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BARROW WOMAN ALL SET FOR BIG RACE


Next Wednesday, May 7, at 10-20 a.m., Mrs. Sarah Bulcock, of' Abbey Terrace, Barrow, officially starts her


tower in London, Mrs. Bulcock must travel to the top of the Empire State Building In New York in the fastest time to win a prize of £5.000 in her class,


for private, persons, without a backer. . ■ She plans to travel from the


GPO Tower to Heathrow Air­ port by motorcycle, dressed in a flying suit. There she boards a BOAC VClo. which leaves at 11 a.m.


her to the Empire State Build­ ing.


At Kennedy Airport in New York, a1 motorcycle will rush


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by two lifts in succession. One of her-, main worries is that ■tourists; who aye in the Empire State Building at all times, may cause queues for the lifts. Originally Mrs. Bulcock


There are 86 floors to ascend,


attempt in the Transatlantic Air Race. From the top of the GPO


land and take off In Central London except on the river Thames, and the extra .time it would take to get to the river­ side and then out on to the river would cut down her chan­ ces. .


State Building. Mrs. Bulcock will produce a trump card which she hopes will enable her to win a prize She will not reveal her plan- in case it preju­ dices her chances. She does not know how long


ised by a friend in London, Mr. M. A. F. Lowsley. Before reaching the Empire


she will be staying in New York but it will probably be for a few days. She is booked into an hotel there.


hoped to travel by helicopter from Regents Park to Heathrow but aviation officials told her this was not allowed. Helicopters are not allowed to


Customs


not yet been reckoned but Mrs. Bulcock thinks it will run into several hundreds of pounds. In an effort to save time at customs and immigration desks


The cost of her attempt has


is best.for coffee, a quick lunch, a cup of tea in pleasant surroundings,


Many people say . . .


CAFE SUDELL CROSS BLACKBURN


STEADS


St. John Ambulance Brigade .Nursing Cadets


DANCE


in the St. John Ambulance Brigade Hall, Church Brow, Clitheroe


Friday, May 9th


Dancing 7-30 p.m. to 10-30 p.m. to THE CAVEDWELLERS ADMISSION — 3/6


Right of admission reserved Preliminary Notice


THE NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOME


A Garden Party


SATURDAY, JUNE 21st, I960 in the grounds,of


and Fete • will be held on


BOWLAND SECONDARY SCHOOL


Riversmead, Grindleton, Clitheroe


CLITHEROE BRITISH LEGION BRANCH


Weekly Double £15 9 3


Weekly Treble £25 26 1 20


ACCRINGTON AND


DISTRICT MOTOR CYCLE CLUB


GRASSTRACK


. RACING at LAUND HEY HASLINGDEN


Refreshments—Free Parking Follow the R.A.C. signs to the course.,


SATURDAY, MAY 3rd Start 6-30 p.m.


Tomorrow


CHATBURN METHODIST YOUTH CLUB


“THE MIDNIGHT


HOUR” Will appear at


THE YOUTH CLUB TONIGHT FRIDAY 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.


ADMISSION — 4/6 Her schedule has been organ­


about three years ago, Already she has won two


other national competitions and if her luck continues, she may win this one too. : ■ About a fortnight ago, a slip­


she could hardly walk but after treatment in Blackburn it eased


ped disc nearly:, meant Mrs. Bulcock wasn’t going to be able to take part in the race. The pain was very bad and


by a daily newspaper, begins on Sunday and ends on May 11. Total prize money to be won stands at £57,000 with an addi­ tional £3,000 worth of trophies.


off and now she says she is completely Better. The race, which is sponsored


Some of tho, '‘Whalley TELEVISION MAST


to erect a transmitter mast on; Whalley Nab, instead'■ previous proposal for Castle Wood, Whalley, has met with


OBJECTIONS A proposal by the Independent Television Authority


in Kennedy Airport, she will not be taking any luggage, though sho could still' be held up some time before being cleared. Mrs. Bulcock decided to enter


negligible, but:it should be good fun”, she said. Next Thursday, she will try


£5,000 it is not .the money which attracted her. “My chances, I think, are


further opposition from Clitheroe Rural Council, ■ The mast, 150-ft. high, would


the race as soon as she saw it advertised some months ago. Though she stands to win


native site, at Brierley's Farm, Billington, would be just as injurious to visual amenity as the original proposal. The council's observations on


be clearly visible in a straight line from King Street, Whalley, said the clerk, Mr. T. P. Rush- ton. As such the proposed alter­


decision on behalf of the com­ mittee when the divisional planning officer's recommenda­ tions are received.


