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TO DEFEND TITLE AT FESTIVAL OF PLAYS


LAST year's winners at Clitheroe Festival ot Plays, the Todmorden Players are returning to defend their title on April 30th with “ Norman,” only their second


venture into Festival work. The play, by Frank Har­


vey. was first seen on the London stage in 1963. with


Bernard Lee and Kathleen Harrison. Formed about 13 years ago


from various groups in Tod­ morden. the society tries to give middle-of-the-road plays


which will be enjoyed by the majority of local audiences. The programme of plays,


SMILING at the start, the participants weren't quite so full of energy when they arrived at the finishing post.


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HERO of the '•Pavilion Walk" — latest of a series oi sponsored events orga­ nised by Clitheroe Royal Grammar School for Bov.s — was second-former Mark


Keighley. Mark, of Rimington. com­


pleted five miles of the gruelling 20-mile circuit — despite the fact that he suffers from the disability


Cash with a camera


A MEMBER of the Salford Photographic Society. a Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic lecturer, and president - elect for the union, Mr J. A. Fitchec.. .-■poke on " Freelancing — making a bob or two." lu members of the Ribblesda’.e Camera Club. Illustrating his talk. Mr


Fitchett said he turned his hand to weddings, camping and caravanning, and out­ door life. He then contacted


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various seaside towns offer­ ing them interesting views of the resorts. Holiday camps proved


another successful venture, and then came photography for estate agents, groups of children and football teams,


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Thanks to Mr Fitcheti were expressed by Mr Peter


Cowkine. The annua! dinner is to­


morrow. and the annual general meeting on Tuesday.


Spina Bifida. And the money he has raised will, along with that collected by the 370 other boys taking pan. go towards improve­ ments to the school's sports pavilion.


The first event to be held


for this purpose, the walk is expected to bring in about £1.400. making an admir­ able foundation for the fund. The school aims to be able to improve and moder­ nise the changing facilities at its High Moor pavilion. Virtually everyone, from


first year pupils t.o sixth- formers. completed the route, or a slightly easier 10-mile one. and they were accompanied by the head­ master. Mr Gerald Hood, and half a dozen members of staff. Other teachers


manned the checkpoints, and patrolled the. routes, but the only difficulties were the occasional blisters.


Setting off about 9 a.m..


the boys were all safely ■pad; by tea-time — but a couple of upper sixth-for­ mers were home long before that. Keen crosscountry run­ ners. Martin Whitworth, of Wilpshire. and Jon Sharpies, of Great Harwood, decided ;o get their work over at j ■he double — and ran the entire 20 miles.


The school's appeal for the


pavilion has been launched with the support of the


Friends of ciitheroe Royal Grammar School. The walk was organised as the school’s own contribution to the fund, and other events will take place in the near future.


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which will be given at the Civic Hall the week begin­ ning Monday, April 30th. at 7-30 p.m. and on Saturday at 7 p.m.. is as follows: Monday. Norman: Tuesday, Semi-Detached; Wednesday, Not Now. Darling: Thurs­ day. The Glass Menagerie: Friday. Barefoot in the Park; Saturday. Never Too Late. .Adjudicator is Mr Peter Dutton, who judged the entries three years ago.


PI PATHOS Hoping for a warm Lanca­


shire welcome at the fes­ tival are a Yorkshire team, the Country Players, of Pool-in-Wharfeda’e. Although new to Clitheroe.


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they are not new to festival work, for they carried off the first prize at Settle Fes­ tival last month. Their choice of play, "The Glass Menagerie." differs greatly from all the other produc­ tions of the week, being a story of nostalgia with more than a touch of pathos. Author Tennessee Wil­


liams is widely known in the world of both stage and cinema. The play was first produced at the Playhouse in New York City in 1945 and later adapted for the screen in a film which starred Jane Wyman in the leading role. Second prize winners at


Settle, the Norcross Players, of Blackpool, are also pay­ ing their first visit to Clitheroe. A short time ago they


were successful at Fleetwood festival with their produc­ tion of “ Not Now. Darling." a riotous comedy by Ray Cooney and John Chapman. First nresented at the Strand Theatre in 1968 with former Miss World Ann Sidney. Bernard Cribbins and Donald Sinden. it was described by the critics as


'• an evening of non-stop laughter ” and “ the funniest farce in years.”


