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6 Clithcroc Advertiser and Times, Saturday, December 31, 1966


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


for better things to come, but rich as well as sad memories will remain for the days 1966 brought. Every year is mem­ orable for someone. and 1966 for Coun. and Mrs. Tom Robinson .will never be for­ gotten. as it marked the beginning of their Mayoralty.


Digest sensation of the


year was undoubtedly the cash snatch from an em­ ployee of the District Bank, with the subsequent trial scenes and eventual impri­ sonment of the three rob­ bers.


Road accidents too. a


number o f t h em f a t a l, brought deep sorrow to many. In October, Clitheroe lost


its manual exchange which had been- operating ' since >1890, The inaugural calk was made by the Mayor from the Parish Church. Hall to the MP for the Clitheroe division.


_ Sir Frank Pearson, who re- j:- ceived it in the Post.Office


— Tower in London. Social events which aroused considerable interest included


1 the Castle Fete. Clitheroe i Show. Jazz Festival, and the Veteran Car Rally, organised-


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by the Advertiser and Times and the Blackburn Times.


ru Work was started on large extension schemes at the ICI, and at. Ribble


i Cement Ltd. O b i


The closure ( of Jubilee Mill, Clitheroe, and Judge


'Walmsley Mill, Whalley, two of the oldest cotton mills in the area, came as a shock to many people.


Much discussion has taken


place in the three local coun­ cils— Clitheroe Town. Clith­ eroe Rural, and Bowland Rural, about the proposed


i mergers envisaged by the [Lancashire County Council [ and other important bodies. The,year also saw the first


ever Clitheroe Drama Festi­ val, in which six Drama Clubs competed. So once again, it has been


a year bringing almost all things to men . . . a year to cherish, a year to banish from the mind, a year that will re­ main long in people’s memo­ ries for one reason or another —and, above all a year, and here we will all agree, in which, thank God, “ The mad dogs o f World War III have been held in chains.”


- JANUARY JANUARY 7


THE NEW Medical Superinten­ dent for Calderstones Hospital was named as Dr. C. M. Bren­ nan, of Brockhall Hospital.


A doorway at Whalley


Abbey which had stood for centuries without being dis­ covered, was unearthed when workmen were knocking down a wall in the . Conference


l House. JANUARY 14 LANCASHIRE County police Ri


started widespread investiga­ tions following a daring theft


Co asleep upstairs. At-


'Opera Week' returned to


Clitheroe, when Clitheroe Parish Church Operatic and Dramatic Society gave “The Gondoliers’1


FEBRUARY 11


COUNCILLOR Richard Turner returned home after a month in Kumi. Uganda where ire taught his clog-making trade in a leper colony.


Mrs. Vera Macmillan was


selected by the Liberal. Asso­ ciation to contest the Clith- division in thB elootfon. Sho was the first woman ever to have contested Clitheroe.


FEBRUARY 23 Councillor Ernest Holgate, oi


Standen Hey Farm, near Clith­ eroe, was appointed chairman of Calderstones Hospital Man­ agement Committee to succeed the retiring chairman, Aid. W. K. Heaton.


Subcribers were notified of their new numbers in readiness


for the new automatic telephone exchange.


MARCH MARCH 4


FORMER Premier, Sir Alec Douglas Home, visited Clitheroe and Whalley.


One of the best -known


cricketers ever to play in the Rlbblesdale League, Mr. Jona­


than Brookes, of Thom Street. Clitheroe died at the age of 85.


Councillor and Mrs. Tom


- Robinson of Princess Avenue, Clitheroe were announced as the new Mayor and Mayoress.


MARCH 11


WE published a picture by our photographer when he thought


he saw'a ghost qh the lonely Pendle road, and promptly hun­ dreds of schoolchildren began to visit the road at night in the hope of seejne K.


Company secretary and foun­


der. director of Castle Castings Ltd., Mr. James Hudson (54) of Blackburn was seriously injured in a car crash at Sawley.


School presented Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice’.


