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EAVESDROP- on .the con v e r sa t ion of^any senior citizens when the;, subject is that of compar­ ing conditions of “the good old days” and. you will no doubt be of the ‘ opinion that as a whole we are coddled and cos­ seted, and the . general trend is a decline in rob­ ustness.


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sions I leave, to your judge­ ment. Of course, we should . always remember our reaction to hardship and the quest for . comfort is not by any means confined to one particular gen­ eration. But when you: look back we are bound to admit, some sort of decline in this thing called robustness. It certainly appears we are “get­ ting soft,”


However true such conclu­


restricted ventilation and the establishing of central heating


Even in my lifetime I find


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provide most of the heat for. i-neysi Now, ;as:in■ the-home,,;.;buried.t;Passengers'-also.'suf- ';,. away whatever, is, not used;-. ..you • just.;preasas witch; and


a step in-this1 direction; Con-* aider the not-too-distant days . when a small fireplace'had to?,


the main' living-room and; indeed; for the entire house. ' Such was economy that only


. admit they . were tougher., in - those days before the advent of .central heating1;and' the •electric blanket. ' It is incredible to think this


.-.brought into, use on long jour*


the affluent, could afford the luxury of several fires. If you were cold then you just had to ,-' bear it. From'this we must


.Whether these changes are ■ coach’arrived with two of the for good or evil,/only time can.


. health is in danger. The. ques­ tion is asked — are we going;


-show we are fast becoming too dependent and as a result our.


‘ too pampered and stopping all ventilation, which could bring about a degree of suffocation, The craze for comfort also'


was. the case less than 25 years ago, especially in these times when one works, plays- and r e s ts in .what.our forebears would claim to be tropical conditions. It appears there is a danger of becoming.


.extends to travel.and no-one: today would contemplate a car without a heater. The same applies to public transport. Yet this is a recent innova­ tion. Twenty years ago it was commonplace to wrap your


. much to be desired, so what must it have been like in the old days; when travelling was so-slow and hazardous.. In 1836, a blizzard raged


over all the country. Coaches were buried iii drifts and


'One thing is sure, we just cannot'go back,-as our ability to* w i th s tan d : what our forebears endured is lost. If you are in doubt; think of the suffering and hardshipexperi- enced a century ago by people journeying from, on’e place to another.'Even'today,.various forms of transport leave so


is one of extremes.. If only we could strike a happy medium.


too far? • Sad to say, our civilisation,


tell,: .but thereto evidence to . :;third-in a desperate condition. All . were literally, frozen


death. ; It is; hard to imagine that this took place in England. In , colder.? regions . perhaps, but never in this temperate land;; These are" the sort of times and experiences we read abbut in the Gold Rush days of 1898, when men and animals were frozen to death as they lay at rest by the' trail., In view of our comforts and


outside passengers dead and a literally, frozen to


coddlings, could we endure such agonies? Our grandpa­ rents accepted it as normal, as they did walking 10 or more' miles each way to work. Now children ride to school arid prefer, to wait for; transport, rather than walk a couple of miles. I wonder if we are in a steady "state .of decline? Perhaps some of our older readers can add to this list and


legs in :a ..travel rug and hot- . many are the tales of heroism’, thus iinspire im. others That ,. water, bottles.■


were.^often' ,:shown ..hymen carryingithe; thing; called (physical,‘ -mail-when - the.-stage'; was , Nature‘has-a law whichtakes


-effort,


';>heyrpresto'~:!heat;A;v.>':‘;;;"v..J’ and'in'March;; 1812, the BathA of not-so-distant trials which, ;


, fered from alarming exposure ; ... We still have personal links


'have, • in rectpit years; made certain occurrences imposs­ ible and the need to tolerate hardship on- the hbights no longer exists;, ? ? How many of us can recall a


• world. There are . those who argue? that,as recently as the, winters of 1941,1947 or even 1962, men suffered intolerable hardship.. But. modernisation and - technical advancement


in the. passing of one - genera­ tion; now seem •;out of this-


• ter slowly became encased in ice to a thickness of two or three inches. The added weight soon brought the end, with the collapse of the entire route, and men struggled day after day from first light to dusk re-erecting poles and wires.


soon iced by freezing fog.- A single wire less than one- sixtednth of an inch in diame-


. radiator, .of-a stationary vehi­ cle froze in a few minutes. . , The telephone lines serving


time when it meant disaster to leave a vehicle on Waddington Fell. Anti-freeze then" was still to be marketed arid the


I dirigton to Newton and on the heights, particularly near Walloper Well, the overhead wires, capable- of withstand­ ing the strongest gales, were


- Dunsop Bridge and Slaidburn -followed the road from Wad-


; stiffened like a piece of hard- board, bringing to mind those ;days when stagecoach drivers and passengers froze to death d u r in g th e i r jo u rn ey . Undoubtedly they were tough, as were the overhead linesmen struggling to main­ tain communication with


lievable and I saw tough men, wearing goggles to keep out the freezing wind, faint with cold as they carried out their task 30 feet above ground. A man was unrecognisable after an hour, with eyebrows and hair frozen white in the intense cold. Overcoats soon


• Slaidburn and Dunsop Bridge; NATURALIST.


