The Clitheroe A dreriiser & Times. February J4,1964


GOOD NIGHT KISS BROUGHT HIS


STRANGEST CASE


“ GOODNIGHT ” kiss from her fiance cost a Clithcroe girl 12s. 6d.—the physiotherapy clinic fee for treating her


injured shoulder. The story behind the strangest case ever handled by Mr. A.


.Hollings, tlie physiotherapist at Clitheroe's centre in New Market Street, is told in an exclusive interview with an “Advertiser and Times ” reporter by the young lady concerned.


She prefers that wc do wc


Tcvcal her name, but asked her to call her “Mrs. J.” She told us she is now married and no longer lives in Clith- eroe. but still reads the "Advertiser and Times.”


when we read the article in iasi week's 'Advertiser'." he said. " That kiss was a very expen­


"My family liad a good laugh


sive one—in fact it cost, me liis. 6d.." said Mrs. J.. a'slim brunette. She went on: 'We had just


have paid that 12s. Ud. “Mrs. J. actually had a disc


in her neck displaced and it was this which caused the sharp pains-in her shoulder and arm. "It is certainly the mast unusual case I've known." com­


mented Mr. Hollings. The centre, however, was able


to cope, as indeed it is usually


become engaged and my fiance was leaving my parents' home. Suddenly, as he kissed me. I felt a sudden pain in my shoulder and arm. I moved so that I could rub iL—and ouch! Did my shoulder hurt ? "Liniment did not help and


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able to do. "We want to keep the centre


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when my parents returned home 3 had to be helped to bed. My fiance beat a hasty retreat as soon as they arrived home." The next morning Mrs. J's


place three diathermy machines which are constantly in use, mainly for - the treatment of rheumatics. They are ten years old and have given good service to the centre, but in addition they are interfering with tele­


vision and radio. Replacing them would cost at


mother sent for the doctor and lie attempted to-“straighten out the situation by tugging and twisting at my head while my mother held my feet.” as Mrs.


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physiotherapist must be sent for. and soon Mr. Hollings -arrived with a weird-looking 116111161-151)0 of machine which he placed over my head. He then proceeded to pump this up to stretch my neck by forcing my jaw upwards, so t h a t my shoulder blade would be pulled


J. explained it. "The doctor decided that the


back into place. "I then had to attend the


physiotherapy centre where deep heat treatment completed the cure. Did Mrs. J. marry the young


least £500, Mr. Hollings esti­


mated.Recentlv peon'.e and organisa­ tions in the Ci'itheroe area have come forward with offers of help bv organising coffee even­ ings and other fund-raising events and during the years the centre has been open Ribbies- dale and Whalley District Nur­ sing Associations have made generous donations, but a good deal of tlie money has yet to be


raisedThe committee do not want to raise tile charges of 3s. 6d. for Clitheroe patients and six shil­ lings for country patients. Patients are very glad to bo


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310 square miles, have been designated areas of natural bcaut> by the Minister of Housing and Local Government, Sir Kcitn


J°Thc order for the designation was made by the National Parks Commission and confirmed without modification bv the


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able to attend the centre. Mr. Hollings pointed out. since it would cost them the s am e amount to go to hospital for treatment on the bus and the


whole affair would take up a lot more time.


Minister. Made under the National


Lancashire and the West Riding and extends from Grassington Lakeland in the North to Caldcr Vale and Hurst Green ill the south, with an "outlier” to tlic east of Clitheroe. Tile larger area covers the


Parks and Access lo the Countryside Aer of 1949. the order designates ihe area as “ a r e a s “ of outstanding natural beauty’’ and not a National Park. Tile areas include lands in


of u n s i g h t ly development, clearance of derelict land and buildings,


I.C.I. to assist in the Ministry of Agriculture silage campaign and the chemical treatment ot straw to help the fodder position on farms in addition to his other


from Mr. Dick Wallbank. who then farmed at Rhvdding Hey. which lias since been swallowed up bv Bankfield quarry. After 38 years of continuous trading. Mr.’ Wallbank's was the last order Mr. Bamber dealt with before retiring. Mr. Wallbank. incidentally is still farming at Gisburn.


work. One of his first orders was


stuffs used to be collected by farmers from the station, milk being brought and provender


The biggest weight of feeding , tree-planting, the


securing of access to open country for the public and in appointing wardens. Designation does not provide


any right of access to land not alrcadv open to the public, nor does it affect any existing use whiclt is made of the land—for example the use of War Depart­ ment land for military purposes.


mass of high moors running westwards f rom Gigglcswick and Bolton-by-Bowiand in the Pennines to Caton and Scorion,


outstanding natural beauty con­ fers upon the area national sig­


Tlie designation of an area of


ded bv the A(15 road and adjoins the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Tile smaller outlier in­ cludes Pendie Hill and Pendle­


in Die Lancaster area. Ill the north-east it is boun­


serving and enhancing die natural beautv of the landscape rests with the local planning authorities —• Lancashire a n d West Riding county councils. Government grants at the


ton Moor. Tlie responsibility for pre­


gthen tlie hands of local autho­ rities in resisting pressure for unsuitable development.


nificance. The prestige effect will stren­


pans of Longridge Urban Dis­ trict. and parts of Bowland, Burnley. Clitheroe. Gafttang, Lancaster, Ltmesdale and Settle Rural Districts


Included in the new ureas are t


rate of 75 per cent, can be made towards the cost of the removal


MR. G. it. H. SMITH, of Oxton


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Hall. Tadcastcr, has been


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sively in Yorkshire and who owns the noted Oxton Shortlicni herd, lias been a member of the society [or over forty years.


fj'HE recital sponsored by “ C’.itheroe Parish Church


Trompclta Real by the Spanish organist Jose Lindon.


tect. He started with a Sonata Para


arranged for organ by J. S. Bach, was represented by his Concerto in A Minor.


Vivaldi, whose concertos were Mr Bamber's first introduction


taken back. Clitheroe Auction Mart was


to Ribble Valley farmers. Mr. Bamber was discharged


corn millers, of Blackburn. It was during his neriod with Greenwood's that Mr. Baniber


from the forces in 1919 and he was then with Greenwood's,


'NOWN to farmers all over j Valleys, and a prominent per-


, the fanners. i Another wcli-known character.


j sonaliiy at Clitheroe Auction Mart for nmnv years. Mr. Wil­ liam Bambcr. of 32 Ramsgreave


I Drive. Blackburn, has retired as I district manager of Lever's


i Feeds Ltd.Mr. Bamber joined Lever Bros, of Port Sunlight, as feeding stuffs agent for the Ribble


|, by, .-..was loaned part-time to


Valiey in 1926. 'During the Second World War


-a


Riding (the well-ku.....i tainen unci it \v»is Air. Riding who introduced li.m i •: any 111


had as a colleague Mr. Bob


Mr. Bill)' Chew, who was in charge of the auction mart din­ ing room, helped Mr. Bamber with many valuable contacts. Mr. Baniber was R.S.M. of the


10th Battalion (Blackburn) Home Guard during the last war. A dinner in Mr. Bttmbers


honour was held by Lever s at Chester and Northern colleagues presented Mr. Bamber with a transistor radio and Mrs. Bam­ ber with a cut-glass vase.


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the programme was Julius Rcubke's fine Sonata on the 94th Psalm.


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