2 The Cliihcroe Advertiser <- Times. February 21, 1964 C COUNTRY DIARY INTERESTING MEMORIES


COUPLE of weeks ago a a friend gave me a diary


completed by his father in the


opportunity for comparing the various occurences of plant and bird life throughout the seasons. They also serve as a reminder of that particularly fine band ol naturalists hi the Clitheroe area who found conplete pleasure in watching and studying nature.


my inquiries, were hard-working spending long hours in mill or factory, but all had one thing in common—an absorbing inter­ est in their countryside.


Most of these men, from all


ced work at 6-30 in the morning and after a tedious day would set out in the brighter evenings to record what new events the countryside had to offer.


compared with present d ay standards. The cycle and shanks ponv being most popular. At the week-end the observers were out and about in good time covering long distances by country path and moorland. Now I am fully aware that


Transport was primitive as The less fortunate commen­


years 1905-8. The entries whilst being of no value to the more sensational weeklies are chiefly concerned with natural history events of Clitheroe and district and certainly make interesting reading. They also provide an excellent


the first to say that deep down within each one of us is an inherent quality which in our youth finds satisfaction in the freedom and external beauties of nature. I thought as I saw these young people that half a century after these diaries were written the basic fundamentals are the same. There is still that revealing interest in the things that really matter. I t is obviously there in spite of our inability to foster it to some good purpose. In other words we find, as the years go by, our system fails to hold or develop that inherent Interest. We fail at a time when it is possible to mould and leave an impression which' will be of use and vital


Now I am not by any means


throughout our later years. Had we so devised a system capable of interpreting the text of nature then a host of our difiiculties would be overcome. For to know these things is to see the world as an open text book and to see in each form of life that hidden purpose and final cause. All are fundamental necessities to har­ mony and better understanding.


im p o r t a n c e ENCOURAGING


there will be those who on read­ ing such will say those days are gone and the youngsters of to­ day have no desire for such things. But are they sure?


some doubts regarding the inter­ ests of this press-button age when the squealing and wiggles brought forth by the Juke-box seem a far cry from the mellow


I confess at one time having


error of judgment especially after the recent school break at Shrove Tuesday when I noted more youngsters in the country than I have seen for a tong long time. The majority were equipped with packs and no doubt were intent on taking advantage of the fine spell for at least a few


sounds of nature. But 1 also confess to a slight


hours.


youngsters enjoying the out-of- doors are indeed encouraging, and my thoughts on the occasion fell to comparing these activities with those recorded in the diaries I have mentioned. No doubt the more serious amongst them would record his or her findings as did the diarist of over half a century ago. Beginning with the first entry


Such sights as when we see


at Browshoime and sand piper at Cow Hey. And so, throughout the months these regular obser­ vations, seldom missing a day, until we come to an interesting comment on Juno 10, 1905. Here we discover the author making a midnight trip to the fells. “ It was a splendid outing when they heard the nightjar and the cuc­ koo called out at 2-20 a.m. and the lark immediately afterwards.’ Scores of wild flowers ore faith fully recorded and I was partic- ularlv interested to read of find­ ing the Bird Cherry. Doves Foot, Cranesbill, Marsh Valerian, Dus­ ky Cranesbill and Herb Paris in a wood not far from Clitheroe where to my knowledge they are still to be found to-day


the Willow Wren by Mr. Altham on the 13. On April 29 heard the cuckoo


RED SQUIRREL


tioned but unfortunately the place is not disclosed. Through­ out the year the [lowers and location make interesting corn- parisions. The Spindle tree on Edisford Road and Toothwort at Henthorn. Gentian at Withgill. Soapwort, Nacking boat. Again in 1908 the lists show no sign of failing Interest, each record revealing remarkable similarities of date and first appearances.


The red squirrel is also men­


corded on or around February 17. This I find particularly interest­


Throughout the hazel is re­


ing as along with others I treat the discover of the female hazel as an annual competition.


