THE A


tly received a pleasant almg with their native


1 n-te^ iTr0lT? Mrs- Hilda mot Lake, Ontario her.


’


^ e delusion that Lanca- d' a? d ^ ° rkshire t^wns were


e y,” he said. - y lls


• ;s, ,that had not suffered ark, dirty and ugly.


yhu?lt °C o n ^ anT L w t told the “Advertiser arm


have seen some of the most ous scenery, in this district


ve ever seen in-my life rtod tve been fascinated bv its


!ng of a brief conversation ■ e recording, as far as is


ring his tour of the dist- Mr. Dixon chatted with of the various oeople he and then took a tape re-


ti at the moment, has not heard in this country.


Bowland would like to


stay as it is


wland Rural Council is to m , the Rural District cils Association, which re- to.the Royal Commission


-red nature of the Bowland and its peculiar physical 'es. i t should be allowed


e future of local Govem- tha t in view of the


authority. was disclosed at the ily meeting of the Finance


main as it is, and admin1 its own affairs as a second-


e Committee’s resolution nues that if, however, the 1 Commission was adamant the district should be


ed with other authorities, reluctantly the Council


ing with the Clitheroe gh and Clittoeroe Rural cils. . L. D. Telford, the Clerk, write to the Clerks of the


-tive councils to inform of Bowland Council’s


that the interests of the would be best served by


General Purposes Commit- n Monday.


SCHOOL IS


BEING CONVERTED INTO HOMES


Got off moped when lie saw police officer


WHEN a 35 year-old Pakistani of Clitheroe saw a police officer in Lowergate, he got off the moped he was riding and began to push it, said Inspector Harold Dickinson, prosecuting at Clitheroe. yesterday week. Maqbool Hussain, of Whalley


Road, was fined £2 for using the moped with no insurance, £2 for not having a driving licence, and £1 for using it with­ out a test certificate. Mohammed Sadiq (47), also of


Whalley Road, the owner of the machine, was fined £2 for per­ mitting the use. £2 for aiding and abetting a person with no licence to drive it, and £1 for permitting its use without test


the officer, PC G. Penlington, approached Hussain who could not produce an insurance cer­ tificate, test certificate or


certificates. Inspector Dickinson said that


viewed he could not produce a test certificate or insurance


A 1 ILLAGE SCHOOL which also acted as a village hall, where every social event was held, is now being converted into two attractive bungalows.


Thus another landmark in the Ribble Valley disappears as work proceeds to


about this conversion from the villagers, although the majority seem to think that it is a good thing.


the lack of a village hall, she added. “I think it is a great pity , that there is no village hail now. When a village school is closed the young couples with children tend to move out of the village, thus making it a home for the elderly.”


that her name be not disclosed, conunentcd, “I think everyone is pleased that the building is being put to good use, instead of it becoming an eyesore, be­ cause when the school was not. in use, children were going in and breaking the windows.” Asked what she thought about


As one villager, who asked


convert the former Church of England school at Wiswell, near Whalley, into homes of distinctive quality and character.. There arc mixed feelings


because of measles, the atten­ dance was down to 19.’ Ring­ worm is an infection which has now virtually disappeared from schools. In the. lat» 19th century and early 20th century, however, its presence appeared rife among several children. This contageous disease caused suffering to children, some of whom had to have their heads shaved and others to con­ stantly wear a 1 head covering.


On March 10, 1911. again,


One log-book entry refers to a girl being sent home from school to return only if wear­ ing headgear. Entries often occur that a


1963 a village meeting was called to discuss the pos­ sibility of turning it into a village hall.


When the school closed in


one in the end could be bothered to run a village hall. Everyone knows the problems of keeping a village hall, and among them is the need for £7 or £8 a week to keep the place going.” “At first,’ she added, "Nearly


O) gradually interest dwindled until there were hardly more than a dozen still interested.” The builders—a local firm—


ail the villagers were very keen to have a' village hall, but


have-done- a-grand job in con-' verting the. old school into the two bungalows, and have fitted oil-fired central heating as. well as a modern kitchen and lounge etc.


first step of education for 'hun­ dreds of village children through the years, and when the news broke that It was to close in 1961. there was an outcry and a new lease of life ef two years was given to it. Residents of' the village pro­


Wiswell school has been the ’•But,” said the villager, “No


school building will not be used again by the villagers or their children, but will become separate homes for two fami­ lies.


So after many years the


very sorry, and the offence was committed in ignorance. Mr.


Sadiq was going to work when the moped broke down.


and asked me to take it home for him while he went by bus. I got astride the moped to start it, and then the policeman


“He saw me in a nearby shop


came.” Sadiq wrote, “I am very


sorry.”


