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The Clitheroe Advertiser & Time.’ . December 24, 1964


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,, BOYS’ from 12/11


MEN’S from 12/11 fe’ AND CHILDREN’S Ies


| THE SEASON & SON 5, CLITHEROE 11102 Another year is ending,


and most people will say with fervency, as did the poet Tennyson, “Ring out the old. Ring in the new” . Hope still springs eternal


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for better things to come, but rich as well as sad memories will remain for the days 1964 brought. Every year is memorable


for someone, and 1964 for Councillor and Mrs. John Hall will never be forgotten as it marked the beginning of


their Mayoralty. Biggest sensation of the year


was undoubtedly caused by a local murder with subsequent trial scenes and the eventual reprieve ol the condemned man.


Road accidents too, a number Wallation


of them fatal, brought deep sorrow to many. Their memory Will remain with us ns a reminder of so much that has yet to be done to achieve greater Safety for road users and pedes­ trians alike.


History was made w h e n


Clitheroe Labour Party achieved control of the Town Council for the first time in its history. Following the General Election


EKCO, PYE


when there were three candi­ dates for the first time in many years, Mr. Frank Pearson who retained his seat for the Conser­ vatives was created a baronet. Social events which aroused


considerable interest included the Castle Fete. Clitheroe Show, the Jazz Festival and a veteran car rally organised by the "Clitheroe Advertiser end Times" and the “Blackburn Times.” In the sporting world. Read


achieved distinction by winning the championship of the Ribbles­


dale Cricket League. ' Many big schemes have been


carried out by Clitheroe Town Council and its two neighbouring authorities. Clitheroe and Bow- land Rural Councils.


The one to cause most com­


ment has been the improve­ ment to the Market Place and the introduction of the one­ way traffic system -in the town.


■ Tile first, “ live” show, at the. electr ician s


Civic' Hall5 (ointed to more changes to come diuring the New Year, and the introduction of more facilities in the Castle


grounds. Floods, not only in Clitheroe


but also in the surrounding villages, marked the end of 1964 after an unusually long spell of fine weather for the


time of year. So. once again, it. has been a


year bringing almost all things to all men___a year to cherish, a rear to banish from the mind, a year that will remain long in people’s memories for one reason or another—and above all a year, and here we will all agree, in which thank God, "the mad dogs of World War III have been held


RES Estate


BERRY LANE LONGRIPGE


KUNZLE CAKES |VM & CHOC ROLLS 9d. each SAVE 3d. EACH____


[JACOBS CRACKERS 1 0 d . p f c t .


SAVE 3d. PKT. BIRDS JELLIES


7\d. each


SAVE 3d. EACH LARGE PEARS


2/4 tin SAVE 6d. TIN


IEVAPORATED MILK Small Size


6d. tin SAVE 2d. TIN


in chains.” JANUARY 3


.-\\70RSHPPERS at Trinity ' ' Methodist Church removed


personal belongings and helped to prepare for the visit of the workmen engaged to carry out a substantial alteration scheme. Arrangements were made to hold services for three or four months in the schoolroom. The central premises of Bill-


ington and Whalley Co-operative Society in George Street, Whal­ ley were sold to Mr. Fred Hay- dock of Somerville, Salthill Road, principal of Fisher and Co. land and estate agents.


Clitheronians saw in the Now


Year at watchnight services, parties and dances. At the Parish Churoh the bells were rung for 20 minutes after mid­


night. Formerly committee clerk to


Clitheroe Rural Council, the Rev. Ernest A. Smith,, curate at St. Luke's Brierfield. was ordained


priest. More than 200 chickens per­


ished in a fire at Upbrooks oil


Sunday night. Two more small Methodist


churches in the Clitheroe circuit, Sawley and Stopper Lane, were


closed. JANUARY 10.


rr-.HE Mayor and Mayoress of 1 Clitheroc, Alderman E.


Crosslcv and Mrs. D. Sattcr- thwaite', on Thursday afternoon honoured the "Advertiser and Times” by making a special visit ,0 Blackburn to mark the publi- caiir - of the first colour page in the history of the newspaper.


