CLITHEROE MUNICIPAL ELECTION—MAY 8th M E E T I N G


To be addressed by the Four Conservative candidates a sp in BARNES BUCKINGHAM PEARSON


in THE CONSERVATIVE CLUB, CLITHEROE on MONDAY, APRIL 28th at 8-00 p.m. Published by S. J. Moore, 6 Railway View


CLITHEROE F.C.


BEAT DANCE FRIDAY, MAY 2nd


ST. JOHN AMBULANCE HALL Dancing 8 p.m. — .12 midnight to


“THE HEART” (from Manchester) ADMISSION 5/- — Refreshments


WADDINGTON CRICKET CLUB


SOCIAL EVENING EDISFORD BRIDGE HOTEL


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30th at 8 p.m.


ADMISSION 6/- (12 games and supper)


CLITHEROE AMATEUR FOOTBALL LEAGUE AITKEN SHIELD


SEMI-FINAL RE-PLAY TONIGHT FRIDAY, APRIL 25th


Calderstones v. Gisburn


at EDISFORD BRIDGE Kick Off 6-15 p.m. TOMORROW SATURDAY, APRIL 26th


Chipping v. White Lions at SHAW BRIDGE Kick Off 6 p.m.


NEW ROOMS FOR CITIZENS’ CLUB IN USE SOON


The Abbey Citizens’ Club, under the patronage.of the


Whalley and District Old People’s Welfare' Committee, will soon be using rooms in the Old Grammar School as a


being redecorated and a sink and gas oven are being installed. The rooms are at the rear of


lounge and kitchen. At the moment they are


has about 140 people coming from Billington and Barrow, as well as from Whalley.


programmes including music, whist drives, talks and films, under the leadership of Mr. J. Lancaster. For almost four years it has


I t meets weekly for varied Music


four years old, is stall Increas­ ing its membership and now


the educational p a r t .o f the building and the lounge opens on to the garden. The club, which is nearly


Old .Grammar School, but the new rooms will mean members can drop in for a rest, chat and a cup of tea whenever they like.


of people to be there every day to look after the premises and the members.


I t is hoped to arrange a rota


for by funds and various grants.


The renovations will be paid


coffee morning is to be held at the Old Grammar School and visitors will be able to see the new rooms.


been holding its meetings in the educational room at the


St. John Ambulance Brigade Nursing Cadets


DANCE


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


Friday, 25th April TONIGHT Dancing 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Right of admission reserved


to THE CAVED WELLERS ADMISSION — 3/6


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


Which ? Many people say . . . STEADS


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Typhoo P.G. 2/9


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McDougalls S.R. or PLAIN


Flour - 1/7 PER 3 LB. PACKET


Yoghurt from Ski


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Winalot 1/10


LARGE PACKET 1/9


Sugar 2 lbs FOR


1 / 4


Dairy Butter 3/-


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Coffee - 4/7 PER 4 OZ. JAR


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Baby Foods 2 for 1/1


Heinz Salad


Cream 1/10 100Z, JAR


Spar Peaches 1/6


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Foam 2/8 -.PER-BOTTLE:.


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Cream 3/3 20OZ. JAR


Winalot 6/11


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Windolene 1001 Dry Keimomeat Kattomeat lOd.


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Open all day ,Wednesday


Closed Sat. 1 p.m. LICENCED BAR REFRESHMENTS Holiday


sale and -the event is being run under the supervision of Mrs.


Nearly 100 tickets are out on


C. Pape and the Welfare Com­ mittee.


hopes to hold a Summer Fete. Forty members of. the club


On May 31, the committee


are leaving Whalley an May 2 for their annual week's holiday, and this year they are again going to Oban.


help is needed in cases of slck- nes, etc.


have now been distributed to people living alone to enable them to inform passers-by if


one on request to the com­ mittee.


They are available for any­


topher Bryan Harris, of Chat- bum Park Drive, was detained in Blackburn Royal Infirmary with head injuries and concus­ sion after hitting a wall in his car on Monday afternoon.


A Clitheroe youth, Chris­


Youth hurt in crash


Clitheroe railway station, and tile car was extensively dam­ aged. No other vehicle was involved.


