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"Cliiheroc Advertiserand-Ttmes-, Friday:-December 15,-1966


MOTOR-CYCLIST DIED, TRAPPED UNDER CAR


A MOTOR-CYCLIST had “no business” to pull over to the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic while overtaking, said the East Lancashire oroner (Mr. George Graham) at an inquest held at Clitheroe Town Hall, on Monday. The jury of seven men returned a verdict of “Misadventure” on 37 - year - old


David William Bell of Oak worth Street, Blakeley, Manchester, who died when his Honda motorcycle was involved in a collision near Clitheroe Golf Club, on Saturday about 2-45 p.m. Mr. Bell was travelling towards Clitheroe, and leading


the line of oncoming traffic was Mr. Wilfred Taylor of Graf, tpn Street; Clitheroe, driving a Ribblesdale Cement tanker.


He said: “About 50 yards


away from me, the motor­ cyclist pulled out to overtake another vehicle. It was half- light, and as he came towards me, I saw he was over the white lines and he had no


he missed me.,I.glanced round, heard a bang,- and saw some blank object in the air Then . I go nut of the wagon, went bact and saw that the motor cyclist was under a car which was on fire." To a question by the coroner,


lights on. "I steered into the kerb, and


behind Mr. Taylor was Mr. John Edward- Kirby :of Westfield Drive West Bradford, near Clitheroe,


Mr Taylor said, “X wouldn’t consider it safe to overtake there.” Driver of the car traveUing


NO LIGHTS ON


was more dark than half-light, and f was travelling -with dipped headlights. I didn’t see the motor cyclist at all until he was a few yards away in my head lights. He had no lights on and was on the wrong side of the road. I had no time to do any­ thing.”


He said: “I would say that it


impact, as Bell hit the offside wing of his car.


Mr Kirby said he felt an


cycle was on fire under the. car behind me, and the motor cyclist was trapped under ueath," he said .


“I stopped and saw the motor


Mr Joseph Charles Braggar, a clerical officer, of High Street, Low Moor


before that I saw nothing at all. Then I felt the bump.” Dr. C. K. Heffernan said that


He said: ”1 saw the flash, but


tell me that he was having to work Saturday, because a friend was in trouble," she said. "He stayed in Clitheroe dur­


that she last saw her husband early on the Saturday morning. “He came home on Friday to


Bell had died almost instantly from shock, due to multiple injuries Mi-s. Mary Elizabeth Bell said


ing the week” she said, and came home at weekends. But he came home specially on Friday evening to tell me about his friend. He told me he would ring me later.” PC Walter McDermot, who


Driving .the car behind was


stretch of road wide enough for two vehicles only. You have heard that Mr. Bell was driving along the offside of the. road towards the line of oncoming traffic, led by the tanker. "Mr. Taylor took evasive


petrol tank had burst, and that was what caused the fire.” Mr Graham said: “This is.a


with the front offside of this car, and then rebounded against a vehicle driven by Mr. Giles of Kingston-upon-Hull.” Mr Graham explained that


cycle came to rest under a car which was being driven by Mr. Bragger.”


ON OFFSIDE


that Bell was travelling on the offside of the road—a place where he had no business to be, and particularly when he was without lights," the Coroner added.


“I think it is quite obvious


was on traffic patrol duty, vis­ ited the accident He said, “The


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express our sorrow for the wife of the deceased.”


E. Crossley, said: "We are agreed on a verdict of misad­ venture, and would like to


The foreman of the jury, Aid.


this vehicle was a wagon that had been following, which was travelling towards Clitheroe. “Then Bell and his motor


action, and Bell missed him. Mr Kirby was not so fortunate, as. he didn’t see the motor cyclist until he was a few yards away in his lights "The motor cyclist collided


I Problem for ' the Jones’s


The way some people copy us is really quite the end,


. if we buy something new, Those Browns who live next


I t doesn’t matter what we pay,


door to us have got to have one, too!-


Then I got my washer, the first one hereabout,


When Judy went to dancing


class the Brown girl turned up there


When Joan first started riding, Brown- bought his girl a mare,


Next day we saw Jones driving in a smarter car by far!


The Browns have brought another bin to place outside their door,


Now. we’ve got central heating, which we never had before.


