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THE Clitheroe and district Trades Council is alarmed at the continuing increase in unemployment and deeply con­


cerned at the human misery that follows in its Wake. Tt is true th a t the Cl itheroe


district numbers arc high as the nat ional hut even h ere the have begun to risi sharply The psychological a n d


n o t so average, numbers ’ rather


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moral damage to hundreds of thousands of working people is an anachronism in a society which at the opposite end of the financial spectrum contains very large reservoirs o f priveleged people. In spite of the so-called affluent society, the inequalities of the distribu" t ion of worldly goods are a disgrace to a self-styled Christ ian community.


"Advertiser and Times I have suggested tha t o u r economists arc baffled by the paradoxes o f the system and are unable to blue-pr int a way through th e financial jungle which the


In a previous let ter to the


capitalist system has produced e n d in which we have to live.


GRANTS


two measures that can be adopted immediately to ease th e situation but these will need a huge injection of government money through Oocal authorities. The neces­ sary legislation is on the Statute Books and merely needs implementing. Under the Derel ict Land


However, there arc one or


sive labour usage and would reduce unemployment figures. I t is true that wc in Cl ith­


these measures involve inten­


eroe are perhaps more fortun­ ate than in many other areas in the north west, but it would be foolish to ignore warnings from these areas.


R. CHADWICK Secretary, Clitheroe and district Trades Council.


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the stiles


THOSE who appreciate the countryside around Clitheroe will be gratified to hear that


the Ramblers’ Association is to designate the field paths in the area.


standing between walker and the farmer. Fa r bet ter to have a well marked path than to see people rambl ing all o v e r


the place. It is also impor tant that the


Clearance Act (which could include industrial wasteland), a local authori ty such as Cl i therde is entitled to a 75 p e r cent grant. Many semi and nori-skilled


workers could be absorbed in a crash building programme o f council houses. nursery schools and hospitals. Existing plans for road


This is vital for a bet ter under ­


programme needed to help jobless


Letters to the Editor


STOP POLLUTING COUNTRY SIDE


WHAT happens to us is quite often, too often the case in many other parts of our land. It is not so much of the air we breathe I want to speak about because here legislation has been passed and judiciously applied by those in control. I would like, however, to comment on some wider aspects of pollution with which we are


the chance on my many strolls to look around, and I come qui te often across sights which deeply offend and hur t my views and feelings. A new civilisation has gradu­


faced. Living in the country I have


Silver role


May I fill in a few gaps


‘ancient’ but feel sure l can provide some interesting data


al ly emerged—the one of the modern gipsy-dwellers whose ever-expanding, almost can­ cerous and fungus-l ike settle­ ments,—which wc all know as caravain-sites—are more and more encroaching on our un­ spoiled countryside. I t seems to me that these


WHINING


Personally I have .nothing against caravanning and it is


stiles are made more convenient, particularly for elderly people. The average person now driven off the road by the traffic can only fiDd safety in the field path. But examine the stiles and you


chance to enjoy a cheap holi­ day on the land. But after that 1 would expect that they re­ turn, stock and barrel to the place from where they came, leaving the countryside clean and tidy. After all. a caravan is primarily there to be moved and not an object for a dis­ orderly, not always tidy way of a permanent camp-building. Soon the season will start


only fair to give our towns­ people and their families a


fo r industrial and leisure pur ­ poses could be carried out. All


building could be brought for ­ ward. The clearing and repair of our canals and waterways


Learn from peo


>pl( the on sPot


WHAT has happened to demo­ cracy? I t was reported in Fr i­ day’s Advertiser tbat the Town Counci l’s request for a meeting with educat ion representatives to discuss primary schools in the town has been recommended for refusal.


tude. and many people will wonder just how the “man in the street"’ can get his problems through to the policy makers, as it seems that his elected re­ presentatives cannot, in his case, have the opportunity to discuss them with the appropr iate auth­ ority. Indeed the council seems to have been rebuked for dar ­ ing to show an interest in edu­ cational affairs


This is a short-sighted at ti­


It has been known for ad­ ministrators. sitting in distant


offices with their maps and statistics in front of them, to learn something from the people


still time to reverse this unfor ­ tunate “no meeting” decision.


“on the spot” . Let us hope that there is


MRS. J. E. FOULKES, 13. Lancaster Drive, Clitheroe.


Ramblers* Association will bear this in mind when they under ­ take their worthy survey.


will find them impossible some being as high as the adjacent fence which aims at keeping out cattle. The people of Clitheroe should have bet ter treatment than this and I do hope the


“KEMPLE”, Clitheroe.


