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rpHE interest aroused by this series of jottings never ceases 1 to surprise ine, Whether they deal with the Whalley we used to know, or with more recent events, and they have


brought me considerable correspondence. Mr. J. W. Thompson of Chatburn;- formerly of Billing-


ton and Whalley, a veteran with a lively and enquiring mind


and who writes a most excellent hand, has sent me all kinds of intriguing‘snippets*. Recently he loaned me his


copy of “Whalley in 1902”, a ‘Coronation Souvenir’, to­ gether with his own notes and comments, and these add con­ siderably to the interest and value of the book.


, ;


writes: " ‘Bob’ Eatough’s lather had a smithy at the corner of Mytton Road. Oppo­ site the Grammar School and next to the smithy was a wheelwright’s ahop; tho name eludes me. but Billy 'Waddy and his dog Ponte lived here. Between the smithy and Clitheroe Road, was a. well, near ground level and ' with an arched roof, known as 'Stocks Hill well'.


Speaking of Stocks Hill, he


wheelwright’s shop was a piece of ground open to Clitheroe Road and, rising perhaps 10 or 12 feet above the road, and on this mound the wheel­ wright always-had the. fire to heat the cartwheel hoops. This was known as Stocks Hill and Stocks Hill corner.


Behind tho smithy .and


to where the stocks actually stood? I ’ve often wondered, for Stocks Hill seemed a bit remote for stocks to be set up"..


Have you any Information as


Pollard tells me that the stocks stood immediately above the well, and this is confirmed by another ’Old Timer’, They were removed many years ago, and Mr. Pollard-is not Quite sure whether ho actually saw them personally. Or whether he was told of them as a child and a picture formed in his mind.


Lead Workings


existence of lead Workings underneath the Nab is news to him. “i remember" he says "trying an opening with a candle on the end of a long rail but decided the tunnel was just an old drain.” Once again I can help. Mr.


Mr. Thompson, adds that the


Well, perhaps I can help Mr. Thompson here. Mr. ■ .‘Billy’


that caused considerable mat­ ernal consternation 1


■defective drain carrying surface water.


ing room of. our village school h a s . suffered periodic flooding due,' wp ■


are . informed, to a


matter have traced the trouble to .a stone drain ‘of mediaeval


Experts investigating the


origin’ which, with the passing of time, has collapsed some­ where to the south of the school. ■


the same authoritative source. Erecting goal posts "o n -the school playing field some time ago, (for the extra-mural duties of village schoolmasters include many tasks not envisaged in the official curriculum,) Mr. Shaw dug down to a sloping bank- of. masonry, suggesting that the soccer field was the site of ohe of the Abbey fish polids, with'the stonework part of a retaining wall. Can you . Visualize It? What


■ the supposed drain was . originally not a drain at all, but a culvert leading drink­ ing water to the Abbey from the five wells at Poole, End. Another item too, comes from


vanoos a most interesting and orodible theory. He believes


Mr. J. Sr R. Shaw now ad


terested -• and’ I n t e . l l ig e i i t •observers' perhaps one day the whole story may be unravelled. Finally) tho olosure of


Joseph Wilkinson of Queen Street has., specimens of ore from the sliaft.tl>at^ie collected as a lad,: and much , more re­ cently, my son, beihg of ..con­ siderably slinimer build than myself, penetrated ,the ’hillside for some distance, emerging in . . a dishevelled iahil muddy' State v^y


week’s'’lttstnlment' with the fol­ lowing! "Old. Ned Bough ton was th e ' Night Watchman at1 ■Sol’s Mill’ (the ohe'’by the; river), and °ne Sunday morning; Old Ned may have been doz-. ing or forgotten what; day it was, for he' blew the whistle for the usual eariy.. morning, start for work I Result: it was heard on Clerk Hill, and John Brogden , had, to,, .harness,, up quickly! anfi bring .Old Sqt,(-Mr. Solomon : Longworth) .-,tov; the supposed. fire! - I ’ve. no personal recollection of. the Incident, put It would.-’st&tfe from theirs Sabbath "Lle‘


