alburn


arty ir boys and girla rinirch. C-hatburn, pd to a party,


vitii a .supper of jollies, ice Qream, :u:ts and orange


i petitions. Gail s tbe winner of Says." and Carl


addock and -MisS won. Afterwards plenty of games


ad pad been pre- Mrs H. Brewer,


l. earing for borne, ] was presented by the Vicar, the


addock, and they three cheers in n of the party,


,nd the beginning , a small congre- present in Christ


ght service the passing of


r a short service Sunday evening. ,-mns were sung— all the changing life,-’ " Great ia


illness,’* '• O God, 1 ages past,” and


ling and sermon by the vicar,


mind of Christ — and a short


Maddock. Tha as Mr N. Lawson.


newal help for a new- windows a t


boiler RDC has re­


Village Hall and church, as stated ne in last week’s The boiler a t


dleton ts


rs J. York was Readers of the


urch, Pendleton, e Rev. D. J. Ley-


ire Mr W. Wall- York, Mr Ross,


•aite. Miss Jane ind Mr Leyland.


th Crossley, Mrs die. Mr George


ead sons


-as a large con- a t St Jcdm’s Sunday night service of the


choirboy, member ajrochial church,


- anisations of the tire lessons, in­


server, a member Mothers’ Union, Brownie, Cub


urchwarden and The choir was by Mr J. Har-


ons and Carols The service was by the vicar, A. Schofield.


service was held afternoon a t All


Andrew Dawson " Crazy- towns ’’


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. January 4th, 1973 if


TIME BRIN GS IMPROVEMENTS VILLAGE


, - 'th e end of the year


Vmw- new 1 «‘c n t in t0 Ulc Gunner’s “ Good morn- said to the girl


behind the counter. ’’ I want a five-year diary.


nlea^e" Thc girl look<;d f m e a little oddly,


‘•We’ve ?ot- ordinary diaries sir,”


sakl a


little hesitantly. -No dear.'' T said if|iiiir


jirmlv fee mP\ " J want a d C she said and


retreated to consult a col- laaue at the rear of the


Premises. They both looked S l f at me obrious y


"Sa me white locks that get scantier with every passing month "Optimistic fool, T„v were clearly thinking aI1d -i moment later the Jlsistanl returned with a couple, of diaries for my


inspection. T rianced inside the


rovers mentally converting the pencilled decimal figures Wo’ l.S.D. and made my ‘ This \\ ill do, 1


fold* the girl. “ "’ill there he any rebate if I'm not able to


church hall is in ondition, we ara


i


^She 'gave a sickly smile (perhaps it wasn’t a very good joke, anyway) but made n0 reply, wrapped the book gave me roy cnange and said “Thank you very much." She watched me closely until I left the shop, perhaps half fearing that I


would droP dead befOTe 1 reached the doorway.


bept a diary for 20 years atid each has been a five- year record. I make a few


Optimistic or not, I have


Whalley Window


voluminous writings of Mr Pepys or Mr Boswell, but it gives me great interest to glance back and see what went on in our little world on the same date two, three and four years previously.


for example, all the im­ provements that have taken place in the village in Just the past five years. Two new by-passes have been opened and lighting to trunk road standards has been installed on all our main roads. The lighting on minor roads, tod, has been very much improved.


I t i.s surprising to note,


for which we had waited s° long — became reality and what afi asset it has turned out to be to the village and surrounding district. Bor­ rowers come from Well out­ side the local boundaries and, indeed, from towns with pretty good libraries of their own. In 1968 the swings and


In 1970 the new library—


see-saw were erected on our little playing field,- a happv year for the children, and 1969 was a happy year for many of their parents—the filial pay-out was made fol­


Motor cyclist who came off on bend


A MOTOR-CYCLE accident on the road from Sabden to Clitheroe cost a Clitheroe farmworker a broken collar bone and an injured knee-cap. It also cost him £10 when he appeared before Clitheroe magistrates


is fined £10


charged with driving without due care. John Brian Walker (17),


nd the organist K. Hall.


