Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, November 12,1971.. 5 ( f f ? ti Yr f T Y r 4 T ' , Tf A j f \ ' ’~’r SHOW RAISES C Ash FMMAiERNITYrHOME INCUBATOR


ANDREA SIHIO" THO>K UNWANTED.-' TNfiSESfc I


nNI Y six weeks to Christmas, fnd


Weight Watchers


a • member - of Clitheroe Club has set


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the trousers this time Twenty-two-ycar-old Mrs.


her heart on wearing a white trouser suit


splitting-


Andrea Swallow bought the si7c 16 trouser suit 1b months


ago, and let it out a bit. But when she came to wear it, she


had put on so much weight that it split at the seams when she


^ I r s ' Swallow, of Well Brow Drive.’ Longridge, took one look at herself—all list. Sib.— and decided that it was just too much for her 4ft. 11 in. height. With encouragement from her mother, she decided there and then to jom tne Clitheroe Weight Watchers. In less than a month, Mrs.


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to tell me I wassail right as I was, but now he’s encouraging me to reach my target weight of Sst. 61b. He even oilers to make his own meals,- so that I won’t be tempted to cat fat­ tening foods.”


Swallow was down to lOst. lOilb., and feeling much healthier.' After four more weeks, she had lost another six pounds, bringing her present weight to lOst. 4+lb. .1 am not as tired or breathless as I was, and I can fed bones I never knew I had,” she said “My husband Graham used


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of Bramlcy Meade, Miss K. M. Harrington; Miss Barbara Scattcry-ood, producer of the music hall, and Mrs. Lilian Coulter, guild president.


AS th'c chairman could truthfully have said, the old . tyme music hall, de­ vised by. Clitheroe Even­ ing Townswomen’s Guild “at enormous expense” was most spendiferous. colour­ ful and compelling; an excellent extravaganza of mirth, melody and move­


lation. The title Townswomen's Guild has serious overtones: an organisation where talks arc given, demonstrations watched and much time spent “nattering" about to'pics feminine and frivo­ lous. But the guild have shown that when there is an opportunity to


ment- In a way. too. it was a reve­


TWG extravaganza of mirth, melody and movement


let down their hair they are as adept as anyone else; and that they know all about efficiency— every ticket for the three nights was sold and the cash banked before the first curtain-up.


its third and final performance on Saturday ^ evening, was a large feather in the guild’s cap. larger and even more colourful than those adorning the hats of women in the audience, who had undoubtedly enjoyed dres­


The music hall, which had


sing up for the occasion. And more than one husband sported moustache and side-


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buriis on usually clean-shaven features. The event earned a long last­


ing place • in the realm of “Do you remeniber?”


ELEGANCE


of 1.200 people who packed the was indicated by the provision T4oii


Of course it will be remem­ bered, especially by the total


Dcrcci, esp e c ial ly oy u ic im m


most pleasure th e elegant colourful appearance of the en­ tire company; the humour, the nostalgia, melodrama; some moments of pathos, the viva­ city' of the Mary Waddington dancers and the magic of Mr. John. Pye who demonstrated how easy it is to saw the wife in half—if ' one knows the knack of it.


Parish Church Hall. They will recall with the ut­


. w’hole. who were also in splen­ did voice. The production was way


for the eye. the principal acclaim goes to the style and elegance of the company as a


But for providing pleasure -*• Ull tKrt nl^AtllCIAtl -------- r. -. •


assisted by Mr. Arthur Neale in the role of stooge; a proper Charlie in fact. And what of Miss Virginia


ing an authentic atmosphere .n .


of a “policeman in uniform


Last? The name itself was a clue that one woman was in­ deed no lady, a broken doll that brought the house down. The thought given to achiev­


of the period to marshall the arrival and departure of car­ riages and to escort the cashier to the bank each evening. And at a time when efforts


AT the close of fhc show mem bers of the cast assembled for the handing over of the incubator. In the centre arc the Matron


walks to work at the Longridge C.W.S., where she is a short­ hand typist and general clerk. The walk takes her nearly half an hour, but she feels the exer­


