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MAY 14, 1971 3p


A WADDINGTON coun­


cillor this week called for-a referendum or public meet­ ing on a proposal to widen a bridge in the centre of the village.


the - parish council that there was strong local opposition to the scheme to widen Brook


Coun. Walter Harrison told


House Bridge. The plan would spoil the village and lead to higher' traffic speeds, he


claimed.


suaded the council to rescind a previous decision in favour


'o f the scheme and to discuss the project again in a month’s


time


The clerk. Mr. Haro- Banks, reminded the council that the


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picture about what was actually intended lie showed them a copy ot the West Riding .County Council’s scale plan of the scheme. To straighten the bridge, im­ prove the road and provide a


scheme had-been in the county pipeline for seven years. It had now been approved and would fake its turn. . To put his colleagues in the


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UNDER tlic plan part of the garden on the left would be removed to ■ enable • the road widening scheme to go-ahead.


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A WELCOME FOR THE CARAVAN VISITORS


held at Dinckley, and Clith- croe businessman, Mr. Chris Lcenung, who will be attend­ ing, will be taking copies of the paper with him to help publicise the town.


people to come to Clitheroe.” he said, ‘and giving people copies of this feature will help to get the town known.


“Mv aim is to get more


taking with him copies of the pen ana ink drawing of Clith­ eroe which appeared m the “welcome” issue to be given to children, and a ■ prize of sports equipment will be awar­ ded to the best attempt at painting it.


people will know about Clith­ eroe.” Mr. Lcenung will also be


“The caravan rally . will attract about 100 people, so that by the end, a few more


CORIES of the "Clitheroe wel­ comes you” feature in a recent edition of the Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times, will be dis­ tributed this weekend to cara­ vanners from all over the north. A caravan rally is being


Kidney transplant boy is cheerful after set-back


THE 16-ycar-oId Clitheroe boy who underwent a kidney transplant operation six weeks ago has had another operation caused by a blockage.


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had been doing well and was hoping to be able to come home and return to Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, in September.


thought that his new kidney would have to be removed.


But he became ill and it was


son, said that Nigel had had a scries of x-rays but doctors did not know exactly what was wrong until they operated.


had not been on the machine since Monday and was "quite happy.” It is a matter of playing by


almost ready to come off the machine altogether. But now he has had to go back on.” Mrs. Hanson said that Nigel


car and seeing how he is day by day. I can go to see him every day that he is not on the machine and he is quite cheer­ ful and happy. But we have no


only adhesion, so it was not as bad as they thought, thank goodness,” said Mrs. Hanson. “Until that time he was


“They discovered that it was


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TWO efforts—the collection of waste paper and a coffee morn­ ing—have boosted the funds of St. Mary Magdalene an:' St. Paul’s Scout Group by £119 The waste paper collection during January. February and March raised £85—considerably below the target. But the group are most grateful to all who helped with the collection, and at the coffee evening which brought, in. £34.


WITH only three weeks to the 1971 Pop Festival in the-castle grounds, the young people’s recreation committee arc hard at work to ensure at least a repeat of last year’s resounding success. They arc co-opted members


of the Corporation Entertain­ ments Committee and have spent hundreds of hours spread­


attendance to around the. 5,000 mark they have engaged nine groups: . Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Barclay James Harvest, Blonde on Blonde, Bodicea, Seth Brom­ ley Bald, Tantlin, Gasworks and Disc-traction. ' The festival is the only-.one


ing the message far and-wide that .Clitheroe Pop Festival is something nobody -young at heart should miss. To help double last year’s


mated at just under £1,000 and profits will go to having an even bigger festival next year. News of the festival has been


universities and-youth groups. Above,IPetetChatburn,..Dave


of its kind in-the North run purely on a voluntary basis by nearly 100 people with a small organising committee. Cost of the festival is esti­


spread as far afield as the Lake District and Liverpool; into Yorkshire and Cheshire, into


Barlow, Steve Reece, Glen Wil­ liams, Steve Baron, and Pete Wells arc pictured with a 40£t. banner they are painting, which will be suspended from the castle bandstand. A similar one, not quite so large, will be dis­ played at the castle entrance and it is hoped to have others at vantage points on the bor­ ough boundary. The aim is to make Clitheroe Castle and its pop festival a name to be remembered. •


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volved money taken from Preston in July and September, totalling £33, and £18 taken


cuting for the Post Office, said that the book had been stolen last July when four of the offences were committed. A sum of £6.30 had been drawn from Clitheroe Post Office, £15 from Preston, £12 from Hurst Green, and £10 in London in November. The three other offences in­


money had been repaid in full by the parents of the boys. When they were seen about the book six months later, Mr. Halse said that they admitted the theft and said that after they had done it once, they had found it easy but had later stopped and were sorry for what they had done.