lofield, 123 Whalley Mr Schofield, who lars of age, leaves


| yth took place in. f Mr William (63k or 35 East


Hill leaves a wife arried sons, Crc- k place at Burn- ■urday.


r D. Schofield nation took place on Friday of Mr


Clitheroe Bridge


/ ' l l n i l , \ ; S13 IF


WINNERS at a meeting of


-Mr Straus and Mrs Collins. I was unable to be present


Clitheroe Bridge Club were: NS Mr Procter and Mr En- wr; Mrs C. Boothman and Mrs Gillibrand. EW Mr Scofield and Mr Phethean;


but looked through the hands played. The following is interesting: South dealer. Game all. N


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C Q43 Pitches 16ft.» 8ft.»


tal Voices with and 8ft. Ped a ls


ontrol Knob


r cass ion or D F a s t


ones Kbjtbm "Cnit '•'■sternal Arop


04 rh e r organs. ptano»» etc., etc.


pleasure— . .. d pay yon to v is i t o«


gans. harmonicas, p.a. and a ni­ ton© cabinets,


m (


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OUR THE


complete


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to 6-0 p.m.


25% PEN TILL


for patients on Friday, to see .. - * i


f iK a! a~e organising the first-ever


-pantomime trip


Wri-star Pan.-> Lulu in “Peter


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travemL16r at!er:ts wiU br coacf


ill the hospital Manehe^ e r’hen matln4e at


hooked fma n haVe been floor tw in1®


Ciroir, ? Opera House, 1,1? afc ground


BospitM'rndS °f Clitheroe ,


Newly elected as an associate of the Institute of inkers is Mr Alan Pierce,


CUtheroc^511111 Pai'k Dl'iVC’


«-T® bc,comc «n associate, n»Hear'i° d Mr pierce sat a


tim! "a tw°-part examina- ™n m September.


Oram, °ld boy of Hutton & nar Sch001- be was a maior* manager with a


iofmn £°e comPany before Pres tltne Midland Bank in


Was °HtSeven years &g°- He Nelsnr,ater trallsferred to


b r S -and is now at a T ? ch *n Blackburn. althn, c? lef intereEt is golf,


crlk ?hr ,le aIs° “ joys ine^u- .r°otba11 and read-


Treat for


a nni, 15 mai'ried, and has a one-yea,-0id son.


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of Standen Road, denied tha t he had caused the acci­ dent when he went round a bond too fast. He was ordered to pay £2.80 wit­ nesses’ expenses.


Walker told magistrates tha t he would probably have


to return to hospital in the New Year to have the injured kneecap removed.


that Walker was with a friend on another machine at tihe time.


Insp. T. J. Sumher Said


Pendle Road, Pendleton, he lost control and fell off his machine which skidded for 50 yards and hit the parapet of a bridge. No one else was involved. The other motor cyclist,


Negotiating a bend in


brief notes each night before retiring. Some nights — the very special nights — 1 make tihe entries in red ink, but usually just odd details of the major events of the day and nothing like the


lowing the failure of our local co-opefative society and many investors received compensation well in excess of what, a t one time, seemed possible. In each of the last four


FURNITURE BARGAI your CO-OP


years, too, the village has won minor awards in the “ Best-kept village competi­ tion" culminating with our triumph in the summer just gone. People are still talk­ ing about our “Old Whatley’’ exhibition of 1968, the two arts exhibitions that fol­ lowed i t and the frequent exhibitions in the library


that have attracted wide­ spread attention. Considerable sums of money have been spent to


prevent the recurrence of flooding in the village, once almost an annual event, and where old people’s bunga­ lows are concerned the village is in a very favour­ able position. There are more in Whalley than-in all the rest of the rural district put together. Our village school has been extended and now our ancient gram­ mar school is being almost rebuilt a t the expense of the county council. A Government department


has accepted responsibility for the restoration of the West Gate of our abbey and, altogether, these have been a pretty progressive five years ‘in the Whalley district. Let’s hope the next five


are. equally so. [Memo to the girl in the


stationer’s: Do keep in business, dear. I hope to be buying five-year diaries for at least another couple of decades].


