4 etllhcroc 'Advertiser and Times, April 24, 1970


a pile Of money norWeb


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‘Every time I hear a screechy I run to the front door to se who has been knocked down


BARROW VILLAGERS are sick «'i(Ii fe a r .............. they arc frightened for the lives of their children. Day after day, heavy lorries and fast cars thunder along the A59 trunk road which cuts through the


v i l l a g e ,


threatening their very exis­ tence. The .speed limit is 40


jiipli, bill vehicles arc travelling much faster than that, say the villagers. I'hey are unanimous in their plea for a reduction of the speed limit—but a zebra crossing would also be a good idea. As well .TS bettor road eon-


the road, and his view was


limited." He added: “We are all


or injured, she said, that it would bo cruel to keep any pets in the viHage.


waiting for this by-pass .to be finished. I t is supposed to improve matters, but cars will still come through here.”


Radar traps


the Bay Horse Hotel, Peter Holgate, who has lived in the village for 18 months, said: "I am surprised the police never have radar traps in Ban'ow. “The speed limit should be


Tho 4'2-yea-r-old licensee of


is bound to he a fatal acci­ dent sooner or later. "If you have a wagon


Ml'. Holgate thinks Iherc


ti'.avcHing at 50 mph, it takes 00 yards to stop.”


lives at the village post office has this to say about Bar-


Mrs. Ena Baldwin, who


row: “I don't think there is a


reduced — vehicles are going through here about 50 mph." Father of an eight-year-old


dirtier place in England.” Eighteen months ago. the


with duit.


girl, Mr. Holgate told me: “No children are allowed to cross the road by them­ selves.” His wife, Mary said that


ditions, Barrow residents liavc been campaigniini; for many nionUis about .the d'irty state of the road.


For years they complained


about Uic faults in the road surface. VUlagers have been continually drenched by spray thrown up by pa.'sing vehicles.


Ministry


came so bad. Wilfred Robert­ son, of Catlow lerrace, organised a petition and sent it to the Ministry of Trans­ port. aski'ing for o-oad im­ provements.


Because the situation be­


fonning villagers that every­ thing possible -would he done to keep inconvenience to a minimum. But road safety is the most


This i-esulted in a reply, in-


residents were frightened of .keeping pets. There have been so many anima'ls killed


Dcmo.nsli'iitioii


Heather Jackson, of Cockcrilt Terrace, is the mother of two


Thirt.v-onc-ycar-old Mas.


boys. “It had crossed my mind


Borrow photo»poll


Anne McDoiigall luccls village 0^ ICITOI'


to organise a demon-stratiou about the speed limit,'’ she said.


in Barrow who are below 15 year arc in danger from the fast-moving traffic.


She feels that 60 children


outside of Mrs. Baldwin's shop was pa bated—but 24 hours later it was splattered


adult to cro.'.s this perilous road, lot alone a cliild,” she


“I t is a work of art for an


declared. Mrs. Jackson added: “It's


high tune something was done to safeguard the lives of our children and the lives of our elderly people, who I am sure must find this con­ stant stream of heavy traffic confusing to say the least.” She thinks that now the


wife, Nil's. Shirley Crowdy, of Cockei'llI TeiTace cormnen- ted: “I think it is ridicul§us the speed that, vehicles arc coming through the village


Thirty-five-year-old house­


at the moment.” “■What we arc won-ied


cars are going to whip through Barrow at 60 to


Town Safer


children said that she came to live m Barrow, from Burn­


Mrs. Crowdj’, who has two


ley, three years ago. “I t was safer living in the


town than it is here,” she said.


summer is coming the situa­ tion will get worse with coaches and holiday traffic addmg to the dilemma. A I’etu’cd foreman with


Clltheroe Rnral Council, Wil­ lie Hargrea.vcs (73), agrees that elderly people find cross­


ing tho road difficult. “I t Is terrible between 4-30


are worried about the condi­ tions in the village are the Ban'OW Young Wives, of which both Mrs. Crowdy and Ml'S. Jackson are membei's. They have writteii to Clith-


One group ,of people who


oroc Rural Council, asking for the council’s opinion.


Playing field


and 6-30 p.m.” lie told me. “■you just i^on't get across to the post office. It is very noisy as well.” Also lu’ing in Cockcrill Ter­


taken, over the playing field. Tile Yomig Wives have set out their feelings in rhyming


race, is 67-year-old Mrs. Marion Staveley, who says that the heavy traffic pre­ vents her from catching


buses. “Trying to cross the .road is hopeless and it is getting


worse.” slie said. A suggestion that there


important factor. Last week, an 11-year-old


form: We were told, they'll get


their field back in a couple of rears. 'But -lii'S' “ ^1 imagine


knocked domi, Causing concern from


should bo 'accident-zone' signs at both ends of the vil­ lage came from a resident living further along the ter­


boy was knocked down and is now recovermg in hospital. But will the next one he


60 lucky? That i.s the fiucstion every


person in Barrow is asking. The boy's fathei-, 43-ycar-


olcl, Jolm Power, a deputy charge nurse o.t Brockhall Hospital, who lives in Cock- erill Terrace, wants the speed limit reducing. "It's the .same in cve.r,vthing