The third company of


newcomers, the Scottish Theatre Group, has been formed recently by members of various drama grovips in Scotland. Some of their members have taken part in Clitheroe festivals over the iast few years with the Edinburgh Theatre. Arts.


chosen a hilarious American comedy. “ Never Too Late.” by Sumner Arthur Long. It was originally produced at the New York Playhouse in 1962 by Elliot Martin and Donald Hollywood under the direction of George Abbot.


For their first performance in Clitheroe they have


ALL SMILES, despite the snowy weather, which took them by surprise, are Mr Kujath, Berner (left) and Gerd.


Returning to Clitheroe


with a play commissioned to celebrate the opening of Coventry Cathedral in 1962 are the Anonymous Players of Blackpool. “ Semi- Detached,” by David Turner, is essentially comic theatre, an evening cf fun which the audience shares wiai the actors. When presented at the Saville Theatre in Lon­ don. the leading roles were taken by Sir Laurence Olivier and Mona Wash- bourne.


Comedy is the metier of


the Tudor Players, of Man­ chester, proved by their runners-up award of the Lawrenson Cup last year f-:r " Relatively Speaking." This year they turn to a comedy by Neil Simon, set in New York. “ Barefoot in the Park." first presented at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1965 and also adapted for the screen.


The story of a lovely


young girl full of hopes for the. future and the subse­ quent trials and tribula­ tions of settling in an apart­ ment offers an opportunity for a great deal of laughter.


WHEN Herr George Kujath spent three years in the North of England it was as a prisoner of war, interned at Helli- field.


Now, a quarter of a cen­


tury later, he has returned to this country for the first time—and again the thing that impresses him most is the friendly and helpful attitude of the local people. Herr Kujath, who re­


turned home yesterday, was a PoW from 1945 to 1948. and worked at Salthill Quarry. Clitheroe. during this time. Accompanying him on his sentimental journey were his 16-year-old son. Gerd, and his son's friend, Berner Ritter. They have been staying at the Temperance Hotel. Gisburn. It- was Herr Kujath’s wife,


Charlotte, who .persuaded him to return. “She said it was time to come back because I kept talking about all my friends over here, and showing her their pic­ tures." He reckons he has called


on more than two dozen old friends during his stay, in­ cluding Mr Brian Braith-


Pollution kills species of moss


Jeffrey Duckett, whos e parents live in Clitheroe Road. Whalley, stayed at the Abbey for a week to update the Society's records of the area. They discovered that vari­


THERE'S more to moss than meets the eye . members of the British Bryological Society demon strated last week on their visit to Whalley. The party of 20, led by Dr


as He added: “ This area is


fairly polluted — the colour of the sheep is a good indication that it's pretty dirty round here." Tire Society, which meets


ous species of moss had be­ come extinct since the last century, due to air pollution from the Industrial Revolu­ tion.


Dr Jeffrey Duckett, a lec­ lichens are very sensitive, “ Mosses and


turer in plant biology at Bangor University, ex­ plained:


and even in the Trough of Bowland a lot of species were absent. The mosses growing on trees were especi­ ally rare.”


twice a year, came to stay at Whalley 0n Dr Duckett’s advice. “ There were people from Glasgow. London and North Wales, as well as an American.” he said. “ They were pleasantly surprised by trie countryside, and im­ pressed by the architecture, too.


bridges.”