the proposal had been sought by the local planning authority. Tire site is in the Blackburn


a practice run from the GPO Tower to , Heathrow to check her timing. Mrs. Bulcock, who is a widow,


Rural Area. Blackburn Rural Council have


has two children and two grandchildren. For some years she lived in


Wakefield where her husband was a dental surgeon. After his


death she moved to London where she lived for some years before coming to live with her 90-year-old mother, Mi's. M. J. W. Ashcroft, in Abbey Terrace


authorised Coun. B. R. Duck­ worth, chairman of the Town Planning Committee, to give a


Whalley easterly by-pass, from Rose Cottages to Whalley Golf Club, has been approved by Clitheroe Rural Council.


Amended plan An amended plan for the


A POLICEMAN’S LOT IS NOT A HAPPY ONE.


As I have written pre­


viously, . items for this column come, from the oddest possible sources.


police constable’s notebook with entries dating back to 1890—not hi® official noebook, I must impress—but a book in which he noted his day to day experiences for liis own guidance and interest.


tha t this was not the note­ book of a Wlialley officer


I t must, he impressed, too,


(although he served’ within miles of our. village) but many of his problems must have been those encountered by our own constables in the late Victorian and Ewardian eras. Thus we note that on


Today I was'" handed ' a ; Through


a Whalley Window


throughout the book are re­ corded convictions for “gam­ ing with cards” or “playing pitch and toss" in -the fields, in the streets or "down a


country lane.” Here again the fines inflic­


March 8th, 1890, the officer apprehended an itinerant for (his spelling, not mine!) “Using a pianofort without a license”—"I presume this would have been a street piano—and a footnote adds "paid the costs and got a license.” ■. . . . . . . . . . . . . In April of the same year


ted varied from 5s to 10s on each occasion, . In December 1890 we read "On warrant. X.Y.Z. for arrears of basterd," and the added note “paid.’’ So the record covering 26 years of service goes on, and what a variety of cases it covers. We' learn-, of lads fined for


Clitheroe Divisional Conservative Association Whallcy, Wiswell and Barrow Branch


A COFFEE MORNING


“bathing in ' the canal.” a man sent to jail for “stealing a shirt from a clothes line,” of numerous cases of “sleep­ ing out” and many convic­ tions for “begging in the street."


Damage


a man was fined Is. and costs for "having a dog without a muzzle." an oft repeated offence.


Fines,


taken against a driver for “being drunk in charge of a horse and trap” (this should please Mrs. Castle!) and this offence too, was a frequent entry in succeeding years. Tlie fines? Usually 10s. and costs rising occasionally' to


In June proceedings were


berries from Mr. B’s garden,” and from time to time .


ages given) paid costs of 4s 6d each for “stealing


15s or £1. In July, seven men (no


fined 6s 6d “for having wild birds in his possession’’ and —an odd event indeed—of a man being sent to prison for six months for “stealing a widow’s 'to p set of teeth!” That vandalism has always


We learn -too, of a man


been a problem for the auth­ orities is established by sev­ eral entries covering “wilful damage in the street’’ or “wilful damage on the canal bank.” So the story goes on. We learn that our con­


MID-PENNINE . association for the arts


“Antic and literate, far-out and traditional, too, and fun all the way . . .” ■


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THE BARROW POETS with their zany entertainment of music and words


Saturday 3rd May: BARNOLDSWICK Secondary School at 7-30 p.m. — Tickets price 5/-


., , Available from usual agents, or at door ■:


Sunday, 4th May: BURNLEY sparrow Hawk Hotel at 8-30 p.m. — Admission by programme price 4/- Available only at door from 8 p.m.


