2 Clifhcroc A d v e r tise r and Times. Friday, S ep tem b e r JO, J965 GOUNTt lY DIARY FASCINATING SHOPS
far Ihis Irish journey has revealed one outstand
ing feature. In to\>n. villages a n d countryside >vherever there is an excuse for a shop or bar then you Mill notice
the Irish have a very dift'erent method o f shop-keeping than
in England or Scotland. Th ev liave a most amuiing aiici
fascinating way of mixing com modities and a iifost unusual metiiod of mixing business interests. I freely appreciate it is all a matter of habit and that ■we in Lancashire and Yorkshire have no right to say what a person m ay sell in his or her own shop or
busine.ss. But it does seem rather
strange to see for instance a double shop window with one window displaying meat and and the other beer and spirits. Butchers, by the way, are
Beshers in the Republic of Ireland. Also you will sec drapery and grocery or cloth ing and spirits to suit the occasion
But strange indeed i.s the Irish
w ay of choosing and associating such strangely
amu.sing names
a n d commodities. W c had already
.seen m one town
bu.sint's ■ it.-opic with names over their .shops .such a.s Billy Boftn. the boot repairer. Itir Dapper. tJtc draper. Itlr.s, P. PCnee dressmakci'. and then to really top them all wlion in Ballybofey wo saw one to excel
all others. Imagine our
.surpri.se on seeing a coal lorr.v with the owner'.s name on the cab door on which was written — Coal Merchant and Firearm detUer.
Also you will not fail to note that in contra.-^t to
Engli.sh hotels
tho.se in the Free State are. in the majority of
ea.so.s.
n am ed after tlie owner, siicU a.s — D a n 's Bar. Murphy'.s
B.ar etc.
to iiead via Donegal town. Bally- shannon, Sligo
S U K P K I .S IM ; DEL.AV A n d .‘'O wc Jolt Coiiniy JDonc.^al lo halt at
Westport in CoiinL.\- Mayo. After a lon.g day several brief sLoi: had caused a i^
urpri.sing delay
in our sc-hcdulc and it now be came obvious that our initial intention ot getting well into
•County Galway by evening was not to be realised. Being entirely strange territory and also being rather late our immediate task was to find accommodation. O b viously. I was disappointed at not being able to reach our objective which was to be Connemara. But still it was difficult to complain. So far everything had gone
■ Naturalist— Air. H. E . Cook.
set objective. W e therefore sought food ;ind accommodation in Louitiburgh in County M ay o .some twenty miles north of the Oalwa.v border. Here, after a meal we had a walk to chase away the weariness of travel and found our aiTival in the small town h ad been noticed.
according u> a scL plan. W c had kept a .'Strict .schedule an d now midwa.v in our holiday we were a mere half day'.s run from our
Never, in any of our previous halts had we cause to com
ment on any strangeness in the general atmosphere. But as we went down the main
street (which really formed the town) it became evident by the peering glances from
windows and doorways that our presence had been noticed.
Imagination or not it gave one
a feeling that you wore an intru der in some form of .secret soci- et.v. .-vdiniitccny such an atmos phere is rare but I miust speak or
wi'Uo as I find and also let it be wiihoui fa%'our. T h e following morning I was out on a C|Uict .street in time to photograph an
early rising
Iri.shman who w U h donkey and cart went on his wa)' with a friendly .smile. After brcakfasl we look the Louis- burgh-Leenane road to have our
fir.st glimpse of County Galwa\’. For fi%’e milc.s we
cro.sscd wild open
countr.v.sidc with acres and acre.s of peat, the odd cottage, school a ’.td .=mall store. Then, straight ahead the Murcelrea mountain.s. .\ga.n a.s we found in Donegal the soft lighting, 'the pale sunlight and light cloud shadow.s on the .smooth slopc.s .so t.vpical of Ireland. Tlien quite hy
surpri.sc the narrow road began a descent and just below wc were afforded a fine view of Doo Lough flanked by majestic hcight.s and in the dtstance Bengorm, O n e feature which has been so pronounced during thi.s trip is the remarkable softness in the ' general scene which.
strange as it may .seem is
al.so reflected in the speech and music of those parts.
Comparisons a r c iiicvitablc
and indeed I came with the cx- pro.s.s piu'poso of comparinig
Ireland with that old haunt o. mine — the Scottish Islands. I have known both for a long period. Scotland and tire Islands I have repeatedly visited and Ireland, or to be precise— Ulster. I like to think I know better titan most b.v virtue of having spent five .vear.s in the province. And so during my joiu'ney I have been comparing and ^^o far I must admit that in the Irish scene, a.s with the Gaelic voices the
outstanding feature i.s the soft ness. the mellow tones an d lack ot sharp contrasts. There is nothing violent — all is subdued and blending in tone. Personally I like it that way and And the mellowness in particular a chal- legc to the colour camera. It is a
plea.sant diversion from the light and atmosphere in the Highlands. Both have their high lights and attraction.s with Donegal, so far just ahead of all both at home and abroad.