MARCH 18


AFTER six months of anxious waiting, the villagers of Slaid- burn, Newton, Whitewell, and Dunsop Bridge heard that the six-month trial period for the communal bus had ended suc­ cessfully.


Mr. R. A. Hibble, the son of


Mj and Mrs.Harold Hibble of Brownlow Street, was appointed treasurer of Leyland Triumph Motors (Canada) Ltd


A 16-year-old pupil of Clith­


eroe Royal Grammar School, Philip Bamford, of Ramsgreave Road, Blackburn, was awarded the Queen’s Scout Badge.


Councillor John Hall, Mayor


of Clitheroe, warned people at the annual' dinner-dance of Clitheroe and District Grocers’ Association at the Swan and Royal Hotel, that Clitheroe may soon be a ghost town if people are not careful. He said that there was a ghost walking the route of the new inner by-pass directing traffic away from its home, town and taking poten­ tial customers with it.


MARCH 25


THERE WAS a great deal of controversy in the tiny village of Mitton over the closing of the small sub-post office


to from the Presbytery. Whalley of about £530 while the parish priest Fr. Francis Tierney was.


Mr! Tom Gooby, of Clare-


^ mont Drive, Clitheroe, who had been manager of Barcley’s Bank. Clitheroe, for 19 years, announced that he was going to retire.


T h e first woman minister


Hn Clitheroe, the Rev. Kath­ leen M. Hendry, was inducted at Clitheroe Congregational Church.


JANARY 21


PLANS for office extensions— part of a £iro scheme of exten­ sions at ICI—were approved at the monthly meeting of Clith­ eroe Town Council.


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For the first time ever, the Roman Catholic, Church of E n g l a n d and Methodist churches held a united ser-.


■ vice at Whalley. JANUARY 28


■“ TR IN IT Y Methodist Church 'presented their pantomime, “The Sleeping Beauty’> by Jimi- fel.


A safe containing about £200 and a van were stolen from the i premises of Messrs C. R. Har-


•'2 urday morning.


I greaves and Son, Parson Lane between Friday, night and Sat-' .


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1 FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 4


El fir t '


THE Lancashire County Ser­ geant Major of St. John’s Ambulance -Brigade for many years, Mr. Charles Henry Fraser and his wife Ada, of 4 Vicarage Fold, Wiswell, celebrated their golden wedding.


Shock followed shock In Clitheroe as during the week


it was learned that there had been six robberies in one night. Business premises and the Advertiser. . and . Times


office were entered. ■ • . FEBRUARY 18


BY ; DRAWIN G&. money ' from reserves, Clitheroe’ Tqwn Coun­ cil restricted the new rate' in­ crease to. the county; increase demand of 10d—making the new rate ll/10d • in the' £. ■


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. A farewell dinner was held at Calderstones Hospital, Whalley to mark Alderman W. K. Heat­ on's retirement as chairman of the Hospital Management Com­ mittee


Concern over the need of


cricket clubs to rely year after year on income derived from social efforts, was expressed at the 104th annual meeting of Clitheroe Cricket Club


APRIL APRIL 1


in Pimlico Road, Clitheroe were evacuated after the pavement outside the houses was dam­ aged by an explosion caused by an electricity fault.


An appeal by Carter Bishop


Estates Ltd. against the decis­ ion of Clitheroe Rural Council, acting for the Lancashire County Council, to refuse plan-- ning permission for the erection of houses on land at Whiteacre Lane, Barrow, was rejected by the Minister of Housing and


CONSERVATIVE supporters in all parts of the Clitheroe Divi­ sion were wildly delighted at. the news that sir Frank Pear­ son had retained his seat in an election which was largely a triumph throughout the coun­ try for the Labour Party. Sir Frank’s majority, however, was slashed from 4,281 to 2,230. The "decontamination cen­ tre’’ in the centre of the pic­


Local Government. APRIL 7


turesque village of Grmdleton was such an "ugly monstro­


sity’ ’ that 84 residents sent a petition of complaint to Bow­ land Rural Council and West Riding County ‘Council. Complete chaos was caused


on many Ribble and Hcdder Valley roads ' at the weekend when there was the heaviest snowfall in the area for about three years. Most of the roads in the clitheroe district woro coverod with sevorai feot ot snow and drifts were up to eight feet deep. APRIL 15


