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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, April 26, 1963


IN TOWN AND COUNTRY


COLOUR OR MONOCHROME ?


I AM sorry to disappoint


able to follow the numerous red herrings trailed across the scene, or to be led up the old garden path leading to more derelict


photography and art. Strange how he criticises


ideas concerning Only


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CENTRAL GARAGE : : REMINGTON Telephone: Glsburn 254


me for going to such lengths in tearing oil the false masks which obscure the real problem. Now :he, too, goes to similar length. A typical case of the kettle calling the


pan black. However, no amount of


drum beating can alter the fact with which we are con­ cerned. I took exception to the statement th a t the colour worker was recording the mere bare bones of the scene without succeeding In con­ veying the Impression of the photographer.


Such wild interpretation can serve no dther purpose


th an to show how biased the monochrome addict has be­


come. They are oblivious to reality, for who save a colour blind person can believe th a t the scene around us can best be conveyed in shades of


gradual fading away of th e camera clubs, but this Is no reason for hindering progress!


black and white ? Colour would mean the


As a naturalist, I have


have had some success In capturing beautiful scenes


always been concerned with capturing in colour what I saw In order to share my impression with others.


I


and the rarity In wild life, and In passing this on to others.


Unfortunately, there still


remain those who mistake In photography the means and the end. They tre a t the camera and processing as


ing mechanisation in the camera, they would prefer a modern synchronised car to lhe early model of 40 years ago.


the end. Yet I suppose while deplor­


NATURALIST A FESTIVAL?


of the two additional clips which have been presented to the town by a leading industrialist.


Set your heart /.T.. on a real genuine


£ | t f v t i f e e r f e f i c f


Ask around, and you'll find that Slumberland is the most recommended bed of our time. The reasons vary: quality, value for money (you can get a real genuine Slumberland bed for as lit t le as £15.7.6.), variety—9 beds, 9 headboards and 28 fabrics to choose from—or just for the sheer joy of owning one. Whatever you want to spend, i t pays to in s is t on a real genuine Slumberland bed. Shown above is the Purple Seal — Slumberland Sprinpivall comfort at a budget-conscious price, d' 6" size only £34.19.6. plus £8.5.6.


for the Candy ‘ Q ’ white lea.thercloth headboard.


See the


whole range at your


Home is inhere the


SLUMBERLAND is


Slumberland stockist now


Slumberland Limited, Hcdfern Road, Tyscley, Birmingham 11


[ WAS interested to read in your publication of last week


g In knowledge of the previous


Ills wish that the cups would be used, if possible, in a “ competi­ tive manner." would this not be a great opportunity for our Councillors to advance the cul­ tural amenities of our town by organising an annual festival of music, speech and drama?


at over £200 by the same donor, and taking into consideration


ift of a magnificent cup valued


these excellent cups as trophies in the way desired by the donor and would also enhance the reputation of Clitheroe and its Council.


This would result in using


such a venture are innumerable. Not only would it teach our young people the joys to be gained from competitive partici­ pation in the arts, but it would also bring into the town many visitors from a vast area of Lan­ cashire and Yorkshire.


Tlie benefits to be gained from


I appeal to our Councillors and those in authority to take note of this suggestion for I am con­ fident that any move towards these ends would meet with the wholehearted support of many citizens?


Through your columns, might RAYMOND GRICE. CARAVAN SITE


van site should he established in its area. I suggest they have their meeting up tire Castle and look over towards the Bawdlands area. That will give them a good idea of what a caravan site would look like.


CO Clitheroe Town Council is to '


DISGUSTED CLITIIERONIAN DESIGN AND FREEDOM


‘T>r OLE’ is a ‘Prole’ indeed If he can see nothing In his


liberty except the opportunity to please himself. Surely when considering our en­ vironment we should more th an ever judge it by Its effects on the community. If we pa int our house a sickly green, it nauseates all who


see it. Why does ‘Prole’ find taking


the advice of an ‘expert’ so difficult? I am sure he does not. feel pu t upon or tyran­ nised when he is advised or treated by his doctor—his 'medical expert’ and often an authoritarian a t that.


detect his bulging cheek when he denigrates the ‘expert’ since he Is happy to quote the work of the master builder of the Taj Mahal and the master architect of C o v e n t r y Cathedral when making a point.


In any case I think we can


We Have a d ellgnful selection of p la in an d fancy^ wedding rings In 9ct„ 18ct.. 22ct. Gold a n a P la t in um £ 1 /1 6 /0 to £25.


Engagement rin g s from £ 4 /10/0 to £750.


24- KING WILLIAM STREET-r a .7 9 2 0 LEVER’S BATTERY ‘PELLETS’


we should not confuse matters of design and matters of social or political freedom. We shall in the end have to judge the former for them­ selves alone. I hope th a t we shall be able to avoid the very real pitfalls of prettiness or prissiness in the street scheme which the society is preparing for Moor Lane.


