ClltUeroe Advertiser and Times, December .10,1911 • 3
Often no other way out but through the Press
DURING, the last 30 years I have done more than most in proclaiming the amenities of this country side of ours both in the Press and in lectures to all and sundry. I have boosted . Clitheroe both in and out of town, in Pres ton, Rochdale, Leeds. Blackburn and lots of
to mind. During the past few months, following the com plaints of residents in the Castle View area iD regard to noise and pollution, T find that many towns in the Mid lands and the southern coun ties have now restricted areas prohibiting vehicles, of say 30 cwt, from residential areas from late evening to seven or eight in the morning. Indeed in London, many
sons for criticism on occasions when residents have reason to think their interests are not being served and, in certain cases, being ignored. A particular instance comes
heavy vehicles are prohibited. Consider Clitheroe where it seems the powers that be encourage these things. To complain in the street
is useless to plead is of no use. What then is the alterna tive but to go to the Press? It does at least draw atten
tion to the more progressive ways now being undertaken by other towns who can at least sec the writing on the wall.
H. COOKE, Castle View, Clithcroc.
Enjoyable concert
MAY I congratulate the Mayor and Corporation of Clitberoe for making possible the visit of the Blackburn Sinfonia Orches tra. Practically every seat was
filled at the Civic Hall on Sun day night. Shotting that, many burghers of this town enjoy an opportunity to hear classical music. The professional soloist had
a good rapport with the mainly amateur orchestra which points to the high standard set by their conductor. Mrs. C. S. Course, Kirkmoor Road,. Clithcroc.
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the Town Clerk’s comments in last week’s issue regarding those who ‘knock the council’ members of which spend con siderable time . serving the community. Surely there are often rea
the alternative? To seek to draw attention in the Press or what?. This is why I disagree with
my complaints verbally to men in authoritative positions regarding various aspects which I thought were of a degrading nature to the town when seen by visitors. My complaints have, in the main been to no avail. Therefore, what must be
other places. I have also, at times, voiced
PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO IS A RED HERRING
I hope readers will not be misled by your heading “Weak case for Edisford School extensions”. Obviously the parents cannot agree.
cutive Officer told . the parents recently that one of the reasons that ex tr a accommodation could not be provided was that the numbers would rise above the accepted figure of 280, he now says, that 360 can comfort ably fit in.
Although the Divisional Edu-
letters to the editor
there were about that number in the school, one class was in. a corridor.
However, last term when
emerges from your report is that Coun. Barnes now recog nises the fact that Edisford School needs extensions. This brings me to his letter in last Friday’s issue.
One encouraging fact that
agree with > Coun. Barnes. The subject of class size in perfectly relevant to the issue at Edis ford School, and the pupil- teacher ratios that arc con stantly being put before us arc not always borne out in prac tice. They arc in fact a red herring.
1 am sorry but I cannot
School should get extra class rooms is a modest one and should not jeopardise any over all plan, and the prefabricated
The request that Edisford
Barnes has reached the con clusion that the headmaster of Edisford School is being criti cised. At no time has anyone criticised him. As we all know, he is doing a good job under
classrooms of today arc not the Nissen huts of yore. Could Coun. Barnes say what the Grammar School would have done without those Nissen huts? I do not know how Coun.
parents would bring about a better slate primary education in this country. It is our coun try and our system of education and one worth fighting for. There is nothing selfish about this. Let us get rid of the idea
hy Coun. .Barnes about condi tions in other parts of the coun try and his innuendo about selfishness, I would say that every parent has the right to struggle for the best education for his or her children. Nationwide pressure from
no exaggerated notions about anything. Mr. David Walder for one is fully behind us in this matter. Concerning the last point
ence to pupils being taught in the wrong age group that he is construing as criticism, that was, made to bring to light a situa tion which the Division 5 Edu cation Executive is glossing over. . We parents at Edisford have
very difficult circumstances, for which he is not responsible. However, if it was the refer
In defence of the
Council
Clerk take up the cudgels in defence of our council. How right be was when he stated that the majority of people
who wrote to newspapers were those with a grievance or com- plaint to air. The satisfied ones never did,
that inadequate accommodation • and large numbers in a class arc undesirable but unavoid able. MRS. J. E. FOULKES. Lancaster Drive, Clithcroc.
