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Headmaster is Rotary Club's new president


AS headmaster of one of the country's oldest school* Mr Gerald Hood could be said to have reached th i top of his profession. In July he reaches a peak of a different, sort by becoming president or the Rotary Club of CHtheroc.


■ The presidency is an honour which, in time, befalls virtually every mem­ ber. The turn of Mr Hood, head of Clitheroc Boys’ Grammar School, has ar­ rived after a little more than 11 years in the organi­ sation. ilc will be the 42nd In bold the Office since the C'.ithcroc club's inception. For a ’decade from 1963


he acted as speakers secre­ tary. His new post will be. eonsiderahlv more demand­ ing on bis time, already heavily occupied. He must chair weekly meetings, pub­


round & about


professional escape from the insular orbit, of education. " I t is an opportunity for exchanging views with lieoplc outside the academic world. I think it’s very- valuable for anyone in my position to have contact with petiole in business, manufacturing and com­ merce.'' As president, he will have


lic functions and club coun­ cil meetings: he must repre­ sent Clitheroc at district and national level, and h" must work in liaison with other local clubs. Philosophically, he bears


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!n= own ideas. " I would rather sec particular obtec- tives emerging from discus­ sion with tlic members themselves and from the chib committees," he said. “ I t is more important


:n mind the Roterv^ motto: “ Service above self” Mr Hood moaas to stifle


Mr Gerald Hood.


honours degree in Classics and English and a Dop.Ed.l. Clithoroc Cnic Society counts him among its


(where he pained an


even less time than at present to spend with his family—wife -Mollic, a mem­ ber of Clithcroe Social Ser­ vices team: 21-year-old sen Brian, a reporter, and 18- vcar-ol’d daughter Susan, a pupil n-irsc. Mr Hoo.1. who lives in


that I should try to intor- orct, the intentions of the club as a whole and give a lead in them than to im­ press mv own particular interests.” Rotarv is. to Mr Hood,


more than a charity brigade. I t provides tor him a rare


young man lie entoved hockey and cro.ss-count.rv running. Todn-v, at 52. his snorting activity is mainly confined to swimming and fell-walking. Rcfore leaving his native


Chatham Road. Clitberoe. hi? many interests. As a


wood Foresters and In Asia, India and Malaya inter­ rupted his university educa­ tion. after which he started his teaching career with a year as assistant Engli-h made:- at King Edward VH School. Sheffield. A live- year spell as head of classics and housemaster at Ash’


founder members and pa.-t chairmen. Academically his' tastes include classics, lin­ guistics. early EngMi 'itcra- ture and Shakespeare. War service with the Sher­


de-la-Zouch Boys' Grammar School followed; then, in 1556. lie became headmaster


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Ashbv-de-la-Zonch he was a member of the local ama­ teur dramatic society; in Clitheroc he jointly nro- nroduced three .'Tiooi olavs and was in the Parish Church Passion play group for three years. His baritone voice has in


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ft IF you walk from the Whalley—Clitheroe Road up the drive to Bramley Meade Metemity Hospitr! as you approach the house (a rather lovely house in many respccti! you will notice a pyramidal cairn of rough stone on the left side.


■ Ivy-covered but not parti­ cularly attractive, the cairn (for that is what, at first


. glance. It appears to be) is some eight or nine feet high. You might even con­ sider it a rather ugly edifice and wonder that any country gentleman should erect such a structure in what w.ere once very attrac­ tive grounds but, let me tell you now, the cairn Is not all it seems to be. It has a secret.


push aside the trailing fronds of Ivy and what do you see? The calm Is hollow: it Is not . id never has been Just an overgrown heap of stones. Look again and, as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, you will see steps leading down f.


Go round to the rear and


and, at the foot cf the stops, quite a deep well.


the entrance


. ago. provided the monks of 'Vhallev with their essential supplies. This 1* the well whose waters flowed i to t' s Lavatorlum still to be '


because It was tile sweet flowing waters from this spring that 5-600 years


A very special veil, tills,


of the abbey’s glory, that a 120 men: the Abbot, Prior, monks and la y - brothers, paused to slake their- thirst and, many at


trough.” I t was here In the cays


'hbsy rlo'-ip-r tf’a; -he1 ree-.-s 1 e s I g n a t


In the


el"”"itl-- “ w-ashtng


Whalley Window


least, performed their daily ablutions.


lar steps. These were the reservoirs


cribed in the Rev. R. N. Whitaker's “ Handbook of Whalley." The son of our famous Dr Whitaker, the author was the incumbent of our parish fror- 1840 to 1841, and regarded with warm affection by his fiock who dubbed him “ th'owd vicara.” He wrote as under: •'There are two beautiful wells in Wiswell and Whal- ley — one in the field above Mr Cottam's cottage . with circular hewn ash­


The .veil is briefly des­


leaden pipe (cf which there used to be specimens in the cottage) conducted the water, and anyone will search In the bottom of the field called ''Sheephey" he will find remains of the pipes -still e-i-*'


from which the monks drew their supplies, and 'attest the value that they put upon a good water supply. From these heads a 2jih.


this well adds; ” Now well preserved under the care of Richard Thompson ’sq.; in his groun-' at Bramlev Mead "


A footnote referring to


where the " Arid allied Sheephey" was, It was Just past the top of the present Limefleld Aven-'».


