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A question of access
THE inevitable struggle between ,those who have and those who have not
is bound to escalate as this overcrowded populace seeks breathing space where the family can sit and relax in God’s own country. Come what may the town and city dwellers, having contri buted in creating the real wealth of th e economy, wonder why they are denied the fruits of their labours — the fruits being free access. Similar arguments were
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tutored townsman damag ing. leaving open gates and allowing dogs unfettered freedom on his agricultural
But the fanners are abso lutely fed-up with the un
land. They have suffered the brunt of "the invasion long enough and cannot under stand why they have to be the punch-bag 0f the rural
a, look as, I have just done, around the country lanes within say 10 or 15 miles of Clitheroe on any weekend. Every available patch of
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from those days and condi tions, but one is reminded
sized car park was estab lished n e a r Marshaw
plaints are made about the question of free access to the countryside. Recently a respectable
it was almost impossible to get a livelihood. Discontent w'as inevitable and those ejected, realising they were of secondary importance, cried: “When in time of trouble your sheep can fight for you.” Now it may be a, far cry
of these events when com
not new. We had the example of the Scottish Highlands. Less than 200 years ago the crofters were cleared from their small holdings in order to free the land for cattle and sheep. Many were driven abroad, others to land from which
put forward after the last two great wars when men, having fought for this Eng land, soon found they were denied even sight of the land they saved. The problem therefore is
but like most sections 0f th» working community their attitude varies considerable Some are selfish and oarad.'
The keepers arc adamant
their territory like National Guardsmen. Set foot in their reserves
and no matter whether it be agricultural or moorland thev assume an authoritv remini'. scent of a dictator.
ground capable of holding a car is taken up with the occupants content to sit in their portable chairs enjoy ing the somewhat restricted bit of English countryside. Most are content within their little patch. They do
them from straying. Of course, i t is inevitable that these people roam across the vast acres of what they con sider wild, useless country. Vast acres of rough bent, heather and bog stretch away to the horizon. In spite of what appears
who see this intrusion as a menace, a threat to their living and a danger to those who find their recreation In
ONE cunning fox th a t didn’t make It. milk from the very farmer
on whose land he trespasses. The farmer may be glad of his business, but he has to explain the folly and con sequences of the unthink ing behaviour. Thus, as in the case of
to be endless tracts of land very limited access is pos sible. But there are people
these wildernesses. The average townsman
through the Trough. The place is very popular and a warden keeps an eye on visi tors in order to prevent
finds all this very difficult to comprehend, and being untutored, releases his dog which harasses the sheep, etc. He also often fails to close gates, and roams in the belief that he can do no harm. He is, you see, oblivious to
and it cannot be answered rationally. There must be well over four million acres of moorland or what js termed “ rough grazings ”
Marshaw and areas nearer home, many of the vast expanses are regarded as ideal places to escape and relax. Why, these people argue, should all this land remain desolate, relatively unproductive and used only perhaps for a few days each year for shooting. I t is a pertinent question
devoted to these activities. In the case of deer forests
the economy of the country side. He may well get his
there are over three million acres from most of which the general public is rigor
not ask for much and I am sure more such facilities should be provided.
ously excluded. The argument against
free access is that it would damage sporting activities. The report of Mr Dower on National Parks sums it all up by saying: “Where the issue is seen as a broad question of principle — whether the recreational needs of the many Should or should not outweigh the sporting pleasures of the few — there can be no doubt of the answer: Walkers should and will be given freedom of access over grouse moors.” Of course the keepers and
shooting interests disagree, and rightly so. for just as any man wall defend his livelihood and pleasures they will continue to object in spite of the protests. Tlie matter, however, as
we find in all areas adjacent to large towns must be faced soon or later.
tant and energetic get fur ther afield across the hun
However, the more mili
dreds of acres of fell. I recently spoke to one of
these motorists and he had difficulty In interpreting the Government’s plan for more access when so much land is barred and access forbid den. Consider carefully his argument and if you have
any degree of tolerance and will in consequence hasten thc end of what can really be described as feudalism/
ace to themselves and the general public. Thev lact
tolerant with wild life and look upon anv bird or beast showing a threat to their game as enemies to be destroyed.
As a rule they are also less
tolerant and have a better understanding of the coun tryside. Thev» can see thc other fellow's problems and t do not seek to eliminate all
Others I know arc very
tical and minted to that stretch of rough land begin ning near Puermnore to the Hodder valley, and from a point near Chipping to far away Craven m the east. Mile after mile of rough ground reserved for the
a reply let me have it by all means. He was more than scep
humans, whom thev sup posedly consider a threat to their livelihood. Fortunately we are progressing and i know keeners who now loot upon hawks, owls, badgers, etc., as fulfilling a beneficiai
he animals, birds 0r They are, indeed, a men
decessors failed t0 compre hend. It is an encouraging sign,
purpose in thc scheme 0f things which their pre-
but even s0 it will be in the far distant future when that rascal the fox is con sidered a friend. How thev
pleasure of the few. I could offer no logical answer.
manage to survive I do not know, but after all what
What then must we do? Shall we just sit as did King Canute?
