new gram­ mar school was created for the pupils.


To it might have been added, “and education will


and place them in a casserole. Peel, core and slice the apple and lay the slices on top of the chops. Form the stuffing into small balls and add these to the dish.


Sprinkle the chops with pepper


foil and bake at gas mark 5, elec­ tric thermostat 375 deg. F., for about 40 minutes. Serve the chops on a bed of creamed pota­ toes, garnished with apple rings, stuffing and watercress.


Cover with the lid or kitchen MARGARET ALDEN Spring blossoms


T’VE just come from a garden, x Ablaze with flowers gay, A hundred vivid joyous blooms, To cheer me on my way!


Tall daffodils of yellow, And violets of blue, Crocuses and primulas, Of ev’ry shade and hue.


I marvelled at the patience, The skill and tender care., That made these blossoms flourish,


In such perfection, there.


I stooped to scent their fra­ grance,


plastic! 1


JIMIFEL.


Then felt like action drastic, I knelt, and gently plucked one— The blooming things were


Central heating out of the


housekeeping!


If VOU live in a three-bedroom house, The cost of such installations can be spread ______ . . „ . over 5 years under the NCB Housewarming Plan


rent for a television set. keeping money!


Solid fuel central heating could cost (run jn conjunction with Forward Trust Ltd.), you mere shillings above what you But the cost of fuel and the installation costs


a week more than you are paying now for fuel —just shillings which could well come out of the


housekeeping! Already your present heating probably costs YOUR NEXT STEP. Ask your nearest Approved


you a fair amount—what with a sitting-room Appliance Distributor or Heating Engineer for fire, your hot water and odd heaters about the details of the Housewarming Plan that saves you house. Your fuel bill would most certainly total money at every step. Sec the list below much less if you installed an open fire with a for name and address. For central high-output back boiler—or a modern boiler heating installations, consult cither incite kitchen. Either of these could run three a Heating Engineer, or one of the Ap- radiators round the house and a towel rail, proved Appliance Distributors marked as well as heating all your water.


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Then, on the following Sun-* There is a steady, deep -juuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiMiiini IN AND OUT AND ROUND ABOUT '.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin iiiiiiiiiiiiin inM INFORMATION WANTED


f'|OPY for an advertisement per which appears in the


of the “Advertiser and Times” travelled more than 6,000 miles, from California.


sonal column of this issue


tisement manager, assures me that this is a record.


Mr. Harry Robinson, adver­


Chisholm Avenue, Van Nuys, California, seeks information regarding the Loynd family, In particular about James and Giles Loynd.


LThe sender, Mrs. Vicki oynd Mathews, of 7720


the Loynd family lived in Chatburn and Clitheroe as long ago as 1750, and feels


Mrs. Mathews believes that


sure that all Loynds and Loynds’s are related.


for a small family history which she is to compile. The name is almost non-existent in America, there being just a few members of the family, in New England and on the West Coast.


She needs this information


who knows anything of the history of the family.to write to her.


Mrs. Mathews invites anyone UNDERFOOT


much of interest in the local geological formation an d where the limestone quarries have provided an excellent hunting ground for the amateur, will be examined at the weekly meetings of Clith­ eroe branch of the W.E.A. beginning on May 2nd.


rriHE geology of the Clitheroe J area, where there is so


course is “The Earth Under Your Feet,” and the tutor, Mr. II. II. Grieve, of Whalley, aims to introduce people to different aspects of the sub­ ject with particular reference to the surrounding area.


The general title of the


with an outline of the geologi­ cal structure and history of the area and continue with discussion of minerals, differ­ ent types of rocks and fossils.


He will begin the course VN idee,


trated with slides and practi­ cal illustrations will be pro­ vided by specimens.


The lectures will be illus­


cursions to Salthill and Bell­ man quarries and to Little Mearley Clough.


There will also be field ex­ PRODUCER


1%/TR. Billy Scott-Coomber, who left the B.B.C. last


year to return to the theatre, s now producing a series for


features top Northern choirs and their friends in pro­ grammes of community sing­ ing.


the Corporation as a freelance. The series, “All Together”,


Norman Geovgc and pianist Harry Hayward.


Guest artistes are violinist


home is at Pendleton, was for five years light entertainment producer for the B.B.C. North Region. He auditioned some 12,000 artistes.


Mr. Scott-Coomber, whose


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be presenting shows on the East Coast during the summer. Later in the year, Mr. Scott-


room.


TIGHT LINES! ■RENT pins and willow sticks were used by several youth­


ful anglers I saw fishing Mearley Brook on Easter Monday. Near-


by, some of their more active colleagues hazarded a breast­ stroke in some of the deeper


pools. One of the young sportsmen


told me that he hadn’t hooked anything that day, but proudly said he had caught 90 trout in the stream last year. His friend said he had five the previous week, one of them a foot long.


Coomber will produce a show from Blackpool Tower Ball­


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............................................................amine WELL, DO YOU?


Tyo you know where Reeford -*■' Grove is? You don’t! I’m not surprised for not many people do, including Clither­ onians who have lived in the town all their lives.


new street names appearing in the borough these days following the expansion of private house building is Mr. A. Wilmot, of 21, Manor Road Bungalows.


One of those baffled by all the


this week to suggest that it’s time a new street guide was issued. I agree with him, and for the record list a few of the new street names which would have to appear in such a guide.


Mr. Wilmot called to see me


Lancaster Drive, Langshaw Drive, Maplo Grove and Pine Grove.


These are: Bleasdale Avenue


Ribble, veteran anglers with greenheart rods, costly reels and


Meanwhile, down on the EASTER PLAY


years of experience behind them, cast out on the broad waters with hardly a nibble to encourage


them. It’s a queer sporL, tills fishing,


when youngsters with only the rudiments of knowledge and equipment can land fish from a shallow, sunny heck while some of their elders toil all day on a famous river without one tight


line. ___________


TVTEMBERS of the Ladies iVJL- class at Moor Lane Methodist Church Sunday School read an Easter play. “The Real Presence,” by Lillian E. Cox, in the school on Sunday afternoon.


service at the church was the Rev. R. C. Broughton, super­ Lintendent minister of Moor


Preacher at the morning


ane Methodist Circuit, and in the evening, Mr. R. Bland.


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