Clithoroc Congregational Church


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BENEFACTOR WAS A. MAN ■ OF MANY PARTS


In this lengthy series oE


articles, apart from our mu t u a l friend O w d George, ,one- name has cropped up more than any other, that of our greatest local benefactor, Adam


. Cottam. The more one learns of this


"Gothic Gottage’ ’at the junc­ tion of Wiswell Lane and Clitheroe Road, the more evi­ dent it is that he was a very remarkable man indeed. •


worthy gentleman, who first saw the light ot day well over 20l years ago and lived in the


tremely generous man, for in almost every book one meets touching on our local history


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to our parish church alone is impressive. Firstly, in 1813, he paid for the organ brought


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Undouberdly, he was an ex­


one finds fresh evidence of his interest in and kindness to our local institutions.


Through a Whalley Window


here from Lancaster Priory, the installation of which must have been a real red- letter day in the annals of the village.


“Whallev Church and Abbey”, published in 1905, the late Rev. Taylor-Taswell wrote, “It liao been stated to me by Mr. Edward Frodsham, formerly organist, on the authority of his father, that In 1813, when the organ- came, there were no oi-gans or organists in this neighbourhood, e x c e p t a small one at St. John’s Church, Blackburn.


In his splendid handbook Ninety nurses wiio served at Caldcrstoncs Hospital, Wlialley, during the


war returned there on Saturday for a rc-umon of Civil Nursing Reserves Nurses. Above arc some from Chthcroc and district.


• in London at that time." Sixteen years later; Mr.


the opening and Mr. England the builder, remarked to Mr. Frodsham when they were going down the street to Mr. Cottam’s to tea, that they were as much . stared at as some Red Indians who were


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Cottam paid out a further 150 guineas (he paid £300 for the organ!) for the instru­ ment to be improved, and on other occasions defrayed the cost of building the gateways to the churchyard, presented a fine . silver communion flagon, and ' commissioned James Northcotc R.A. to paint the picture “Christ in the Garden" which, for 100 years or more, served as an altar piece.


did not end there, lor he was among the original sponsors of the “Whalley Agricultural Society” when it was first established, and gave gener­ ously io that organisation, and it is well known that it was under his will that our local almshouses were estab­ lished and endowed.


Adam Cottam's interests


meeting was held in one of our local inns in connection with the agitation to repeal the pernicious Com Laws, the name of Adam Cottam was listed among those of the persons in attendance.


We know too, that when a


one wonders?.. Firstly, lie was a bachelor, for nowhere do we find any reference to a Mrs. Cottani. He had a siister


What kind of man was this,


whom he held in great res­ pect, for oh her deatli in 1816, lie caused an inscribed plate in her memory to be installed'


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man is evidenced by the fact that, when well over 60, he walked the bounds of Thorn- ley, Aighton, Chaigely, Dut­ ton and Ribchester, and was not too tired at the end of his journey to sit down with others and draw up a docu­ ment testifying that the boundaries of these parishes had been well and truly per­ ambulated.


That he was an energetic Advice


appreciative of good sendee is established by our knowledge that, in his will, he remem­ bered even the humblest of his servants in addition to leaving generous legacies to national charities.


That Adam Cottam was


he was a surveyor (Arthur Langshaw records that the Corporation of C l i th e r o e sought his advice and made payment to him in 1778, in’ connection with a scheme for bridging the Mearley brook at-what we now call Slmw- bridgei, but must later have studied the law, for on several documents there appears the signature Adam Cottam and the designation, “Attorney"


In his early years, we learn


benefactions were so many, it is reasonable to assume that he was also more than generous in private life, and only recently I encountered a local man who is the proud possessor of Mr. Cottam's spectacles. They, had been given to his great-grand­ father!


In a man whose public


the sterling qualities of tills “Grand Old Man of Whalley" did not go unrecognised in his own community and life­ time, for some years before his death ho was presented with ills portrait done in oils and paid for by public sub­


I t is pleasing to note that


scription. This fine picture still hangs


in the vestry of the ancient church where the subject served so long as churchwar­ den, and the family arms are incorporated in one of the


lancet windows on the south of the sanctuary. *


years of the present century, on the anniversary of his birth, the members of the Adam Cottam Trust lifted their glasses to this portrait and toasted the memory of their founder.


Annually,, until the early Vestry t h e r e i s n o s u b s t i t u t e ■for real coffee taste (HALSTEAD ST., BURNLEY. Tel. 22782 STO-MIKE COFFEE


, the annual dinner was then held.


my acquaintance (well, he's around the some age as my­ self 1) remembers that, in Ills youth, he assisted in bringing the picture from the vestry • to the local' hotel in which


A Whallcy:young man of


■would havo been a very prominent personality in the Whalley of today.