-Every morning Mrs. Swallow


cise is doing her good. Her colleagues at work help


the diet in the canteen. The weight-problem began


with the weight watching plan by making sure •she sticks to


for Mrs. Swallow when she first started work at 17, and gradually began to put on weight. She tried dieting, and managed to lose a stone or so, but found that the fat just came


self-conscious, always thinking


back. “I used to get despondent and


that people were making re­ marks about me. If I wore a swimsuit on the beach in sum­ mer, I felt very embarrassed.” One of the youngest mem­


MRS SWALLOW is weighed by . Mrs. Am, Dale, lecturer at tile Weight Watchers’ Club, held every Tuesday evening m the Starkic Arms Hotel. Clitheroe. ■ , ■


lose a bit, you hear your name read out. If they don’t read your name, everyone knows you haven’t lost anything. “Weighing the food before a


to Weight Watchers. Graham never thought I’d do it. He gave me two weeks at the most. But I’ve been coming for two


bers of Clitheroe Weight Wat­ chers, Mrs. Swallow finds that belonging to a club with 77 others is more of an incentive to lose weight. “Every week you


arc being made to publicise Clitheroe, the guild by their music hall gave these a boost. The event will be discussed in Lancashire guild circles by people who came from a 25 mile radius.


PURPOSE


much hard work had been put in and it was fitting that before the final curtain Guild chair


Somewhere along the line,


above the ordinary brand of entertainment. For an all too brief time the ladies were not just guild members but “dolly birds” of the 90s; gav and fri­ volous. an age removed from housewives who. on anothev day, push trolleys round super­ markets and take junior to


school. AUTHENTIC


some male help—a chairman, for example, a role which Mr. Bill Taylor found much to his liking and who was suitably


Of course there had to be


man, Mrs. Lilian Coulter, spe cifically mentioned Miss Bar­ bara Scattergood for her skilful direction; Mr. Geoffrey Hitchcn as music master and Miss Mary Waddington for the choreo­ graphy, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Sainsbury for administrative work. Serious purpose behind all fun and laughter was the gift


stage, Mrs. Coulter asking Miss K. M. Harrington, matron, to accept the machine on behalf of the hospital.


of a. transportable incubator to Bramlcy Meade Maternity Home at a cost of £2S5. The incubator was brought on


HOSPITAL CONFERENCE ON VOLUNTARY SERVICE


SEVENTY members of the nursing staff at Caldcrstones attended a conference in the hospital to consider the build­ up of voluntary services as outlined in the Government’s White Paper “Better Services for , the Mentally Handi-


. capped." ■ Charge Nurse D. Clarke, who.-presided introduced Mrs. I. Paton, a former h o sp i ta l Matron and' recently Voluntary -Services -Organiser at the


Dinglcton Hospital, Melrose. Mrs. Paton titled her address “The Anatomy of voluntary services” and described their development through the years in all aspects of national life. Mrs. Paton was followed by


- Government’s Advisory Com­ mittee on Hospital Services who spoke on the problems encountered in implementing


Mr. W. R. . Seale, Head of Nursing Services in the South Ockenden Hospital Group and recently a member of the


voluntary services and how initial difficulties could be suc­ cessfully eliminated. Both speakers answered


numerous questions and in the afternoon the company heard short addresses from various departmental heads and Mr. F.


Management Committee, the Medical Director, Dr. C. M. Brennan, the Group Secretary. Mr. G. Mitchell.


A. Hope, chairman of the Hos­ pital League of Friends. Among those attending were


Nursing Officer, thanked the chairman and speakers, and expressed the view that the conference had been a first- class exercise in comunication in which all’ aspects of forth­ coming changes had been freely discussed.


Mr. C. A. Hulbcrt, Chief


could result from an extension of voluntary work in the hos- ■ pital, already so. well served by the WRVS and League of Friends and the patients’ lives would, be immeasurably enriched with an extension of those services.