My pica was and still is th a t


But eventually it will be ex­ posed to the critical appraisal


investigate whether a cara­ "Eureka" in not being


of all and ‘Prole’ will be ah’e to demonstrate in particular how much worse than the


present situation our nronni als are, If this is so. D0S" EDWARD HILL


lion Secretary, Clitheroe Civic Society


HOUSING COSTS fiOUN. T. ROBINSON Is


^ right about the housing costs. He is doing his dutv in warning us about these prohibitive costs. Small local authorities cannot affordwhat bigger units can, hence the argument for amalgamation.


their wisdom in administrat­ ing. Any fool can say,” build whatever the costs, because the tenants will pay.”


Nevertheless, local repres entatives must be judged bv


orities with low rateable values must learn to do with­ out what they cannot afford and build accordingly.


administration. Small auth But T. COMBINED OPERATIONS


iTVTE are approaching the T ’ h a lf _ way stage of


National Productivity Year but judging by the number of brakes on production caused by recent industrial disputes we shall be lucky to improve our s tandard of living as much in the Sixties as we did in the Fifties.


Most people share these


improved standards with higher Incomes converted into new homes, bigger savings and bank accounts,betterand more clothes, T.V. sets, motor cars, w a s h i n g machines, pop records, Continental holidays, more hairdressers, 10-pin bowling alleys, etc., — not forgetting the progressive improvement In welfare ser­ vices and State insurance benefits.


production over a wide range of industries, from higher output from a larger number of more efficient machines, and from greater output per person employed.


would not have risen without a substantial


But our living standards increase in


of living depends on produc­ tion and, as anyone who lived through the pre-war depres­ sion knows, when production falls our living standards fall with It.


In other words, our standard


tion and more people want;r i ' jobs We simply cannot s'tanc* still. With some industries contracting before the onward march of expanding industries like nuclear power plants, oil refineries, man-made fibres and electronics we have to re­ deploy, rc -lra in and make up the shortage of the highly skilled in hand and brain.


With an increasing popula­


task is for employers, trade unions and government to work out a combined operation for the next five years through the National E c on om ic Development Council.


In short, our most urgent


to make a hollow mockery of National Productivity Year.


Failure to do this would be R. T. ASHWORTH OVERTIME FALLACY


overtime ban to conquer unem­ ployment by compelling employ­ ers to take on more workers realise that this idea is chock full of fallacies.


[ WONDER if tile extremists who advocate a national


work creates additional jobs or that overtime working indicates a need for additional labour.


I t just isn't true that sharing


banning overtime would create about 350.000 jobs in manufac­ turing industries in terms or 40- liour weeks. This might be use­


It lias been suggested that


ful exercise in mathematics, but in practical terms Uie calcula­ tion is worthless. Forty hours' overtime worked in short periods by different people doing differ­


ent jobs cannot provide 40 hours' work for one man. .


each worked by 40 people in a factory, in order to finish a Job on time, or overcome a produc­ tion bottleneck, be avoided by increasing the labour force by one.


work to places where unemploy­ ment is particularly high if the start of a new factory is fo bo plagued by an overtime ban as it


What earthly good is it taking


was at Ford's new Merseyside planL?


To ban overLime and raise costs by making inadequate use


of cases, overtime is worked be­ cause it is necessary. By help­


In the overwhelming majority


ing to keep the fiow or production going, it makes it easier fo fulfil the requirements of actual or potential customers.


out of jobs. On the contrary, il can be a means to more orders —and more employment.


R r ir r l ic ld . FIRE PREVENTION


A LTHOUGH we are in the midst of National Produc­ tivity Year, little attention


appears to have been paid to the tremendous loss of output care­ lessly caused by industrial fires


OverLime does net keep jieoplc E. RUCK.


of costly capital equipment cannot safeguard jobs, but il. could well destroy them.


IVIIY NOT LAST YEAR? welcomed Selwyn Lloyd's defla­


IT was rather amazing to nufe how the same Tory M.P.S who


tionary budget are now acclaim­ ing Hie expansionist budget of Reginald Maudling.


svliy was the budget not intro­ duced last year instead of now? Tile answer seems fo be l.liaf we only get expansion, lax liancl* ouls, every four years when a General Election is pending.


Tile question I wish to pose is


duced last year we should now be around £2.000 million better off. unemployment would not have increased by 250.000 and our trade would not have stag- naled.


