Funeral of Mr. Clifford Cowgill


One of Clitheroe’s leading per­ sonalities for many years, Mr Cowgill was principal of John Cowgill and Son, The


Mr John Clifford Cowgill, owner until six years ago of the Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times, died at his home, Greenways, West Bradford Road, Waddington, yesterday week. He was 69.


He and his father and grand­ Printers, Market Place.


Extremely active until a few years ago, when he suffered ill health. Mr Cowgill took a


father had long associations with newspapers in Clith­ eroe, dating back to the time when there were two —the Weekly Advertiser and the Clitheroe Times. He was a member of the Master Printers Federation.


great interest in public affairs in Clitheroe. Captain


He played cricket for Clitheroe and at one time was opening


He was captain of Clitheroe Golf Club in 1954-55. and was a past president of the


batsman for the first eleven.


RAMBLING IN A WINTER LANDSCAPE


Last weekend saw the final Saturday run of the Ribblc


bus service to Settle via Bohon-by-Bowland and we four young men—young in spirit, if not in years—decided to


halted for a few minutes on the bridge which spans the Ribble. The river was not full due to the recent dry weather, with frost and snow on occasions, and there was little water from the stream tributaries, We saw the weir with its fish


to the west, driven by a biting east wind, and cold rain stung our faces as we set out through the town for the river and the open country. Taking the Clapham road, we


Mr. Clifford Cowgill .


For many years he was chair­ man of Clitheroe Operatic and Dramatic Society, later becoming president.


club. He was president and a former captain of the Lancashire Stationers Golf­ ing Society.


An old boy cf Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, ho was


In his younger days he was a member of the District Club,


was appointed president in 1956.


and was a keen snooker player.


Master


He moved from Clitheroe to Waddington in 1963, and joined the Waddington branch of the British Legion and the village reading •room.


During the First World War, he served in France with the ■Welsh Regiment, and in the second war was a member of the Clitheroe War Weapons Week committees.


He was a past master of the Castle Lodge of Freemasons and a founder member of Keep Lodge.


Mr Cowgill leaves a widow, Gertrude Ada. and .two sons. The elder son, Bryan Cow­ gill, is head of BBC tele­ vision sports outside broad­ casts, and the other son, John, is a director of the family business.


the first secretary of the Old Clitheronians Associa­ tion. formed in 1921, and


rough weather, and with ample food in their ruck sacks, we arrived in Settle. It was raining and cold but we were not deterred. Clouds were low and scudding


join the last trip and caught lhe 9-6 a-m- bus. Well-shod and clothed for


busy flying up and down the river, just above the water, and occasionally alighting on a stone in the river. Not once did we see it making the char­ acteristic dip which gives it its name. We crossed the narrow bridge


versicolour, but thinner; it is marked in yellowish brown zones concentrically. Not far away the dipper was


Sch oo l , modernised and


ton and West Bradford Church of England Primary


The re-dcsignetl Wadding-


extended at a cost of £16,000, was opened officially on Saturday by Lady Clegg. She was accompanied by


Was performed by the Bishop of Bradford, tho Rt. Rev. Clement George St. Michael


Clegg declared their confi­ dence in a village school, and Sir Alec said he thought a good rural school was one of the best possiblo starts for a child. Among the 200 people who


Parker, and the Vicar of Waddington, Canon C. F. Goodchild, presided. Both Sir Alec and Lady


attended was the headmaster, Mr. Gordon Bottomley. and other members of tho staff. The school built by pub­


and made for Stainforth. Nine wild duck rose in confusion from the river, and on the other bank four ewes hugged the wall for shelter against the bitter wind. Lunch at Stainforth, and we


pass on the right, built to enable salmon to get up the river to the spawning beds.


into a short lane on the right. Our objectives were Stainforth foss and Catrigg foss.


