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Awards for clmrcli


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AWARDS for long service to church music have been made to Mrs. B. D, Todd, organist at St. Leonard’s Church. Down- ham for 42 years, and to Mr. Charles Gore, at present in the choir of Clithcroe Parish Church, for 40 years choral ser­ vice in the Blackburn diocese. The awards were presented at


choral Evensong in Blackburn Cathedral by the Bishop, the Rr. Rev. Robert A . S. Mar- tincau. Several parishioners from Downham attended the service, including Mrs. Todd’s husband and son. the Vicar, the Rev. F. E. Chard, and his


family. You can exchange your vou­


THE £100,000 Ribbledale swim pool has got off to a fan­ tastic start, with more than 4,000 taking to the water during the first few days. In fact there has been such a demand that ■


Camps summed it all up as J ‘hectic’.


Baths manager Mr. Brian i


pretty well, and there have been no queues to cause delays." he said. The vast maj­ ority o f the admissions had been swimmers, but there had been no need to turn anyone away or impose a time limit.


“However, we have managed


were to close a t S p.m., but they were so popular that this was changed to 9 p.m.. This means that revised opening times are, during term time: 12.30 to 1.30, and 2.30 to 9 p.m. (last tickets issued at 8.30). and at week­ ends 9—5 p.m.. with last tickets issued at 4.30 p.m. During the school holidays,


Originally, he said, the baths


almost universally admired, Mr. Camps says he "has received a


the pool will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays, and 9—5 p.m. at weekends. Although the pool has been


couple of complaints. One con­ cerned the lockers, which some people have said are not large enough. “They do the job they are meant to." said Mr. Camps, “and if we had provided larger ones, they cost would have been around £3,000 more.”


PARKING PROBLEM


plained about lack of privacy in the changing area, but Mr. Camps assured them that curt­ ains are on order, and will be installed just as soon as they arrive. Also on order, but not yet


Several people bad also com­ 1


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Clitheroe Advertiser Times


No. 4481


m m tMAY 5th, 1972 4p.


GRAVE concern at the growth of sheep-worrying by dogs has been voiced by Clitheroe an d Bowland NFU committee- The offi­ cial figures suggest that the problem is easing but local opinion is that the statistics


do not reflect the true pic­ ture: many farmers no lon­ ger report incidents, feeling that there is little point in doing so until, they say, the courts impose realistic pen­ alties on owners.


Group 7 NFU which includes Clithcroc and Bowland said tha t if there was no other


Mr. Ken Harris, secretary of


ANGRY FARMERS REACH FOR THEIR GUNS


course open to them, farmers had the right to shoot dogs caught worrying livestock. They were reluctant to do


making it compulsory for dogs to be kept on a lead.


this but the problem of sheep worrying was getting to such a stage tha t they felt compelled (o act within their rights. “ If people saw the intoler­ able suffering th a t dogs can


cause to a sheep or lamb they would appreciate how serious the matter is,” he said, adding tha t local authorities were being urged to bring in by-laws


example, visitors to the country­ side did not help by allowing dogs to roam at will. One local farmer who has


In the Pendleside area, for


recently had trouble with mar­ auding dogs is Mr. Richard Collingc. of Higher Standen Farm, Clithcroc. He had two lambs killed and another badly mauled a fe_w weeks ago. “The spring lambing season is the worst, but the problem


Stand by for an invasion


PETTICOAT LANE MARKET TARGET IS £1,000


in Clitheroe Market Place on Sunday, when the Mayor opens the Petticoat Lane Market, one of the biggest fund-raising town has


Thousands of


this, as this is the only way an j ambulance could reach the i pool in an emergency,” said !


Mr. Camps. A p a r t f rom th a t , M r . C am p s


h a s h a d n o th in g b u t c om p l i - Continued on page 9.


arrived are signs prohibiting parking in the pool’s access road. “Although the car park is just across the road, many ( people are using this road to ; park, and we are trying to stop |


expected from all over Lanc­ ashire to see the clock turned back more than a century, with Market Place transformed into


some 30 organisations from the town and surrounding villages, whose helpers will be dressed in old time costume to sell goods for the last monster effort towards the Ribblc Val­ iev swimming baths appeal fund. By holding a market on the


lines of the famous Petticoat Lane Market in London, the organisers hope that this last effort will boost the fund, now standing at £12.850. by at least a thousand pounds. The opening of the baths


huge success. One of the organisers. Mr.


Geoffrey Sainsbury. said: “The co-opcration from local organ­ isations has been fantastic. The


last Friday is likely to provide local pet»plc with an added in­ centive, and they' will be going all out to make the Market a


ever known. visitors arc idea of the Market seems to have caught everyone’s imagin­ ation." The fund, originally intended


an old-fashioned open air market. Stalls will be manned by


to improve the specified amen­ ities at the baths, by providing additions such as a teaching pool, has been the best sup­ ported in the history of the town since the Castle was purchased by public subscription in 1919.