Pavements are “a


disgrace’


I WOULD like to thank Coun. Rober t Ainsworth for his con­ cern for the long-suffering resi­ dents of Peel Street. I am sorry though he did not men­ tion the condition of the pave­ ments which are a real disgrace being due entirely to bad work­ manship. After every shower of rain our pavements resemble a miniature Lake District. It is about 12 months since


1 first complained at the Cor ­ poration offices and was told not to worry as the matter was be­ ing at tended to. So don’t accuse me of being impatient in the meantime. My neighbours and I have to


about the Civic Hall in which A.K.I. appears in­ terested. I do not consider myself an


respecting the Public Hall from 1911, at which time I would be nine years old.


people find it quite easy to get planning permissions.


certainly built by a subscrip­ tion company o f local gentle- men. M y father had 50 shares which never paid a dividend, nor do I think they were ever expected to do. They were considered not to be worth the paper they were written on.


The original Hall was almost


being used for the Operatic Society's annual performances “D orothy". “Flora Dora". “Merry Widow", and o f course Gilbert a n d Sullivan with •*The Mikado” and the three little maids Eva Halliwcll (Mrs. Herman Coates). Madge Satterthwaitc the late Mrs. John Taylor), and Nellie Hard- acre (the late Mrs. Charlie Roc).


I well remember the stage The Hall also accommodated


the annual choral society con­ cert, under Mr. Ben Shaw, the


again, when we country-lovers shall be regaled by that type of whining sound produced by the automat ic and high-powered wood-cutters. We know at once that our


farmers are again indulging in their cherished sport—the fel­ ling of trees. I must say that in the many years I have had the pleasure to dwell in the coun­ try, I have hardly seen a far ­ mer planting even a single tree, which he must consider an ob­ ject to be destroyed. They might plant something


tyres, so that at a certain time a large black cloud hung mena­ cingly over Waddington. No ­ body seemed to look or to bother, although it was air- pollution at its best. Surely there must be many


ways of disposing of wood, steel, rubber and other rubbish, even with a gain, wi thout dump­ ing it indiscriminately here and


there.


young school-children, what an example to them, who should be educated to respect and love


instead of creating a growing an instead of creating a growing and untidy rubbish heap in the ceutrc of a green field. You can sec one in f ront of the Wadding- ton School, nera West Bradford, on the right side of the road and also an accumulation in the brook behind the school. What a daily view for our


our countryside! There is also the well-be­


haved gardener, farmer and pri­ vate landholder very anxious to keep his little piece of land trim and tidy and in doing so they do not hesitate to dump rubbish behind a wall or hedge bordering our roads, or into a ■river or brook, possibly in


front of the neighbours’ sight. DISPOSAL


put up with the dirt from pas­ sing traffic on our windows and doors and on ourselves if we are foolish enough to stand on our own doorsteps. Wc also have put up with muddy wet carpets from the pools of mud


able when I ask is there a coun­ cillor’s wife who would like to pay rates to live under such appalling conditions?


on our doorstep. T am being perfectly reason­


VERY ANGRY RESIDENT.


offence but create also a danger to the community. I still remem­ ber how Waddington and sur ­ rounding districts suffered twice through flooding when nature ■took its rightful revenge. I also remember an occasion


In doing so they not only give


Want ing to give everyone lus due. I must say that on my


.


screen chav ged of civic hall


band concert, under Bert Cross, the Farmers Ball, Police Ball.


and many dances arranged by other organisations, with the occasional bazaar thrown in, the Gilchrist lectures, ami of cotfrsc political and town s meetings.


Hunt Ball, Conservative Bail


and in the toller skating craze it was a rink for a time. The sloping floor of today is but a sloping platform, and beneath it will still he the original block floor.


The room had „ block floor With the advent 0j the silver


screen, a faction of townspeople led by Mr. Grime and Mr. Hit- chen bought up shares to gain a controlling interest to turn the building into a cinema.


Mr. W. Garnett did the some to retain it as a public hall- The shares rocketed, and dead­ lock arrived with both parties holding the same immhr. There were however Z0 shares unac­ counted for. It was fortuitous that these were the 50 held by my father, who offered them to the highest bitldcr. From being valueless. J believe he sold them to the cinema faction for around £280.


An opposition party led hv The first sound track was a


many wanderings I come some­ times across a holding whose farmer-proprietor takes a spe­ cial pride in keeping the place spotlessly clean and is a real credit to the country. It scents, therefore, onlv fair


, intervene cvcrytimc our civlic standards of life arc at stake.


WI MEMBER WaddingtoTi.


