6 Clithcroc Advertiser and Times October 30, 1970 Hodder autumn is best! One October, a couple
of years ago, I took the road along the shores of Loch Lomond to Oban and beyond, to see the Highlands in their autumn
glory The weather was kind and
as wo went north into Perth shire through Glen Falloch the golden glory of the lull- sides and the woodlands com pelled us to halt in order to get a better look, and I thought
the beauty out of this world. The memory of the warm,
breathtaking, colourful up lands and the acres of fawn sedges stretching up the mountain sides will remain with me for a long time. And once I was convinced that this autumn scene could not be surpassed.
this after an excursion I made the other day.
Now I have to reconsider
sider any comparison between the Hodder landscape and the Highlands rather
Each has its own attributes. The Highland scene has its
foolish.
motorist the route I took can not be rivalled and I implore you to take advantago of the first bright morning and begin your sightseeing at Cow Ark, less tkan six miles from Clith- eroc and on the road between Bashall Eaves and Whitewell.
majestic mountains and rug ged glens but where will you find, as I did, such variety and such colour as that to be seen on a glorious sunny morning by the Hodder? For the walker or the
You may disagree and con
this delightful stretch of countryside around Brows- holme but at present let us ignore this and begin at Rad- holme Laund on your way over Hall Hill.
Of course, it would be very easy to extoll the virtues of
eral occasions, presents one of the finest Hodder land scapes I know. At all seasons it is enjoyable with the valley from Dunsop Bridge to White- well spread out before you and the river twisting through green meadow lands.
in October or early November with a northerly wind giving a nip to the air and a crispness
See it on a sunny morning This, as I have said on sev »•! i i i® 8
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most colourful background to tlie picture with mile upon mile covered in deep russet and fawn, indented at inter vals with defiles and gullies.
linger but equally impressive sights await you as you take In tlie beauty at Whitewell. Here the Hodder sweeps in a majestic curve amidst green water meadows fringed with mature elms and alders.
You will be inclined to
the beginning and we are only some six miles from Clitheroe.
This, however, is merely LeavUig Higher Whitewcll
the narrow road takes a sweeping turn. A couple of
hundred yards from the road across the river is Horse Hole Wood, replanted several years ago by the Forestry Commis
Sykes Farm—Trough of iBow land
to the atmosphere and you will not fail to pause, to enjoy this Hodder spectacular.
ation of this particular stretch of Hodder for on my return I met a Clitheronian who had, on the day previous, sampled its delights. He hailed me with the words, “I went over to the Hodder Valley the other day and the sight was majestic.” Those are his words and,
I am not alone in my admir
given a similar bright day, you are bound to agree with them. I suggest, therefore, that
you halt for some time just as the Hall Hill road begins to fall. There, stretching before
you, is the glory of Hodder in autumn and rising gently from its banks the glow of browns and fawns of the nearby fells. From a point near the old
not always find the sight of regimented rows of conifers pleasing, but the Forestry Commission have, in this p ar-' ticular wood, provided one of the most glorious sights it. has been my lot to see. The wood is alight with a feast of golden yellow provided by a cluster of Norway maple.
sion. Now, let me admit that 1 do
lime quarry you are overlook ing In the near foreground, a small beech wood near Seed Hill. Magnificent beeches, their leaves deep brown, giv ing a touch of warmth to the general view. Others, too, stand out a t various points in the valley far below but the outstanding feature from this vantage point is the slope of Bumslack Fell, Fair Oak and to the right the ever impres sive Totridge. This huge massif forms a
an inspiration and turned my thoughts again to an autumn visit to Loch Doni in Argyll where we stayed in a small comfortable cottage by the shore of the loch.
In the sunlight this spot is
tion to the full glory of these maples, for behind the cottage was a fringe of trees bedecked in pure gold. So I say to the Forestry people, thanks for the memory and the sight which now gladdens the eye a t Whitewell.