The -funeral took place of


Mr. H. C. (Harley) Drayton, Chairman of United News­ papers and its subsidiary,: Pro­ vincial Newspapers, w h i c h includes the “Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times” among its numerous publications. Mr. Drayton had died at Ins Lon­ don -home the previous -week.


expressed of the valuable ser- L° vice being performed by


After appreciation had been I ;


Discussing the programme for Clitheroe’s first drama festival are Couri. J. Hall, Mrs. G. Wilkinson and Coun. R.- Turner


congregations at all the-Easter: farmers, Eddie Gill, of Sabden, Rural Council, Coun. R. services over the weekend- in was chosen to be featured in a Williamson, was joined at. a the churches in-the Clitheroe Granada TV programme on civic service at Mitton Parish district.


There were reports of record Out of hundreds of local


ditions affected the tourist underway and it was announced was accompanied by her hus- of Clitheroe Old People’s Wel- trade round the Clitheroe dis- 3*?


trict , during Easter and several Jale • places had their smallest


crowds for some years. -*


APRIL 22


Head was broken into and contents taken.


For the second time in- six , months, the'alms box in the tiny: isolated church at Dale


g


JUly or €any -august. ■


, , r o rown council. 2U u


^ otest at clitheroe a theatening thunderstorm in the mol-ning^ the afternoon be-


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played by some of the great masters of the jazz world. After


n d s p, Rushton. JUNE 17


Many people were protesting Two thousand people congre- against“barbarouscaptivity” of gated in Clitheroe Castle


to appreciate music gate, For the third successive


year Clitheroe Ambulance Station was; adjudged' the cleanest and most efficient of the 40 stations who took part in a Lancashire county competition.


Clitheroe Parks ’Superinten- gan in a cloudy- setting. But as The announcement to the


Boys of Clitheroe Grammar monthly meeting, that no' A survey of: Clitheroe’s val. fewer than 13 Clitheroe tenants potential expansion in the


they: announced at - t hei r .


were, to be served with notices to quit.


Clitheroe Council "Chamber


echoed with a burst of applause as the Mayor of the ancient


borough of Clitheroe, presented the ornate honorary freedom scroll to Mrs. Phyllis Todd— the second woman in Clitheroe to receive the honour


a major swoop on council- the protest was ridiculous and c r ow d s gradually gathered ley Mill, Billing-ton, owned by house tenants, whoso gardens that the fox rwds well looked round the band stand to hear Messrs. S. Longworth and were not up to standard, when after. ,


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, =. the many famous jazz musicians Sons Ltd., was likely to close at Clitheroe’s fourth Jazz Festi- within the next few weeks was one of the -saddest items of news Billington and Whalley


next few years and the A civic service to mark the residents have had to bear, council's plan to-mqet it, was election of Councillor Mrs. M.


given by-Alderman Ernest Troop as chairman of Clitheroe A , hushed crowd of 115 Crossley in an interview with Rural Council, . was held at employees of Jubilee Mill,


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the Advertiser and Times, Whalley Parish Church. He explained the Council's


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L a b o u i candidates weie corned were the: home of Mrs Mary Jenkins» who ,ives in


Cll rtllrero'e • ' Physiotherapy u unansea'


Rural Council agreed to support his' seat, but Mr. E. Macnaugh- Healey was Ihrown across the any efforts being made to give ton (Lab.) was successful In room’ the centre financial support. . .


centre, members of Bowland Mr. L. H. Allen (Labour) lost ! 1 securing third place. Mr. J. A. tab,l° on duty' P>C. Joseph


think, was a freak thunder- . storm. But fortunately no-one was hurt- The buildings con-


AccrinSton Road, at the junc-


Town Counoil tion with Quoon Street, and the Police Station, where a con­


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Clitheroe gathered together to hear the shock news that the


view on flooding, the new by- Two. buildings In Whalley ‘l1'11 was to close soon, p a s s , employment a n d were hit, by what the police amenities.