Who bears the loss of empty houses
being rehoused during mod ernisation schemes but this should not be at the expense
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OUR FINNY FRIENDS ARE EVERYWHERE
“DIDN’T it used to be spelt Walley?”, asked a member of the audience at the close of one of my little chats on local history recently.
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of the former abbots of Whal ley although they have been un officially adopted by all kinds of organisations over the passing
quently asked is “What is the derivation of the coat of arms?” —the familiar three fishes each with a bishop’s crosier frotru- ding from the mouth. These are. in fact,. the arms
fish these depict has long been a source of argument. Taylor- Taswell is quite definite about them. In his description of the cast window of our church he says plainly “three salmon” and with this, apparently, he
years. Just precisely what variety of
was satisfied. PROMINENT
whales, is also made in other quarters, and when i t .is indi cated that the fish depicted on the arms bear no resemblance to the aquatic mammal wc know today the answer comes pat: “Ah, yes, but you see, in those days very few: people had seen a whale. It was just described as a great fish and thus it was drawn by the artist who first de signed the arms”; The coat of arms of the rural district, incidentally, was gifted
ideas—the abbot’s arms are pro minent on the centre shield of the arms of the Clitheroe Rural District Council and in the souvenir booklet issued to commemorate the grant of arms in 1954 one reads, “Over these lie the three golden whales with three crosiers in their mouths, the quaint punning emblem from the ancient arms of Whal ley Abbey”, So there you have two authorities at variance. This claim, that the fish are
Other people have different
It certainly did and it was also spelt in 18 otherways
—the Rev. Taylor-Taswell gave 19 variations in his “Whalley Church a n d Abbey”, published in 1905, and also quotes a Whaley in Cheshire and a Whalley in
to the council by the late James Green, chairman for fifteen years, whose benefactions to the district, and particularly our own village, were humerous but often unrecorded. Yet more people have advan
ced other theories. “The three fishes represent the three rivers, the Ribble, the Calder and the Hodder which meet together in close proximity to the abbey”, J have been-solemnly assured by one who thought he knew, but this was instantly refuted by an other member of the same com pany who said, “Rubbish! The three fishes commemorate the
fact that the Calder. on which the abbey stood, was, in the 15th century, regarded as the
finest salmon river in the coun try”. So, you takes your pick! Today the abbots’ arms are
recent case where a couple who arc far from old-aged and not disabled have taken up tenancy of an old people’s bungalow. This comes at a time when there arc many old people in larger council houses paying high rents and waiting for bungalows. I am aware that people are
see that a house on Faraday Avenue has been vacant since June of this year, and must have lost a very great deal in rent. Who is then to bear this loss? Secondly, there has been a
AS a council tenant I am obviously concerned at proposed rises in council rents next April. 1 am therefore surprised to
to throw some light on these matters?
“This particular house was due for improvement under ■the next phase of housing development, as part of a pilot scheme. Very little had been spent on the house and we did not consider it worth while putting a tenant in for a few months only This deve lopment programme was post poned by the council at Mon day’s meeting.”)
S. E. SAUL (MRS.), 102 Hcntborn Road, Clifhcroc. [A council spokesman said:
of some more deserving old- age pensioner. Perhaps someone will be able
Press is all to the good but not so the contumely and ridi cule some of those ill-informed critics are ever ready to resort to. They are “anti” this and “anti” that, but never construc tive. CIVICUS.