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the county and in distant places. Books have, during my life,


been of the utmost importance and I would go as far as to say that a room without books is to be classed as a room without windows. All of which brings me to com­


ment on onr own library in Clithcroe. During the last ycar or so this has improved out of all recognition to its former self. We now have a brighter place a wider collection of hooks, well hound and cared for by the ad­ mirable staff.


Your request is never loo dif­ ficult. As to the reading room,


can you tdl mc onc which can surpass this wonderful addition to the towns facilities? I have 1 gr, recently visited onc or two much nearer London only to find wc . in Clithcroc have a far better and more variety of books and ; magazines than any you wish to name. Mv congratulations to those w h o have made it possible.


HORACE E Castle Mew.


COOK. Clitheroc.


CLOSE CALL


when last year, it was a lovely day; housewives had just fini­ shed their spring-cleaning and house-decoration; a farmer put fire to his cutdown hedges and trees and kindled his bonfire with a huge load of heavy lorry


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irn'e Avenue nuary 30th. 1972 6.30 p.m.


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finished the season as cham­ pions of the Ribblesdale League, decided to cele­ brate their triumph in royal manner and to give all their supporters the opportunity


YOU would have enjoyed yourself had you been in Whalley on the evening of September 26th, 1903. The local cricket team, having


,o join in the f « they organised a torchlight pro cession.


F INE AFFAIR Through the c o u r t e s y d fM f


Henry Forrest, of received recently a copyof the programme issued for the oc


shah, Mr. W. Baron, and his . his First into line were the torch ,


Wbal ley and B. II ington Brass Band—that splendid combma tion that all but expired in Wor ld Wa r I. an d has been revived, regret tably with


bearers and mounted P6ll9f* followed immediate^ by the


the local station under the supervision of the


casion and a very f«ne affair u m u s t have been. Assembling at


ten white-sashed ^ 8'8^"te' less than thirty-twb entries were scheduled to appear.


Whalley window


(lads) and Morris Dancers (girls), there were Cake-Walkers (organised by ‘Johnnie’ Chew) and,


Lancashire Witches. Mrs. Pollard rode in the Royal


inevitably, there were


ferent success, fo r two Short eupho».-;


-


“d sr.i'aJSs a great asset to the are a an


brought more than a . ’^ l e dis tinction to the twin villages or


its origin. There were Moms Dancers tv,,,,*.,*


sK '.iTm o r cT th . pity. 'The band’s unt imely demise IS be deplored— in its day it was


Coach; Mrs. Dean, R. Preston and P. Whipp all provided Chariots. There was a Scotch Lurry (that’s how they spelt it), the Darktown Fire Brigade, the Naval Brigade, His Majesty’s Prize Band and T. Fenton’s Barbers, while R. Bretherton and his associates demonstrated “Bridge as Played in Queen’s Street”. Mr. H. P. Airey (most of OUr old timers will remember him) appeared as The Modern Sandow, the Old Woman who lived in a Shoe occupied a prominent position near the f ront Of the parade, wisely separated f rom the Wi ld Beasts f rom Nab Wood, who were dis­ creetly placed a t the rear.


ELEGANT There were R. Dobson’s York


Minstrels and a Chinese Band. W Almond and J. H. Rams- bot tom depicted “T h e Defeat of the Champions” and J. Lang- shaw presented an elegant inter­ pretation Of “Fame ” presenting t h e Olive Branch”. There were “Cricketers, Fast , Present and


Future,” T h e .Bellringers were


present in full force, together with ‘The Four Seasons’ and, in short, the youth, the beauty, the intelligentsia, the athletic, the slim, the obese. Indeed, all who could walk or contrive to ride the couple of miles from the station to Wlswell Lane End, through the village and up to the Abbey Mill and re turn, were all prominent in the grand parade. There were so many villagers dressed up and taking part that, in a popula­ tion considerably less than tha we claim today, one wonders if there were any spectators left to cheer and encourage the revellers. The procession finally dis­


banded at the Assembly Rooms where, we can safely assume, the festivities continued into the small hours of the morning. Those spectators (assuming


FOR WORKMEN AT CROSSING


A BUS-LOAD of workmen narrowly escaped when their bus skidded on ice and smashed through the level crossing gates at the Low Moor signal box only minutes before a


goods train was due. Fortunately the 30-wagon train was slowing down to a bai t a few yards down the line


when the accident occured because a signal was against it. Had the bus skidded a couple of seconds later, the signal would have been chan­ ged and the train would have been crossing right in f ront of the vehicle.


Pendle Avenue, Ghatbum, who was the signalman on duty at the time, about 8.0 a.m. on Friday, said, “Another minute and it would have been a nasty accident.”