THE COUNTRYSIDE IN FOCUS


child has received a certificate for half-time working, while on February 21, 1896, “Edwin Robinson left to commence working full time, he being 14 years old.” At the back of the log-book is


prise younger readers is that the children had to take money to pay for their education.


late-comers, storms' and 'holi­ days- -continue1 “through’ the early part of the book, but in tile later stages the entries speak, of modern inovations. One ' such entry from 1959


book came into use. The same story Of illnesses,


says that an electric water heater had been fitted over the children’s wash basins. The children who- attended


IN WAR-TIME


tested against the proposed closure, and 13 of them signed a petition. Tlie final moments in the life o: the village school were cap­


i .. heyday, and when it had well ?/ over 100 pupils, were recalled by past scholars who were in­ vited to the final open day.


tured for the future when, in July, 1963, a tape recording was made of the last seven pupils singing school songs. Memories of the school in. its


R WIDE ON OF


Priscilla Preston, of Queen Street. Whalley. who had taught at tlie school during the First World War. At last, the school was closed


OLDEST VISITOR The oldest visitor was Miss


and the building was used for all village events. But now it has been converted, ' there is nowhere in the village where social events can be held, and the Women’s Institute members have to meet at Barrow. The school, which had


covers the durations of both World Wars. The 1914-18 war does not


The last school log-book


however, to the Second World War. The entry for September 1,


seem to have had much affect on the day-to-day routine of the school. SchooJ life con­ tinued as'normal, and there is little to .indicate that in Europe the “war to end all wars” was raging. ' There are various references,


1939. mentions that the chil­ dren were sent home and the school was being made ready for evacuated children.. Owing to. tlie outbreak of war


the school was closed again on September 9. After the outbreak of war


found in faded grey ink on a fly leaf of one of the school diaries or log-books. The first entry is under the date June 27. 1873. On glancing through the in­


fewer than a dozen pupils when it closed, had on Sep tembor 1, 1910, a total of 175 pupils. The; majority of these, 102, were taught in the schoolroom and: classroom while the remaining 73 were in the infants' department. Tilts information is to be


snowfall had occurred and the children were sent home at 3 pan. Snowdrifts made the road impassable and only 50 per cent of the children could get to school the following morning. Shortly after the blitz, the


came the shortages of fuel and food. Tlie entry' for February 6, 1940, is a criptic “school closed—no coal.” A' few days earlier a heavy


the school in i t s . early days would probably never have dreamed of such luxury.


then the children were sent home for1 it. Often they did not return that day, or even as long as a week. In April, 1912, another log­


If the money was not taken,


a summary of tlie law of school exemption and the employment of children. Another fact that may sur­


MR. CHARLES GIDMAN, president of the Accrington Naturalist Society, lectured to Clitheroe Naturalists last week on the subject of the English countryside. Introduced by Mr. H. Cook,


moths and gave his audience much useful • information on how to study moths and how to collect specimens by the use of the beating tray and the sweep-


the Clitheroe chairman, Mr. Gidman said the theme of his talk was “From Spring to Spring” with pictures to illus­ trate much of what the country was like in the different seasons and also to give a peep into pre-history. The first picture had the


slide to the Ribblehead area he showed photographs of Pen-y- Ghent, Trow GUI and Gaping


ig net. Taking Ills audience hv colour


Ghyll. At Gaping Ghyll he went


audience longing for the long winter nights to be over and done with. I t was a very beau­ tiful scene not far from Accrington showing sycamore leaves bursting through on a lovely sunny day with a carpet of copper .below the trees, made of beech leaves which had been blown along duriiig the winter'; one could almost feel the warmth of the sun and smell the scent of the woods. Another picture showed snow­


drops with pendant blooms on slender green stalks massed on


the floor of the wood—true har­ bingers of spring. A bird's eye view of the crocus


prompted the thought: why do birds nip off the heads of these lovely flowers? Most people who have spent much time in the autumn planting bulbs for a spring show have at some time felt evilly disposed to the birds, when they have found the heads on the ground. Mr. Gidman could not explain the reason for this mutilation.