I t makes us quite distracted, and-almost gets us down.


The money we’re compelled to spend to keep ahead of Brown l


He says next time he comes on earth he’ll change his name from Jones,


Poor John is almost bankrupt, and about it make no bones, ’


So though you may think us foolish, and making too much fuss,


We’re getting sick and weary of folks keeping up with us!


“JIMIFEL". Speeded


Woodlands Drive, Whalley, was fined £5 and had his licence endorsed at Clitheroe, yesterday week for exceeding a 40 m.p.h. speed limit


Scar Lane, Milnsbridge, Hud­ dersfield was fined £10 and had his licence endorsed also for exceeding a speed limit.


John Nicholas Cock (30) of James. Eric Clayton (28) of


And it truly was the limit, when we ventured on a car,


We’d hardly fixed the aerial be­ fore they’d, got one on show


I t started with the telly, that was many years ago.


The Browns had bought a big­


ger one before the month was out I


“T FXND it ’ most - annoying,” AMrs. Jones said to her friend,


YOUTHS BROKE INTO PEEL ST. CO-OP SHOP


TWO 17-year-old youths from the Burnley area, who broke into a shop in Allendale Street, Burnley and a shop in Peel Street, Clitheroe, were both sent to a detention centre for three months at Clitheroe yesterday week. One of the youths who had been on probation for,two 'years was also sent to a


detention centre for a further three months for breaking his probation. The youths’ sentences are


to run concurrently. A 16-year-old Pa d i h am


keley Crescent, Padiham, Robert Wilkinson (17); of Belford Street, Burnley,. and the 16- year-oid youth, were charged with breaking and entering the premises of Blackburn Co-opera­ tive Society Ltd., in Peel Street, Clitheroe, with the . intent to steal, and breaking and entering the shop of Burnley Equitable Co-operative- Society Ltd., in Allendale Street, and stealing 3.515 cigarettes, 115 cigars and 80 one-ounce packets of pipe tobacco, valued in all at £82 4s. 6d.


youth who was concerned in the same oifences was placed on probation for two years. David Denwood (17), of Ber


pector H. -Dickinson, prosecut­ ing, that the manager of the shop in Peel Street, Clitheroe, had locked the premises and had gone home.


shop heard a bang and went to investigate. She saw some vouths running away.


A next-door neighbour to the


read out in court the youths said that they had arrived at Clitheroe that night and went to a local cafe. After finding it closed, they went into the lib­ rary and read some papers. They then walked round the


three accused and all three denied any knowledge of the matter. They were taken to the police station where they all admitted the offence and said they were sorry. The youths all asked for other offences to be considered. In statements which were


The police later stopped the


town until they saw the shop in Peel Street which -they decided to break into.


I t was stated in court by Ins­


that he.broke into the shop be­ cause he wanted to get some money for his family. • ■ ■ The 16-year-old youth said, in


In his statement, Denton said


his statement, “ we had no money to -get home, so-we deci­ ded to do a job.” All the youths pleaded guilty.


Disregarded police signal


a police officer’s signal was fined £15 and ordered to pay a six guineas advocate’s fee and had his licence endorsed a t Clitheroe yesterday week for driving a


A driver who said he mistook


ner (25), of Fir Trees Lane, Higham, asked the court not to ban him from driving as he needed his car to get to work and his wife, who was a nurse, needed driving about at week­ ends.


cuting, said that PS Martin had gone to help a driver of a mini van which had stopped in Well- gate and which would not start again. Skinner’s car came down Wellgate at speed so PS Martin shone a torch -at him and waved him to stop. Skinner did not stop and carried on "disregard­ ing the “Halt” sign. In court Skinner, who pleaded


guilty, said that he thought the police officer was talking to the mini driver telling him to stop. He said he had slowed down, but admitted he had not stopped at the “Halt” sign.


Inspector H. Dickinson, prose­


motor car without due care and attention. The driver, Mr. Brian Skin­


LOOKING THROUGH A WHALLEY WINDOW


“Ghoulies aud Ghosties”


“HELLO”. I said to old George the other afternoon, “Tell me, have you got any reliable information about'Whalley


ghosts?” George is : one of'my most dependable sources of local information and folk-lore, but on this occasion: be looked at me with-a blank expression on his tanned and weatherbeaten face. “Ghosts?”, he asked. “You mean real* live, genuine, ghosts?”


