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CECIL IS HONOURED BY THE LEGION


WADDINGTON pensioner Mr Cecil Bishop has just received one of the highest honours the Royal British Legion can bestow on some­ one for voluntary community service — and he’s not even a full member of the organisa­ tion.


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of Queensway Flats, sets aside one afternoon a month to visit patients at Clitheroe Hospital along with members of the Legion’s Waddington branch. And in the past 11 years Mr Bishop, who is an associate member of the vil­ lage branch, has missed only two visits.


Mr Bishop has received two


certificates from the Wad­ dington branch for his service. But the branch decided he deserved a higher award and sponsored him for the special certificate given by the RBL National Executive Council.


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his wall at home, the certifi­ cate tells all visitors that it was presented as “a mark of esteem and appreciation for loyal service as an honorary member of the Waddington branch from November. 1965, to September 1973.”


And the honour was all the


greater because it is one of the first such certificates to be handed over anywhere in the country. In Clitheroe Hospital’s male


ward Mr Bishop is a well- known face. For it is there that each month he goes to sit and talk with the 17 patients, helping' to put some extra cheer into their lives. A Waddington man born


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■the Waddington Legion asked him to join their party. He agreed and now has probably the best community service record in the branch. Before retirement, Mr


and bred, Mr Bishop has been visiting patients for many years. It was while visiting on his own one day that a group from


Bishop worked.at Clitheroe’s ICI plant for 15 years. Before that he was employed at Wad- dington's old brick and tile works. In the past he and his


Tom will miss tiie cheeky schoolgirls


CLITHEROB youngsters get a favourable verdict from one who retires shortly after 26 years of very close contact with them — Mr Tom Wilkinson, caretaker at the Girls’ Grammar School,


“The youngsters up here;


are not so bad. As far as breakages are concerned,' they’re a lot better than they seem to be in other places,” says Tom, who retires on New Y e a r’s Eve, having been caretaker a t the Chatburn Road school since it opened in 1958 and assistant caretaker a t the old school in York Street for nine years before that.


cheekier now, but in school they haven’t changed much over the years. I shall be sorry to leave.” Tom has enjoyed his job


“They are possibly a bit •


and today he gives a sherry party for the teaching staff to mark his appreciation of the happy atmosphere in which he has worked. But equally he is looking


forward to retirement and plans to make the most of it. In the garden of his home in


Highfield Road, Clitheroe, is a greenhouse, where he enjoys growing vegetables and chrysanthemums. He may also start watching Clitheroe FC again, when he has the


time to do so. A f o rm e r C l l th e r o e


Amateur League referee, Tom has recently become dis­ illusioned with football — the negative tactics as well as the bad behaviour of players and crowds. . At work, however, lie has


been more pleased with the progress of the times. “ The new school is an


improvement from my point of view. It is less crowded, and easier to clean — the floors here are tiled instead of the old wooden ones.” Floor­ cleaning machines, too, have made the caretaker’s task much easier, replacing the old mop and bucket. Another big responsibility


of Tom and his assistant and part-time staff is, of course, keeping the school warm. ‘The oil we use here is a lot easier and cleaner to use than the coke we had at the old school.” The warmth of the new school is also increased by the big windows which let the sunshine in. There is less night work to


functions." Among these have been concerts of the Clitheroe Concerts Society,whose mem­ bers last week presented Tom with a cheque, and this year’s diamond jubilee celebrations,


at the school. Anniversary celebrations


have in fact been quite a high­ light of Tom’s years in the schools — and he particularly remembers the 400th anniver­ sary of the Boys’ School in 1954. ‘They had a different speaker almost every night, including Lord Derby on one


occasion.” One certain thing is that


Tom Wilkinson’s retirement will give him %nd his wife, Phyllis, who retired as a cotton weaver three years , ago, the chance to see more of ' their family. Their only son, Jim (39), an


old boy of Clitheroe Grammar School, is now deputy head of a comprehensive school in Beeston, Notts. He and his wife, Hilma, also a Clithero- nian and a teacher, have three children of their own. The best wishes of a whole


g e n e ra tio n of Clitheroe schoolgirls will go with Tom Wilkinson when the New ’ Year rings in a new stage in his life.