Leaving the bridge we turned Slinging


stopped in a barn porch to make necessary adjustments, and then we were off again through the fields where we encountered more snow drifts


tramping through snow and the wind was finding its way beneath our clothing. We


We soon found ourselves


and the rain lashed our faces, stinging sharply. Following the river we came


to Locks weir at Langcliffe, which had also figured in official inquiries in the middle of the 19th century. Here the water had been diverted above the weir for use at the paper mill and then returned to the river bed lower down through a goyt.


end of the goyt the river bed “was as dry as the floor of the room" said one witness at an inquiry. Our next stretch was between


Between the weir and the


lic subscription for less than , £900 in 1887. now has four new classrooms, further toilet accommodation, a hall, a self-contained kitchen and staff and storerooms. One of the main features


were off again making our way up tlie steep Goat Scar Lane. The snow plough had cleared the first 40 yards or so, and after that it was a case of negotiating many drifts across the road.


road, where we had to go left down a slope to get to Catrigg Force. We should have gone through a gate but the gate was hidden under a six-foot snow­ drift, over which we walked and made our way down the


We arrived at a bend in the


head of the Force. Cowsidc Beck, which first


sees light of day on Black Hill and becomes Stainforth beck below Catrigg Force, was hid­ den by ice and snow until it reached the rocky falls where it emerged from a cornice of frozen snow to plunge down the G


scene as it fell down the lime­ stone gorge in three falls. I t was bounded on each side with snow frozen to the rocks; trees on each side had twigs and


O foot drop. I t made a very impressive


branches lined with snow. We descended to the foot of


the river bank and Willy Wood to a stiie opposite the paper mill. At the edge of the wood we saw some fine fungi-Poly- porous betulinus—on the fallen trunk of a silver birch. Beyond the stile we came to a


The Mayor of Clitheroe, Coun. S. F Hardman, and the chief constable of Blackburn, Mr R. R. Bibby, were among the


the falls, proceeding with great care down the snow-covered slopes until we were at the stream level. Here we saw the full grandeur of the Force' in near Arctic conditions.


Museum


steep bank and some hazardous walking. The snow was varied, hard and soft in places, then we saw a wonderful sight as we approached Stainforth foss.


Representatives of all the organisations with which Mr Cowgi'l had been asso­ ciated were present, along with members of his staff, former editors of the Adver­ tiser and Times, and fellow printers.


many who attended the funeral service at Clitheroe Parish church on Monday.


The service was followed by cremation at Pleasington


Masonic brethren were the bearers at the service, which was conducted by the vicar, the Rev. J. C. Hudson.


Icicles


tous bank, and water draining from fields above had frozen and formed a curtain of icicles, some as long as 14 feet. Here at the foss. the river


Across the river is a precipi­


our way back to Settle by Upper Winskill and below Langcliffe Scar, encountering some deep drifts on the way. Once or twice we were thigh deep in the snow. At Settle we were to pay a


Leaving the Force we made


of the alterations is the design of the new classrooms. They have got away from the outdated idea of a square room with rows of desks facing a blackboard. Now there is a central


her husband. Sir Alec Clegg, Chief Education Officer of the West Riding County Council. Tho dedication ceremony


Should'houses be built on Street?


the former coal sidings be­ tween Bawdlands and Moss


NOISY-BUT YOU GET USED TO IT


wore to open negotiations with because of the noise from British Rail to buy the land, Passing trains,


Clitheroe Borough Council I using the land for housing mented. “ but it is tlie traffic


but some residents of nearby a Moss Street housewife houses doubt tne wisdom of | whose homo is within 50 yards of the railway commented, "If tlie council does build houses on the old coalyard, the new


Busy road separates pensioners


from pillarbox


Whalley's elderly people of the engines than of the . . .


have to cross the busy A59| hooters, trunk road to post their letters


Now 78-year-old widow, Mrs. "The hooters and whistles . -


Alice Marlin, of Accrington are not too bad. You can get Road, has organised a petition used to them, but it's the asking for a post box to be engines that are the worst." placed on that^sldeo^ the road. | He ac[.dcU, "One stopped


bpthe A59, the elderly people have holl™Ci t really was a nuisance, “ The noise does not keep me


near Princes Street, was trails ferred to the opposite side of


Ever since the sub-post office,


en afraid to cross the busv 11011 ^ road to post their letters.