JULY 15 The Mayor of Clitheroe,


Councillor Tom Robinson, presented cheques for £100 each to representatives of Clitheroe Ho spi ta l and C li th e ro e Physiotherapy Centre at a buffet supper at the Dog and Partridge Hotel.


Barnes. (Con.) secured second Veterans of two world wars, Waddington made his last


At Edisford County Primary School’s open day. Mr. J. -W.


Clitheroe Football club were place with Mr. G.'. Braithwaitc youngsters of seven and eight appearance at such a function


knocked ' out of the. Combina-. (Lab) at the top of the poll, years of age, and representatives in the capacity of headmaster, tion Cup When they were beaten The other successful candidate of the many new organisations 1—3 away , by Horwich in the was Mr. C. F. Buckingham m Clitheroe, walked in the semi-finals.


. (Con.).


TRUTEX Limited ' announced riithm-nn the appointment of two fur-


ana ivu. Jonn.il. Knew. john H Rivett


colourful civic procession. FoP - lowing custom, the procession


' ■ APRIL‘ 2 9 ' - , After his election as Mayor was formed in the Castle gF°™dsc and proceeded along


They'Wire Mr H a i - o l d ' s p e c t r e l j u n g behind all clitheroe and Rural Dean, the S


A proposed extension scheme to enable 200 pupils to be .


mittee. «


criticism at a meeting of Bow- land District Education Com-


ther executives to the Board of Tom Robinson sald that local Church where a service was Directors11 o fS Uie Comnanv f ° verl“


stieet to the Parish reorganisation was conducted by the Vicar of


Clitheroe’s cherished dreams. . Rev. A. F Clark, assisted by the He also spoke of his pride on Curate, the Rev. A. Dean.


accommodated at Waddington AM- Fred Bentham. wished the bouring local authorities in the ,„o JULY 22 Mr. Reginald H. Derby­


shire, headmaster of Ribbles- dalc C o u n t y Secondary Sohool, left the sohool at the end of the summer term to take a post as a schools' inspector in South-west England.


JULY 29


The possible merger of neigh- TT.7T? wliin„ 01.e nf wnrMimrtnn viihfivS nvnii^nf


and West Bradford G.E. Aided ^ayor well during his term of nettr future, the threat of a success^£ wftJnz L t L t e Z School met, with -, unanimous


and Royal Hotel -:in .the. even- lmp0rtan t . topics dLussed at 3n° '


iv eT f f iSbywoone°Lane; ’ sdfeitorP? f nt^nbrfdgek Urban


- - --- - PI the movement and represeri- Children paddling in the pqol ;


“ : JUNE 24 .' tatives of. many. organisaAlons provided in the Castle grounds


ta'ad‘ t,1°nalf ..Mayor’s- and the Importance of parish' T?efd,


E d ^ d ^ B a l t e r s b v ^ lw 111^ Members of vUlage Women’s dln.nf beld at the Calrs Head “


the Swan counciIs, were among the many P Clitheroe ' R u r a l Council’s


"take-over” bid by nearby towns the best-kent Dalis villaee com DaleS vUlage com


Whalley, one of the most


historic and popular villages in Lancashire, reaohed the final round of the competi­ tion for. the best-kept village in Lancashire in the section for villages with a population of more than 500..


Nine'te.eh'.':, members- of - J? the district and.throughout were in danger of having their Attending a Roval Garden Clitheroe. Townswomen.’s Guild,:. whole of Lancashire to pay feet cut from broken glass, and Par t v T t Buckingham Palace arrived back in Qiitheroe. after-,tribute to Lady Worsley-Taylor another unpleasant feature was


liv F i a ^ and Ladv


spendine'a momorable woekend ;-PL Townhead, near J31:Itheroe, that people had been known to Peor„ n , the Mavor and in warm and sunny-Paris; - - -.who died earlier in the month, wash their dogs in the pool. Mayoress of Clitheroe Coun- ........... . :