Called bv the local Ministers'


Fraternal, a meeting was held at Clitheroe Parish Church School to further Christian unity. A resolution was passed unani­ mously urging the formation of a Council of Christian Churches or Congregations.


A special constable. Mr. Amos


Booth of Peel Street, Clttheroe, collapsed and died at Clitheroe Iioiice station on Wednesday


evening. Clitheroe Old People's Club , ,


celebrated its tenth anniversary in the present, premises In Low- ergate and the 14th of its total


existence. )E lY less J A N U A R Y 1T.


JVJl “ elected president of Clith- (,roe and District Trades Council.


-» i~o p, l . Christie was re-


Headmaster of ^ ‘bbl«sda^e school. Clitheroe. Mr.


n. Derbyshire, arranged to visit.


ELECTIONS, AND FLOODS,


Christian Unity.


. 'mi- W. Cross, wife of Mr. T. Cross, chairman of Clitheroe


Victuallers, was elected chair­ man of the East and North West •Lancs. District of the Womens Auxiliary of the Licensed Trade.


JANUARY 24.


r p w o Clithcroe men, Mr. Jack J. Hall and Mr. John Bond, began the organisation of Clith­


eroe Whippet Club. A Clitheroe ‘pop’ group, Lee


Barry and the M.G.’s, won the beat contest organised by Coun­


cillor R. Grice for Toe H. Clttheroe Town Council decided


to remove derelict, air raid shelters in the Castle grounds and in Brungerlcy Park. The Hvdc, Whipp and Laur­ etta Bray Charities were dis­


tributed by post. Miss E. R. Garnett, of Moor­


land Avenue, returned to Clith- eroe after visiting her nephew


in Miami. B >OYS


JANUARY 31. of


ith Clltneroe Royal


their annual play “The Fire Raisers.”


A turkey tea and concert,


Grammar School gave for , •


organised by the Men's Fellow­ ship was held at St. Janies


School. For tile first time for many


years Clitheroe Conservative Club showed a profit. Apprecia­ tion was expressed of the tom­ bola committee’s financial aid to


the club. Announced that Councillor R.


Williamson, manager of the C.W.S. estate at Wilhgill for more than 21 years, was retiring the following month.


Councillor B. Bentley com­


plained that in building houses at Waddinston and Grindleton,


Bowland Rural Council were “only making a suburb at Clith­


eroe." Lord Clitheroc. of Downham


Hall, was among the congrega­ tion at Downham Parish Church on Sunday when the Provost of Blackburn Cathedral (Very Rev. Norman Robinson) preached the


Asslieton sermon. FEBRUARY 7. _ ' ^ .


ON Monday morning 22-year- old Joseph Masters, a native


of the town, was charged at Clitheroe with the murder of 75-year-old James Littler, of 8 Derby Streot, Clitheroe, who was found dead in the kitohen of his home by members of Clitheroe police force early on Friday afternoon. Forty detectives had earlier begun the first stage of calling at every one of the 5.000 homes in Clitheroe seeking in­


formation. Sunday cricket loomed largcly


on the agenda at the annual meeting of the Ribblcsdaie Cricket, League on Saturday afternoon at Clitheroe Town Hall. Arrangements were even­


tually made for more Sunday games to be played in the league than at any time previously. Fines totalling £115 were im­


posed in three different cases at Gisbum arising out of poaching allegations.


FEBRUARY 14. C


1LITHEROE Round Tabiers held their sixth annual


charter anniversary dinner at the Starkie Arms Hotel.


T t he


E "Advertiser and Times” began a special feature:


"Girl In the Shadows." which dealt largely with religion, and In subsequent weeks attracted letters of comment from all over


the country. The funeral of Mr. James


Littler, of Derby Street, who was found dead in his home with head injuries, took place at Clitheroe Cemetery on Tues­ day from the home of his sister


in Pendle Road. Mr. John Frederick Nicholson,


of Montague Street, who had suffered from heart trouble, was found dead at the wheel of his car parked in a lane in the Lune Valley between Hornby and


Kirkb’y Lonsdale. Mr. James Cotton (86) of Bill-


ington Gardens, was killed in a road accident on Friday at a Billington accident black-spot, where a child had been killed


only two days earlier. FEBRUARY 21.


