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Ji- in such sur- ■in nt the bird


I? tlie woodland |v.-:tli anemones | i celandines ■iches filled the 1 rollicking song lave forth their I as they sped


led nest of the I hi a mass of | : hr foot of a


ad we found a


,lol. delicate | n the ball-like


marvelled at


land the art of Jo tlio touch it


"i hi building


|htc capable of all the stress wind and rain


thistledown,


In- weeks ahead It liny dwelling, ^ be reared,


|e moss, spider's surface is


lr., dapied with linn!,'.- of grey [ugly (hey have ally instruc-


fund of all—the illow warbler returned to far awav


f'ovl, and golden ’ad as a gold ft. is the most


•nnisl, places, V ' l lmy ,s|>end the


cd to what has as a " tender,


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Its morsel of a Ilian an muice |itiled hundreds by Hoddor,


irble with a wondered why


|impass or coin- assistance.


II was reminded NATURALIST V' i l i *


l\NCE OF ALL J rders


lubject to the Standard jiDuper Society and the lig save that:


lients m the Clitheroa


lability for any loss or or inaccuracy in the


y m forwarding replies ,sed. Particulars of the upplied on request.


any loss or damage


TOUT of the advertise- iposed by the Proprietors dvertiser, the copyright


t shall belong to the settlement of accounts


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laving insertion, the last Ifollowing the month of


hall he the last day o! >nth of insertion ot au slier shall not have des- ce and voucher or other the same available for mst om) to the agency direct account) by the;


henry tor the Advertiser i the Publisher has not her on or before the due owing shall immediately


sed by a surcharge equal larged by the Publisher ncy commission.


zenev (or the Advertiser the 'Publisher (including c payable in accordance i:is not been despatched expiration of one month nent the sum so owing out notice be increased ■qual to 275 of the gross • before deduction of any


. any individual item in he due date of payment


nt.


i despatched shall mean cli other means as shall uve been received by me. irec working days from t


i Agreement between the n the Newspaper Society l ■s Association and recog-


nance of advertisement; of all advertisement*


oomed to be incorporated


jdvertising agency, l luieralilv of these tcu'P


Irn by the Directors or, • of a recognised ageucV


c c specifically extend to


It ion in respect ot an. | 1 agency in the event oi Isolvency. Such guarantee;


acceptance,


for the insertion of io an acceptance o me-


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;, CUTJIEROE . CLITHEROE 2323


BURNLEY 2233L


SOME of the civic leaders at the dinner. Seated, are Mrs Fell, Mrs Wiggans. Mrs Porter and Mrs Turner. Behind are Coun. Porter, Conn. R. Wiggans (Blackburn RDC), Coun, Fell, and on the extreme right Coun. Turner and Miss Alston.


I? care was not taken :here was a danger that visitors to the Bowland ■tea would destroy that which they had come to see and admire. Coun. J. Farter, chairman of the Bowland Council, com- iifnted at. the annual tinner for the council r.embcrs and officials.


A s countrymen they


(predated liir beauty of district and while they


:;.d to get their living out f the land they understood 5* attraction the area had its many visitors, he


:-v.d. The car had provided


.’■ ’-pic with greater mobility


fid industry had provided tvm with even more money fid leisure,


REASONS fart of their leisure


iae will be spent going trough our valleys, visiting village-, admiring vistas


fid. if we are not careful, Kiroying that, which they come to see and


fifitre,"' be said.


ji am not, asking to be ■' in peace, nerause that rot gem; to happen any- But we need to think Ins consequences of "fi"v traffic: using !.he roads


which, however well main­ tained, were never intended for the hundreds, perhaps thousands we see at the weekend.


refreshment. I have nothing against icc cream and hot dogs, but. one does see the vans in some peculiar places.


AH these people need


people into realising that, however nice it is to be able to show on a screen a slide of a. sheep eating out, of your hand, it, is not really a good thing for a sheep to iie taught, to eat ham sand­ wiches'for three very good


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CALLED to the ypi]r nf an accident, at the junction t Ihathutn. need, Clitheroe, and the Pimlico link cRi, police gave a. woman moiorisl a breath lest— %h proved


positive.


•Ippearng before Clitheroc 'jfiC'tohrA n


r.inpmonr of


e-senned level of alcohol in ‘■


With more, than the


“■neroc, ""a:- disqualified -jit driving [or 12 months,


A blood. El Me Hayburst of llillt home Avenue,


ti! 'v,s a'‘ ° flood £25 with •H a5'’.,,T- J, Sumner said


S d j ra , Hi’-Ahursl.'s car "" id with traffic bollards


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w0r^meiu -'dd ordered to 5'..~p0 doctor s fee. She Jtod guilty.


at. the road junction. No ot-her vehicle was involved. A blood test showed that, the defendant, had 196 milli­ grams of alcohol in 100 milli­ litres of blood—116 milli­ grams over the limit. Describing his client as


stronger than she realised. p r o v e d


" a woman of impeccable character,” Mr W. D. Green­ wood, defending, explained that she had been to a party and had drunk some punch, which


sheep and the driver If sheep come to regard the car as a source of food. "It does not do the


reasons? " It is dangerous for the


sheep's stomach very much good.


afford to keep up that sort of diet when it is too wet, windy a.nd cold for others to turn up.