HILLS OF GALW.VY N ow a.s we came in sight of
(he hills of Galway we were con fronted with scene after scene of magnificent splendour. O n coming through the solitude of the Delphic Pass we followed the stream rapidly cascading at fre-- quent intervals over innumerable falls to a more luxurious land scape. This as In so m an y of the place.s i.s a fisherman’s paradise. Even to a mere layman the lale.s of fresh and sea-water fishing for trout and salmon are remark ably attractive. Th en , oiu- first sight of Killarnc.v Harbotut A harbour showing no interfer ence from m a n and one of the most perfect cxample.s Ireland
has to offer of a true fiord. Large ships ma.v lie in it in
ab.solutc .safety for it i.s 10 miles In length half a mile wide with a depth of not Ic.s.s than 13 falhom.s. It
offers some of the most charm ing .scenery to be found In Ire land and now as wc were actu ally into Gahva.v the small h am let of Lcenanc would form our headquarters.
.A glance at the
m ap reyealed it to bo a good centre for acee.s.s to Joyce's country. Maam lurk
mouni.ains
and the twelve pin.s of Conne mara. -Accommodation i.s not too plentiful. -
mous hole! looking .somewhat
our of place in such a remote part offers e.xcellent fare and accommodation at a .suitable price. Others. more modest
appeal to the average tourists. Half a dozen .shop.s. cottages and the Post Office situated by the
road and bordering the sea com prises Leenane with the massive hulk of Glencroft rising sharply at the rear.
A first class enor
ANIMAL HEALTH REPORT
r p 'H E report on Animal Health Services in Great Britain pub
lished this week, gives results of experiments undertaken by lab
oratories and on farms to diag nose, control and eradicate animal disease and contains in formation about exports of live stock including protection of animals during transit.
T h e year 1963 brought impor
tant successes to the Animal Health Services and in the methods used to restrict the in
troduction and .spread of animal disease in Great Britain. This wa.c the
fir.st calendar
j-ear for 48 years (.since 1917) in which Great Britain has been entirely free from outbreaks of foot and mouth disease and. due to the introduction of a slaughter and compensation policy, there w'as a considerable decline in the outbreaks of swine fever from 1,874 in 196-2 to 1.243 in 1963. .As a resiUt of the use of dead
vaccine the number of fowl pest outbreaks dropped from 3.384 recorded
ca.sos in 1962 to 2.288 in 1963 and the steady decline in the incidence of bovine tuber culosis was maintained fD.780 reactors in 1962. 5.901 in 1963'>. Mere than £5 mUlion compei.- sation ■was paid in 1963 for stock
slaughtered due to swine fever, fowl pest and bovine tuberculo sis.
DRIVER FINED £10 AFTER PORTFIELD CRASH
driver of a car involved
Bar. Wlialley, lollowingc which his mother-in-law died, was at Clitheroe. yesterday week, Irned £10 for driving without duo care and attention. H e was Leslie Fisher, of Saw-
- ■ in a collision at Portliekl
Ic.v Crescent, Ribbleion, near Preston, a 46-ycar-old plumbers mate. Mr. W . D . Greenwood, for
Fisher, .said that his mother-in- law was taken ' hospital sulTor-
ing from shock and injuries. It wa.s not yet certain whether she had died as a result of the acci dent. Fisher, who was .seriously in
jured in the accident, vowed* that ho woud never own another car. said Mr. Greenwood. Mr. J. A. Bower, prosecuting,
said the accident occurred about 10-55 p.m. one night in Accring ton Road, Wlialley. Fishei\ w ho was travelling to
wards Whalley at about 45 m.pJi. veered to the wrong side of the
road and collided with a vehicle driven by David Jacques, a lear ner di*ivcr.
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GRANTS FOR FARM IMPROVEMENTS
J f^A RM E R S arc reminded that the Small Farm (Business Manageiricnt) Scheme came into operation at the beginning
ol this month. The scheme provides for grants of up to £1,000 for carrying
out three-year farm management programmes. A n essential part of all programmes will be the keeping of farm records in an approved lorm.