. GRIM warning by Council-


j \ lor Tom Robinson, chair­ man of the Finance Committee, that rent increases and more rate subsidy would be needed if the proposed building rate con­ tinued, was given to members of Clitheroe Town Council. Mr. J L. Garner, a teacher at


Ribblesdale School, was elected president of the CUtheroe branch of the National Union of Teach-


Miss Barbara scattergood, of


Chatbum Road. Clitheroe, was appointed postmaster at Little-


borough. FEBRUARY « . 4 T a hearing which lasted


A more than lour hours, dur­ ing which 15 witnesses were called, Joseph Wilson Masters was committed to Manchester Crown Court on a oharge of murdering James Littler, a re­ tired bricklayer. Fo r the first time In East Lanoashlre a dic­ taphone Was used to speed up


the hearing. A whippet racing meeting was


held on Shaw Bridge football


ground. Mr. Doug Hoyle, prospective


.Labour candidate for the Ollth- Stockist THE STORY OF THE YEAR


MURDER, FETES HIGHLIGHTS OF


COLOURFUL 1964


the U.S.A. in July as pan, of the teacher-exchange system.


Anglicans and Methodists in


Whalley Joined in private prayer with the Roman Catholios for


croe division, addressed his first public meeting in Clitheroc when he spoke at the Co-opera­


tive Women’s Guild. The newly-formed supper club


of Clitheroe Division Conserva­ tive Association was launched. Bowland Rural Council’s rates


Mary Coupland, of the 3rd Clitli- eroe (Trinity) Company, and Jennifer Milne and Sylvia Jen- kinson of the 2nd Clitheroe (Parish Chur ch * Company received their Queen's Guide


remained unchanged at 9s. in the £,


, /


badges. An income of £8,600 was the


record sot un by Clitheroc Parish Church in 1063.


MARCH 6. . CLITHEROE man, Charles


x Y Chadwick (50) of 98 Chat- burn Road, who had been miss­ ing from his home since Sunday was found dead on Monday ill the key-room at Clitheroc Cricket Club of which he had been a


member. Instigator of the scheme


to revive the Castle Fete. Councillor John Hall, accepted in invitation to become Mayor of Clitheroe from May.


Moals on wheels which were


being organised by the W.V.S. got under way in Billington and Whalley when hot meals from insulated containers were served to 15 elderly people.


Savinu a seven - year - old


schoolboy who had fallen into Evemouth Harbour, near Ber­ wick. led to William Colin Greenwood of 12, Queenswav. Waddington. being presented


•with the honorary testimonial of the Royal Humane Society at


Bowland Court. MARCH 13.


-tY Qf success Clitheroe Cricket Club had made a profit of £292 it was stated in the annual re­


port. Strong criticism of the Con­


servatives’ "Straight, truth and action campaign” was made by Mr. Martin Strange. Liberal candidate for Clitheroe Divis­ ion. speaking at the annual meeting of t h e CUtheroe Division Liberal Association.


Clitheroo was honoured with


a courtesy visit paid to tho town by the Lord Lieutenant of


Lancashire, Lord Derby. Clerk to the governors of


Clitheroe R o y al Grammar School for more than 20 years. Mr. John Coates, of 17. Paul Street. Low Moor, died on Sat­ urday, aged 76.


MARCH 20. IN seven years the Lancashire County Council had doubled


tire amount demanded from Clitheroe. and many ratepayers were' paying less today for local services than they were seven years ago. In the near future there would lie a big expendi­ ture on tile public hall, a new refuse destructor plant at Hen- thorn, and the probability that £100.000 would be required for extensions at the town's sewage works, it was revealed. The northern branch of the


Arms and Armour Society staged its fourth exhibition at the


Pendle Hotel, Chatburn. The head boy of Clitheroc


Roval Grammar School, John M.' Rycroft won a Tliwaites Travel’ Scholarship enabling him to spend four weeks with an American family.