Direot from Bulgaria, exclusively to tho North West


SOFIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA


“Hie Sofia Chamber Orchestra.impressed me deeply..It , is very powerful. Vassll;Kazandjiev,; its. conductor,fis J


brilldant.” — Dimitri-Shostakovich


at NELSON.OOLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION ' on FRIDAY, 9th MAY at 7-30p.m.''” 1' ' ■


' from the College, Nelson Library, and MFAA‘, Central • Library,.Burnley • (29613) - , <j t . * ■


Organised and sponsored by NWAAilin-conjunction with • V-,


- -..-.MPAA


Tickets 8/6 (Students and Pensioners G/-)’’nowj available ' -


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suicide and fatal accidents, and on a number of occasions the pathetic entry is made “took in charge a wandering lunatick and taken to asilumn.” (O u r officer’s writ­ ing was far better than his spelling). Th0 sergeant (yes, there is


stable was injured when stopping two runaway horses, that he was commended and awarded 10s for “apprehend­ ing a soldier absent from his barracks,” of sad cases of


W up M


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a note of his promotion) had his personal problems too, for incongruously amongst his official notes we find “A receipt for restoring the colour to the hair” and another for a “Home-made foot salve.” There are other items of


interest testifying to • the writer’s intelligent interest in the world a t large: the num­ ber of words in tho bible, and on June 21, 1896 the note “Mrs. Betty Aysgarth, of Ask-: rigg; Wensleydale, died in her 106th year."


Circus


tember 1898 says “On duty two days at Barnimi and Baileys Circus,” but, in all the constable’s journal would tend to confirm1 Gilbert’s assertion ■ that "A police­ man’s lot is not a happy one!" There is little doubt that,


A happier note dated Sep­ ...■W'K’■ a. A three week holiday for two to see England


defend the World Cup next year in Mexico is the first prize in an exciting free to enter football com­ petition now appearing in World Sports. Other features include Cup Final preview,,, the 'levy athletics season, cricket, rugby union,’ swimming,;; tennis, golf.


.


• would have recorded much’ the same kind of i incidents


had our own village constable, kept- diaries • covering the same- period, then- entries-


‘and offences and ’ not—as Ij -am sure they ■ must- today—J


the oft repeated note ''Traffic control — worse.’’


- gets - worse and, J.F.


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by kind permission of Mr. and Mrs. J. Troop at “High Lawn,” 12 Mitlon Road, Whalley


TUESDAY, 6th MAY


BRING and BUY and CAKE STALL — TOMBOLA ADMISSION — 1/6


From 10-15 a.m. to 12-15 p.m..


Village seeks award again


Whalley is again to enter the Lancashire best-kept village competition, and householders will be re­ ceiving’ a leaflet urging them to do their best to keep the village tidy.


This was announced at the meeting' of the Parish Council yesterday week by the chairman, Conn. J. H. Fell. ; -.


As part of the scheme to en­ courage villagers to take a pride in the appearance of Whalley, local children arc to be invited to design a poster bearing an anti-litter slogan.


Book tokens will be offered as


prizes, and the entries will b e d isp la y e d in lo c a l sh o p s .


Whalley has entered the com­ petition for several years, and although it has never won the premier award, it has always been highly placed.


LaimdereUe


granted for a coin-operated launderette at the former pest office in King Street. Whailey.


Planning permission las been £25 grant


approved a grant of £25 to the Abbey Senior Citizens Club. Whalley, for decorating an additional room at Whalley Old Grammar School.


Blackburn Rural Council has


ley for the British Empire Cancer Campaign for research raised more than £190, collec­ ted from home boxes, en­ velopes and hotels.'


£190 collected The April collection in Whal­


of the


Boys", membero of tho RAMC who served at Cal-


derstonos Hospital during the first world war^i/hen It was a military hospital, re­ turned there .last-Saturday for a reunion.


- ' In those days, (hp^hospitai


was known as Queen Mary's military hospital and was


the largest one in the British


trained there and then went into action both on land and at soa In every area of com­


Isles. . “The Whalley Boys”


batThere are still, about 80 to; 100 of them left though they


could not all attend the re­ union dinner because of age


and infirmity. Our photograph shows


some who did attend. On the left, Mr. Albert Demain, of Mittori View, Clitheroe, shakos hands with Mr,


Road


closes Wiswell Lane. Whalley, is


be closed to all traffic for 12 weeks from May 19 for work on the Whalley—


to Wiswell will have.to use the alternative route along White- acre Lane. Barrow. Mr. T. P. Rushton, clerk to


Clitheroc by-pass. Motorists wanting to travel


ance services had all been in­ formed of .the closure, .he said.