particularly ATLAS


the


cluded Pendle. the Hodder Valley and Whitewall, Hvnd-


bumdale and the Trough of Bowland, Stocks Reservoir,


and Ainsdale, near South- port, where they found some very rare species on the dunes. But the rarest of all was discovered at Stocks Reservoir — Weissia rosttellata, a liverwort of which there are only 20 localities in Britain. The result of all this re­


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search will be the Atlas of British Mosses, a publica­ tion which is taking the Society 20 years to produce. “ We have been working on it for 14 years, and have already covered three- quarters of Britain,” said Dr Duckett. The work is very pains­


The localities visited in­


Ex-prisoner’s sentimental journey


waite. a member of the Clitheroe Town Clerk's staff. It was Mr Braithwaite


whom he first contacted lo fix up the trip, and the out­ come was that the visitors were given a civic reception by the Mayor of Clitheroe, Coun Richard Turner. They were also given a


guided tour of the town's treasures and archives by Mayor’s attendant Mr Stan­ ley Flack. During their brief stay,


the three Germans have visited many of the North's tourist spots, including the Trough of Bowland. the Lake District and Blackpool. It was while they were


at Buttermere that they came across a typical example of “ English friend­ liness.” Explained Herr Kujath: “We managed to


rick all the doors of our car with the keys inside. But a passer-by stopped to help, and then an AA patrol man came all the way from Car­ lisle to solve the problem.” ' I have had the most


marvellous time of my life," he said. " and the visit has made us so happy I can hardly describe it. We will never forget everyone's kind­ ness.”


His son. whose first visit it was to this country, was


so keen that lie was pr,. willing to so back homa when the time came. Anti Berner, although he 'nil, been twice before, said -,,6 had never had the chance to meet so many people. Herr Kujath's wife was


unable to accompany him as she had to stay behind and look after the couple's eight-year-old son. Hciko. “ He. too. was pleading to come with us—and ive will certainly be paying a return visit to Clitheroe in the near future," said Mr Kujath.


Lessons changed


IT IS not eacy to hold ?. child's attention for a full hour, even with a subject they enjoy. Staff at the RJwlesdr.lc Pool have reccg- nised this, and so lessons have been reorganised. Instead of six one-hour


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' ]973 contest, one of the most ! ,W


[ clitheroe for some time, proved bv the 1,500 atten­


dances over the five evenings


f at the Parish HalL 1 victorious are Clitheroe Civic Society, after defeating


I. who are the brainiest {.people in the Clitheroe dis- Itnct? In the Civic Society I team on Saturday night were [ file chairman, Mr Donald l Coates, and two Clitheroe I Roval Grammar School I teachers. Mr George Edon [ and Mr Dudley Green. [ Presenting them with the [ trophy, former Brain of lEritain, Dr R. C. Webster, or I Whalley, remarked: "The


sessions, pupils now have 15 half-hour sessions. Mr David Smith, baths manager, told Clitheroe recreation com­ mittee. And during swimmint


lessons, the public are to hs excluded from thR learner pool.


Busy cricket season ahead for Whalley youngsters


WHALLEY'S young cricketers are all set for a busy season, according to the village cricket club's recently appointed youth manager, Mr Graham Wilson. Mr Wilson, who was one


of the driving forces behind Whalley Rangers’ Football Club's highly successful junior section, has plenty of plans in mind to keep the local lads busy during the summer months. Once again, the club will


be entering a team of under- 18s in the Ribblesdale Youth League. Net trials are to be held


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LOOKING at some of the finer points of these prize blooms , are. from the left, secretary Mr Ernest Sedgewick, Mrs Bairstow and Mr Silverwood.


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RIMINGTON SOCIETY’S FIRST SPRING SHOW


•ABOUT 50 eniries were received for the first spring flower show to be held by the recently-formed Riming- ton and District Horticul­ tural Society.


