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HOTEL WILL BE READY FOR TOURIST BOOM


IF plans to put the Clitheroe area on the tourist map come to fruition, one local hotelier will be more than ready to meet the demand for extra accommodation.


owner of the Rocficld, whose 23-ycar-oid daughter, Sandra, is resident manageress there, hopes to make his hotel three-star standard. Only the Keirby Hotel at


Rocficld, at Edisford, will make it the second largest residential hotel in this part of Lancashire. Mr. G e o f f re y Pilkington,


A £20,000 extension 'to the


Burnley would then be of a similar standard, he says. Tiie extensions will add eight


bedrooms to the hotel, making 14 in all, each with private bath­ room and toilet. The idea to extend first came


to Mr. Pilkington with the in­ ception of the North West Tourist Association. He feels that rather than just talking about attracting visitors to the Rihble and Hodder Valleys, something should be done. “Clilheroe has never had a really top class residential hotel


and now it is going to get one/’ Mr. Pilkington is hoping that


Clitheroe businessmen will sup­ port him by using the Rocfield for their visiting colleagues and


representatives. At present businessmen have


been designed and will be built by Konrad Design Contractors, of Padiham, will blend in with the old, original Rocfield. The exterior will be of similar materials and the windows will match those in the original house.


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feet, the extension will be built at first-storey level, leaving ample room for parking cars


Measuring about 80 feet by 50


the house should be completed by Christmas. Already, the Rocficld _ has


beneath. The extensions at the back of


many amenities. There is private fishing on both sides of the river for about a quarter of a


to stay in other towns when visiting Clithcroc. “It is very essential that towns should have one predominant hotel,” he says. The extensions, which have


mile, ample space in its 15 acres of meadow and woodland for walking'and there is a recently installed sauna bath for both residents and non-residents.


hotel. I’m hoping to attract a lot of people. I hope they will come for a weekend’s fishing or golf. There will be no other hotel in the Valley of a similar standard.”


of the hotel’s garden, the Clith­ croc swimming baths arc being built and Mr. Piikington is hop­ ing to make arrangements with the town council or baths super­ intendent for residents to use


Only feet away from the end


vide even more. He plans to install two tennis courts and is hoping to lay out a nine-hole golf course on land owned by the hotel across the river. “This will be a good holiday


Mr. Fiikington intends to pro­


have modem bedrooms with' up- to-the-minute furnishings. - There will also be a small


furniture and: ornaments, there is even a four-poster bed in the main suite; the new part will


private conference room where businessmen may have a meal and discuss matters without in­ terruption.


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the baths. He has had a path laid out along the garden and hopes to be aide to put up a gate to lead into the grounds of the swimming baths. With the extensions, the hotel


will combine two worlds: in the originnl Georgian part, the rooms arc filled with antique


The young - at - heart


them a bouquet . . . but as far as tho nurses are con­ cerned, the plan misfired a little,


national newspaper, the nurses were described as “mostly middle-aged!”


relative at the hospital. In the letter, published in a


the Matron, Miss Vera John­ son. She said yesterday, “Half the nurses axe under 30.” “Naturally they were very


Clitheroe Hospital. To their defence has come


about disclosing their age, but in this case not the nurses of


Most women arc reticent


in a loiter from a Walton-on- Thamcs woman praising the care lavished on an elderly


Hie. trouble is over a phrase


nurses of Clitheroe Hospi­ tal are upset . . . in the nicest possible way. Someone wanted to give


Middle-aged What a cheek !


resent being dubbed ‘middle- aged’.”


letter-writer!” The letter was prompted by


national criticism of care in geriatric hospitals, particularly in the South of England. Said Miss Johnson, “Wc are very fortunate in not being as short- staffed as many geriatric hos­ pitals, and we are also lucky


to be well - supported by the townspeople of Clitheroc.”


pleased to see themselves des­ cribed as ‘gentle and kind’, but


reader, Mr. Tom Domain, of 80 Chatburn' Road, also drew our attention to the letter (published in full below! com­ menting: “Tlie letter gave me a feeling of pleasure — an unsolicited testimonial to the


An ‘Advertiser a n d Times’


“Nevertheless, the letter has given the nurses a nice lif t .. But just wait till they sec the


Added M is s Johnson:


good work and kindness of the staff at our hospital and an example to other institutions.”