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Champion year for Jack


FOR Read Cricket Club groundsman Mr Jack Wade, this season was the perfect ending to a 40-year love story. The club won two major


that locking after the cricket club’s ground was the job for him. In those days it was a part-


back on the years of devoted service and support that have won him a special kind of affection at the club. In addition he has just cele­


trophies and Jack wasmadea life member on his retirement after many years of looking af te r the Whalley.Road ground. Now Jack (80) is able to look


time occupation and Jack also worked as a weaver at the village mill. He spent most of his war


full-time appointment with Lowerhouse in 1951, and later was groundsman for Enfield. But in 1968 he returned to


brated his 80th birthday, and among the cards he received were two from the club — one signed by all the players, and the other bearing the names of non-playing members. He also received a box of


chocolates and a bottle of his favourite whisky from the


Read, he is only a cricket ball throw from the ground where he started work in 1935. He owned the village chip shop for 10 years, but decided


club. Living in Hambledon View,


game last season — home and away. He considers the best Read


service in France, and when hostilities ended returned to tend the ground again. He left Read to take up a


Read, the club he has sup­ ported since his childhood, and has been there since. He watched virtually every


team.was that of 1949 when Jack Dyson was the profes­ sional who spearheaded their league championship win. H is own c r ic k e t in g


remember one match for Read third XI in which he took six wickets and scored 81 not out.


however, and says he will be following the club’s matches next season very closely. He is a member of Read


Now he is content to watch,


be joined by other members of the family for a Christmas get-together that will cap a finr .Tea- f«r Jack.


Conservative Club, and used to be a keen snooker and bowls player. He and his wife Edith will


activities, he says, were not distinguished,- but-he. does


THERE’LL be no excuse for Chipping children being late for school when term starts again a week tomorrow. For every morning at ten to


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nine the bell at Brabin’s Endowed School will ring out a warning that they have 10 minutes in which to take their places. It’s a sound which has not


been heard in Chipping since before the first world war. However, one thing is certain — in 1939, the bell was sec­ urely tied down. If it had rung


— which is housed between two chimney stacks — has proved a tempting target for sm a l l boys with th e i r catapults.


out it meant only one thing — invasion! Since then the disused bell


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master Mr Gordon Bottomley, who regards the bell as a heart­ warming symbol of the past decided to put it to good use again. He thinks that in a village a


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little bit of harking back to tradition will not do any harm. Chipping is a proud little com-' munity and anything that can be done to hold it together is, he feels, worthwhile. The bell was inspected by a


b u i ld e r and the county architect and found to need only greasing and slight atten- t io n . A new rope was attached. Now the children are


delighted to have the bell and all want tc have a turn, at ringing it. Parents, too were given the opportunity to hear it at the start, of the school carol service. The bell was erected in its


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PUPILS Malcolm Jackson and Gary Adamson take a close look at the bell.


Woods, of Kirk Cottages, well remembers answering the call of the bell when he went to school. . . over 70 years'ago.


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special tower when the school was built in 1880. The new school — as it is still referrred to by older residents — replaced the original one built in 1684 by local benefactor John Brabin. One former pupil, Mr John


But then, he has a special affection for bells, for he has been a ringer at the Parish Church for over 40 years. Eighty two-year-old Mr


were,(quite commonly used by factories arid schools. Mr Woods recall^ that the rope


Woods estimates that the bell weighs about half a hundred­ weight. In comparison, the church bells range from 9cwt 81bs to 3cwt.i In his younger days, bells


operating the school bell used to dangle over an open fire­ place where the headmaster would warm himself before ringing it.


The new bell rope is in the


same position, but the firep­ lace has long since disap­ peared, as the school now has central heating.