MARCH 26.


•REPRESENTED at tile inaug- l A ural meeting of the Clith­ croe and District Trades Coun­ cil of Christian Congregations were Anglicans. Methodists. Congregationalists and Assem­ blies of God. Pentecostal. Clitheroe Rural C o u n c i l


announneed that they would increase by 5d. the rural rate to


8s. lid. Mr. Basil Greenwood of Clerk


Hill, Whalley was unanimously adopted as the Conservative candidate for the Whalley elec­ toral division in the County Council elections. Mrs. Mavis Smith of 12, Hall


Street. Clitheroc, gained the new beautv title of "Soccer Qucen" at ’ Blackburn Football Combination's Big Show on


Sunday. APRIL 3


Clitheroe walked in procession of witness from New Market Street to the Parish Church on Good Friday evening for a united service. A 58-year-old Clitheroc man


VNGLICANS, Methodists and C o n g l* e g a t i o n a 1 i s t s in A FTER a 'do it yourself year'


Walmsley of Gannies Farm, on the Colthurst estate celebrated


their golden wedding. APRIL 17


rpwELVE candidates had been -I picked to contest the _ fit c


seats in the municipal elections. Four points from two home


matches in three days brought joy into the hearts of Clitheioe supporters and chnsed away the shadows of relegation which were looming at Shaw Bridge. A short time before the wedd- ing of Mr. Roy Wilson nnd Miss


Jennifer Smalley at reconstructed Trinity Methodls- Church, the bridegroom and tne parson were busy sweeping the


carpet. APRIL 24 Widespread inquiries were


being made by West Riding Police following two garage break-ins, one at Rimmgton and


one at Gisburn. More than 160 people and two


ambulances took part in 'exei-


cisc longroc” which involved 1 rescue of mock casualties at Carter’s quarry on the Long- ridge-Chipping road. A surprise candidate Ah.


Robert P. Ainsworth, standing as Independent, was announced among the 13 nominations foi Clitheroe Town Council elec­


tions. Inquiries were started as to ^


the possibility of setting up a ‘•meals on wheels" service m


Clitheroe. MAY 1


rbq-iE "Advertiser and Times ■ celebrated Us first birthday under the ownership of Provin­


cial Newspapers Ltd. Denials that trie police used


anv influence to persuade a man charged with murder to make statements admitting that lie had done tire murder were made by Detective Inspector J. G. Thompson, of Accrington, in replv to questions by Mr. Derek Hod’son Q.C. (defending) at Lan­ caster Assizes during the trial of 22-vear-old Joseph Wilson Mas­


ter's of Clitheroe. Celebrations were held to com­


memorate tile diamond jubilee of Cl i t It e r o e Parish Church Mothers' Union.


MAY 8


months ago, efforts and dona­ tions had raised £358 for the funds of Clitlieroc Physiotherapy


SINCE appeals made in the ••Ai ‘Advertiser and Times" six


Centre. Sentenced to death at Lancas­


ter Assizes on Friday for the capital murder of 75-vear-old James Littler of Derby Street. Joseph Wilson Masters was to be executed at Liverpool Prison on Friday. May 22, the Home Office announced.


nesday. MAY 15


,NE of Ribblesdalc's best- known characters. Mr. Ziph


Robinson of 3 Wood Termer. Chatburn. died in hospital a month before his ninetieth birth-


tlain one of the most sensational municipal elections ever held in Clitheroe, Labour gained four ol tiie five seats to oust the Conser­ vatives from power, and gain control of the Council for the


first time. About 120 residents of Whalley


made a protest to the proposed road-widening scheme for the centre of the village, at a meet­ ing called by Whalley Action


Group. MAY 22


perly it should attract tour­ ists and’ holidaymakers," said the


[F Clithevoe is developed pro­


new Mayor, Councillor John Hall at the Mayor-making Ceremony


at the Town Hall on Thursday. Stephen Ragnall, 11-year-old of


40 Peel Street. Clitheroe. who had been dogged by polio all his life, received news that he had pas­ sed his 11-plus examination. A new high altar was consecra­


ted at a colourful ceremony among the ruins of Whalley Abbev on Whit Monday morning.