On March 26, “We found our fust nests, six song thrush and one missel thrush with eggs." And on April 15, “Walk to Copy Nook and saw four migrants—the sand martin, swallow, grey wag­ tail and willow wren." Then a brief mention of two well known Clitheroe naturalists. We read “ sand martins were seen by D. Wrigley on the first of April and


these Clitheroe naturalists re­ cord finding on January 29, 1905 at Throstle Nest Farm, the mock strawberry, dog mercury and hazel catkins and on 7th Feb­ ruary the first primrose. Colts­ foot on the 19th and the snow­ drops on the same date at Horsefalls Wood. Bird notes are also included.


have seen this around Christmas. But quite frankly I have never been so lucky. Dining the past five years my search has only been rewarded during the first 10 days of February. This year would, I thought, be a record as the male catkins were well ad­ vanced by January. Each week­ end I made a trip to a favourite spot by the Ribble in the hope of beating my own record, but it was not until February 9. when I discovered scores not miles away —but in Brungerley. Snowdrops by the last week in January and a delightful display of winter heliotrope on February 4, by


Two older naturalists claim to


H'jher Hodder. NATURALIST


t h i s w a s n e w s


75 YEARS AGO ! March 1, 1889


Mr . WILLIAM PEEL, of president of Clitheroe Agricul­


Knowlmere, w a s elected


tural Society. A new feature introduced into the prize list had to do with bees and honey.


Show were Messrs. Alonza Jack- son W E. and M. Demain. J. Sutcliffe. Hitchen. Tomlinson, Robinson and Master Tom Jack-


son f violin!. * PRESENTATION was made


A ALONG those taking part in a Low Moor Amateur Minstrel LOCAL football results; Hay- AFTER being closed for some


Olympic 1; Pendleton Wanderers 2. Young Rovers 2; Bolton-b.v- Bowland 3, Chatbum 0.


hurst Ramblers 6, Blackpool


50 YEARS AGO February 27, 1914.


•VfEW choir stalls a t St. Mary's parish Church were dedi­


oak, they were made to match the organ presented by Messrs. Southworth.


cated by the Venerable Arch­ deacon Fletcher. Constructed of


renovation. Mount Zion Primi­ tive Methodist Church was re­ opened. The preacher was a former minister, the Rev. J. Frestwich of Blackpool.


weeks for redecoration and -


25 YEARS AGO February 24, 19?9.


clerk in the Town Clerk’s office were made at the monthly meeting of Clitheroe town coun­


"PROTESTS against the ap- pointment of a temporary


cil.


A . t0 an old L. and Y. Railway servant. Mr. Robert Lowden. of King Street. Clitheroe by Chat- burn colleagues. A signalman Mr. Lowden was retiring after nearly


40 years’ service.


to Bi-.clmcol where the club were engaged in the fifth round of the Lunc.rhlre Junior Cup. After leading at the interval, Clltheroe


of CUtheroe F.C. journeyed lost 6-2. A LECTURE tinder the aus­ pices of the Salvation Army,


delivered by Staff Captain Rich­ ards. together with the presence of Preston's No. One corps attracted an audience of 1,200 in


the Public Hall. LTWARDS of 900 supporters


tional, kept goal for Blackburn Rovers against Bradford City.


*


presented Mr. Rose, a retiring master with a gold albert and a silver cigar and cigarette box.


M EMBERS of the Ribblesdalc • Otter Hunting Association JAMES CRABTREE of Clith­ eroe. an amateur interna­


the view that the present staff was adequate in spite of A.R.P. duties.


Alderman R. Manley expressed CLITHEROE Catholics Amu-


two mor e performances of “ Crazy P a v i n g," generally agreed to be their biggest suc­


teur Dramatic Society gave


cess in recent years. *


*


-*•»- Trawler Association if they had any strong boys in the institution desirous of going to sea, Clitheroe Guardians’ replied


A SKED by Grimsby Steam


in the negative. JAMES THORNBER


were elected to fill vacancies on the Board of Guardians created by the death of Messrs W. Braithwaite and W. Wilkinson.


and Mr. Edmund T. Welch


display of home made posters and cartoons, and many meet­ ings, boys of Clitheroc Royal Grammar School went to the poll in the School’s annual elec­


AFTER intensive campaigning, including processions, the


tion. There were four candidates and the top was a Liberal. Receiving 122 votes, he had a


majority of 38 over a party called “The Perihelions ”—a


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CLITHEROE TEL. 1212/3


ittee confirmed a previous deci­ sion that a proposal to transfer all senior scholars from Gisburn to Settle or Skipton was imprac­ ticable. I t was recommended that if


AT their monthly meeting,


any transfer did occur, it should be to the Ribblesdale Senior School. CUtheroe.