Judge Walmsley mill ..has brought many anecdotes to mind. Let Mr, Thompson close this


4Ih‘.”


to be revealed o f . the village past, and with so many in­


So you see there. Is still.milch ' . For many-years now the din­


TRIBUTE TO CLITHEROE ODDFELLOW


'JVHE hail-yearly meeting of OUtheroe District of tl -■


Manchester Unity," Independent Order of Oddfellows,‘.was, held in the Oddfellows Hall, Olith-


eroe,' on "Saturday. The. Pro­ vincial Grand Master, Brother A. Prankland, presided.


nominated for Provincial Grand Master, and Brother A. Par­ nell for Deputy Provincial Grand Master for 1967. Both are members of the Diamond Hill Lodge, Chatbum.


T. Bowman were nominated to attend the 1967 A.M.C. at Bournemouth.


Brothers A. Frankland and


presentation was made to Brother Parnell, of .10 Wad- dington • Road, Clitheroe, who has retired from the- office of Provincial Corresponding Secretary after 10 years. The new Prov. C.S.. Brother T. Bowman,, handed him a Prov. C.S. jewel and pen and pencil set.


During the m e e t in g fi. -


replied, thanking the meeting, and saying he was sorry that pressure of business prevented him from continuing in office.


Brother P a r n e l l suitably


road in olden days, the well has unfortunately been subject to muoh damage in tho past and was recently attacked by vandals and repairs have just been completed. About ten years ago it was feared that the well had dried tip because of inter­ ference in'.its'supply by a new water tunnel. However, after a few fits and starts the


well continued to flow.’ Tho name of this well is reputod to havo an Interesting origin. It is said that a


■


farmer and his wife were arguing by the well when a passer-by called out to the farmer, “Wallop her well,” and up to this day the ancient stone trough guards tho secret of whether or not the advice was aooepted.


COUNCIL SAYS ‘YES’ TO BUILDING PLAN


unusual and Important rock formation at Rathmell Syke, Grindleton, has led the University of Lancaster and a local resident to complain to Bowland Rural


Council about proposed residential development there. / ■ At the Council’s monthly meeting on Monday, how­


charm such a pond would add to the eastern aspect of the monastery!


ever, it-'-was decided by eight voles to three to give planning permission for the development. The Clerk, Mr. L. D, Tel


.


ford, said/that the Council had'received a,letter of objec­ tion from Mrs. N. Pearson,


of Hydes Lodge, Grindleton. She wrote: “ I would like to


voice my strong objections to this-. development There are two schools' Within half a lhlle of that land, aftd the road between them is narrow, with no footpath.


cycle along the road,, and there ' are ; two ’ blind corners and bad bends.”


“ Children have to walk or


• Mrs. Pearson referred to three walls along the road, which - she said were con­ stantly being scraped or knocked down by traffic.


rocks in the land ought to be preserved, and on one rock face the outline of a man’s face can be . clearly seen. Students. from' universities all


She ' added: “ The unique


over -the country, and students of geology come to study the formations, and it is the duty of citizens to protect this heritage.”


letter from the University of Lancaster drew attention to the rock formation.


Mr. Telford said: that the


letters had been sent to the Area” Planning Officer, Who had had other letters himself.


. He added that copies of the


feel that objections can be raised to the erection of one dwelling - • place ■ at the old quarry site',” Mr. Telford, said.


“He says that he does not Already masked


had said that, though he understood the -exposure oh the quarry -face to he an important one, he thought the building of .a .house Would riot' make mattefs. -Worse, as part of the quarry was already.


The Area Planning Officer


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masked by sycamore trees. The Area Planning Officer


recommended that permission to build the house be granted subject to five conditions, including the building of a garage in the same material as the house, and a cor turmng-space within the site.


