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ONE of th e most gratify ing aspects of our every day lives must be the sharing of experiences.
As In other walks of life no man has a monopoly of knowledge, wisdom or powers of observation. No
m atter how keen wo can never see It all, and the allotted span Is fa r too
short to take in all the happenings within our
tcrest which adds and stimulates our efforts and
own little domain. I t Is this sharing of In-
always be in communica
also enriches our lives. Unfortunately wc cannot
taken up with vital essen tials.
behaviour of this or that bird or animal but the
All very nice to watch the ,
tion with each other and. what with the speed of life, so much of our time is
majority however interested, just oannot spare the tame unless they happen to be an enthusiast.
Personally I got great
satisfaction when I near.,°„ unusual happenings in tne
world of nature. My aPPe- tito
is prodigious and
roaders can rest soured their observations and com
which demands attention m the near future.
ments arc valued and appreciated. Only this week I received a letter from Mr Kilverwood, of Rimington,
must tell of a letter from Mr Tom Lord, of Chatbum
But in the meantime I ber of CUtheroe Naturalists
Road, CUtheroe. Mr Lord, a founder mem
Society, has always found satisfaction in bird-watching in particular. His interest
is shared by his wife Irene, who has added to her In
volvement by taking UP colour photography.
to our district and more In
survey now being under taken about the chancing habits of this valuable bird During the last few years'
he kestrel bnng to a
The letter concerns two common
evidence a t this season than at any other time t Mr Lord’s observations 0n
with the opening 0f motor ways, the bird has developed new tactics in searching for food and, as with so many wild creatures, has quickly adapted to changing circum stances.
By Ribblc and Hoddcr wo And the kestrel well distri
buted and there are many who, at one time or other have been fascinated watch ing the bird hover, as if suspended on an invisible thread, just prior to a
vole. Tile kestrel, aggressive,
from Preston t0 Manches t e r and beyond.
adaptable and alert was quick to notice the attrac
tion of the motorways for small rodents.
hovering near the Clitheroc- Whalley by-pass where they ilnd tlio hunting very pro fitable. So widespread has tills habit become that the RSPB began a scheme for young ornithologists to send in data regarding sitings of tills newly-acquired habit.
You will see the kestrels
hovering kestrels as he travels the M6 between Atherton and Leyland. They are also to bo seen over one of the roadside banks which, ho concludes, is another happy hunting ground for small rodents.
Mr Lord often secs three
death-like dive to grasp the unsuspecting mouse or field
TEXAS, HERE WE COME!
A LOW MOOR couple this week exchanged life in i i l home in the ‘‘black gold” American state of Texas
iii/mm/innmfitnmnrmnnrrrmnnnr/rrmm TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK
his 24-year-old wife Lynda left St Paul’s Street on Tuesday for the land of stetsons and oil derricks, where Dave will be working as a mining engineer.
Dave Woolton (25) and
Odessa, a town about the same size as Blackburn, situated 300 miles from the Mexican border.
/round & about
Their new home is in Post in
class science honours degree and a doctorate in mining at Leeds university, is work ing for FF.iillips Interna
Dave who gained a first
To facilitate llic addition of annual interest lo
290,000 DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS all branches of the Bank "will close
for public business a t 1-0 p.m. o n WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 20th, 1974
and Re-open at 9-30 a.m. on THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 21st, 1974 SECJSTEE SAVINGSBAN8
7 CHURCH STREET. CUTHEROE. Telephone Clifhcroc 23179
m’ m m m m /m m /i/m /m m m nm m m m m m t.
tional Petroleum. For the post month, lie
has been at the firm's Lon don headquarters, but in Texas his "high octane” job will involve going out to the drilling rigs, where liis main concern will be oil
production The couple arc former
pupils of Billinge Grammar School, Blackburn.
as a teacher at Liverpool and spent two and a half years teaching at a Leeds junior school before return ing to the area. She hopes 1o continue her leaching career in the States.
Lynda, a, local girl, trained
Lynda will miss one com panion hr particular — Kiwi, her miniature York
Going abroad always means leaving friends, but
shire terrier. Kiwi originally belonged
to Lynda’s parents, Mr anil Mrs John Cooke. They emi
grated to New Zealand two and a half years ago. but returned after 12 months. Kiwi will now be living with them in St Paul's Street. In a year's time, however,
five months age from Africa, .vhcre he had been parish priest at a town near Salisbury for 13 years. Before his African posting. Fr Bex taught French and
Lynda will be able to sec her little hairy friend again.
One man's work
For next Christmas sire a n d Dave are making the 4,800 mile return trip to spend a month’s vacation in down town Clitheroe.
CURRENTLY on view at Whaliey Library is an ex hibition of still-life and
landscape paintings by L iv e rp o ol artist Roger McGough.
Gough who was a member of the Merseyside pop
Liverpool-born Mr Mc
group The Scaffold during their "Lily the Pink" hey day, now lives at Ilkley.
