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they used to be.


the committee members 0f C the Central W o rk u Sm s


n


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ter faces have just had a


CHATBURN villagers will noiv have a clear picture of the time when they look at their Parish Church clock. For the two six-feet diame­


ficult to see the hour of day, but now everyone should be able to tell the time — with­ out waiting for the chimes,” he said.


C h a tb u r n ’s .c h u r c h


timepiece was made by Potts, of Leeds, and has looked out over the village from its 40-ft tower since the church was built in 1838. CE school headmaster Mr


H. E. Boden has the task of winding up the clock every Thursday—160 turns for the domes and 158 for the actual hand mechanism.


. 2nd although these are the


. days of decimalisation, new currency is no good to Chat- burn’s clock — its mechan­ ism still has to be balanced with old h a l fp e n n ie s whenever anything goes wrong.


RESIDENTS of Wadding- ton, once thq best-kept village


in Yorkshire, never expected


to fly the flag for neighbouring Lancashire. But the day came— several


moment for all concerned, Waddihgton certainly does not intend to ' rest on its laurels. Warned Parish Council


chairman Mr James Barrow "The' other competitors had better be on their toes next year . . . for then we’ll be going all out for the overall championship. ’’ For a full reporland more


picture s of Wadding ton’s celebrations, turn to page 10,


Low Moor dust: An«


explanation


Isherwood, . deputy public health inspector, a “one-off” o c c u r re n c e . The- Alkali Inspector explained that there was a great deal of moisture about when a new furnace was l it , and this could affect - the dust separators. ’ ■ I t w a s p o s s ib le th e


separators had been switched off but this was permissible in the circumstances and there was no need of further inves­ tigation.


P O W E R


AN Electncity Board plan to erect an . 11,000 volt cable beside^the, railway line, at


■. Gisburn -h a s . met. with no : objection J from ; the>' Ribble •Valley Council’s Development Sub-Committee. The planned power line would runfor l,000 feet from the rear of the cattle market .to a.signal box. , ? i


ON IC E


,Gisburn .Young Farmers made i their annual tnp to the Silver 1 -Blades.ice. nnkjon.Monday. |


TWENTY-FIVE members of!


. The project.was Jaunchedlin: July by 24-year-old Fred to ' -' 'Fred,-' ofi.!York'Strect(r.and.7aigroup :of.!fricnds':from!Sti raise • £1,000 ..for ,.a minibus to.; take. the 'town’s ’deprived ; James s Church Young People's Fellowship,’are now looking, children on holiday. .


The original target was Easter 1976’. But donations have i/elf-sufficent. i ',„ . ‘ " * ~pr- - - -


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Jamos. Church Brownie Pack raised £100 from a sponsored' -young holidaymakers should be setting off-next summer.' V ' * }


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• ' ’ , ■ ?, ,i > for a suitable vehicle to convert to make it more or less1 ?, , , -4 - ,


IT is 99 per cent certain that the dust fall-out which upset Low Moor people recently occurred-when a new furnace was l i t a t R ib b le sd a le Cement, the Alkali Inspector has told the Ribble Valley’s E n v i ro nm e n ta l H e a l th Department. I t was, said Mr Richard


years and a boundary change later — on Saturday, when villagers turned out in force to see the “Best-kept Lancashire village” sign unveiled by Coun. Miss Alice Alston. Though it was a proud


much needed coat of paint. It's 13 years since the clock’s last facelift, and Chatbum’s vicar, the Rev. Norman Mad- dock, reckons that the £70 black and gold paint job was done just in time. ■ It was getting quite dif­


8 FED UP WITH BRITAIN - SO JACK


Whalley Road, goes Down Under a week on Sunday, and says he is never likely to return.


He will live with daughter


Mrs Winifred Hardman and her husband Tom who owm a. farm in Victoria. - They emigrated 26 years


ago. and bought the farm to breed and sell cattle. Mrs Hardman and her husband visited Mr Smalley in 1970 for about six weeks and that was the last time he saw them.