Ttlrs. Annie Wilson, who is 73. “■When you ore trying to


race- This suggestion came from


cross, there is traffic coming along all the time and you have to wait and wait.”


neighbours in town.


the lack of playing space for children because a firm en­ gaged on the bypass has


Thev also complam about


about is that when the lor­ ries and heavy vehicles start ti-avellmg on Uie bypass, -the


70 mph.”


Backyards arc OK !o- t'lic babies and teens, But what of the oihen tho ones in between? Couldn’.c .somewhere be found on which they couid play,


Wives is 32-vea.r-old Nancy Haworth who, vijs her husband, nms the * lage grocers. “We arc frislnciicd," jt,


A good game of footbai; on a w.irm sunny tjay?"' Chahuian of I'he You.--


.said, “and we are living^t- fear. Every time l hear ■ screech I run to the iron- door to .sec Who has 'oe^"; knocked down."


Zebra Ci'ossiiin


dren. she siiid i “We iw-i; -iho speed limit, rctlnchig » 30 mph, and. if possible, would like to .see a a>b:j crossing." She is -supported b? he


Mother of four young (hn.


VElY PLt


CLIMI five m em b er I


unit went camping i | l ist weekend.


I The unit arc prcparl


i„„ Ben Nevis. Scafclll Last Saturday, lh c | _,nv left Clitheroe


Init'van for Walc.s. CaniP was set up <| .„c well-known Fen-J


Hotel, where the sigl smiost all the meni


j Z: Edmund Hfilaiy.,


tlic ttrst pa-rty W vlml 1". including Lord Hil


e seen on a ceiling m


“ After^an evening ml n-irtv loosened up 'wathl ill,to the hills 111


, rsih they manal S d ' quite a coni


n''e'"lhe sti'ongl


'“ on Sunday, which \\| „nd.nnght they set ^ 1 S y ^ a s s ““Youth’ Ho,^ SNOW LINE I


Good ; l-idied tfie si:


'j^s‘\-iftei' they jomj


husband, David, -.nid ffier.ii a.nd neighbour, Mrs. Marjoiit ■Whittaker, who also lives ir. Cockcrill Terrace.


thought the limit ought lo be reduced. “Cars even como on &


Mr. Haworth said that be


pavement—our v-ni was hit while it wa.s parked." Ho also complained of the


lack of facUiUes for the chi!- dren. Mrs. Wliittakcr would hke


' S f «eep. snow A’ small -snow coni


negotiated and thtj emerged on ^o inc i


-ivo^ress to the actual rapid and the stl


Bec.iuse of W


V.S verj.' brief. r Descendino:


to see a pla.ving field with swings and roundate's whore the young childra could play safely.


the worries and fears? Only last yveek a boy was


.safety conscious—and wlw wouldn’t be with the dan­ gers they have to face!


Barrow villager.s are |


of ropes and ice axe. I The


: exhilarated by the t : |


dropped down the >q| of the miners ti'aclii van parked at tlic * vl After a quick me|


that IS.


equired caution and I 'Ycre t |


.1


returned to Clitherotl Given better conB no snow—i.i -I


■Venture Scouts are I that they can climb tl ncaks In about 13 h i ■ That excludes the 1 of driving between t l | and tills they are 1(1 tho Clitheroe Motor P


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Retired foreman with


—.someone has to be killed before .somethin" is done." he told me. "When my son John was


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Clithoroc Rural Council, 73-yoar-ofd Mr. Wihio Hargreaves, of Coo'Korill


Mrs. Heather Jackson,


knocked down there were ears parked at both sides of


31-yearold housewilo, of Cockerill Terrace; "It’s a work of art for an adult to cross this perilous road,' let alone a child."


Terrace: “You just can't got across to tho post oflioe.”


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35-year-old Uousowile, of Cockerill Terraco: “It was safer living in the town than it is hero.”


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Seventy - three - year - old


John Power, 43-year-old deputy charge nurse: “It’s the same in everything— someone has to be killed before something is done.”


Mrs. Annie Wilson, of Cockerill Terrace. “When you are trying to cross, there Is traffic coming all the time and you have to wait and wait.”


Peter .Holgate, 42-yoar-


old licensee of the Bay Horse Hotel: “1 am sur­ prised the police never


have radar traps in Bar row.”


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Mrs. Marion Staveley, 67-


ycar-old Cockerill Terrace resident: “Trying to cross the road is hopeless, and it is getting worse."


Grocer and newsagent,


David Haworth: "Our van was hit while it was parked,”


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