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" aotitios locally in the past year says the annual Sort of Clitheroe and district Scout CounciL


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|i S ln c k ln c k i n lh ,v/rj innd ami Mr B rian


Quarrel over taxi fare


;„rn't’o Ciitheroo ended in L ' bra'd 'vh«' f.vo of the


1 T^XI rl'lp from Black-


cengcrs quarrelled about S-in- die fare. The result


?er one of them was a ‘.v-month 5usi>endcd prison itence imposed by Clitb- ;« m.agistratcs. for assault. Moiiammed .Tlxliil Karim


jciian (37), o f fowcrgalc, ri^^tieroe denied causing S lv harm by a.ssaiilting


S'rd Joseph Regain a 20- „ar-old laboiircf, of Turner


Street,


under a two-year suspended sentence, was found guilty and sentenced to si-K months prison suspended for two rears. He was ordered to ■par £-i6-o0 costs. Mr Stanley Wcsthcad, presiding,


Khan, who was already , ,


said tlii.5 w.TS not a parti­ cularly serious olfeiice, but Kban sliould have made sure he did not get into


trouble. ■•W


vou a chalice.” iie .'aid ‘'We realise that you liave diffi­ culties to face in thi.s coiintp', such as language problems.” M


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Khan denied hitting Mr Regan. Mr Barry Dearing, defending, suggested that Khan was involved in the jcullle in defence of him­ self.


th.it Khan offered to pay for the night out but when they returned to Clitheroe Khan would not pay for the taxi. Mr Regan said he paid half the fi'ire and then idian hit him. “ I said I would pay all the fare if he w.intcd, but he didn’t want to know. Ho was just r.ad.” Through an interpreter,


r Regan told the court


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iin?. se.id Khan invited Mr Reran and his wife, Janet, ;o a Blackburn club. When they arrived back in Clith- croc, an argument .started because Khan refused to pay the taxi fare. Mr Regan was punched in the face: his eye was bruised and his cheek scratclied. .M


number of swlmmlnj batiyes awarded and, for tiie first time, the Cub Scouts wall be able to have their swimming sports.


This is reflected in the ‘


tinues to grow: total group membership is now 416, an increase of 48, and leaders have been forthcoming to enable group^ to be enlarged


HIGHLIGHT


year wHl be the golden jubilee Of the St Mary Magdalene’s Scout Troop whose first Scoutmaster, Mr Hermon Coates, is organis­ ing a reunion of old Scouters.


A special highlight this


golden jubilee of the district and the hope is that by the time this notable occasion arrives the district will have an appropriate head- (quarters. A oommittce is busy rai.sing funds.


Ne.xt year will bring the


there are now 200, compete annually for the Totem Pole award.. Nobody knows how long the present one


Cub Scouts, of which


has been in existence but it has now “ really seen better days ” and an appeal is made to anyone interested in the Cub Scouts to con­ sider providing a replace­ ment.


ted in the raising of a con­ siderable amount of money for tile Venture Scouts.


meeting will be held at the Parish Hall on May 29th and Mr Denis Bum will speak of his experiences -un­ der the VSO scheme in the Seychelle Islands.


The Scout Council annual


NEW chairman of the Lan­ cashire County Council is County Councillor Leonard Broughton, w'ho represents the Blackpool No. 3 Elec­ toral Division.


ture Scouts is also increasing and many joint activities have been held with the Ranger Guide Unit, wWle the formation of a suppor­ ters’ association has resul­


Membership of the Ven­


THE little estate we now refer to as Riddings Lane is not the original Rid­ dings Lane. The true lane runs betw’een the neat council estate and the back of Limefield Avenue and Is a pleasant enough, treelined little road until it comes to an abrupt stop when, it meets the field.


The present surface leaves


much to be desired; a dirt surface weedgrown and bramble strewn for much of its 150 or so yards.


established to make the bricks to build the arches and, the great engineering feat completed, continued for a further 50 years or more as a commercial proposition until the final closure.