Step up for


‘mother’ WHEN the 250 pupils of Moorland School broke up for the Christmas holiday yester­ day, they said goodbye to their assistant matron Mrs Brenda Groom for the last


time. ' For Mrs Groom is moving


to take up a post as matron of Chapel Ridding senior girls’ house at St Anne’s School, Windermere, at the beginning of next term. In her seven years at Moor­


do now than when Tom Wil­ kinson started at Chatburn Road. “There used to be a night school here, but now we only have occasional evening


Patchwork


on show CRAFT work by Wis- well a r tis t Mrs Joyce Whitham is on show this month at the Mid- Pennine Association for the Arts exhibition in Blackburn. Twenty-two items of


Clitheroe-born wife, Mar­ garet, have had a major part to play in keeping the village looking good for visitors, for they both did a lot of work in th e Coronation Gardens, where Mr Bishop also looked after the Cenotaph. Although Mr Bishop is C of


patchwork and quilting m ade by Mrs Whitham form part of a broad col­ lection of work that will be on show a t th e MPAA’s Artshop. T h e p a t c h w o r k


E arid his wife is a Methodist, th e y a l te rn a te between a tten d in g the Methodist C h ap e l and S t Helen’s Church, where Mrs Bishop is a member of the Mothers’ Union. She is also a member of the village WI and the Women's Fellowship at the chapel.


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includes the usual items such as tablccovcrs and quilts, as well as cur­ tains, bags and cush­ ions. Mrs Whitham contri­


buted work to a similar display at Higham in February and this led to her taking part in the MPAA exhibition.


land, Mrs Groom, who is a widow, has been “mother” to all the school’s boarders, many of whom live abroad. When she first came to the


7-30 a.m., when she had to rouse the youngsters — aged between four and 17 — from their beds. From then on it - was non-stop for her and mat­ ron Mrs E. Woods until 10-30 p.m., when it was time for


“lights out”. Mrs Groom, who originally


comes from Sunderland, also had to look after any of the youngsters —; both boys and . girls — when they were ill. She has thoroughly enjoyed


h e r time at Moorland and although she is sorry to leave, she is very much looking for­ ward to her step up the ladder to become a school matron. Mrs Groom is quite used to


coping with children, for she has done much work previ-t ously in both welfare and child care. She has also taken an active


interest in school activities, especially amateur dramatics, and has made many of the costumes and scene sets for


. school productions. During the school holidays,


Mrs Groom has been staying with her daughter and son-in- law, Mr and Mrs Peter Wood, of Harrop Fold Farm, Harrop


Fold. At Windermere, asatMoor-


land, she will live in the school, for being a matron means being “on call” 24 hours


a day. In h e r spare time Mrs


Groom enjoys knitting and any kind of handicrafts . . . though whether she will have much spare time at St Anne’s, where there are nearly twice as many pupils as at Moor­ land, is another story.


Talent


in demand ARE YOU good at art? Have you a particular talent for making things? If so, you could find your


school there were only 30 boarders. Now there are nearly 60, so Mrs Groom has found she has had even more young people to take under her wing over the years. A typical day would start at


BBUMIMfllfaiMiiraMI ROAD WITH A PLACE


YOU niay not see any direct link between rising unemployment, road building and the changing landscape, but it is more than obvious in the Chat­ burn Road area, particu­ larly if you are passing from Clitheroe to Chat­ burn. Leaving York Street to


enter Chatburn Road, I was reminded of the not too dis­ tant past, when relatively few houses were on this stretch of h ig h w a y , now a b u sy thoroughfare giving access to Yorkshire. , Further on, at Bellman, the


eye cannot fail to note the fantastic change taking place due north. Less than a mile distant, Old Chatburn Road is steadily vanishing to open up


a vast panorama of Wad­ dington and Wrist Bradford fells. The quarrying of this massive ridge or hog’s back on which ran the old road has revealed a view never before seen from this point near Bellman. The link may still.be obs­


cure but consider that in 1826 the London Relief Committee engaged the eminent road builder Mr McAdam to survey the road in the Lancashire area — an area which, at that time, was suffering from unemployment.' W ith h e ad q u a r te rs in


Whalley, he had meetings with various Trusts to find work for the weavers and spinners of this area. The Relief Committee" granted a fourth of the costs, and many weavers from Chatburn and Clitheroe set about construct-


mg the New Chatburn Road. Records show that a special


meeting of the Skipton and Clitheroe Turnpike Commit­ tee was held at. the Old George Inn, Gisburn, on the 18th of January, 1825, "to receive the report of the Committee that was appointed to ascertain the best line of road between Clitheroe and Chatburn, the Hon. Thomas Lister in the chair.” The report states that the


Corqmittee met at Chatburn on December 6th and pro­ ceeded to take a view of the whole country lying between Chatburn and Clitheroe. They were of the unanimous opinion th at the best line was to branch off from the old road a


few yards tcdtlic West of the Chatburn bridge into the Worston Road and before ascending the first hill on that road to strike off into the fields on the north side of it, passing the Bold Venture lime kiln and from thence through the lands of Earl Howe, Mr Robinson and Mr Tattersall to enter Clitheroe at the Market Cross. The old' Market Cross, by


the way, Was pulled down on October 4th, 1826. Today as we view the area


opened up by this scheme, it is incredible to note that when the cricket ground was opened in 1863, not a house was to be seen in the vicinity. Some eight years later, the first


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house was built'by the road at Longsight — a name having a direct bearing on the good straight stretch of this length of Chatburn Road.


