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2 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, August 31, 1962 THIS WEEK-END Start-Rite
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COACH EXCURSIONS from
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SATURDAY, 1st SEPTEMBER
MORECAMBE ILLUMINA TIONS ................................... 5/0
SUNDAY. 2nd SEPTEMBER
COVENTRY. An. opportunity to see something of this 20th Century City and its wonder ful Cathedral
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CLEETHORPES ..................... 20/0 WINDERMERE & BOWNESS 12/0
HARROGATE. RIPON and FOUNTAINS ABBEY ____10/9 CHESTER ZOO ......................8/6 NEW BRIGHTON .................. 9/3 SOUTHPORT ...........................7/0
MONDAY, 3rd SEPTEMBER LLANGOLLEN CIRCULAR ..15/0
KESWICK & THE LAKES . . 15/0 CHESTER ZOO ...................... 8/6 NEW BRIGHTON ..................9/3 SOUTHPORT ...........................7/0
TUESDAY, 4th SEPTEMBER TRENTHAM GARDENS ____15/0 YORK and HARROGATE ..11/9 CHESTER ZOO ......................8/6
WEDNESDAY, 5th SEPTEMBER
THE DUKERIES TOUR .....16/3 SOUTHPORT ...........................7/0
SOUTHPORT ...........................7/0
THURSDAY. 6th SEPTEMBER SILVERDALE. ARNSIDE and MORECAMBE ......................9/9
FRIDAY, 7th SEPTEMBER HARROGATE. RIPON and FOUNTAINS ABBEY ____10/9
MORECAMBE ILLUMINA TIONS ....................................5/0
BLACKPOOL for Illuminations Dancing or Theatres..........4/6
Book, at Local Office:
CLITHEROE, 16, Wellgate. Tel, 176. Or at Local Agency:
Mr. Whitaker, Park Villas, Whalloy. Tel. 227t. THIS WAS NEWS . . .
25 YEARS AGO September 3rd, 1937
(~)NE of the most popular w members of Clltheroe Police Force, P.C. Alvin Snow den retired from police work after 25 years’ service. f’.C. Snowden, a native of Cowling, near Keighley, joined the force in 1912 and had been stationed at Clitheroe since then.
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TTAVING been adopted by the Accrington Group, a
number of Clitheroe men were to establish a local group of Toe H„ meeting at 2 York Street.
/■'ILITHEROE Town Council and Clitheroe Rural Dist
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rict Council were represented at a conference of local auth
orities at Accrington Town Hall to consider the provision of a joint infectious diseases hospital.
fALD scholars and officials of Waterloo Methodist
Church gathered at the church to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the church’s erection.
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TTEADED by Sabden Public X 1 Band, a carnival proces sion proceeded through the decorated village streets to the grounds of Whins Cottage and Whins House, where a garden fete was held. Proceeds were for the Burnley Victoria Hospital Appeal Fund.
rriHERE was a marked In- crease in entries at Chip
ping and District Agricultural Show. The president’s cup for a collection of heifer calves, was won outright by Mr. J. Parker, of Whitewell.
50 YEARS AGO .S e p tem b e r 3rd , f i l l '’
l».a CHINKY, Of Wluliey. 1 v/a;: one of 87 members of the l.anca.'shlre Comity Police
to receive a. King George V Cnnuial.loii medal. The pres entation war. made by Mr. W. A. Wlnrtnnley, chairman of the bench a.|. tin: Comity Pol ice Court, Kims Street. ♦ ♦
jty|H. W. C. WHITTAKER, of ' * West C.rad Toni, was ap
pointed to succeed Mr. \V. Wilkinson ns teacher of weav
ing at Clitheroe and Accring ton Technical Bcliouln, *
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|>LANS Tor nltern tHms to the George and Dragon Ton.
Downhnm, and the recon struction of the post office were approved by the county magistrates.