And if you don't know


on Whalley's first piped water supply, 2 indicated


Writing some months ago


that this was in the 1840's from the well, now almost sterile,


Wood. I was wrong, of course. (That's the trouble with us amateurs). The monks of Whalley Abbey had antiepated the Vic­ torian villagers of Whalley by several hundred years!


in Archbishop's


have’ occasion to walk up to Bramley Mead to view that latest grands. or grand­ daughter of yours (or if you are a young father visiting your lovely young wife and first-bom) pause a moment and take a look at the old well I have described.


So if bv chance you


tion. I t is a true relic of Old Whallcy. Oh. and one other thing about that “ field called Sheephey.” If, having ignored the notice on the gate which reads “beware of t l r bull" and entirely at your own risk for there is no right of way, and turned west towards the railway line, in a couple of htmdred yards or so you will meet a steep bank with a row of straggly hawthorns across the tcp. .


I t is worthy of inspec­ You can't miss it—it Is


immediately before you encounter those two weed strewn and nauseating ponds known as the Clay- pits.


of one of Whalley's Vic­ torian tips. The rabbits,


Tills bank was the site


busy -excavating and re­ searching there (or perhaps thev’re merely making new oirrows), dug up for me the other day the most charming piece of early Victorian nottery. Ditty, of course, and badly damaged, but I was glad to have It.


I t wa6 yet another piece of Old Whalley.


I S .


Celebrating golden day in sunshine


settled happily in Pretoria at the home cf then- daughter, Mrs Jean Locklcy, and her husband John, their thoughts on the anni­ versary of their wedding day (June 4th. 1924) will doubtless include remini­


scences of Clitlieroe and the surrounding area.


Mr and Mrs Wilson left England to join their family in South Africa just over three years ago. Since then,


Friends will recall that


in Mrs Locklcy's lounge, shows.


Relaxing


by the sea NOW that the weight of the Mayoral chain is off his shoulders, Coun. Richard Turner, Clitheroe's retiring Mayor, feels free to relax at last.


day since his two-year term of office began . . . and ven­ turing behind the Iron Cur­ tain for the first time. Ac­ companied by his wife Edith and Mr and Mrs Wallace Harp-caves, he flics to Bul­ garia on Saturday for a fortnight beside the Black


souvenir presented to him by Russian visitors to Clith­ eroe a year ago—a special badge, which he plans to


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the Headmasters' Associa­ tion Division XII 'an area including ;hc former coun­ ties of Lancashire and Cheshire) for six years and on the national council for four. He represented the HMA on the Lancashire Countv Teachers' Consulta­ tive Committee for two


at Clitheroc. Mr Hood wns secretary ot


years, and for the past, year lie lias been secretary for the new Lancashire Associa­ tion of Secondary School Heads. He was 'chairman of the Lancashire Grammar Schools' Football Association for thre., yea and until Division 5 Education Execu­ tive became extinct in April lie served as a co-opted member for seven years.


Rotary Club's president-elect with the stamp of experi­ ence — one of the prime qualities of a leader.


oointments


Such a catalogue of ap- f r a n k s the


Honour


for MP f'LlTIJEROE Mr Mr David Wnldcr has been elected to tlic executive of the Tory Back Bench 1822 Committee after a fivc-comcrcd contest. He succeeds Mr Norman St .Tohn-Stcvas. who has been appointed Opposition spokes­ man for the Arts.


. Meet after 36 years


VISITING his sister in Clltheroe for the first time in 36 years is 68-year-old Mr Alfred Haiglt, of Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, and his wife, Ruth, also 68.


old sister. Mrs Gertrude Wright, lives in Chatbuni Avenue, emigrated from Formby, 50 years ago. He met his wife in Australia'


Mr Haigh. whose 80-year-


and the couple last came to England in 1938, when they stayed for a year. In their tliree-and-a-lialf


ClitJieroe only for a short time hut. have already been invited to two coffee morn­ ings and have had a guided


already visited Mr Haigh's sister who lives near Bourne­ mouth, and last week had a reunion with his other sister in Maghull, and his niece, Mrs Kate llill, and her family, of The Alleys, Pim­ lico Road, Clitiicroe. The couple have been m


month visit this time, the Halghs have a full -pro­ gramme of tilings to do and people to see. They have


tour of Waddington Church. They- also saw the Mayor­ making ceremony this week,


admiration for Clitllieroe' and its people, who are some of the most friendly she lias ever come across.


Mrs Haigh was full of


but used to be a mail branch post officer. During the war he served in the Australian Army Medical Corps.


Mr Haigli is now retired,


than th a t of leaning on a five-barred gate or on the parapet of a bridge overlooking a summer scene extending to a far horizon?


burbles and dances is in itself a wonderful means of “ shedding the load ” and as the old American- Indians found, the soothing atmosphere was recognised as a cure for certain ills.