NESTS ROBBED


explain the reason, or lack of reason, in the story told by his next pictures, which showed the willow warblers and nest, and then the nest gone when he


He was also at a loss to


tures. What possessed people to want to tear nests out of trees? He told of. one occasion when someone had sawn a tree down to get the eggs which were in a nest in the tree top. Why should anyone want to


visited it later for more pic­


by winch down the primary shaft which drops 350ft. into the main chamber, into which the waters from Fellbeck cascade through the same shaft. The cave itself is-.450 feet in length and 130 feet wide. Mr. Gidman said that many


below ground to show the stal­ agmites and stalactites which had taken centuries to form; many of these were coloured by iron and lead oxides. The descent had been made


certificate. Bv letter, Hussain said, “I ’m


driving licence. Later, when Sadiq was inter­


“GRASS ROOTS” AT PARISH COUNCIL LEVEL VITAL LN LOCAL GOVERNMENT


SIR FRANK PEARSON, MP for Glithcroe, ’and President of the L a n c a s h i r e Association of Parish Councils, on Saturday, at the Association’s annual meeting in Preston, supported the Lancashire County!Council’s idea, for three super, authorities in Lancashire. .


- • i > ......... ... • • Emphasizing that he was expressing his• personal 'opinion,' Sir Frank added,


“Nevertheless I want to state my opinion-quite .clearly and.unequivocally. • “As far as Lancashire is concerned there is _a great


deal of merit in the proposals that have been put forward by the county council, for three suped authorities' under which you would have other authorities exercising various degrees of power,” he declared.


- Sir Frank, went on to say


that he was absolutely con­ vinced that there were cer­ tain spheres of local govern­ ment activity that in the modern day could only be dealt with by very large and powerful authorities.


Tlie alternative


ning,' transport, education,; water and sewage.


He mentioned police, plan­


be the right -type of Iqcal gov­ ernment,” he said.


would be for boroughs to stretch them tentacles and grab very large areas that at the moment lie in the county. “I don’t believe that would


The only alternative, he. said,


come-in such-a hew system?” asked Sir Frank.


“Where do parish councils -


the role of tlie parish council- becoming. more and. more important. "Not necessarily as a coun­


local government become, the more important is the role to be played by those who really represent the ‘grass roots’ at parish council level,” Sir Frank added lie. could see


cil with direct executive power, but as the one unit .that'rep­ resents. the people on the ground, and. as the one sound­ ing-board for what the people really, genuinely think.”


Annual report


Association said that income had slightly exceeded 'expendi­ ture after a l l ' outgoings “and payments have been made. Of the 203 Lancashire Parish Councils.- 189 (one more than last year), or 93 per cent were members of tile Association. Since 31st March an additional parish council has joined the Association. Nine of the four­ teen Area Committees had 100 per cent membership. “AH the Area Committees


In its annual report the


people were confused yltiv stal­ agmites and stalactites—which were which? He said the mites


ceeded. • The Association finds these


one principle—that .the larger and more powerful units of


“I hold very', strongly to


of the proposed registration of commons and village greens, issued by the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources.. These have gone to Lancashire Parish Councils for their attention. We have also sent ^.question­ naire from the Committee of Inquiry into Allotments set up by the same Ministry, but these have been sent only to a ran­ dom selection of Parish Coun­ cils. There is a great need for authentic infomyition on these and other important matters and we express the hope that members will co-operate in supplying the information that they are requested to do. "The failure of the Presi­


- of the Ministry.and Members of Parliament ’ considerably,


dent's Town and Country (Amendment) Bill was not a total loss. Tho overwhelming support by parish councils which increased .the post.bag


; prior, notification of planning proposals.” 1


reached between Sir Frank, tlie National-Association of Parish Councils and .the-.Rural- District Councils Association, -that the latter, recommend their mem­ bers to adopt one of two pos- sible. methods of prior notifica­ tion.' of planning proposals unless they already ’ do tills in some other way. I t will, be known that Chorley, Lunesdale, Warrington and ’ Whiston al­ ready give prior notification to their parish councils as des­ cribed in method “A” in the Rui-al District Council Associa­ tion’s recommendations. Pres­ ton and West Lancashire have informed us that they have decided to adopt method, “A" which is a notification of all planning proposals being sent to the respective parishes. “Clitheroe, Fylde, Garstang


: :“An agreement- has ’ been •


: must have impressed .them ■ concerning the weight of opinion about this matter of.


• :


has. much’to,commend.’it. This agreement and Its implementa­ tion will be. the subject of review after’ twelve months. Members will no doubt ■ agree that this is an important, step forward in; what our members regard as. essential, notably a prior notification of all plan­ ning proposals in the parish.


