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THREE local teachers — including a husband and wife — who turned stu-‘ dent in their spare time to take courses with the Open '.University, have gained, their Bachelor .of Arts, degrees. .■ X •


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, The couple with a degree • apiece are Mr and Mrs Ken­ neth Lacey, of Mitton Road, Whalley.


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Doctor dies month after


I ONLY a month after his retirement, Whalley general I practitioner Dr Charles Brown died suddenly last I week in Blackburn Royal Infirmary. .


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Croft, had. been in practice in Whalley for 30 years up to his retirement a month ago. His one-man practice covered a scattered 10-mile area border-- ing on Chatburn, Mellor, Dut­ ton and Sabden.


Dr Brown (63), of The ■ ' * 7 i


, Born in Greenock, Dr Brown graduated from Glas­ gow University in 1939. Shortly after war broke out he joined the RAMC and saw service at Dunkirk, Alamein and Tunis. ■


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became Deputy Assistant Director of Medjcal Services, covering’an area from Trieste to near Venice.


In 1945 he was in Italy and


■in a degree course to fill in her spare time after leaving Madeley College of Educa-'


three years ago when Mrs Caroline Lacey (28) enrolled


. Their unusual double began ’tion, in' Staffordshire.. ‘ . - ’ " - x


, Her husband, also 28 and now an English teacher at Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe, decided ;to,‘take the same course to keep her-company. They both opted to study:


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•urging-on,” explained Mr Lacey, whose wife is head of the housecraft department at Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School. .


- “It helped-greatly that we were both: doing . the same course because when one of us started flagging,1 the -other was always. there to -do the


, • ; • • • . I ■ v • month rest from their spare


time studies before they, con­ sider anything else, i “We're relievedThat' we are'-


. have a- rest. It will be pleasant to have a-little time to ourse­ lves for a change: For the past three years our studies have taken up most of our evenings and weekends.” . .


through the first hurdle,” said-/ Mr Lacey this week. “We may’ go on.:to take an honours1 degree,;. but- first we! plan to


• degree/in art'.after athree- . yearj'Open>University course. -:/ . 7 ;,':L ‘.' A ; ;N v v iT ■ • - .Already the holder of a Cer­ tificate of Education, which


fo£ the/past ,12,months, Mr Parker/(28) was promoted to” head-of the.art department at Christinas.’ He has 'gained ,ii'


hej gained at the Cambridge Institute of Education, he now hopes to take an Open University honours degree.


■ Completing the trio of local- successes is Mr Terry Parker, of King Lane, Clitheroe. .


Now the Lacey s plan a 12-


A teacher at Ivy Bank Com-/ prehensive School, Burnley,' '


.to complete the degree course 1 varied at different times, he saysl" “Sometimes I could afford to forget about my studies, but .some weeks .it was necessary- to work for 15


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or’ 20 spare-time hours ;a week.” ’ .


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Stoke on Trent but moved’ to Clitheroe from Norfolk. He and his wife, J;ine, have three ' children, Justine (7), Frances (5) and Alexander (3). He is i the second teacher from -Ivy Bank to gain an Open Univer­ sity degree in'the past two, years. ■ , , ,


Mr Parker went to schooj in


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Parker, are among more: than t 590:North West students who ; have recently graduated-from.') the. Open .University,. The ■: North West students form 11 ; per cent, of the national total .-,


■Mr'and Mrs Lacey and:Mr. , of 5;256-recent, graduates, ■ >


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he became Treasury Medical Officer to employees of the village’s Post Office and was police surgeon for Clitheroe and Whalley in the 50s and 60s.


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[TWO firsts were achieved by JCiithcron Chess Club, now in jits third year of inter-club ■chess, when members played | Lucas A at Burnley.


