/ Clitheroe. Advertiser and Times, February 1st, 1973 D O N O T DISTURB _ LAUiSlXiEKEKS ABED JSBSCJUEUHSnSBS


■ sure in certain quarters let me first emphasise tha t it has always been my Intention to preserve the amenities of our countryside and at the same time provide access. Having made this clear may I draw attention to the danger, often in ignorance, of fighting for access where it can only bring danger to wild life.


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have heard considerable speculation on the advis­ ability of "The Ribble Way." The Ramblers' Association continue to press for access and the establishment of certain paths and for this the countrvgoer must be thank­ ful. We must, however, always bear in mind that certain areas are more valu­ able than others and never overlook the dangers which unfettered access could bring about. There are regions where paths can do little harm to a very small


During recent months we


minority. There are also other places to be taken into consideration where the


general public, could bring disaster. I t would be easy to give examples but for the present let me give a case having a direct bearing on this problem. During the week a young


ence of this Highland bird, to having doubts as to its availability on our arrival. Whenever I have watched


length of river but I do infer certain stretches of Ribblc


gentleman from GrindleAon made an unexpected visit. It was early afternoon and as he related bis story I quickly donned boots and coat, hot in preparation for an emergency trip to some far away place but to the river near Grindleton bridge. He was sure he had been watching a black throated diver. Frankly, I had my doubts, but he insisted and there was no other way of proving or disproving this than by seeing for myself. In less than lb minutes


the black throat an the Highlands the bird has been nervous and eager to avoid the presence of humans. It is never spotted in places frequented by humans and at your approach soon dis­


appears. Not so the Grindleton


bird for, as we stopped, the car and scanned the water,


we arrived by the stretch of deep water between the bridge and the shallows a couple of hundred yards upstream. On our way he told how


he had been' watching the bird for some time and I confess, having some experi­


the bird’s behaviour pre­ viously knew precisely what action would be taken and, true to form, this happened. It was evidently nervous and at the completion of a dive which took it under water for almost 200 paces, it. surfaced to give forth the spine chilling cry one can imagine. No wonder it is referred to ns the Loon. Time after time the demoniacal cry filled the air as once agaut it sought cover beneath the water. Now I am not suggesting


there was the diver. My friend having followed


are better free from public footpaths in order to give so many winter visitors a rcstiiiir ‘ place. That bird would not remain because of the close proximity of


presented if th® entire Ribble has its adjacent footpath? To propose free


the public highway Therefore, what threat is


access on any river bank is to display an ignorance of the needs of rare and not so rare, creatures which look upon our waterways as a sanctuary especially in the winter months. C a r e f u l consideration


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true identity was possible. In winter plumage the black throat resembles the slightly smaller red throated diver.


any path should not bn finalised without due con­ sideration, otherwise natural amenities’ suffer.


The bill is a sure guide with the red having a pro­ nounced uptilted upper mandible. The appearance of one


must be given to this aspect during any future discussion on Ribble Way. Sanctuary for wild life and protection of flora is as important as


that the road should be diverted from this particular


EDISFORD’S


KEEN YOUNG GYMNASTS


WITH their sights on future Olympic Games and Russian gymnastic star Olga Korbut a s 'th e ir heroine, children at Edisford County primary school ate


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bounding ahead in the field of gymnastics. The coach is their physical


ren in' the basics of gym­ nastics by the time they are seven, it's too late." he said. "The main quali­ ties required by a. gymnast are mobility and intelligence


cation Mr Lancaster does is rather more advanced than one generally secs in primary schools—because he


•• If you don't train child­


round & about


—strength and power can always be developed." The, kind of physical edu­


is essentially a, specialist. He trained at Lough­


borough College and then taught at Colne Grammar School, before going out to


Africa for nearly five years; His work was to coach African and Asian students on the first East African secondary training course for PE. at Kenyatta Train­ ing College, Nairobi.


Whaliey. Mr Lancaster, of Abbey Fields, joined the Edisford School staff. " At first. I wasn't very keen to come to a primary school, but, I thought I would try


On returning to his native


it." he said. “ I've been there for three


years now, and I enjoy it very much. It's nice to get children at. an early age and be able to develop their skills."


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Fresh air enthusiast


time, Mr Lancaster has achieved a great deal at the school, both in gymnastics and in sport in general. He is in charge of all games and spends a lot of his spare time after school and at weekends running various c l u b s and organising matches.


In a comparatively short


A fresh air enthusiast., he is even having an influence


on the staff as well as the children . . . by opening window's everywhere lie goes.


pations is with litter; he is proud of the fact that you won't find a scrap of jitter on the school premises, and when he accompanies parties of children to the Ribblesdale Pool they are always on the look-out ior rubbish which can be tidied up along the way.