J.F.


TOSSIDE FOREST BEING


THINNED


TREES grown in the Gis- burn section of Bowland Forest will soon be helping to provide pulp for the nation’s newspapers. The first crop from a


HI


forest of spruce covering 3,500 acres planted since 1949 is now being cut — the forest is being thinned — and its ceremonial despatch will be linked with the opening of a new bridge over the stream beto-p Hesbert Hall, Tosside, on Wednesday.


has been established is leased from the Fyldd Water Board and, says Mr J. C. Voysey, district officer for the Forestry Commis­ sion, i t was necessary to eontruct an exit road and a bridge. The load of timber billets


The land Where the forest


is destined for Bowater’s pulp and paper mill at Ellesmere port.


Mr David Garner, of Carl­ ton Place, Clitheroe, said they had been averaging 50 m.p.h. but had slowed down to 40 for tile bend. “He came off a t this point, and his bike just sid from under him,” said Mr Gamer. Replying to Insp. Sumner,


Walker said tha t he and Mr Garner had been using the road several times a week for the past six months and he knew tha t he could take the bend at 45 m.p.h. with safety.


time, but there were piles of drippings and stones at the edge.” lie said. I t was these, he felt, that might have caused the accident. Walker- denied any sug­


“ The road was dry at the


Van driver fo r many years


EMPLOYED by William Braithwaite and Sobs,


driver for many years, Mr Robert (Bert) Seed has died at the age of 76. After leaving Braithwaites


Whalley Road, as a van


son and three grandchildren, Interment took place at Whitewell.


terly a t Oakroyd, Clayton le-Dale. Mr Seed leaves a married


gestion by Insp. Stunner tha t he had been having a “ good, fast ru n ” down Pendle. “ You were going too fast, and that is why you lost control," he said.


defending, said that the outcome of


depended on the speed Ids client was doing at the time. Apart from Mr Gamer he


Mr J. H o u 1 d s w o r t h , the case


said, there were no wit­ nesses to the accident itself, so no one could tell how fast he had been going. "All the evidence points to a speed of 45 m.p.h. and such a speed on that comer could not be considered unsafe,” he said.


F a c i l it ie s fo r sports


CLITHEROE Rural Council has received a letter from the Lancashire County Council, asking them to make provision in their estimates for 1973/4 for grant-aid to local sports facilities. There are, however, no plans


for such facilities in view at the moment, and the council’s finance committee decided that if any schemes were put forward, these could be paid for Out of the current balance.


REFUSED TO PAY FOR TAXI RIDE


A LOW MOOR man refused to pay a taxi fare of 37Jp because he claimed the same driver had pre­ viously charged him 50p for the journey. But a t Clillieroe Magis- fare. Bialecki refused to


lecki (22), of Nelson Street, Low Moor, was fined £10 and ordered to make 37ip- restitution when he ad mitted obtaining pecuniar;


advantage by deception; Insp. T. J. Sumner sail


.Club.


rjBrArriving there, the taxi asked for the 37J-p.


t.iat Bialecki, a self-em >loyed bricklayer, had been


taken by taxi from the Com­ mercial Hotel to Low Moor


trates’ Court, Martin Bia­


said in a statement th a t he oimself had not ordered the taxi. “ He dropped me a t ,he Low Moor Club, and I aid I wks not paying be- .ause he was the same


Jriver tha t had charged me 30p. a fortnight before.” He had given the driver hiS address although he had no intention of paying the fafe. Bialecki had nothing to


say in court.


pay and left. Seen by police, Bialecki.


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