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EDITORIAL TEL. CLITHEROE 2324 ADVERTISING TEL. CLITHEROE 2323 CLASSIFIED TEL. BURNLEY 22331
No. 4467
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
FRIDAY
JANUARY 28th, 1972 3p
THEY AIM TO GO OVERLAND TO AUSTRALIA
FOR most people emigrat ing to Australia would be something of an adventure
in itself. But three local men who are
hoping to start a new life Down Under intend to make sure
Michael Holgatc
that their adventures start long before they reach their destina tion. F o r the three—Michael Holgate. 25, of Pimlico Road, Chris Rung. 23, of Hodder Grove, both of Clitheroe, and Stephen Kelly. 20. of Hurst Green,—who all work in the packing plant at Ribble Cement
...AND LANGHO FAMILY HEADS FOR USA
SETTING out for a new life the Greenwood family, of
who works for Scapa Porritts. a Blackburn
fami ly and friends. Mr. Chr istopher Greenwood,
f i r m _ producing
paperntakers’ felts, is going to a new job in Amer ica as de signer for the f irm of H. Watcr-
burv. The family will live in Oris-
kany. New’ York State, in the Mohawk Mountains area. I t is a ski-ing resort, so they’ arc all looking forward to the move especially Cameron (121 and Marsdcn’ (61. pupils at Heath- field School and St. Mary's College. Blackburn. They will stay in a motel for the first three weeks, until the furni ture arrives, and then go house
hunting. WI TREASURER
school on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Greenwood,
dule. for they finish school on T h u r s d a v . fly to New York on Friday, and start in their new
The bovs have a tight sche
farewel l party’ i n Whallcy Abbey, with dinner for all their
Langho. On Saturday, they held a
in America next Friday arc Fourways, Whalley Road,
years previously, al though they have now been back in Eng land for seven years. They’ have relatives in Boston, which is not too far away, and lots of
friends still in Canada. Mrs. Greenwood will miss
Billington and Langho WI. where she has been treasurer
for about four years. "I've really enjoyed it.” she said.
“ But there may be a WI in Oriskany. as it's only a small
place.” She feels that in Canada and
plays and less emphasis on the arts, so to compensate for this, she hopes to join a book review
the USA there is much more ■conceintrntlion on the outdoor life, and consequently fewer
who meet in turn in each other's homes. While the host sits back and does nothing, one member prepares the supper often a foreign dish, as these clubs tend to be very cosmopo- ; Jitan—and other members give
club. “This is a group of 15 women
reviews of books. ’ Mrs. Greenwood added: “ It
who arc natives of Keighley, have lived in Canada for 10
clubs myself.”
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there isn't a group 1 can join. 1 may even start one of these
Ltd, have plans to travel over land by Land Rover, taking about three months. However, their plan cannot
go ahead unless one major obstacle is solved—they need
another five people to accom pany them if the expedition is to be financially feasible. “ If eight people went, then
the cost would be about £300 each, but for just the three of us the cost would be at least £700 each, which is just out of the question,” explained Mic
beauty of the plan was that, al though it was by no means the cheapest way to emigrate, rt afforded plenty of chances to explore other par ts of the world cn route. Michael does not expect to
hael. He added that the great
leave until August, but is al ready looking for further com panions so that they will have time to save up the necessary cash. “Wc are looking for people between the age of 18 and 35, male or female,” said Michael, “they don’t have to be ernigra- <n,g—thwe may be someone
who would like to come along for the trip, and then make their own way home. So long as they pay their share of the costs, they arc welcome to join us.” The three have not yet begun
simpler parts of the operation. “We will have to be sure of having <anong'h people befiorc wc make a start on kitting out.” A provisional route has how ever been drawn up,—and an
to qollcct equipment Michael says that this is one of the
impressive list it makes. They ( will drive through Europe— Bdguim. Germany. Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece—and into Turkey. Erom there, they will go on
jo Iran, and Afghanistan, if possible, they then will go
through Paki'iton. “However,
wc may not be allowed to enter that country.’ said Michael,” so we may instead have to go by boat across the Persian Gulfi. This will of course mean that the cost of tile trip will have to be increased—by about £50.”