GUNS HAD NO COVERS


charges on payment of 4s. costs each on two separate offences of carrying gims without covers, by Clitheroe Juvenile Panel on Wed­


TWO 15-year-old youths were each given absolute dis­


nesday week. The first youth was sa:d by


Inspector P. B. Jackson, to have been seen by P.C. Turner coming from Greenacre Street carrying a gun in a crude canvas cover. The edges of the cover were


Panel that there were no suit­ able gun covers in the shops and it was necessary to improvise to


fired from the cover. The youth’s father told the


make a cover. The other youth was said to


have been seen by P.C. Martin carrying a rifle without a cover. As he watched P.C. Martin saw the youth break the gun and


point it. Thousands of pounds a year


are being saved for oil tanker and pipe line companies by a Birmingham company which provides them with a method of protecting metal from corro­ sion. To the lavman the method might seem almost a conjuring trick. Bars of mota1— usually of magnesium—ensure that corro­ sion is misdirected from the ship or the pipe. The magnesium is eaten away instead, which is why the inches-long bars are called "sacrificial" anodes.


Bowland Education Comm­


TRADES COUNCIL HEARS LIBERAL VIEWPOINT


the country, said Mr. Strange, was the understandable fear of


CPEAK1NG to members of Clitheroe and District Trades ° Council on Wednesday week Mr. Martin Strange, the prospective Parliamentary Liberal Candidate, pointed to the radical thought behind the Liberal Party policy proposals, and lo the number of times that the Liberal Party had been proved right by subsequent events. One of the. troubles affecting


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wealth in many sections of the community when they saw the power and misuse of power that had gone with wealth in the past.


answer is to transfer the wealth and power—’ the commanding heights of the economy’ to the State,” Mr. Strange said.


“The Socialists feel that the


wealth and power in the hands of the people as individuals in their own right. Henca our policy of encouraging profit sharing and joint management in industry, and the suggestions we have made for a completo revision of the taxation system."


“Liberals wa nt to see the


Mr. Strange, they want to see local revenue raised by site value taxntion and not the rating of property, so that people have an incentive to own and improve their property, but at the same time speculative gambling in land would be taxed by the site value system.


On the same basis, continued


the wrong hands leads to Socialism, the fear of unemploy­ ment gave vise to a desire to k e e p uneconomic industries going. Therefore the Liberals have proposed a Redundancy Insurance scheme, retraining by the State, and a decent unem­ ployment benefit and the pay­ ment by the State of removal expenses. These things are done on the Continent where they have learned the lesson of redundancy in declining indu- trics.


Just as the fear of wealth in


tions on various subects inclu­ ding several on the Liberal pro­ posals for s c r a p p i n g the


Mr. Strange answered ques­ Domestic discords


We all hev our troubles i' ibis life,


Ond some folks get more than their share,


Ond so they grows old long afore they are due,


Get wrinkles, ond lose all their 'air.


That’s sending me clean off mi crumpet.


Ond Ah've geet a trouble out­ stripping tlie rest,


For my daughter Susan—a good lass at heart—


’As teken to playin’ the trumpet! Ah wouldn’t ’avc cared if slic'd bought a guitar.


National Insurance stamps and replacing the present method of financing pensions by a Social Security Tax. Mr. Strange was welcomed by


the president, Mr. F. L. Christie. Mr. Christie and Mr. R. E.


Dickinson, National Graphical Association, were appointed dele gales to the Lancashire ant Cheshire Federation a n n u a meeting in the Mayor’s Parlour, Manchester, a week tomorrow. It was announced that Mr


Frank Pearson, M.P. for th< Division, was to address th Council at the April meeting i' his Parliamentary duties permi’.


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'ROASTED ON SPIT


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IT may be that you need a little persuasion, as I did, to


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CLITHEROE: 7 Church Street


FOLLOWING her iem initial article last


■week on " Is Heaven a wet: Fairytale?” Elaine, the Ela ‘;GirI in the Shadows.” Clil again enters the realm ide of controversy.