EXCHANGING ONE LOVELY VIEW FOR ANOTHER
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A THING of beauty is a joy for ever, declared
John Keats, the master poet. 150 years ago. And the sentiment still rings true today, certainly for Mrs J e a n Hepburn. Foi- if there is one thing
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above all Mrs Hepburn re grets being able to take to her new home in Scotland, it is the view from her bed room window in Ribblesdale Avenue, Clitheroe. The panorama strays across
volved too quickly. “ I will be very busy at first getting the house organised.”
Waddington Fell and reaches out to Bleasdale Fell. “ I t must be one of the most beautiful views in the coun try,” sighed Mrs Hepburn. But the sight will not be
St Andrews, nestling on the cost of Fife about 50 miles north-east of Edinburgh, lacks beautiful scenery. She can see across the hills of Angus from the rear of the house.
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same size as Clitheroe. “ I was brought up in cities,” said Mrs Hepburn, “ but I have enjoyed living in a country-town atmosphere and I certainly would not want to return to a city.” St Andrews is famous for
done a lot of voluntary social work in Clitheroe, with the WRVS. For four years, she was District Commissioner for the Guides, and chair man of the Trefoil Guild .(former Guides) for another four years. But she is best known as
eroe on Monday, three weeks after retiring as medical social worker at Accrington Victoria Hospital. In the past, she has also
its golf course, but that is not the attraction in this case. Rather it is tile lure of the University where Mrs Hepburn gained her MA de gree. Many of her contem poraries there have retired to St Andrews, and now she is doing the same. She said farewell to Clith
lost completely, because she has a painting and some photograps to retain a con stant reminder of it. Not that her new home in
daughter Pattie gets mar ried. Pattie is an old girl of Clitheroe Grammar School and at present studying oc cupational therapy in Edin burgh. She and her fiance plan to live in Ayrshire, on the opposite coast. Son Douglas will not be too far away either. He lives in Dur ham.
Next year, moreover,
move to Scotland completes a circle which began in Glas gow 57 years ago. In that time she has been
For Mrs Hepburn, the
to the other side of the world and back. "My hus band was with the British Pacific Fleet and stationed on a coral island in the Pacific, building air strips for the Fleet Air Arm. I got a job in Australia as a hospi tal almoner and went out to join him when he was on leave. Then I moved to the Admiralty base at Singa pore with the naval per sonnel."
and a year In Singapore it was back to the South of England. Then, in 1947, Mr Hepburn became resident engineer with Manchester Corporation- water works, concerned with bringing water from the Lake Dis trict. Four years later the family moved to Accrington, and eventually settled in Clitheroe in 1959.
After a year in Australia
full circle, and Mrs Hepburn is back in her native land. But it is “ farewell ” to Clitheroe; not “ goodbye." •“ I will be keeping in touch, because I have so many friends in the town. I will be looking forward to hear ing news. There’s always
and then his wife returned to professional work with the hospital at Accrington. Now the wheel has turned
something going on in Clith eroe.”
Busy
secretary of the Leonard Cheshire Homes local sup port group. “I was on the steering committee which made all the arrangements for the purchase of the Home and the admission of the first residents,” she said. “ I found that particularly interesting because I have always been interested in the problems of the handi capped.”
Near her children
- Local women’s organise tions such as the Soropti- mists. Inner Wheel and w l’s will remember Mrs Hepburn chiefly for her public speak ing. St Andrews, there will be
plenty of similar work to at tract her, although she does not want to become too in-
days RETIRING after a 43-year career with Tnttex Ltd, Miss Kathleen Wilkinson, of St Paul’s Street, Low Moor, is finding that if anything she now has less spare time than before before! Bom in Low Moor, Miss
Mr Hepburn died in 1968,
Expert advice
game, she explained, and she was a committee mem ber of the tennis section of Clithcroe Cricket, Tennis and Bowling Club. " Golf seems to be a natural pro gression from tennis.” she said. " I have always been keen on taking part in a competitivev sport and, al though I am not brilliant, I enjoy playing.” As far as bridge is con
Tennis was originally her Mrs Jean Hepburn.
from staff and colleagues. “ And there was an invi
tation to go back and visit the firm whenever I wanted to," said Miss Wilkinson. “ Ait invitation I shall cer tainly be taking up."
cerned, Miss Wilkinson has a ready source of advice at hand—her brother, Mr W. Leslie Wilkinson, of Haw thorne Place, Olltheroe. He is a two-star bridge master of the English Bridge Union and has represented Lanca shire on a number of occa sions.
connection with Trutex, retiring 18 months ago after 49 years’ service. Mr Wil kinson started as a ware house clerk, later joining the sales staff.
He also had a lifelong
meant a certain amount of travelling. She has been responsible for cloth buying, working on the girls’ wear side of tile firm. She has been based at head office in
Miss Wilkinson’s job has Link
man NORWEB has appointed a customer service manager for tlie Burnley district, which includes Clitheroe. He is Mr David Halliwcll. At present technical ser
vice engineer in the Bury district, Mr Halliwell
provide a more direct link between customers and the after-sales service and accounts sections.
married, with two children, and lives in Rochdale. In his new job he will
a member of the women’s section of the National Fire Service. And she has a claim to fame in that she was the town's first woman special constable. She was sworn in at the borough magistrates’ court in 1951.
