Clilheroe Advertiser and Times, Man 23, 1969. 7


Contest to top


driver Motorists, proud, of their


driving ability are again be­ ing invited to demonstrate their skill in manoeuvrability and road trials to find, the “East Lancashire Motorist of the Year”.


,


organised by the East Lanca­ shire Group of- the Institution of Advanced Motorists..


The competition is being


'June 15. on the .Broadway Car Park, Accrington.


I t will take place on Sunday,


awarded to the overall winner, and to the first, second and third in each of three classes for men, women and novices.


Limited


a t Accrington Arts Club on June 18.


Presentations will be made


and continue until 6 p.m. I t is open to all four-wheeled cars and light vans up to 15 cwt., and will again be limited to the first 200 applicants.


The event will begin at 9 a.m.


sections for each competitor to complete.


There will again be four


neering of vehicles; general knowledge of the new Highway Code; a road section,' in which each competitdor will be accom­ panied by a marshal, and manoeuvrability tests on the car park.


They-include a general scruti-


an eyesight test' and a head­ lamp beam tester in the event, and there will be other attrac­ tions on the. oar park.


I t is also hoped to include Novices


not eligible for the competition. Novices are defined as anyone who has passed • the M.o.T. driving test since June 30, 1968. Further details may be ob­


■Members of the .Institute are The schoolroom at the


sounded to modem Pakis­ tani music played with instruments of Eastern origin, including drums, small hand organs and a sitar.


The occasion was a Pakistani Evening organ­ ised by the Pakistani members of the Inter­ national Club.


The musicians were the


“Indusbeat” from Preston and they were the highlight of tiie evening.


tained from the organising secretary. Mr. J. D. Cook, of 14 Knowsley Road West, Clayton- le-Dale, Blackburn.


for Clitheroe Venture Scouts Funds at a wine and cheese evening held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. G. Hampson, of Hereford Drive, clitheroe, by the Scouts Supporters Com­ mittee.


£38 for scouts The sum of £38 was raised


Million calls


were made to the new tele­ phone motoring information service in its first 11 months from May 1, 1968 to March 31, 1969.


More than a million calls ■ A lmo s t 40 people


attended and refreshments were served.


tinguished blazing rubbish in a derelict house at Low Moor on Sunday afternoon.


Rubbish blaze Clitheroe Fire Brigade ex­


Congregational Church, Clitheroe, recently re-


Annual onting


Members of the Clitheroe


branch of the .Women’s Union­ ist 1 Association held their annual outing last week. They travelled. - by ■ coach


Trophies and prizes will, bo


NEW CITY TO RIBBLE


Lancashire New City would be too near to the Ribble Valley and the Forest of Bowland area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Mr. T. P. Rushton, clerk to Clithcroc Rural Council, -said last


The proposed Central


week. He told tne public enquiry


Spur.


Their objection was primarily to the proximity of the desig­


.


nated area’s boundaries, which they viewed with alarm. . He said; “I t is true to say


help of the Lancashire County Development Plan which they have loyally supported,


that my council have, with the


and which designates almost the whole of their area as an area of great landscape, scienti­ fic and historic value, sacrificed many hundreds of pounds of rateable value .in their aim to keep the district free from development, as one of the few remaining truly rural parts of Lancashire.


Intense


prised’ Shat the Lancashire County Council have nothing to say about- the Longridge spur in its relationship to the areas of outstanding natural


“We, like others, are sur­


through Chipping, Thomley and Longridge and- visited Stonyhurst College. - The excursion ended in


Chat-bum where supper was served in the Brown Cow Hotel;


Dawson, of Whalley Road, Sabden. was awarded a club plaque for being first in two races at the Croft Autodrome Championship on Saturday. He was riding a 250. cc Yamaha motor cycle.


Placpre awarded Twenty-four-year-old I a n


Councillor gets seconds turn as chairman


■Coun. Thomas H. Aspin, of Meadowcroft, West Brad­


ford Road, Waddington,'was yesterday elected chairman of Bowland Rural Council, in succession to Coun. Mrs. S. J.


Dow, of Grindleton. Coun. Aspin, who is repre-


sentative for the Settle Divi­ sion on the West Riding County Council, has' been chairman before, in 1958 and. 1959. A well-known- farmer, Mr.


Aspin has represented West Bradford on Bowland Rural Council for 22 years, and has been a niembor of West Brad­ ford Parish Council since 1947. A native of Grindleton, he


T h e former Waterloo Methodist Chapel, for several


CHAPEL TO BECOME TYRE DEPOT


years an engineering work­ shop, is to become a tyre depot. Olitheroe Town Council has


granted permission to Chat- bum Tyre Sendee for storage and distribution of tyres, bat­ teries and accessories at the building.


for an illuminated sign adver­ tising petrel to be fixed to a concrete standard at Moor Lane Motors. Clitheroe. .