Colourful


Place will be a colourful one. with stalls on one side selling all kinds of food, from local farm produce to hot black pud­ dings. made to a secret recipe by a Clitheroe butcher. On the other side will be good as new clothes, books and toys, flow­ ers and plants, pots. hats, jewellery and kitchenware. Refreshments will be served


The scene in the Market


throughout the afternoon by one of the local Wl groups, using the facilities of the White Lion Hotel. Various sideshows, a bran


tub and balloons will add authenticity to the market, and provide plenty of fun for all the family. Punch and Judy


OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ! The old call of the towncrier will ring out events the


shows will be given in the King Lane car park along with two other games, while shooting for goal and victims in the stocks will take place in Tlico’s York


towncrier, complete with bell, will be performed by Mr. Stan­ ley Flack, and visitors will have a chance to see the 300-ycar-old ceremonial mace. After the opening ceremony,


opened a t 1 p.m. from a rostrum near the library steps, by the Mayor, Alderman S. .L Moore, in full regalia. Thctf&n5’t '° f '


children from Slaidburn school will dance round the maypole in the centre of the Market Place, and men from Colne will give a performance of Morris dancing. Local colour will be added


by a three-man busking team from the Borough Surveyor's office. Traffic will be diverted from the Market Place at lunchtime.


Street car park. The Market will be officially


MEMB E R S o f local women's organisations give their old lime costumes an airing in prepara­


tion for the Petticoat Lane Marke t . Pictured from the left, at the hack: Mrs. Gregory. Mrs. M. Ireland, Mrs. C. Sainshury. Mr s . E. Turner. Mrs. Hemingway ami Mrs. F. Blades; front: Mrs.: M. Sadler. Mrs. H. Burgess and Mrs. M. Sutcliffe.


and clearing away the stalls, will be undertaken by Clithcroe Scouts Association. To case the parking situation


and prevent the main streets from becoming too congested, the organisers arc asking all


MARKET STARTS AT 1 pan.


THE Petticoat Lane Market will now be opened at 1 p.m. by the Mayor. The time has been brought forward from 2 p.m. following a discrepency in publicity material distributed by the organisers.


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for the occasion from the Parish Church, the Catholic Church, the Conservative Club and the Swan and Royal Hotel. Work behind the scenes, putting up


the open air stalls. Trestle tables are being loaned


when stallholders begin to set up their pitches and decorate


local people to leave their cars at home, or to park as fa r away as possible from the town centre. Although many visitors are


is a registered charity, and the sponsors, with the full co­ operation of the police, will be on continual look-out for any tradesmen who may attempt to sell goods fo r private profit. If wet. the Market will be


being encouraged to come to Clitheroe. the organisers stress that there will be no disruption of the flow of traffic through the town. The fund-raising organisation


held under cover in the nearby Boys’ Grammar School on York Street, and visitors will be able to park in the school yard.


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DING-DONG! ding-dong- ding-dong! . . . That is the sound which will greet Sun­ day morning iiv Wadding- ton before the year is out. And in anticipation of the new peal of bells at St. Helen’s Church, a meeting


to recruit a team of ringers is being held on Monday night.


Mr. John Pilkington. who rings at Whalley and belongs


to the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers, along with a team of ringers, will be at the church to demonstrate the use of handbells.


I t is hoped, however, that en­ ough interest will be created to s ta r t a series o f training classes so th a t a team can be formed in time fo r the installation of the new peal, probably in the autumn. Before being sent away last


what is meant predominantly to be a night of entertainment.


Films will also be shown on


August fo r recasting the old peal had n o t been rung since-the end of the-last'■war.. But while -they


POURING OUT A MERRY PEAL


were difficult to operate an d required a certain amount of muscle power, the new set will be easy to ring, by evert the


frailest of girls. The recasting is being done


at the Loughborough Foundry of John Taylor and Co. and our photo shows the pouring of the I I cwt tenor bell, the largest of


in the 19 century at a time when the art of bell tuning was little understood and, say Messrs. Taylor, the tonal quality was very poor.


bell was cracked and its tone the opportunity has been taken completely ruined. Accordingly to recast the set, so tha t St. Helen’s will have* a^really mag­ nificent peal of bells, . all


Combined with this, the tenor


the peal and 2ft 1 tins in dia­ meter at the mouth. The metal is going into a mould which shapes the bell head. The original bells were cast


bells was rotten and decrepit and it is being replaced by a new framework dsigned in ac­ cordance with modern princi­ ples, consisting of cast iron sides supported on rolled steel


properly tuned for the first time. The old framework for the


joists. This frame will bc completely


rigid and substantial and also help to strengthen the tower by binding it together with a gril­ lage of cross-braced girders. The tower and bells fund now


stands at £3.744, and if the sponsored walk being staged on May 20tli is as successful as last


the names of the vicar and the churchwardens, and another will be called the Waddington bell, after the people o f th a t name who- contributed - to the fund.


year the target of £4,000 will soon be passed. _ On one bell will be inscribed


makes short work of Gretna trip


David’s old car


IT took Mr. David Kay and his car 11 hours and 10 min­ utes to make the 232-mile round trip from Clitheroe to Gretna Green and back—an average speed of 26 miles per hour. But that's not bad going when you consider that the car in question is almost 40 years old.