■/ was very much sad­


dened to read of the experiences of an old lady in the geriatric ward of a South London hos­ pital, and the distress and con­ cern it obviously caused the


very elderly relative in a simi­ lar ward in Clitheroe, Lancs. Always_ we le f t . the hospital feeling ’how wonderful it was that there were such places to care for the aged—the nurses, mostly middle aged, were gentle and kind, and in constant at­ tention, bringing drinks, puffing up a pillow, and cheerfully chatting up the patients. I know, from the old lady her


young people visiting her (Sept. 14).My husband and 1 had the opposite experience itv visiting a


only a couple of miles from the Roefield and now that it is again residential with seven bed­ rooms, it can almost be looked upon ns an annexe for the Roc­ ficld. This means that there would be a total of 21 bedrooms available for people to come and sta)'. Mr. Pilkington is determined to play his part in attracting


wife, owns and runs the Craven Heifer Hotel, Chaiglcy, is also the proprietor of the Calf’s Head Hotel, Worston. With the Calf’s Head being


Mr. Pilkington who, with his


visitors to the area. “Fewer people came into the


Hodder Valley this year than I ’ve ever seen. The influx of people has been very, very low.”


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Mr. Pilkington attributes this


land in a little more. The Hod­ der and Ribblc Valleys arc being by-passed by -these pros­ pective visitors. He regards this ns a terrible shame as some of England’s best


hotels and eating places arc right here in the Ribblc Valley and surrounding area. If hoteliers and other people


back to our area, Mr. Pilkington thinks it will become a back­ water. “We cannot b lam e th e


in the catering trade do not work hard to attract these people


weather, we have had a good summer. We will have to pro­


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seif that they diligently read our letters to her, as the old lady in question was almost blind. Her hair was always shining clean and brushed, and dentures in place. If shortage of staff is the


reason for the apparent inade­ quate care at some hospitals surely some young married wo men would be only too glad to do part time work, while their children were at school. I know this is done very successfully in a hospital in this area.


(.Mrs.) ZORA HARWOOD ■ Walton-on-Thames.


Youth breaks leg in road accident


A 16-YEAR-OLD Clitheroe boy is in Blackburn Royal Infirmary with a double frac­


ture of the leg following an accident in Wellgate. David


Coates, of Lancaster Drive, was involved in an accident with a car driven by Mr. Kevin William McGally, of Valley View, Grindleton. The youth, who also h a s multiple cuts, was said yesterday at the hos­ pital to be fairly comfortable.


PENSION PAY-OUT PROTEST MARCH


Pensioners m a r c h e d through Ciithcroe this week


to protest against the delay in paying thedr latest rise.


■ from the branch headquarters in Stanley House, Lowergate, to tbe GPO in King Street'


The protesters—some carry­ ing banners—made their way


. They were led by Mr. 'Louis Allen, president of the Clitheroe branch of the National Feder­ ation of Old Age Pensions Associations, Mr. R. Penny, chairman,- and his wife, Mrs, Ethel Penny, secretary. ■. .


NOW


to Sir Keith Joseph, ■ Secretary of State for. Health and Social Services, Mr. Allen read out the contents to the pensioners.


Before posting a protest card


■ The card, signed by Mr. and Mrs, Penny, said- that the mem­ bers of the Clitheroe branch of


the Federation strongly protes­ ted to the Government that pensioners have. had . to r wait six months, before the increase became effective. “In these months,” ! it ■ said,-


the rising cost. of living .has completely eroded any value the increase might- have had, leav­ ing the pensioners-worse-off than before/ "


ipensioners ■ have not lived to draw the increased pension..


. “In addition, ^thousands ? of >


, “We demand that in' future the,pension,should .be reviewed annually—any increases to be­


come effective from the time of the announcement.” Holding a. placard saying


ers who' had joined the march had i sacrificed their holidays. “They have been stalwarts to turn out today. Some could have gone away fpr;the.day.but they l sacrificed- their holiday to make. / this, protest.” .


‘Justice for the Pensioner/ Mrs. Penny said many.of the pension­


! Speaking of the increase and i : the long wait which, pensioners have had before receiving i t , , Mrs. Penny said, .the cost of. living had^risen so much that


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the extra £1 was now useless. “It has gone before they have got it,” she commented.


e r s returned to Stanley-House 'for cups of tea. Later, Mrs. Penny provided them with hot­ -pot lunches. ■


1 After the protest, the pension­ . _


! march to the GPO in Danven 1 Street, .where a- similar, card - was posted..


