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6 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, September 28, 1962


THIS WAS NEWS . . .


25 YEARS AGO October 1st, 1937


•\TORE than £100,000 was to -LfJL be spent on extensions to Brockhall Hospital. The im­ provements Included a new reservoir and water tower, levelling and tree planting, boilerhouse plant and equip­ ment, electrical installations, kitchen plant and butchering and refrigeration plants, and


a laundry block. • »


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TVTORE than 1,700 sheep were -I" sold at the annual sale of store ewes at the Tithe Barn Yard, Slaidburn. Cross-bred ewes made from 3Gs. to 51s„ and a few uncrossed ewes up to 30s. each.


ation purchased a new Are engine, with a two-stage turbine pump mounted at the


A L a cost of more than £1,000. Clitheroe Corpor­ rear.


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rfHE Rev. W. J. Symonds, •L Vicar of Sabden, preached his valedictory sermon at the


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50 YEARS AGO October 1st, 1912


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rrVHE Rev. C. L. Malaher, A curate of Bolton-by- Bowland, left to take on appointment at Norton Lees, Sheffield. He was succeeded


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Dalmatians owned by Mr. Roger B. Blackburn, of


church before leaving for Winchcombe, Gloucester, after


L. LUMB, the


Browsholme welcomes the crowds of tourists


iation with Bowland than the Parkers of Browsholme. For centuries their red-sandstone home near Clitheroe was known only to the friends and guests of a family which took its name from the office of Park-keeper way back in the 14th century.


TV'O family has a longer or more distinguished assoc­


and its treasure-packed rooms are familiar to thousands of Lancashire folk. They are among 7,000 people who visit Browsholme Hall each year, to be conducted round the old hall by the owner him­ self. Col. R. G. Parker has hopes of boosting the attend­ ance figure to 10,000.


Today its dignified facade


parties of the present season, the strongest impression was that Browsholme Hall is very much a home, and that none of the hundreds of fascinating objects on view had been specially gathered together.


When I joined one of the


lawn before the south front, with its ex q u i s i te l y - proportioned porch incorpor­ ating three of the four orders of Greek architecture, and with a distant glimpse at the top of the three stags which feature on the Parker coat of arms, I heard from Col. Parker that this is Brows- holme’s seventh season as a three-days-a-week showplace.


Standing on the broad


been attending to the fabric and some of the 60 rooms. The walls and roof are now safe from the weather, and in the restoration of the Regency rooms Col. Parker is receiving valuable help from a well- known architect, Sir Albert Richardson.


During this time he has PORTER’S CHAIR


rPHE half crowns which A change hands at the


the Labour Party, was one of the speakers at a demon­ stration in the Public Hall in support of Aid. Albert Smith, M.P. for Clitheroe Division.


J. RAMSAY MAC­ DONALD, chairman of


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loom, the invention of Mr. C. Whalley, manager at Waterloo Mill, was inaugurated at the Technical School at Green-


SERIES of demonstrations of weaving by a circular


acre Street. *


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rPHE opening of Clitheroe A “Parliamentary” Debating


Society took place in the Odd­ fellows’ Hall. A lively discus­ sion followed the reading of the “King’s Speech”. i> # *


.pOUN. and Mrs. J. Thornber were host and hostess at


Clitheroe and District Free Church Council “At Home1 The Rev. W. Christie presided, and Mr. R. Whittam and the Rev. G. R. Russell were the speakers.


RURAL PLANS APPROVED


TTNDER their building bye laws. Clitheroe Rural


District Council have approved the following plans:


Wiswell, for Mr. C. Hopwood. Pair of semi-detached bunga­ Crlows at 9 and 11 Whittam


Detached bungalow and arage at 5 Clarke Wood Close:


M. Procter. Pair of semi - detached


escent, Whalley, for D. and


bungalows at 15 and 17 Whit­ tam Crescent, Whalley for D, and M. Procter.


Village Haill for Village Hall Committee.


Extensions to Pendleton


Street, Whalley, for District Bank, Limited.


Improvements at 69 King


Head Farm, Bowland-with- Leagram, for Mr. Charles Weld-Blundell.


Shippon and dairy at High


Farm, Chaigley. for Mr. W. O. Street.


Calf Boxes at New Springs


Cockerill Terrace. Barrow, for Mr. E. Pinder.


Chipping Garage, Bowland- with-Leagram, for Mr. M. Higgins.


Garage and showrooms at


“The Eaves”, Pendleton Road, Wiswell, for Mr. F. Jamieson.


Garage, W.C., and store, at FaShippon at Dairy Barn


Leagraim, for Mr. Charles Weid-Blundell.


rm, Bo wlan d-wi th-


ham Road, Chatburn, for Mr. T. Marsden.


Improvements at 36 Down-


Moor Field, Whalley, for Mr. F. Blrtwell.


Detached bungalow at 34 Provision of bathroom at 5


Pendleton Road, Wiswell, for Mr. N. Chambers.


Temporary garage at 25


porter’s chair in the hall (and, typical of Browsholme, that chair has been here for three- and-a-half centuries, origin­ ating in the Teign of James I) help to finance this work and go towards the upkeep of the building, which in these times can be prohibitive.


ary to open the Hall to view, but far from resenting the in­ trusion of strangers he appears to enjoy telling of his family’s 600 year residence in the area, though about five hours of almost non-stop talk­ ing can be a strain on the strongest throat.


