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■ entire countryside set the mind aghast, with the hawth­ orn, the rowan flushed deep red, the gold of the sycamore and the oak revealing the browns and faded greens enough to set fashionable tailors dreaming of the day when such blends could be p r e s e n t e d in th e shop windows. ■ By the end o f th e . month,


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SAYING goodbye to their favourite village tomorrow are West Bradford sub-postmaster Mr Ted Bird and his wife Kathleen. After running the Post Office-cum-corner shop for the past eight years, they are going to live in a bungalow in Fairfield Close, Clitheroe. It is a sad move for the


couple, necessitated by Ted’s ill health, which forced his doctor to advise a period of rest. Ted and his wife “just love


West Bradford” and .have built up a friendly relationship with the customers who pop in and out of their pleasant


corner shop. “The people here are so


friendly,” said Ted. “My wife often stands talking in the shop for ages and I am sure we’ll miss the village a lot.” But the couple will not lose


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Patricia, who lives in Halifax, and Constance, of Grindleton — are married and have chil­ dren of their own. Son Harry is also married and works at Mullards, in Simonstone. Mr and Mrs Bird intend to


touch altogether for Ted will continue to play snooker with his friends in the village and Kathleen will maintain her i n t e r e s t in Waddington Drama Group, in which many of her friends play an active part. Ted is a Londoner and his


“have a rest” until Christmas, and have not yet decided what th ey will do afterwards. Whatever happens, they are certain that they will pay reg­ ular visits to their favourite village. Perhaps they will pop in and


wife was born in Yorkshire, but after their marriage they lived in West Bradford for a time and their love for the village dates from then. They moved for a time to


Halifax, where Ted was invol­ ved in several small concerns, before their wishes came true and they returned to take over West Bradford PO in 1967. They have a son and three


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children, are looking forward to the move. “West Bradford is a very attractive village,” said Mr Willis. “We hope to have a long stay there.”


Stephen’s


break AFTER seven years on the road with Harewood Magna, Clitheroe’s 19'year-old singer Stephen Ryan has finally hit


the big time. The group, based in Great


Harwood, has turned profes­ sional and is due to make its f i r s t TV appearance oil December 20th on ATV’s New Faces programme. Since Stephen, of Whalley


Road, left his job at J. H. Myers Ltd about two months ago, he and the three other members of the group — Mar­ tin Lee, John Walmesley and Judith High — haven’t looked back. They left immediately for a


four-week tour of Germany — their third in two years — and have since worked at Preston and in the North East. Last week the group was in


Wales and on Sunday began a series of gigs in London. Its first venture into the musical big time has been so suc­ cessful that it is fully booked up until February.


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has not had an accident in 21 years. Other recipients were Archie Marsh (17 years), Clar- ence Burgess (14), Brian Aspden (13), Jerry Jackson (11), Ronnie Aspden, Eric Briggs and Dennis Lord (each with 10), Hughie Cooper, Dick Redmayne and Billy Wall- work (7), Fred Baker (6), John Woodend (5), Leslie Cottam (2), Derek Dickinson and Tommy Hargreaves (1).


•r v Mr and Mrs Bird. Stephen, a former pupil at


St Mary’s College, Blackburn, first tasted success when the four played folk music. They played twice at the interna­ tional folk festival at Osnab- ruck, West Germany, and recently won the inter-club final of the Top Town Club Stars talent contest at Stoke-' on-Trent.


But because of the limited


openings for folk artists, they decided to play a more com­ mercial type of music to appeal to a wider audience.


Although they would prefer


not to have to play such mate­ rial, Stephen feels they will have to become more widely- known before they introduce their own songs into their act.


While enjoying his new life


style, Stephen finds it harder than his nine-to-five job. '


“We find it really annoying


when people come up to us and say we are getting money for old rope,” he said. “We work hard for our money and the hour or so we are on stage has got to be perfect every time.


“When we are on a long tour


we often have to travel about 250 miles between gigs so we spend all our, time driving, singing and sleeping.”


One-man


exhibition LOCAL film maker Mr John Rickard, whose production “Old Pendle” has been shown to audiences all over North East Lancashire, is currently staging an exhibition of his watercolour paintings at Whalley Library.


The exhibition, which runs


until December 6th, includes paintings of interesting local subjects in the Pendle district and two special pictures of Whalley which Mr Rickard painted this summer.


Street, Brierfield, has previ­ ously held a one-man exhibi­ tion at Burnley Library and the Corporation there own 10 of his works.


Mr Rickard, of Walter His other noted film about


•the Burnley Expres s — “Express Story” has been shown many times in the area and his latest production /‘Painting in Pendleside” is now being used in lecture programmes. I t is based on a painting he completed in June of Cromwell’s Bridge on the Hodder.