SABDEN pensioner. Jack Smalley has decided things ain’t what they used to be — so he is leaving Eng­ land’s .shores for the first and last time to live with his daughter in Australia. Mr Sm a l le y (80) , of


IS GOING TO AUSTRALIA ■ Moving to the other side of


the world ’is a big step for someone who has never pre­ viously been further than the Isle of Wight. But Mr Smal­ ley is quite convinced that all will be well. His reasons for leaving go


far beyond the fact that most of his family — including 16 great grandchildren — now live far away from Sabdcn.


“They used to say that the


1930s were bad times,” Mr Smalley told our reporter, “But now things are much worse. They were happy times compared with today.


here for, because the way things are going the situa­ tion can’t get any better. I t is


“There’s nothing to stay .'


not’ like the good 'old days I can remember.” .


, ever flight will be aboard a Jumbo Jet. Mr Smalley is giving his


months ago — to St Mary’s, Sabdcn.


He should be a t home


down on the farm, for both his father and grandfather were in agriculture.


His father owned a farm


a t Ba sha ll Eaves where young Mr Smalley learned the tricks of the trade before going into business on his


. Mr Smalley is eagerly looking forward, to going and is n ot in the least apprehensive that his first-


house — owned by his wife u ntil her death about 12


, own account at the end of the first world war.


Will he be sad to leave a


nation which in his early days was virtually ruler of the globe? “No,” he says with a saddening tone of finality.


from Sabden is Mrs Beatrice Birtwcll, who leaves a week today for the sunny climes of South Africa.


She will be visiting her


grandson Mr Stanley Warth in Kimberley for a month. He emigrated with his Polish wife Dzisia about a year ago and is employed by an Ang­ lo-American gold mining concern.


Another veteran traveller


Wesley Street, will be travel ling abroad for the first time — flying to Johannesburg and then completing the sec­ ond leg of the journey. by land.


Mrs B ir tw e ll (70), of The t r ip has meant _


change of clothing plans for Mrs Birtwell. “About .now I ’m sorting out all the winter woollies and warm jumpers, but this year I have kept all my thin summer clothes to one side ready for packing, said Mrs Birtwell.


“They tell me it’s really


hot out there at this time of year, so I hope to come back with a tan.”


£2m. EXPANSION PLAN' A TT4 CKF.n Pimlico, Road


held a protest meeting to decide how best to voice their, objections to the proposed scheme, which is expected to cost about £2m. Their spokesman, retired


schoolteacher Mr Douglas Smith, has lived directly oppo-


. site the.ICI. plant in-Pimlico Road for nine years. He has sent out more than


1Q0 letters to householders in the Pimlico Road, Moorland Road, Warwick and Park Drive areas of Clitheroe, pro­ testing at the plan and asking for support.


At last night’s meeting at


Moorland School, residents drafted a letter listing their objections. It will be sent to the Ribble Valley Council before next Tuesday — the final date for objections. Extensions to the works —


210ft long, 100ft wide, 34ft high and constructed mainly from dark grey asbestos sheeting, would also be built within the.confines.of the pre­ sent 26-acre site. .


In his letter to residents,


Mr Smith explained that the store would be erected paral­ lel to the Ribble Cement branch railway line, starting opposite Moorland Road and running towards Pimlico Road railway bridge. Mr Smith argues that visu­


already one of the largest catalyst-producing plants in Europe — would entail a con­ siderable amount of machin­ ery being installed in existing parts of the factory. A large, single-storey store,


ICI plans to extend its Pimlico Works have met with strong opposition from local residents who fear the project will increase problems of noise, traffic and pollution. And last night the residents


:


ally such a building is bound to seriously affect the residential amenities of the district. “There must also be an


increase in noise and air pollu­ tion from the building and from traffic using the loading facilities within the ICI con­ fines, if not on Pimlico Road.’! -He told our reporter that


residents feared the exten­ sions would lead to even more noise — day and night — than there is now. If industry is allowed to grow, ’he points out, then Clitheroe’s image is going to suffer. “I t really all comes down to


what image the town wants to project,” he said. “Does it want to be the centre of a beautiful tourist area, or does it want to. present itself as an industrial centre?”