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"JI/TR. R. HARRISON, a former member of Clitheroe
cricket team, who had played as professional with Carlisle and North Durham, was signed by Lowerhouse as professional for 1913.
(TYHE licence of the Station A Hotel, Clitheroe, was
transferred from Mrs. Altham to Mr. W. Whipp, formerly of Whalley.
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TL/TESSRS. J. Burgess and J. XTX W. Hayhurst were among local bowlers who played in
the Talbot tournament at Blackpool.
rpHE first of the harvest x thanksgiving services to be held locally took place at N e l s o n Street Methodist Church, Low Moor, the preacher being the Rev. John Taylor, of Manchester, for merly of Clitheroe.
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IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
WITH “QUIS” ___TO BE IN RIBBLESDALE
AND we think wc’vc had a poor .summer. After read ing a letter from a Clitheroe
“ exile” in Hong Kong I must concede that even the legend ary 'British “summer” has some advantages. After all,
it’s never too hot. According to my corres
pondent. Mrs. Valcvie A. Thompson the temperature in Hong Kong tops 90 degrees every day, with a relative humidity count of 80 per cent. This has been the position every day since the end of May, and residents sincerely wish they could exchange a few of their sun-baked days for some of our clammy, cold
ones. Mrs. Thompson says the
building programme struggles in vain to keep abreast with the teeming populace. Fifteen people to one room is the usual figure quoted. The colony is bursting at the seams, with hovels and shacks scattered up the steep hillsides and crowded junks and sampans littering the harbour.
“Disease spreads and flies and filth work together with
the heat and overcrowding to produce an average of 50 deaths a week from Infectious diseases alone. Tuberculosis accounts for 80 per cent of deaths.”
Mr. Thompson describes
the recent incident in which 11.000 refugees from Com munist China tried to walk into the colony.
“It was heartbreaking to
have to turn these people back, especially as the police and local people Involved had probably entered Hong Kong as refugees themselves”.
In July, Mrs. Thompson
and her baby daughter trav elled to Japan, where they saw some of the problems con fronting the rapidly increas ing population.
Tokio was choked every day
with cars and commercial vehicles, the result of the city’s chaotic growth to the largest metropolis in the world, supporting a population of more than 9,000,000 people.
Japan, with its green paddy
fields, provided a refreshing contrast to sweltering Hong Kong.
“So when the Ribble Valley Mrs. Thompson, whose pres
ent address is Bedenham House, Stonecutter’s Island, R.A.O.C. Ammo Depot, Hong Kong, will be known to Clith- eronians as the former Miss Valeric Patten.
She tells me that, with her
husband and daughter, she has been in the colony for about eight months, and gives a graphic description of life in the Far East. Stonecutter’s Island is com
paratively small, heavily wooded and hilly, with a tre mendous variety of birds, snakes and butterflies. The beaches would be admirable but for the pollution of the entire harbour area.
Being primarily a military
base, no Chinese live on the island, other than servants and stall. A colourful detach ment of Sikhs guard the whole area. A ferry, operated by Army and Navy launches, takes residents across the crowded harbour to Kowloon.
“Once you step oil the
launch the swelling noise begins, for despite the heat, the building work seems in tensified” , Mrs. Thompson writes. “The pile drivers slam away, and the women earth coolies, dressed in dusty black and large straw hats, shovel s t e a d i ly . Buildings are knocked down and re-bullt almost overnight.”
is full of cold mist and rain, don’t forget that nearly 10.000 miles away, two pers piring Clithcronians are hon estly envying you—at least
until our own cool season begins in late October”, Mrs. Thompson concludes.
RIBBLESDALE OIL
■rpiHE news that plans are A afoot to prospect for oil in
the Trawden area is a re minder that 10 years ago an oil survey was made in part of Ribblesdale.
A preliminary examination
in the Whalley, Sabden and Mitton districts proved the existence of oil-bearing rock near the igneous coal-bearing strata of the area.