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Lane. Along it rumbled the iron shod wheels of the heavy wagons that tran.s- ported the bricks to Uie ijuilding sites and, clearly, had the then surface been of the same materials as today, would quickly have deteriorated into an im­ passable morass. Some­ where, at sometime, there


But to return to Riddings


marked on several last century maps). These works were first


Lane has its own interesting little story and a place in loca.l historj' because, up to the turn of the century, it led to the brickworks -which then flourished in the field beyond (they are clearly


Nevertheless, Riddings


ROAD TO THE BRICKWORKS Whalley Window


must have been a much firmer base.


With these thoughts in


mind, in recent years and months, some of my car- ownhig neighbours began to


dig. What did they find? At depths varying from 12 to 18 inches below the sur­ face they discovered heavy paving slabs running tlie length of the lane; two long parallel lines of them witli a space of perhaps two feet between the rows along which the patient cart horses plodded their way.


deeply rutted by the crunching wheels of in­ numerable heavy wagons but, to the unversed amateur such as I, the remarkable point is that the stones sliould lie so deep below the present sur­ face. In the short space of 70 years the falling leaves of autumn, the accumulated ditst blown by persistent winds, the debris from a dozen gardens, has covered them deeply.


Many of the pavings arc


why archaeologists seeking the evidence of Roman and earlier civilisations have to delve to depths of 12 feet or more to find the objects of their search. Thus, even in our little


How ca.sy to understand back lane, we can find evi­


dence to add to our know­ ledge of yesterd-ay’s villag-a; the signs are there for al! to read if we but possess the wit to interpret them.


selves? Today few signs remain.


And the brickworks tliem-


the edge of the field the route taken to . the former works is easily discornablc; a raised causeway of some seven to eight feet in width, grass covered and, perhaps beneath this, too, lie heavy pavings deeply hidden.


Where the lane ends at


]X)nd, stagnant and weed- choked, an unsavoury spot, the scone of a local tragedy years ago. It is the occasional resting place fep- the odd pair of mallard seeking more salubrious waters and the far bank is littered with the body of an old car, old tyres, a broken bedstead and a discarded .gas oven, oil cans and rust­ ing scrap niclal, odd scraps of rotting timber, the dis­ carded junk of household and farmyard. Out of this waterlogged hole, it is safe ta assume, came much of the clay from which the bricks that built the arches were fashioned.


In the far corner is a deep


comments District secretary John N. Clayton. Interest in Scouting con­


pride in the fact Umt so many more youngsters, are now able to sxvim tlian would have been likely if there had been no baths,”


•‘Clitheroe people can take i ’. M / " ' Z i |M | IS sm m Y f m Wliy the brickworks


ultimately ceased to func­ tion I have been unable to ascertain. One thing is


certain; it was clearly not for any lack of raw materials for the clay is still tliorc in vast quantities as the engineers construc­ ting our first by-pass and those laying the Manchester Corjxiration pipeline have recently confirmed.


At the moment, however,


Riddings Lane leads to one of the most unattractive spots in our local country­ side, a pestilential pond, a blot on the landscape which could be so easily cleaned np had our local authorities the power to intervene.


owners giive only a fraction of the thought to the way tbe.v maintain their proper­ ties to that which is given to the maintenance of land in public ownership, how very much more pleasant the local scene would be.


It is fair to say that the


only places that could mar Whalley's chances of re­ peating in 1973 their last year’s success in the “ Best Kept Village Competition ” — and I can immediately think of three — are, to the sliamc of an equal number of very large com­ mercial concerns, in private ownership.


live a long way from the village.


J . F . And these private owners If .some private land­


MEMBERS of four Wls in the newly - formed Jeffrey Hill group — Hurst Green. Ribchester, Knowie Green an'd Dutton, and Hothersall with Longridge — held the first of their annual meet­ ings in the memorial hall at Hurst Green.


Green, with president Mr.s Eileen Mather presiding, provided a buffet supper, and Knowie Green enter­ tained with sketclies and a monologue. They were thanked by Mrs Lane, of Hothersall. Deputy area leader of the ■VI Miss M. Greenall. in­


novelist Mrs Phoebe Hes- keth, of Rmngton. telling tile story of her aunt Edith, a suffragette, who was the subject of one of her books. She was thanked by Mrs Almond. Host institute Hurst


An audience of 140 heard PARTIES ARRANGED Telephone CLITHEROE 2 3 8 7 0


formed members of future WI activities and referred to the current membership drive throughout Lancashire. There was a display of


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