Permission was also granted B u y s o l i d f i i e l a l 'S M i r i t i i e t 'p H c e s h o w and yw can


permission for: A new "boiler house and


The council has alsa granted


iting of fuel tank for Mr. R. Bowker, of “Alderleigh”.


ling house to hairdressing salon on ground and first floor with living quarters on the. second floor for Mrs. Stuttard, of York Street.


Change for use from a dwel­


over entrance doors for J. W. Hillard Ltd., King Lane.- .


An illuminated canopy sign


Western Gas Board at Kirk- moor House. Kirkmoor Road. Front entrance perch for Mr. . H. Blackburn of Beechwood


A private garage for North


S. - Critchley ■ of Mayfield Avenue. Private garage for :Mr. J.


Avenue. Garden store shed for Mr.


^iMXHiy prize* ang holidays in lewey!


Examples: Ford Escort Car-plus £5 0. Solid Fuel Central H e a t in g , System plus £ 10 0 .


. • i


Lu xu ry Cruise for tw o plua £ 2 0 0 . Colour T V plus £300, and many other 'star* and consolation .


prizes. A l l you have to d o is to buy your solid fuel at cheap summer


prices and enter a simple competition.


Every prizewinner gets ■ free weekend,


holiday for two in Jersey! .


T. Marsden, Kirkmoor Road. Alteration to existing build­


Newell in Grafton Street. Rear entrance porch for Mr.


ings forming toilets, changing room-and classroom at Moor­


land School. Taking down of toliet and


store and erection of private garage for. Mr. F. Pinder, at Cowper. Avenue. , Front entrance porch for Mr.


J. T. Oddie, of Peel Park Avenue. Walling up shop door and


„ lived at Eaves House -Farm, ®


affairs, Coun. Aspin is a The pal.jsh 0j Thornley-with- member of Borland District I-Wheatley .vvas, he said, perhaps


Keenly mteiested in public City into the countryside,


GOVERNOR . ■


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ford Church of England School. Because of its geography, He is Bowland Council’s dairy farming could only be


Sr1!?i>,.^eCOnda? ' School al\d devoted to agriculture, with no Tl?


retail shop for Mr. T. R. Con- drom, in Parson Lane. Glazed rear entrance porch


and external WC for Mr. Smith, of “Lilac Holme”. Private garage for Mr. W.


ferred by the Council: The siting of oil fuel tank


Water Board,- the Bowland Sheep farming was a substan- Road Safety.’committee, and tial part of the farming indus- the West Riding branch of the try. Rural District Councils Associa-1 Coun. Airey, himself -tion.


represent*(ire Fyldo carried .out in certain parts;


Dobson, of Kempie View. Four applications were de­


and installation of boiler for Mi-. E. Oddie, of “Thursfield”. Motor car showroom, store,


dwelling to storage only for Industrial Numerical Controls


toilets, offices, petrol pumps and petrol storage tanks for Wellgate Motors Ltd., of Duck Street. Change of use from empty


tached 3 B type bungalows with garages for L. Frankland (Cont) Ltd. in Fairfield Drive.


Ltd., in Moor Lane. Details showing No. 3 de­


Supper Club speakers


Supper Club of Clitheroe Divi­ sion Conservative Association will be Mr. Giles Shaw, market­ ing manager of a York confec­ tionery firm.


Speaker at the September


the club, has plans to include Mr. Winston Churchill, grand­


Mr. David Yates, chairman of ,


son of Sir Winston, and Mr. Ernest Marpies as future Supper Club speakers before the end of the year.


RURAL COUNCIL’S


ANNUAL DINNER The country seemed to be suffering from the delusion


that bigger authorities were necessarily better, warned Coun. Mrs. S. J. Dow, chairman of Bowland Rural Council. Speaking at the council’s


of York Hotel, Grindleton, yes­ terday week, she referred to the impending report of the Royal Commission on Local Govern­ ment, and said it would prob­ ably be better to stop surmising and wait for the report Commenting on the housing


annual dinner, held at the Duke


Bowland Rural Council would be successful m . .then- endeavours to preserve the heritage of the countryside.


In welcoming the visitors,


window openings and form­ ing two smaller windows for Mr. J. Lolithouse, of Corpora­


tion Street.. Garden store shed for Mr.


tic tank, and filter for Ribbles- dale cement Ltd., at Horrocks- ford Banks Farm, ■ Rear entrance porch for Mr,


B. Bleazard, of The Orescent. Installation of two WCs, sep­


A." N. Learmont,' of, George Street. / r Change 'of use ■ from mil­ linery business to a wqt fish


position in the area, she said it seemed- tha-t for the time being, the council had completed its .programme with the construc­ tion of one-bedrocmed flats at Grindleton. A good deal of private build­


ing was being carried out, how­ ever, at Wadding-ton and West Bradford.............


