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THE PARISH, HALL ? Open meeting will decide
Parishioners o£ St. Mary’s Church, Clitheroe, are being invited by the Vicar, the
Rev. 3. C. Hudson, to attend an open meeeting to discuss the possibility ot haying a licensed social club in the parish hall. The scheme is a controversial one and is cer- tain to meet strong opposition from some sections of the congregation. ---------------- It is understood that the idea was first mooted 18 months ago, when Canon Alan Clarice was vicar.
The Parochial Church Council discussed it- at length and on a majority decision went ahead with further investi-
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cation by Whatley Golf Club for a new clubhouse and a car park for 63 cars has met
OPPOSED Ail outline planning appli
with opposition. The present house, considered
to be one of the most modern in the district, has to come down to make way for' the Whalley eastern bypass. The club is proposing to site
gations into the proposals. A party of council members visited a church a’t'Ghoriey
where a social club, on a considerably larger, scale than that envisaged for Clitheroe, is already in existence.
on the left of the main entrance to the Parish Hall m Church Street, should beconverted into a club and a bar installed. , A loan has been offered by a brewery company -for the
The proposal is that the Mutual Room and the Scout Room, purpose..
Details of how the club would operate—opening hours ana membership, for instance—
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Hudson says it will be possible to go ahead with the scheme if sufficient support is forthcoming.
the new one near the junction of Fortfield Road and Sabden Road but some people fear that additional traffic hazards would be caused at what is already regarded as a dangerous junc tion.
supporting the objections and sending them to the county council, who are dealing with the planning application. The objectors are County Coun. Basil Greenwood, of
Clitheroe Rural Council is ..................
Clerk Hill, Whalley, Mr. J. R. Middleton, of Poftfield Cottage and Mr. F. K. Moriey. of Port-
■ County-, c o u n . Greenwood says "the road is hot Wde'enough for
tional stress would be caused to his valuable herd of cows and that the narrow Sabden Road is already inadequate for the amount of troffie .it carries.
two vehicles to pass... , Mr. Middleton .arid Moriey
field Farm. Mr. Moriey says that addi
IMPORTANT MATTER
The open meeting will take :place on December 10 at 7-30 p.m., and the Vicar says: “This is an important matter which
to speak.
for the first time into the Parish Hall for the Annual Ball. Some doubts were expressed about it before the Ball took
I t was only this year that a licensed bar was introduced . ,
place, but the event, was so orderly that many people who had previously, opposed the idea changed their' minds. An application has now been made to the magistrates for
that it would provide more comfortable accommodation for the many meetings that take place in the Parish Hall each month. . . . a point that the church council must have iff the forefront of their minds as they pursue their deliberations sitting on hard wooden chairs.
a licensed bar for next year's ball on January 9. One of the advantages of the social club would be
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will clearly affect the future of the parish.’’ He hopes that parishioners will go along both to listen and
, Writing in the December edition of the Parish News, Mr. • .
-are still to be worked out, it is •
Ail is quiet again on the Do'wnham Road “batllcfronl”, where blasting Tor the by-pass wort nearby houses.
Gliding club gets ^o-ahead
on farm Cock Hill Farm. Fiddlers
Lane, Chipping, is to be used as a gliding site by-members of Blackpool and Eyldc Glid
are concerned about .the pos sible fall in the value of their properties and about the noise likely to be caused late at night by revving engines and slam ming doors. They also mention
cooking smells. Party cash
People's Welfare Committee have received a £25 contribu tion towards their Christmas party on December 17 from Blackburn Rural Council. At their meeting on Monday,
Whalley and District Old £12 10s. BE EXTENDED ' . AT
CHATBURN ROAD? An assurance • that tremendous improvements would
be taking place at Tarmac (Roadstone) Holdings Ltd. to prevent dust and noise has been given to the surveyor and
public health inspector of Clitheroe Rural Council. Mr. H. Cockshutt reported to ------------
tile council on Monday that he had attended a meeting with Tarmac Ltd. along with rep resentatives of the county planning department. The meeting had been called
Clitheroe Rural Council deci ded to make a contribution of
area. Mr. Cockshutt told them
by the company to seek the council’s views on further quarrying in the Chatburn Road
that the council would object most strongly' and the public would expect the dust nuisance
*‘ 'The ’application': by tffe club lor the use of the land and
ing Club,after all. . .