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MAY- -MAY.6


Occupants of several houses rv-tre1 t-.-b.aW,,V '


home at Townhead, Pendleton, Minister of State at the Com- critioisms published in the Ad- f t i S s S h ? ? ” £L „ -'Lady „ ; Audrey Ranees monwealth Relations Office, vertlser and Times from a R- Wllliamson and h.s wife. Philhpson Woi-s.eyTTaylor. One played an important part in cross-section of young people of the best-known public figures ; talks with Zambia, and land owners m Lancashh-e,


. . ' • In the area,


Lady Worsley-Taylor, who was An internationally - known Thieves broke into two shops aged' 76, was , found, dead in exhibitor of pedigree cattle and in Clitheroe’s town centre and bed.


AUGUST AUGUST 5


a winner of many important escaped with a minor haul of MR. NORMAN LUND, o f


tvt,. -13 — t> u -ui prizes at leading shows, Major £ 6 - in change. The shops con- Rimington, was welcomed to the ivii. Reginald rt, Derbysnire’ Pred H. Read, of Northfield, cerned were Deans Hairdressers Bowland Bench of Magistrates


headmaster of Rlbblesdale.. Rlbblesdale Avenue, Cfitheroe Ltd. and Fred Read and Co. by .the chairman, Mr. J. M. S J S '


f™ " dary, M ? ? 0? ’ died suddenly in Scotland after Ltd., tailors and outfitters. Barlow..


summer', term, to take a post Ten German teenagers, aged eroe after spending a week as


growing - village of Chatburn had caused the vicar of Chat- Coun. R. Williamson, chair- burn,-Canon. Albert Smith to man of Bowland Rural Council, retire,:-and give, his place to a -was appointed to serve-on Cal- younger man. : V,


Apathy of religion in. the clitheroe _» , , The-' Mayor- of Clitheroe, '-' a-


derstones Hospital Management Committee.


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Councillor- J. Hall—opened■ the -The popular beauty spots in new premises of -the- Advertiser > the Ribble -Valley attracted and Times in King Street, hundreds of visitors-at sunny Clitheroe. Among the dlstin- Whitsuntide, and Downham, guished company who after- Waddington and Slaldburn re­ wards ; inspected the building ported record numbers, were Sir Frank Pearson, M.P., for the Division, Councillor R. After being unconscious for Williamson chairman of Bow- two months following. a . road land . Rural Council, Mrs. J. crash, Mr. Kenneth Sherliker Troop, chairman - elect of (45), company secretary, of Clitheroe Rural Council and Windsor Avenue,-Clitheroe, died representatives . of the clergy in Accrington Victoria Hospital, and many other organisations


in the town • . ■ . 1 . ■'


: . m ay 13 -


One-of the bqst known1 doc­ tors -ever . to .reside in the


Hundreds of people flocked to Slaidbum for the annual May


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Queen Festival held on Monday, May 30.


Clitheroe al’ea-and a. popular spring Kell, 'Clitheroe Road, Bowland personality; Dr. John Barrow, was appointed secretary


T. Bleasdell,. of. -Waddtngton, 0f clitheroe Auction Mart Coro- formerly ^of Slaidbum,-died in pany. hospital ■ after a' long illness.


Clitheroe Qolf rGlub cele- brated.-jts 75th^Anniversary •


JUNE10 • S TO C K S • inity. > reservoir was by holding ^special oompeti- threatenedby a ■-colony of


tion, -a- oooktall party and a blackheaded, gulls which, built dinner at tho Starklo Arms hundreds of nests m the vlc- Hotol.