Another of his preoccu­


very enthusiastic about gym­ nastics, and the gym club held after school is very popular. Even nine-year-old pupils are only too eager to practice headstands, the splits and other complicated looking manoeuvres, possibly on a frame 6ft. above the ground — feats that would make many adults turn


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made sufficient progress to earn badges given by the British Gymnastic Associa­ tion. In a bid to improve standards in schools, the association awards a badge lor the satisfactory com­ pletion of a set gymnastic programme — provided that all the movement's are per­ fectly performed.


and three, several pupils are now training for badge two. When badge one has been passed, a child may be eligible for special coach­ ing at a sports centre.


After getting badges four


for six children to get through this test at once, so that Edisford can enter for the British Schools championships.


Mr Lancaster's dream is


advice has been received from Mr Percy Jones, the Lancashire County Council


A great deal of help and


area organiser for PE- So impressive is the school s


reputation for educational gymnastics that many experts from abroad have visited Edisford and been given demonstrations of the children's versatility.


lecturers from the American University of Columbia, gymnastics teachers from Cahada and Ghana, the


They include students and i' 'I Tl\i


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organiser of PE in Queens­ land, Australia, and students from all parts of Britain and the Commonweiath. At least one pupil is considered by the experts


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to be of international stan­ dard. and visitors have generally commented that they have never seen work of a higher level on their travels round the country.


club, Mr Lancaster, a very keen chess pin.yer, runs clubs for chess and bad­ minton, as he believes that if. Is important to try and develop among his pupils a. wide range of skills at various games. , " Not. all the. children


Tn addition to the gym


like contact games such as football," he explained. “ Some are good racket players but can't kick a ball."


good atmosphere for sport, which is only possible in a wide curriculum. Swim­ ming, rounders, netball, and cricket, are featured, and Edisford also has a. .good football team.


He feels the school lias a


• Padiham and Harwood competes.


a knock-out competition for junior schools, in which a Pendle team composed of children from Clitheroe,


Mr Lancaster helps to run


Latimer, has also introduced golf to the timetable, and takes charge of a competi­ tion even’ year to find the school champion.


The headmaster, Br A. M. Chess ;


the chess team were picked to represent the East Lancashire Primary Schools and Mr Lancaster is hoping for success again this year. So far Edisford has been undefeated in all its seven matches against other East Lancashire primary schools, and at this rate there is a chance of getting into the Comity championships.


team Last year some boys from


are about nine, but Mr Lancaster intends to start teaching pupils at seven in future — "They are able to understand the basic moves by then,"he said.


The youngest chess players


underestimate a child’s ability. The whole approach to sport in primary schools would be different if there were more specialists and better facilities available.”


“ In sport you tend to Loving


Ken Harris, area secretary of the National Farmer’s Union, was a 119-year-old, hand-stitched, commemora­


care An unexpected find for Mr


tive sampler. Mr Harris found the


in an old shop in Church Street, Padiham, which the NFU has bought for office


framed piece of embroidery


conversion. He had just started clear­


remarkably good condition, considering how damp the


Said Mr Harris, " It is in


room. ” The embroidered inscrip­


tion behind the coloured, de­ corated glass 'reads; "In memory of John Thomas Richardson of Clitheroe,'.who died January 9th, 1854, aged 2 years and was interred at Mitton. ”


"This lovely bud so young and fair. Call’d hence by early doom, Just came to show how sweet a flower in Para dise whould bloom.


There then follows a verse,


glass is Mr J. Forrest, Moor Lane, Clitheroe.


The maker’s name on the


ing the back room of rub­ bish, when he spotted the wooden-framed sampler un­ der a pile of old pictures.


«yiillii££ *s«5 NINE-YEAR OLD pupils demonstrate their gymnastic ability. A piece of backing paper


behind the embroidery, is part of a public handout., dated November 10th, 1854 Printed by Mr 11. Whallcy of Clitheroe, it is headed, ” In aid of the funds of the National and Sunday schools


in Clitheroe.” Reference is made to the


debts of St Mary's and St James's Sunday and infant schools and the National school, which stood at £223. To make up these debts it was decided to hold a bazaar in the spring of the follow­ ing year.


of the handout, by today’s price standards, concerned the addition of a master’s


The most interesting part


house to the National school. It would be part, of the


proved that looks and per­ sonality counted more than experience.


Queen in 1968. but that’s not. really the same sort of thing," she explained.


the title at the Golden Palm, Blackburn, were a. set of Parker pens and £5 in vouchers lo spend at. a .supermarket.. Nov; Lesley will co forward to an area final’'for the Miss England contest at Bury, on St Valentine’s Day, when con­ testants will parade in both swimsuit, and evening dress.


Her prizes, awarded with


She first decided to try for the Miss Blackburn title


" I was Clilhcroc Fet e


is nearly 80, his sister and her husband Mr and Mrs Frank Hartwell, and other members of the family down to the forth generation.


into their adopted country Mr Moon reports.


