6 Clitheroe Advertiser Sc Times, August 23, 1963. THE WAITING IS OVER


JT is now nine years since, llie education executive discussed the building of a new secondary


school lo eater for tile needs of Roman Catholic children in the No. 5 Division. But people of that faith have envisaged it for twiee that length


of lime. Now all will have the salisfactioa of seeing the finished


product, in the shape of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Secon­ dary School. Billington, which opens on Monday, for 450 children. It has cost £270,000. Those who will fill the new


building conic from all over


the division; from as far afield as Padiham and Hurst Green: Clithcroe and Osbal- deston. ' Roman Catholic children who


have failed the 11-plus in former .rears have attended one of three secondary modern schools in the division. These schools—St. Michael


St. John The Baptist. Padiham— will be affected by the opening of St. Augustine’s.


The Great Harwood school is


lo close down altogether and all children from there will attend the new school: Mr. J. G. Worthington, former headmaster of St. Hubert’s, is head of the new school.


and St. John’s, Clithcroe; St. Hubert's. Great Harwood; and


modern secondary school has bren long felt. Up till the end of the summer term the Lower-


At Clithcroe, the need for a


methods of education, this type of school had outlived its use­


have done well to maintain a high standard of examination results under difficult working conditions, but now they will be alone to concentrate on infant and junior education.


of the type of St. Augustine’s has been so long felt, it was not until 1954 that the No. 5 Division Executive, meeting at Whnlley. first discussed the actual preparation of plans. Since then various difficulties


PLANS DISCUSSED Though the need for a school


have been encountered. The main one. at first, seemed to be the choice of a suitable, fairly


central, site. Before the chosen one, at


Alkcr Lane, was agreed, nine other sites were discussed, three of them being at Whalley. It was finally decided that the Alkcr Lane site, which adjoins


fulness. St. Michael and St. John s


gate school has catered for infants, juniors and seniors. In these days of changing


dome.slio science rooms arc


unfinished. Mr. Fred Ormerod. tile site general foreman was not unduly


disturbed at this. "Within about a month the


workmen will have finished tile practical block and we will be oir tile site. It was tile thrcc- month’s cruel frost, last winter which put us behind schedule." Work on the actual site was


started in May, 1061, and since that time something like 40 to SO workmen have been engaged on the building. It is an impressive siglil,


clearly visible from the main road. People passing t lie site


regularly linve watched Hie progress of the building to its present stute with interest. Tile whole of tile site, includ­


ing the playing fields, takes up an area of 18 acres. Tile build­ ings themselves spread over five


by Walter Stirrup and Son, architects of Richmond Terrace, Blackburn. Compact and airy, it is laid out so that efiicient administration is assured. Tlic three main sections tire


single and three-storeyed, file former being the gymnasium and main assembly hall, the latler the main classroom block witli staif room and head teacher's rooms, and the three- storey practical block.


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and range of equipment; it is a grandiose affair.


fcot, long sides is constructed in glass and overlooks a section of the large playing fields and 12 tennis courts. This gives it a light and pleasant atmosphere.


The whole of one of its 104-


which lias a strip, hardboard sprung floor, are wall bars and wall ladders and at each of the 54-feet wide ends arc basketball nets.


All round the gymnasium,


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From the nx>f hang various


types of rope climbing equip­ ment, including a rope ladder and—of all things—a trapeze. Adjoining the gym on either


pin board .*pacn and equipment. Also un this corridor is one of the features of the school of which the builders are proud. This is a, free-standing stair­


side are large changing rooms wilh benches and hooks for clothes and 10 single showers each partitioned off by a curtain. Behind the gymnasium is the


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the building was not included in the county’s major building programme for 1957-58. Great concern wn»s expressed by the executive when it was left out. More recently another un for-


seen hindrance put work back. For three months builders on the site were idle because of the keen frost—a reminder of the bitter winter.


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was that the school was not completed in July as originally intended. Indeed, it is because of this frost that part of the school Is still not ready for tuse. Still to be completed are the


FROSTY EFFECTS The result of this stoppage


rooms in the practical block of the school—where the science laboratories, the needlework and


parts of the Ribble Valley. Another set-back came when


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assembly hall there is a small recess in the attractively decorated wall. This is to be a small chapel and eventually an altar will be placed in it.. Along the whole width of this hall arc three steps leading up to it. In the corner of the main hall


two doors lead to the music, room and medical room. Both are spacious and suitably equipped. Beyond the main assembly


hall and sectioned off from it by another lightly coloured sliding partition is the dining area with the kitchen leading on to it. ’This area has a Vinal floor in


blue and black. A large hatch, fitted to the


wall, will be opened for the serving of meals and the kitchen is lavishly equipped with modern cooking and warming machines. The kitchen staff will have


On the right of the main


floor of the administrative block. At. the top is the cloakroom, leading off from the cloakroom are five ordinary classrooms. Also on this floor is a division room, which has a sliding panel,


case with concrete steps and a Vinal finish ^illustrated *. These steps lead to the second


easy c/iairs and tables in matching colours and lias a small pantry and sink. On the opposite side uf tlv


dining hall, behind the kitchen, the history and geography rooms arc satiated, adjacent to one another.


will be practiced on the 13 acres of playing fields which run round two sides of the school. The ground has been levelled out and sown and the lush green is now beginning to show through. In addition the school has 12


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tarmacadam tennis courts back­ ing on 1110 gymnasium. Father J. Porter, parish priest


at. St. Mary's Church, Langho, said that eventually it is hoped to have 600 children in the school. At present 22 members of


staff have been appointed in addition to the headmaster, and it was hoped that before very long a school chaplain would also be appointed.