1 >EOPLE l .L country wrote to a. Clitlieroc


MAY 29 from all over the


solicitor wishing to sigh fi large scale petition being organised to save the life of Joseph "Wilson


Masters. The whole town was shocked , . .


and sorry to hear of the death in hospital on Sunday following an accident the evening before, of 16-year-old Danny Cattermole of 73 Highfield Road, Clltheroc. Many pupils from the school


Mr. John Hltchen Stewart of 2 Hazel Grove, collapsed and died on a bus on Wednesday morning. There were 11 Easter weddings, four of them at Clttheroe Parish


Church. Mr. W. G. Pape was adopted as


Liberal candidate for the Whalley electoral Division In the County Council elections.


APRIL 10 T


pHE wind swept bitterly across the point to point course at


Sawley for the annual Pendle Forest and Craven Harriers


Hunt steeplechases. One of the oldest and best-


known businesses in Clithcroe, Coleman’s of Castle Street, was


sold. Plans to bring a team studded


with league stars of the past years to Shaw Bridge were fdled by tjae Uancaehira Foot­ ball Association, refusing to sanction the match between Clitheroc and the Ex-Clarets’


A .well-known Waddington couple Councillor and Mrs. David


team. , „ .


where the Mayor, Councillor J. Hall teaches joined hint to walk to the church on the Mayors


Day morning service. Clitheroe fishmonger Jack Han


of Wellgate displayed a ten- stone sunfish in his window.


JUNE 5 TOSEPH WILSON MASTERS


Jwas told on Monday at mid­ night at Walton Jail that the Home Secretary had recom­


mended a reprieve. A communist flag flow f1011j


the Castle but was soon removed bv clitheroe Corporation staff- ’MP for Clithcroe, Mr. Frank


Pearson wrote to Mr. P. Lord, Director of Education for Lanca­ shire, pressing for a new primary school in Ribblesdale.


J U N E 12


Harwood was elected chairman of the Number 5 Divisional Edu­


F


cation Executive at the annual meeting In Whalley on Tuesday. Read all-rounder ,, R ich a rd


or tbs sixth tame in succes­ sion Mr. Tom peed of Great


Goodway rounder League. When two Clitheroe policemen


was champion all­ ot the Ribblesdale


•attempted to take a Low Moor man into custody on Saturday night a crowd of teenagers rushed across the Market Place and tried to free the man.


JUNE 19


A TOTAL attendance of almost 2,000 flocked into the Castle


to listen to Humphrey Lyttelton and his band and many other ja zz musicians. Clitheroe’s


second jazz festival was a great success. A warning that Clithevoe


would go through a very difficult period during the next two or three years as far as traffic prob­ lems were concerned was given by Alderman J. W. D. Critchley, new chairman of the Highways Committee at the Town Council on Tuesday. Clitheroe Civic Hall closed on


Saturday when work was begun to convert the present cinema into a community hall.


JUNE 26 / r i lE 11)64 "Blackburn Times"


1 and "Clitheroft Advertiser and Times” Castle Run for veteran


• took place. Sale-driving trophies were


awarded in Clitheroe's Road Courtesy Week. Alter 32 years' service as a


magistrate at Clitheroe Lady A. F. P. worsley-Taylor presided lor the last time at Clitheroe magistrates’ Court on Thursday. ''Operation Clear-Up" began at


tlie old bobbin works at Hurst Green, gutted by a mystery fire last week.


