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Stole plugs court told


INSTEAD of replacing sparking plugs on a vehicle, a 21-year-old man stole four of them, Clitheroe magis­ trates heard.


Frank J. White, of Bold


Street. Accrington, admitted stealing the plugs, worth £1.20. from his employers. Whalley Agricultural Engi­ neers. He asked for the theft of two wing mirrors to be taken into consideration, and was fined £10.


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AFTER at first taking police advice against driving-, a Whallcv man relumed to his car and took it home.


Clitheroe magistrates, lie mistakenly thought he need not take’ a breath lest for a policeman, because he baa completed his journey.


Then, his solicitor told


mately cost Paul Merrion Jackson his licence for a year and £30 in fines.


Tiic decision to drive ulti­


Road, was lined £10 for failing to provide a breath specimen and £20 for failing to provide blood ov urine samples. He admitted both offences.


Jackson (32i. of Mitton


Bernard Altham saw Jackson stall his car in trying to start it in George Street,


Insp. T. J. Sumner said PC


Whallcy. PC Altham persuaded Jack-


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SIMPLE PLEASURES KEPT THEM HAPPY


IT was one of those days ■ typical of the season— cold and foggy, damp and dark. One of those days when, from dawn to dusk, we walk in a perpetual twilight and to undertake close work of any kind demands the use of some form of artificial illumination. One of those days, in fact, when the accoun­


tants of the North-West Electricity Board work with a little song in then- hearts.


ing I overslept and it was well after eight when I dis­


On this particular morn­


entangled myself from the blankets, felt for my slip­


pers and tottered down­ stairs to brew that first cup of tea. I hate oversleeping; it does all kinds of peculiar things to my temper and I was in a nauseating frame of mind when I u eked up the morning mail from


behind the door. The obvious official nature


of a couple of envelopes did nothing to revive my spirits and then I noticed an envelope that intrigued me. It had been posted in eiether Preston or Padihani (the name on the postmark was difficult t0 decipher) and had taken only five days from the date of posting to deliver. For this brill ian t


Whalley Window


white starched pinafores to school to protect their dresses ” and “ boys wore stiff celluloid Eton collars, white when new but turning yellow with wear.” Others had “ stiff corded fustian trousers and jackets which had a peculiar smell when new.”Both the ladies whose memories are related used slates and slate pencils for their first lessons and had to take pieces of cotton cloth to school to wash their slates clean. They recall memories of the games they used to play, •‘After school we played top and whip and coloured


to the " minders" while they went on to work in the mills.


Altogether a fascinating


batch of cuttings for which I am very grateful, but to Whallcv folk, perhaps, the most interesting would be a memoir of that noted local p e r s o n a l i t y , " Old Ben Parker.” dated 1938.


k n o w n and enthusiastic trombone p l a y e r whom many villagers still remem­ ber. So keen was he on his music that he attended the brass band contests at Belle Vue for over 50 years and even went there for his honeymoon in 1907. When he practised in Whalley, he claimed, " he brasted it out so loud th’Urst Green Band


Old Ben was a widely


the tops with most glorious patterns with ch-alks.” Both had hoops and marbles and ” in spring and summer girl played checks and bob­ bers on the back step.” They crunched up soft stones into povder to use when ” play­ ing shop,” they tied ropes to" the gas lamp in the middle of the street and swung- round it and some­ times across the gateposts


achievement we must, of course, be grateful to the Briti-h Post Office; the daily miracles it performs never cease to astonish me. The letter came from an


technological


son. whose breath smelled strongly of drink, to leave


his car and walk home. But shortly afterwards the con­ stable saw him driving along King Street. Tiic car ran over the pavement as Jackson turned into Station Road, and ignored the police cat- horn and loudspeaker.


a garage, but he refused to take a breath test and later would not provide samples at Great Harwood police station. Mr G. Horn, defending,