Grindleton throughout her career. During the war she was
joinod up. then o t h e r women would follow', but no one did, and I was all on my own,” she recalled.
“They told me that if I Retirement
Wilkinson went straight from Clitheroe Royal Gram mar School to Trutcx in 1929. “But then it was only a family firm called Clith eroe Shirtings,” she ex plained. “I t has expanded enormously in the past years.” She was employed as a buyer—now known as product manager, but en tailing virtually the same type of work. And the reason for her
present lack of spare time? “ Since retiring I have taken up the game, of bridge, and I am. also devoting plenty of time to golf, playing at Clitheroe Golf Club, where
dinner She has another brother,
daughter of the late Aid. William Wilkinson, a former mayor of Clitheroe, and her stepmother, Mrs Mary Alice Wilkinson, who Is 91, still lives with. her.
Eric, who is clerk to the Ashby - de - la - Zouch Rural Council. A sister, Mrs Hilda Sutcliffe, lives In Cllthcroe. Miss Wilkinson is the
honoured her with a dinner at the Moorcock Trip recently. The directors handed over a lizard Skin handbag,
Her former employers
cheque from the firm, and a silver tea, and coffee set
t h e r e was a Chief
present clerk to Tonbridge IIDC and had been firmly tipped for the same job with t Tonbridge and Mailing Dis
executive THE post of Chief Execu tive of the new Tunbridge Wells district Council has gone to Mr Edward Battcrsby, a Clitheroe man. The salary is £7,119 a year. Mr Battcrsby, 52, is" the
seven years ago from Accrington where he was Deputy Town Clerk. Mr Battersby is a former
rict Council. He moved to Tunbridge
omcc boy to Baldwin, Weeks and Baldwin, solicitors, sub sequently becoming a char tered secretary and joining Clitheroe Rural Council’s staff. From there he moved to Accrington, achieving notable success in his final law examination. Mr Battersby is married
and has two children. His wife was formerly Miss Barbara Brown, of Wadding ton. His mother, Mrs A. Battersby, lives in Woone Lane, Clitheroe.
head boy of Ribblesdale Secondary School which he attended during the head- mastership of A r t h u r Langshaw. From school he went as
t's Surprise
visitors TWO visitors from have recently been t’A' at the home of Mrs Hargreaves, Saltliill B
*-
Clitheroe—but until ttqt rived on her doorstep,--
arose. Mrs HargreiUjj;. plained, because her i-r Jean and Elsie
had never seen tliem i® in her life. This unusual situs-;
six years said
don suggested day or two with explained.
holiday to Europe. »
Winnipeg. Manuo& t Hargreaves hey
tn v were s®*2 ' ",
to know her son. M ’ s who effl‘s“‘ ago. ’* Tire f;
.
22, had time only ^ t short Stay in Ms'%
he country. hoaeier.
travelled up fron' , ‘Uxi. early last week, and!^,. on to Manchester on* ■
too hectic and dim
and the countryside ^ is simply beautiful-
Clitheroc Castle, and 4, The girls, of course
were able to, , up Granada television
filming thc „ pis# gramme. An°lll,et > was an outing to
grams. “I thoufl £ whatever they d d should see Blackpoot ^
organised by -JI?[ p
not live up to t n e L # pectations was {«*
The only tMW
temperature ft ll35 & was <ltpr “When we >®
We brought .alI„SLrHd less shirts and sum® pi -b u t there was <
*'k «
days of sunjf1in E#5, time we were m ,
said Jean. ttj
a much lar8eJ * tour * seven-week packas® Holland, Austria.
For Jean «nd. l Jrti' England visit is J1
Southern EuwPe’ rjl TWs was th f
to Europe, W* -rtf l« p ,
••We did not London,’’ said Jew- j
much too exPf^eis Clitheroe is
,.<! Jean, who is 29. u ,
beast can compare to its cunning?
NATURALIST
PARENTS of St Joseph’s l | Hurst Green, plimented by Mr J. Shillito] co-operation during the pa.|
Speaking at
annual prize ds toe commented I this close ass-f tween parents
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I am a member of the ladies’ section committee. “ I can now understand
those people who say they have no time when they retire.
tho summer before I con sider that.”
proached by several people asking if I would do various kinds of voluntary work, but I want to recuperate during
I have been ap
•* i t T i* .V 1
Reconnl electril
officials visited [ mail’s home the-1 the supply ha | connected with ( wire. This was Stahl
HEN Electri'l W supif
eroe Magistral when David Ail (27), of Bolland l | mitted using worth £37.40 ■ tliority. He was I Insp. T. J, Sil securing, said t i l l
needed it on a-1 only form of 11 I had my clrildrl about. I couldnf suffer.”
disconnected P n | •because of unpal later two othl found it had beef ted. Prince told
had paid the owed.
He told the cc|
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