erection of club buildings has been approved by the county planning’ and development com
mittee. In a letter to Clitheroe Rural
Council, the county council say that the rural council’s objec tions have been considered. The rural council had pre viously expressed concern that gliding would bring more traffic on- to the already congested' lanes around chipping. The letter says provision
it has again damaged
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r,ably_^dy)/lyjnc\vn.i I t isn’t i notably a clem one, "either. But in matters concerning
industrial grim0 and air pol lution, one would not nor mally mention it in the same breath as some of our Lanca shire neighbours, .
we saw it on Wednesday from a d stance of a few miles across -open - country.
So it came as something of a shock to see clitheroe as
to be remedied before more quarrying took place. The company said that tre
would be made within the site for the parking of members’ cars. I t was felt that the park ing of cars near the site would be essentially “short stay’’ park ing.
mendous improvements would be taking place and Mr. Cock shutt told them that a close watch would be kept. Mr. Cockshutt’s report was
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83 are
unemployed A total of 83 people were
out of work in Clitheroe oh November 10, according to the Clitheroe office of the' Department of Employment
of the workforce, the same per centage as was recorded in the previous month, and at the same time last year. . The North Western Regional
and Productivity. This represented 0.9 per cent
Remote
ramic- views of -the- sport will be obtained'from’more remote
accepted by th e . council, who agreed with his remarks.
‘More interesting and pano
considered that gliding would not he detrimental to the natural beauty of the Forest of Howland, nor would the site intrude on the higher open areas-which are to remain as a wilderness. “The facilities provided for
vantage points’ as well as Beacon Fell -'where-the- country park facilities will include car parking and it 5s considered that ‘long term’ parking can be adequately catered for." ■ The letter-continues: “It is
couldn't see Chtheroe at all. it was hidden, castle and all beneath a dark blanket of smoke which was trapped be tween Pendle Hill and Wad
To be more aejurat,’, one
weather had something to do with It. The air was still and almost cloudless.
dington Fell. No doubt the. keen frosty
just a dirty smudge in the valley.
- And there lay Clitheroe
that maybe we don’t take air pollution a n y t h i n g like seriously enough. We are in clined to think of it being al most exclusively a “big town'
The point about all this is „ , , . .
problem. Which clearly, ' t is not. Let the Borough Council
therefore stop procrastinating and make the smoke control orders- that are so urgently
the gliders will diversify the recreational activities in this area and add to the interest of the area for visitors." Regarding .the rural council’s
needed.The anti-fluonde cam paigners might also consi der that smoke too is a mass medication we can well do
figure was 2.5 per cent on November 10, which was 0.1 per cent less than-in October. ■ Fiftytwo jobs are : currently available for men and 62 for women in Clitheroe.
concern about the enforcement of use of land for gliding only, the letter states that one of the conditions is that no powered' aircraft will operate from the site. The- club has its present
without. Air pollution - won t end
there, of course. We'll still have to put up with the exhaust fumes pouring from private cars and h e a v y
premises at Blackpool, but flies from Samlesbury, where gliding is restricted to weekends and holidays.
Local radio- plans spark off protests
Tory MPs on Wednesday stepped up the row over the
decision to go'ahead with 12 new local radio stations, including one at Blackburn.
attacked the decision to develop the stations “a t a time when substantial, areas of the country are still deprived of the full facilities or existing radio and television programmes,’-
writes Michael Toner, our Par liamentary Correspondent.
! Sir Frank Pearson, MP for i Professional
' : Read Cricket Club has signed 25-year-old Paul Tatton, an opening bowler1 from ’' Farn- worth in the Bolton .League, as its new professional for next season..
Seddon.-jWho, has resigned; and has returned. to play as an amateur with his original club, after, spending three, years with Read. " ’
: He will be' succeeding David In a Commons motion they Clitheroe. is one of the spon
sors of the motion. When tnc new stations were
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announced in the Commons on Tuesday,, Conservative MPs protested at the spending- of public money on local radio when BBC regional broadcast ing and the output of serious programmes wore being- cut back through lack of-funds. Sir Frank is also among the
lorries. I t will probably take legis
lation, as well as more re search, to secure any real im provement here. But we can at least make, a
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January, and the finals will take place in London on March 20 for the Institute’s silver shield.
