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MOST sordid everyday happenings in nature begin with the break of dawn, and many remain a mystery although there are times when a brief gap in the curtain pro­ vides a glimpse of yet another sinister chapter.


It was first light and the starlings; • sparrows and tit­


mice were beginning their rounds of gardens and yards to collect the generous offer­ ings conveniently placed by thoughtful householders.


nowhere, a hungry spar- rowhawk dived lethally to snatch an equally hungry and unsuspecting prey. In sec­ onds, a life had ceased to exist just as another day was born, which set me wondering whether our natural desire to help wildlife sometimes does more harm than good.


Suddenly, as though from


sparrowhawk was far from being an isolated thing as I


This killer dive by the


learned when chatting with a Dunsop Bridge reader. Know­ ing of my long experience of


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photographing hawks at the eyrie, he thought his observa­ tions would be of interest.


’feathered morsel and van­ ished. In the midst of life . . .


titmice and sparrows "were feeding on the. birdtable when, suddenly, a hawk flashed across the scene and amidst a flurry of feathers and excitement took up a


It was mid-afternoon. The


food to help sustain, bird life is good and the close-up view we have of our feathered friends is ample repayment. Unfortu­ nately, it is not the innocuous action we think it is. The story begins happily but often ends in a most unforseen manner.


Primarily, the placing of


Are our best intentions wise or in the true interest of those we seek to help? The unin­ v i ted in tru d er t akes


garden birds when, in fact, we lav them open to grave danger? Which is the greatei evil — shall a bird die from lack of food or do we take the


advantage. Do we really befriend the


leave you to form your own conclusions. I: Similar illustrations come to


mind of other predators ready to profit .from;.the hospitality provided ’ by .man. The unwanted guest is bound to cause trouble, tame or wild.


several cases have been brought to my notice of stoats “going the rounds” of gardens in the Chatburn Road area. You may remember my refer­ ence to the stoat seen crossing York Street near the Gram­ mar School in broad daylight. You can be sure that where one is seen there are others that hve escaped attention.


During the past five years


take place than those which meet the eye. What of the fox seen crossing near the top of Parson Lane, or that seen near the golf club? A couple of years ago a fox was killed crossing the road on the outskirts of Chatburn. These things go to show


Far more dramatic events


risk of providing an easy meal for sparrowhawk or Kestrel? I


to the garden become merely sport and food for the wary.. cat? Man can unintentionally cause all sorts of complica­ tions but, generally, his acts


How many birds attracted


are beneficial. But what when they fail?


Consider the incident of the beleagured swallows last autumn and the well-meant attempt to save thousands of them. With all his scientific power, man can be helpless


against nature.


Thousands of the migrating swallows .were marooned in northern. Europe by an unusual cold spell. Well- meaning rescuers gathered more than 100,000 of the starving birds and took them by jet to the warmth of southern France ai).d Italy. Alas, most of them died.


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weak. They flew around in bewildered circles trying to


Evidently they were too get their bearings and died


that by putting out food or simply erecting buildings, man creates an environment attractive to a host of “hangers-on."


EDITOR of "Grapevine." a new journal for Health Ser­ vice Workers in the Burnley district of the Lancashire Area Health Authority, is to be Coun. James Fell, of


at Calderstones, which comes under the district, and edited "Chin," one of the journals that "Grapevine” replaces. This new challenge is one he will relish and to which he will bring his flair for writing in an


Whalley. He is special duties officer


agreeable style. The new paper will be


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The cheque was handed over at a ceremony at the hospital by the Chamber’s president. Mrs Mao’ Bridge, she was accompanied by Mrs Dorothy Cooper, wife of the secretary, and Mrs Jloyce Mashiter, the social committee chairman’s


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Auctioneer Joe for retirement


AFTER a career at Clitheroe Auction Mart spanning almost 54 years, Mr Joseph Balshaw- has put away his gavel and is settling down to a relatively quiec


retirement. Mr Balshaw, of Glen Thom,


Waddington Road, Ciitheroe, gave up his job as auctioneer at the end of January and is now recovering from an ill­ ness which forced what he describes as "a premature retirement. ”


made in farming circles will still see plenty of him, for he intends to continue in partner­ ship with the Silverwood fam­ ily for valuations and farm sales.


But the many friends he has Although Mr Balshaw has


spent all his working life among farmers, he had no agricultural connections until he started helping out at the Auction Mart when he was a


schoolboy. “My mother and father


came from a weaving family and I was expected to join them as my brothers did," he said.