The last leg of the journey
will take them through India, Nepal. Singapore. ;m,d so to Australia. Obviously, it is im possible to travel the entire dis tance by vehicle—b u t three quarters of the trip will be over land. and the remaining 4,000 miles by sea. They aim to reach Nepal in
about 12 weeks. “This allows ample time for stopping and
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An emergency plan to help old people keep warm
ARRANGEMENTS which il is hoped will ensure lhat no aged, sick or housebound p eop le , or parents with very young children, will he com p le te ly without eoal or other I’orms o f solid fuel have been
This team effort also includes
made by the National Coal Board with Clitheroe C o rp o ^ ,wl“ wi l t jnin
doctors, the health clinic, and the health depar tment of the Corporation. Mr. John Cowdall. Town
Clerk, explained: “ All of us arc concerned about the outlook for these members of the com munity should there be any long period of severe weather. Active
people can help us by keeping an eye on elderly or infirm neighbours. The arrangements arc for
fourth week a local merchant. Mr. G. R. Mitchell, of Chatburn Road, Clitheroc. who repre sents the Blackburn and district Coal Merchants' Association, said yesterday: “The situation is about the same as last week. Stocks if anything are slightly lower. but wc arc coping nicely." He added: “We can get
As the coal strike enters its
through provided people will be reasonable, and nobody needs to be without coal al togchcr . '
Schools
emergencies only, and for every body's convenience a three pronged distribution has been settled on for the issue of special fuel certificates where need is established. Householders dependent on
Deliveries of coal to local
solid fuel for cooking purposes: infirm and elderly people living alone; an elderly person who is alone at home for most of the day. and families with children under school ace should, in an emergency, apply to the Health Clinic. Lshton Terrace. Doctors have been asked to
deal with priority needs for maternity cases and people who are housebound or physically handicapped. Other people who consider
I York Street. They will have to prove need. It is assumed that normally all householders will obtain coal
they have a legitimate claim on priority coal supplies should apply to the Health Department.
from their usual merchant. Mr. Cowdall stresses that the
schools have solved their heat ing problems for the time being. Light tons were delivered to Pcndle Junior School on Mon day. putting them in the clear for three or four weeks. St. James's School has received
seven and a half tons of coal, which is cxpcced to last until half term. Only the Sunday School, which meets there each week, has been less fortunate. As the Education Authorities have asked for the coal supplies to be used sparingly, a different meeting place has had to be
found. Last Sunday the children met in church, and this Sunday they
for
a onlv
a family 'service. At Pendleton village school,
shortage of coal is not the setback to lessons. Work
men have been in the school for a fortnight, rewiring the build ing andinstal l ing electric stor age heaters, to replace the coal- t fired heating system. The work j scheduled to be done dur- i
was ing the
tamed then. The continual hammering and
parents in church
the Christmas holidays, but j heaters could not be ob- i
drilling has made it virtually j impossible to teach, and the 22 , pupils stayed at home for three days this week, while the noise was at its worst.
be new
yesterday, although there is only enough coal left to last another four days, and it may nearly a month before the heaters are functioning.
They were due back at school
croe district Venture Scout unit found time at the weekend to deliver about 40 sacks of logs to pensioners who responded to '' - story in last week's Adver- and Times.
Several members of the Clith- the
tiscr T
logs elderly should
he Scouts arc selling the at 25p a sack and any person requiring them contact Clitheroe 2721.
S AL E
SEE WINDOW FOR BARGAINS * ALL GENUINE STOCK *
FRED READ and CO. LTD. Tai lors and Outfitters
9 MARKET PLACE, CLITHEROE Telephone 2562
THE SHOW EVERYONE WANTS TO
SEE . . . BUT CAN’T
WHEN public booking for the Clitheroe Parish Church musical opened on Monday, a queue for tickets strep
ched from the Parish Churck Hall right down Church Street as far as the Town
Council offices. Although “South Pacific",
presented' by the Operatic and Dramatic Society, does not open until February 7th, every' evening is now fully booked, and only a limited number of seats arc available for the Saturday matinee. Joint secretary of the society.
Mr. R. N. Dinnis. said that the demand for tickets had been unprecedented. “This must be due to the success of previous shows, and the reputation the society has established.” !hc
said. “We have had fine support
Whip-it
whippets who all drink from the goldfish howl while the fish swims round uncon
TELL us about your pets, we asked last week. Well, readers have not been slow to respond and first past the post for the £2 prize was whippet owner, Mrs. Heather Tat- tersall, of 13 Mon k Street, Clitheroe. She writes: “We have three
cerned.
filling u p twice a day. Since they s tar ted the habi t they turn up their noses a t their own water supply.”
"T h e goldfish bowl needs . , .