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show—some done in oils and others in acrylla—about four
Of the 20 paintings on
for
sale.Mr McGough lived and worked for a number of years in Provence and Brit- tanv and now has paintings in English, French, Belgian and American collections. In June he had a one-
or five trill be offered
man exhibition at Oxford, which was a sell-out. But as well as being an
artist and a singer, Mr Mc Gough is also renowned for being one of the leaders of the poetry scene of the 60s. Tile exhibition, which
London FORMER missionary priest Fr Anthony Bex left Chth-
eroc on Sunday to take up an appointment at the Jesuit Mission's head
quarters in London. Fr Bex came to SS Michael and John’s Church
ol’ Clltheroe for a new
started on Saturday, ttms until November 23rd.
Tiie library is open iron)
10-30 a.m. to noon and irom 1 p.m. to 7-30 pm. on Mon days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and from Iff a.m. to noon on Saturdays. I t is closed all day Thurs days.
Courteous
service WHEN Mrs ralhency Jack- son opened a shop in Lover- gate during the First Workl War the entire stock consis ted of only three bottles of sweets. From tills humbl- begin
ning the shop grew to be (no of the best known confic- tionery businesses in Clth- croe. But unlortimatcly for he
shop's many customers tis long tradition has come :o an end with the retiremet of her son, Mr Jerry .lack- son, and his wife, Mary.
In tlie 30 years the coups
history at Preston Catholic C o l leg e .
have run the shop, there ha been little change In the variety of bread and cakes baked on the premises.
"Whenever we tried new
lines the customers always used to ask for the old- fashioned confectionery,” said Ah's Jackson.
members of SS Michael and John's Church, will certainly find lots to do in their re tirement.
The couple, who arc both
do all tile tilings we have wanted to do in the past 30 years, but never seemed to get around to,” said Mr Jackson.
"We will now be able to
to see the Jacksons leave the business is Mr Charles Mus- son, of Pimlico Road, Clith
One customer who is sorry
eroe. He commented: “Their
high-quality produce was seldom equalled and never surpassed and it would be true to say that the only reasons they ever lost a cus tomer were death and emi gration."
ing courtesy of Mrs Jackson is living proof that there is more to serving customers than just handing goods over a counter.”
“The kindness and unfail DAVE AND LINDA Vf COTTON with Kiwi, the Jrlend they must leave behind. Touch of the blues
CLOTIEROE music devotee Stewart May lias been bitten bv the jazz bug.
But, unfortunately for
Stewart, the only role he can play is behind the scenes as manager of a local jazz band.
Stewart, or Park Avenue,
has been riming Sounds 18 Big Ban-' Jazz since it reformed seven months ago, but he can't play a note.
“I have always wanted to
play an instrument but I've just never got around to learning nnq it's a bit too late to start now" he says.
" Music is ill greatest love
and I won'..: really like to hike the sage with the others. But row I do all the work ""4 the musicians get
wouldn't change it for any thing,” say's Stewart with more tha:- just a hint of regret.
All 18 musicians play in
various dance bands at the weekend. But during the week at concert perfor mances throughout Lanca shire, they play the kind of jazz they like.
^ They tackle every style
from cont- -porary to tradi tional New Orleans, ngd attract packed houses wherever they perform. Because of the band's size
the financial rewards arc negligible and all
musicians can expect are travelling cte-enscs.
the the credit. But I
“ The music comes first for all of us and that is all that really matters."
But as Stewart says:
WHEN Abbot John Paslew i died in ignominy at Lan caster in 1537, Whaliey Abbey lost more than the head of the church in the vast parish of which it was the centre. The parish lost Its “managing director.” Contrary to popular belief,
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the abbots of old were not solely occupied in prayer and meditation and in keeping their abbeys as places of peace, learning and tranquillity. As the heads of vast est
BOARDROOM AT THE ABBEY Whalley* Window
ates they carried the respon sibility of seeing that theso were well administered, that cattle were bought and sold, that rents and tithes were collected, and that guests and visitors to the abbey were properly received and entertained. They were nlso required to be politicians and judges, calle” upon to make decisions In matters of high policy and, on occasion, to sit in judgment
on their fellow men. True, they delegated many
of their responsibilities as do the managing d'. ‘ors ot today. They were well versed in modem busk'-rs techniques, but at the final reckoning, it was the abbot who “carried the can," as Abbot Paslew found to his detriment and destruction. Major decisions, -f course
day great business, and here' all matters of policy were decided. It is interesting, though coincidental, that the original parish of Whalley was somewhat lar ger in size than the vast area administered by the Rlbbl o Valley Borough Council today.
know and I didn’t myself until a few days ago—the Chapter House first got its
Just in case you didn't
name from the fact that, before every meeting of the assembly, a chapter from the Bible was read. Later the name cam: to be applied to the assembly as a whole.
