Clithcroc Advertiser and Times, August 31st, 1972 twin: I a When nature lights her fires


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terpret. The changing seasons, so


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regular that one could almost say monotonously so, are fo r ever new and in­ spiring. I t may seem illogi­ cal, but to many they pro­ vide variety and excitment o f a lasting sort; the shorter days o f autumn (September more than most) reveal many signs o f fulfilment, decline and decay. Keats typified it all when


them, and others, into hiber­ nation. Wasps (relatively


scarce this year) also go on the spree after their domes­ tic duties are over. Having so much time on their hands, they visit the kit­ chens to pester and search for the sweets.


PREPARING


Bats and hedgehogs are also conscious o f


the


change and after fattening are now preparing for hiber­ nation. Most noticeable are


he wrote of the “Season of mists and mellow fruitful­ ness: Close bosom friend o f the maturing sun.” Even in September there are days to be enjoyed which appear to have been snatched from summer, when tortoiseshell butterflies take advantage of the lingering knapweed and the Michaelmas daisies, be­ fore the chilly nights drive


the hedgehogs, as each morning reveals many corpses on every lane and highway in Kibble and Hodder. Ten or 12 years ago, many people were o f the opinion that with the in­ creased traffic on the roads, the end o f the hedgehog was in sight. Evidently we were wrong, as each autumn shows the same number o f fatalities. In spite o f the carnage they conutinue to exist. Obviously they do not learn by their mistakes. So how do they survive and in many cases appear to


multiply? The hedgehog's greatest


and only defence is to halt and roll into a ball when­ ever danger is at hand, and then few o f its natural enemies have the desire or courage to face the frighten­ ing display o f spikes. Such a threat is hopeless against a car, which brings rapid death The question often


asked" is. why so many deaths in early autumn? Tho answer is in the in­


stinctive desire to hibernate. UNTIMELY


So the hedgehog in seek­


ing some dry hedge-bank just across the road comes to an untimely end on meet­ ing the car. The same desire to hibernate or, in the case o f the caterpillar, to pupate,


also has many o f the “woolly-bear”


caterpillars


wandering on the highways and by-ways. In Septem­ ber, having finished feeding, they seek territory away from the feeding grounds, and many come to grief.


teresting and the last lew weeks have


numerous features worthy of attention. The peculiar


Comparison is always in­ provided


summer and low tempera­ tures caused minor upsets in the plant world. The cooler conditions at the beginning o f April restricted growth and I heard several complaints regarding the poor crop o f clover. Of course what suits one is a hindrance to others and this was apparent with at least two of our common wayside plants.


REASONS Tire honeysuckle and fox­


glove have provided a strik­ ing example within recent weeks. There are various reasons for this erratic be­ haviour which takes place every few years and I sup­


a record-breaking season. I cannot recall such profusion as we have seen in Kibble and Hodder. I have seen foxgloves o f five and six feet high (where conditions are moist, and with 50 or 80 purple bells hanging on the single stem, their presence in any garden would be wel­ come were they not so poisonous.


PROFUSION


For purple in profusion we must now turn our attention


to the fells, covered in places with heather. A million blooms in a few square feet of ground add to the acres now stained deep purple.


pose temperature and mois­ ture play a vital part. The last time such a profusion occurred was in the late summer o f ’65, when many hedgerows were lavishly laden with, the exotic sweet scented bloom. I know of no more lingering fragrance than the honeysuckle, which is at its best from late even­ ing to the early hours.


The foxgloves, tapering flower spikes have also had


when nature begins to light her fires in the woods and hedgerows—surely a “ spec­ tacular” to pale the seaside illuminations. Note, day after day, the gradual change until the gold, red, brown and shades o f green end in a riot o f colour. Oak, sycamore, beech and chest­ nut throughout the area, from Whalley by Mitton and Bashall to Whitewell, provide a feast to delight the eye and please the most fastidious. There are also tremendous


ELECTR K.


The Bowland fells in Sep­ tember, covered in a car­ pet o f purple, just bewilder the onlooker. What splen­ dour and munificence for the bees, eagerly reaping the harvest year after year. To see somd o f the most impressive displays this side o f Braemar or Balmoral, take a look above Wadding- ton. in the Trough or on Croasdale.


For those who admire the spectacular, this is the time


changes taking place just now in our bird population. Rarities are often spotted, especially by the riverside. A few days ago I watched a pair o f green sandpipers by


Kibble. Keep a careful watch for


the odd vagrant or bird o f passage which may spend a few days feeding and resting in some secluded spot. Their presence in September often makes your trip really out­ standing. And remember, before the month ends, the first redwings and fieldfare


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A FORMER pupil at, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Mr Brian II. Sellers (21), has gained an honours degree in mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University. He has also been awarded an Asso- ciatesliip of the Royal College o f Science. Brian, who is the elder son


However, coping with break­ downs en route should be no problem, fo r Mr Haworth is a lecturer in motor engineer­ ing at Accrington College o f Further Education.