TheA^ayor-making the first STD call. 1 0 9 ^ . Mr. James Ainsworth, of 1111 ■jj5s guests of the-Rotary Club In * «


as a schools’ inspector in between 16 and 18, left Clith- South-West England,


THE>- DEATH occun-ed at her school girl, Mrs. Judith Hart, In the Castle grounds despite ^ ° ? p' a” 7 C o S r ^ o u n S i io r Clitheroe Rural Council. ' ' , FORMER Clitheroe Grammar undisturbed in the pets’ corner •


”JUNE JUNE 3


, Wiese facts were; disclosed' at Freddie the Fox remained ^ ^ Tom-Robinson,


the^ m o n th ly ^ meeting of with their daughter Diana, the Clitheroe Town Council.


chairman of Clitheroe Rural AUGUST 19


ONLY 2,300 enthusiasts man­ aged to brave the weather to attend the 21st Clitheroe Show. Conditions were so bad that many cars and lorries had to be towed out of the mud by cater­ pillar tractors, and part of a marquee blew down during the afternoon. The water was so deep in


places that it was possible to travel only by boat, as several people did. There was an estimated loss of'£500 on the show.


Chief Superintendent William


Abbey Watkinson. of the Roch­ dale division of the Lancashire Constabulary, wag appointed to the Accrington division, which includes Clitheroe.


Kay. of Newton Hall, Newton- in-Bowland, and Councillor George Coleman Bralthwaite, of Eshton Terraoe, Clitheroe, were among the five new magistrates appointed for the East Lancashire County area.


Mr. James Arthur Randle AUGUST 26 Mr. Sidney Sweet, manager


of Clitheroe Employment Ex­ change for the past nine years, left to become deputy manager at the Blackurn Ex­ change.


A huge safe, weighing about


4 cwt. was dragged from under the counter of the Henthom Road branch of the Blackburn Co-operative Society. Nothing was taken. The nearby chip shop was also broken into.


Councillor H. Eastwood, of


Barkerfield, W o r s t on, .was appointed vice - chairman of


SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 2


THE winner of this year’s Castle Fete Queen competition was Miss Pamela Walker (18) of S id d ow s Avenue, Clitheroe. Runner-up for the second year In succession was Kathleen Speak' (18) of Brownlow Street.


Mr. J. W. Waddington re­


tired from the headmastership of Edisford County Primary School. In recognition of his services, he was presented with a watch by Councillor John Hall, deputy headmaster of the school.


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Rev. H. C. Snape, and the Catholic Priest, the Rev. Father Francis ..Tierney, made the in­ duction service at Whalley Methodist Church for the Rev. Eric S. Joselin and the Deacon- ness, Sister Eileen Knight, an historic event.


The presence of the vicar, the SEPTEMBER 16


A MARRIED man with eight children, Mr. Richard Waring, of Longridge was killed in an explosion at the' works of Messrs. H. J. Berry and Sons, Ltd.,. chair manufacturers; of Chipping.


There was an increase of 500 in tile attendance at the Hodder


;Valley Agricultural Show. SEPTEMBER 23


: TRIBUTES were paid to the lllagers o f Waddington by- ie chairman of the West Rid-


. g County Council, Aid Mrs.' . jssle Smith, who was present* lg an award to the village


Clitheroe Town Council made dent, Mr. John Hall, stated that t*le sun began to shine, the employees that Judge Walms-


The adverse weather con- * liming was already well Councillor Mrs, M. Troop, who as president and vice-president J„Lf?M?ed in band,- and the Clerk, Mr. T .


fanning. . .


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fare Committee at the annual meeting in Pendle Club, Lower-


The chairman of Bowland in H


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The Christie Committee of the


Christie Cancer and Holt Radium Institute “Women’s Trust Fund” sent a cheque ioi £430 to the Christie Hospita for Cancer Research.


The honorary secretary i


Clitheroe Borough and Run District Savings Committee f( [our years, Miss M. Hetherin; ton was invited to Buckinghar Palace to represent the con ■ mittee at a garden party.


The worst flood for more tha;


30 years hit the village 0 Waddington when the resident;, were least expecting it.


The ordination and induction


of the Rev. John Kenneth Gar­ diner to the joint pastorate of Salem Congergational Church, Martin Top, and Newton-in- Bowland with oversight of Horton-in-Craven took place at Salem Congregational Church.


JULY JULY 1


THE 1966 Castle Run spon­ sored by the “Blackburn Times” and the “Clitheroe Advertiser


and Times” attracted a record 109 entries. Mrs. Dorothy Pye, wife of


Mr. R. E. Pye of 1 Park Avenue,


Clitheroe, was


installed as president of . the Inner Wheel Club of Clitheroe at a meeting at Eaves Hall.