Clitheroe Rural Council, said the closure would cause in­ convenience, but was essen­ tial for the construction of the by-pass. The fire, police and ambul­


Nursing


opportunities offered


experience but who are parti- nightly, and some monthly, cularl-y interested in the P ro - in“ f


Calderstones Hospital, .Whalley, as nurses’ assistants.


Women without nursing I gome help weekly, some fort- *»


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similar efforts. Helpers—there are 35—take , it in turn to cook and serve.


The Luncheon Club run


by the Whallcy VVRVS has now been in existence for five years, and the number of members- has risen steadily


B. Boyce, who is still respon­ sible for the service.


from about 15 to 60. I t was started by Mrs. J. S.


and Thursdays, members come and eat, and they too pay tho from Billington and Barrow stipulated Is 9d. as well as Whalley to have This price was agreed upon their liunch in a large room by the members who decided In the Old Grammar School. | it was a reasonable price to pay.


Twice a week, on Wednesdays


Rural District Council and the Billington. Langho and Whalley Parish Councils. The chock tablecloths are taken home by the servers to be laundered. When the meals have been dished, the workers also stay


I served twice weekly, each mem­ ber can only go once a week as table room is limited.


, Though the luncheons are


| The club provides meals for | pensioners, both men and women, though at the moment |


I there are more women than men.


Helpers CONSERVATION AREAS?


Church Lane, the Square, and Poole End, Whalley, ■ could become conservation areas if-a proposal from .Whallcy I Parish Council is accepted.


At the meeting of the council yesterday week. Coun. J. H


meal and for that get a main historical interest, and should be preserved as fai as possible coun. Mrs. M. Troop suggested the inclusion of the wall


They each pay Is 9d for their Fell, the chairman, said drat the area was


course, sweet and a cup of tea. I in its preent condition. The club is rim on a volun-


tary basis and money is raised 1 surrounding the Abbey grounds, and it was decided to apply by holding coffee evenings and |


designated by the Lancashire County Council._______


at and the members are served are alTangeci by four |


WRVS members in turn and


As this type of work is now they usually are made up of available, Clitheroe Employ-1 roasts, steak pies or steak, pud*


ment Exchange would be inter-1 dings, ested to’ hear from married women with children going to|


school.


Frank Hudson, of Little- moor View, .Clitheroe.


ciajs free. F l’ie i ld ly The general policy of the club school hnh' Iis 10 Provicle good meals, attrac-1


holi-1yve[y serveci a friendly and congenial atmosphere with time


at a small charge and the stay and talk to each other, women would be able to buy The members enjoy and look | their meals on the premises. • forward to being able to dress


Transport would be provided afterwards for the members to


73 unfilled vacancies. The. total There is a fund to which they of unfilled vacancies for men contribute and with which they is slightly less at 67. '


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Clithefoe is 0.7 per cent, com­ pared with 1.1 per cent at the same time last .year. Hie total number of unemployed is men and 14 women.


Hie unemployment figure for _ . ■ . , , „ 52 Trees felled


ley Meade. Whailey, which were the subject of a tree preservation order, have been felled.


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reported the matter to Lan­ cashire County Council, who have power to prosecute who­ ever was - responsible/’’


Clitheroe Rural Council has Seventeen trees near Brant­


There is an acute shortage of tip and go there for a meal with I female labour in this area with their friends.


' buy flowers for members who . are ill and unable to come.


Nursing Staff’s reunion


at Calderstones Hospital. Whatley during the Second World War is to be held in the hospital ballroom on May 17. Some of the nurses who


A re-union of nursing staff


tile: bivil .Defence Nursitt! Reserves.


were at the military hospital during the last war have- not met tor nearly 30 yeaTS. Hiev . served as members of


Some of the equipment has


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conservation area. The villages of Chipping and Pendleton have already been


the Clitheroe Rural Council for the area to be designated a sen^e.


fession are to be given the The cooks start at about 9 am, opportunity of working


Luncheon Club’ fulfils old folks’ need


been provided by Clitheroc


for the menus, each member is . asked if they will be returning again the following week. For those who are unable .to


To keep a check on numbers


attend the Luncheon - Club, there is a Meals on Wheels service which is organised by


Mrs. K. M. Robbins, of Whalley. The new WRVS organiser in -


the Clitheroe Rural Area is Mrs. Pctyt, of Whittam Cres­ cent, Whalley.’


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Clithcroe Municipal Elections Thursday, 8tli May, 1969


PLEASE DON’T VOTE


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