Mr. Kav’s hips in his 1933 at 8 a.m. last Saturday, when


Austin Seven was a sponsored run. designed to raise money for the Ribble Valley Poultry Society, of which he is vicc-


presidcru*. And so confident was Mr. Kay in the capabilities of his


car that he decided to make the journey single-handed—without


perienced no mechanical trouble whatsoever. "Mind you. I did


well-founded,


even a mechanic. His confidence proved to be fo r _ he ex­


■not expect any”, said Mr. Kay. “The car is in immaculate con­ dition. and it ran perfectly.” Mr. Kay's epic voyage began


RIBBLE CANOE RACE


Ribble Rapid River race on Sunday and the first ones will leave a t 10.00 a.m. from Edis- ford Bridge for Ribchester. Entries have come from a


radius of 50 miles. The canoes, singles, doubles,


tourers, slaloms and racers, will all be paddled by Scouts or Venture Scouts, and are made o f canvas, wood o r fibre-glass. About 15 Clitheroe Scouts


ABOUT 200 canoes will be tak­ ing p ar t in the annual Scout


lie was given a send ofF from outside Clithcroe Police Station by members of the Poultry


Society's committee. But first, he got the police


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station to give him their official stamp, as proof that he had set off from Clitheroc. On arrival at Gretna, he went to the police station there, and added their stamp to his certificate. Mr. Kay’s route took him along the M6 motorway for most of the journey, and he only stopped on two occasions. As usual, he and the Austin


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following evening, he rolled back to Clithcroe Police Station, and a welcoming party, -where he had his certificate stamped for the last time.


SIX GALLONS


and Venture Scouts will be taking part, including several who won awards in last y e a r s race. Some will be in p ro ­ fessionally-built canoes but most will be paddling boats b u ilt by themselves o r their


leaders, using fhe lo c a l.S co u t


manager of Daniel Thwaites and Co. Ltd., in Blackburn, and lives in Osbaldeston, has no plans as yet fo r a repeat per­ formance. “ I set out to raise £100 fo r the society's penning and benohing fund, and I hope tha t I have done the job,” he said.


a well-earned rest. “It’s isn’t the sort of car you can sit back and relax in.” he said, ‘‘It is actually phvsically tiring to drive it.” Mr. Kay. who is assistant


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can crop up a t anv time,” he said. “ I can expect about half a


dozen incidents a year, and the problem certainly isn’t getting any less severe.” . Mr. Collingc said th a t the dogs responsible were generally the smaller breeds, although he had seen Alsatians on his land. He added th a t it was very difficult to catch the dogs. “Even if the farmer can


farmers were busy enough without having to patrol their land against sheep worriers. “We arc now legally allowed to shoot dogs that worry' livestock, but I have not yet been on hand to catch one in the act.” “ It is *vot really the dogs


catch the dog. it often has no collar, so it is virtually impos­


sible to trace the owners. I in­ form the police of these inci­ dents, but there is very little they can do,” he said. Mr. Collingc pointed out that


themselves tha t arc to blame,” he added, “ but their owners.


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who should have the sense to keep them under control.”


made worse because his farm is close to the town and 'stray dogs as well as family pets can easily reach his land. “The lambs are not just chased, but a real mess is made of them,” he said, “ they are mauled and bitten, and their injuries arc often terrible.” Mr. Collinge says cattle, too


Mr. Collinge’s problem is BUTCHER’S


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are often chased by dogs. “The cattle however are less likely to be harmed, although a cow can lose her calf through such an experience.” To combat the problem. Mr.


raising the cost of dog licen­ ces would make people think


Collinge suggests stiffer penal­ ties for the owners of dogs which worry livestock, and


twice whether they really want a dog as a pet.


PULLING down plaster- work to make way for a new wall in his shop, a Clitheroe butcher has come across an interesting piece of history


. . . for the ‘wall’ beneath the plaster is hewn out of solid rock. And Mr. Edward Cowburn,


of Cowburn’s butchers in Castle Street, reckons that this is the first time the rock wall has seen daylight for at least 300 years. "I had often wondered why


many centuries, and was once one of three in Castle Street. The front is around 200 years old. but the rear is at least twice as old. with some parts possibly dating back to the 12th century when Clitheroe became a borough.


The shop itself dates back CASTLE KEEP


Forrest, thinks the rock was part of the sides of the old quarry—possibly dug to pro­


Local historian. Mr. Henry


vide stone for the castle keep— and the shop premises were built in the quarry at a later date.


sure that the quarry' was used to provide material for the castle keep. “ I would have thought the stone would have come from the hill on which the castle is built—making access more difficult.” he pointed out. During the alterations the builders came across a large


Mr. Cowburn is not quite so


wooden beam, weighing around 3c\vt.. and Mr. Cowburn thinks must be at least 200 years old. "1 am hoping to have a sample


sent away for analysis,” he said. Sadly, the natural rock wall will once again have to he


covered up as alterations p ro ­ gress. But Mr. Cowburn has taken a scries of pictures of his ‘find’ for posterity.


the wall at this particular place was so uneven—and now 1 know." said Mr. Cowburn.


CASUALLY SPRING


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