“ We have been planning


our holiday for about a year.’’ said Mr Haworth, “ and the recent dock strike really kept us on tenter­ hooks.”


But the only setback so far


has been a 24-hour delay in their sailing from Southamp­


ton. They will arrive in Cape Town after a 12-day cruise in the Windsor Castle, a holiday in itself.


drive 3,000 miles via the •


From Cape Town they will • Garden Route ” to Bula­


wayo, where they will be met by their 25-year-old son David. He has been living in Luanshya, Zambia, for neary two years, working as a systems analyst at the Roan copper mine.


The Haworths will first go


of Mr and Mrs R. H. Sellers, of K i r k m o o r House, Clitheroe, is going on to Reading University in October, to study for a Master’s degree in meteo­ rology.


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A SPECIAL cheap day return bus fare from many parts of Lancashire will be available for people wishing to travel into Preston for the Guild Merchant cele­ brations. The fare, which will be


a flat 35p day return for adults and 18p fo r children, will be available each day on the following services from Monday, September 4th to Friday, September 8th. inclusive: Clitheroe (service 9, X27),


Chipping (10). Blackburn ( 11), Burnley and Blackburn (150). Tickets dan be used oa


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THE re-nomination o f Mrs Mary Troop for membership o f Calderstones Hospital Management Committee has been made by Clitheroe Rural Council. Mrs Troop is due to retire from the committee next year.


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MOTORISTS visiting Black­ pool


One way only illuminations should


note that from 6-15 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays there will be one-way traffic only along the promenade.


They should join the south to north traffic flow at Lytham St Annes.


on a mystery tour planned by David, who has arranged his holidays to coincide with their visit. Later they will tour Rhodesia, inhere they have many relatives, some o f whom they haven't seen for 20 years. “ David went out to Africa


Edinburgh audience


“ M O R A L ITY !” — a new musical written by three members of staff and a former student at Stony- hurst College—received its first public performance before a near-capacity audience in Edinburgh.


Among the guests on the


opening night was Cardinal Archbishop G. J. Gray, who met and congratulated the cast on stage after the show.


The musical is one o f the


94 productions making up the fringe of the Edinburgh Festival. I t is being staged daily in the Lauriston Hall until Saturday, September 9th, and will be transferred to New York later in November.


“ M o ra lity !” was given a


preview performance at Stonyhurst in June with a cast o f students. Some o f them have travelled with the show to Edinburgh, where they have been joined by other actors making up the international student company, Popinjay Productions.


of the show has been revised, and a number of new songs have been written by College music depart­ ment staff Wilfrid Usher and John Mallord.


Since the preview, much It is described as a


“ modem medieval musical,” but in fact incorporates a wide range o f musical styles, from plainsong to rock, soft shoe to country and western.


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added only a few days before the opening—is a musical version o f the medieval morality play, “ Everyman.”


And on the first night the


audience loved it. Director Melvyn Morrow,


who with actor Charles Peters is co-author, said after the premier: “ The last few weeks have been hectic as we have packed in the rehearsals and the ten­ sion has been tremendous. But the audience was mar­ vellous and responded really well. I t ’s a great thrill and very encouraging.”


Members of the cast from


Stonyhurst include Michael Dawson, Dario Favretto, Max Wenner and Michael Wright.


Also included are Mary


Dauman, Laura Ridout and Margaret Speaight, all from Oxford University, Paul Graves from the Tower Repertory Company, Lon­ don, and Tim Mowrey, from the Educational Tourist Drama School, London.


on a three year contract, and he is enjoying the life tremendously,’’ said his father. He does a lot of sail­ ing and climbing, and Mr Haworth hopes to join him in these activities.


particularly keen to see the Kariba Dam and the Vic­ toria Falls during their trip, as well as a game reserve, where they have arranged to spend part of their time.


Mr and Mrs Haworth are


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m > .»„, < It will be their first


holiday outside Europe, and they are prepared for very warm weather indeed, with temperatures in the 90’s. They are taking plenty of light clothes, including some fo r David, as clothing is very expensive there.


Lazy tim e


OVER from her home m South Africa fo r a lovely long four and half months holiday in Britain is 27- year-old Miss Carol Scwart, and fo r a few days she has been staying with the Vicar o f Whalley and his wife, the Rev. and Mrs R. A. Harpur.


Mrs Harpur are cousins. Carol was b om in Man­ chester but the family emigrated to South Africa when she was two. They live in Greytown, about 50 miles from Durban where she worked until she gave up her job to come here for her holiday.