" We. farmers cannot SOLUTION


our area is its bleakness, its loneliness, its uninhabited look. Dot two or three thousand cars around the hills and where's the charm then?


“ Part, of the charm of


people coming here, 1 would just, like sonic of us to get together and find ways in which to handle the prob­ lems 1 have referred to. Cotm. Porter made Ins


1 do not want, to slop


comments while replying to a toast to the council pro­ posed by the Mayor of Clitheroe, Cnun. R.. Turner. The mayor referred to I,lie


I he wishes of the people they represented.


“ I believe, however, that the people of this countrv


have been well served by the present local government system and we can only hope that the new structure will achieve even higher standards than we have been able to do,” he declared.


was proposed by Cotin. W. R. King-Wilkinson who referred to the presence of the Press. He hoped that the local papers would continue 10 give coverage of local authority affairs. When the new’ authority came into hetng councillors were going to have to serve bigger areas and represent an increased number of const,i- I uen Is. It was essential that, the Press should keep them fully in touch with what was going on at district council level.


The toast to the visitors


long and close, associations between the Rowland and Clitheroe councils. From next, April Ihe. two areas will be served by one coun­ cil. “ I sincerely hope,” said the Mayor, “ that our successors will serve the people they represent as well, if not better than we have tried to do ourselves.” We lived in an imperfect


society and no one would deny that over the years local authorities had made mistakes from time to time or failed to carry out all


was given by Conn. J. H. Fell, chairman of the Clith- rroe RDC. who said that, the new Lancashire would be all the better for having a corner of Yorkshire coming into it.


The response to the toast


dinner were the chairman of Longridge UDC, Coun.


Among the guests at the


David Coulston and Mrs Coulston, and Coun. Miss Alice Alston, chairman of Burnley RDC.


at the Moorcock, Wad- dington, w’as Mr E. B. Lockett.


Toastmaster at the dinner may


Problems of heavy


lorries in villages


PROBLEMS caused by heavy lorries in Whalley and Chipping are to be drawn to the attention of county divisional highways super­ visor Mr K. W. Helm, Clitheroc rural council’s highways committee deci­ ded at its meeting.


Receiving a Department


of the Environment circular on the difficulties caused by the increase in numbers of heavy goods vehicles, the committee beard of Wha.l- ley's troubles from Coun. J. S. R. Sliaw.


He explained that many


large lorries were being parked for considerable lengths of time on the car park beside the Wh alley Anns. "One Continental lorry, with a driver who spoke no English, recently became jammed at, the cor­ ner of Queen Street and Princess, Street,” Mr Shaw added.


that, in Chipping, one con­ tractor had helped solve the problem by providing his owrn private parking areas for his vehicles. “However, the village roads just were not built, for such big lorries,” he added.


Coun. Mrs 1. E. Bee said J / ,//'<' *0 ■ r I - '' AYLWIN—CHADWICK


Miss Penelope Jane Chad­ wick. only daughter of Mr W. V. R. Chadwick and Mrs P. M. H. Grey, of Vicarage House, Wisweil, was married at Whalley Parish Church.


Fo rme r rcstaurant.cur


of Wilberforce Way, Wimble­ don. He is a merchant banker.


Andrew Charles A.vhvin, youngest son of Captain a.nd Mrs Kenneth Aylwin.


the bride wore a cream, wild Indian silk gown, with Lurex embroidery trimming. Her veil, a family heirloom, was held in place by a tiara, and she carried a bouquet of orchids.


Given away by her father, Bridemaids were Miss The bridegroom was Mr


Palau, and ushers Messrs John Shelford, James Shaw, David Aylw.vn, Ross Graham and Robin McDonagh. Orgn.inst was Mr J. A. Tattersall. and the ceremonv


was performed by the Rev. R. A. Harpur.


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Photographs: Stephens and ! Latham, Blackburn


Indies. They will live Garden Cottage, Ascot.


Bowland Council’s new chairman


CLTTHEROE RDC’s annual chairman's Sunday service is to be held at Whalley Methodist Church on June 3rd. The chairman, Coun. J. H. Fell, will r e c e i v e council members, officers and staff and residents and representatives of


bodies in the Metho'dist schoolroom at 10-30 a.m- and the service will begin at 10-45.