from London in October. Mr. Halse said that the


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ised how stupid their behaviour was and slopped. Both boys lie said were relieved to have been found out, and were anxious to tell the full story. They were repentant, he said. At the time of the incidents,


said Mr. Greenwood, the boys were only 14-years old, and now the 'incident could pre­ judice their careers. Both ' boys were ashamed of


the incidents, not for themselves but for their, parents and their school,. said Mr. Greenwood. They both came from good homes and good backgrounds and one of the boys had been working at home in the garden to pay back the money, he said. The boys were also ordered


that he hoped the parents would make sure that the boys paid some of the money to­ wards the fines because, he said, they must have realised from the beginning that they were acting dishonestly.


fine was £42.50p each. ■Mr. John D. Hodgson, the chairman of the bench, said


to pay £!7.50p each towards the advocate’s fee, and. the total


Mr. W. D. Greenwood, de­ fending, said that in the first instance the boys had found the deposit book and had com­ muted nearly all the offences at the same time. He said that they then real­


for stealing the book and £5 on. each of the five offences in­ volving withdrawing money. They asked for three other offences to be taken into con­ sideration...... Mr. Richard C. Halsc, prose­


TWO 15-ycar-old Clitheroe schoolboys stoic a National Savings Deposit - book and forged signatures to draw out a total of 94.30p Clitheroe Juvenile Panel was told on Wednesday. The boys were each Heed £5


Church


Whit walk through fields


Walks were for many years a Lancashire tradition which is still maintained in some parts of the county.


The church Whitsuntide


tenary Committee of the Whal- ley Methodist Church has plan­ ned a ‘Whit Walk’ with a dif­ ference.


planned over a comparatively short route so that dads and mums and even their youngest children can take part and it is hoped that several cncrgeuc grandparents will also be step­ ping out with their families. The walk, which will raise


walk’ avoiding main roads for all blit a very short stretch and the route will pass over field paths and woodland stretches within easy reach of the village. The walk has becen especially


It is a ‘family sponsored


funds for next year’s Centen­ ary Celebrations will leave the schoolroom at 2 p.m. on May 29th and hikers arc promised a refreshing cup of lea on arrival at the finishing post.


This year, however, the Cen­ His mother, Mrs. Irene Han­ Nigel Coles, of Park Avenue,


idea when he will be coming out of anything like that yet It is a case of waiting,” said Mrs. Hanson.


ago and he had a kidney removed. He was ill for 12 months. He was in the renal unit at Manchester Royal Infir­ mary when a normal kidney became available from a living donor.


Nigel's illness began 10 years


‘Financial chopper’ upsets


Council


BOWLAND Rural District Council lias been given the go-ahead for two important schemes. But in the same breath the government lias


said “Wc cairt let you have the money”. On being told it


p e r ” ..was. applied. That is why the Rimington


have a grant the council was all set to invite tenders for work which would have cost m the region ot £90.000. Then the “financial chop­


sewerage scheme has not been started and why the 70-ycar-old works at Gisburn have not been modernised.


Not available


‘ We asked. for loan sanction and were quite glad when we got it. The Lancashire River Authority has been breathing down our necks for years about polluting the river.


. Mr. L. D. Telford, clerk to the council, told our reporter:


the Ministry of the Environ­ ment saying that small sewer­ age schemes such as those Bowland proposed carrying out. were “non-key expenditure,” were ‘non-key expenditure’, for


“But then came word from could which money was not available,


lights the disadvantage to which local authorities are put under new arrangements for obtaining government grants for capital schemes, says Mr. Telford. Until this year, he explained,


This “yes, no” attitude high­


NEW VICAR OF LANGHO


THE new vicar of St Leon­ ard s Church, Langho, is to be the Rev. P. Dcardcn, curate at St. Peters Church, Burnley. He will take up lus appoint­


council could apply direct to Whitehall; now applications had to be made through county councils. Bowland’s allocation for non­


the D e p a r t me n t of the Environment saying that the “liberalisation” claim for the ■new system is “stifling” schemes.


Busy line


were made to the speaking clock in the Blackburn tele­ phone area during the past year. Calls numbered 3,600,000 the previous year.


More than five million calls


capital spending in 1971-1972 is only £5,000. Mr. Telford has written to


ment in the autumn m succes­ sion to the Rev. Richard Kirk- ham, who is retiring. A married man with two


daughters, Mr. Dearden went to-St. Peter’s in-July, 1969, as assistant curate and was made curate two years ago.


burn in 1968. having spent a year at St. Boniface’s Theo­ logical College, Warminster. His first appointment was as assistant curate at St. James’s, Haslingdcn.


He was ordained in Black­


chaplain to the General Hos­ pital and his Langho appoint­ ment includes a similar office at Brockhall Hospital.