Whalley Parish Council. Disappointed


y


than 90 people, many of them awake or dozing and a diesel over 75—has been handed to stops, you have difficulty in


The petition—signed by more awake all night, but 1-------- -------------


the Parish Council, lias sent I the petition to Blackburn’s postmaster


And Mr. J'Holden clerk to |


lands, a housewife living a few doors away from Mr Brether- agreed with *huTviews"


"The worst thing of all is when the diesels stop at night


street and Woodlands Drive, gins noise.”


in Accrington Road. Sydney is very annoying because it Avenue Manor Road, Queen sounds like a continuous drag-


Siened bv residents who live with their engines running. It


the petition reads: “Wo the she added, however, that the undersigned were very dis- whistles and hooters did not appointed to read that a re- bother her, as she had got quest for a pillar box on our used to them,


side of the A59 Has been turned Margavet Hargreaves, down by the postmaster.


of old people wlio dread having ha(J Jived at Bawdlands for to cross this road to post a about 14 years and was accus- letter. The traffic is continuous tcmed


“In this area there are a lot ,. o]d clithcronian,’’ said she who described herself as an


all day and is very dangerous. . ° “On the opositc side of the | „ j hear the brains when they


teaching area, where desks are grouped together in small lots. Each classroom has two


will reconsider his decision." Mrs. Ma rti n said, “Ten


bays; a "practical" and a "home." One is for- work such as pottery-making, and woodwork, and the other where the children may relax, read, or do other quiet work. Left to right in the picture


“We hope that the postmaster 1


houses out of 12 on this road are occupied by old people in their seventies, eighties and nineties. They are frightened of crossing the road, particularly as there are now three traffic lanes on part of tlie road." Mrs. Martin said that recent­ ly one of her neighbours had


aro tho Bishop of Bradford, Lady Clegg, and Mr. Bottqm- ley.


No longer on the Bench


last chairman of Bowland Rural Council to be an ex offi­ cio magistrate.


Coun. Mrs. S. J. Dow, is the


letter from the Lord Chan­ cellor's office ruling that from this month, council chairmen are to be no longer regarded as magistrates during their term of office. The lettter added that tlie


School had


a narrow escape when a vehicle had to pull.up sharply. “ I f there was ofp.hn- box in-the wall we would feci safer."


no oil Parents’ complaints about


to be resited on the opposite lack of oil were answered at side of the toad.


p The Parisli Council is to School, Billineton, due to Tuesday s meeting of the


ress for one of the pillar boxes , , f ..


Coun. J. H. Fell, said. "We have every sympathy with the old people and se feel that a post box is a necessity."


The council hove received a Fishing rights Fishing rights on the


existing chairman would carry on until the end of the term of office, but the new’ chairman would not be an ex officio magistrate.


visit to the Pig Yard Club Museum in Constitution Hill, for which the late ‘Tot” Lord was largely responsible, and w'hich is now cared for by members of his family. Here we saw wonderful ex­


falls over a succession of lime­ stone steps into a pool 30 feet deep—a foss is a waterfall—and nearby we found a tree stump standing erect and about six feet, tall on which were hun­ dreds of fruit bodies of the fun­ gus polystictus versicolour which is not unlike trametes


hibits of all kinds, including implements of the stone, iron and bronze ages, also remains of prehistoric animals found in various caves in the area. This museum is worth a visit


RAMBLER. Auction Mart reports


CLITHEROE At the fortnightly prize


sale of in-calf cattle at Clith­ eroe Auction Mart on Fri­ day, the entry of 89 was severely curtailed by wintry


conditions. The weather did not stop the


trade resulted. The e n t r y included the


cows to £101; summer calving voung cows to £102; short-


favourable trade. Quotations: s h o r t - dated


customers from arriving, how­ ever, and a very useful selling


annual consignment of young cows and heifers from Mr. G. Geldard, and these met a vary


dated heifers to £100; summer calving heifers to £96; cows average; £81: heifers averaged


£83 The Judges, Messrs J. C. Nel-


sor, of O la p ham, and R. Stively, of Ingleton, awarded the following; Cow: 1, Nuttau Bros, of Rochester; 2, J. C.