If this budget liad been intro­ th a t is not wise which last year accounted for 80 iiimmiraimuiiiimuiiumiiuiumimtaDuunm


per cent of Britain's total fire loss of £55 million. One of tlie greatest causes of


industrial fires is smoking, the cigarette or match thoughtlessly flung away, to smoulder and


later set fire to a pile of waste or other materials, usually after workers have left the building. This carelessness has doubled tlie number of fires caused by smoking materials over the past 10 years.


work out at £80 a minute for a whole year is a hefty sum in terms of lost work, lost wages and lost orders and it is time we woke up to the fact that we live in a highly-mechanised world which demands from us a higher- than-ever standard of safety.


Industrial fire losses which


this toll of fire losses if we treat fire drill in the factory as a serious business, and not as a joke.


We can materially cut down


care with a match or cigarette- end in our place of work as we do in our own home?


How many of us takes the same


No-one would regard the metal­ working industry as particularly prone to fires, yet in 1962 nearly one in three of fires that did over £10.000 worth of damage inflicted a total bill on that industry of over £6,000,000.


which has reduced the toll of the roads might well be extended to serious fire drill in the factory and the home, for fire is also a killer and responsible for 700 deaths last year.


T h e safety-first campaign E. TIMMINS. THE WORLD OF INSECTS


jVTOST people think of A insects as much the most


insignificant p a r t of the animal creation, though hav­ ing a considerable nuisance value.


In fact, they are by far the


most numerous, accounting for five-sixths of the world’s


animal population. There are more than 20


thousand different species of


Insects In Britain alone, each with jits own life dtory and


with modifications of shape, colour and habits adapted to Its particular task in main­ taining the balance of nature.


variety of situation: on the sea shore, on mountains, In deserts, in towns and in our own houses and gardens.


Insects occur In every


effect on all living land and freshwater animals and on plants.


Without them, p lant and


animal life could not continue. Yet Insects also do In­


alienable damage, as every gardener knows. They ruin crops and spread disease, and man is engaged in constant warfare against them.


almost every year, and fears have recently been expressed th a t man may risk upsetting the balance of Nature and even of poisoning himself, If he is not careful.


New insecticides appear


For those who would like to know more about


these


important animals, the Cillh- croe branch of the W.E.A. has arranged a course of lectures in Clitheroe Royal Grammar School.


The tutor Is I)r. Ij. .1.


Popliam, lecturer in Zoology a t Manchester University.


Apart from talking about


The main criticism of flu: budget is although expansion is


the collection and identifica­ tion of insects, Dr. Popham will pay particular attention to the commoner species found, in Lancashire and to the insect fauna of a valley on the northern side of Pendle Hill.


file theme it is too timid. A much more vigorous policy is needed to bring the country from the slough of despair info which it has sunk.


help exports, without an expan­ sion of which we shall be bead­ ing for another bout of inflation. p le a su re s


Tile budget could do more to


agiin are not sufficient,' to solve tlie problem.


,grossed areas are welcome, but


planned economy, a solution from which the Tories shrink for


The answer, of course, is


doctrinaire reasons. Only a Labour Government would lake the measures to get Britain on Hie move and keep controlled expansion going year by year, and not just when a General Election is imminent.


DOUG IIOYI.E,


Prospective Parliamentary Labour candidate, Clith- eroe Division.


TINKER BELLES?


Peter Fan was ready for installation in Kensington Gardens, Barrie contrived to have it erected, by a large force of workmen, between dusk and dawn so th a t his friends, the children, might think th a t it had been put there by the fairies.—“The Reader’s Digest”.


■\VHEN Frampton’s bronze ' ’ statue of James Barrie’s


25 YEARS AGO May filh 1938,


l \\7 ITH the dual purpose ot ’ '


the Trust Account and of raising a substantial sum for a proposed scheme of extension to the Sunday School, a three- day bazaar was opened at Clitheroe Wesley School.


liquidating a debt on * * * Nor can an hour's overtime A PARTNERSHIP of 218 by


men H. Douthwaite and A. Garlick helped their side to defeat Ribblesdale Wanderers by 75 runs af ter Lancaster had declared with two wickets


Lancaster’s opening bats­ down- ,


rtOUNTY Coun. A. R. Grad- vv Well, of “Mayfield”, clitheroe, was elected a County Alderman a t a meet­ ing of Lancashire County Council. He had been a County Councillor for 14 years.


second half, were defeated 1-0 by Accrington Stanley Res­ erves In the final of the Lancashire Combination Cup competition a t Peel Park Accrington.


t h e t


District Medical Officer for the Public Assistance Com­ mittee. Dr. Barker remained Medical Officer of Health for Clitheroe.


l"kR J. MACDONALD suc- cecded Dr. Barker as


* * * IN the Northern Green


annual tournament a t Ilkley, F. Walker, the Clitheroe Golf Club keeper, won the scratch cup and a pewter fruit dish for the best gross score over two rounds of the links, with 80 and 77.


Keepers’ Association’s


riLITHEROE, playing with 10 men throughout


to help Lhc T IT H E DARN'S


\ RE there any fiLlie barns in ibis district?