Also at the library until


December 6th is an exhibition of pressed-flower and hand- painted cards and pictures by Clayton-le-Dale artist Jane West.


Jane, who formerly owned a


LET me start with a con­ fession. I am an addict. For years I have been hooked — on . books. At different times my pre­ dilection has b'v-ii for Various auth^.s and, in earlier days, particularly those dreadful late 1920s and early 1930s, it was the public library that went at least part way towards satisfying my craving. Dickens has always been a


END OF A 30-YEAR SEARCH Whalley Window


time.


with tent and cooking utensils walked the length and breadth of Britain, camping, writing, , performing. Later, as his skill and reputation grew, he toured the Continent and America.


I loved his books, I still do,


favourite, of course, and Naomi Jacobs gave me tre­ mendous, pleasure, as did almost any book about Lanca­ shire or Yorkshire. For quite a period the plays of Shaw and Galsworthy were compulsive reading and stimulated an appetite that just had to be satisfied, while biographies and autobiographies were a constant craving. In more recent years it has


■ been for books old and new on local history (particularly if- they mentioned our own vil­ lage) that I have scanned the shelves, and. the subject of


•constant search have been those by Walter Wilkinson.


: Perhaps you don’t know Walter. I first met him m the early ’30s and loved his books from the very first page. Wal­ ter was a showman — a Punch and Judy showman. He made and painted his own puppets, popped them in a barrow of •his own design; and complete,


. and was always reluctant to return them to the library shelves. “These,” I thought, “are books that I would like to own.”


So I started my collection.


Wherever. I went I searched in every possible place — mar­ ket stalls, junk shops, jumble sales,’second-hand bookshops. After lengthy searching .1 found my first copy, paid 6d for it in Liverpool, and a year or two later, a second in Man­ chester:


A holiday in Bristol was


. very productive; I added two more;to my collection and still a t very , reasonable prices.


< Indeed, until very recent years, I never paid more than a couple of shillings. .


ago, I ifltensified my search. . As far as. I . could ascertain


Then, three or four years


Walter,hqd written eight books and now I had six of them. The craving became . more Intense.


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In correspondence with, friends in all parts of the coun- •


try I detailed the two missing volumes- “If you spot them, please ,grab them on my, behalf,” I pleaded.


For a long time it was unav­


ailing. I became despondent, melancholy, began to despair. “My collection will never be complete,” I thought, and then, a couple of years ago, I cornered my seventh for 40p — one more to go. My thirst for the chase quickened.


Now I hunted and searched


with greater diligence, but Dame Fortune, that fickle jade, had deserted tne. In shop after shop, assistants shook their head m answer to my inquiries. .“Not a chance, not a hope, sir,” they told me. “Haven’t seen one for years.”


ago, I was on.Chtheroe Mar­ ket and made a bee-line for th e br ic-a -brac s ta ll to examine a couple of rows of books. “No luck,” I said to the • proprietress (I think she was


Then, a couple of . weeks


• “Have you got a copy of Wilkinson’s ‘Sussex Peep- show’,” I inquired of the' lady behind the counter. She paused a moment,


quickly running through the catalogue in her. mind. “I’ve had it,” she said, “I know I’ve had it. Just a moment.” She searched behind her and drew a book from the shelves. “ T h e re ,” she said trium-


. phantly. I took the volume eagerly,


checked the title, glanced at the price. It had risen consid­ erably, but I didn’t care. I was jubilant.


■ “I’ll take it” I said. “This


ends 30 years of searching.” The lady smiled, wrapped the book and took my money. “What a pity I didn’t know you wanted it so badly,” she said, as she handed across my


'change. “I’m jolly-glad you didn’t ,” I


exulted, rand carried off my purchase a very happy man. Now eight copies of Walter


the proprietress) to whom p . had detailed my needs. “Not to worry,’.’ she said, "you’ll; find one yet.’’ - . ,. . . . . . , v


The following week I w a s:


• visiting a nearby country town which boasts two excpl- lent book. shops and again ■-made my needs known,- perhaps for; the thousandth ;


Wilkinson’s, puppet books stand .in a neat- row on the shelves . facing this , Whalley Window.--Next time I go into a Second-hand bookstore, I shall be completely lost: • But no, I won’t. It has just


occurred to me that I would like a personal'copy of “Rib-


. ble-land”. . My - collection of local books is still incomplete and, clearly, you see, l am still an addict.’


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craft shop in Clayton-le-Dale, grows her flowers from seed to use in the displays. She has shown her work at Samles- bury Hall, in exhibitions arranged by the Council for the Preservation of Rural . England.