09 cattle, 352 north country hoggs, local hoggs and ewes and 58 pigs were on offer. , Quotations: S. L. Steers


Fawcett of Bamaore. . . At Monday’s Fatstock Sale,


212s; light steers 190s to 219s; medium steers 198s to 210s; heavy steers 190s; light heifers 2lls; medium heifers; 211s; re­ jects, black and white heifers sold with grade 236s; quality cows 124s to 160s; other , cows


to 116s. 'North country, hog*6 ld 10


4s 5d; local hoggs 3s 5d to 4s 4d; horned ewes 30s to 95s; half-bred ewes, 115s to - 122s-, rams 82s. Pigs; Porkers 33s to 38s;


cutters 33s to 36s; bacon 32s 6d to 35s; over-weight 27s. At Tuesday's weekly prize


show and sale of newly-calved cattle and calves, there was an Increased entry of Dairy cattle, which met a favourable trade before a good attendance. Calves met an improved


trade. Quotations; Cows to £114;


heifers to £123; rearing calves to £27 15s; bobby calves to £5. The judges, Messrs. J. Green-


April calvers to £84; May calvers to £76; June calvers •to £84; July calvers to £76, Coloured March calvers to £80 April calvers to £58; June calvens to £57.


cows and heifers, including fully accredited on offer yester­ day week, and they met seasonable trade.


There were 69 newly-calved


1, Mrs. E. A. Drinkall and Sons, £115 2, F. H. Wrathall £106; 3, A. Moorliouse, £105. Coloured cow: 1 and 2, Mrs.


Prizes: Black and white cow


halgh, of Bashall Eaves, and A. Haworth, of Ramsbottom, awarded the following: Heifer: 1, A. B. Cowking, of Newton; 2, F. Smalley, of Clitheroe. Cow: 1, J. C. Fawcett of Barnsacre: 2, Robinson and Spensley Ltd. of Clitheroe.


GISBURN At the fortnightly prize


show and sale of in-calf dairy cattle at Gisburn Auc­ tion-Mart on Tuesday week, the 97 animals on offer met


a . good trade.. Prizes: In-calf cow: 1, W. Pennington, £90; 2, J. Middle-


Sprigers to £95; black and white Match calvers to £90;


ton, £95; 2, J. Grimshaw, £70. Prices: Black and ' white


ton, £84. In-calf lieifer: 1, J. Middle-


E. A. Drinkall and Sons, £75 3, J. Harrison, £95. Black and white heifer:


2 and 3, F. Paxton, £116. Chief prices: Black and


THE CAR


to see all the fine specimens on view. It is closed to the public at present, but will be opening shortly in new premises.


~ j


Tlie chairman of the council divisional education execu- tivc.


received complaints from par­ ents about staff and. pupils being kept on the premises when -there was no oil in the


Mrs. B. Vickery said she had


school. Mr. E. J. Fox. -Divisional


Calder at Whalley, alongside P ^ we e de i d • X


U%even" fenders for ”tlie ri^its dered unwise to send them were considered by the council’s h0ln<'. ^


waterworks, sewerage and not have been m to caie for cleaning committee on Mon- them.


cieuimi0 iMi day.