'c,‘ In an o th e r oul- her


spoken article in which of she deals with the sub- nei ject of " Miracles,” she Ed expresses her forth­ right views without wil


onlv 2j lb. or thereabouts, and you will find that it is done in 40 to 50 minutes, allowing you time to see to the tasty accom­ paniments that make a delicious farmhouse meal. 1 small chicken. About Li oz. melted butter. Salt and pepper. Remove the giblets from inside


HUNTING TALK TO YOUNG FARMERS


H. Haighton of the Pendle Forest and Craven Harriers gave an interesting talk on hunting to the Young Farmers at Clitheroe Grammar School.


Major J. E. E. Yorke and Mr.


Ond maybe joined up wi' a Group,


But 'onest to goodness, Ah've heerd better sounds


Ah wish All could pincli it, Ah’d sneak out one neet,


I t ’s more nor a feyther should ’ave to endure,


Ond tek it to t ’rivcr, ond dump it.


A daughter what tries to play't trumpet!


Tha should 'ear the row when she starts to blow,


Tlie neighbours aren't speaking no more,


The dog sticks ’is ’ead under t'carpet and 'owls.


Or meks a dasli out of the door! A girl wi’ a trumpet's unnatural quite,


But Ah’ve got to listen — ond lump it,


Come. fray a sieje cow vyi’ ,ii.$ erdup,


" ; ’


round . and •' 15 minutes over, iemember if the bird is stuffed, the cooking time is reckoned tom the weight after stuffing. For a change, savoury stuffing


the chicken place these in a pan with a small onion, a carrot and just covered with water. Simmer gently ' until this Is strained to be made into gravy. Sprinkle the bird inside with salt and pepper, brush well out­ side with butter, sprinkle this too with seasoning. Fix to the spit and set the time for cooking while the rest of the meal is •repared. Allow 15 minutes to the


vote of thanks on behalf of the club. The Clitheroe intermediate


Gordon Whitwell proposed a


public speaking team were con­ gratulated on their success in the semi-finals at Lancaster last week, in which Clitheroe scored 75 points against the 71 for the Vale of Lune, 70 for Furness, and 65 for Great Eccleston.


spoke on water as “ An Essential of Life.” Gordon Whitwell was chair­


George Whittaker for Clitheroc


nay be made into small balls, wr a p p e d around with thin rtshers of streaky bacon, skewer- et and grilled or roasted to- gitlicr with pork chippolata ssusages, making easily served individual portions.


MARGARET ALDEN


man and Brian Clark proposed a vote of thanks. These three mem­ bers will now take part in the finals on March 24.


—1,011,005—were registered in 1963, compared with 786,129 in 1962, the Ministry of Transport announced this week.


More than a million new cars


Ond neet after neet, Ah sit theer i’ pain.


Ond. strangely, the Missus 'as sided wi' t ’lass,


Whilst Susan plays scales on ’er trumpet!


She ses, ’’Well, she's doing no arm,


I t’s better nor walking the streets wi’ a lad,


somewhat idealistic group, one of whose practical proposals was a tax on bachelors and spinisters


But Ah tell thee, it’s all under­ mining mi ’ealth.


At least she's by t'fire wheel- it’s ’arm.


All’ll bet Ali’ve lost nearly a stone,


J tail PEL


COAL LORRY DRIVER’S LAPSE


JJECAUSE he owed money and had been put on to


a coal round where he earned about £3 per week less than he had been earning, a 21- year-old lorry driver had em­ bezzled money from his firm and had falsified a delivery receipt book. This was stated at Clith­


torn and the gim, although it was unloaded, could have been


eroe yesterday week, when Richard Victor David Mason, of Kemple End, Stonyehurst, was given a conditional dis­ charge on payment of 30s.


was alleged by Inspector P. B. Jackson to have falsified a receipt book and embezzled £1 16s. 4d. while delivering coal at a house In Albemarle Street. Mr. W. Greenwood, defending,


costs. Mason, who pleaded “ Guilty,"


Ond now to cap all, she’s infected the wife,


She’s trying to play the trom- hr;:!'*1


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said that Mason had borrowed money from his mother to buy a car so that he could get to work on time. He was also saving hard to get married. When he began to earn less


money he was tested and failed. Mason, said Mr. Greenwood,


had a good home background When he was interviewed by Detective Constable Jeffrey, Ma­ son had given comp’ete assis- tanca. If the magistrates put their


offences to be taken into consid­ eration.