press my appreciation and sin cere gratitude for the self-sacri ficial service they voluntarily render for the benefit of the entire community. Healthy discussion in the
informed comment, indeed ex pert opinion in many letters; contrarywise, so often has ill- informed devastating criticism been levelled'at the council with little, if any justification, thus abusing the privilege that valuable Press adjunct offers. I am one ever ready to ex
or they were apathetic. There is indeed a wealth of
clerks who did not “serve articles” function so efficiently as to earn and receive a high commendation from judges and barristers, which speaks for it self. 1 was happy to see our Town
Town Clerk departed from this age-worn custom. Already he has created a high impression in the council chamber and with the general public. I have seen magistrates’
HAVING had long years of ex perience of local administration I have, for some time, held the opinion that it was not essen tial for a town clerk .to be a lawyer adhering, as they do, strictly to the rule of law. I was delighted when • our
sheltered homes FOR HAYHURST
' STREET SITE CLITHEROE may soon have its first sheltered housing accom
modation for oia_ ■ .T*10 council has been recommended c to provide 24 units on land in Hayhurst Street with a community
entre and warden s quarters. ’ The recommendation was
made by the council's public health' and housing committee after considering three schemes outlined by the Borough Sur
veyor, Mr. J. H. Bowness. But the sheltered accommo
busy street. He pointed out that there were bungalows occup- pied by elderly people in Stan-
mented that elderly people’s accommoadtion of the sheltered type was badly needed and Coun; J. A. Barnes, said Hay hurst Street was not 'a very
if sheltered accommodation was built in Hayhurst Street, old
den Road. Coun. D. A. Akkcr said that
people would have to cross the inner by-pass to reach the centre of the town. “This surely is a hazard”, he commented, “It they are going to serve the purpose for which they were built, they have got to be ideally situated and I don’t think Hay hurst Street is the- right place”. Coun, Ainsworth, in reply to
R. Pickup, reported that the Tent for each unit would be more than £5 per week on
the Mayor (Coun. S. J. Moore) said it had cost more than £20,000 to acquire the land. The Borough Treasurer, Mr.
outlined three schemes. These were 11 bungalows suitable for one or two persons and similar in size to those in Bolland Prospect ■ 22 single bedroom units in two-storey construction or sheltered accommodation providing 24 units with a com munity centre and warden’s quarters. The existing six bun galows in Bollond Close could be brought within the control of the warden, making 30 units covered by the scheme. Coun. R. P. Ainsworth com
burn wanted to see on the site 22 single bedroom units built m two storeys. But this move was defeated. In his report, Mr. Bowncss
burn who said it was bad plan ning to put old people so close to a mailt road. . He and Aid. Clifford Chat-
dation' plan had its critics, among them Coun.. J. Black
capital costs. Coun. Frank Nelson asked
who was going to pay for the accommodation, pointing out that the social security would only pay for the central accom odation which included the communal centre and the warden’s quarters.
“We’ve got this land and we’ve got to do something with it to get some of the money back. We have been messing about with it for two years.”
Coun. Blackkburn said:
Money for parties
for old people’in three villages were agreed by Clitheroe Rural Council’s finance commiltcc on Wednesday. The grants, slightly increa
GRANTS towards the cost of providing Chnistmtis parties
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Ulster are doing a grand job. But then were we ex-servicemen not doing the same in France and Germany? i. And, afte all, the soldier to
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seen on souvenir crockery, on leathcrcraft novelties, on the official stationary of Calder- stones hospital and the League of Friends, on nurses’ badges, ou notice boards and a dozen other media. In 1903 the com mittee of ‘die Whalley Cricket Club held a meeting to decide on new colours for their team and selected
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appropriate and with a verse first printed in this paper some years ago when this subject was the centre of some local controversy. It appeared over the pseudo nym, ‘Jimifel’
Dicken’s was that chap, I (Who- t h e
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Just look at their tails!” "They are sudgeon or stur geon,-
It’s clear you’re no surgeon, If you will just study The malar formation, You’ll instantly sec They’re a form of crust acean!”
Of that I’m certain.” “Now that’s utter nonsense-
- they’re haddock, no doubt. Please notice the fins and the cut of the snout!”
By the shape of their flippers' “You are utterly wrong—
Or possibly kippers?” “You arc probably right
“What rot, that’s baloney, You chaps arc all "diddlcrs, I’ve caught dozens myself— The dam’ things are tiddlers!’* J.F.
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