5t)n prizewinner. Mrs. Joan Turner, of Timothy 1-arm. Whallcv Road. Hurst Green. She 'writes: “Assuming the
Now for a cat story from
theory of rc-incarnation to he correct, mv kitten has most definitely been a public lava tory at tendant in a formcr
lifel
“ As soon as anyone heads for the bathroom she is there
,
to supervise. “She will unravel the toilet
roll for you. This is done
with a 'hang the expense' atti tude and results in knee-deep toilet tissue all around. “A similar routine lollows
a’ the wash basin and Bonny Girl will let von leave. "Visitors ask me to 'please
hold the cat'. They find the experience far too embanas-
sing." There’s more fun at the sink
with Mrs. E. Seed’s pet. Her
letter also earns 50p. From 26 Salthill Road.
She writes: “My’ clevcn-
ycar-old terrier, I essa. has al ways found the rough- textured. hairy leaves of the wych elm very palatable and nibbles off' the lower leaves in deer-like fashion. She also has a passion for raspberries, following me along the rows when f 'am picking them and helping herself to the truil within reach. ’
Clitheroe. she writes: "Our black and white dog
Domino has a strange taste for soap. NVhcn sht^ was ». puppy she came creeping in foaming at the mouth'. “ I thought she was having
years old "we have no peace when wc are having a wash or washing out the smalls, as she stands there paws on sink or wash basin licking as fast as she can go.”
a fit hut she had only taken a good mouthful of a whiter than white detergent. "Although she is now four
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from block bookings, including some from Rishlon. Great Harwood, Burnley. Read and Padiham. Among the groups visiting the show' arc Caldcr- stones. Brockhall and Whitting- ham Hospitals, the two old age pensioners’ organisations in the town, the schools and the women's organisations.” In view’ of the exceptionally quick sale of tickets, the box
i office a t the Parish Church ' Hall will not be open on Sat urday morning, as publicised but will be open today as usual from 2—3 p.m. and 6—7 p.m.
President of
[i Trades I Council
9 Has your pet any strange ways? Or have you any unusual tales -.ifiuist them in general? Why not write and tell us. There’s a prize, of £2 for the best letter and 50p for every other pub- g j
‘iMiit-.ii1 ii.rv.’fiiifiiiiitmniiMtiHiiiiihiiHiti'iimifftiHi’Hitiitii'iii. = \ lished.
President of Clithcroc and district Trades Council for the
1 1 lard.
past five years. Mr. H. Bullock has retired owing to ill-health. At the counci ls annual meeting he was suc ceeded by Mr. J. Waterhouse. Vice-president for 1972 is Mr. J. Wilkinson. Mr. R- Chad wick was re-appointed secrc- tnrv and auditors elected yxere Messrs L. H. Allen and H. Pol
The terrier belonging to
Miss M. Booth, of Rocky- hank. Waddington. lias a passion for sott fruit. Per haps Miss Booth will buy a basketful with her 50p prize.
REPRESENTATIVES
TALKS ON TOURISM from
local councils and the La'wa- shire County Counci l will be amo ng those at tending a meet ing of the Ribhlc Val ley Tour is t Associat ion working party on Th u r sd ay a f ternoon. This meet ing will be the tinal
stage before the proposed format ion of the Association. Those attending will include
representatives from Clitheroe Town Council. Bowland Rural
WHY BE COLD ,
... 'r~ ~ .s; b f - A ;
Counci l and Blackburn. \ spokesman for the working
party said they wanted to extend an open invitation to local parish councils to send repre sentatives to the meeting or to come as observeis. If any would like to accept
the invitation thev should tele phone Mr. Tony Perry at Stony-
hurst 210. and he will tell them where and why the meeting is
being held.
emergency service should be called upon only after all other attempts to obtain coal have been unsuccessful.
CLITHEROE’S GREAT LAKE IN YEAR 2,000
THE planners turned for ward the clock 30 years this week with their vision of
the huge lake to be created when the local quarries are
Winners
of stamp contest
who have r.cen successful in our recent stamp competition will soon be receiving a packet of stamps each worth £ 1.
Five lo * l boys and girls
(11). of 70 Park Avenue. Clitheroe; Peter Houghton (14), of !> Claremont Avenue.,, Clitheroc; Tony Hargreaves (13), of 4 Ribblc Avenue, Grindleton; Sheila Hillary
They are: Stuar t R. Read
4 ’ (17). of Brungerley Cottages, , Brungcrley Bridge. Clithcroe, » and Jane Sccdall, of 8 D o r s e t 1 ], Drive, Clitheroc.
Portugal. Mal ta, and Nat ion- , alist China.