Nothing but good, he felt,


- but now if I’m hungry 1 cat a ■ stick of celery between meals. “if 1 see Graham eating some­


meal is no trouble at all.” she said. “In’ fact it' adds to the en­ joyment. I used to love chips—


thing I fancy which is fattening I remind him of all the starch in it and tell him how fat he’ll get!


“When 1 first started coming


mondis now. and even my fin­ gers are thinner. . . .my wed­ ding ring keeps slipping off!” Roll on Christmas and off


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with a few more pounds. While Mrs. Swallow watches her weight, we’ll b e watching her. . . .to see if she manages to inch her way nearer to that elusive trouser suit.


Whalley woman at home in world of chisels and saws


MOST women are prepared to admit that when it comes to carpentry they don’t know a hawk from a hand­


joints, and turning tabic legs arc usually considered to be exclusively male skills. But Mrs. Ahvyn Taylor, or North Dene. Clitheroe Road, Whalley, has proved conclusively that women are every bit as handy as men when it comes to wielding a


saw. Making mortice and tenon


ing a carpentry class for nearly 18 years, and has plenty to show for it, including fitted cupboards, a nest of coffee tables in mahogany, fruit- bowls • and wood carvings.


chisel. Mrs. Taylor has been attend­


board in sycamore and walnut, as a present for her husband, and many more examples of her work have been given to her daughter or to friends. Mrs. Taylor believes that any


She has made a chess set and articles for Christmas presents


ping now, she look carefully to see what furniture is made of. and how it is made. “I wouldn't spend time at classes making kitchen units, and things which arc cheaper to buy ready-made,”


difficult to get the wood she needs for her carpentry. “You can get mahogany, oak, teak, and most imported hardwoods at anv timber yard,” she said. Sometimes, instead of using new wood, Mrs. Taylor prefers to adapt seasoned timber from old


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woman in need of a creative and interesting hobby could not do better than attend carpentry classes at a local adult *du- cation centre.


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sorbing hobby in which you can thoroughly forget yourself." she said. “‘There’s no need to worry about appearing foolish, cither. When I first started, 1 didn’t know a chisel from a screwdriver, but the teachers arc excellent and very patient.


“Making furniture is an ab­


try seem to cater,mainly for housewives and retired jreoplc.. but the range of articles pro­ duced is quite staggering. Sever­ al members have made ward­ robes, and one women is even tackling a Jacobean tabic. Others have been less ambitious concentrating on goal (posts, bird tables, firescreens, and


Afternoon classes in carpen­


. Mrs. Taylor explained that modern furniture has a polyure­ thane finish, but this should be avoided on old wood, as it doesn’t allow it to breathe pro­


another subject which Mrs. Tay­ lor has learnt over the years. “It is best to scrape the surface of the furniture first with glass, and then rub it down with very fine steel wool.” she said. "I often repolish old furniture with mahogany-coloured shoe polish. I also put wax polish on furni­ ture with my hand, as the heat helps it to penetrate. To get a really good shine, the polish has to be left on overnight.”


F u r n i t u r e renovation is


perly. As a change from carpentry,


for me to work in,” she said. “The shape of the sculpture depends on the piece of wood, and you can't tell what the grain is like until you take off the


to learn at classes. “Wood is the right medium


bark.” Mrs. Taylor no longer shows


ago. Have fun with a fondue party


ENTERTAINING at home is undergoing a minor revolution.


Instead of


.cheese and wine or dinner parties, a new idea is catching on rapidly—fondue


parties. All the guests and the host and hostess:have to do is cook


■ in one of. a : selection • of sauces. This..: way,r the hostess has


their, own small cube of meat in the fondue dish—it takes just a few seconds:—and then, dip it


. much less work .to do and can sit and enjoy the patty along ■with everyohe. C.lse.


last Friday by Mr. Jim Emslcy, of Addingham. near llklev. who works for a company which im­ ports Swiss-made fondue pans and burners. Equipment for a fondue party


_ .. . t.