“But ever since 1 was nine


years old, I was fascinated by the place and used to spend all my spare time helping with odd jobs there.


come from Scotland and Ire­ land and I used to muck them


“In those days cattle used to


Will be models


WEIGHT WATCHERS from Clitheroe and surrounding areas- will join an audience of around 2,000 from the North- West at a rally in Prestor. Guild Hall.


Weston,


weight watchers' association, and several Clitheroe mem­ bers will act as models for a fashion show. Proceeds are for the Br i t ish Hear t Foundation.


The speaker will be Bernice founder of the


out and help with the milking.”


However, the thing Mr


Balshaw remembers most about his early association with the Mart is the day he_ spent looking after a herd of cattle outside the old post office in King Street during one of the twice-yearly fairs.


was paid sixpence for working from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.” he said.


“I was 10 at the time and I When he left school at 13, it


was only natural that he should apply to the company


for a job as auctioneer’s clerk. He soon -worked his way up


the company to become auctioneer — a job which he has done for more than 40 years at both Haslingden and Clitheroe.


When Mr. Balshaw com­


pleted 50 years’ service with the Clitheroe Mart, he was presented with a Welsh dresser.


Spensley, thanking him for the work he had done for the company, commented: “His unerring judgment and great sense of values places him among the leading auctioneers


Managing director Mr John


in the North.” Mr Balshaw’s wife Marjorie


is also a familiar figure in the area. Before she moved to her new job as nurse for a group of Whalley doctors, she worked in the dispensary at Colebome House, Clitheroe,


for 14 year.;. The couple have a married


daughter Lynn, who is an SP.N in Liverpool, and a son Charles, a radio officer in the Merchant Navy. From a previous marriage,


MR JOSEPH BALSHAW


Donald to take over from Jim


CLITHEROE’S loss will be Whalley’s gain in a musical sense. Mr Donald Hartley, who has served St James’s Church for 15 years as organist, is to take up the corresponding post at Whalley’s ancient parish church. And, by a remarkable coin- During that time, Mr Tat- cidence, he will succeed a tersall was especially pleased


musician who has also com­ pleted 15 years’ service. Mr James Arthur Tattersall has decided to “call it a day” after the Easter services.


Road, is 72, and, understand­ ing^, feels like a rest. His wife, Mary, who has given her support throughout his long musical career, agrees.


Mr Tattersall, of Mitton


Easter services, but is pre­ pared to carry on if a succes­ sor has not been found. Aged 72, Mr Tattersall, of


. He plans to retire after the


Mr Balshaw has another son, Joseph, who is head barman at the Park Hall Leisure Centre, Charnock Richard.


Flood of memories


Oswald!wisile lives Mr Fre- d e r i c k Ho ll o w a y , o f whom I have written previ­


AWAY up on the hills above "it-Tt-m


ously. who told me some fascinating stories of his Whalley boyhood. In a centures old cottage,


Whalley Window


with open country fore and aft, a walied-round air shaft from a derelict coal mine 100 yards from his door, and a poodle dog for company, Mr Holloway lives quite alone. A little elfin man, 86 years old, he Ls “wick as a cricket” and was delighted when I called to see him. Right away his tongue


began to wag and I really wished I’d taken a tape recorder with me, so many and varied were the tales he


had to tell. As we chat t ed, the


memories came flooding back with each of the photographs of his younger days my new friend produced for me to see. “That's our . old house at


head. “Nay,” he said. “My dad brought them from Kent when he came up here to work at Moreton Hall.” Mr Holloway senior, you


Cock Bridge,” he told me, “and do you know what those are climbing up the walls? Hops!” “Hops,” I said. “Did you brew, with them?" Mr Holloway shook his


Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee,” he said. “My dad was in it riding side-saddle, ‘tak­ ing off a lady,” you know. Then there was a wagon made up like a cage and three or four fellas in it, jumping about and twisting and turning and all dressed up as monkeys, with a great notice up — ‘Captured in Nab Wood’ it said.


we watched it from?” my friend asked. “From that first house up the steps just over


“And do you know where


the bridge. You know where I mean?”


and Mr Holloway chuckled. “That’s it,” he said. “That’s what they called it. My mam took us all’ dow-n there to her f r i end' s as worked a t ' Moreton.”


"The Monkey Rack,” I said,


there’s lots to choose from.


may remember, wa3 coach­ man at Moreton — the hall we used to call “Calendar Hall,”, with its reputed 365 windows, ; 52 chimneys, and 12 entrances . — and the son was obviously I proud of his father's know- j ledge and ability with horses: j “I remember the Torchlight q Procession in Whalley fori


sions, the talk turned to motor cars and at once a manual of driving instruction, published in 1901, was produced for my inspection. No intricate and mind-boggling details of yel­ low- lines and the Highway Code were there, but the technical details of the inter­ nal combustion engine were very clearly explained.