Prospecting rights' covering
225 miles of the Lancashire coalfield were granted by the Government to a London con cern.
Part of the 70-square-mile
Burnley area which the firm had Government authority to survey started at Mitton Green, took in Mitton Village, and extended across the Ribble at Mitton Bridge, along Mitton Road and King Street, Whalley, and past Whalley Golf Club by Portficid Road to Sabden.
Though experts felt that
there were good chances of finding .sufficient oil to make the project worth developing, they did not expect to tap any large "pools" of oil.
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COUNTRY DIARY In the Isles, there is time to think
AND so after weeks of ex- ploring the Outer Hebrides
we boarded the Claymore from the pier at Lochboisdale at 8 p.m„ and, anticipating what might happen as we again crossed the Minch, we took to our cabin just before 10 o’clock. Excessive loading of cargo delayed our departure scheduled for 9-30.
Crossing from our next port
of call—Barra to Tiree—would be from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. So with the pitching and tossing of the outward journey still fresh in our minds, we thought it better to face the ordeal and perhaps avoid a repetition by remaining in our bunks.
I woke around 1 a.m. The
engines were quiet and by the noise on deck I assumed we were taking on more goods at Castlebay. Then asleep once again, to waken briefly to feel the unmistakable swell of the Minch. Then, behold 8 a.m., we were at Tobermory in glorious sunshine, which fol lowed us all the way to Oban.
Yes, it had been a success
ful, pleasureable trip and one which had certainly set me thinking. Of one thing I am sure, in order to get a clear view of things and to examine our own way of life, it is ad visable to stand back a little.
PROVIDE SOME ANSWERS
TT is interesting to get away A for a period to see how other people not so engulfed by our civilisation get along. My excursion to the Outer Isles and contact with the crofters did at least provide much food for thought, for who can live in these remote places and not be impressed, not only by the scenery but by the people, and especially with their way of life ?
During my visits to the
Outer and Inner Hebrides, I have stayed in all sorts of places from the first class hotel to the modest crofter’s cottage and would say my greatest delight has come from the croft, so far untouched by the taint of what we call civilisation.
Some lack most of what we
refer to as amenities. T.V. Is unknown, there is no
piped water, and electricity is out of the question, and, as I found to my surprise, the battery would not produce a sound from the wireless.
Time was of little signift-
cance to these honest to good ness people who think our methods of being a slave to the clock are ridiculous. Yet immediately when you return to the mainland or reach Glasgow the contrast has a tremendous Impact.
THE RAT RACE
TTNCE again, the serenity is v exchanged for the mad hustle of what has been termed—the rat Tace. Every one appears to be a stranger to his fellow pedestrian, the air is clogged with fumes and pollution, and young and old seem to have the greatest difficulty in living with the motor car. Indeed, it would seem after one has been cut off from the city for some time that man has created a mach
ine which shows every sign of dominating or even threaten ing his very existence.
Samuel Butler, I recall, had
visions of all this long ago. Obviously we should decide whether we are to be master or servant of the machine. If we accept Darwin’s survival of the fittest then we will not survive.
Most noticeable and impos
sible to overlook is the very important question of food. We do, quite understandably, enjoy our food better when on holiday, but after careful com parison one has no hesitation in concluding that the food from the croft is much better than much other food I have sampled.
The rather tasteless offer
ings we now accept are a piti ful example of what can be produced by chemicals. The results are to be seen in the ever increasing cost of pills and potions and vitamins consumed by the public to maintain fitness and a stand ard of nutrition.
HEALTHIER FOOD
TT does not require a diet- -*■ ician to see that before we can have healthier people we must surely have healthier food, which is the basis of health and fitness.
I know there will be those
who say it is all imagination, but have they ever con scientiously sampled a good egg for breakfast ? One that has a good colour with a firm white and above all one that possesses some taste ? The same I noticed in the meat and vegetables. Then, who
could ignore the taste and tex I
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ture of those home grown potatoes ? Potatoes grown sometimes on scanty soil, but possessing a flavour associated with the land. A little organic manure and seaweed had been used as a fertilizer, resulting in a potato worthy of the name.