Miss Sewart’s father and


PICTURED in their garden, Mr and Mrs Haworth get acclimatised to sunshine before leaving Clitheroe.


CELEBRATION TIME FOR Final


SUMMER is a particularly busy time fo r Mr R ich a rd M i ln e -R edh ea d , of Springfield, Holden, w ith ju d g in g


a t S ou th p o r t Flower Show as the p r in c ip a l h igh l igh t . Now the show is over, Mr


Milne-Redhead and his wife, formerly Miss Mary Augusta Haddon Wheeler, are getting


ready to celebrate their 40tli wedding anniversary.


They will travel down to


Sussex to stay with Mr Milne-Redhead’s sister. Miss R. Wheeler, who was" chief bridesmaid "at their wedding in Clitheroe Parish Church.


nised a family party for September 6th, the wedding anniversary at the Crown


Ho t e l , East Grinstead, Sussex.


been a judge at Southport Flower Show since 1956 and


Mr Milne-Redhead has A t the


games CLITHEROE will be repre­ sented at


the Munich


Olympics . . . by pensioners Mr and Mrs Robert Bolton, of Bawdlands.


The couple, who left on


Monday for a 12-day holiday in Austria and Germany,


are looking forward to a day trip to the Olympics. Although they arc both keen on sport it is. surpris­ ingly, Mr Bolton's wife, Susan, who is the fanatic.


really,” she said, “ except football—that's nothing but a scramble nowadays.”


“ I like any kind of sport,


paying a special visit to the BBC headquarters at the Olympics, in the hope of see­ ing former Clitheroe man Mr Bryan Cowgill. Recently appointed head of the BBC's sports and events pro­ grammes. Mr Cowgill is a friend of Mr Bolton’s and a former editor of the Advertiser and Times.


is an added bonus to this year’s holiday, it is not the Bolton s sole reason for going. They visited that part of Europe two years ag° —and would have done -so again last year, had Mrs


Although the Olympic visit


Bolton not fallen and broken her leg. Mrs Bolton is making sure they will soon make up for


the couple will visit early next week, Mrs Bolton will be looking out specially for the girls’ running events. “ And o f course I shall keep a special watch on the British team,” she said. Mr and Mrs Bolton will he


At the Olympics, which Miss Wheeler has orga­


he hopes to continue judg­ ing during his retirement. He was the very successful owner of the Holden Clough


Specialised Alpine Plant Nursery and he did much garden construction work in Yorkshire and Lancashire. He sold the nurseries two yc£rs ago. Mr Milne-Redhead atten­ ded many shows, winning


numerous gold medals for his exhibits. He is a mem­ ber o f the Garden Com­ mittee and the Council of the North o f England Gardens at Harlow Carr, Harrogate.


He is a trustee o f


Waddington Hospital and formerly commanded the Sea Cadets in Clitheroe.


Mrs Milne-Redhead's father


in Clitheroe. Her family have long connections with this


part of the country although most of them gradually moved south.


All the Wheeler family,


her father and her uncle and aunts, were born at Fir Tree House. Chatburn. The


Wheelers were tenants of the Assheton family, of Downham Hall, for 100 years.


Mr and Mrs Milne-


Redhead were married by the late Canon C. C. Brod- hurst. Rector of Bclton-by- Bowland from 1915-1936. The canon's stepsister. Miss Margery Brodhurst,


HAVE you ever listened to the radio or watched a television programme and, at the end, sat back and said: “Well, I could have done better than that myself?” Now. it might be fright­


lives


with the Milne-Redheads at Holden. Mr and Mrs Milne- Redhead's eldest daughter will be staying there and looking after Miss Brodhurst while they are away. The family comprises six child­ ren and nine grandchildren.


To Holy


Land A PARISH pilgrimage to the Holy Land, led by the Vicar of Clitheroe. the Rev. J. C. Hudson, is definitely taking place. Eighteen people have


booked to go on the trip next October, and more places are available if needed. Not all those


parishioners, but they all come from the Clitheroe area.


g o i n g are The holiday, from October


13th to 27th next year, has been arranged through Orientours. It will include


that disappointment __ she has already booked a similar holiday fo r next year, and has her eye on another one for the year after. “ Austria is a beautiful place,’’ she


explained, “ I think I ’d live there if I could.”


a week in Tiberias and a week in Jerusalem. The cost will be about £148.


Mr Hudson says that a


coach might be arranged to take the party to Heathrow Airport for the flight to Tel Aviv.


fully big-headed and con­ ceited but. I must confess, it is a thought that occurs to me with increasing fre­ quency and, with some of the rubbish with which both BBC and ITV pollute the ether these days. I am quite sure I am not alone in this.