'-Road. Lighting


w’hen the Ministry of Trans­ port indicated its intention of arranging a take over of road lighting the Association lias made representations in the interests of parish council lighting authorities. (60 in Lan­ cashire). The proposals are ostensibly in the interests of achieving good consistent light­ ing on our major roads and the implication is that authorities other than highways authorities and the Ministry, lack the means of achieving this. There is undoubtedly something to be said for tills point of view but it should’hot be assumed' that the ' smallest • units ' of.: , local government are the least: cap­ able -in' this respect as some of the best'-trunk road lighting in Lancashire' is being provided by parish Councils. If- the bill becomes''law, parish councils and rural district councils will lose ' their power '.to provide road lighting unless this is delegated by the County Council. They would retain power to provide1 footway light­ ing; but not where the highway authority ' provides the street lighting. Representations are continuing. "In' addition to the street


“Since January of this year, ALL


Wines and Spirits


(Leading Brands) AT


Wholesale Prices


Cash and Carry Trade


have arranged regular meetings ith. in the main, satisfactory attendances,” the report pro­


go up and the tites come down. Another way to remember one from the other was to learn the following:- stalactites stick tight to the roof, stalagmites might


reach the roof. OLD RAILWAY TRACKS


railway tracks that had been closed and the lines and sleepers removed. Some of these were now being regenerated by nat­ ure. A picture showed part of a disused line which had been self-seeded and 173 different plants and flowers had been ■ecorded. It would not be long before nature had clothed the whole of the ex-permanent way with plants and grasses, and these would be followed by bushes and eventually trees: before long there would be noth­ ing to show’ there had ever been a railway.


Specially interesting were


rob nests and kill young birds? Pictures are often taken of


school began to receive the first of the refugees from the cities. Following the war, the


school numbered 13 and in 1960 the full attendance was 12,


dividual entries.. one: is. imme­ diately struck by the' fact that the weather in those far off days was not perhaps as good as our grandfathers and. great­ grandfathers would have us believe.


the following of July-6, 1881: “No school’ this ■ morning. Few children here on account of the severe storm that occurred last night.” Heavy snowfalls over the


Often entries were made like -


Skipton M.P. af campaign meeting


Mr. Burnaby Drayson, M.P


moors seem to have often res tricted attendances, while rain and strong winds were an accepted excuse for non-atten­ dance. I t ■ has . to be remem bored, of course, that spine of the children had long distances to travel, and that there was no mechanised form of trans­


port in those days. ILLNESSES


ear PERS— Etc.


. I • ’ •


the log-book concerns illness, Chickenpox, whooping cough, measles, mumps, ring-worm and influenza occur with great regularity.' On- occasions, atten­ dances were cut by more than half. An outbreak of measles


Another • common entry


1928 when the number on roll at the school was 64, reduced the attendance to 14.


for Skipton, was among the group of Yorkshire Conservative MP’s who met on Wednesday week at the Constitutionaal Club


in London to discuss the cam­ paign in Opposition for 1967- Other Yorkshire members


attending the meeting were Mr. Robin Turton (Thirsk and Malton). Sir Malcolm Stoddart- Scott (Ripon), Sir Donald Daberry (Leeds North Westl Mr. Paul Bryan (HowdenX, Mr Michael Shaw (Scarborough and Whitby), Mr. John Osborn (Hallam). ■ Mr. Tim Kitson (Richmond), Mr. James Rams- den (Harrogate), Mr. Joseph Hiley (Pudsey), Mr. Michael Alison Barkston Ash) and Mr, Patrick, Wail .(Haltemprice)


was Alderman John Taylor of Keighley, the new Conservative Area Chairman, who is the first non-Mcmber of Pailiament to hold tins office foi m.inv years.


Also attending the meeting


numbers on the school's register began gradually to shrink until 10 years later there were only 21 on the roll. In 1959 the children a t the


young birds in the nest showing them with necks a t full stretch and mouths wide open waiting for food. Mr. Gidman showed one which was very much out of the ordinary: four young sky larks, true, to type, had their necks fully extended and mouths open as fas as possible.' but as they huddled together with-necks vertical the impres­ sion was that they were some rare exotic flower from the deep forests of South America rather than young birds. Pictures were shown of Wid-


dop Moors on the way to Hard- castle Craggs, fine walking country as the photographs showed; here there was a fairly large peat deposit. Mr. Gidman pointed out how


giving a brief glimpse into the past were shown of pre-historic habitations and burial places, as well as stone circles and stand­ ing stones. These belonged to the mesolithic, neolithic and bronze ages. Mr. Gidman had a very good


PEEPS INTO THE PAST Some very interesting pictures


number of parish councillors and- clerks.’ The practice varies from area to.area, in some the business is entirely concerned with the parish council affairs of the area, in others a- speaker


Area -Committees- -the-most- con­ venient way of arranging egular meetings for the largest


and North Lonsdale have notified us that they give prior notification to their parish councils of items of wide general interest and while this can be regarded as a modifica­ tion of method "B” recom­ mended by the Rural District Council’s Association, it is not a full, implementation but could be regarded as a step in the right direction. • Blackburn, Burnley. Lancaster; arid '\Vlga-h have' informed us th a t’ they have decided against their Association’s’ recommendations although Burnley’s method of notifying Area Parish Council planning proposals b.eing sent


on local government subjects is brought in from time to time. The Honorary Area Secretaries, old and new. could quite fit­ tingly be described as the back­ bone of the Association and any Annual Report which did not record appreciation of their services would be incomplete.”