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wild Indian saree silic dresses, and carried bouquets of orchids and stephanotis. Best man was Mr "Michael


Pamela Green, Miss Sarah Haighton (cousin) and Miss Rebecca Hindley inieceb They wore peacock blue,


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CLITHEROE Rural Coun­ cil's assertion that suitable cables for the installation


the council should apply for a telephone box at this site, Coun. J. S. R. Shaw com­ mented that the committee should regard the move only as a step in the right direc­ tion. “We must press for further telephones on the by-pass in the near future,” lie said.


letter to the council's high­ ways committee, has sugges­ ted that the committee ap­ proach the county council, asking for a telephone to be installed near Laneside Farm, Chatburn. where the by-pass joins the former A59. Successfully moving that


of public telephones al­ ready traverse the Whalley- Clitheroe by-pass has again been questioned by the De­ partment of the Environ­ ment. But the Department, in a


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’ 0 fpending pcnods


> up io six months in L


psiral Avenue have been ^.-rnised.


t e n a n t s


r^d »« *a|1 10 ”el * « * ihcir ncw-look


.^ovc'bsc.k m, a number "• have been, to tav ’• TeaV verv disappointed,


-hen :iio time came


is 'ni houses, built just -he First, World War,


-gcluded by the coun- 'a £71.000 modernisa-


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f’j-v complaints about rtddv workman ship.


;V few weeks did so to


Jiiig yet such a Imastcrpiecc of


-.-i—ng home during the ^V


nemr. But tenants


T.virary accommodation Vis ,heir council houses "Kt mpie View and


After looking into the


complaints Borough Engi­ neer Mr John Bowness has given an assurance to the tenants that all defects will lie put right. Mr Bowness told our reporter there was a six-month maintenance period applicable to every house from the date of prac­ tical completion.


clerk of works. Mr Archie Butler, will be visiting each house to compile a list of all the defects. The list will be given to the contractors, whose job it will be to put right all the faults.


During that time, the


main problem was a drastic shortage of labour. What was really needed to make sure the job was done right in the first place was


Mr Bowness said that the


another clerk of works to help Mr Butler in his seemingly impossible task of being everywhere at once.


point of view, this was quite out of the question. Never­ theless it was up to the con. tractor to make sure that he had a foreman on the site at all times, keeping check on things, although this was not always possible.


But, from the financial


houses began three years ago after a pilot scheme in­


enough to cause anyone any great hardship. The improvements to the


that although the houses were not perfect when the tenants were allowed to move back in, they were quite habitable and none of the faults were serious


Mr Bowness emphasised


to temporary accommoda­ tion while the repairs were carried out.


volving one house. A few properties have been tackled at a time, the tenants moving


Mr Frank Smith, of 8 Kemple View, is one of the


disappointed tenants. He told our reporter: “I think that as the workmen have moved from house to house, the standard of the im­ provements have deteriora­ ted. Work that is being done now seems, to me, greatly in­ ferior to when the scheme was first started.”


volves complete indoor and outside redecoration, moder­ nisation and enlarging of kitchens and bathrooms, fitting upstairs w.c.'s, com­ plete rewiring, new window


The house-upgrading in.


frames and partial central heating and other improve­ ments.'


"The workmen knew the system was not working properly a week before we moved back into the house. Now we have been in for over a week and we still have a radiator that is not working. It’s coming to something when we move in­ to a centrally heated house and yet still have to use electric fires to keep warm.”


tral heating at 12 Kemple View. Mr W. Lakin said:


turned during the last three months have found it diffi­ cult to believe that up to £2,000 had been spent im­ proving their homes. There have been other complaints,


Tenants who have re. But in the case of the cen­


ranging from shoddy join- ering and painting in most of the houses, to bad bath tiling in 26 Central Avenue, and windows which would not close and a warped front door at 8 Kemple View. Windows were coming


away from the walls in 23 Kemple View and there were also loose floor tiles in number 12. Mrs Daisy Dixon, of 26


sides of the houses been re­ painted. Recently a start was made on repainting some of the houses, but it will be several months be­ fore a start will be made on those occupied during March and April. Also, some tenants have


Central Avenue. echoed what other tenants thought about the workmanship when she said. “If I had been paying for the im­ provements myself, I would not have expected all the faults there have been. So why should we have them when the council pays for the modernisation.’’ In no cases have the out­


been shocked by the vents of their "new” homes, which have been fixed in accor­ dance with the Govern­ ment's “fair rents” policy. However, Mr Ronald


Pickup, Borough Treasurer, points out that when the first house was modernised as a pilot scheme, the im­ provements cost £1.000. re­ sulting in a weekly rent in­ crease of £1.46. Now, three years later, the cost of the improvements has doubled but the rent has only gone up by £2.02.


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sents Ncwsholmc and Pay- thornc, and has served on Rowland council for 10 years. He lives at Lower Mouse Farm. Paytliornc, whe r e he has been a farmer for 32 years. Vice - chairman, a l s o


COUN. TnOMAS KAYLEY was elected chairman of Bowland Rural Council at Monday’s annual meet­ ing. He succeeds Coun. J ame s Por t e r , who thanked his colleagues for their support during his term of office. Coun. Kayley repre­


elected on Monday, is Coun. Ri c h a r d King- Wilkinson, of Rock House, Slaidburn. He joined the council in 1971, filling a vacancy arising after the death of his mother, Mrs M. E. B. King-Wilkinson. Our p i c t u r e shows


Coun. Kayley being in­ stalled by the clerk to the Council, Mr L. I>. Telford.


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