Giatburn houses showered with stones again
Houses in the Down ham Road area.of Chatburn weic
showered with stones and rocks at lunchtime on Monday when there was a terrific blast Irom the bypass road works. Mrs.. Ailcen Womerslcy wife
of-tljc ' chairman of Chatburn 1
Parish ’ Council, was cleaning bedroom windows of her home “Meadow Bank” when the
blast happened. “I had watched one blast from the front door,” said -Mrs. .Womersley, “and
nothing happened.” I t was the next blast that
caused damage. Mrs. Womersley said: Great
rocks came a t us one through the roof one through the lounge window and one through the coal-house. They were
everywhere.” Eighty-two-year old Mrs.
Beatrice Parkinson of "Lynd_ hurst” was alone when one of the rooks smashed through her kitchen window. “Three or four of her win
More' — schools hit by strikes
children had a half-day holi day yestercay when more schools were closed by the
An estimated 1.500 local
lightning strikes. The areas affected locally
dows were broken,” said Mrs. Womersley, “but the workmen were very good, they insisted on calling the doctor to make sure she was all right. . Not only, damage to houses was caused, the windscreen of
a lorry was shattered. - Col. and Mrs. G. G. H. Bolton
house. 3USe.
a- certain amount of dainage hg knew, the strike had re but the workmen cleai’ed every- ceived 100 per cent support
Col; Bolton said: “There was Rishton, said that a s ’ far as . . . itruunci -----
thing away.’ Sympathetic
I Mrs. Womevsley said that the bv-pass workers were sympathe tic. After the blasting they boarded no ”11 ‘be broken win
■TicTn to lie repaired.'
dows the
sure that tne two-week strike would not affect this area
from the union’s members. He said that he was pretty
In the West Riding, the Taxis
■a up hi ..•* .................. .schools closed .included Bow- nnd’ replaced the glass iand County Secondary School,
At Mondav’s meeting of dington and West Bradford
.... Jo- i"’:- • :’s r Grindleton Lane Ends, Grin- dleton Primary. Sawley. Wad-
riithcroe° Rural Council,, the Slaidburn t B nbiiirman of the1 finance ana Endowed-Primary, Bolton-bj-
general purposes committee Borland aind; Paythorne Councillor J. G Sharp, men- Fnmary. ^
lhe 53 chUdren
wero T s te ric a ? . and * v e r y unable to collect them at lunch frightened.
start, and that’s something isn’t it?
to stop similar napp0” ^ ' bIic Mrs. D. Leeming, headmis- The: surveyor and owk- tress- of Bashall Eaves Aided health inspector, Mi.
■“This is liappemng too fie- ^h o u g n ^ e ig quently, can we
shutt, said the matter ought to
| gintcr of Transport.
. . <•,.«_ Thoueh. eight of the local s closed, three stayed open,
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Primary Sliool where she and asyistant -are botb n .U.T.
Stonyhiirst College is among “ as, the resident .site c^ | approveqf_the_strike action.’’ Both the teachers at Thor-
ju.luv\s »a ***' — , v. w Shown again
Granada Television’s ^ pro-1 d“ lpCcl gramme featuring the Advei - 1
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| tiser and Times was shown again on Wednesday evening. ,
broadcast in March.
be reported to m i . j . members said “We don’t ----
the four teachers at Gisburn I County Primary School also Hecideri to keep their school
first I strikes was discussed
. atter of teacher’s at the
Nuisance
monthly meeting of the. Divi sional Executive No. 5 of the Lancashire Education Commit
signatories of a motion spon sored by Mr.-Norman St. J. Steves demanding an indepen dent inquiry mto the working of the'
Abortion.Act. - According to the motion, an inquiry would show the effect of the new abortion laws on the legal, social and moral life of llie country. Mr. David Waddington, MP
for Nelson and Colne, Mr. D. Jones, of Burnley, and Mr. P. Mahon, of Preston South, have also signed.
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tee at Whalley on Tuesday. Miss Alice Alston, of Sabden,
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- .vision programmes; Enter- - (ainments and Coming Events.,:
, Page 3—VVhalley news and
;’ fions; Book r e vi ew; Women’s organisations.
Page 5—News; Prize Cross -word.
i features; Obituaries. Page r4—Christmas decora-
Page 6—Country Diary; District; Jottings; Round and About.