Formed six months ago,


the society already has 28 members. Entries for the show, some from as far away as Whalley and Roughlee, range d from flowers and bulbs to pot plants and cacti. Entries were judged by


Mr W. E. Speight, Padiham Parks Superintendent. The show was opened by


Coun. Mrs Mary Bairstow, or Rimington, who was introduced by Mr Leonard Silverwood, society chair­ man.


it was “ Plant a Tree " year, it would be fitting If a tree could be planted in Riming­ ton to commemorate the first spring show. It would be planted in Yorkshire, but due to the alteration in the county boundary under reor­


Mrs Bairstow said that as


ganisation it would grow up in Lancashire.


Mrs Bairstow was pre­


sented with a spray ol flowers by Master Howard Sedgewick and thanked by Mr Silverwood.


Best exhibit was a bowl


of tulips toy Mrs A. J. T a y 1 o r, of Greystones, Rimington. Winner of the children's s e c t i o n was Richard Taylor, of Newby Hall Farm, Rimington, with a saucer of flower heads. His prize was a miniature silver wine cooler. Proceeds will go towards


the July show. Refresh­ ments were provided by the ladies’ section of the horti­ cultural society.


RESULTS


1 and 2. E. Sedgewick; 3, L. Silverwood.


Foliage plants: 1, L, Silverwood;


2. J Boswell; 3, Mrs A. J. Taylor. Flowering shrub: l and 2, E.


Dean.


Sedgewick; 3, Mrs G. Howarth. Cacti or succulent: 1. Mrs TJIlis; W. M. Park; 3, Mrs E.


Any var’^ty flowering pot plant:


E. Sedgewick; 3. W. M. Park. Bulbs and corms: 1, Mrs Ellis. Vase of daffodils: l, Mrs E.


wi<v Tulips: 1. Mrs A. J. Taylor; 2,


Hartley; 2. W. M. Park; 3, Mrs B. Smith. Vase of tulips: 1. Mrs B. Heap:


2. Mrs G. Howarth; 3, Mrs B. Smith


Spike hyacinth: 1. E. Sedge­


wick; 2. Mrs G. Howarth; 3 Mrs H. Keighley. Alpine’flowers; !. Mrs H. Keigh­


ley: Mrs Hartley: 3, L. Silver- wood.'' Spray spring flowering shrub:


son; 2, Mrs Brennan; 3, Mrs E. Dean. Five daffodils: 1, Mrs R. Thomp­


I. Mrs Dean: 2 and 3, L», Silver- wood. Spring flowers: 1. Mr T. Jack-


Sedgewick. Lady's dress spray: 1. E. Sedge­


son; 2. Mrs Ell’s: 3. Mrs Dean. Gent's buttonhole: 1 and 2, E.


wick; 2 and 3, Mrs Hartley. CHILDREN'S SECTION


Sedgewick; 2. Heath Sedgewick. Foliage pot plant: 1, Heath


Flowering pot plant: 1, Howard


Sedgewick; 2, Howard Sedgewick. Cacti or succulent: 1, I. J.


Richard Taylor: 2, Catheryn Waggett; 3, Margaret! Taylor.


Park; 2. J. Park; 3, Heath Sedge­ wick. Saucer of flower heads: L


DatTodils or narcissi: 2. E.


Walking* minister


exceeds target


WITH move than a fortnight to go until the start of his solo sponsored walk to Epworth, Lines, Whalley methodist minister, the Rev. Eric Joselin, has already ex­ ceeded his original target. Mr Joselin initially inten­


ded to raise £500 from his 75- mile marathon but his total already stands at £524—


equivalent to nearly £7 per mile. Now Mr Joselin is hopeful


that he will reach the £600 mark before he sets off on May 1st. “ I planned to add a sponsor a. day to my list throughout the campaign. ” he explained, “ and to main­ tain this target I need only another 14 sponsors now— although if I get more than that so much the better. ” Mr Joselin ts making a


pilgrimage on foot to Epworth, the birthplace of John Wesley, to pay off


debts incurred in renovating tha church.


