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Clitheroe Advertiser Times


THERE’S no doubt about it, Jane Haigh is very good at blowing her own trom­ bone. So good, in fact, (hat she has


been invited to play in the Lancashire Schools Youth Or* chcstra. based a t Chorlcy.


Ciitheroc. is a pup" !,t Fdisford School, where she l,i,s I®arnt to play a number of


ments, starting with *he cornet at the age of eight. Her achieve­


,nsfru-


ment is all the more remarkable because she progressed to the trombone only 15 months ago, when the school acquired a Chinese instrument, obviously an off-shoot of the Cultural Revolution.


Jane. 11, of BIcasdalc Avenue.


any private lessons, she gets plenty of trombone practice at school, with orchestra on Tues­ days, hymn practice on Thurs­ days, and lessons on Mondays and Fridays from peripatetic brass teacher Mr. Alan Tomlin­ son, of Burnley. She also takes par t in a brass ensemble, con­ ducted by Mr. Tomlinson, which meets a t the school every few weeks on Saturday mornings


Although Jane has never had


the Youth Orchestra conductor, Mr. Malcolm Dolcy. when a group of 30 Edisford children performed at a teacher’s confer­ ence, to demonstrate what could be achieved by primary schools. Mr. Dolcy. who is also the


Jane's talc..t was spotted by


chief music advisor to Lanca­ shire County Council, was so impressed with la n e ’s playing th a t he invited her to join the orchestra, which rehearses once


GALLANT OFFICERS RECEIVE AWARDS


TWO Clithcroc-bascd police­ men this week received courag­ eous conduct awards fo r their p ar t ill the Tescue of a man who threatened to jump on to a railway line from a 40-foot embankment at Chatburn. The officers—PC John Barrie


P ark er and PC George Pen- lington—were among the last officers to receive gallantry awards from retiring Lanca­ shire Chief Constable, Mr. William Palfrey. The Clitheroe officers were


commended for the "courage­ ous manner in which, at great personal risk, they rescued an hysterical man". Also among the officers com­


EVENING CLASSES BACK TO NORMAL


CL1THLROL Adult Centre classes, which had to close because of the power crisis, will be reopening on Monday. "Despite the closure, students


will still get the same number of classes." explained Mr. J. Smith, organising tutor, "as


Aimiversarv souvenirs popular


SOUVENIRS of the 850 years ; of Clitheroe Parish Church, in ; the form of ashtrays and half- j pint tankards, are selling so well j th a t reprints are to be con- I sidered.


Palfrey presenting tile awards to Constables Parker (left) and Pcnlincton.


officers. Mr. Palfrey said "The Lancashire Police force is the finest in the world and you have made it so". He said think of no better way o f ending his term of office than by presenting the awards. Our picture shows Mr.


mended was PC Mark Whit­ taker. whose parents run the Hodder Bridge Hotel, near Clilhcroc. Stationed at Widncs. PC Whittaker was commended jointly with another policeman fo r diving into a pond in a gallant, but unsuccessful a t ­ tempt to rescue a young girl who had fallen in. Handing awards to 15


which carry a picture of the church in black, and the an­ niversary dates 1122-1972, were printed in Devon, on a Britan" nia design of pottery. The pic­ ture of the Parish Church was taken from a photograph by Mr. Ben Tyrer.


The tankards and ashtrays, !


courses will now continue until Faster, instead of ending a fortnight before, as previously scheduled’’; As restrictions cased this has


been a better week fo r in­ dustry. and the Ciitheroc Em ­ ployment Exchange reported that the 1.000 people laid off for two weeks had been back at work and there was no short time working.


plies have reached Clithcroe yet since the miners returned to work. But Mr. George Mit­ chell, local representative of the Blackburn and District Coal ; Merchants' Association, is con- j fident that the worst is now | over.


No freshly-mined coal sup­ "We are managing to keep


customers supplied with enough fuel to keep them going." he said. "We do not expect to receive any supplies fo r a week, but we shall be able to con­


the tankards, in white and ' gold, or honey and silver, at 50p. arc proving especially popular with parishioners as . gifts for relatives in the USA. \ They are available cither from I the Parish Office o r the Vicar- j .age. in Church Street.


The ashrays costing 30p, and j J


decided it would not be justi­ fied in making any smoke con­ trol areas in the district.


Clitlicroc Rural Council has J


tinue as we have been doing until then".