Adam Cottam had been bom a couple of centuries later, he


■ which .work proceeds apace), a good many years earlier ■ • J.F.'


man around we might even have got our by-pass (on


With this energetic gentle­ . i t occurs to me that, if


Stop ditherin mast plan


A plea for Clitheroe Rural


Council to “stop dithering” over the Independent Tele­ vision Authority’s plans to erect a mast oh Whalley Nab was made by County Coun. Basil Greenwood at a meeting of Whallcy Parish


siderable number of people in this village who have very poor reception. Don’t let us lose this chance of getting better recep­


Council on Tuesday. He said ‘‘There are a con­


tion.“Nothing would please tire rTA more than to say “You are not interested. We wilt go else­ where and not bother with you


members did agree that opinion was split in the village on whether a mast on the Nab was


any more’.” Discussing the proposal,


desirable. Clitheroe Rural Council have


objected to the proposal because they say the mast would be detrimental fo the visual amenities of the area.


Lattice


in direct line with the main street, and the whole of the 150-ft. mast, together with the small ground station would be


Tile proposed site would be


in full view. The parish council chairman


Coun. J. H. Fell, said the mast would be of lattice construction for the first 120 feet, with the


over TV told


hill would be spoiled. “I am hoping that the ITA will come forward with another


They decided the view ot the


permission was granted for a mast on the Nab, the way would


site," she said. Mrs. C. Horsfall'said that if


people: he had spoken to had said they did not mind where the mast was as long as recep­ tion in the village was improved.


then be : open • for edeotricity lines and other eyesores. The clerk, Mr. J. Holden, said


PARISH COUNCIL RE-ELECTS


CHAIRMAN ‘Jimifel’—was this week re-elected chairman of Whalley Parish Council, a position he has held for the past two years.


He has been a member of the parish council for several


years and has been one of Whalley’s three representa­ tives on Olitheroe Rural Council since 1962.


He is assistant chief male nurse at Calderstones Hos­ pital, Whalley, and is in cl large of eurythmics and recreational training.


Mr. Joint S. R. Shaw was re­ appointed vice chairman of


title council, at its annual meeting on Tuesday.


Representatives on other bodies, rc-appointed at the meeting, were: , Church of.


England School, Coun. Mrs. M. Troop: Old Grammar School commitee, Mr. W. G. Pape; Adam Cottam Trust. Coun. Fell and Mrs. C. Hors­


fall.


Public Library Conunittee, Mr. Shaw; Whalley and Wisweli joint burial committee, Coun Mrs. Troop, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Pape, Mrs. Horsfall, and Coun. A. Westwell; area Parish. Councils Association, Couns. Foil and Westwdl.


OLD PEOPLE’S HOMES IN CHESTER AVENUE?


Clitheroe's scheme to , interest rates and building costs. I proceed with this scheme on a |


build Old p r i c 'd t o i P s L S K M t t r & S T n . S ivith a warden in attendance, ing of tile council on Tuesday


may now go ahead on land afternoon; off Chester Avenue.


| central site. “ I do not think building costs


i j iCroas da leDrive andatLow the reluctance of elderly people grant towards this kind of lious- Moor have been scrapped be- to move to certain parts of the ing scheme, cause of a reluctance on the town.


Pi-ins for similar development council, I informed members of but we should be entitled to a


nart of old DCODle to move there. “Since then, a special sub- completed, woifid solve your P Rui thpEO ahead for develop- committee has studied the ques- housing problems for many n w on the8 Chester Avenue tionnaircs returned from about future years.” m-nund has not vet 100 of the applicants who are Meanwhile, the council is


, I type of building, when


hren eiven bv the town council requiring bungalow or small undertaking an inspection of le?r thfnreJenthigh unit accommodation.


because of the present hign| ^ ^


Clitheroe Rural Council want to be quite certain that before any site is definitely selected, it Is the best site, both from the aesthetic '■ and the technical point, of view. “At the moment, Whalley Nab


top 30 feet solid. - “Your own representatives on


Hundreds expected ‘-M


at arc expected o IS


is not crossed by power cables or anything like that.” he said. Mr. Fell, who said he had


spent £24 on television aerials in January to try to improve reception, pointed out that Clitheroe Rural Council had asked for other sites to be con­ sidered.


reception in this area is very desirable, but they do not want to spoil any of the visual amenities. They want the best site from every aspect,” he said Coun. Mrs. M. Troop, who


“They believe that improved monastic Desirable ^ seven| iLst to see which could be the all houses on the slum clearance


applicants wore interested in subject of improvement schemes moving to Low Moor; 20 of the and to fix the estimated life of applicants were interested in | the remainder to be demolished


l . . “.Thirty-one applicants . wan-.t ted bungalow " accommodation |


the 12 smalt flats now under construction in Manor Road, and four applicants were inter­ ested in the four flats at Carl­ ton Place.