The water was perhaps not
always up to our present standards. No doubt the microscope enthusiast ■ would have easily discovered all sorts of minute organisms. Even the naked eye revealed traces of moss and pieces of
vegetation. The water did, however, help
to make a jolly good cup of tea and did not possess that smell
of chlorine which one assoc iates with our usual supply. Most noticeable was the clear atmosphere and, fortunately, we in Ribblesdale cannot com plain in this respect. NATURALIST
Sunday papers
ipEKKIN’ Sunday papers is a funny sort of job,
But still it comes in handy if tha needs an extra bob,
Tha's got to know thi customers, and mustn’t start too soon,
Because tha’ll find there's lots of folks as stops in bed till noon.
Some leaves their brass on't doorstep, ond some on't window sill,
Ond shout Tha’il hev to chalk it up,” or “ Call agen next week!”
Some comes t’door wi’out their teeth, tha never saw such cheek,
bill,
LEGION SI
DEDICAT! The gift of I
TTpHE old standard of Cl Legion was laid up in 1
day and a new standard, i. eated by the Vicar, the Rej
Some doesn’t pay till th’end o’ month, or when tha sends a
out North and East Lancasl during the service by the tl
Standards of about 40 ,
from the Castle before t| service, but heavy rain led I the procession and the marl past after the service beil cancelled.
The standards were to hoi been carried in process!
Some women comes wi’ curlers up, ond sticks their 'eads ’round t’door.
Some chaps i’ flannel nightshirts like tha never seed afore.
Some are t’most impatient tha could ever wish to meet,
Ond catch thee wi’ their slippers on, at t’bottom end o’ t'street.
There's some as can't mek up then- minds which paper they
There's some as ses “ Tha'rt late agen, tha ought to get a bike.’'
would like,
Tha can’t please ev'rybody. on that tha must agree,
Next week ah’ll stop i’ bed mesel’, ond let folk come to me!
JIMIFEL.
by Mr. F. Whaites, with Mr. f Booth and Mr. T. Bowker L escorts, was handed to t| Vicar for safe-keeping by Al A. Wood, president of tl Clitheroe branch.
The old standard, carril
standard was the bran! secretary, Mr. W. Brayshal escorted by Mr. F. Sharp, t'| branch treasurer, and Mr. Geldard.
The bearer of the ml
Lessons were read by Mr. I Walker, the North Lancaslnl
County Secretary, and Mr. f Southworth, vice-president the Clitheroe branch.
The old standard, which w|
subscribed for bv 14 membcl of the Clitheroe branch, w| dedicated on the day the Se| ond World War began.
Army, who were stationed I the old Carlton Mill barracil escorted the standard and lei the following day for acti| service.
THE SERMON
that it had been asked wil they went to so much troubl to dedicate a new standarl The answer, he said, was th.l the standard was a sacrt|| emblem.
In his sermon, the Vicar sal
round the colours, so membef of the British Legion mul rally round the standard which stood for service God, Queen and country.
As soldiers of old rallied Members of the Territoril
ations in a fight for freedonl It was easy to lose sight c| these, but the standard shoul| serve as a reminder.
There were spiritual impiicl
Legion recognised the need fed service to the communitf especially to the families ex-seTvice men.
The Vicar said the Britisl
I believe you are holding ul the evangelical grace cl tender-heartedness”, he del clared.
"In caring for those in neei
be kind. Custom could dul sympathy in the fierej struggle in the highly coir| petitive world.
Many things made it hard tl I PERSONAL SIN
hard to _ be tender-hearted Unless one mastered person! sin, one could never be kin|
Personal sin could make
people kind and tende.| hearted as one might ofted
Memory helped to keef
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