Farmers arc eligible to
apply if their farm businesses (i) comprise not less than 20 and not more than 125 acres of crop and grass and (2) have standard l a b o u r require ments of not less than 250 and not more than 600 stan dard man-days, calculated on a new scale introduced with this Scheme. Any farmer who is interes
ted in the .scheme should apply to the local ollicc of the Ministry where explana tory leaflets and application forms arc available.
fa rm s a f e f y A heap of grain, whether
in a wc'( pH or in a silo, is reasonably stable and will
bear the weight of an adult or that of children playing on it.
However, when the grain is
being mechanically drawn away from the bottom by means of an auger or elevator a difTcrent situation arises wliich i.s not apparent in the appearance of the heap. As
the grain i.s drawn away a hollow space is created and it is then that anyone walking or playing on the top can cause a collapse into the hollow below at the same time as the sides of tlic heap ca\’c inwards in an attempt to fill the vortex of the sinking grain.
Every year during and
after harvest, children and sometimes adults arc suflo- cated by being drawn down in wet pits and silos. Wh en operations of this sort are in progress children should be warned to keep away and adults need to remember that
danger exists for them too when grain is being drawn from the bottom of a heap that is deep enough to engulf them.
WOOD PIGEONS The Ministry reminds occu
piers and others who started wood pigeon nest destruction a few weks ago, that a second round is now due to complete the job. Nests that were des troyed at the end of July or the beginning of August will now have been re-built and unless die new ones are also removed the young birds will be successfully reared to damage crops later in the year. The same area should be covered as before and nest
dc.struction should not now bo done on new ground.
Fo pr ove n t accidents
through electrocution, great care must be taken to avoid touching overhead power
cables with nest destruction poles.
Authors meet at the abl>ev
—^
\ B O U T 50 members of the I-Ancashire Authors’ Associa
tion met at WhalTey Abtae.v on Saturday for their autumn meet ing.
In ilic afternoon, deputising
for Canon G . A. WilUam.s, Abbey Chaplain, who was unavoidably absent. Miss H . M . Gradwell, L ady Warden, gave a sliort talk on the history of the abbey. Tliis was followed by a totir of the ruins, during which
Mi.ss Grad- wcll acted as guide.
-After tea in the Conlcrence
Hall, members heard an
addre.ss b.v xir. H . Klrtlan on “Harrison .Ainsworth and ‘T h e
Lanca.shire Witchc.s" followed by recitations of dialect and other itents hv' members.
THIS WAS NEWS . . .
75 Yi:.*vRS AGO S E P T EM B E R 12, 1890
Lauc and the two noighbom-ing for the annual riish-
■\rOND.4Y. (the 8th..>. was a red letter day at Stopper
beating ceremony took place. nsttad of cock-fighting, dog-
raring, etc.. which formed a con- ■siderabie part of past iirogram- me.s. the
fe.stival had given place lo the much milder form of a Innperance
proces.sion, tea parl.v and meeting. As there was not a drop of rain to mar the proceed
ings. ever.vthing
pa.ssed off satis- factorll.v. Mr. "T. Whittaker of Scarbo
rough. the eminent temperance reformer, was specially engaged a,^ speaker.
tvhen a notification from the Education Department wa.s con sidered.
prc.ssing for tile appoint ment of an assistant mistress for the National School at a salar.v of £35 to £40 per annum. It was requested. that the amount be raised by .subscription of ihc ratepayer.s. or by pulling ihc school under a jurisdiction of the School Board.
V L IV E L Y melting of raie- ua.vors took place at GIsburn *
' 'I ' 'H E London Gazette an- noiinced the retirement from
the 3rd
Ea.st Lancashire Regi ment (Militia Infantry) of Colonel Lc Grandrc N . Starkie. who fust entered and was made a cornet of the D u k e of Lancas- tcr'.s Yeomanry on :he 21st of April. 1853.
Chatburn Wesleyan anniversary -service.s. and XIr. Henr.y Walker of Xlellor Brook, addressed the scholars in the afternoon. Col-
M
Icction.s totalled nearly £12. A BO.UT 150
Gi.sburn children
■^^and 60 adults attended the
annual’ treat given bj' the D o w a ger Lady Ribblcsdale. .After tea. Lord Ribblesdale presented prizes offerodibv
him.self and Miss Lis ter o f tile .school children for composition, geography, reading
and writing. P L .A Y IN G at Gisburn. Wad- dington Cricket Club were
dismissed for 13 rims.
Gi.sburn had the assistance of Morton (Cambridge University) an d Fol- loy of Colne, but they were put out for 12. In the second innings Waddington scored 16, Gisburn
repl.ving with 21-6 .