Col. Parker found it necess­


Browsholme is given by his secretary, Mr. A. Salley, who 'speaks with a fascination that


The early introduction to


the passing years have not blunted of days when the Parkers were forest keepers, and of their status as bow- bearers in the Forest from the reign of Queen Elizabeth until the times of William IV.


border country, the Parkers could have been in a difficult position during the Wars of the Roses, yet their timber and daub house (predecessor of the present building, which was created in 1507) survived the turbulent times. The Parkers successfully sat on the fence. The forest prospered.


Supervising this once-wild


is also a journey back in time, to remote time if you think of the Neolithic axe head which is among the weapons dis­ played in the Tudor Hall, where a lifeless tiger head leers from the skin which drapes an oaken table that originated with the first Eliza­ bethan reign.


A tour of Browsholme Hall DOG STIRRUP


TI/TR. SALLEY holds up a small dog gauge or stir­


rup, which came into Bowland use late in the 15th century and ended its useful life in 1780, ensuring that only the smallest of dogs were kept In the Forest, to the benefit of the deer.


Closing ramble of the season


T ED by Mr. B. Oddie, Clith- -*-J eroe Naturalists’ Society held their final ramble of the season on Sunday.


bus, the party alighted at Newton, then followed the path by the Hodder. and across the fields to Easington, and alongside Easington Brook to Cockshutts Part.


Taking the 11 a.m. Slaidburn


the way led up the fields, climbing gradually, past Skel- shaw and Fellside, and on to the open fell, over the too, and down past St. Clares, Ducky Leach, Lowcocks and Bowland Lane to West Bradford.


After lunch by the brook, a spd en s


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birds to be seen. The most noteworthy things were the


There were few flowers and


numerous caterpillars of the Northern Eggar moth, which were found all the way over the fell.


More houses


1VUMBER of inhabited houses in Clitheroe at the


end of last year was 4,546, compared with 3,886 at the 1951 census.


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smoothed door of a court cup­ board, to the right of the fire­ place, Is a Parker possesion which visitors do not see. Yet in some ways it is the most fascinating of them all be­ cause of the influence it seems to have exerted on this an­ cient building.


Lying behind . an age-


believed to have been that of one of the martyrs in the pil­ grimage of Grace. For years


Xhe object is a skull,


it lay in the Chapel which was situated on the Hall’s top storey, removed in 1703.


Edward Parker—who, at the time, was a boy at Harrow— took it outdoors and burled it in the garden as a practical joke. The Parker fortunes dipped. The Tudor walls of the Hall began to shed their facade, there was a mysterious outbreak of fires, and mem­ bers of the family died.


One day in the late 1850’s returned to normal


rrVHE lad, frightened by the A turn of events, confessed


to his misdeed, the skull found its way back to the cup­ board, and Browsholme re­ turned to normal again.


tramp and chatter excitedly among themselves, the Prince Regent once strode.


Where the tourist hosts now


Lister Parker, who spent a fortune on the house—Includ­ ing more than £100,000, it is said on the landscape gardens alone—and who sold the


He was a friend of Thomas


house in 1820 to his cousin and male heir when it was felt that .perfection had been achieved. Browsholme, lying well away


from the nearest road, was seen by comparatively few un­ til, seven years ago, Col. Parker decided that it should be opened to the gaze of the public.


spection a fascinating glimpse of the history of Bowland Forest and, particularly, a family which had been assoc­ iated with it for 600 yeaTs. For the chief wonder of Browsholme is that this an­ cient building has been In the possession of one family, passing down in the male line.


He also opened to public in­


Rally marks


formation of new Circuit


cuit-formed out of two former circuits, Wesley and Moor Lane—a uniting rally was held at Parson Lane


TO mark the formation of Clitheroe Methodist Cir­


Church, formerly Wesley, last week.


Mr. F. Broom, senior circuit steward, presided and spoke of the opportunities presented to Methodists locally and how


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these should be worked out with patience. The chairman of the North


Lancashire district, the Rev. G. A. Maland, expressed con­


gratulations to the Circuit on behalf of the district.


the Rev. W. O. Phillipson, general secretary of the Methodist Chapel department, and greetings from the Angli­ can Church were expressed by the Rev. A. F. Clark, Vicar of Clitheroe and Rural Dean of Whalley. The Rev. R. C. Broughton,


The principal speaker was


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superintendent minister, said that as a gesture of goodwill, Clitheroe Parish Church had sent a gift towards the cost of repairing the organ at the Me t h o d i s t Church. He thanked all the speakers and all who had helped to organise the rally.


choir, conducted by Mr. R. Wrigley. Mr. A. Lingard was the organist.


Anthems were sung bv the


Site sought for branch library


I site in Whalley for a branch of the County Library.


•flLITHEROE Rural District v-y Council have been told by Lancashire County Council that they propose to obtain a


suggested by tbe County Architect, but the Divisional


A site In Station Road was


Planning Officer did not think that such a site was accept­


able from a planning point of view.


He suggested that the County Architect might look at land near the junction of Station Road and King Street, but was informed that the price was too high.


inquiries about an alternate site.


The Council are now making


® The present branch library is accommodated in premises in King Street. ■


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