‘CRESTA RALLY


on which all tho competitive driving was to be done were cancelled, and those that sur­ vived looked more like the Cresta Run. with cars sliding down like huge bobsleighs. This, of course, slowed down


Many of the special stages


the drivers, ail except Colin Malkin, who was really trying. Tlie crowds, which never fail to gather at tricky bends were kept busy lifting cars out of snow-filled ditches. Even our own Clitheroe and District Motor Club members entered one of these, after hitting snow a foot deep. For anyone who has never


Rat sent for disease


tests A rat caught in a trap in


been to spectate on a forest stage .it is worth the trip just for the atmosphere that pre­ vails in every crowd.


strongly as specml stages, and one of these, Wombleton, had to be used twice to make up for the lost forest stages.


Disguised airfields featured Finished


white cows to £115; black and white heifers to £125; coloured cows to £95.


sheep. 13 pigs and 60 calves on offer in the Fatstock Sec­ tion.


Light steers 190s to 218s; light heifers 190s. to 218s; medium heifers 219s; fat cows 100s. to 174s. Sheep: Uncertified hoggs


Quotations: certified cattle


(each) £5 to £7 7s; ewes (each) 20s. to 100s. Pigs: Porkers 35s. to 37s. Gd cutters 36s. 9d. to 37s. 6d,


Calves: Killers (each) £3 15s. to £4 17s. 6d; rearers (each) £5 to £30 10s. At the weekly sale of in-pig


There were 79 cattle, 62


Trevor Roberts and Roy Honeywell, and Peter Clarke and Jeff Smith—both finished the-whole route, and at the end of the first period found they had beaten Colin Malkin, who had, just managed to scrapo into the first half of the 120 entries. : The complete results will not be available' in time for this week’s edition, but they aro expected to have done we’l. ; The rally will certainly not go down in the books as the best ever held; the general Op’nion was that it should not have gone on, and the protests Will be arriving thick and fast at the RAC Sports Dept.


gilts, sows and store pigs. 44 store pigs made from £6 to £6 5s.


; Club, and a slot-car racing competition will be held, D»f..H


Selby Fork, tired competitors and service crews made their wray home through thick fog to a well-deserved rest. The next club meeting will be on Tuesday' at Low’ Moor


After breakfast and a rest at The two Clitheroe crews—


sent for laboratory examina­ tion because a case of leptos­ pirosis, or Weil’s disease, has been discovered in the area.


RUN’


The Seven Dales Rally last week-end was torn apart | by the previous week's severe winter weather, and much


| Mr poj. {l)so eXp]amed that


^ " ^ c a r e 'f o r ,


there would have been difficul­ ties in getting the children home because they were taken to and from school by a bus service.


Walking for pleasure


Rambler, Mr. Bernard Shar-


of the planned route had to be changed as the rally pro-1 pies^ o ^ CiitherM, aressed.


| f0r nleasure" at a meeting of Whalley Methodist Men's Fel­ lowship on Friday. Mr. Sharpies showed speci­


mens of fossils and fungi and slides of the surrounding Coun­


tryside.


Rushton and the host was Mr. G. Frankland.


New notices


the Bowland area has been phone from here" notices in- - ■ ’


New style "You may tele- ' 1 oorporating the international


Rural Council’s public health inspector, told members of th® council on Monday that a man living on a small farm in Clitheroe rural district, but W


Mir R. R. Overend. Bowland


works in Bowland, has con­ tracted the disease.


’ho


from which a Settle man died tw’o years ago.


It. is a serious complaint,


by rats and it is for this reason that traps have been set so the rats can be sent to Preston to trace the source of the Infec­ tion.


The infection can be carried


man. who lias ubt been named is improving in hospital.


Fcvci’


that a farm worker in the Mitton area had been suffering from tm-dulcnt fever. Investigations revealed that


Mr Overend also reported


the milk drunk by the farm staff had not been pasteurised. A blood test was carried out


on all 60 cows in the herd and 15 reactors were found. Seme of the affected cows were slaughtered nnd the milk from the rest sent f°r Pasteurisation. Only milk from “clear” cows


is now . beinB taken by . farm staff.