In 10 years or maybe 30


years the Old Road will almost be forgotten and the resultant view will be taken for granted a s if it was ev er thus. Memories soon fade, particu­ larly in an age when more takes place in one year than occurred in 10 in our parents’ day.


Many will be sorry at the


disappearance of the old tree- lined road which gave unrival-, led views over this wide expanse of Ribblesdale. It served the town well over a long period and the overall tonnage of lime carried on this stretch of road must have been gigantic.


Even to pedestrians, the


almost bird’s-eye views were quite spectacular. In the stage coach days this was one of the


outstanding features as the conches came to the end oi their journey from Skipton to Clitheroe. It was said in those days that the view was


“glorious.” Here, the traveller, seated


high in the coach, could scan the beauties of Ribblesdale as they stretched in an unbroken


expanse to the towns* heights of Inglcborough and


Pen-y-Ghcnt- a wonderful climax before the coach drew


in through the narrow EA • way into the yard of the Old


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work the subject of an exhibi­ tion at one of the libraries in the area. Ribble Valley Dis­ trict Librarian Miss Barbara Snell is looking for people who have a special talent, particu­ larly in the field of rural arts and crafts, with a view to including examples of their work in future exhibitions. Displays a re regularly


staged a t Whalley Library and recently these have been extended to the Longridge branch. Though the Clitheroe branch unfortunately cannot


TOM ; . . caretaker for 26 years


accommodate exhibitions at the present, Miss Snell hopes to plan some for Chatburn “in the near future.”


“I prefer to vary the type of


exhibition as much as poss­ ible,” she explained, “as I believe th a t people soon become bored with one medium.” Readers who feel they can


help are asked to contact Miss Snell a t District Central Headquarters in Abbey Road, Whalley.


Chance meeting


THE world is a small place, as Mr and Mrs John Hodgson, who left Clitheroe to live in New Zealand a year ago, will certainly agree. For earlier this year they


had a surprise visit to. their Auckland home from a former Clitheroe woman who knew Mrs Joan Hodgson as a school­ girl. Mrs Kathleen Beswetherick


lived in the area when her father, the late Rev S. E. Harper, was minister of the Moor Lane Methodist Circuit from 1933-37. How this chance meeting


came about is even more coin­ cidental, for the link between the two families is a copy of the New Testament. The book was presented to


Mrs Beswetherick’s father with the following inscription inside the front cover: “Urind- leton, near Clitheroe. Pre­ sented to the Rev S. E. Harper by Joan Charnley in Commemoration of the Silver Jubilee of their Majesties King George V and Queen


Mary”. Mrs Beswetherick, of Lan-


vean, Cleavelands, Bude, in Cornwall, takes up the story; “When my husband and I were in New Zealand this autumn we met the Rev Peter Stead and his wife, who said they had spent some time in Lancashire. “When I mentioned that I


had once lived in Clitheroe, he asked me if I knew John and Joan Hodgson. That name was not familiar to me, but on learning that Joan’s father had owned a mill at Grind- leton, I realised she was the Joan Charnley whose name was printed in my New Testa­ ment. “Although Joan and I had


not known each other well as girls, my husband and I were warmly welcomed to their home, where we spent an enjoyable time recalling the Clitheroe we both knew 40


years ago.” Mr Hodgson was chairman


of Trutex before it was taken over by .Tootal, and his wife


; was a director. They left their Ribblesdale Avenue home in Clitheroe about a year ago to emigrate to New Zealand.


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IN THE month of December, a strange anatomical phenomena occurs , which is not recorded in any medical text book — the human heart grows perceptibly bigger. Despite his unique know­


Good cheer at Christmas


each Christmas morning. Ttiit excellent custom ccrtbjj ,


annually until 1813, but why'it '


then terminated 1 have w ■ been able to ascertain


Perhaps the poor people grew reluctant i to leave their bed


chambers at that early hour or more probably the monev ran out — inflation is not


ledge of cardiac functions, South Africa’s Dr Christian Barnard, may not have noted this fact, but it is demonstr­ ably true; every time the 12th month of the year comes round, the human heart gets bigger, more generous, more loving, more caring. Regrett­ ably in many instances, this vital organ returns to normal size immediately the 31st of the month is over, but thank heaven this is not true in : every case, as senior citizens