■ filled with ;cooking oil, is put over the lighted burner to heat up.


is inexpensive, and simple to use; /The /pan; three-quarters


small squares of. rump steak, with the fat trimmed off. are speared on a fork and placed in the oil to cook. This takes only seconds.


When'the-, oil' is hot enough, RECIPES


/ - This sveek. at-;Theo’s in York Street.; Clitheroe; there has been a daily demonstration of fondues by . Mrs. D. Davidson,


a member of the staff. The demonstrations were started off


, is important to use a different fork' to eat the meat as the one used for cooking it will have become very hot. . ■ ' Cheese .fondues require a special ceramic pan.


Then the steak is dipped .into any of a selection of sauces. It


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four people, you need lOoz of very dry white wine, seven ounces of Emmental cheese and ]4oz of Gruyere cheese. Heat the wine until it 1S bubbling and then add the grated cheese. Stir it in a figure of eight. Add a'teaspoon of cornflour and a measure of Kirsch. to prevent the mixture from separating. - Add some seasoning and then it is ready. Spear pieces of French bread, cut into cubes in such a way that each P'ccc has some crust on one side. and then dip it into the fondue. Cheddar cheese can bemused


To make a cheese fondue for


for the fondue and this tastes just as good. ■ • ' ,


pork or veal could be used in­ stead of steak and there is no


For the meat fondues, iamb, ,


reason whv fish and seafood could not be used cither. Sauces for these fondues have


mayonnaise as their base. This can be made with half a tin of


fondue fnr mustard.,


yolks a 32oz bottle of oil and seasoning, which includes lemon


iKtn meg. ' x


spoons of mayonnaise and one tablespoon of the required fla­


For each sauce, use two table­


juice, vinegar and nut­ .


salt, ;


.mustard sauce, dried-mustard. To each sauce add some


vour. For example - for curry sauce, add a tablespoon of curry powder; for. aurora sauce, tomato ketchup; horse-radisti sauce, dried horse-radish; garlic sauce, powdered garlic, and


Tabasco and black, pepper. Of course you can invent


your own-sauces. • , With winter . drawing . in i ' I


side .salad can be served with , crunchy, rolls and perhaps some / potato crisps.


To. accompany , a fondue.' a ....


- rapid! v, a fondue,;, meal .beside j/ 111- fire sounds ’. like' a good If idea!


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her work in public, since one of her sculptures was stolen from a London exhibition some years


Mrs. Taylor particularly enjoys wood carving, although this is a subject she has not been able


she said. Mrs. Taylor docs not find it


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fascinating and personally satis­ fying that she wants to learn more about it. “I would like some advice, as often I don’t know whether I am using the right tools for the right part of the work,” she said.


But she finds wood carving so


Whalley artists’


work on show


THE. work..of a ..number. ..of Whalley artists is featured in the November exhibition in the gallery of the New Library In the selection of paintings


in a ..variety .of mediums dis­ played ’particularly Tmprbs'sive arc a delicate lake scene and, in contrast, the ‘Portrait of a


Lady’ byl Lambert. 'Halstead? Here, quite clearly, is the .w.ork, ! of a most painstaking and


. colour .of '/Main Street, ' Lcr-.. ■ wick.? :i. captured .from'.; an ; unusual Angle'by E. Bavcrstock. Two landscapes by M. Bot-


talented artist. Eye-catching, Too, is,.a water


: tomlcv arc also attractive and ; ‘Bed Time’, a child study by F. Humphries has considerable


-■ influence of the Eastern, school : and, although Tacking some of


' the delicacy of the oriental : artist,, would-be a most pleasant , feature in the appropriate set-


. ting..


; other -members ,of the^ class. : and •'each ''has ' ‘individual


There are' works, too. by , !!' > : i.


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Mrs. D. Richards at the last meeting at. Low Moor..,Lhapel. This was’ attended by 20


Moor. The name was suggested by


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