This was my first introduc To complete your journey,
continue by Hodder Bank and Langdcn Holme farms and hasten on to the Trough. You will perhaps bo offended as you note the ravages of the wood man’s axe near the school. Huge chestnuts, Scots pine and firs have gone to leave a gap as obvious and as embarras sing as a toothless smile. But I am told it was all neces
sary.
and in the Trough itself the expanse of russet is spread like some gigantic carpet for your benefit.
lifting vistas as wo admire the tawny slopes of Staple Oak
However, there are more up
By the wayside we study the scene familiar to thousands
in all parts of Britain. The Trough and Smelt Mill cot tages with Langden Brook far below is never more attractive than at this season. Half a mile on we arc in
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changed country. Sykes Farm, bright and cheerful and pro tected on every side by steep rising fells, is the last sign of human habitation for many
a mile.
From Sykes, the road climbs in tortuous bends through scenery reminiscent of Scotland and Ireland. You will admire the heather and bracken slopes and the clear streams where the Scots pine, beech and firs again bring back memories of the High
ing the best of England, Ire land and Scotland take my advice and just take the way I went from Hall Hill to the Trough of Bowland. You will be delighted and, consider, you are only ten miles from
lands. So if you are intent on see
Clithcroe. NATURALIST.
T.Y. star John Stratton finds Clitheroe area so relaxing
CLITHEROE actor John Slratton has been swigjisj down endless slug* of wine, whisky, sherry, gin Ynj
character on BBC’s “Black Tulip" Sunday nights, aoi a sophisticated financier on Friday in “Diamond Crati Diamond”, and viewers have written to ask “Howd;
brandy on television of late. He’s been a hard-drinkinr
you keep swilling it down?” "If only they knew," sighed John as we drank common
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IAN AND JOHN ALL SET FOR TOUGH RALLY
down," Orchard Close, Grindle- ton, and John Hughes, also 33, of 10 York Street, Clith eroe, have been rallying to gether for about 12 months.
TWO LOCAL drivers will be taking part in next month’s testing 2,300 mile RAC rally. Ian Grant, 33. of “Gran-
and Ian was a motor-cycle scrambler before a leg injury terminated his competitive riding, so there is no lack of experience in thus team. They place a great deal of
a local businessman. He and co-driver John (who manages the Clitheroe branch of Blackburn Assurance) are entering the five-day RAC rally for the first time. Both are married with two chil dren. John is a former mechanic
Ian, who takes the wheel, is
round & about
oil BC Radio 4 starting next Monday at 11 p.m.
it will be read by Robert Harvi.
Panto time
faith in their car, an Escort RS 1600. which will be num ber 133 in the rally. With this car. John and Ian came fourth in the recent "Tour of Mull” rally.
the b ig nearer
day brings
and Peter Whittaker came 10th and only one place be hind them wereDerek Hall and Ooug Hartley. Scottish television followed
were among the leaders in that, event. Walter Bateson
Two other Clitheroe cars
year. The Mullard 2300 Club of
eroe and District Motor Club, who provided a high propor tion of the officials.
Blackburn organised the rally, with the assistance of Clith
given the “Rally of the Year” award, and this time was selected <by Castrol, the oil company, for sponsorship. Clitheroe lost the Roberts-
Lost wheel The event was last year
Honeywell Cooper S at, an early stage, when a wheel flew off under somewhat sus picious circumstances, but by the end of the first after noon Peter Clarke and Jeff Smith were in second place and Ian Grant and John Hughes were lyig seventh. F o r about 200 miles
REHEARSALS began this week for a pantomime “Puss in Boots” which members of Trinity Methodist Church are to perform in January.
