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Mister Mayor keeps his title


.MEMBERS or Clitheroe Town Council func ­ tioned in a dual capacity on Tuesday evening. They sa t ;~,rst in their accustomed


council role under the chairmanship of the Mayor. Conn. Richard


Turner, with the 17th century mace on the rostrum.


immediately Council.


There was no mace, neither were there any aldermen. Instead, everybody was p'-'in councillor and in- stcad of Mr Mayor. Coun. Turner was addressed by the prosaic title of Mr Chairman.


But only for a few minutes. The Parish Council's first


decision was to resolve to have Town status and by tins simple procedure the


. c;l came into being. Conn. Turner thereby acquired


they assembled for the lir.-'t time in their minor role as Clitheroe Parish


afterwards


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o A c n n u in c . Mr and Mrs Deardcn renew their acquaintance with Clitheroe’s town centre shops.


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new Ciitlieroe Town Coun-


the title of Town Mayor and Aid. Moore that of Deputy Town Mayor.


Thcv will hold office until the annual meeting which this year must be held


sometime between March 1st and June 1st.


Officially, the parish coun­ cil came into being on December 17th. The pre­ sent members of the C.itheroe Borough Coun­ cil became the new parish


councillors and under ordinary circumstances they will hold office until 1976.


From then onwards there will be a parish council election every tour years and the whole of tire council will retire. Elec­ tions will be on the .same day as the District Coun­ cil elections.


KNITTING needles will be


clicking fast and furiously in a fortnight’s time . • .and every stitch will help to raise money for the British and Foreign Bible Society,


be held at Trinity School cn February 7th, for two hours in the afternoon and two in the evening. There will be a double benefit for charity as a result of the knitters work, for the squares they make will later be sewn into blankets for Oxfam.


The sponsored knit-in is to


will be welcomed by Mrs Shirley Broadhurst, one of the organisers, who can he contacted at The Rectory. YVoone Lane* Clitheroe.


of (he society needs now, to make the effort a success, is more knitters, more spon­ sors and any odd scraps of double knitting wool. They


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A FORMER Clitheroe family has ju s t arrived hack in town, more than three years after emigrat­ ing to Auckland, New Zealand. And despite the power


price has doubled at The family ori^maHJ


•• trial period, Ul1 c' . ,!lV. mancntly or lor a f t ' rs nut a variety ol '-w ,


Clithcroc aHc a tended to


r “ ve.ve.ir •


have prompted them ^ bring forward lhclJ, Aden’s


crisis, fuel shortages ami the English winter, Mr .Maurice Dcarden, his wife, Jean, and children Peter (!>) and Helen til, plan to stay hero for keeps.


on |oycd living out there, hut it’s good to be hark home. There’s no place like Clitlicroc. Somehow’ in New Zealand wc did not lit in —we always felt that wc were in a foreign country." “ When wc went, it was a


Said Mr Bearden: “ We


- * “S e 5 u ; ;: >,wSS.hffi


health, present


CatU**'m0,cs difficulties '» » f


the New _ . „f


lift* Explained Mr "Woridng eondlttons a.c


pearden:


g00d, and emi- oH - ;ir(llcir lirst-namc terms ” . . . is


bosses. But l;u;’' ' 1Tlw


good place for a young family to start with nothing and work up. But I would not advise anyone to go there now and begin from scratch. Prices have in­ creased as much there as they have in this country. Accommodation is more difficult to find—and its


breeding '"''‘ . .U , , , davs workers arc just L'Mi'»


oil' when thcy Li0l,i than There are more jo • u|| there are P~Plccmp,oyCrs


ZcMand I s a very" permissive country—or so it seemed to


l rn 'Vlu‘n 'vc m°ved from Uilheroe to Auckland, a bin


r.-y* Mould not have to bring: our children


as teenagers there.”


entirely to their liking*. ‘Tor three months in summer the


Hie climate, too, was not


^1ln shines and it is iantaslic,” she said, “but the rest of the year it rains even more heavily than in jhtheroc but at the


tune it is very warm humid," There was a beach at the


same and


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end of the road in which the Dcardens lived. “ It was all right if you liked fish­ ing, swimming or boating.” said Mr Dcardcn, “but these didn't really appeal to us.”


problem. The family look one holiday, touring North Island. ” After that there was nowhere else to go. There arc no lllaekpools there—but at least you can be sure of sunshine,” said Mrs Dcardcn. New Zealand television


Holidays, loo, were a


has only one channel. Colour is just being intro­ duced, and most of the pro­ grammes were first shown in England several years ago.