The accident occurred near


attention by a clitheroe doc. tor before being taken to hos­ pital.


Harris was given medical About a dozen mercy lights Next Tuesday, April 29, a


£202 for church organ fund


A bring and buy sale and


coffee morning and evening held by Miss" E. M. Pestle-


thwaite at her home in The Grove, Whalley, and in the


garage of The old House, home of Mrs. b. j. Frost,


raised * 202. It took place on Tuesday


week and the proceeds wiil help to start a fund for the Whalley Parish church organ rebuild. The organ has already had


a recent "emergency opera­ tion” which has made it


playable for a short time. It Is an 18th century organ


with some of the original pipes and well worth pre­ serving. However, the cost of re­


pairs is likely to run into several thousands, and they cannot 'commence until a larger amount has been


raised. Although the bring and


buy 6a!e was organised by Miss Postlethwalte, its sue.


cess was largely due to the added help from so many friends both before and during it.


it was attended by about 160 people from a wide area, in­ cluding Nelson, Burnley, Clitheroe, and Chatburn and a large number of parish­ ioners came from Mitton, where Miss Postlethwaitc is the organist at All Hallows Church at the moment.


Despite tnc bed weather THE PRIDE AND


(or at least ; 1 • hope it knows!) • tha t-1 Whalley once hadr/a,/pretty; for­ midable reputation in the world of cricket.


All Lancashire knows


THE SH AM E . . . Through


i t


tation has declined some­ what, although one can be certain that this partial eclipse is of a very tem­ porary nature, and that be­ fore long opponents’ wickets will be falling like the pro­ verbial ninepins on the ground in Mitton Road. But how many villagers


know that Whalley once boasted a rugby football


team? Not one in a hundred. I ’ll wager. Tile surprising informa­


tion that we had such a team came to me from Mr. J. Michael Green, who in confirmation produced a copy of the now defunct Black-bum Standard dated March 8, 1878. This admirable journal


I t was played on March i in Whalley and the visiting


Betting


the Standard says: “At the end of the game the'Clith­ eroe gentlemen retired from the field on which they had expected and boasted of being about to gain an easy victory, beaten bv one try


Harrison, Birtwell, Birt- whistie, Parker, Peters, Fish, Haworth, Dean, Pateson W., Pateson T., Birtwell, Wil­ liams, Thistiethwaite ,Gom- all and Norwood (Captain) and. the Standard continues, "The play was superb throughout, and It fre­ quently elicited rounds or applause from the numerous company of spectators”. And the result? Read what


‘‘Tlie knowledge that this was Whalley’s first match together with the confidence gained in several recent vic­ tories, led • the Clitheroe gentlemen to expect a walk­ over. Betting was freely in­ dulged in. 6 to 1 on Clith­ eroe being the general rate”. The Whalley team was:


The Standard .comments: In recent years, this repu­ Window


and one disputed try to one try and five touchdowns in defence”. Have J'011 noted this in


Clitheroe? Alas, this Whalley team


months Inter "'hen the home team faced Clitheroe 2nd.. and if the events above re­ lated have given mv f.ilow villagers a sense of elation they can prepare now to hang their heads in shame. Just listen to this:


reported the Whalley team's first match in some detail.


team was—wait for i t folks —Clitheroe.


Penalty


one. Soon after the com­ mencement it was evident to anv observer that the Whalleyites intended to play their usual rough game, more like the Rugby than the Association rules. “Notwithstanding this, the


"The day was a splendid


cull a report of a match again played in Whalley 12


which' started so exultantly only played for onc season and the following year adop­ ted the Association game. From the same source wo


‘Whalley’ boys’ return to hospital for re-union


The time when Calder-


stones Menial Hospilal, Whalley, was the largest military hospital in the British Isles is recalled in the latest edition of the hospital’s


RAMC who served at the hos­ pital will be returning for a re-union. J.F., writing in tiie maga­


magazine- Although designed and built as a mental hospital, Calder-


stones was completed a,t the beginning of the Pu-St world War, and was put into use immediately for military pur­


poses. Tomorrow, members of tile


zine, says tile "Whalley Boys” trained at Calderstcmes and then saw action, ashore and afloat, in every area of com­ bat.