by members of the committee and the producer mil bo Mr. Roy Hope, who was stage manager for last year's suc
The script has been written
the progress of the four-day, annual "Mull" rally, for this event, especially for the islan ders. is a highlight of the
cessful performance of “Ali Baba". Dates for the pantomime have yet to be fixed but, as
Prize
Crossword ACROSS
5. Festive occasion for nearly everybody in Georgia (4).
10. A certain amount of free dom necessary for map reference (8).
8. This will fill the cracks in the instrument (4).
11. A body of directors on the ship (6).
12. Laboratory e q u i pme n t : 6)
many retirements, including Neil Calvert and Ken Topp, who collided with a bridge. The Cooper S of Sparrow
throughout the night the crews battled out the event in a force 10 gale which brought
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and Raeburn had been leading the field until their car hit a rock while cornering at speed, fearing off a wheel and rolling the vehicle. Last year's win ners. George Hill and Keith Wood, were thus allowed to repeat their success, but Clith- eroe's drivers still did well. Ian and John’s outstanding
Bedtime reading
PEOPLE who have, enjoyed Robert Neill's "Mist Over Pendle” will have, another opportunity to sample its delights. The story will be read as a 15-part "Book at Bedtime”
that’s the quick answer (
14. A sponsor is one who suffers a reverse (6).
16. An insult of no great pro portions (6).
17. He has no neutral views in Sparta, maybe (8).
21. This is a form of. congrat ulation for the full num ber, we hear (10).
19. Takes energy from vital fluids (4).
22. Measures that reveal per sonal extremities (4).
DOWN
1. This disposes of what is left (4).
performance in the, “Mull” will surely give them confi dence for the RAC rally.
3. Became wearisome when
2. Theatrical s-evival—don't stay away (4-4).
a friend acted as guide ( 6) .
4. Assembly worker in bet ter health (6).
5. A pest appearing in the evening, naturally (4).
6. The chief craft needed for ability to direct (10).
13. It's arduous to fill a large book with paintings (8),
9. Descriptive of loads that the porter finds too heavy (10).
15. A summary to start again (0 ).
18. Joint action is not com
16. Nothing in the diocese showing signs of decay (6).
Aphis: 8, Lumbering: 9, Pea; 10, Dates: 12, Current; 13, Stride; 14, Affair: 17, Over-' due; 19, Reels; 21, Too; 22, Foresight; 24, Rider; 25,- Dis card. □own: 1, Filed; 2, Rim; 3,
Across:
Guessed; 4. Switch; 5, Auger; 6, Hyphenate; 7, Scatter; 11, Threefold; 13, Shooter; 15, Forests; 16, Seared; 18, Defer; 20, Sated; 23, Goa. The lirst correct solution
to last week’s crossword opened on Tuesday morning was that of Miss M. Nichol son., 7, Sccdall Avenue, Clitheroe.
20. Chosen spot to take a ■ bearing on, wc hear (4). 1, Forages; 5,
plete without discreet conduct (4).
the above crossword fill in your name and address in the space provided and send it to this address marked "Cross word" in the top left hand corner of the envelope.
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radio purposes by Yorkshire writer Bertha Lonsdale and
I t has been abridged for Ian (left and John i
before, two Saturdays will be included, the oppning per formance being a matinee.
Primitive
FOR SOME villages and towns in the West Riding there is no hope of an ade quate library in the foresee able future unless the Gov
ernment gives early per mission for a
the annual report of the West Riding County Library- The rapid decline in library build ing since 1966. the report says, has inevitably focused
resumption of building. The comment is made in
r a p i d
inadequate to cope with present needs and th e Offices. Shops and Railway Premises Act,. 1963, shows how primitive are their basic facilities.
more attention than ever on the many unsatisfactory branches. Some buildings are auiie
n their Ford Escort.
terest in many communities in the library service, it is melancholy to have to report that at the present rate of branch provision it will be the middle of next century before all the hundred bran ches needed are built." The report sums up by say
Inadequate “In the face of a lively in
with considerable skills, en thusiasm and application. Unhappily, current restrict- tions arc preventing the ful lest exploitation of these resources of stock and staff because of the many places in the county still without adequate library buildings."