Officer, Mr. N, W. Davies, said that he had received a letter from a geologist Professor Gordon Langley, and had also communicated with a regional geologist “The exposure only interests


The Deputy Area Planning


ton) has been rebuilt, it has lost none of Its original charm and historical interest. . A blessing to tho thirsty .traveller and tils steed .as they Journeyed along tho lonely


A euTwhi o h stands alone by the fell road from Waddlngton to New­ JUMBLE SALE THE Cadet Division of the


Ambulance B r ig a d e raised approximately £14 ,'vi.th, n iumble sale held in the Old School, Church Brow, on


C l i t h e ro e St. John f _______ ____________ Friday. -_.J


VILLAGE CHARM WOULD B E THREATENED


T>,ROPOSED residential development on land at Four Acres, Shire Lane, Hurst GreCrt, adjoining St. John’s


The inquiry, held on April 26, this year, was into an


appeal by Mrs. S. Bailey, against the decision of Clitheroe Rural Council, acting on behalf of the Lancashire County Council, who had refused planning permission for the. development, under the Town and Country Planning Act. Agreeing to his inspector’s


Pasture topping SELDOM Is an-animal cap­


plete evenness and consuming all the herbage offered to it on


able- of grazing with com­


geologists in ns much as they want to see it, photograph it or sketch it. They don’t want to climb Up to it or take specimens,” he said. “ So a dwelling house coUld


be built on the site Without interfering With what could be seen of the quarry face from the road, And the geologists Would hot want to get past the house to the quarry face.”. .Commenting on the road-


with highly intensive stocking and a- heavy use of nitrogen, perhaps combined with Irriga­ tion, stock Will graze a sWard completely but this Is most unusual and under most. Cir­ cumstances varying amounts of herbage will remain uncon- sumed after the completion of


sward Some farmers maintain that


grazing. The problem of unconsumed


safety. point raised by Mrs. Pearson; i-Mr. Davies said the road was only a class-3 road, the most minor of roads, and though it did carry some through traffic, it was mainly vehicles wanting access to land adjacent to the road. , . ” The couhty Surveyor, has been consulted about , this


•sward. The Situation' gets worse as the season progresses, the grass becoming- more stemmy and unpalatable and the animal more selective in its choice of herbage. . .


herbage relates chiefly to the dairy cow- and. increases as grazing succeeds grazing ahd there is . more fouling of the


point and does not see any reason for refusing planning permission for the residential development,’1 he said.


that the ohly other reason which had been, raised in objections by Mrs. Pearson, was that the quarry, face had been carefully ’ cultivated . in the past by her . father, Mr.


Grindleton said: “ I would say this road is very -dangerous, and a tremendous amount of traffic uses it.”........ Mr. Davies told councillors


Councillor Mrs. 'S. J. DoW of


. “This is not a reason for refusing development how, ’ lie asserted. '


Weston. .


she-had not been made a Ware of the application. This is not


“The objector also said that -.


a Valid objection in law,” • County Councillor T. Aspin


said, “ In my opinion this per­


mission- Should be turned down.- The view for anyone driving out-of the house would be very limited in both direc­ tions, arid this Could be


dangerous." ■ ^ Mr. Telford said, “ If you are


turning the application for planning permission down, you


must be: sure; thht you are turning it- do'Wn on planning grounds, and not for any other


reason.” Councillor J. Dinsdale com­


permission.” ■


mented: “W.ell. I agree with the Deputy Plahning Officer. think we ought to grant


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between grazings is one means of reducing the problem of unconsumed herbage, b u t . this method is not always conveni­ ent so some form of pasture topping must be considered. But to what extent can such a technique be justified? Research has . shown that


Taking cuts for conservation .