Bomb scare shortens show


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A BOMB scare in a Manches­ ter theatre made it an annual trip with a difference for mem­ bers of the Young Generation Club from St. Paul’s Church, Low Moor, on Saturday. The members and their friends went to the Palacle


Theatre to see Aladdin but, during the interval, it was an­ nounced that the IRA had tele­ phoned to say tha t a bomb had been planted and was due to go off.


and everyone got out safely but it was decided that it was too risky for the children to return. The club later found out that the show was cancelled and so they returned to Ciitheroc ea r ­ lier than they expected.


T h e theatre was evacuated T h re e more


teachers fo r R ib b le sd a le


IN view of increased numbers and in preparation for the raising of the school leaving age. Ribblesdale County Secon­ dary School. Clithcroc, is to have another three full-time teachers. No. 5 Divisional education


executive has also agreed to a full-time teacher to replace a part-time teacher, working fo r six half-days, a t St. Mary's RC School, Billington; and one full-time teacher to staff an ad ­ ditional classroom when it becomes available at Billington a n i Langho CE School.


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IT’S ALL AT THE


NOW


Council were told by their clerk. Mr. I.. D. Telford, this week that they should start thinking of suggestions for the official name of the proposed Ribble Valley Authority. He asked them to tell him of any sugges­ tion they thought of.


Name, please Members of Bowland Rural


C l i t h c r o e Physiotherapy


Centre has received a donation of £10 from the Clitheroe Ladies’ Circle.


Slaughterhouse plan upsets Kirkmoor Road


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Inglewhite-based firm from converting part of the for­ mer Albion Bobbin Works into a slaughterhouse, resi­ dents in th e Kirkmoor Road area of Clitheroe, have five points to make to Clitheroe Town Council, which has been approached by the firm for planning


permission. The residents maintain that:


9 A slaughterhouse is not dc- desirablc in a residential area.


9 The smells caused by such an operation would be un­ bearable.


41 The noise made by poultry awaiting processing is not pleasant.


9 The plan will mean an in­ crease In traffic.


9 The proposed processing plan t will attract vermin and flies.


the firm the problems antici­ pated by the residents will cer­ tainly be no worse than those experienced in the area in the past, and they could well be


But according to a director of


to look into any complaints. The attention of residents was


less so. The firm would be prepared


first drawn to the scheme by Mr. R. C. Steel, of “Eastwood”, Kirkmoor Road, who saw a notice in the “Advertiser and Times.” Mr. Steel has. as par t o f his job, had experience of the type of processing plant en­ visaged, in Denmark and north Germany. "I was very much taken aback


PLANS to operate a chicken slaughterhouse in a predominantly residential area of Clitheroe are meeting with strong opposition from householders who are petitioning against the development. In an effort to prevent an


used to house battery liens, and the smell they say, is almost un­ bearable during humid weather, or with the wind in a certain direction. One resident who had been


unaware of the situation until told by Mr Steel, was Mr. Francis Jackson, who has lived at Mordaunt House, icr 50 years; and runs his own bobbin factory in the shadow of the now'-empty Albion Bobbin Works. "When the hens were here be­


fore, and the weather was humid, it was unpleasant to go out of the house,” he said. "The children sometimes came run­ ning indoors crying because of the smell, and if we left a win­ dow open and the wind changed wc had to go round the whole house with a can of air


freshener.” s “Tile smell” lit, said, “w a s a


ource o f oNK-irAssmcnti when


friends carncTo” visit. I t’s two months since the last lot of poultry moved out, and it’s been absolute heaven," he said, “but i t looks like this new problem is going to be still worse." “We a re not going to sit down


Hudson, o f Beech House, Long- ridge Road, Jnglewhite He explained that the project


had been discussed carefully with Clitheroe’s public health inspector. Mr. Walter Grange. “The processing factory will therefore comply with Ministry of Agriculture regulations, which o f course do not permit nuisances o f this kind to arise”, he added.


“This answers the question


o f smell from the premises”, he said, "and i t means th a t there will be -no Increase in the smell a t all. We intend to use the processing section for poultry from o u r o th e r five premises in the area, an d this will in fact mean th a t there will n o t be as much poultry actually living a t the Albion Works, so if any­ thing th e smell will be less”.


Privacy


to a thing like this," he said, “1 have already written to the council, and wc will put up a fight—otherwise we shall be forced to wear gasmasks all day.”


Will listen


by the appalling thought of hav­ ing a slaughterhouse so close to a residential area—and so close to us.” he said.