Secretary


written by Mr. Robert Crozier, of BaUycastie. Co. Antrim, the present secretary of the organ­ isation, who says:


He quotes from a letter


pital was recognised as one of the best hospitals in the British Isles. “Col. Robinson called tire


‘Queen Mary’s military hos­


Golden wedding gift is trip to Malta


AT the beginning of May, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cliff,


of Station Road. Whalley, arc leaving for a fort­ night’s holiday in Malta, a golden-wedding present from their four children.


For Mr. Cliff, the holiday will be nostalgic. He was in Malta once before, during the first world war in hospi­ tal seriously ill. and he has always wanted to return.


He doesn’t expect to find much of the Malta he knew left but says, “The sea, the sun and the air will still be the same."


Kitty, liis wife, has never been before, though they have spent many holidays on the Continent.


Mr. and Mrs. Cliff celebrated their golden wedding an­ niversary last Tuesday.


Party


Friends were visiting them all day and the following even­ ing they had Mr. Cliff’s brothers and sisters celebra­ ting with them.


Another party with 23 mem­ bers of the family is taking


place tomorrow' night at the Duke of York Hotel, Grin- dleton. /


Their four children who have paid for their trip to Malta are Mrs. Enid Wagstaff, of; Derbyshire, Mrs. Eileen)"Rob-


■rinson, of Accrington;'Mr. Joe H. Cliff, of Berkshire, and Mr. Alan Cliffe, of Sabden.


They are all married and Mr. and Mrs Cliff have nine grandchildren.


They met during the first world war while Mr. Cliff was serving as a signalman in the Devon Regiment and Mrs. Cliff -was in tlie QMAAC. After their demob they were married in Devon.


Retired


For 40 years, Mr. Cliff was a baker and was employed at Whalley Co-operative Society for 23 years and then took employment at the Calico Printing Asociation in Bar- vow for nine years. He has been retired for more than three years.


Mrs. Cliff worked at tlie Star- kie Anns Hotel, Clitheroe, for 25 years and last week she retired after 11 years as a mother’s help with a Whal­ ley family.


visitors managed to secure one goal and nearly added several others to their score. Shortly before half-time the umpire gave the usual penalty for a rough charge a ‘free kick’, hut this was objected to so boisterously, coupled with choice epithets from the Whalleyites, that tlie Clitheroe captain quietly withdrew his team from the field and returned home. “Resul-t. Cffitheroe 1,


revealed our sporting glory and our sporting shame. Mercifully the names of the team members on this dep­ lorable occasion arc not pub­ lished and, understandably, the Standard departed from its usual custom of refering to the players as “gentle­ men”. \


; j.p.


Whalley, Nil”. . So there we are. I have


Both Mr. and Mrs. Cliff are founder members of the Whalley Church Players and Mr. Cliff is tlie vice-chair­ man of the players’ commit­ tee. His wife is treasurer of the social committee.


For some time, Mr. Cliff was vice-president of the Accring­ ton Football Combination and registration secretary of the C l i th e r o e Amateur League.


Birthday


Mr. and Mrs. Cliff will cele­ brate their golden wedding again in August with an­ other family party in Devon.


Wlfile they are in Malta, Mrs. Cliff will also celebrate her 70th birthday. Her husband is 70 already.


first 300 men who came to Whalley. His 'boys cleaned the different , wards as.-the builders finished them, and equipped them : ready to receive the wounded. “When the hospital was com­


pleted and fully equipped, it had 2,500 beds—the largest military hospital in. Britain at that time.” There are still thought to be


80 to 100 ‘Whalley Boys’ still alive, although age and infir­ mity makes it impossible far some of them to attend the annual re-union dinner. •


Whalley phones go


on STD Whalley’s 900 telephone subscribers will be able to enjoy the benefits of quicker and cheaper trunk dialling service, when STD is introduced within the next seven weeks. As a preliminary to the


APRIL JUNE..-.