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taking, recording the mosses in every lo kilometre grid square — usually about 250. But the visit was well worth­ while, as during the week members managed to estab­ lish between 10 and 20 new records for Lancashire. Dr Duckett, besides being


a philatelist. is keen on photography and hill walk­ ing, both hobbies connected with the study of mosses. Before going to Bangor nearly three years ago. he studied botany at Cambridge and University College, Lon­ don. His main work is on the sexual behaviour of ferns and horsetails.


on Fridays, beginning on April 13th and Mr Wilson particularly asks that any­ one interested should attend on this date, or the following-


week. “This is because we play our first league game on Sunday. April 29th, against Baxenden at Whal­


ley," he explained. “ so we shall have to get a team together by then.” And there may be a


chance for cricketers under the age of 13 to shine at national level. Mr Wilson intends to enter a team of youngsters in a new competi­ tion being organised by the National Cricket Associa­


tion, sponsored by the Lords Taverners.


NOVEL Tlie competition will be


run on a knock-out basis with successful teams at county level advancing to


regional final and ulti­ mately to a national final. “So it will be a sudden- death affair for the unlucky teams.” said Mr Wilson. The rules are rather


novel, too — and rather complicated. Explained Mr Wilson: “Each game will consist of one 16-over innings per side. There will be eight players a side and the batting team is divided into four pairs, each pair batting four overs." “The batsmen will have


side, except the wicket­ keeper, must bowl.” lie added, “but no player can bowl more than three overs. The winning team will be the one with the highest average of runs per wicket." For cricketers under 19


unlimited “lives,” but the loss of wickets will be re­ corded in the scorebook." “ Everyone on the fielding


years old, there is also a prospect of playing for the


county, said Mr Wilson. For he has been asked to submit names of players to


the Lancashire Cricket Federation for trial. “Selec­ tor* from the Lancashire


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Schools' Cricket Association will be present, a; these trials.” he said. The first will be held at Clitheroe on May 24th.


that a scheme such as this has taken place locally, and I hope it will entice young­ sters to conv alon; to our


“This is the first lime


net practices.” Judging by the success


that football has proved to be. Mr Wilson thinks that Whalley cricket club's youth section should be vcr-'


popular. “There were 60-odd h'ds


involved in the junior


soccer, and I hope some ot them will come along to the cricket along with others who might not be as interes­


ted in football.”


Bridge Club


WINNERS of the dupliejt* game at Clithreroe Biws Club were: NS. Mrs White; head and Mr Michael Smitn- Mr Wilkinson and Rutherford. EW. • ’ Aldred and Mrs Murgatio. •


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WINNERS and losers. Fro| (Milthorne House).


Circuit rally


Clitheroe Circuit was


i,i represented on Satur- I at the annual meeting


ktotv. “i® Blackburn Area ^ehodist Youth Council,


fcrminri"Cludes al1 circuits pounding Blackburn.


was ihe retiring [c[ ^ uriJ. circuit and now


W ent Mr S t e p h e n ilackh,, lormerly of the


liWn lk,rk' . He ied the EuctpHS«devot'ons and con-


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J1'ransements were games• ? ev- Gordon


I nm Cy iia i’ Blackburn. president e'ected were:


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ffrtenwnnrtC/Ctai’y’ Mr Biu I'lSden d- . (A.ccl'ington-Has- Bl r cllcuit); treasurer,


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r sl'ngdem-e iAcci'ington- I'^ntatives' dl.strl°t' rep- I- 'htie (ciiH,~,I1Ss PeSgie


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I I- Manthn,^VetV’ an£i Mrs (Blackburn).


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I all-round knowledge of the I team is sensational, and the I standard of questions is very


I Brains of Britain, then other |people had better mire. ”


I high. If Clitheroe cares to j have a bash at becoming


■ In his opinion, the two re-


t!ie favourites Milthorne House by one point in a closely fought final round.


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