Cmvell, of Tile Cottage, Worston, who tells me that a friend of his came across the ruins of a tithe barn in the grounds of an abbey while on holiday in the South of England this Easter.


t No one could tell him why the


Cowell, used to be a large stately building, built near to a farm or abbey and dates back about 100 years. It was much bigger than the barns that we know to-day.


ithe barn -was so called. Tile titlie barn, says Mr.


Anglo-Saxon times, for tile Church to receive one-tenth of tlie crops of tile people in the parish, and one out of every 10 foals or sheep or oxen.


Il was tlie custom, oven in


wheat or barley or oafs went fo the Church and the priest of the village or the abbot of file monas­ tery used to collect t.his share which was called the " litlie.”


One out of every ten sheaves of


si ore these filings until they could be sent fo be sold. And the tithe barn was built for tliis purpose.


Iamb were dlle at Whitsuntide, the 10th sheaf of wheat or barley or oats was collected at harvest- time, in the season of what was known as the autumn equinox- in late September.


The lOLli colt and calf and THIS WAS NEWS . . .


50 YEARS AGO May 6th, 1913


I^O R the second time within A a few months, the central premises of Clitheroe Co­ operative Society were broken into and cash stolen from the tills.


* * *


npHE Concert Hall opened for the first time under


parts, was the main feature. *


* *


T\/fR. ALFRED TAYLOR, ot xva Whalley, was presented


its new name of The Electric Theatre with Mr. Ignatius Cullen as manager. “The Black Mask”, a film In three


with a silver cigarette case by Clitheroe Cage Bird Society as a token of appreciation of a series of lectures given for their benefit in conjunction with the Nursing Association.


* * *


riWVO Manchester motorists •* were turning their car on


the Waddington Fell road when a wheel came off and the vehicle turned turtle, trapping the occupants. They were freed by farmers in the neighbourhood and escaped with a few bruises. * * *


cuit, the Rev. J. E. Halford, of Manchester, preached a t the Sunday School anniversary services a t Waterloo Methodist


A FORMER minister in the Church. Clitheroe Methodist Cir­ * * *


and wild life of the district. Mr. William Robinson, of Nelson Street, Low Moor, died


A FREQUENT contributor to newspapers on the flora aged 33. He needed a place in which to The question is put by Mr. .1. Savings can


give you cause for alarm! A burglar knows the sort of place to look for home-sa v in g s ...........overnight you can easily lose all that years of thrifty self-denial have built up. Put your savings in a really safe p la c e ........... the t r u s t e e sa v in g s ban k. They will then be fully secured and you can withdraw up to £50 on demand.


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BRAITHWAITE’S 48, WHALLEY ROAD CLITHEROE


All Roads Lead To Our Store—Good Parking They have an enormous NEEDED


'UHEY’RE knocking Clillicroe about a lot at present. Old


houses have been demolished and new ones are going up.


gins. For with new houses come new streets. We have Shireburn Avenue and Reeford Grove, to


problem created when strangers asked the whereabouts of the new thoroughfares.


people as well as for visitors. A reader told me this week of the


This makes difficulties for local


street map should be issued in order to ease the problem.


He suggested that an up-to-date


will have to navigate by guess work.


Until it is, I suppose people THE THREE FISHES


TNTERESTING background information to the


Newsletter, is given in the April issue of the magazine.


I n t e r n a l


heraldic shield appearing on the cover of "Chin”, Calder- stones Hospital


by a contributor, William Clarke.


was the arms of the Abbey of “This ‘ The information is provided


“The Three Fishes”, Mr. Clarke says:


In his contribution, headed . strange device’ That is whore tile trouble be­


name only two of the new streets.


WITH “ QUIS” uuuiiiiiitiniimrmRjmtmiminiummmmimutmmiituimmtminmuimKinmi] n iu w ^


Whalley in connection with which the following extract from a le t te r received from the College of Arms in 1955 gives some a u t h o r a t i v e information:


■ . . . the Arms of Whalley Abbey were recorded in the visitation of Yorkshire in 1530 with a blue field on which are shown three whales h au r ian t (placed up­


right), ATgent (silver) from the mouth of each the Head of a Crozier Or (gold). The fish are obviously Whales since in the f irst place it makes a play on the name (Whalley) and secondly because the Abbot of Whal- ley’s Arms included three Whales Heads.’


certainly suggest a community ruled by an Abbot, a crozier being the pastoral staff of either abbot or bishop.


“The crozier heads almost


three fish represent one from each of the three local rivers need n ot necessarily be dis­ credited bv the asertion th a t they are Whales, for in those fa r off days we are told th a t any very large fish was popularly called a Whale.


"Popular belief th a t the


sign? In communities, some­ thing in the na ture of a totem—a symbol of unity through an existing unseen relationship”.


“For what purpose is this


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