given by the authority to the heart of the library service— its books, periodicals and other information materials. "The library has a staff
ing that the Comity Library service has' extensive good resources of materials as the result of the high priority
few viewers know about John. The sauve voice and manner which win him so many smooth villainous roles, were ••Pygmalioned” into him. "I was a raw rather broad-
times I've had to pick up a none-too-clean 'props’ bottle, lull of unsavoury coloured water, with weird little insects staring up at me from the dregs". But there's something else
coffee. “If they knew how many
tion—they wanted me to i anything but an actor- write off innumerable let® begging interviews, before Dewsbury company accept;; him. "My headmaster at elite
Valerie Green good deal of parental oppos-
Grammar School, Mr. Hat h a d
beamed lad from Clitheroe. when I got my first job as a juvenile lead with a company in Dewsbury. And my first lines as the smart young toff Freddie, something like 'I’ve been all the way down to Charing Cross and I can't get a taxi anywhere’, came out as •A’v bin awl thu way dowun tu Charingg Cross and Ah carnt ged a taxi anywhure.’
realised they'd have to do a Pygmalion on me, and spent hours teaching me to say Cher-
"The rest of the cast then ANYTHING GOES
ring Cross etc. "A North country accent in
goes, as long as you can acu and it makes things much more colourful. But in 1943. we were still doing plays from the thirties, all terribly naice with tennis racqueted young men coming down to a breakfast of kidneys served from silver salvers. ‘‘Of course even then the
those days was death to an actor. ••Now of course, anything
b e e n a magnifies:
teacher of drama, and I had:: thought of any other career. "But my greatest help ti
the Scots actor Finlay Cite who died last year. He is then living in Clitheroe. when he heard later of z
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first season in Dewsbury, t? catted me round and lecture-: me for two hours on tit reasons I shouldn't be an ats Then lie said: ‘Do you £ want to?' As soon as I sai ves, he brought out- a cis box where he'd put a piece rc off from every stick of b make-up, adding: ‘This sta rt for you.’ “Of course acting is a ir.
job. We must all be round ft bend. Because the minute jc: finish one part, you are out 6
work again. POLISH Drinks and food apart. Jc-
welcomes the far gress: realism one gets m tclevsj- drama nowadays, with sop.--
licatcd pre-film techniques*- a greater production polish "In my firs: TV plays/
most versatile character actors, on both big and small screens, has just one regret about his start in the acting profession. "I missed out on Shakes-
, looks, like Laurence Harvey or Richard Burton. But I wasn’t right for them." John also had to overcome a
perean roles. Then, you had to have the hero height and hero
audience didn't realise that those kidneys were really bread crusts soaked in gravy. And that if you ate fish—as I did once for eight performan ces per week—it was mashed potato formed into fish shape and dyed yellow to look like smoked haddock!" John, who is now one of our
Alexandra Palace, the s:as were so small that after ett one scene, we would have ■
rush down a corridor. ing our clothes as we it alic! dash into another set - another studio to conimw ^ play looking cool and soP‘-;-‘
Celled ^ ” John himself prefers life ^
an elegant bachelor always travels back to c- - I have a house
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a slower pace, and can spare the time from “ ing in London, where be &
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the Northern atmospW- tremendously good to none of the rushing and-• break tensions of Lon*;- ’ can relax and take life1
slowly.” feel the pno You won't
John White has a certain f to A feeling for the future. A style that would be hal'd beat in the 70’s. The only
thing about the 70’s that John White Rogues and tan=
haven’t caught up onis the price. Won’t pinch your toes — or your purse.
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I READ with inter your last issue a repo meeting of the Clihcn district P ro b u s addressed by a Mr. ( Taylor, of Chatburn,
commission rules of th change he grossly nr: seated the true posit: jiils statement that "transaction of £199 mission etc would much as £19. This i not true in the case genuine investor for, purchase made amount £129 the charges nr. mission £4. gove: stamp duty £1 4s. an tract stamp 2s. or a t< £5 6s.—In other approximately one half amount stated by the s- On the other har chaxges on a P‘
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