He eventually stopped in


to make a swing. There are memories of plaving liop-scotch on the


pavements and skipping "with higher and higher” and “ pepper.” and. after tea in winter, “ at bobbies and burglars, relieve-o and win­


anonymous reader and con­ tained a selection of old newspaper cuttings from a variety of local papers and the simple note, “ Mr Fell, I hope you can use these.” I can and I will and I hope the anonymous writer will accept the thanks I am able to convey through these columns. The kindly gesture immediately put me in a much better humour •and for this I (and my wife) are very grateful. The cuttings, some yellow­


said this was Jackson’s first offence in 16 years ol’ driv­ ing. He decided to drive the half-mile home rather than risk leaving his ear out all night.


ing with age, had been col­ lected by somebody who clearly has a deep nostalgic love for our old village and for Lancashire life in general They spoke of schooldays 73 years ago. when “ little girls wore big


name isn't given) recalled going “ half-time ” to the mill at the age of twelve and full-time at thirteen. “ Tenters.” she remembered, “ were paid 2s 6d per week bv tlie weavers whose looms they helped to mind.” Re­ called a n o t h e r, " When dresses were first cut low at the necks, seniors called them •• pneumonia necks ” but. on the other hand. “ when bloomers replaced open d r awe r s , the same people said they were un-


dow tapping." One lady (what a pity her


'-eaithy because they stopped fresh air getting to the


body." Both ladies remembered


tlie knocker-up making his rounds. “ for days began


much earlier, around 5.0 to 5.30 a.m.” Soon the music of the clogs was heard and mothers wrapped in shawls carried their sleeping babies


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Scouts explore


Dales caves


A PARTY of Clitheroe Scouts and Venture Scouts went to Selside near Stainforth in


the Yorkshire Dales. Venture Scouts Mark Bateman and Keiron Ferguson, with their leader, Dr G. Hampson, took four scouts from three different scout troops on a short expedition under­ ground near the famous Alum Pot.


trance of upper long- churn cave, they followed. the underground stream for about 250 yards from the point where it emerged from


Entering the lower en­


the small underground’ lake known as Dr Bannister's Hand Basin.


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by a small waterfall, which was climbed with the help of a hand line. They emerged on to the snow covered moor and made their way back to the lower entrance.


The water enters the basin


long churn back downstream into Long Churn cave. After about 30 yards to Dam Pool, where two scouts got very


It was decided to follow


Plant Pool had to be negotia­ ted carefully, but the rest of Lower Long Churn was much drier. After climbing down a narrow vertical fissure, the


wet, the beck goes back into Diccan Cave after 'emerging briefly on the. surface and then down to the bottom of Alum Pot. Double Shuffle Pool and


party were in the Dolly Tubs chamber and could see day­ light from Alum Pot. At this point ' the parly


eroe Grammar School troop, and Raymond Jones, of 1st Pendle troop, completed the


retraced their steps to the brilliant sunshine, made brighter by tlie reflection from the snow. Richard Parrott, of Clith­


requirement of the speleologist badge


David Berryman


trip. Above, Richard


on this scout


Parrott (both


■ tor's Hand-basin, in Uppe* Long Churn Cave.


CRGS). Bernard (Loyola), Raymond (1st Pendle) and •--- Ferguson (Venture Scout) w the waterfall into Dr Barin’


Keiron


Holden Jone5


29 MOOR LA


Ranches a t barni FAR!


garden at liis home. Cross | House: fragrant with a j Ui o u s a n d blooms, and modestly attributed his hor­ ticultural successes to the fact that he played " The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring” to his seedlings


joined in." Ben had the most glorious j


daily.


opened ;1 little sweet shop at the rear of his home and. to tile consternation of the then vicar, began to trade on Sundays.


One final story of Ben. In his later years he


afternoon, Ben noticed the vicar approaching- to remon­ strate with him,“but he was equal to the situation.


Standing at his gate one


“ ah’m reight glad to see thee. Ah reckon thee olid me’s gotten a lot i- com­ mon.”