Questions One question Mr Smith


wants answered is whether ICI proposes to use the rail­ way branch line for transport- . ing goods. “The new building would be


.close enough to the line for: that,” he explained. “Do they also propose to have access to Pimlico Road, opposite our homes? These are questions which must be answered. "Personally, I think the


plant is already big enough. But ICI has the. site — some '


spare land — and proposes to. develop it. “It is up to the piani'rg


authority to consider carefully w h e th e r it suppor ts or opposes the scheme in view of


the strong feelings of resi­ dents.


“We are not unreasonable


one neighbour, Mrs Frederica Gordon, has written to the A d v e r t i s e r and Times expressing her “horror and dismay” at the plans. She makes the point that the proposed store would be


them very well maintained and in a residential area. “It seems completely incon­


gruous and extremely lacking in consideration.” It is Clitheroe Parish Coun­


c il’s policy, she says, to encourage small industries, not monolithic big businesses. These are already seriously encroaching more and more on


.what should always be — and has in the past been — a very pleasant country town with its own attractive industries. “We do not want another


Billingham (ICI’s ’ headquar­ ters in the north-east) — or another -Flixborough!” she said.


:


Clitheroe’s elected represen­ tatives to safeguard the towns people’s interests. . “There is already too much


Mrs Gordon calls upon Continued on Page 3 reaches target —thanks to the Brownies


jobs. But this was a residen­ tial area long before ICI came.” Mr Smith’s next-door-but-


people,” added Mr Smith. “We realise how much extra money in rates the develop­ ment would bring to the coun­ cil, and we certainly have no wish to take, away anyone’s


A HEARTBREAKING sight met green-fingered gardener David Reynolds when he arrived home from work. For there, in the back lawn


of his Carlton Place council house was a huge hole where


- previously there had been an attractive garden. ■ I t had taken Mr Reynolds


eight years, a lot of hard work and quite a few pounds to get the garden looking just as he and his 29-year-old wife Lar- rain wanted it. But all their effort was des­


troyed in a few hours by a Great Harwood firm of con­ tractors working on a nearby lo c a l a u th o r i ty housing project. Seven houses' are being


Reynolds, his wife was given just 16 minutes’ notice of the workmen’s arrival. He reckons he was entitled


built on land behind Carlton Place . . . and Mr Reynolds’ - garden happened to be the" only suitable spot where the sewer could be breached and a pipe added. According to 32-year-old Mr


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SHORT-TIME working has" hit the Grindleton-bascd clo­ thing firm of Tmtex.. Tho company’s 250 to 300 Ribble' Valley employees will be put; on a three-day working, week- from Monday. The firm’s directors have


decided to cut production by 30 per cent indefinitely, in the f ace, of prevailing economic


. conditions and because of the increase in imports of gar­ ments from low-cost coun­ tries.


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Trutex branches up and down the country — 90 per cent of them female — will be affected by the move. Six weeks ago the 1,500


Another 1,300 workers at


Workmen land David in a bit of a hole!


Charles Wilson, the council’s chief architect and planning officer.


Mr Wilson promised that


work on the pipe will be finished and two holes — one very small and the other eight feet deep and seven feet square — filled in by the weekend. He has also guaranteed that


cynically, will be quite a job in itself. For the soil, contain­ ing plenty of clay and ideal for plants and shrubs, was put on a lorry and dumped. He is also worried that unless the bulbs are replaced soon, they will not bloom in the spring*


to a lot more. The Ribble Val­ ley Council agrees, and. the couple have how received a personal apology from Mr


down the hole — is mostly annoyed because he wasn’t , given sufficient riotice to transfer bulbs, plants and


Mr Reynolds — that’s him __ , s


immediately opposite several Pimlico Road houses, all of


survey will help disabled


■IF during the next few weeks you see young healthy-


looWng people going around Clitheroe in wheel­ chairs, don’t worry.