Dcardcn reckons that nine people out of 10 would earn more in New Zealand than in Britain. And according to his wife, the cost of living is similar to our own. ” Clothes are much more expensive, but a lot of food- stulls are cheaper than in


On the credit side, Mr


Britain.” she said. Mr and Mrs Dearden have


Advertiser and Times—and the paper is, they say. avidly read by numerous exiled Clitheronians in Auckland and elsewhere. .Mr Dearden has now re­


kept in touch with events in Clithcroc by reading Hie


lived in Burnley, and then in YVoone Lane, Clitheroe. Mrs Dearden made head­


lines some years ago when she underwent one of the Jirsl completely successful ••hole-in-the-hearl ” opera­


tions. On their return Bight


turned to his former job as a process worker at ICT. Clitheroe. In New Zealand, he was foreman in a plasties linn. Before emigrat­ ing*. Mr and Mrs Dearden


from New Zealand, tho family was accompanied by Mr Bearden's mother, a former Burnley woman. She is staying with relatives in the Burnley area Tor a few weeks.


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office and sweet shop in the main street of the village, run by Mr Ralph Kitney. is due to close in three week-' time, leaving Gisburn resi­ dents the option of going


stamps and collect their pensions. The main post office at


GISBURN is in danger of losing its branch post office . . . unless premises and a sub-postmaster can be found. Tile present branch post


WAN'


needed the constant assis­ tance of 56-year-o’d Mr Kit liny's wife Doreen. “ One person just can't run the office." he said. And the reason is that Gisburn is the telegram centre of the area.


Illness


Blackburn has been adver­ tising the vacancy — which carries a salary in excess of £1.000 a year *


notices ail over the village, but it seems that nobody really wants to know.


— by putting


man: " I t is a most unusual case. I have never known anything like it in 30 years’ experience.


Said a post office spokes­


that tlie postmaster in a rural area is retiring and there is no shortage of suit­ able applicants waiting to take over the premises." Mr


“ Usually it h a p p e n s


Kitney, however, will still live in the building.


Concerned


p r e p a r e d to consider premises other than a shop in the hope that a house­ wife might be interested in 1 converting part of a front room in her house lo run the business.


The po.'t office is even


advertised b ey on d the village, but, ns the post office points out. everyone in Gisbum will know about it and any suitable appli­ cant must have premises there.


The vacancy has not been


close down a branch in a rural area.” said the spokes­ man, ‘‘ and we arc terribly concerned.” They have been keeping in close con­ tact with Gisburn Parish Council, which Is equally concerned that the branch service may have to be dis­ continued.


” I t is not our policy to


least the post office is look­ ing for premises in the village to use as a tem­ porary office from which a restricted service could be onerated one morning a week. This would cater essentially for the payment of pensions and social security allowances.


For the time being at Diversion


ing the job should contact the parish clerk. Mr J. G. Wolfenden, of Westcroft, Bcntlea Roa'd, Gisburn, for application forms, or write to the head postmaster at Blackburn. Mr Kitney, a retired Army


Anyone interested in tak­


a steady stream of coun'er customers, while the tele­ graph business goes on in another room to maintain


The Kitnevs have to serve


not been good l a t e l y . Recently her husband had a three-day bout of ’flu Hhe first day's illness of Ills life', too. but he had to carry on as best he could to keep the service operating.


privacy. Mrs Kitney's health has


reasons they arc giving up the post office work. When they close next month the sweets side of the business will end, too, and Mr Kitney will turn the building back into an ordinary house.


These are among the


many shops in the village.'' he said. “ I t would not pay to stay open just as a sweet shop."


“ Basically there are too


no one has applied lor ike job.


He is disappointed that


his retirement lie canvasse! other shopkeepers in C.!s burn with suitable premises! but without success.