At Burnley he has been


Lytham St. Annes. where lie met his wife, Stella.


Mr. Dcardcn was born at Oh, those aching feet!


THE Vicar of Chatburn, Rev. Norman Maddock and his wife,


Marjorie, arc currently looking up remedies for soothing sore feet.


But, on Monday, they are expecting a visitor who will, no doubt, appreciate their minis­ trations on this score.


No, it’s not for themselves.


tice, is calling at the vicarage on his 570-mile sponsored walk from Aberdeen to Eastbourne, to raise funds for the House of Revival Evangelical Association.


burn, Mr. Prentice will spend the night in Chatburn. He is a


Evangelist, Mr. Willie Pren­


friend of Mr. Maddock’s father, the Rev. John Maddock. who retired to Eastbourne, where Mr. Prentice lives. Mr. Prentice should have


Before moving on to Black­


exactly one week late arriving at each of my destinations on


(66). a retired banker, began his walk from the town of lus birth to the town of his home (Eastbourne) on April 26th. But after covering about 140 miles, his rubber walking shoes affected his feet. “This means that T shall be


his feet. Aberdeen-born Mr. Prentice


arrived at Chatburn on Mon­ day . . . . but he has been laid off on doctor’s orders for a week—because of trouble with


tremendously encouraged along the way. He has been welcomed at every stopping-off point and had many opportunities of tel­ ling people about the fine work being carried out by the Asso­ ciation at Eastbourne, the head of which is Dr. Eric Hutchings, who is currently crusading at the Town Hall. Bournemouth “Naturally, I’m disappointed


route.” says Mr Prentice,-who rc-startcd lus mammoth walk on Monday from Edinburgh. Mr. Prentice has been


that I’ve had to rest for a week, but I am determined to continue the walk to Eastbourne,” says Mr. Prentice. His long walk is expected to raise about £3,000.


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Abbey icons on show at museum


July 1st. The controversial


will be on show in the Black­ burn museum’s Water Colour Gallery Irom tomorrow until


were bought by the corporation last month from the Black­ burn Diocesan authorities, after being withdrawn from sale at Christies at the last minute.


icons


Blackburn from the Victoria and Albert Museum, in Lon­ don, by Mr. Walter Yeates. the director of Libraries, Museums and Art Galleries.


They were brought back to ARCHES


traits of Christ or the Saints, date from the 17th. 18th and 19th centuries and originate from Greece, Russia and Asia Minor. Deputy direclor of the


The icons, which are por­


THE Whalley Abbey icons, bought by Blackburn Mus­ eum Department, following a row over their disposal by the Diocesan Board of Finance, will be on display to the public next week. The 13 religious paintings


by art experts. The icons were originally


donated to Whalley Abbey by the laie Mr. T. B Lewis, along with other treasures. The col­ lection of Limoges enamels, which he also presented to the Abbcv. were auctioned ■ at Christies last year for £3,471 and this move aroused a great deal of controversy. T h e Blackburn museum


department decided to buy the icons to prevent them from leaving the area. The £500 paid to the Dio­


cesan authorities for the icons will be halved by a grant of £250 front the Victoria and Albert Museum.


Appearing at Folk Club


Museum, Mr. John Blundell, explained that the icons would be on view, together with medieval manuscripts . from the museum’s wide range of religious material. “There will be an island dis­


the smaller icons has lifted away from the wood but this -can be satisfactorily repaired


play and some- of the belter icons will be shown behind arches as altar-pieces.” be /aid. The painted halo on one of


ONE of the small band of singers who have made a liv­ ing entirely by performing BriUsh traditional songs, Cyril w!RR?ttfey,-i5w3ppcaring at Clith­


Cyril Tawney is probably one of the most travelled folk sin­ gers of today'. He has broadcast many times on radio and tele­ vision and covers about 150 clubs a year.


eroe «Folk Club, in the Dog and Partridge, Wcllgate, to­ night. A professional for 12 years,


present varied in width from 20 to 25 ft—he had measured it; the reconstructed road


footpatii it would be ncccssarv to acquire some of tile garden of the nearby Brook Lodge. . However, said Mr. Banks, the plan clearly showed that the improved road would be no nearer than 18ft to the lodge. Mr. Banks said the road at


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there was no sense, in taking away part of somebody’s gar­ den and that if the scheme had to be done it would be better to do it on the opposite side of the brook, Mr. Banks told him: “The people living on that side will object: the road would be much nearer to their


would be 21ft wide plus a foot­ path five feet wide. When Conn. Harrison said


John Walmcsley described the bridge as dangerous, particu­ larly to people who were not familiar with it.' After further discussion. Mr.


houses.” Speaking as a driver, Mr.


G. C. Watson seconded Coun. Harrison’s reference back and it was agreed that there should be further consideration of the plan at the June meeting.


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