' I t’s not that there’s a crippl­


ing illness about. The youngs­ ters will, in fact, be trying to find out how easy or difficult it is for handicapped and elderly people in wheelchairs to get around the town. The young people, from


Trinity Youth Club, are con­ ducting a survey aimed at helping the disabled and old


♦when they make a trip to town. They will be borrowing the wheelchairs from the local social services department. The young people will be


finding out which shop door­ ways are wide enough to take a wheelchair, investigating


toilet and washroom facilities, and looking at public buildings where the users are expected to climb stairs.


The survey is being con­


p ro b a b ly in about four months’ time, groups will pool their findings and incorporate them in a leaflet to be made available to the elderly and handicapped. T h e re a re a b o u t 300


physically-handicapped people in Chtlieroe — a number con­ fined to wheelchairs — and


hundreds more senior citi­ zens. Mr Jackson feels that


many are wary of venturing from their homes because of a lack of information about the places they can conveniently reach. .


At a meeting at Trinity


youngste rs under sector leaders. If the project is successful,


applies,to actually collecting information for the project, and if any young people in the town can spare an hour or two at;;mghts or. weekends, Mr Jackson would be pleased to hear from them at the Careers Office, .Wellgate, (telephone 25063). '


Magistrate READ’S Ribble Valley Coun-.'


.cil representative Coun.,Cyril Law, ’has been appointed: a! magistrate at Burnley. Coun.’ Law, of Straits Lane,:Read, is


■a factory-..training; school, inspector.; A member of the1


.villageparish - council,.:he is, also a warden at Read Church: and a governor of the school.':


Mr. Jackson hopes to eventu­ ally collate similar information on the whole of the Ribble Valley, helped by young people in the various villages. As always, the. old adage the more the m er r ier”


Youth Centre on Tuesday, Mr Jackson explained the aims and workings of “Project Access.” The town will be divided into sections to be researched by teams of


ducted under the guidance of y o u th le a d e r Mr Geoff Jackson. At the end of the study,


the garden will be made good and all flowers, bulbs and plants replaced. That, says Mr Reynolds


lawn turf to his Highfield Road allotment.


Mrs Reynolds was at home


when the contractors arrived bu t workmen had hardly finished explaining they had come to dig up the garden, .when an excavator moved in. The past few days have


eyes on the young ones all the time,” said Mrs Reynolds, who has another child, Joanne (10). ’


Recently the couple looked


Mr Reynolds,who is a machin­ ist with Bowker Bros. “But now it looks as if we will be getting a manhole of our very own — like it or not!”


at some council houses with bigger gardens, but they were either too near a railway line, or had manholes in the middle of the la\vn. “We. didn’t fancy that,” said


been a nightmare for Mrs Reynolds . keeping her two boys Andrew (3) and Daniel (2) away from the hole, which wasn’t properly covered with planks until Friday evening. “Until then I had to keep my


employees were laid off for a week without pay, but pro­ duction director Mr Anthony Barnett confirmed yesterday that the firm’s problem had not been solved and regret­ fully further action was neces­ sary. He told the Advertiser and


Times that the firm's direc­ tors had not set a definite period for the short-time schedules. “We.’ll play it by ear and see how things go,” he said.


Clocks back on Sunday :


BRITISH Summer Time ends at 3 n.m. on Sunday when clocks should be put back one hour.


start again at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 21st. when clocks should be put forward one hour.


Clocks go back on the day


fo l low in g th e fo u r th Snturduy in . October and forward on the day following the third Saturday in March,


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MEMBERS of Clitheroe Fire Brigade are taking collections for their national benevolent fund at the Civic Hall this week. The film? “The Tower­ ing Inferno!”


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