Church by the new chairman Clitheroe, Councillor and Mrs. of Clitheroe Rural Council, Tom Robinson were Installed


The Mayor and Mayoress of


jubilee of the Women's insti­ tute movement, members of Bolton-by-Bowland W.l. pre­ sented a garden seat to Bol- ton-by-Bowland War Memo­ rial Committee.


To mark last year’s golden Eddie Gill, a local farmer, was


seen on television in the Gra­ nada “This England” series. The film dealt with sheep farm­ ing, and Mr. Gill was shown on his farm with his two sons.


AUGUST 12 Lord and Lady Clitheroe


gave a party in Downham Hall for all residents of the village and tenants of farms on the estate to commemorate 30 years of management of the estate by Lord Clitheroe.


Father John Cecil Tranmar of


Stonyhurst College, who had represented Aighton, Bailey and Cliaigley (Hurst Green and Stonyhurst) on Clitheroe Rural Council for seven years, announ­ ced that lie was to leave the district.


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the best-kept village competi­ tion (over 500 class) organised by the Community Council of Lancashire.


Whalley finished second in


The Fete Queen and her attendants The Abbey Senior Citizens


club, which serves residents in Whalley and Billington was founded.


Bequests totalling- more than


£1,000 to servants, farm work­ ers and others were contained in . the £397,049 will of Lady Audrey . Frances Philhpson Worsley-Taylor of Toivn Head near Clitheroe. Lady Worsley- Taylor left' £397,049 (£334,475 net, duty paid £99,041.)


SEPTEMBER 30 WIDESPREAD police . -in­


quiries were c o n t in u in g throughout the county to trace four or possibly six men, con­


cerned in a bank snatch. Clitheroe police .were investi­


gating three, break-ins a t Charles C le g g chemist of Church Street; Crabtree's -shop in the Market Place, and the home of Mr. John Cowgill, in Waddington Road.


One of- the best-known licen­


sees in Clitheroe and senior in length of service; Mi's. Ann Coates of the Royal Oak Hotel, announced that she would retire in October 26.


OCTOBER OCTOBER 7


THE 33rd charter anniversary dinner of the Rotary Club of Clitheroe, was held at the Starkie Arms Hotel.'Across the road at the Swan and Royal Hotel, wives of the Rotarians were celebrating the 33rd birth­


day of :the:Jnner.Wheei Club of Clitheroe. ’


> Mr. E. P Nicholson, head­


master of Bowland County Secondary School, said in his annual report at the school speech day that boys and girls could be trusted, and that they would respond to affeotlon and encourage- men and would give their best when the best was ex­ pected of them.


OCTOBER 14


CLITHEROE went over to STD on Wednesday. A three-minute inaugural call was , made at 12-30 p.m. from the Mayor, Coun. T. Robinson In Clitheroe Parish Church Hall to Sir Frank Pearson, MP for Clith­ eroe who was in the Post office Tower- in London.


Two buses carrying 65 child­


ren to school at St. Augustin’s RC School; Billington ' were


involved in a collision with a lorry near Billington Railway Bridge on -Wednesday morning. Only three children and a bus conductor were injured.


THE Rev. Kathleen Hendry, Congregationalist minister in ■ Clitheroe presented the -prizes at the speech day o f Clitheroe Girls Grammar School.


OCTOBER 21 .>' .stl Clitheroe Ambulance Station


who won the first award for stations for. the third year in succession were presented with a trophy at a special func­ tion held at Accrington,


Judge Walmsley Mill, Billing­


ton was ' sold for £12,500 to Janies Pickup and Co., Textile Engineers of Oldham.


OCTOBER 28 FT was ; announced that the


■ Mayor arid Mayoress Coun. and Mrs. T. Robinson were to make a series of goodwill visits to churches .in the 'Clitheroe area.


Clitheroe Social Club costing £13,000 were opened by a well known Clitheroe auctioneer Mr. diaries Hothersall, on Wednes­ day evening.


