Clitheroc Advertiser and Times, November 28, 19G9 5
Fight goes on despite post office rebuff
Despite a further setback
in the campaign to re-estab- iish a sub post office in Pendle Road, Clitheroe, Mrs. Ethel Penny, secretary of the local branch of the Old Age Pensions’ Association, in
tends to go on fighting. The Government chief whip,
Mi'. Robert Mellish, took up the fight on behalf of the branch,
but he has been no more successful than others in receiv ing a favourable answer from the post office authorities. The area has been without
1550 yards from the Clitheroe main post office and 770 yards from Salford sub office.
a post office for almost three years since the closure of the Shawbridge sub post office, which has since been demo lished.
Resignation
office, Mr. Mellish was told that •the Shawbridge office was only
In a letter irom the post
SEW CAREERS OFFICER Mr. John Atkinson, of Wellgate, Clitheroe, has been
son succeeded Mr. Fred Blackburn, who retired in September. Mr. Atkinson, who had been deputy Careers'Officer for six yeaiv, was previously senior cleric for the Youth Employment
appointed District Careers Officer for Division 5. An old boy of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Mr. Atkin
Office in Clitheroe for four years. A new deputy officer has not been named yet, and the posi
tion will be advertised • in the near future.
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the above crossword fill in your name and address m
When you nave completed
the space provided and send it to this address marked “Crossword” in the top left hand corner ol tne envelope.
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to last week's crossword opened on Tuesday morning was sent in by D. M. LISTER, of 125
■ The first correct solution Address
Pasturelands Drive, Bil-Ung- ton.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION Across:. 1. Barrage; 5,
Advortiscr and Times, King Street. Clitheroe.
first post nest Tuesday morn ing No entries will be checked before then and tile sender of the lust correct
Entries must teuch us. by
solution opened will ^be awarded a 15s. postal ordei.
Name
decided, therefore, to-close this office following the sub post master’s resignation in June. 1967.
The letter adds: “I t was
absorbed the extra work with out difficulty and the service in the area as a whole com pares favourably with that given m similar districts throughout the country.”
“The other two offices have
ing for the re-establishment of the post office for three years.
Mrs. Penny has been fight
i continue the fight. Estate
old sub post office was only about 550 yards from the general post office but many of the old folk have to walk much further than -that.” She added that she was very disappointed and intended to
She said: "They say that the RAMBLERS MUSI
, office said that the question of re-establishing the Shawbridge office had been thoroughly investigated on several ocas-
Hie letter from the post | sions.
[two years ago the Shawbridge office catered for the residents
made bv Sir Frank Pearson. Mrs. Judith Hart, then Minister of Social Security, and others as well as Mrs. -Penny. Mrs. Penny pointed out that
Represenations had been , .
| of 37 streets, six farms, a large estate and a factory, an area with 2,000 people eligible to
vote. She added: “These figures
i additional building, all of which is further from the town centre than the former subr
have increased considerably in the past two years through
1 “Even though the letter says that the work of the .Shaw bridge office has been easily
post office.” .........
| absorbed,' there are often long queues at the general post
rest.”
I office and no seats for the [ elderly-so that they can have , a
Tribute
. A minute's silence was observed before the stait of iBowland Rural council's monthly meeting on Monday in memory of_. the late Miss V. M. Garnett, ot Slaidbum.
MEET THIS r aw CHALLENGE
Membership of'the North
East Lancashire Area of the Ramblers’ Association is soaring. The increase at National level is very healthy but North East Lancashire’s increase is .“positively bril liant,” Mr.. Christopher Hall, national secretary told the area annual general meeting at Rcedyford. Nelson, on Sunday. North East Lancashire Area
membership has grown from 258 to 360, a n increase of almost 40 per cent.
these figures, was a very simple one, said Mr. Hall. "They mean that the additional, mobil.ty so many people now enjoy through having a car is not killing the pleasure of a walk
The lesson to be drawn from in the country.’
were ready to enjoy a country walk- based oiv the car m a way • they never, previously
Many thousands of people ,
W^ITtis was Uie challenge to the Ramblers’ Association. Traditionally, the association
had- catered for people who wanted to get out m the hills
walkers by arranging rambles using trams and coaches to take, them to their starting point. This must continue but we must also cater for those who want to travel into the country by ear. park then- vehicle. and then walk." Mr. Hall said the association must plan and publicise walk
ing routes for this new class of countryside user. County coun
cils must be pressed to make special efforts to signpost foot paths and bridleways at points where they would be of parti cular value to tlie motorist.
Access
to need access to the hills and rights of way to take them into the -country, “yet wo are still having to struggle to secure the right of access to unculti vated land — a right which Parliament recognised in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949.” Outside of the Peak District
These new useis were gomg
spoke to 80 members of;the Clitheroc Women's Conserva-, fives at their annual general . meeting-last week. His talk included a briof resume of the Conservative,
Sir Edward Boyle, MP
Party’s policy for the next election and he -mentioned standard of living, education
and taxation. A demonstration of frozen
foods and an illustrated talk on the history of the manu facturers was given. Members were-invited to try samples of
the food, • The chairman, Mrs, D.
Scatterthwalte, of Pimlico Road, Clithoroc was re
elected. Treasurer, Mrs. E, Moore,
Maintenance , costs
tive nroposes to spend just over £2,500 -* on the maintenance of schools in Clitheroe and dis trict in the - current .financial
Division 5 Education-Execu
year. .. . • . - ■ • Biggest, item is £1,000 for
the replacement- of- the holler at Ribblesdale Secondary School, where windows will also be replaced at a cost of £ 200. • Other items include- £500 on
of Railway View and secre tary, Mrs. K. M. Miles were also re-elected. Three new committee
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National Park the authorities had been abominably slow to make access agreements. Lancashire was now negoti
and fields to walk. "We have catered for such
forest.
owners By Michael Toner, Our Parliamentary
Correspondent
ating over its part of the Forest of Bowland but the West Riding had still to make a move in its half of the
A new deal for thousands
of property owners all over the country is proposed in a private member’s bill to be moved bv Mr. Walter Clegg, M.P. for'North Fylde.
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School- Iii order
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