To listen as the water


distant fells was a land­ scape that kept us fully occupied. Who can ignore the variety of trees skirting


Hodder as far as the eye can reach? ■ Chaffinches “ pinked ” continuously and willow warblers filled the air with their sweet cadence. Fascinating to think that immediately on arrival in our countryside from far


ing such a cure as we rested in the warm morn­ ing sunshine on Doeford Bridge overlooking Hoddcr. Here. where We were sheltered from the thin easterly, the heat of the sun soon gave a ’ wonderful sense of comfort. Gazing upstream to the


We were not exactly seek­


away Africa they spend so much of the day producing


such melody. Perhaps the willow warb­


reason very agitated. Obviously one of the trio was an intruder and for some 15 minutes the males repeatedly tore at each other with ferocious Intent. During one session the pair plunged into 'the water locked together until it seemed both would be dimmed. Then as suddenly as it started the vanquished skimmed upstream to a • more peaceful stretch of


splendour. The dippers were for .sonic


^having a family in the -vicinity, tliey were anxious to protect their brood.


beneath the surface In her search for larvae and insects


more docile female went about her activities as if unaware of the quarrel. She repeatedly plunged


During the combat the


which are the staple diet of this most


interesting


the retreating male had crossed into the other birds . territory, and no doubt


water. I could only suggest that


lers. tree pipits and a host of others are glad to De back amid such verdant


creature, seldom seen .


from its watery environ ment. Whenever you watch ...


a Joyous satisfaction i in life.


dumpy black figure with the conspicuous white bib ine. note how in all it« act “ it simply exudes a feenn„ " ,


Iln


native of the fast northern streams fe active beneath the w.rfnLI


particularly adapted t0 an underwater way of iife


activities three red-breasted mergansers came Just ' _


as any of those endowed with aquatic features. a As we followed' their


head and with typical direct flight made a graceful land ing on the deeper, smooth water half, a mile upstream-


first time in the north of Scotland. Set against the ■ backcloth of. the distant Chipping fell country llle


view of these delightful divers which so manv Clitheronians see for the


entire fresco compared most favourably with any i have


seen in far away regions And you do not need to


search for similar items of really outstanding beauty or interest. For this is the time


of year when nil creatures We had a grandstand Strangely, although not


are concerned with the defence of their own par­ ticular


families. During the nesting season


territory and


in particular, birds .will take fantastic precautions and, indeed, action to defend cither eggs or young and one case comes to mind which took place a couple of days after the Doeford Bridge drama. In the rough pasture a


however, was the persistence of the bird’s attack and the utter indifference to danger. Caution was' thrown to the wind when the dives were rather slow in achieving their object. More aggressive action was called for. That lamb surd ewe had to


perienced just another case of this protective instinct, this time in the upper Hodder Valley. A couple of lambs several


when one ewe and her off­ spring ventured too near the sitting bird. The nearby male lapwing took to the air • and 111 typical peewit fashion began a series of


all the commotion was about. Hitler’s dive bombers


effect and the sheep stood, wondering I suppose, what


dives. Tills at first had little


could’ not have been move persistent as the now frantic bird repeatedly rose in the air to suddenly dive at the sheep's head. Eventu­ ally. it had efTect for the annoyed ewe turned slowly out of the danger zone. The outstanding feature,


lapwing was sitting on eggs and in the same field several lambs and sheep cavorted full of the Joys of spring. Action was to be expected


wras the behaviour of two lapwings which also entered the fray. They came from an adjacent field and were in no way connected with the nesting pair. They were complete strangers hut t-liev soon began attacking th'c offending animals with their dive bombing tactics. A typical example of the co­ operation within nature and a practical demonstration of each for all and all fnr each. Foreign, indeed, to human behaviour. I t was all so remarkable, for above all other birds of


our countryside the lapwing is far from being aggressive. I t Is one of the most docile, passive creatures I know. A few days later I ex­


be diverted from the territory so the bird began a more intensive method_ it alighted on the sheep’s head and with frantic flapping of the wings man­ aged to put the message across. Of outstanding interest


weeks old. adventurous and full of life, had strayed on the road and as. we slowly approached they hastened ahead * anxiously testing every gap to find access to the adjoining field. Sud­ denly fron’i over the dry- stone wall a little owl appeared. Tills bird fre­ quents a nearby bam where she has a nest. Now, although the bam is


some distance from the road,


liltlc creature began to mob the lambs' which, bewildered by our approach and the now attack, made vigorous efforts to escape the fluttcr- ings of the owl Just above their heads. What a picture to see a bird similar In size to- a starling hovering above the sheep like an outsize butterfly. . Just . another example of the wonderful protective instinct which knows no fear when off­ spring arc threatened.


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before, by Vicar ot Do-.| the Rev. F. E. Chard. : and instrumentalists I took part last time wi| in again—and. he some new faces trill stvl numbers. “ In this cl can truly be said that T be a repeat performail popular demand,” S3’f Chard. The open-air will begin at 4 p.m., w| permitting.


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