''IN H ER E were lively .scenes at Worston on the occasion of
tile •‘Mayoral" election, w hen “ Sir" Tliomas Boothman de feated "Alderman’’ Finch by 20 vote.s to eight.
5 0 YE.VRS AGO S E P T E M B E R 10, 1915
'■|''HE two R ed Cross motor -
*■ ambulances subscribed for
by the farmer.s of Ribblesdale and Rowland were despatched to France on August 30.
A M O N O 150 woimded soldiers brought direct from the
Da.rdenelles to a local Hospital ■were Private Fenton of -Whalley
a n d Private Richard (3oupe of Clitheroe.■
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30, took an afternoon off, first dining at the Hodder Bridge Hotel and then proceeding in Messrs. Strickland and Hacking's motor coach to Blackpool.
r . I.-aac Barritt, of Barnolcls- wick. wa.s the preacher at
■]yrR. T . H . Slicrriff, formerly in charge of Sabden Wesle.yan
Chapel preached sermons there on the 5th. Following his ordina tion on the 22nd. he was to take a position in the Bomba.v district of the ■ Wesleyan Methodist Foreign Missionary Societ.v.
T > O W L .A N D Rural District Council decided to make no
change in the half-.voar'.s rate— 6d in the £.
A S E R I E S of five minutes’ in- tercession services (12.40 to
12.45 p.m. ' was inaugurated at Whalle.v
Par.sh Church by the Vicar, the Rev. R. N ewm an.
"•■“-Rev. G . Cloudcsley Shovel, newly appointed superintendent miriislcr to the Clithoroe Xlctho- dlst Cii'cuit. was extended at a circuit rally’ held in Wesley Chm'ch. xir. E. Allen presided, and Itad the support of Iris co- steward. XIr. A. E . Parkinson of Chatburn, Xlr. Jo h n Wilkinson JP . XIrs. J. H . Fainveather, the Rev.s. J. A. Sinclair. J. E. Storey, R. Holt and H . .Allen.
A HE.-VRTY welcome to the
2 5 YEARS AGO S E P T E M B E R 6, 1940
'■|“H E flag day held in Clith- eroo in .support of the Chris
tie Cancer Hospital, XTanchester raised £77 13s. 6d.
■jYTEXIBERS of the Knights of St. Columba a-ssociated with
S. S. Xlichaci and Jolm’s Church had organised a canteen for Catholic .soldiers and their visit ing friends.
■\/I'ORE than £11 wa.s raised for St. Jo h n -Ambulance
Brigade funds by a dance held in the Clitheroe Conservative Club. Mir. G . Ford’s band provided the music and Corporal B . Sharpies was M C .
Club of Xir. R. Green, a consul tant engineer, w ho was staying with relatives in Moor Lane. In the course of his avocation, Xlr. Green h a d travelled the world, and he gave a detailed account Of his -visits to India since 1926. a n d also
dc.scribed life in the jungle.
M
■jVfEXIBERS -i-Tl- A T f .F s n i
of the Clitlieroe
evening w h en the n ew W a rd ens Post (No. 6) was formall.v opened ta.v the Chief W a rd en . Councillor Sat terthwa i to.
A T ii-ic montlily meeting of Rowland R u r a l District
Coimcll it was decided to form a
branch of the W om e n 's Volun- tar.v Service in tlie area, and recommended that XIIss V. XI. Garnett JP . T h e Cottage, Slaid-
b um . be appointed Central Organiser.
■]V|"ORE than £70 wa.s paid for a grey Persian kitten when
it was put up for auction at a Derbyshire sale in aid of the Red
Cro.ss. •i
< «• IN the Ribblesdale Senior
beaten by Bamoldswick at Bam- oldswlck. T h e h om e side declared at 239— 1. Casswell (119 not out)
a n d Peckover <66 not out), and Whalle.v replied with 162 all out. ♦
• * IN the Junior League, Clitheroe h ad slipped down the table
and were occupying seventh place, 17 points behind the leaders.
League, Whalley were well
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WHEN VERY
Saturday r i i i .s a n o t h e r e .x lr e
a r t i e l e ■wi'itlen h y C o i i j i o f W h a l l e y . r e c a l l in « r y o n i l l in Cl]
ritual.
J ^ V E R Y Saturday afternoon. imJ and the pots sided a x a y . there |
Father would stand with his
brother and I would fidget :ind wal lit t le teasing and by-play, and guesi Father would sigh' despondently.
• Pennies'. Wc liked .shiny, new pennies H
T h e n , on with o u r hais and
coats, and with o u r coppers lightly clutched in hoi podg\ ' h an d s . olT wc would run to th e ‘Penny Stall ' on the Ma r ket .