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and younger people who have been invited to very special parties this Christmas will gladly testify. This phenomenon is not


purely of 20th century origin, h ow e v e r , as my re cent researches have confirmed. I have wr itten of Whalley charities before, and generous though they were, none of them appear to have been d i r e c te d specifically to Yuletide distribution. This was not so in Mel­


bourne, Derbyshire, for in 1691, Henry Greene of that parish left sufficient money to provide four poor women of the villages of Castle Don- nington and Melbourne each with a green waistcoat. Each garment was to be decorated with green lace. These were to be distributed.on December 21st (Gooding Day) and to be first worn on Christmas Day. Thus, Henry made certain that at least four ladies in his parish would be very smartly dressed for the occasion and that his name would be per­ petuated in the colour of their apparel. Another gentleman with his


pureiy a 20th century innova. ticn, it s been going on a long long time.


~ Equally unusual was the


charity instituted by Thomas Tuke, who lived in Viath, in Yorkshire, in the early 18003


Thomas died in 1810 and being a great lover of children directed that each and every


child who attended his funeral should receive a penny piece. Some 600 or 700 bright-eyed youngsters availed them­ selves of this opportunity - Thomas was royally mourned Furthermore this kindly old


(LAST week the Hous ICommons decided onj


truestion of the da [p e n a l ty 'for murde who are also terrors


IT h e p r o p o s a l '! rejected by a majorit 129. A year ago, to


day, a similar motion rejected by a majorit


man made a provision to benefit the children of his par­ ish — he directed that 40 dozen penny buns be thrown from the church tower at


noontide every Christmas Day.


fully observed until the cere­ mony became so rough and noisy, with shouts of triumph from those who were success­ ful in the mad scramble for buns to groans of disappoint­ ment from those less fortu­ nate, that in due course only six or seven dozen of the cake’s were thrown to the winds and the remainder were distri­ buted in more seemly and decorous manner. Finally, let'me record the


This ritual, too, was faith­


| it was not a vote on Junes, though the majorij ■fthe Labour Party was t [found in the “No” lobby, the majority of those j voted “Aye” were Consd tives. Mrs Thatcher vote the death penalty, Mr Wi] Mr Thorpe, Mr Heath anj Powell against.


152.


I Back-Bench members c| ;Liberal Party were in lobbies. I myself voted


•rifable thought, for I have fl -ifously voted against the < ’ -penalty for what I migh;


kindness of Edward Porter, oi Alresford, in Essex. In 155S, he decreed that the milk from two cows was to be given to the poor each morning from Whitsuntide to Michaelmas, with a special bonus of 3s, 4d to each poor person on Christ­ mas Day and Good Friday. The five examples I have


given are, I think, definite proof of the theory prop­ ounded in my first few sent­ ences. Today, of course, benefac­


heart full of Christmas was Sir Thomas Parkyns, who as a great devotee of manly sports left his money for the promo­ tion of a wrestling match to ta k e p la c e annually on December 25th at Bunny, in Nottinghamshire. At Princes Risborough in


Buckinghamshire there was yet another unusual demonst­ ra tio n of Christmas big­


heartedness. There, the Lord of the Manor provided a bull, a boar, a sack of malt and a sack of wheat to be distri­ buted to the poor at 6 a.m.


tors are less eccentric in their testatory wishes, but despite this I am quite sure that as Yuletide 1975 approaches, many local people will awake one morning to receive sur- ■ prise gifts they never really


anticipated. Many of these will be quite


anonymous and the generosity of the well-wishers will not be recorded in parish registers or on an cien t documents gathering dust in the parish chest, but they will all spring from the same source—those hearts that grow bigger every year at this most blessed of seasons. It is, I suppose, all due to another manifestation ’ of that special Christmas


. magic.


:|not opposed to the taki: fshuman life in any circi


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the “ordinary” murdt Customarily on this que MPs talk about “a mattl conscience.” I try not ti that phrase which conn -.readily to the tongue as


lances. In print that '/rather horrible, but it .


/[truth. I am not a paeifis Iliad been I should . /refused to serve as a sold


,,-Malaya, Aden or Bornel /places where the pos viBritish Army was end •/against terrorists.


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:sj No, my objection to th !«of capital punishment i /ordinary murder case


•'land is, based upon my ithat it had no special pi


:>|of deterrence. Further, \jvery murders which !most horror in the J


-mind, such as the Moors —?ders,.are committed by land women upon w


/[because of their mental .(no deterrent would hav


Jfeffect. j My third objection t


Jdeath penalty is the dan; •:;|imposing a completely •^punishment by mistake "iian innocent man.


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time, os I did last, foil death penalty for those commit “terrorist offi causing death.”


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