All have settled down well


' that we were in a country i2,000 miles away,’’ he said.


the famous hot springs, rid­ ing by coach along a 90-mile beach . ■ . these things ob­ viously cast firm impressions on the English visitors. But one of the features to strike Mr Moon the hardest was the similarity of the New Zealand countryside to that back home. “ I often forgot


Flying bv Jumbo jet, seeing


the summer—the suntans are evidence of that—and if you have not decided where to spend your holiday this


January in New Zealand is, of course, the height of


existing school buildings,


which can still be seen in Moor Lane, but the altera- tons, together with a new' supply of maps, books and fittings for the school, were only expected to cost about £150.


■BW • h me


marches on AN interesting golden jubilee is drawing nearer for mem­ bers of St James's Church, Clitheroe. Come March, it will be 50 years since the bells and clock were dedica­ ted by Bishop Taylor Smith, Chaplain General to HM Forces.


means of a keyboard, and a tablet in the church, were provided by the people of St James's in memory of 29 men of the parish who died in the 1914-18 war. The. bells were cast by Gillett and Johnson, of London, and were first ruhg by Mr Gillett at the dedication service. The memorial tablet was unveiled by Captain Brass, MP, later Baron Chattisham of Clith­


The ten bells, struck- by


eroe. Mr Sam Green gave the


clock in memory of his wife and son. I t has Tennyson chimes, was made by Potts, of Leeds, and has always been a reliable time keeper. In 1957 a new Perspex face wT


m LESLEY WEAVER


after see’ing from some pub­ licity ■ that not • many local girls had entered, but she doesn’t like the idea of becoming a professional ■beauty queen. ”1 will follow this through


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as far as I get, but I wouldn’t want to make a career of entering beauty


contests,” she said. Lesley is a keen member


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of Clitheroe Parish Church Operatic and Dramatic Society, and is at present rehearsing three times a week for her part in the chorus at this month’s pro­ duction of “ Oklahoma.”


T ravel weary


stones fired from catapults. Incidentally another “50 ”’


as fitted after damage by


falling this year is the open­ ing of the pavillion at Whalley Critket Club. The building was described as the finest in the Ribblesdale League and it was said that few Lancashire Clubs had better headquarters..


Lesley


wins ENTERING a beauty con­ test was a new experience for Miss Lesley Weaver, of The white House, Hen- thorn Road, Clitheroe.


” Miss Blackburn 1973 ” from nine other contestants, Lesley (20), a secretary for a OlitiierOe firm- of solicitors.


But by winning the title


TRAVELLING 12.000 miles to the other side of the world might be exciting, but it does not do the metabo­ lism any good.


of Church Street, Clitheroe, aud their daughter-in-law Irene, just back from a four- week stay in New Zealand, found it took up to three days to recover from the effects of crossing the Inter­ national Dateline.


• Mr and Mrs Frank Moon,


probably dissuade them from repenting the trip for two or three years.


This, said Mr Moon, would ............... though,


thoroughly enjoyed the holi­ day and they brought back a volume of memories.


Travelling effects apart, the


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lime of year. ” ■ 50 years


ago THE present outbreak of sheep scab in the RibW« and Hodder valleys n tlm first since the disease, va-i deemed to have been eradi­ cated in this country -’0


years ago. But some year;- helms


that., the disease was far more commonplace m tnn area. An outbreak ot sheen scab was reported m the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times of February 23td, 1923—almost exactly .v>


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access.Regarding the blacit throated diver. The bird was m winter garb and bore little resemblance to its appearance m the breeding season. In general it would pass as a black and white diver and it was only by noting the bill shape that


• I know of a pair of green ' sandpipers which remain attracted t0 a. length of Ribblc each autumn. They spend several weeks hern and seldom wander more than 200 yards from a given point. Thcv remain because limy are free from undue disturbance. Then what ot the deer?


bird is merely indicative of a general trend. Each winter certain stretches of Ribble are frequented by northern duck such as the merganser and the very distinctive goosander. The odd raritv repeatedly spends a. few days in the more secluded places and those who are keen to preserve and conserve realise the im­ portance cf these rivers.


Certain riverside woods are very often used by these animals and the sighting of


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always, available and no one should be too dogmatic. The danger as I see it can bo brought about by people


Alternative routes are


demanding a certain path when they are ignorant oi the wild life, in that area. Obviously before definite


plans are under way for the Ribble Way a considerable amount of compromise will, be necessary. Otherwise we shall encourage a further decline of the very amenities we arc so eager to see and enjoy.


mind that, in contrast to open moorland and fell country, rivers and the immediate vicinity arc the most valuable regions lor all forms of wild life. More insects, birds and flowers are to be seen adjacent to Ribble and its tributaries than any other regions of comparative size.


We must always bear in N A T U R A L I S T .


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years ago. The outbreak was caused,


the report said "by the warm and wot weather that, h’.y been prevalent,." And, at Clitheroe Borough


Sessions a, Salford butcher was fined 10 shillings t|lf failing t0 report, instances


of the disease in five horned wether lambs to the jsolics.


They’ll over scl lor go; day p;


■TODAY is Mr and Mrs Robert | itig but Saturday is going for the couple as well.


wends and relatives — and Bt o fewer than 70 people have he W invited. Of course, ye


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