XIarket .seemed rather a gran diose name for tlie place ii.s it
then was, for it
oon.sl>ited of •.wo .stalls onh.': T h e Penny Stall’ which wa.s our immediate o'ojec- tive. and Xlr. Robert'.s Drapery Stall which wa.s of no interest whatever to small boy.s. whatever our mother.s might have thought about it.
T h e Penny stall' wius differen,:.
even though only :t verv small portion of it was devoted to th.e requirements of children, and the rest filled with ironmongery, clog-irons, clotiie.- peg.-, balis of .string, and all o'dier kinds of odds and ends.
It was amazing what '.ve
f r o m t b e
N orvicKiltie I f t f a n f s
could buy with our few warm, sticky copper.'; — toy soldiers, ludo sets, snakes and ladder.-, a top and whip, or a bo.x of chalks to moke fancy patterns on the rounded top. or mark out a pitch for Hop-Scotch, or a ring for marble.s. W o could buy a bag of marble.s too. big 'bobbers' were a. halfpenny each and the ftiitcy glas.s alleVf: -with the coloured whorl.s inside were oven more ex pensive. if you wanted an nn- posing collection. Still, the green, glass ones from the top of 'po-p' bottles were a pretty good s u 'dk- titute. if we ignored the marbles a n d bought a -set of 'jack."' or knuckle stones. T h e proprietor an.d — I pre
sume it was his good lady— must iiave been very patient, for " am
.-certain we deliberated longer over our small purchaso.s than today's youngsters would over a m uch greater outlay,
SHOP IN v; .VTERLOO wo moved to anotlior
part, of town and into a ‘Irigher income bracket.’ — our weekly allowance was n ow tlireepence.
a n d NIr. Kigby's shop in NVater- loo, with the impressive pictures of ships outside became our
venue. By tipping on our toes wc
could just see over the wire grill which protected the inner side of his window, and make our selection from the kali suckers and gob stoppers dis played, or — If we were in a literary frame of mind, expend a penny on the buff coloured 'Chips’ or ’Comic Cuts’, and revel in the outrageous antics of ‘Weary Willie and Tired Tim' or the crazy happenings in ‘Casey's Court’.
‘T h e Rainbow* wn.< in full
colour and cost iwopencc. and -we were conient to wait until "Monday when it was delivered, to snatch a quick look at, ‘IMrs. Bruin’s Boys’ before we went to school It was a pretty good in centive for setting ivo a few minutes earlier on mornings when tlie bed clotlK?.-^ al’ways seemed to *iug* tlia: little bit liardcr. Snmetinie.s in mid-week there
were occa.'iional rod letter da>s w hen a visit from an indulgent aunt or uncle would find us with coppers in our pockets on our . way to school. T h e accepted place
^ ’to spend 'school pennies’ was Ntrs. ’tVli it taker’s little shop in
• Parson L^ane. opposite the old I Wesley School, and here again * ths needs of the younger gener-
r ation seemed speciallv entered • for. Sticks of -
DRIVING BAN REMOVED
A
27--YE.AR-OLD Ciitheroo lab- -^^ourer vlio yvanted a bet;er
job .so tliat he could save up for a
hou.se and get married, siic- ces-sful'y applied at Clitheroo yesterday Tveek for the remova; of a driving ban imposed on him .six years ago. Francis Ian Barton, of Bawd-
lands admitted being in trouble with the police .since the age of 10 and having a list of previou.s convict ions. H e was represented b>‘ Xlr. AV,
D . Greenwood. Barton's employer. Mr. Rob
in Ford, proprietor of The build ing firm of John Ford and Sons. Clitheroe described Barton as “ The best labourer I have had during the past few years." H e added that Barton was a
•hard worker (vnd that he got on well with the other employee.s.
H e had given no
cau.se for com plaint during the two a ’
-'d a ha:f years he had worked witlt the
firm. If the licence wa.s re."tor»'d to
Itim he would bo offered a job as a drivet'-la bottrer which w.a.s a
■better paid job than the one he h a d at present. Xtr. Greenwood said that Bar
ton had paid his debt to society a n d was determined to settle dow n and keep out of trouble. Inspector Harold Dickinson ob
jected ‘‘most strongly" :o the aripUcatlon and p>ointed out that
during the six years Barton liad been disqualified he had been in prison for more than two.
‘ipanL^h. liquorice tl>|
him in the W orkhouse', and with L hand deep in his trouser pocket :l
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come, of course, bul there was soni new ones , somehow the.v seemed nl ordinary’ ones: a teeline that l in e e f
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