Several hundred pcoplcl “ It seems obvious that it nn> nvnri'trd to visit Whalley would not be prudent for the


Abbey on . Monday lo take part in the Diocesan Pil­


hoped to hold one annually and in time the number of pilgrims will probably reach


grimage there. Afetr this pilgrimage it is


The Inst one to be held was 0pment takes place there, and about two years ago, attended tlrat older properties are to ­ by seven or eight hundred, and t'he f "irs .......


1,000. ruins had been rebuilt and re in


t was hi 1964 after he altar


mci nr,™. ti,„ i the Abbey


consecrated. Being Whit Monday, there


said she could only get one channel on her television set, told the meeting that when the original application, for a mast at Clerk Hill, was received members of the council viewed tlie site from different parts of the village and its approaches.


DISTRICT NEWS •


Wiswell


Women’s Institute; Mrs. Latham, of Brieriield,


spoke on "Aspects of My Work as a Librarian” to members of Wiswoll Women’s Institute at their May meet­ ing in Barrow School last week.


tion of the Mobile Library and told of the difficulties encountered and amusing incidents en route. She also spoke of the new library which is being built at What­ ley. She was thanked by Mrs. Ibison.


She explained the organisa­


dent, thanked the helpers at tlie group meeting. Letters were read from Whalley and Pendleton WIs and also from the speaker, Mrs. Elaine Marsden.


Mrs. M. Hopwood, presi­


Rounsfell, who lias attended the agenda conference for the NFWI meeting, explained the resolutions to members before the voting took place.


Wdsweli’s delegate, -Mrs/


by tlie Bishop of Blackburn, shouid bo reduced to 40. This the Rt. Rev. C. H- Claxton. would meet the needs of many The preacher will be Arch- on y10 housing list and allow


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warden at the Abbey from 1934-1945.


monastic ruins "‘ere first ex- need for new housei building oj cavated.


While vv,lilv; „„ ..... lie was warden Choir will be leading the con- The B l a c k b u r n Cathedral


servicc will bo he'd m the Parish Church, otherwise it will take place on the site of


...... . the Wcalliei


pied houses, thereby releasing them for young people with families, and people now travel­ ling into Clitheroe to work m


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gregaition hi the singing. wllen the full housing com-1 If the wcathei is bad, the I


"There would be no further the council.” said Coun. Wells. | Outcome


■. ■


e receivcd the sub-comnut- report, a number of mcm-


the original Abbey a tor. ^ wnthmance oi Refreshments bo served


pilgrims will bnng packed hm- totes^ though it is expected that mast °'3®


UNormauVtt°oUlic a r c h ly “ I open day


annually.........


■BEST KEPT VILLAGE’ CONTEST PLANS'


themS T S to help


kept village contest. In addition, the Parish Coun­


cil is' promoting a children’s painting competition. They are being asked to colour a poster bearing an anti-litter slogan.


an evening visit to Stocks Reservoir, Slaidburn on May 28, and a full day with a guide to the Lakes on June 4.


Two outings were planned,


take place on August 16. The / monthly competition r


The Clitheroe WI show will


' of Nelson, second was Mrs. J; Carter and third, Mrs. A. Hodktnson. ,


for the "Oldest Newspaper!’, was judged by Mi‘s. Latham. Winner was Mrs. V. Purnell with a copy of The Times for 1805 which recorded the death


i ceeds were for'. WI funds. A mystery parcel-was won by Mrs. L. Haworth.


A plant show was organised during social { time, the pro-


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Tire best entries wilt be dis­ played- in local shops.


delivered, to all houses hi tiro village by Gii’l Guides, reads:


; The leaflet, which will; be


council has entered the village in the Lancashire best kept village contest, and know that


“Once ■ again, your parish


they can rely on all residents to keep ..'then' homes* and business premises bright, attractive and tidy. /,;


has done particularly well in these.annual competitions, but has never won the premier,


YIn» recent. years,whaUey,


award “This year,, with your, help


: >Tea;Ehostesses, were Miss ' E. M. Foster, Mrs F. W. Seretnock; Miss K<- Sharpies, and Mrs. B. Speak.


and co-eperation. we can do; it.


June, July, ■ and August—may, we ask you ■ to make a very special 1 effort throughout this period?''


“Judging will take place in • :


Ambulance promotion


station officer at both Clitheroe and Accrington Am b u l an ce Stations, has been appointed station officer at Stacksteads. . Mr Adams, aged 38, of May-


Mr. Bernard Adams, ^acting I


field Avenue, Clitheroe, s has been in the ambulance service I


for 10 ■, years,-,.. He began - his career a t : Ciitheroe and was |


. ;. -V ment In' the near future.


appointed shift leader, s Married with a son, ,Mr,| Adams will,take up Ms appoint­


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will aiready be many people visiting the ruins who will join in the Holy Communion ser­ vice which is being conducted


despair the Low Moor Rate­ payers’ Association, because I am sure it is the council’s desire that good standard new devel-


proved. “The


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Desire I hope this decision will not I


only; seven of Uiese had a spe­ cial preference for Castle View.


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