IT’S been a busy week for Mr John Watson, globetrotting prospective Parliamentary Conservative candidate for the Skipton division. Mr Watson, a director of


Getting around


the games division of John Waddington, was in Washing­ ton, America, at the weekend for the world Monopoly finals. He spent the first part of the


•week in Iceland for the European championship..


While he was there, Mr


Watson-, who lives in Tarle- ton, had a first hand account of the fishing dispute with Britain and was hoping to meet the Icelandic Prime Minister at a diplomatic recep­ tion.


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blessed in being able to par­ ticipate in all the glory of the Highlands and then on my return to see the full splen­ dour by Ribble and Hodder. What more can one desire, or where, in these islands or abroad, can anyone partici­ pate in such variety? “The F a l l” in Britain, modest perhaps, is worthy of com­ parison with the grandeur of even the Canadian scene. The symphony by Ribble and Hod­ der began in early October and the odd mature elm, chestnut and sycamore were soon alight with branches splashed in gold and red. A week or so later the


the climax had passed and in less than three days the hard­ woods had shed their magnifi­ cent robes' which- lay in tang­ led profusion by the .wayside and in the woodlands.


Most satisfying have been


the queen of all the conifers — the larch. I made several trips to watch the gradual change in colour of several mature trees. Over the years they have been afforded ample space in which to flourish in a truly natural fashion. When given a chance to enjoy brea­ thing space, the larch more than most conifers gives plea­ sure in spring and autumn. Strange as it may seem,


other conifers are true everg­ reens but the larch, in con­ tra s t, sheds its leaves1 in' winter to present in October


the palest of green turning to pale gold by November. There are many cold days ahead, but with the first sign of brighter days we again look to the larch to bring that first ray of hope , as it presents the fresh green tu f ts and reddish , flowers 1 described ‘ by Tennyson as “rosy plumlets.” .. All too soon, in the last days of/October,'early frost and


.squally winds left all exposed trees naked, ending one of the most spectacular shows of the lastdecade. We had not long to wait for


another reminder of the fast approaching winter, when flocks of fieldfare began the journey south. Then came


. flocks of starlings, sweeping across the pastures in hordes. Travelling south from


Argyllshire it was interesting to see the signs of encroaching winter. First the trees, then the migration of the birds. I t seemed as if we had become daught up with this movement south. The geese began as we were on Mull and many flocks crossing from the Treshnish Isles were evidently on their way either to the Solway or deeper inland.


In mia Jctober we saw sev­


eral flocks of fieldfare near Dumfries, ’ and- by Ribble a


short time later the massive


uplands by Ribble' and Hod­ der. These Scandinavian vis­ itors indicate that the tide of ; winter is spreading south.


plan to that of the fieldfares- and starlings. The: birds con-. gregate in winter — the stags


The deer follow a reverse -as de nite th a , which


brings,-about seasons.'


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road to better Understanding. Of course there are those


assemblies- were; on t h e . disperse. It,is a.universal )awv/fwould exterminate everything __ 1__1- DiUUIa1' onrl T-TnA- \


qg . HpfliTllf.A 9R , tllRt . .WlllCil t -■ the ‘various


, others not soi lnieresieu m geptember until late in winter travelling enormous,distances, J


are, of course, similarities. The deer provide; an o


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mhers not so interested in * ■ „ So1 we. find that from la te . : vidiial had his.br her own way, a keen eye to spot a- very few.creatures, trees or


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to escape the ngoursofwmtqr : stag> Wh0 then/will dare to , wild,life would exist. ^ J te ^ a differenTway?There;


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standing case. In Late Bep- put forward by those who con- tember the change began with s;(]er there are too many oys- the attractive summer dress t , , j . - ' c a t c h e r s on t h e of rich brown spotted with , jjorecambe sands, or far too white giving way to the more; - many starlings and, lapwings sombre winter coat- The j n our own countryside, stags’ antlers, were then fully . .{jeCaUge they fail to under­ grown ai\d by mid-month they stRn^


In Late Sep- ■ ■ -■■-•■ - were intent on ridding, their


the mature animals had dis­ persed. The small herd or summer gathering of 10 or 11 males regularly seen in the Bolton-by-Bowland area van­ ished; those remaining in the summer territory, having cleaned their antlers, started to roam to faraway places.


^ is is.the, season these species gather, for


head gear of the velvet. ■ protection during the winter, f By the end of the month all * How different it is in sum- :


lite r ,'w h en the birds are spread out across the land in the breeding season. Then you will hear the casual observer say that the lapwings are scarce; If only people would use a little more tolerance, we would undoubtedly be op the


s world ..of ^elfish


desires and motives, what is a - menace: or nuisance to one is


an. attraction to another. This rule is dominant all over. the country no .matter where you


, go. or which field of study you prefer.. Far, be it from me to


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The s t a r l in g , oyster-


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