Jthat Clitheroe had beaten ■Lucas and, more significantly,


jit was the first time that jevery member of the team


Jachieved by four wins and two lraws in the six-board match


ning margin of 5-1 was


land this in itself is the highest [victory' margin so fa r


[achieved. For Clitheroe, Bernard


Shaw drew on board one with McLean. Wins on boards


two to five were gained by irian C a rr a g a in s t J. lobinson, by Derek Northage


Bind by George Hardman ligainst C. Blackwood'. The ■sixth member of the Clitheroe lteam, Stan Townsend, man­ aged a draw against F. Ensor.


against E. Cross, by Eric Mansfield against P. Doughty


Jme against league leaders Burnley, takes place at the


The next match, a crucial


[Station Hotel, Clitheroe, on [February 12th.


It was the first occasion


When he moved to Whalley Clifton Sq. Clifton St. Tel. Burnley 35940


In his younger days Dr


Brown enjoyed fishing and tennis and was a member of the Mitton Road club.


Church of the English Mar­ tyrs, where a Requeim Mass was held on Tuesday prior to interment at Whalley and Wiswell Cemetery.


He worshipped at the


Catriona; three married daughters, Fiona, Charlotte and Catriona; and a son, Charles Ferguson.


Dr Brown leaves a wife, I Jhad avoided defeat. The win- UNDER


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CANVAS PLANS are well under way for the third young people’s Christian camp at West Brad­ ford this summer.


Brian Clark, of Buck’s Farm, the camp will be held on their land from Friday, July 9th to Sunday, July 11th.


Organised by Mr and Mrs People attending must


bring their own camping equipment, including tents and litter bags, food, a change of clothing and footwear — and a Bible.


. There will be adult supervi­ sion all the time and visitors are welcome. Applications should be made to Mr and Mrs Clark.


ON a dark, stormy night more than 30 years ago an American fighter plane plummeted into Pendle Hill, killing the pilot and scattering wrec­ kage over Mearley Moor. And this week a Clitheroe


bomber — to give to’ his 10- year-old nephew, Steven, who lives in Stafford.


hobby of collecting military relics — a pastime which Mr Roberts himself pursued in his youth.


Steven has taken up the


ex-RAF man, Mr Arnold Roberts, has made an appeal which he hopes will lead him to acquiring a piece of the wreckage as a collector’s item. Mr Roberts, of Conway


Avenue, wants a piece of metal from the plane — a P-47- Republic Thunderbolt fighter-


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know if anyone in Clitheroe has a piece of the aircraft, or call give him the National Grid reference of the crash, or a bearing from a • well known point. He has tried once before to


locate the scene of the crash when Steven and his father,


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Mr Roberts would like to


Mr Wilf Roberts, came to Clitheroe last May to stay for a few days. But he met with little suc­


cess and is eager to obtain some information before Ste­ ven and his father arrive in Clitheroe again in about three


weeks time.. Mr Roberts was living in • Clitheroe during the war and remembers going to Pendle on the night of the crash. “A friend and I went up the


military equipment in those days but I didn’t keep them and now I’ve lost what pieces of the aircraft I managed to pick up that night.” Mr Roberts said that there were many other crashes in


hill to the scene of the crash,” said Mr Roberts. “We drag­ ged a huge piece of engine down the hill, but it fell into a stream, and I can’t recall just where it was. “I used to collect bits of


the Clitheroe area during the war including one on Lon- gridge'Fell and another near Slaidburn where a.giant American Flying Fortress bomber came down. He would • be glad of any information relating to the exact location of these aircraft wreckages. He has a keen interest in


aircraft and has flown in many different types. During the war he was a


member of the Clitheroe Sea Cadets and spent some time aboard- the aircraft carrier HMS Argus. He flew, as a passenger in a Fairy Sword­ fish biplane — one of the anti­ quated variety of British tor­ pedo aircraft responsible for the sinking of the German bat­ tleship “The Bismark.” Later he joined the,-Air


Training Corps and progres­ sed to the RAF in which he spent two years — based first at Gosport, and then near the


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when the crisis of 1956 blew u p .


he flew in the twin-engined Anson trainer plane, and sev­ eral types of monoplanes. . Mr Roberts has been off


During his time in the RAF


work for some time due to ill health, but previously was a compositor for the Blackburn Times for several years.


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VANDALS who broke into Ribblesdale School on Friday night left a classroom in dis­ array, broke two windows, and damaged some pictures, but left without taking any­ thing with them.


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