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inspector expressed the‘opinion that the site Was isolated from the compact centre - Of the vil­ lage, on the far side of a steep valley "and brook which formed a clearly defined physical boun­


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dary. He said the fact that the


Village Anglican Church and school were outside the village Was UhiiSual, In his VieW, how­ ever while they were centres of communal activity there was rio reason, fof further exten­ sions of development' beyond them out- into the countryside forming-,~ a ' link -/pf ribbon development with !&n -Isolated group of . existing miildmgs.


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close cutting or grazing can influence herbage yields ■ and that the dry matter produced by a sward Is increased by 40 per cent.- by defoliation to Within, one inch of ground level compared With defoliation to within three ihches of ground


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Mrs. Bailey’s claim of hardship due txr physical. disability, the inspector Said' it was a fact that the - land was in ‘-agricul- tural use by someone else, and could continue ih such use. He considered the hardship claim was. not .sufficient to override o the overwhelming; planning


views, While sympathising with


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Which, if permitted, Would be & serious detriment -to .the. exist/ ing .charm, of' the village aim beauty of the'ShTroUnding land­ scape. He recommended that the appeal be dlsmlssfid.__


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Whalley, and Clitheroe’s rep: resentative is County Coun­ cillor H. Pemberton.;


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Church, will not now take place, following a report on a local inquiry held by Mr. W. A. Devcreux, a Ministry of Housing and Local Government Inspector.


Brother j . E. Richards was. WALLOPER WELL RESTORED


Tree-planting . /.scheme-1'


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■ifig scheme: ortl'Jhe Greerti Church Close, Waddingtem~


the Council, on Monday, they heard that the planting of trees Would cost £150, and so have decided at present to re-seed the grass, and consider the question of trees. latfer.


At the monthly meeting of


Waddlngton said: “I Was speak- Ihg to one of the older residents of Waddington who said that the residents around the green would like trees to be planted there.”,. .... ................... ... - -


Councillor W. J, Hal-rison, of


mented. “I think the-residents 'ought to have a say, in the mat­ ter. Here we are discussing it; yet they have to live with It.”


; Councillor ' J.- Spensley Com­ Clitheroe Advertiser and •Times. Friday, September 30, 1966 3.


THINGS of £10 each were .•P'i. imposed on two drivers at 'clitheroe yesterday . week, for failing to Conform to double White - Aines -on Accrington Road,' Whalley.1'! The drivers Were Ernest -Sewell (44) of Dunsiil- Villas,' South Elmsall; Pontefract ahd /Carole- Ebie Ogden (23) of Greenfield Ter­ race, Portsmouth, Todmorden.


Smith (35) of King Street,- Ramsbottom;: £2 for driving his motor car without having a driving licence.


Other fines were Sydney , '


. Ronald Williams of Crow Lane West, Newton-le-Willows,


£5 for driving a car In a direction other than specified in Moor Lane. Rodney G. Heseldon ,.(25) of


•MOTORING ;. FINES / Arthur B:' Duxbury (37) 'of


Little Haigh, Kelbrook, Colne, £2,for failing: to display lights on his vehicle in Castle Street,


Clitheroe. ■ ROUND ta b l e


A T the meeting of Clitheroo Round Table .held at' ,tho. .


Starkle Arms Hotel on Monday the speaker was Mr. Frank Nelson, the President of tho . Rotary Club • of Clitheroe who. spoke on "Business Manage­


ment.” ' . :


Manchester Road, Burnley, £2 for failing to display lights on his :vehicle in church. Lane, Whalley. David- Tnpyear of : Harwood


on the road.


Which should have been run lhst week against Fadiham Round Taple was cancelled be­ cause of bad weather. Instead the teams went ten-pin bowling . at Burnley. .Padiham were tho • victors and won the Fendlt Trophy from Clitheroe. -


The relay race over Pcndlo -


Street, Blackburn,; £2 for using an. unlicensed motor ..vehicle


Area Chairman John Bailey for competition between- the


; The trophy was given by Past Clitheroe and Padiham Tables


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