NOVEMBER ' November 4.


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THERE WERE 40 witnesses at the. two-day hearing in d ith - ' eroe when three: men, accused of the -dltheroe cash-snatch were committed to Lancaster Assizes for. trial. Despite- a plea that oneiof .the men wanted to' marry, a l l . three were refused bail.


As part of Trinity Youth


d u b ’s .contribution to National Youth du b week, young male members -, volunteered to be clamped into the stocks in the Market Place, and.be shied at with . flour, bombs and tomatoes by members of-the-public. First


,to -throw.'were*the Mayor- and Mayoress .> o fd ith e r o e , ..Coun. and-Mrs. :Tom Robinson. ’ < ’ :


November 11


. vhich.won 1 the “Best Kept' vll- • .age in the Yorkshire Dales" competition run by the York­ shire Rural Community Coun- - Ml.


Clitheroe, was. elected chairman: of Clitheroe and’DIstriot Towns- women's. Guild, at- the' annual


Mrs. Katherine H. Buloook, of Surbiton Houser Parson Lane;


meeting In, Clitheroe conserva­ tive Club.'


Ultra .modern extensions:’ to: SI! Alderman Chatburn For the second time in his


career, Clifford Chatburn, of Park Avenue, a Conservative, became a member of the Town Counoil’s aldermanio benoh. He succeeded Aid. F. Bentham, who resigned through ill-health.


DECEMBER December 2.


A CHAIN and jewel for the chairman’s lady were presented by Trutex Ltd. to Bowland Rural Council at their monthly meeting.


December 9. •The first Clitheroe Drama


■ Festival was held, when six clubs competed. Mr. Stanley Hildebrandt, a member of tho .Guild of Adjudicators in Lon­ don, Judged tho plays in the


Civic Hall. The club whloh won the chiof . , ,


award was the Green Room Players of Blaokpool. Second prize went to Preston Drama


Club and a third trophy was awarded to Clitheroe Technical Theatre Group.


It was announced that a


special regional board was con­ templating closure of the Qhtn- eroe railway goods station, if >t found the station was not an economical proposition.


- ' ' : December 16. TWO of the men accused of tlie


Clitheroe cash snatch.-Anthony James " : Hoare ‘ and : : Ronaia Shuker were-jailed for six yews each at Lancaster Assizes. The third man, Keith Charles Bacc­


hus was jailed for three years' , A crowd-of 500 watched a


• programme of wrestling at .tne Civic Hall on Wednesday even-


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?! >" \ : 'V'Vljv; t , ■ c -•- - s ' Lord Clitheroe stepped in to


help save the only bus sei-vice to tile picturesque village of Down-


ham. He met Ribble officials after hearing that they thought they had no other' course than to ask' the Traffic Commission­ ers for permission to close the service.


November 18.


CHURCH of England, Method­ ist and Roman Catholic clergy took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the cenotaph in the Castle ground on Sunday after a remembrance service in the Parish Church.


Alderman Fred Bentham,


“ father” of Clitheroe Town Council, resigned his position due to ill health. He had served on the council for 35 yeavs.


Two prominent officials of


the Clitheroe Methodist Circuit resigned from their position. The Rev. Kenneth J. Phillips, Methodist Minister for Chat- bum and the surrounding area, resigned from the Ministry and was hoping to be ordained into the Church of England. Sister Eileen: Knight, Clitheroe’s first deaconess, resigned due to ill health.


The annual reunion dinner of


the Old Clitheronians Associa­ tion was held at the Stavkie Arms Hotel, when Mr. N. V. Pinder was installed president.


November 25.


MR. AND. MRS. Wilfrid Burrill, .who were. for several years manager and-irianagefess of the Starkie Arms Hotel and who are now proprietors of the Dunken- halgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, bought the 15tli century Mitton Hall, near Whalley.


A young steel erector. Alan


Jones (28) of Dykevale Crescent. Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, 12, fell 100 feet to his death when work­ ing, for. contractors at Ribbles- dale Cement Ltd.


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