For instance, with a little


study and research (and, admittedly, the expenditure of quite a bit of money) what a fascinating pro­ gramme could be made, on the history o f our village.


We would call it “The


Story of a Village’’ and the first shots would show pri­ mitive man establishing his encampment on Clerk Hill, hunting on Pendle and Wis- well Moors, fashioning his crude instruments from the millstone grit of the Nab.


Other shots would follow


the progress o f early traders as they made their laborious way along the river valley, travelling from west to east and further sequences illus­ trate the coming o f the Romans, their martial pro­ gress and their roadmaking.


CONQUEST And, all the time, the


peasantry would be quietly, industriously working; clear­ ing the wilderness, uproot­ ing the shrubs, felling the trees, draining the swamps, subduing the countryside,


Whalley Window


turning heathland into pas­ turage, taming the land.


We would see the coming


of Christianity and the erec­ tion of our churchyard crosses, the raising and dedi­ cation of that first little church, the “White Church


under the Hill ” and, later, the Norman Conquest and the bulding o f a stronger, more substantial place o f worship.


With the passing o f the


centuries we. would see the founding o f our present church, the arrival o f the Cistercians and, early in the 14th Century, the founda­ tion of a mighty abbey that was 137 years in building. The tragic events o f 1537 when the Dissolution o f the abbey took place would


make yet another episode and, little more than a hun­ dred years later, the fierce battle that started at Old Read Bridge and continued until the Royalists were routed on the borders o f Ribchester.


EPISODES Between episodes we


would see fairs in the churchyard and streets of the village; years later the coming o f the turnpikes, the culverting o f the stream that ran down the village street.


the building o f the arches and join the cheering as the first steam trains chugged their way across the valley. We would see the end o f the handloom and the founda­ tion of an industry, the establishment o f a Metho­ dist Church and, in the. pre­


In the 1840’s we would see


sent century, the building o f a great hospital.


We would see a village


geared for two great wars and, moving into modern times, streets choked with traffic, a position only relieved with the laying down o f two by-passes.


Now, i f that wouldn't


make an exciting and fas­ cinating script for TV, I don’t know what would. I'll guarantee every set in Whal­ ley would be switched on that night and many, many others also, in all parts o f the country. Indeed,


it


could be the start of a series — “The Story o f Your Town” with a different venue each week.


I give the suggestion free of charge to either BBC or


ITV whichever organisation has the gumption to profit by it, and. if neither o f them possesses the said gumption, well — what a script it would make for a pageant in our abbey grounds.


It would take a lo t o f


work, a lot o f planning, a lot o f ingenuity, but the end result would be well worth seeing (which is more than could be said for the deplor­


able play which insulted my sight, my morals and my in­ telligence tonight).


tackle it?


Anybody got the guts to j . r .


was manager o f the Man­ chester and County Bank


r o u n d & a b o u t


SHOW JUDGE exam Helping


St Deny's THE enterprise shown by


two Waddington children


has raised £3.61 for St Deny's Home, Clitheroe. Linda Thompson (11)


A FORMER West Bradford man has passed the Institute o f Bankers final examina­ tion. He is 22-year-old Mr Andrew Kearsley, who is now married and living in Standish, near Wigan. Mr Kearsley is the eldest


son o f Mrs M. Kearsley o f Hazeldene, West Bradford, and the late Mr J. Kearsley. Until 18 months ago, he worked for the National Westminster Bank in Clitheroe. and has many friends in this area. Educated at Clitheroe


Grammar School. Mr Kears-* ley is now at the Natwest Bank in Wallgate, Wigan.


and Karen Morton (9), both of Queensway, collected tins of food in the village and set up a stall to sell them by the


bus stop. At St Deny's, the proceeds


and surplus tinned food were received by Mrs N. Foster, who said: “ We are very grateful to them.” She added that the money would go to the children's camping fund, to which many people in the town had given generous contributions. A camping holiday in


July, using tents and other equipment provided from the fund, had been a great success and thoroughly enjoyed by the children.


the


holiday. England isn't much different.


“ I'm having a lovely from what I


expected. I ’m having a nice lazy time,” said Carol.


She has met hundreds of


people and has been visiting all her relatives.


She is now touring Scot­


land and is hoping that the weather will stay fine because rain is “ depressing.”


Carol does not think she


would return to England permanently, mainly because o f our weather. v The thought o f your winters put me off,” she said, adding that after 25 years in a hot, sunny climate, one tended to be spoilt.


I t is winter now in South


Africa but it is still very warm by our standards. “ You never need a jersey in Durban,” she said.


Carol enjoyed her short


stay in Whalley and thought the village was lovely. She


hopes that it won't be another 25 years before she comes back fo r a holiday.


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