Mr Bottdriiley hopes that ’


when the planned new school/ is eventually built, the old bell


IT’S a'"pretty big Claim','"' but I doubt;.if .there is" another area in this coun­ try as rich in history, fo lk lo r e and natural beauty and interest as our own Kibble Valley. This thought came to me


when a number of VIPs hold­ ing high executive positions in. the Health Service gathered in Manchester-for-a confer­ ence. These gentlemen were in something of a dilemma, for they were accompanied by their wives; they knew that they were going to be very busy all day and the problem arose “What are we going to do with our wives?”


to leave the ladies unescorted in a city so full of temptations as Manchester, with its mul- / tiplicity of fashion houses and exclusive shops, and so they packed them into a coach and / sent them to Whalley, where I ( was given the job of escorting1 them round the Ribble Valley. We left the village in quite


Hardly safe, they thought,


deplorable weather. Incessant rain precluded my taking them around the abbey ruins as I had planned, so, fortified by coffee at a local hostelry, off we went up Sandy Brow and via Clerk Hill and the bypass to Worston, Chatburn, Downham, Clitheroe, Wad- dington, Newton and Slaid­ burn. We'returned via Dun- sop Bridge, Whitewell, Cow Ark, Browsholme, Higher H o d d e r , Kemple and Stonyburst to Lower Hcdder,


/Mitton and Nethertowri, and back to Whalley. Home once more, I got out . pencil and paper and made, a


MTERESTJNCj SIGHTS GALORE' VVhailey Window


f/hen I discovered I had


list of the interesting sights we had seen and the snatches of history and folklore I had been able to tell the company about. Imagine my surprise -


overed both sides of a sheet


of foolscap paper with over 70 items — some well known, others less familiar, but all in the space of a leisurely two- hour drive.


Space forbids me publishing the full list, but here are just a few samples.


What were these 70 items?


-as we drew riearer to Pendle, to relate the’legend of Brast Clough,-speak of the vision of George Fox and the establish­ ment of the Society of Friends.


the Wiswell and Pendleton Moors, I was able to speak about our Cistercian barn and indicate the whereabouts of the echo stone and Jep Kneb’s grave. I was able to point out Wymondhouses and tell of Thomas Jollie, the one-time vicar of Hapton who became a power of nonconformity, and,


As we passed Clerk Hill and


had to be devoted to the Lan­ cashire Witches and a few word? spent on Worston’s Bull Ring and "Whistle Down the Wind.” As we approached: Downham,. I told ofRose Din-


Naturally a few minutes


ley, the country lass who inspired a poet and became the- F a ir Rosamund of


tragedy: in World War II when bombs at noontide blasted the centre of the vil­ lage and brought the horrific irnpact of aerial warfare nearer to us all.


'establishment in the chur­ chyard here. The revelry and noisy bartering interrupted the brethren at their silent


rest of the day in Clitheroe, but the passing minutes meant that I contented myself with a few words on the cas­ tle, the town’s three wells, Georgian Church Street and the two fairs, for which Clitheroe only received its charter when the monks of Whalley objected to their


meditations! A s w e n e. a r o d


Brungerley, the hipping stones and Henry Vlth were . be spoken of, and the Dule upon Dun, Peg-o-Nell and Waddow and .Waddington Halls. As we climbed to the top of


the fells,. Walloper Well was the source of some amuse­ ment, arid in te re s t : was aroused in Newton with stories' of the Quaker Meeting House and Puritan tradition established’ there,'. At Sla'idburn the Rev.


George- Gaze, the genial Rector,' took over and after


OF IIELLIFIELD LTD ■WISH-T0-ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR


Edmund Spenser’s work. ; stone, walls typical of the area, Obviously, as we"psssedju*whilg; se veral lime^ kilns


further cups of coffee (the Rector is very good at coffee) he highlighted the unusual features of his historic church. We made our way to Dsnsop and viewed en route tile dry


through Chatburn,, reference' ".excited lpterest and curiosity,, had to be made'to-thejihies-. ” : Dunsop has .its owfi traai-, tone industry and to the tions and, of course, the f:ls- ...................................... mating trout farm and ham-


let of Whitewell, with its Alpine scenery, was left behind with great reluctance. Cow Ark, Browsholme,


We could have spent the,


Kemple End and Stonyhurst' provided material for further anecdotes and despite the tor­ rential rain which .followed us every mile of the way, the fantastic scenery of much of our area left the ladies thrilled with its variety and beauty. That this is insufficiently appreciated was confirmed last weekend when a coach driver, who has taken numer­ ous tours to the Continent and Scotland and Wales, gave rne his views. He considered the panoramic views from Wad­ dington Fells looking down and over the Hodder Valley in the Newton direction quite; “out of this wo|'ld” and “abso­ lutely unbeatable,” verdicts I would hesitate) to challenge. And- the ladid-s it had been my' pleasure t/o escort? They returned to Manchester over­ flowing with] stories of the wonderful time they- had enjoyed to (husbands, who were then kilking themselvfes because they'hadn’t had the sense to take a day off and o repeat J. M/ Same’s phrases “Let us join the ladies.” f


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