Heritage


of Olitheroe, proposed the toast to the council and referred to the happy relationship which existed -between, -the three neighbouring authorities. He lioped that members of


Coun. S. F. Hardman, Mayor \


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FR E E A D V IS O R Y S E R V IC E ■A. il .


Left.to right,'Mrs. Eastwood, Coun. Mrs.“Dow, Coun.’ Hardman)* Coun: East- ’ , .


............." >ood- Mr/ DowTand Mrs.Hardmahrr" " r ‘ \ ’


' IT’S ALL AT THE


Coun. R. Williamson also men­ tioned the happy relationship between the officials of the three councils and paid special tribute to the Clerk to Bow­ land Council,'Mr. L. C. - Tel­ ford.


tribute to the British Press. He said that after seeing on


Conn. Williamson also paid . . . . .


television all the unpleasant happenings in some countries, and the suppression of news, it was refreshing to pick up one’s newspaper in this country, and


Lockett.


of CKtheroe Rural District, replied on behalf of the visitors. .... , Toastmaster was Mr. E. B.


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a governor of both Riversmead ha ^he rural district, completely a^“ village in the parish,


one °f the most rural Parishes


into the city that his council was not opposed to the city itself, but to the Longridge


‘TOO NEAR’ VALLEY


beauty and the areas they themselves have designated as areas of great landscape value.’’


nated area was, he said, such as to cause intense demand for development on the fringes


Tlie proximity of the desig­


of Chtheroe Rural District, especially in the parish of Thomley-with-Whcatley.


ley, who is conducting the inquiry, to consider • the rela­ tively short distances which would separate the new city from places in the council’s area, from North-East Lanca­


He asked Sir Andrew Wheats


shire, .and from the: West Riding of Yorkshire^ “Where •will development


stop?” he asked. "What Lanca­ shire countryside will be left


if the proposals are acceded to?”


cern at the inclusion of sket­ ches of Chipping in the con- sultants’ report and asked if Chipping was 'eventually to become part of the city-


Mr. Rushton expressed con­ Realislic


lopment going to extend? To Chipping and the Trough of Bowland?” he asked.


“Where is the ultimate deve­


have a “buffer zone" between the city and Clitheroe Rural District.


He said it was necessary to


the size of a cricket or football pitch; we want a buffer zone of open space of sufficient size to mako a realistic, clear, long- lasting, completely satisfying and unmistakeable division between city and country," he said.


“We don’t want a buffer zone


farmer, said: “I t is impossible I to rear ■ sheep economically within two or three miles of a | town, due to the large number of dogs which are now kept j by urban dwellers.


great deal of sheep chasing and sheep worrying which takes place; it Is a serious problem at all times, but especially so in the lambing season, with a


Support


—mostly of the farming com­ munity—are definitely wor-[ ried about the future if their livelihood is taken away by the | inroads of the new city.


“The residents in the parish I


tions put forward by tile Cllth- croe Rural Council for the pushing back of the proposed city boundary to a line which will keep the new city many miles from this parish of ours.’


Attack launched on dry rot


Clithcroe Congregational


Church is undergoing exten­ sive repairs owing to the discovery of dry rot in a main roof truss.


cil would be very happy if the boundary could be drawn back as far as the M.6 motorway, but, being reasonable folks.. had suggested a line running I wl“ 1 fungicide, south f r om Whittingham, Masonry with through Grimsargh to Elston. This would mean a reduction


Mr. Rushton said his coun­


in area of the new city by 5,000 acres, which appeared to be very little as a final compro­ mise.


West' Bradford, for more than I 40 years, but is now semi- Coun. J. M. Airey, chairman retired. The farm is run by his of Thomley - with - Wheatley son, Jim,


spread into subsidiary roof and ceiling timbers. They have been completely removed and re­ maining ones have been treated


Investigations showed it had


present has also been removed and treated.


dry rot


laminating a new splice on to the main truss and it is hoped that it will be finished within the next week or two.


At the moment workmen are


that their livelihood would be . ,. taken away by the inroads of


| Parish Council, said farmers around Chipping were worried


be reopened. Further work is needed on


I t that event the church will


cleaning , and redecorating the church before the outbreak can be said to have been dealt with completely. These repairs have been


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taking place for more than a month. A number of plans are


already afoot to collect money for a fund to deal with expen­ ses involved. These include an afternoon tea event to be held on May 31st in the schoolroom The Family Church - Anni­ versary Day, Juno 22nd, will


be a special Gift Day ,to cover the first instalment of the costs.


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