.Limitations


photograph of the Atropa Bella- dona or deadly nightshade. He had known this plant to grow in this district but it was rarely seen now. He told how i t came to be named Belladona. Many years ago Italian ladies used a, concoction' from this plant to


make their eyes shine. One young Italian signor seeing signorina with shining eyes was attracted by the beauty of her eyes and called out spon­ taneously “Bella Donna" which meant beautiful lady. Winter had its part in- the


Government Commission, hav­ ing demonstrated its limita­ tions in the proposals for Lan­ cashire, especially those relat­ ing to -tile general review area, was discouraged by the Minister of Housing and Local Government and suspended action after issuing - proposals for the Special Review Areas, shortly after which it was abolished by the government. The Royal Commission on Local Government, now’ set up has two years to-report, to say what is wrong with local government and indicate how to put i t right. In-order to assist in tills task, we have circulated a request for recommendations by Lanca­ shire Parish Councils.” “We have circulated ■ details


“During the year the Local


lighting" provisions in the local government bill we have noted and reported -to our members, the inclusion of powers for the central government to make grants up to : 50 per cent for Open Space provision. This is an improvement-on the County Council’s grant, to .parish- coun­ cils ' for-' this purpose. The County Council’s scheme is continuing and applications for playing fields and open spaces provision is being considered. The County Council, however, has not been able to confirm grants for what might be regarded as the more expensive playing fields provision, namely bowling greens and tennis courts.' Applications for which have been submitted by three of our parish councils, unless they can obtain some idea of tlie likely proposals from 'all the other 200 parish councils 'in the county. We have asked' for this from time to time but there is apparently some diffi­ culty experienced by -some of our members in 'supplying the answer.”


Nurse to s year in


HER many friends in the


Gisburn and Clitheroe area Will be interested -to learn that Miss Ann Bennett, of the Post


Office. Whitewell Bottom, Rossendale, now a nurse at Rossendale General Hospital, is leaving on January 2 bound for India.


Ann’s family had the Post


Office tot Gisburn from 1940 to 1956 and she was a pupil at


Bowland County Secondary School and later at Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School. Her actual destination is


Ambala. north of . Delhi. There she will work in a hospital theatre for a year, although


she does not know just what position she will hold. Ann. who is 23, began mu-s­


ing in 1961. and became a State Registered Nurse in November 1964. In June 1965 she began nursing in Scotland returning to Rossendale six months later, and working at Lambert • Howarth’s footwear firm for a few weeks before returning to Scotland to carry on her work. Recently she received the


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the brooks and river helped m the study of the earth which covered, the rocks beneath by cutting through the ground and leaving it exposed to view; one could make a study of the various layers beneath the grass and see the humus with boulder clay or rocks below that, according to the part of the country Moving towards summer, sev­


programme with some delight­ ful snow scenes and then spring gave a lovely ending to the evening with some magni­ ficent p i c t u r e s of Black­ thorn in bloom and the brim­ stone butterfly which is one of the first to be seen in tlie spring.


CONSERVATION


eral pictures of flbwers that can be seen during that season were shown. These included liarestail cotton grass (Enopliorum Vag- inatum) .growing near Accring- ton.This differs from the com­ mon cotton grass, having only one flower spike, and the staple is much too short to spin. Rose- bay willow herb which lias spread throughout the country and is known as fireweed, made a splendid picture seen at a dis­ tance when in full bloom and on mass.


tormentil, bloody cranesbill and guelder rose, all making very fine pictures.


Other flowers were bellflower, ’ MOTHS


■ ’ Using ' several pictures sequence, Mr. Gidman traced the life of the Emperor moth through the various stages of its growth He also showed oilier


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heaps which for some time -had been foul blots on the landscape. These were being transformed by the efforts of people who were giving their tune and' energy to plant flowers, tree and grasses on them, and m a few years they would be changed into beauty spots; the roots of the plants held the slag and so prevented it from becoming river of sludge m wet weather, Mr. Cook voiced-the thanks of


Slides were shown of sla


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