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and the English and Maths rooms. More steps lead up to a second


floor which has similar cloak­ room facilities and a further five


classrooms.


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school library which fins shelves for hundreds of books and also tables and chairs. Tile practical block with its


take full courses to G-C-E. level in many subjects. The oflical opening of the


school is not likiy to take place until after Christmas, but it is hoped that the ceremony will


be performed by the Bishop of Salford, the Rt. Rev. George A.


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of the whole school is its massive and extremely attrac­ tive gymnasium. There can be little doubt, that, it has no equal in these parts for its sheer size


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acres. The school lias been designed


Mr. j . G. Worthington—the new headmaster.


plentv of working space and the washing-up quarter—with three large sink units—is divided from the cooking area by a glass partition. A vegetable store and other


three floors is the one which faces the main road and on which work is still in progress. But it is already clear that it


will have facilities and working conditions which will be the envy of pupils and teachers for many miles around. On the ground floor arc three


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storage space opens into the kitchen and the staff have their


own rest room. Opposite the kitchen and


across the dining area a corridor leads to the main school entrance and close to it are the rooms of the headmaster, head­ mistress and the secretary. At the end of the corridor is


the assistant teachers’ stall' room. The feature of this room is that for the whole of one of its lengths it is glass panelled


commanding a good view of the school approach. The room is furnished with


with up-to-date machinery and tools. On the first floor are further


arc the metal and woodwork rooms which arc to he equipped


Adpacent to these laboratories


rooms for housecraft, needle­ work and domestic science. The latter is to be equipped with modern cooking facilities. Also on this floor is a bed-sitting room for any child who may be taken ill. On the top floor of the


for boys and girls, and the staff arc provided on almost every floor. The school is heated through­ out by oil-fired central heating.


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F L O O R


TILING fur c e r t a i n areas of St. Augustine’s now school executed In


Clitheroe d well in


“friendlies


J»JEVEN goals, three f Mcl Widdup. two I’


Tom Pindcr and one , from Bernard Wallbank T r c v o r Lightbown ; Clithcroe a decisive victor a "curia in-raising” frier with Great Harwood at S:


day's 3—3 draw with Scedhill. si loukl boos' moralio for the eom;r Clit iirror 's scorer.'


bow» and Wallbank.


Bridge, on Monday night ::v_ S


This vie:ory, fulltiv r. Ch!h<-


a nee but Clithcroe must not be too cocl their wins agauist ( wood. The:v were fa' side from :.he second


encc in the* respective From ::ie fir>- m:


good soporid division haps.—but it must bored that there is a


sided to be interest:: Hi [•wood. sreming! anv plan. bhinrieret


match was


Mcl Widdi,:p pranrei sic defenpp to ririv home was clear to i


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running into :rouble agai solid-looking Clither°n d<


lime after lime. Clilheroc's forwards found


difficulty in split tine the v:. hesitant defence. Witen Br;an Park:


to allow Jarftie Lever anc! , Kirk to shoi,v their paces. wood came


a : i Bu.,-h ca me off at half-


showed enough promise to jus1 his selection for a place o wing tomorrow. As a team. Clfiteri^ 1


on :o pilav rentrr-fo:.-ward. no: sho ab


of Mel W;driup


th ; mateh wha: kmri of a .': Cl horoo will pu: up th;.-< sea.' It will lake stenter oppositior to: . Clitheroe a! thouch a be1 side' may call: a stroncet■ per. :na:ace fr<.llli •


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Grayston; Bush (Kirk), Hods Parkinson (Lever): Gill. W bank, Widdup (Lightbown), P der. Birkctt. Great Harwood: Williaj


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Parker, O’SuMivan; Sowd Butler, Clayton (Hothersa Utiley (Miller), Green, Chris Warcing. Oanson. Rei erect Mr. C. M. Co


with a game against no- promoted Crompton Rees.. will probably show two chan from last season's regular sk Allan Bush will probably


( 'L1THEROE start the football season to-mor


he available as Jackie Lever. Padiham defender, comes in right half and Trevor Lie bown is selected at outsidc-ru in preference to Arthur Gill. Lightbown. who has appea.


for Clitheroe at centre-fonva has had experience on the win Tile selected line-up is: \N


lace: Heycs. Grayston: Lev Hodson. Parkinson: Light bo-.


Wallbank. Widdup. Pmc Birkctt,


fit. and fast and showed cohesion. One cannot really judge


the ma;ei Trevor U2iVibtr.v n. who (


z mnre the gna1-poac


piaycr also put :hri-u goal. Thi s was a very c ■


Great I


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