Smell "One of the real problems in


any form of slaughtering is that although the creatures may in no way suffer, one always gets the feeling that they know what is going to happen, and they make a terrific din.” Mr. Steel explained that it was not desir­ able for young children—or in­ deed anyone—in a residential area to be constantly subjected to this sort of noise. A worse problem however,


Kirkmoor Road home is almost opposite the main gate of the bobbin works, is equally scepti­ cal ab o u t the plan. "The smell will mean th a t this is not a nice thing to have on our doorsteps,” she said, “I t was bad enough with the battery hens, which we could hear clucking, and then the smell was almost unbear­ able.’’ "The building is decrepit, and


Mrs. Barbara Railton, whose


very many live chickens on the premises, so the amount of droppings would be small, and therefore the smell would cause little prohlem. “These will be disinfected, and flushed away into the sewers”, said Mr. Hud­ son Other waste would also be transported away and disposed of before it could become a source of smell, be added


It was n o t proposed to keep “As far as traffic is concerned,


th e increase on the present flow will be very marginal—nothing compared to the volume of traffic visiting the Council de­ pot and other businesses in the vicinity “There will of course be cars belonging to staff, but as the initial staff will be two, this will not be a great pro­ blem’’, said Mr Hudson.


Again because of the small


bad enough to look at, without it smelling as well." According to Mr. Kenneth Hudson, one of the two direc­


tors o f the company which has put forward the plans, the pro­ blems the residents anticipate will certainly be no worse than those they have experienced in the past—and they could well


be less so. “What is more, we are ready


was the smell that would be created by a slaughterhouse, according to Mr. Steel. Mr. Steel also feels that the


and willing to listen to any com. plaints that may arise, and we arc prepared to take notice of advice that anyone gives us We do not wish to cause anyone dis­ comfort of any kind’ . said Mr


added traffic to Kirkmoor Road and Castle View would, as well as causing noise and fumes, be a hazard to children and old people. He is also worried about the


number of live hens to be kept at the premises, the risk o fv e r - min and flics was small. 4 But, as everything will have to be up to government specifications anyway, there is no cause for


concern here” . Mr. Hudson denied tha t the


noise of the poultry would be audible to nearby residents. “The processing will be carried o u t in complete privacy, behind


double sliding doors”. Initially, plans are for the pro­


cessing o f two to three hundred birds a week, and eventually this may get up to 3.000. “This is a small operation—some of the bigger processors g e t


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problem of disposing of waste. “It is said th a t the only thing not processed is the squeak,” he said, "but in fact a lot of waste goes into the making of fer­ tiliser which will no doubt smell.’’


do is hamper industrial develop­ ment, especially in the present situation of unemployment, but we feel that if this plan is allowed life will be absolutely terrible in this aera.” As far as the problem of


"The last thing we want to


ERECTION OF BOLLARDS WORRIES COUNCILLORS


CONCERN was voiced by members of Clitheroe Rural Highways Committee this week about the private erection of


bollards on land in George Street, Whalley. The matter


was mentioned


by Couns. J. S. R. Shaw.


H. Fell and J. They drew al.


tention to the fact that there


smell is concerned, local resi­ dents already have experience of that. The Albion Works is


had probably been unhindered access to the land since 1911, and to the possibility that in wet weather pedestrians would have to negotiate a large pool


of water now that the land bad


vevOr. b ad said nobody could of" their own accord stop up a way which had been in use for a long number of years it was agreed he should investigate the position. Mr. Cockshutt made the point that in any event there ought to be a 12 ft right of way round the property.


been re-surfaced. After Mr. H. Cockshutt. sur-


Gas leak danger averted


THE alertness of a passcr-bv who flagged down a police car an d told the officers of a gas leak in a Clitheroe street, averted a serious explosion on Monday afternoon. The incident was in Well


Terrace where a gas main had fractured and the pressure had torn up a section of the road­ way. The police told the North Western Gas Board, and then cordoned off p a r t of the street a s a precaution. A strong smell of gas enveloped the area, and temporary bus stops were set up o u t of the danger zone to replace those near the leak. Pupils flom Clitheroe Royal


tinued operations into the night, working by the headlights of one o f their vans, before the danger was fully over.


11-plus delayed


BECAUSE of power cuts, parti­ cularly the effects in other divi­ sions."the 11 plus examination in Clithcroc a n d neighbouring schools, was postponed from this


week to next. An education spokesman said


Division 5 schools c ould have gone ahead on the original date but it was important to have uni­ formity. The week's delay would not affect the examination time­ table and parents would be noti­ fied of the results at the usual


time.