I nodded my head,-but George shook his. “No”, he


said, “There’s no ghosts i’ Whalley. Not as Ah’ve ’eard of, onnyway. Ah hev met people as rekon they’ve seen funny things, like, now ond agean, but no real ghosts as:Ah kriow on.


, I was disappointed. The


village has so many ancient nooks and craiuiies, so very much history, that I had taken it for granted that there would be a ghost of some kind or another in the vicin­ ity, but it was not to be. Whalley is a ghostless village. Emulating Charles Dickens


who invariably included a ghost or two in his .Christmas stories, I had hoped to find at least one to give seasonable atmosphere to this Yuletide article, but despits all my searching I have been unable to find a single authenticated haunting.


comes apace—and how very quickly the months do roll away these days—in the odd moments we can find for reflection our minds-invariably go back to the fun and parties of yesteryear. There were occasions when, as we sat huddled to the fire on a winter’s night a popular pas­ time was to tell ’ghost stories’ in hushed voice and tremulous tones. "Absolutely true, I prom­ ise you!”, the raconteurs would solemnly assure us, but today, in Whalley, not a single ghost. I t does seem rather unfair!


Nostalgically, as Christmas ABBOT PASLEW


Abbot Paslew who, it appears, confines his nocturnal strolling


Wiswell proudly boasts of


to that particular, parish, but we have neither spook nor-spirit, boggart or banshee, that we can call our own. , Waddington has Peg-o-Nell, a


lady of most peculiar habits, a friend who claimed-an Intimate aquaintance with the luckless maid confided to me, and.over at Salmesbury there is the notorious White Lady. My valued correspondent,


. Billie Bond, now-resident in Canada for many years but born, and bred in > the Hodder valley, has written me of


like spectre must also have ‘called it a night’ , and taken his pension, for he is certainly not around these days. Had he been still in business, the enter­ prising people of Chipping would undoubtedly have adopted him and publicised him years ago as a tourist attraction! •Th’owd , Hall Boggart’, 'who


chased them all off-the-roads, or they themselves have • got scared of the glare of headlights and the screech of brakes! Per­ haps, the same hapless fate has overtaken th e ;‘Ghost of Chip­ ping’ who, Billie once told me, “used to rattle his chains down the main street”. I am quite, sure this wraith­


- ghosts and apparitions in the Whitewell, Dunsop, and Slaid- burn. areas, but these he assured me, appeared ‘years and years ago',' and I have heard of no.recent manifesta­ tions. Possibly, the traffic has


was a notecT Clitheroe resident ™ X ^ uth; r seems 10 S


he said. "Ah don’t want f0iw •knocking at our door


when I. did come, across prom ising clues of a realiv 4 7 chilling-incident recently m l farm not many miles away h! farmer swore me to secrecy "Don’t go wilting about w.


completely disappeared a™


traipsin’ all o’er th’ouse.” So n seems we are to have a ghost less Christmas in the old villas" and in some respects it o0p seem rather a pity. I am sum that: accounts of their exnloits did much to make the Yuletw» parties of Victorian England much, more exciting and enter taining - affairs, but now


must regard ‘ghoulies and ghosties and long beasties and things that go bump m the night’, as yet fur ther casualties of this stream' lined, jet propelled, century Ah well—not to worry' i


understand there are plenty of other spirits available ‘ J


'Cheerio, readers’ and ‘Hannu Christmas!"


SPENDING SPREE


A RECORD amount of money will be in circulation this


Christmas, despite the freeze and the squeeze. As. the spending rush got


under - way, Bank of England figures showed the value of notes in circulation jumped £52 million in the past week to £2,978 million.


million more than at this time last year, and tops the full 1965 Christmas figure by £31 million.


This is already over £ioo


about £29 million short of the all-time record of £3,007 million earlier this year at the peak of the summer, holiday season.


shopping weeks last year, more th a n £70 million was added to th e total in circulation.


■ In the final two Christmas The current total is onlv p?£JF


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