original theme, let me give you one or two examples of the duties abbot.- we-e called upon to perform. In 1526, John Paslew sat
But to return to nty
wish I knev what a ''poller” was!) The firs charge was
indignantly denied by the defendant, fho swore "upon the boke” but reluctantly admitted ttit, in a fit of tember lie had used the epithet alitsed. A tangled web indeed l°r his Lord- ship to un i iv e l .
possibly eqi»hy distaste.'’ I duty for tht abbot, who was
In 1533 came another
Earl of Dtrby to provide V0 men frob His Lordship’s tenants "tote put in redynes as tote met- "’ell hnrnyscd after the wanner of the cuntre in whyt jacketts.
bom in Wiiwell- He was kJtructed by the
In the Spiritual Court at York (a Journey that must have entailed several days of arduous travel) to hear a charge against Richard Parkinson of Bleasdale I t was alleged that
were debated by the monks *• in Chapter assembled" with tlie abbot presid'-" in the capacity of chairman. The Chapter House, if you wish, could be likened to the Board room of a present
with mv Badge of the L ..os of DiJU of red clothe, before on tile breste or behind on th°ir backes.' These mus: be “tall men and good archers,” required
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® dripping and the district
thereabouts. Abbot Lindley reported
that these same residents were “few, untractable and wild" and that the place itself was “in a manner inaccessible to man" and that therein were “a multi tude of foxes and destruc tive beasts." Successive abbots were
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called upon to preside at Ecclesiastical^ Courts in our own ancient'parish church, to make pleas and act as counsel in civil courts
welfare of the abbey were in dispute and to appear, when summoned, at the Court of the King himself. In short, as the illustra
when affairs affecting the
Coverup Doirt Freeze up
Locate stop taps. See and know how they work.
tions I have given have demonstrated, the Abbot of
Dripping taps waste water. When frost is about the drips become a frozen mass in the waste pipe. Have new washers.
whalley and his con temporaries had to be prettv exceptional men, well versed in many matters oilier than pure theology. I t would appear that
Close windows near pipes and cisterns. Stop draughts. Cover ventilators except where they provide air for a fuel burning appliance.
R i c h a r d had defamed Thomas Knolles a 'd his lady by declaring that his neighbour and wife were not married and that, furthermore, Richard had called Thomas • “poller" .(I
to stand 'n readiness against a threatened inva sion of the late o, Man by “the Lord of the Ovt Isles, with the »i£l or summe Skotts."
Whaliey, John Ltndley, actually the Bfth of the 17 lo hold Hint high office, was called upon Jo, submit a report on inhabitants o*
An earlier abbot of
they well deserved the palatini lodgings that many of them enjoyed and were fully entitled to the nddi« tional comforts that came their way as well as the
support and help of many s e rv a n t s anxious to do their bidding.
few of them lived to what we would eons iter a ripe old age. Like managing directors of large industrial combines todav. they were first-rate candidates for a coronary thrombosis!
It is not surprising that . North West Water Authority J JT i
Keep house warm — especially where pipes are situated.
A small approved heater in the bathroom and outside lavatory will do much to minimize freeze- up risks.
If pipes should freeze..
Do not draw off hot water until a plumber's advice has bean obtained. If, on thawing, a leak is discovered:
TURNOFF main tap and stop taps from cisterns (if any).
PUT OUT boiler fire, switch off any immersion heater, open all draining and other taps.
And you'll reduce damage to walls, ceilingsand furnishings.
are feeding on grain which falls from wagons going
Til esc, he is convinced,
lng to watch these kestrels going about their business completely unconcerned by the juggernauts and other vehicles hurtling beneath them.”
11c comments: “I t is intcr-
read the conclusions of the RSPB inquiry for, as we know, the kestrel lias de veloped the very same habit in Ribblcsdalc.
I t will bo interesting to
appreciate the kestrel Is not by any moans the only creature able to adapt
As many readers will
take advantage of tbe con stantly changing environ
ment. A similar motive is re
vealed by a robin which bus become very receptive to Mrs Lord's hospitality. Robins, more than mijst
wild birds, soon take advan tage of humans when food
and shelter is offered. So, following tile letter, I went to see the newly-acquired
pet which Mr Lord has termed — “ this bonny little cadger."
the kitchen window to make his presence known. The gesture is answered by Mrs Lord going into the garden with a few choice morsels.
First the robin conics to
long to wait and. after a few words of introduction, the robin was feeding out of her hand. A truly delightful sight revealing trust, anticipation
On my visit wo had not
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and realisation. Unfortunately there are
threats and the danger of any ' bird becoming tame, particularly in a built-up area, is always dangerous. A prowling cat has no senti
ments or conscience. v\ OF ACCRINGTON
THE BRIDAL WEAR SPECIALIST
'(BRIDAL WEAR ONLY)-.
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