Whalley sewage plan


shelved


AS the result of talks with the Department of the Environment. Clithcroe Rural Council has shelved plans for extending the sewage works a t Whalley. The likelihood is that sewage


from the village will be piped over the Calder and treated at the Blackburn Rural Council works


a t Billington. This is the substance of a re­


port by Mr. Alan Butt, clerk, to Clitheroe Rural Waterworks, Sewerage and Cleansing Commit­ tee after the return from the Lon­ don talks of Mr. H. Cockshutt. surveyor, and Mr. H. R. Brooks- bank. the council's consulting


engineer. Mr. Butt told the Advertiser


and Times that the Department had asked Mr. Brooksbank to in­ vestigate the possibilities of pumping to the Blackburn Rural


works.His council's scheme, which was sent to the Department and the Lancashire River Authority


last July, would have cost £125,000 and include the clos- of the sewage works at Barrow.


Town needs more entertainment for young


C L IT H E R O E should pro­ vide more entertainment facilities for young people aceording to a survey made by the Chamber of Trade. The survey was carried out


championed the cause o f the younger generation by sug­ gesting tha t there was also need fo r non-dcnominational youth clubs,


town's attractiveness to visitors. It was women who chiefly


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on three days, including a Sat­ urday. last summer with the aid of pupils of Ribblesdale Secondary School and the two grammar schools. In addition to recreation and entertainment facilities it included shopping, car parking, catering and the


committee arranged the survey which aimed to discover what people were satisfied o r dis­ satisfied with; why they shopped in Clitheroe or why they went elsewhere. The sample inter­


ditionally they called fo r more cafes and restaurants. The Chamber’s civic affairs


discotheques. Ad­ views covered an age range of ___ _ „


survey is now being collated fo r submission to Chamber of Trade members with a view to


15 to over 45. Information yielded by the


their benefiting from it. A pleasing feature—but not


fo r improvement: while 82 per cent of local people interviewed said they were satisfied with


leading to complacency is that Clitheroe shops are appreciated for the variety and quality of goods, and personal service. Catering facilities show need


the shops generally. 73 per cent said catering facilities were u n ­


than 1,000 people, including visitors, 80 per cent liked the variety in shops; 75 per cent praised the variety of goods, with slightly more than h alt favouring self-service in food shops b u t 70 per cent pre­ ferring staff service in non­


satisfactory. Of a total sample o f more


food shops.


the majority said fhey came to CUtheroe weekly. Opinions on


Among visitors interviewed, , -r« __. __ * __oi-i*nrr parki g


goods. Opinions on in food vided.


per cent the favour of with staff


evenly divided, but 79 per cent liked the 75


f faacciilliittiieess were were service


in


shops were 76


service per variety shops


fairly and


in other in fa


self-service evenly di­ cent


of Free tasting oE Nahrrella


fairly evenly divided on the town’s catering facilities. The overall picture was one


shops. Visitors opinions were also


o f many people from a t least 20-mile radius enjoying shop­ ping expeditions to Ciitheroc,


German Fruit Juices and Drinks March 4th to March 11th


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guided away from the danger to the temporary bus stops. Gas board workmen con­


Royal Grammar School xvcrc unaware of the drama until late afternoon, when they were


TOP BULL


Dante, reared by Coun. Frank Clayton, chairman of Ciitheroc Rural Council, at l.ancside Harm. Chatburn, was sold for 520 gns. at North of England Hereford Show, on Tuesday, taking second prize. The 400 day weight of 1,244


A Hereford bull, Pendleside I


lbs. was equal to a 2.4 lbs. daily live weight gain.


Baud concert called off


cuts, the concert due to be given by the Fodens Motor Works Band on Sunday in the Civic Hall, Clithcroe. has been postponed until Sunday. April 9th. Tickets already bought can be transferred to that date or monev will be refunded.


Owing to the threat of power


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Jane blows her way into youth orchestra month on Sundays . 1" includes


y oun g people up to the age o f 17. but la n e will he the younges t member, and the only one l iv­ ing in Cl i thcroc. Music seems to run in the


Haigh family—Jane's parents are former church choir mem­ bers, her mother plays the piano, and I’aul, seven, has just


started to learn the cornet. But what makes a g ood trom­ bonist? Ac cording to Jane.


"long arms’5 arc important, as the seventh position is rather


hard to reach. "It also depends how your


lips arc." she said. "Mine aren’t very good," commented brother Paul. But he isn’t going to let that worry him unduly. He wants to learn tile trumpet. lane's a m b i t i o n at the


moment . . . to play trombone n r F r e n c h horn . . . in a brass band.


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