Mr. Fred Hellawell, of


to open them to let the bus through but could not do so in time.


train came through Bawdlands Bridge, the level crossing gates had practically shut but then he saw the bus. travelling towards Edisford, skid on the ice and hit the gates. He tried


He explained that as the REVERSED


there were some) unable to gain admission, turned slowly away, perhaps to seek consolation in the De Lacy, the Swan, the Dog or the Whalley Arms. Some, but not all. We are quite certain there must have been many who


the train was only going slowly because it was stopping at the signal.


Mr. Hellawell added that


responded to the invitation boldly printed at the foot of the programme: “After the Procession call at Bretherton’s for one of their noted 2d pies. Opposite the Assembly Rooms.” Th a t they would be amply


decker belonging to Manches­ ter Corporation waterworks, had about 20 men inside who all jumped off as soon as the bus crashed through on to the railway line. The driver quickly reversed back on the road.


He said the bus, a single­


compensated I have the assur­ ance o f a number of our senior citizens. Brether ton’s Pies”, they tell me, “were a meal in themselves” . All of which re­ minds me that we have not had such a celebration since the coronat ion of our present Queen. AnvOne interested in Organising one to celebrate the opening of our second by-pass in a few months time? J J .


I ’ve ever seen,” said Mr. Hellawell, who has been with British Rail for more than 40 years, about 30 of them as a signalman. He added “The roads were very bad.


“ It was the nearest thing


Probation for man who


stole wallet


A 25-YEAR-OLD Clitheroe man, who admitted stealing a wallet and contents valued at £7.35, had made full restitution, |


Clitheroc magistrates were told, j Michael Colin McCrerie, of Chatbum Old Road, pleaded


guilty to the offence, which oc­ curred while he was employed as a draughtsman at Ribbies- dalc Cement. He asked for a furher offence, of using a credit card from the wallet to obtain petrol, to be taken into consideration. He was placed on probation for two years. For McCrerie, Mr. Keith Bec-


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to nte that laws should be pas­ sed to allow our authorities to


synchronised gramophone re­ cord. It was launched on a Sun­ day afternoon with a free con­ ceit on the wonderful ‘Pana- tropc’— nothing more than an amplifying record player.


now scats only around 500. Let us not dwell on the


For safety reasons the hall


tragedy o f the Co-op. Hall Civic Hall controversy and the thousands o f pound o f rate­ payers’ money that has visibly and invisibly gone ‘down the drain. We arc still a long way from being out o f the wood, and everything points to it be­ ing a permanent liability.


ternal grime, as a monument of what appears to have been Civic fol I v.


It now stands, in ail its ex­


ture on that alleged Civic Hall must surely be suspended until Clithcroc's and Ribblesdale's future character and destiny is definitely determined. A Public Hall wiil then be needed, exten­ sive and modern enough to meet the vaster regional require­ ments. coupled with conveni­ ently placed administrative buildings.


Further action and expendi­


CHARLES MUSSON Pimlico Road. Clitheroc.


Bleak Holt animals enjoy


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THE letter from “Black­ berry Farm” in your issue of December 31st has only just been brought to my notice, or T should have re­ plied sooner.


writer has never visited Bleak- holt and seen our animals for himself or herself. We have 45 horses, oonies and donkeys, most i f whom are a good age, but they thoroughly enjoy life, eating heartily, grazing con­ tentedly during the day. and


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sleeping in excellent stables at night.


the animals at least once a week and more often if necessary. If he considers that any animal is past enjoying life, either due to sickness or old age, he recom­ mends that they are put down, and the Committee rely on his judgment. We also have over 100 dogs


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YOUR correspondent "Black­ berry Farm (December 31st) is singularly misinformed about BIcakholt Animal Sanctuary. I am neither old, nor a Vic­


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out old animals eking out a miserable existence and its sup­ porters and subscribers cover the whole age spectrum, com­ mencing with 10-year-olds and less.


It is not populated by worn-


It has a Management Commi t­ tee whose members arc of all


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sonal life, and had had severe financial problems, al though he realised that this was no excuse for his action. McCrerie had lost his job as a result and been unemployed for some time, but had now got a new post. Presiding magistrate Mr.


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hadn’t seen any men out salting the roads and I ’d been there since 6.00 a.m.”


The bus was slightly dam­


aged and two new level cros­ sing gates are needed but no- one was^ injured.


A RIBCHESTER woman said by police to have driven a car through Chatburn at between 45 and 50 mph was fined £12 with endorsement at Clitheroe Magistrates Court.


Kathleen Shorrock, of Higher Seed Green Farm, pleaded


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