It is understood that the ,


symbol for the telephone—the outline of a handset—are now available from the Post Office to people who rent coin-box telephones.


Talk on


Mexico Thirty members of Clith


croc Young Farmers’ Club met in the Grammar School for a talk and slide show given by Mrs. Marsdcn, of Waddington, on her trip to last year’s Mexico Olympics She had some excellent pic­


tures of the games and also of the outlying country and


Mexico Oity. Mr. Marsden worked , tlie pro­ .


lowed and the dub was con­ gratulated' on winning the Regional Club Efficiency com­ petition, and will now go for­


ward to the County. In tlie senior quiz. Clitheroe


highest individual scorer. -


A team played Clitheroe B and won with the scores A, 81; B, 60. Margaret Bailey was tlie


by Margaret Bailey. The business meeting fol­


jector.Thanks were expressed John Moorhouse nnd seconded


The chairman was Mr. F. „„ _


th« Mo°sSide Sociafanc Ang- Because the pupils o*me from of Manchester ! such a wide area it was consi-


a heating failure at St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic


the noise of the


road there arc two boxes within | ]j]ow their whistles,” she corn- 200 yards.


, you are


getting back t° sleep again. Another resident of Bawd-


Travel talk


to Greece was the subject of a talk given to a meeting of Edis- ford Park Ladies Club on Tues­ day. Mr. B. Boardman illustrated


1 journey through Europe


his talk with slides of the jour­ ney. He was thanked by Mrs. K. Turner.


outside my house a few ngnts ago and stayed there, with its engine running, for about two


Engine


noise that most annoys me. Mrs Frances Hayhurst, of


Moss Street, said, “ I t’s quite annoying, but you get used to the noise after a while. I have lived here for 20 years and it does not bother me now.”


I residents will have to put up with quite a lot of noise until


I kept me awake several times, but after a while you get used to it. If you wake up in the middle of the night and there is a diesel engine outside, it’s very difficult to get back to


I they get used to it." She added, "The noise nas


of Moss Street, said that tho trains did not bother her at all now that she was used to them,


And Miss Elsie Weaver, also


poration Street, summed it up: I t doesn’t worry me at all.


I sleep again." Mr \V. Bretherton, of Ba.wd-


I lands, said that there were I quite a lot of diesel trains going through Clitheroe, and com-


, plained more about the noise An elderly man from Cor­


I ’m a heavy sleeper, and it would take more than a few


whistles and hooters to keep me awake.”


New managers appointed


on the new managing body of the Read Church of England School were appointed at the divisional education meeting on Tuesday.


Two-representatives to serve


and Mrs. II. M. Green. The school has recently been


transferred from aided to con­ trolled status.


J


Mr. and Mrs. A. Taylor pic­ tured after their wedding at


S.S. Michael and John’s Church, Clitheroe. on Saturday. The bride, formerly Miss


Anne Paulinas Wilson, is the elder- daughter of Mr. and Mrs.


They are Miss Alice Alston CLITHEROE


COUPLE MARRY The wedding took place at


Clitheroe Register Office on Saturday, of Mr. Harry Chat- burn second son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Chatburn, of Castle View. Clitheroe, and Mrs. Burnice Patricia Pujsza. second daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. G. Hitchon, of Alma Place, Clilheroc.


AN EASY RUN TO GLASSON DOCKS


When one considers -the early season chase for miles that


is going on at the moment in an attempt to get fit lor the coming year, it was surprising that not more of the experi­ enced Clarion Cycling Club members took advantage of a glorious day to join the club run to Glasson Docks on


Sunday. It could not ha.ve been that


turned out, were delighted at the end of the day that then- first run should have been so


it was too far. because two completely new riders who


easy. Leaving Clitheroe along that


white wool suit with a match­ ing hat and navy blue acces­ sories. She carried a spray of white carnations.