" Ee. vicar,” he said,


vicar. ” and what, pray, have you and I got in common?” Why, we’re th’ only two


" Indeed, Parker.” said the I think.


fellas i’ Wliallev as works on a Sunda’.” said Ben. A good note to finish on,


J.F. Nudge council


THE attention of Clitheroe RDC will be drawn to the state of land in front of council garages behind King Street, Whalley. Coun. James Fell, UDC


m r- "h. . .*c l l f e |g § & A


Pacific cruise included a Russian quiz


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A RECENT cruise to the South Pacific Islands providr-d Mr Sidney Whiteside, ol Eastham Street, Clithproe, with his first glimpse of Australia . . . and an insight into the Russian way of life.


enced globe-trotter, has spent holidays in the Caribbean,


Hong Kong, ancl in the USA where he travelled from coast to coast by Greyhound bus. After flying from Heath,


Mr Whiteside, an experi­


on the sliii). when a panel ol Russian officers invited (|iic$. Lions on their country. To his inquiry on why ihpT


had trade unions if strikes were illegal, he was told tint


row via Copenhagen. Bangkok and Singapore, Mr Whiteside boarded liis cruise ship—a Russian liner named after a poet—at Sydney. Apart from the necessary


as there was no private m. dustry, and everyone indue, ing mangement was working for the state, they had r.i reason to strike against themselves.


provision of English-speaking staff to attend to passenger inquiries, the ship was manned by citizens of the Soviet Union, and well over half of them, including the ship's doctor, were women. The extensive menus,


was slimmed up by th» different weather conditions he experienced—the tail «u| of a tropical storm on roirt to Tonga, temperatures n[ almost 100 degrees in Tahiti, and continuous ram jj Sydney.


The variety of the emit?


mainly printed in English, offered an average or 20 dishes from starters to sweet and coffee, *nd Mr White- side at first thought that lie could select what he wanted. Soon, however, he dis­


covered that this was not the case at all. " They brought the first item and you accep­ ted or shook your head. This was followed by the second item, until every single


course had been offered to j every passenger. If you ' wanted cheese and biscuits only you had a lohg wait. ’ Going ashore at the


different ports of call gave Mr Whiteside a chance to compare world prices of con­ sumer goods, and he reached the conclusion that most things were more expensive than in Britain. In New Zealand, a half- pound jar of instant coffee


was almost £1. and in Tahiti a small ice cream cone cast the equivalent of 24p. The hot spot of the tour


was a demonstration of fire walking in Suva, the capital or Fiji, when lour native men and two women walked in bare feet on stones hot enough to burn wood. One of the most interesting


Whalley


aims to retain


trophy


WHALLEY will be tryin| bard this year to retain tin Best Kept. Yillage title, won for the first time last rear. The parish council hat decided overwhelmingly t0


enter the competition again. Preliminary judging will b» from July 1st to July 30ih, with final judging im. mediately following. Villagers will recHt*


Whalley Will benefit


parish Council film, slit! which the Advertiser a.|


Times sponsored. Whalley's old people, cu


o-uidcs and the Christi Action Group will share thc £ 10.29 collected at t


this at their February me- in,r when Coun. James F said: "We should supp< those we can’t help tlirou normal sources, which -


event. The parish council decici


deserving. ”


Annual meeting The annual meeting


meeting.


Tree planting Members of Whsilil


Women’s Institute arc pla ning to walk the footpatl of the parish during tl summer and plant .'0:1 trees. Miss Pauline Wilk] son told the Parish Couni"


ask the parish council suggest suitable sites. CoJ


Yorkshire At an open evening


The WI, she said, woij


Janies Fell welcomed tl institute's public spir:;| action.


Wliallcy Men's Fellows! Mr and Mrs Bennett gnl an illustrated talk ab«.l Yorkshire. The meeting w| well attended.


an exterior light and a m effective car park sign Wbaliey Library is being vestigated by Lancash County Council.