in water.One of the most common nuisances on lawns is moss. If it is becoming a sitting tenant on vour lawn there is probably something wrong with the way the lawn is being looked after. So the only long-term cure for moss is to And out what’s wrong and put it right. If tile soil is too acid, lime will restore its condition. If the soil is too com- nacted it may be necessary to a=s’st aeration by spiking and perhaps a dressing of sandy compost. Trouble my come from over-close mowing, so if your lawn is getting skinned, raise the lv'eht of cut on your mower. Or it may simply be that the soil is noor and starved. If so, it will toe necessary to give an extra feed of lawn fertilizer.


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trust in Mason, they would not find It misplaced, said Mr. Green­ wood. Mason asked for other similar


mo«s takes no notice of selec­ a


good trim one can then lay plans for a colour bonus in the borders. Even if you are well stocked with plants I strongly recom­ mend the introduction of one or two drifts of strong' colour such as can be expected from the hybridisers latest achievement. For a very small outlay some of the new hardy annuals offered by seedsmen this season can add life to the garden and also prove invaluable for cutting tor the house. I have m mind the marigold,


With the paths and lawn in


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Were they D °


i you believe in miracles? Or do you think, as I do,


that the so-called miracles were little acts of common sense, which probably you or I could have performed ?


Do you believe in the Old Testa­ ment.? Do you believe that two i creatures called Adam and Eve | walked about in a garden, while I God busied himself making the !


world in six days and then on | the seventh day he sat down ] and rested?


You will probably also realise that stories like Moses on the mountain, which was just a story-like way of saying that Moses had the wisdom and the power to write ten laws, are not acceptable to modern day thinking. The ancient Jews did not know how to explain the tact that a man could think of these laws, which were veri- wonderful to them, so they put forward a picture of Moses amidst God’s fingers writing with fire and burning bushes,


a symbol. and the like.


Perhaps you will wonder what I am trying to prove by telling you this, which you probably realise already. The laot is this, it you believe that most


Human nolxx Ills lion bis n ried . be sl-


your of for


Cliiidre


>


You will probably answer ” No." | ■ and say that this story, like so many others in the Old ; Testament is just meant to be ,


don


or all of the Old Testament is symbolic, and just a wonderful story Invented to put over an incident, then it Is surely logi­ cal to argue that the same applies to the New Testament!


The New Testament, is just, as much a mass ot babylike sym­ bolisms as the Old: thus if follows that not all the stories tlini vou have implicitly believ­ ed for years are true. There are more reasons to prove that the New Testament contains jusi. as much fiction as the Old. than there are to disprove


Starting from the beginnuig, you lake a book containing the life storv of a man called Jesus, and because you have been brought up to it, you belieie in the marvellous things that he is supposed to have- done.


it. . .


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Yet why? Look at the men who wro te it. simple peasants brought up under Jewish law, and taught that if you do not know how to explain some­ thing. then you use symbols. Jesus himself explaining to the peasants about treating your neighbour well, gave them a svrnbol of a man falling among thieves and a good Samaritan


r helDing hini.


o u see the point of this: you realise that this was Jesus appreciating that the ordmnij people would not understand


him, and so put up a st°D *° help them. This is exactly what the disciples did when they


recorded the life of •he New Testament. The>


knew that ordinary people: of manv lands would not under­ stand their message, so the fell back on what they had been taught from youth-help­


14 ow if vou realise the unphea- ” uons of this, that the stories of Jesus are just images to to ,


ing people to grasp somc£fVg bv putting it into a story form-


and help the ignorant tr.bis ; of old lo understand, then y ou j will want proof of »h.u I m ,


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ants were not very literate In those days, they did have cone


mon sense as far as to it is extremely unlike |


fy that on walking a long way to listen to some speaker,. they would take no food with them.


Presumably therefore


took a Utile food wnh toem, knowing that after the and the speech they would hungry. After Jesus s talk, m


J ? gb


which he would ha\e * his usual theme of share ■


Take just one example at ran- ; dom-the feeding of the five thousand. Now althouRlin'-as .


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feel a gi publi seert peop abou give: mnd ougl disci the


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