The bride wore a pink and


sister, was matron of honour, and she wove a spring lilac suit with navy blue accessories, and carried a spray of mixed freesia.


Mrs. Enid Hall, the bride’s


Mr. Michael Hall, the bride's nephew. Miss Gillian Forrest and


Chatburn, the bridegroom's brother, and groomsman was


Best man was Mr. William


Master David Forrest, niece and nephew’ of the bridegroom, presented the couple with horseshoes. Tlie bridegroom is employed


h - - 4 4dui


W. Wilson. , cf Sh-.vwbridge Street. Clitheroe. and tlie bride­ groom, Mr. Alan Taylor, who lives in Wigan, is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Taylor. The ceremony was performed


Clitheroe Advertiser lin'd Times. February 28, 1969 7


by Fr. B. Dobsin. Picture: Mrs. A. Stretch, of Chatburn.


by B. Dugdale and Sons, and the bride by Henthom Manu­ facturers. Among the gifts they received


were a set of towels and mats from the bride's colleagues, and an electric fire from the bride­ groom’s colleagues.


tion at the Edisford Bridge Inn, are to live at Newton Street, Clitheroe. Photograph by Pye’s, of clith­


The couple, who held a recep­ eroe.


notoriously rough stretch of road that goes under the name Edisford Road—what an


approach to . our new baths site—we were quickly over the border into Yorkshire, the country’ that provides the Clitheroe section with most of its runs. After only a few miles it


was back into the red rose county, and we were riding into tho area that has been desig­ nated part of a new ‘city.’ Heaven forbid when a mere


run to the coast involves the negotiation of miles of streets


and houses instead of the peace and beauty of our countryside. Such, I suppose, is the price we pay for progress.


Show


visit 'Joe’s Cafe,' a long-time venue for cyclists and a popu­ lar port of call on Clitheroe’;


At Longridge we paused to list.


saddle, we turned our wheels towards Inglewliite and, still within sight of Longridge as wo approached Daisy Barn, we encountered large piles of snow by the roadside. Still more snow was heaped


When we returned to the


along the road as we negot: wted Bourne Brow, indicating that the road must have been blocked only a few days before. A quick turn in the centre of


Garstang brought us up to the Croston Barn traffic lights, and, after crossing a yet-quiet A6. we were rolling through Park Lane and Cockerham.


on to’ the little-used road through Thurnhnm and very soon we could see the tali’


Going into Glasson we turned


masts of the boats in the upper basin and, towering over all, like some sort of guardian, the tall jib of the container services cnanc, which domi­ nates the salt water dock. We did not spend very long


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MOOR LANE EWOONE LANE CLITHEROE • TEL 2683


in Glasson as we wanted to be home ear'll’ ' for an evening committee meeting. Apart from one or two


Take a lesson in beauty from


minor details, we followed our outward route on the return journey. We found that a stiff head­


arrived home. In order- to givo members


wind had developed during the day, but we still had plenty of daylight in hand when we


and new riders chance to plan ahead, here is tlie full list along with the run leaders; March 16: Laugher Lane,


sec the Clayton Veto C.C. road race, starting at 9 a.m. Leader T. Hoyle. March 16: Laugher Lane,


starting 9 a.m. Leader: D, Thornber. A good selection of runs,


9 a.m. Leader: C. Nightingale, March -30: Bowland Knotts,


racing at Goosnnrgh, starting at 9 a.m. Leader: J. Bailey. March 9: Holcombe Brook to


starting 9 a.m. Leader: B Nightingale. . March 23: Ling Gill, starting


none of them too long, to suit any rider. Why not join us on one of them? Better still, on all, SPRITE


Delegates


annual meeting of the Lan­ cashire Association of Divi­ sional Executives next month were appointed at the divisional, education executive meeting


Two ■ delegates to attend tlie


on Tuesday. They are Mrs. D. M. Walker


and Mr. S. A. Barnes. .


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