Sounding brass
THE Foden Motor Works Band is to be engaged for a Sunday concert in Clitheroc, it was agreed at Tuesday's meeting of the'Town Council,
The stamps were f rom ' [ l( i
worked out. Th e format ion of the 240-acre stretch of water is tied in with
the plan to hew away Chatburn Old Road which now divides the quarries, and to build a link between Pimlico Road and the Whalley-Clithcroe by-pass. Details of the landscaping
scheme prepared by a woman architect, Mrs. S. M. Hayward, were presented to Bowland Rural District Council this week. The scheme has been prepared on behalf of the three quarry companies — Ribbles- dalc Cement. Horrocksford and Briggs.
LANDSCAPING The quarry site is to be land
scaped and the finished quarry laces and edges treated in such a way lhat high cont inuous cliffs arc not left and so that landscaping and tree planting can be carried out. The combined quar ry floor
level will be taken down to about 15Oft leaving a lake some 65ft deep and containing about 4.000 million gallons o f water. It will be contained by land
levels were reached in the sou thern quarries, a number of boggy fields between the rai l way and Chatburn Road could
provide be draine cd additional into the agricultural quarry
land. The lake it is suggested could
be used for recreation or water storage or both. If it was to be used for water storage, a short length of the perimeter could be raised to increase the capa city by about 1.600 million gallons. Public access would be to the
high. al located only by
will
north and south shores only, as the eastern and western shores be cliffs about 60 and 185 The north shore would be for pedestrion access footpaths from West
Br a d fo rd Road. Ribble Lane and Chatham. Part of this area
has planning permission for the extraction of clay. Already the old spoi l heaps at
the western end have been graded to natural contour s and planted with trees to give the appearance of wooded hills but
at natural ground levels varying ing from about 225 feet to 400 feet high limestone cliffs at the eastern end. Ground and surface water
access cxisis from a snur of Chatburn Old Road and through
and existing springs would feed ib« JLaJca and when suitable
access would be about 4 acres. The south shore would be allo cated for car parking and boats brought by trailers. Good road
the proposed small h e ap at the eastern end has not yet been planted. The total area for public
Bold Venture Quar ry from Chatburn Road. Additional access could be made from the new ■
to
Chalburn Road. A 16-acrc ear park could be
incorporated and toads L this to water level could be retained from existing rantped roads r e q u i r e d f o r quarry woik
111 Snoil heaps at present at Tar mac and Bold Vcnturc Quames
would be moved and the lime stone underneath quarried.
So that Ribbledalc Quarry
could maintain access front the works to its raw materials in the Bellman Park area, a quar ry road would skirt the south-west corner of the lake and a ton- vevor or some other means ot transport would cross the lake the south-west corner.
at TREES
already been carried out and further planting is proposed. The cliffs at the eastern and western shores of the lake would be treated by hydraulic seeding to hasten the development ot vegetation and at the south-east corner of the lake it is proposed to plant trailing plants such as wild clematis, ivy and vi rpn.a
Extensive tree planting has
creeper at the top of the These would hang down inter mittently an d break up the line
of the cliffs. roaewimking -Fimlico-with
the £
The level of the lake would be controlled by a weir and
, ,
outfall to the River
R.bble The draf t proposals state that I ancashire River Authority
in principle, prepared to - * — *
* *A**th'Bt,b4)ne
work could be complecd in 30 to 50 years.
In submitting the companies . ,
draft to Bowland Council, the West Riding County Council
scheme to be sat isfactory and the clerk. Mr. L. D. Telford will write to the County Council
asked for its views. Counci l members found the
made on quarrying Chatburn Old Road, the link section be tween Pimlico and Chatburn Roads has to be constructed, adopted and opened to the pub
to inform it of this. But before a start can be
lic.
set to make a start on their section, but
from Chatburn Road to the by pass — for which Lancashire Countv Council is paying over
stretch to take the highway
£250,000—is being held up by the Ministry of Environment . It is not kndwn when a start
will be made on this section. Mr. E. J. Adderley, general
The quarry companies are all the remaining
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WHITE S1P E ’ S writ a
manager of Ribblesdale Cement said they were prepared to make an early start on their section between Pimlico and Chatburn Roads and hoped to finish it by
the late Autumn. However, the work depended
on the construction of the rail way bridge to be undertaken by
completed without the bridge. The county is due to start work on (he • bridge in - six weeks’
the county council. Work on the road cannot be
time. baWins !! EXTRA SPECIAL VERMOUTH OFFER
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