Pages.8 and 9—Moor Lane EduCation Officer said. “I “I.u n derstand there will be a certain
Page 7—News, Picture. and Castle Gate feature.
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Page 10—Play review; Readers’, letters. Pages 11 .and 12—Class! tied Advertisements - Page-13—Sport.
has, happened.” , mi- ’ E-. g
.educ Office
bus services will have to keep their drivers and conductors on duty in the afternoon.- but this
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in the costs because
extra cost will be: met by the authority.”
Mr.’ E. G. Fox, Divisional io
fox, ‘jjivisi .
said, “This is. really more.of a nuisance value than a strike. The bus services. and meal ser vices will have to be altered, and this is very inconvenient. “I :-ani very sorry that this
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neyholme R- C. School. who are non-union members, 1 de cided to ignore the strike, while
- ’Btones and rocks at Slaidburn had a full day’s H if - ’ „„;?.vu,hnre ladies holiday because the taxis were
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were the Blackburn Rural District, with three schools on strike and the West Riding, where eight schools closed. St. Augustine’s Roman Cath
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PLAN TO HELP PARENTS MEET
SCHOOL FARES The Divisional Education Executive is recommending
that parents pay the full amount oE their children s bus fares lo schools up to a certain distance, .and tluu the authority
should pay any extra.
the Executive’s monthly meet ing at Whalley on Tuesday by Fr V. Hamilton. Coun. L. Wells had raised the
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matter when he said that the Executive had received a petit
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ion ■ f r o m Chatburn parents regarding the cost of bus fares for their children attending
schools m Clitheroe. He said that iff 1953 the fare
was ouly 2d, whereas today it was 8d. “I think it’s time the fares were revised and the matter reviewed by the County
School may get new
dining Clithcroc Royal Grammar
hall
Education Committee,” he said. Mr.-E. G. Fox, the Divisional
| Executive had made a recom mendation some time ago that
Education Officer, said that the
parents should pay the fare for the first so many, miles and the authority should pay the-rest.
Injustice
felt at'that'time that themjus- tice of the ■ present three-mue limit was that while one family could be eligible for having the authority pay its fare, the next door neighbours could be • just outside the limit and therefore ineligible.” Mr. L, Howarth said they
He added, "The • Executive
School might be getting a new dining hall and kitchen on land which has been
acquired behind the school. This was said at the monthly
meeting of the Divisional Edu cation Executive at Whalley on Tuesday by. Mr. E. G. Fox, Divi sional Education Officer. Mr. Fox said that since pro
posals were submitted for the minor works building pro gramme for 1970-71. the position regarding the existing Gram mar School dining hall ana
kitchen had altered. He said that the land on
which the-present dining room and kitchen were situated, was owned by Clitheroe Borough Council, and that the lease ex pired in the near future. Mr. Fox added. “ A project for
should concern -themselves with the rising costs-of the bus ser vices, because it was getting out of hand and by the way it was going, it would mean an increase in price every year. "It's going to become a ter
rible expense for families with several children. Fr. V. Hamilton commented,
“I think we should recommend that we bring up again the suggestion made some time ago that everyone pays up to a certain distance and we will
pay the rest.” River meeting
' Clitheroe and BoyJand are to meet officials of the Fylde Water Board to discuss propo sals for taking water from’ the River Ribble at Mitton. This meeting has been called
at the request of the board who are going to explain their plans for Mitton.
a replacement building has been submitted for the past four years but the committee felt that there was not a degree ot urgency about this, and that other projects were of a more
urgent priority." " I have been informed by the
Borough Council that they will extend the lease for a further 12 months, but they want the
added. Conversion
special - architectural or : his torical interest—the “Old Band Room” at Downham—is to bo converted into. a- garage foi Downham estate.
A building“listed, as being ot
told the county they have no objections - to > the' change of use.
Clitheroe Rural Council have •
land back after that. " It’s not. I feel, too late to
get the project included in the minor works programme,
he
ASPDENS FOR
land School with more than 950 children between them, had
olic Secondary School, Billing- ton, St. Mary’s R.C. School and Langho Church of Eng
about 25 of their teachers on strike.
the local branch of the Nati onal Union of Teachers, and a teacher at Norden School,
Mr. J. Hartley, secretary of .
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