Room to grow. Bid you know your child’s feet grow as much as


half a size every three months ? So a Sandal that fits correctly in Spring can be


dangerously tight by mid-Summcr. ThisiswhyCIarkssandalsaremadewilh special


introduction of Subscriber Trunk Dialling, it is necessary to change the code which is used to dial the .operator. This will take place in Whalley- at 8 a.m. on April 30.


ing six weeks, the service will become automatic. . The calls will still go


' Some time within the follow­


through the Whalley ex­ change.


soon be receiving booklets ex­ plaining how to use STD and giving details of dialling codes and charges for the exchanges they will be able to dial.


Whalley subscribers will PHASE TWO


UNDER WAY The second phase of the extensions to Whalley Church of England School is now underway, though the headmaster. Mr. J. S. R Shaw, is still unable to say when they will be finished. This phase includes the


T* BEDTIME Why pay


building of a new classroom and the conversion of the old hall into a kitchen. Lighting has still to


..Progress -witSi-the - work-has been made and Mr. Shaw, now says the school is , “A straighten than it was.” One class is still being accom­


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modated in the Methodist Sun­ day School, and will be there for some time.


Cricket teams


The teams for Whalley 1st and 2nd Elevens to play Baxcn-


den away and at home respec­ tively on Sunday, will be: First Eleven: G. Ireland, G.


Topham, J . . Peters, J. Rudd, N. Duckworth, A. Anderson, D. Blezard, M. Gorton, J. Threl- fall. P. Shuttleworth, T. Par­ kinson. Reserve: R. Singleton.


-B. Peters, K. Abrahams, J. Parkinson.’ Reserves: C. Brad­ ley, P. Bradley.


J. Peters Jnr. R. Singleton. E. Suddafoy, W. Entwistlc, P. Sut- diffe, G. Davenport, B. Emmett,


Second Eleven: G. Ainsworth,


spoke on antiques at the monthly meeting of -the . Whal­ ley Women’s Institute in the Old Grammar School recently.


Antiques talk ■air. P. - Field, of Clitheroe,


w i th favourite antiques brought by members, provi­ ded material for comments on choice, value, dates etc. - .


assortment of pottery,: glass and pewter which., together


He brought along a varied


over by Mrs. V. Shearman. Mrs. E. F. Haslam thanked Mr. Field for his talk on the behalf of 'the - audience.


bears of; that 20th century phenomenon,- ■ the juvenile delinquent! •


LANCASHIRE EDUCATION COMMITTEE


Clitheroe and District Adult Centre


CLITHEROE, WHALLEY, PENDLETON, CHATBURN


SUMMER SESSION CLASSES NOW OPEN


For details of classes see. last weeks paper or apply to The Principal, Clitheroe and District Adult Centre; York Street, CUtheroe


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OTLEY SHOW IWHTT SAT.—24th"MAY


Entries close 5th May


Mrs. K. M. Innes, 15 Bridge Street, otley


Yorks. Phone: Otley 2541 Perhaps they were the for­


FILLING STATION PLAN


REFUSED An application to build


twin filling stations on either side of the Clitheroe— Whalley by-pass at Borrow has been turned1 down ;■ by


Clitheroe Rural Council. There was - no justification,


said tile council, for accepting the - traffic V dangers which; are inherent, in the formation of accesses to or from- a petrol filling station.


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No port of the', new road is far; from'the existing road on


which • filling stations are situated, and. there .; will be several - roadconnections be­ tween the new and old roads.


while on the new road would not - be' greatly t Inconvenienced


Drivers who required fuel


tinguished burning rubbish on the-floor of a disused' barn i at the rear of the Astiieton - Arms, Downham, on Monday .after­


Downham fire Glitheoe Fire Brigade ex­


noon. -


by having to use the existing facilities. ■


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: In addition, ' tlie proposal was, not in accord with the provisions of. the county devel­ opment plan,! in ; which the land is shown to be within an area which: it ; is - expected will remain in-its existing'use. *:


great landscape value and it was considered • that the erec­ tion -of twin; filling !stations would be injurious . to visual amenity.


I t is also within an area of The meeting was presided


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