Shortly before puttin'gj.Vit _


ested can come to me and I will he only too delighted


losing its past office alto­ gether presents to Mr Kit- ncy a clash of loyalties.


to assist them.’’ he said. The possibility of Gisburn


Pensioners


that, February lJth will be the last day lie and his wife look alter tile service. Yet lie cannot help but sympathise with his _ cus­ tomers. “ I want the village to have a post office,” lie said.


He has made UP his mind


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possibly manage with the bus service. They can't afford it and they will have a tivo-hour wait. " Others are infirm. The


■' The pensioners can't


argument Is that someone can go for them, but, why should they?”


c. South Africa, given in Cithcroe Parish Hall by Dr \’. D. Oliver and his daugli- tg Susan, made a profit of £0 for tlie Save the Chil- cen fund. Organised by Mrs I Honeywell and the local Lnd committee, the talk ’as attended by 190 )>eopIc.


'• Anyone who is inter­ ■ Mrffrdy.r fpR picturesque scenery,


isl.eep farmer Mr Dick Bolton, ol Haredcn Farm. Dunsop Bridge, just can't io wrong. He is pictured i ere at the weekend ringing some of his herd- own from the jells lo Iwer land in the Trough c: Bowland.


Celebration


day at Downham


SURROUNDED by their family and friends. Lord and Lady Clitlieroe celebrate their golden wedding today


keeping up a long-establisaed fa mil v tradition, as both Lord Clitheroe’s parents and grand-parents


a t Downham Hall. In doing so, they are


their 50th wedding anniver­ celebrated


saries at the Hall. But tile golden weddings


no even further back than that. Lord Clithcroe's great­ grandfather, Joseph Ficlden, who was MP for Blackburn,


Village children know the drill


celebrated his golden wed­ ding in 1867. and Lady Clitheroe’s great - grand­ father.


Frederick Hotham, preben dary of Rochester, celebra­


the Rev. Hon.


ted* his in 1852. To complete the picture.


side, Mr and Mrs John Hen'rv Master, of Montrose House. Petersham, also had a golden wedding.


at Downham Hall records t.lie 50th wedding anniver­


A poem in the family diary


sary. in August, 1904, of Lord Cliiheroe's grandparents. Mi­ ami Mrs Ralph Assheton. It was written by Lord Clith eroe's great-uncle:


Fiji!/ years ago wc saw them Lovers, seated side by side With their wedding feast before them


And we called them groom and bride.


Fifty years—and, round them pressing,


Children of their children tell


Of the Psalmists’ promised blessing


Peace upon ” Fifty years — sharing.


our “ Israel." one fortune


Storm and sunshine, well and. ill


Years of bearing and for­ bearing.


Tomorrow night the cele­ brations continue, with a


dance at the Hall for all the inhabitants of Downham and Twiston over 16 and the tenants of Cliatburn, Wor- ston. Rimington and Cuer-


major, took over the busi­ ness from his father-in-law, Coun. Bertram Bentley, Just over 10 years ago. His Army pension already pro­ vided a living income, but he looked upon the nost office work as a diversion I t has certainly been a


diversion in more ways than one. As well as being a Bix-days-a-week Job, it has


HEADMASTER of Boilon- by-Bowland primary school, Mr Conrad Sauer is very proud of his junior class, for they have won the Holgate Road Safety Shield for the second successive year.


The 21 children, aged


lrom 7 to 11, had to learn their Green Cross Code, so that they knew it almost backwards. Accident preven­ tion officer for the Bowland part of the West Riding. PC Gordon Marshall, then gave each youngster a test of 10 questions covering every aspect of the Highway Code.


schools in tlie West Ridmg, the children came through


Competing wil-h other


With flying colours and answered over 75 per cent


of the .questions correctly Bawley school was second


Walker, of Slaidburn school


with 96 per cent. Bolton-by-Bowland school


has now won ll,e sh‘^ three times—in 1973, is l ­


snd Slnldburo third, Highest individual mark


Was gained by Sarah


their headmaster—except foi one youngster who was oil ill with chicken pox.


and 1950. The class . ve pictured . -th


sio, tire children at Down­ ham school have had a visit from Lord Clitheroc, who personally signed the hooks which he and Lady Clith- eroe give to pupils every Christmas.


dale. To mark the special occa-


tion has been sent to Lord and Lady Clitheroe by Conn. Fred Singleton, chairman ol tile Rabble Valley district


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