JULY 3


/ iHAIRMAN of Clitheroe Rural Council. Councillor H. Hol­


den and ills wife were invited to at lend the Royal Garden Party


at Buckingham Palace. A procession of staff and pupils


of CUtheroe Royal Grammar Scliool to tile Parish Church for the annual commemoration ser­ vice was led by the Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe, Councillor and Mrs. John Hall. New Rose Queen at St. Paul’s Church Sundav School, 15-year- okl Alison Smith was crowned a; Edisford School on Saturday bv the Mayoress of Clitheroe,


Airs. J. Hall. JULY 10


RORMER Mayor of Clitheroe. * Mr Clifford Chatburn, of


15 Park Avenue, Clitheroe, was again a member of the Council after an absence of two months. Clitheroe Ambulance Station


was awarded first place for cleanliness, turn-out. nccurncy ami efficiency in a contest be­ tween 50 Lancashire stations. A spectacular high dive display


?,'*is a feature of Chipping sports on Saturday when there was a


reiord attendance. rieet Street sports-writer, Mr.


Stephen R. Curry, only son ot Cmnclllor and Mrs. S. Curry, Sathill Villa. Clitheroc, was ma-rled in BrigliUingsea. Essex, on Saturday.


Liberals gained one seat, the. i


onlv change in elections for j CUtheroe Rural Council on Wed­


|


C 'L1THEROE V/ £120.000 in the pre-holiday


nis''-


Successor to Inspector P. B. Jackson, Inspector Dickenson arrived in Clitheroe on Thurs­


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day from Widnes. One of the keenest supporters


of St. Helen's Church. Wadding- ton, Mr. George Robinson


retired as verger but was still a choir member after 66 years. Whallev Library was one of two East Lancashire libraries to


I issue record numbers of books. JULY 24


! ! I 'HE Ace of Spades Club, Wlial- 1


ley was scheduled to open


i on August 6 in part of the ; George Street premises formerly occupied bv Billington and Whnl- icy Industrial Co-operative Soc. Tlie Borough Engineer, Mr. J.


Newton Bell, told the “Advertiser and Times" that in the plan for the levelling of the Market Place, provision was to be made for two flower beds, one possibly con­ taining flowering trees in the Church Brow side of Market


Place. Although Clitheroe people set­


ting off for their holidays on Saturday left in pouring ram, thunder and lightning, Clitheroe and district escaped lightly in comparison with other neigh­ bouring towns.


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JULY 17 banks paid out


JULY 31


TT was reported that Clitheroe’s A automatic telephone exchange being built in Railway Road,


would be ready in 1966. Clitlieroe magistrates refused


an application by the Ace of Spades Club, Whalley, for formal registration as a club, on the grounds that the application had


not been properly made. The Agricultural Division of


Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., was to spend £300,000 on the expansion of its catalyst production capacity.


AUGUST 7 operation from midnight on CL


Monday, and on Tuesd-.” ' morn­ ing the situation could well have been summed up in the appro­ priately good old phrase ” The


dav war broke out!" Bad weather aflected all six


games in the Ribblesdnle League and onlv the champions Ribbles­ dale Wanderers were able to claim full points, bringing them within striking distance of Read the leaders.


AUGUST 14 A • weather caused Clitheroe SUDDEN break in the


show again to run at a loss, and many attractions including trot­ ting. which should have been Held in the evening had to be


cancelled. Mr. and Mrs. James Strick­


land of Shciling, West Bradford, celebrated their Gc'.-'cn Wedding. A 23-yenrs-old Whalley man Mr. David Coggins left the Congo


l just as rebels took over control. AUGUST 21


. 22-YEAR-OLD ................... _


Upbrooks, clitheroe a Joiner who had played with Clitheroe s first football’ eleven, announced that he was going with two Burnley vouths on a round-the-world trip. ' Members of Clitheroe Town Council went on an inspection tour of Corporation properties and sites of schemes, on Tues­ day travelling by coach.


A. youth. Mr. Eric Bush of Mr. G. Hood, headmaster ot


Clitheroe R o y a l Grammar School, accepted tho council's offer of a loan of tho brass band instruments formerly usod by the Borough Band.


AUGUST 28


counting their losses and decid­ ing how much exactly could be attributed to the disruption in Market Place and the surround­


s:


ing streets. Member of a well known


Clitheroe business family. Mr. George M. Byrne, of 4 Manor Road, won cups, medals and a prize for best exhibit in the 17tli annual show at St. James’ School


CUtheroe, The diamond jubilee of West


Bradford Methodist Church was celebrated with services of thanksgiving.