; Clitheroe, the1 pensioners joined : their - counterparts ..from. Black- ! burn! Chorley and Preston in a . demonstration in- Blackburn in the.afternodnl There was a mass


Having made,their protest in ■ - -


i Britain, in a letter, to Mr. Brian Nightingale, of- Chatburn, who has been campaigning against


MR. BRIAN' NIGHTINGALE . . . fighting for right to ride his bicycle on. the by-pass.


Gift could save lives of babies -


THE lack of a portable incubator at Bramley Meade


Maternity home, in Whalley, is soon to be remedied by Clitheroe Evening Townswomen’s Guild.


cided to raise the £285 needed to buy the incubator as this year's charity project. The idea came from a local doctor, who pointed out the present predi­ cament at Bramley Meade. If any babies are ill, an in­


cubator has to be sent over by ambulance from Queen’s Park Hospital. Although such delays have not yet caused loss of life, it is felt that the situation is unsatisfactory. The Guild intends to raise


the money in one week, by staging an1 Old Time Music Hall on November 3rd, 5th and 6th in the Parish Church Hall. Scats arc already sold out


Members of the Guild de­


for the Wednesday and Satur­ day nights of the show, which is being produced by Barbara Scattergood.


ally handed over to the Matron of Bramley Meade, Miss IC. M. Harrington, at the final perfor­ mance. Any surplus money will go towards the Swimming Baths appeal fund.


The incubator will be offici­


rington invited the Guild mem­ bers to coffee at Bramley Meade, so that they were able to see round the maternity home and understand fully just how much itheir gift will be appreci­ ated.


Yesterday evening. Miss Har­


- the proposed ban, and who now claims the Department of Environment has been com­ pletely unaware of the facts and consequences of such a move.


posal, cyclists would be banned from the by-pass, but allowed to cross at specified junctions. According to Mr. Warner,


Nightingale that when he raised the matter with the Department of Environment “they went so far as to admit that they are themselves not very happy about the draft order, and that they are having to make fur­ ther inquiries of the County Council and the Divisional road engineer before proceeding any further.


Mr. Warner has told Mr. Astonishing


ail that the order will have to be substantially amended, if not withdrawn altogether, and . I am sure these doubts' have arisen at the Department as a direct result of the points you


“There stems no doubt at Under the Department's pro­


the correspondence with the Ministry has “indicated a very unsatisfactory state of affairs”.


Leslie C. Warner, secretary.of the Cycling Council of Great


This is the opinion of Mr.


did not even know that the junctions were staggered, and it seems astonishing to me that they should actually have pub­ lished a draft order without making sure of their facts first”, states "Mr. Warner in a letter to Mr. Nightingale. In gathering facts to support


ties of crossing the by-pass. “The Department apparently


how the information will be con­ veyed to vehicles using the by­ pass, and where signs warning cyclists would be located.


Hazard


porter that one thing he is con­ cerned about is the proposal to include exemption areas in the order—that is, places where cyclists may cross the by-pass. "Once drivers have got the


danger than they are in now”. - “There has been no indication


impression that they arc not going to see cyclists, they will try to increase their speed. If they then meet cyclists in an exemption area it will contri­ bute to a very hazardous state, and place cyclists in a far more


how cyclists should cross the by-pass — riding, or wheeling


derstood that farmers with land adjoining the by-pass were also concerned that the speed of traffic would be increased if the no-cycling ban came into force. Some farms were divided by the road, and animals had to bo driven across daily to reach farm buildings.


their machines”. Mr. Nightingale said he un­


Concern


would affect cyclists, and even prevent them from pushing, their bicycles along the by-pass, there would be no restrictions en­ forced on pedestrians, moped riders, and people herding live­ stock such as cattle and sheep. On this point, Mr. Warner


■Although the proposed order


; cannot see it holding water. An ' exemption .'to permit cyclists to cross the road would surely be impracticable, and this of course makes the proposal all the more objectionable.


even i£ the prohibition is made effective, seems to. me. to *. give cause for particular concern, and I personally just cannot see how the Department could up­ hold the prohibition while at the same time permitting cyc­ lists to cross • the Toad at cer­ tain places. ' 1 ' _ . “It would obviously; give rise to a dangerous situation-but I


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Mr. Nightingale told our re­


obtain any statistics about acci­ dents on the by-pass since it was opened nine months ago. Nor has be been able to find out just what the order entails, and how it will affect cyclists who live in Worston, Pendleton and Wiswell. He further wants to know


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New plant will cater for next 30 years


MAJOR extensions costing £325,000 to C l i th o r o c ’s sewage disposal works at Hcnthorn will bo officially opened-on Monday morning by Lord Ciithcroe, It will be Lord Clithcroc’s


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