Better signs The possibility of prov:


aspects oil tile cruise for Mr Whiteside was a "talkabout”


VOLUNTEER WANTED


after Whalley war memorial. That’s certainly the way it


NOBODY wants to look


looks, for Whalley Parish Council lias searched in vain for a successor to the late Mr William Briggs. Mr Briggs weeded tlie area


surrounding the memorial and gave the monument a scrub before Armistice Day. But since Mr Briggs died a few months ago there has been no one to carry on the good work. Parish council clerk Mr


Lancashire compet i t ion since the mid-sixties, and came second at the first attempt, but outright sue. cess eluded the village until last year, when first prize was won in the major class.


leaflets through their letter, box. encouraging them to play their part. Whatley has entered th»


Speedometer was wrong


WHEN police stopped » speeding van on the Ciil’


eroe-Whalley by-pass, the driver was so surprised that


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he had the van checked and the speedometer was found


to have a 15 to 20 mph error. Clitheroe magistrates heard


this when Kevin Harris, of Wellington Court. Blackburn,


admitted doing 63 nipli in a van limited by law to 50 mph.


He was fined £20. Mr N. Lomas, defcmlinc,


Jim Holden will be glad to hear from anyone who would take over this undemanding, j but worthwhile, task. Mr Holden lives at 17 Wood­ lands Drive, telephone Whalley 3152.


Four cars in collision


CLITHEROE firemen had to clear away debris, glass and spilled petrol after a four- car crash near Smithies Bridge. Chatburn, on Friday evening. Two of the drivers were


taken to hospital and one of them. Kenneth John Aubrey Mitchell, of Devon­ shire Road. Middlesbrough, was detained with a broken


chairman, told Whalley Parish Council that people from Green Bank had to come out this way. and the surface was in shocking con­ dition.


leg.The other drivers were Stanley Mitchell, of Royalty- Lane, New Longton: George Kevin Duckworth, of West- wood Avenue. Rishton (both unhurt); and John Joseph Martin, of Metcalfe Crescent, Sealiam, Durham. Mi- Martin was treated for cuts.


.successfully asked for Harris not be be banned under the totting-up rule, because r.c would lose bis job and had a wife and young children to support.


LYING IN THE ROAD


when the police saw- him ly­ r o e magistrates


ing in the road. Cl i t h e


Brownlow Street, ClitherPh £1 fny being found drunk.


f i n e d D a v i d Reid Smith, ot He pleaded guilty.


feet from kerb in King vain to help Smith to hu> feet when PC Brendan larv and PS Kevin Fitzpat­ rick saw him lying tm ' feet from the kerb in Ki ?


insp. T. J. Sumner sad


Street,Smith told the con- that he felt all right unt- nc came out into t'oc co1


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COLD air was blamed by a 60-vear-old foundry worker for his drunken condition


council’s highways commiul were told of this in a let’I from the county librarn;! The object of [he impro'.j ments would be to cncourr more use of the car park


Members of Cfithcroe ru


Women’s Lib to mipro\| ments in Wnallcy w.


Lively Subjects ranging


widely discussed at and ms lively questions put to . panel of speakers at Whaill Women's Institute meeting Mrs E. Harpur, Miss


Whalley Parish Council v be held in the C of E Schi on Wednesday. March 21 at 8 p.m., after thc monU


Four local causes will berl from the recent Whalll


Taylor. Dr B. Smith and Rev. R. Sunter, formed 11 panel. and thev we thanked by Mrs Whitchcr A panel from whaliey v


will be ” on the spot ” wh they join other groups in r


forthcoming “Mastcmiinc project.


worth gave notice of futi: activities. including : planting of a tree in thc v lage.


President. Mrs M. An


Mrs H. Horsfall said the new WI county -


nca


quarters in Preston was m open, with a. room for v;| tors to rest, have coffee a: to meet friends.


sent a picture of Whallcy BQ as a gesture of go-1 wishes. Concerned aiio| the closing of foot-paths . the area the institute prl poses to organise a fo;.|


It. was was agreed to pil .


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