SEPTEMBER 4 M


a r r ie d only a fortnight ago, 18-year-old Mrs. Ann


Dewhurst was chosen Fete Queen at the Bid For Stardom contest in the Parish Chinch


Hall. Eleven-year-old polio boy


Stephen Ragnall had his first day at Glitheroe Roya! Gram­ mar school.


Dr R. C. Webster, Medical


Officer of Health and Mr. Harold Cockshutt inspected houses at Chipping and agreed that some of them should be demolished.


SEPTEMBER 11 CLITHEROE’S best-cver Costie Fete drew nearly 10.000 and


there was a record income and profit despite late - afternoon rain. The Fete Queen. Mrs. Ann Dewhurst was crowned by the Mayoress. Mrs. J. Hall.


The Ace of Spades Club,


Whalley was on Thursday granted a club registration certificate by Clitheroo Magis­


trates. Two of the s t a u n c h e s t


parishioners of St. Nicholas Church, Sabden, Mr. nnd Mrs. Herbert G. Nuttall of 109 Rydal Mount. Sabden celebrated their


golden wedding. SEPTEMBER 18


L 1'


IGHTNING struck twice in Clith'eroe this week, once on


the roof of St. Paul's Church and once a direct hit on an elderly


BEAUTIFUL RIBBLESDALE „


1 '< - * ^ , < v • C - N < H V '


SHOPKEEPERS and hoteliers in Clitheroe centre were


Clitlieroe


'LTTHEROE'S experimental one-way system came into


man's spectacles (Mr. James Wilkinson. 23 Manor Road,


Clitheroe). Huge pools of water began to


form on the Shaw Bridge ground on Wednesday evening long before the end of Clitheroe’s league match against Southport Reserves and conditions were as bad as they have ever been.


Hodder Valley Show was


held in perfect conditions on the Old Show field. Newton on Saturday.


SEPTEMBER 25 M 1


R. WILLIAM SPENSLEY of 3 Victoria Avenue, Chat-


burn, was killed in an accident


; near the Petro Arms Hotel. Bil- iington, in the early hours of


1 Sunday morning. I A proposal that Clitheroe


1 should rehouse between 15,000 : and 20.000 overspill people in the ’ next 20 vears was being con- ! sidered by the Government’s i north west regionals study


group. OCTOBER 2 I


f ADY WORKER at St. James’ Church. Clitheroe, Miss Pat


Westall, left on Wednesday for a new job in the Ladies' Home


Mission Union. A Trinity Church sale of work


raised £150. Empty cottages in King Street,


Whalley. were condemned as dangerous by Ml*. H. Cockshutt.. surveyor, reporting to Clitheroe


Rural Council. Tlie Ribble Valley Poultry


Society, held at Whalley. their third annual show.


OCTOBER 9


l/UGHTY-TWO people attended " J the first annual dinner of


Ciitheroe Townswomen's Guild at the Swan and Royal Hotel on


Tuesday. Born in Chatburn, in 1872. a


member of a well-known family in this area Mr. James Frank- kind celebrated his 91st birth-


' ‘ X Clitheroc driver, Mr. W.


Hope, was one of four Ribble drivers who gained bronze bars for safe-driving.


OCTOBER 16


1 4EATH of Mrs.. Betsy Greenup, > ’ aged 03. who for many years was the oldest resident in the


village of Barrow. Announced that Group Capt.


G. B. Blacklock, of Widford. Chelmsford. Essex, was to be j next president of the Old Clitheronion’s Association.


t William Frederick Poo’.e. aged j


18 of Nab View. BilUngton, was | killed when Ms motor-cycle was in collision with a car at


Barrow. OCTOBER 23 M R. PERCY LORD, Chief


lU Education Officer, opened the seventh Methodist Festival of Youth.