From horses and proces­


One of the adverts particu­ larly attracted my attention'


“The Eureka Voiturette,” 1 read. “3 Vs horse power, 3 speeds up to 25 mph. The best car available for two passen­ gers. £135.” A cheap car? Not really, I


think. With the changing values in money, I suppose the £135 would be nearer £2,000 today. “We all learned to drive


from that book, me and my brothers.” said Mr Holloway. "You wouldn't pay as-much


for petrol as we do today,” I commented. My friend shook his head. “I bought it at 9d a gallon,” he said. The Whalley boy who was


Mitton Road, Whalley, devotes his entire Sunday to accompanying services from early Holy Communion to Evensong.


Tattersail began his long association with church music when he joined the choir at St Peter’s Church' at the age of nine, remaining there until he was 25.


Born in Accrington, Mr From the age of 12, he


played the organ for occa­ sional hymns, and later went


to St Mary Magdalene's Church, Accrington, as organ­


returned to St Peter’s to be organist and choirmaster for 25 years.


ist and choirmaster. A.fter


four years, he


a.pprenticed to Howard and Bulloughs, “53 hours for four s fillings a week,” was a great walker. “Accrington to Whal­ ley and back seven times a week,” he said, “and me and my pal Jim once did it 10 times. We used to reckon an hour either way.” Jim, apparently, was a real


walking enthusiast and together he and Mr Holloway walked to both Manchester and Blackpool. "Six and a half hours from Accrington to Blackpool and four and a half to Manchester,” I was told. My previous articles on this


grand old gentleman, whose eyes are still bright and retain the merry twinkle of youth, have' had an unexpected “spin off.”


IN appreciation of the friend­ liness shown to him by Clitheroe people, Mr Norman


THANKS’ GIFT


Hughes, of Romney Walk, Blackburn, has presented the Mayor of the Ribble Valley, Coun. Fred Singleton, with a pen-portrait drawn from a photograph of the Mayor. It is permanently mounted in a hinged cover with a coloured reproduction of the Borough coat of arms on the front. There is also an account of the formation of the borough.


council colleagues by the Mayor at the February Town Council meeting.


The gift wa3 shown to


who remember him as a boy harre contacted me and one, at least, hopes to get in touch with him. Now isn’t that nice? Almost


Two ladies in the village


makes me feel like a secon­ dhand Cupid!


from a phobia that has kept him largely housebound for some 10 years, was helped on the way to overcoming his disability by a chance trip to Clitheroe 12 months ago. He is a former freelance cartoon­ ist and illustrator and he has asked the Mayor to sit for him for the purpose of producing a


Mr Hughes, who suffers


when the choir won the Ainsworth Cup at Blackpool Music Festival three times. Mr Tattersall, who is -fond


of all organ music, particu­ larly Bach and Mozart, first had tuition in playing the organ from the late Mr Clar­ ence Green, then organist at St Peter’s. Mr Green eventually


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from exhaustion. I sometimes wonder if all


our efforts to supply birds with food are really advisable. All very well if the weather is exceptionally wild, but I


believe harm can be done by making birds dependent on this well-intentioned hospital­ ity. They everftually become le s s able to fend for


themselves.


small, wild or tame, find the easy way of life preferable to the hard struggle. If food and shelter is provided then the easy way will be chosen. The line of least resistance invari­ ably appeals and there is a


All creatures large ana , - ,


to regard it as a nuisance? Provide- food and you


great deal of truth in the saying that if you wash a cat it ■will never wash itself.


accusomed to having suste­ nance provided and as a result soon lose the instinctive abil­


Wild creatures can become


ity to hunt. By all means provide food, in


. sudden cessation of supplies. Most people are kindly


extreme conditions and when the weather is bad but beware the hidden danger in any


disposed towards birds and all other forms of wild life but the kindness can be very cruel when interest is lost. Pets are an example. How many families acquire a dog and tire of it six months later, coming


young are deserted for an unknown reason. Maybe it is a bad site, perhaps too much attention by friendly children, or it could be the attention of a dog or cat fascinated by all the traffic when the birds are feeding young. A keen naturalist was of the opinion that even to walk to a nest spelled danger. I could not really understand his reason hut now, after my own experi­ ence, I agree.


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became organist at Whalley Parish Church and when he retired in 1953 after 27 years, Mr Tattersall was appointed his successor. To play the organ, says Mr


Tattersall, needs not only dedication but also requires a


lot of practice and hard work. He used to enjoy a game of


cricket with Accrington 1st XI but gave it up after four years, when he decided to play the organ seriously. Mr Tattersall was employed


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