Mr. F. F. Pearson (Conserva­


tive) retained his soat as M”-nber of Parliament for Clitheroe. He had a majority ot 4,251 in a three-cornered


fight. Mrs. Agnes YVindle, of 3 Monk


Street. Clitheroe, celebrated her


94th birthday. Miss M. E. Perrott. a former


headmistress of Wallasey High School, presented the prizes at the annua! speech day of CUtheroe Royal G r a m m a r


School for Girls. OCTOBER 30


M - floodlit


E. WEAVER, winner Ribble.sdale Wanderers’ b o w l i n g competition


received a cud from the Mayor .Councillor J. Hall), following


the final, on Saturday night. High praise for Clitheroe. its


Council and its people, came from two Lancashire County Councillors speaking at the open­ ing on Wednesday afternoon of Castleford. the old people’s home, and Queen’s Close bungalows, off Whalley Road, Clitheroe. It was announced at a meeting


of Bowland Education Sub­ committee that there would be no 11-plus examination this year. The Thorne system of selection


of pupils was to be introduced, it was stated.


NOVEMBER 6.


r i ’HF. Ministry of Housing and « Local Government dismissed


an appeal by Messrs. Cussack and Sons against refusal by CUtheroe Town Council to permit Low Moor School to be used as a builder's workshop and yard. Police with tracker dogs rushed to Pendle Hill as mod-rocker


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clashes broke out. Considerable damage was done to form prop­ erty and there were rowdy scenes at hotels in the area.


NOVEMBER 13.


1 FOUR-YEAR-OLD Clitheroe boy found his mother, Mrs.


Thelma Margaret Davies, aged 27. dead on the floor of then-


home in Garnett Road. More than 400 representatives


of various bodies, including the British Legion, walked in proces­ sion to the Castle grounds lor the annual poppy day service.


NOVEMBER 20. IT was announced that premises which were formerly used us


Union Street. Methodist Church were to lie converted into u light electronics factory. Visitors arrived at Pay illume Bridge for Salmon Sunday a


week too soon. It was reported that production


at Ribblc Cement. Company was to lie increased and there would lie more jobs, but this would involve the erection of a 400 ft. chimney.


NOVEMBER 27


rf tWO girls who wor k ed together at a hairdressers'


salon m Clitheroe. Pauline Pale and Janette Burton of Billing­ ton were killed in a road crash


on Sunday evening. Mr. J. Russell, alias "Bronco


Bill" was permitted to stay with his circus animals in tile curcus's new headquarters at Rimington.


DECEMBER 4


[R. FRANK PEARSON M.P. for the Clitheroc Division


was created a baronet, Slaidburn Silver Band was


DECEMBER 11


rpHE pantomime Aladdin was presented at Trinity Metho­


dist School Clitherur. Floods in all parts of Ribbles­


dale and Bowland and particu­ larly in certain streets in Clitli- eroe caused tremendous damage. The Mayor's Charily Perfor­ mance was given at the Civic


Hall. Seventeen - year - old Duncan


Robinson died from fumes in lv.s father’s car, which was parked


in a garage.


A CAROL SERVICE


AyEARILY the old man ' ' peered


From the depths ot his dreary room.


Another day without friends had gone


And Ms heart was filled with gloom.


Then suddenly upon his ear The sound of music fell. It was a Christmas Carol sweet With a Birthday story to tel':.


Noel! Nod ! The music seem'd


Suddenly to soar Over the snowy rooftops high And swooping down enter his


door.


The worry lines on the aged face Slowlv smoothed away As the old man listened happily To the story of Christmas Day.


But how much better for that lone soul


If the sight of a cheery smile Had welcomed him on Christmas


With a . . . " Can I stay for n while? "


We talk in town of serving tile old


And of ways in which we can aid.


Well! here's a way we all can help


Day


rescued from being disbanded by a last minute appeal to villagers.


Such folk in their twilight days.


Then please, do not be shy: Just 'knock at his door and say


So1 If vou know lie's lonely and old’


D'vou mind I was passing by? "


“ Hallo!"


It'll take some time you can ill afford


Of that you can be sure. And what's your reward? See his eves light up


As vou stand at the open door. - FLUNA."


CLITHEROE !


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