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.to disagree after renew-; ing an acquaintance with’ Pendleton,’ the village with part of its /parish severed by the. new by pass; Whatever, the inci sions or alterations to its borders, Pendleton still retains character and all that is best when we seek old world charm.
)T IS said that absence makes; the heart grow- fonder and Isee no reason'
change oyer the years and I find that in retaining the old world atmosphere it has man aged to actually improve its image.
Basically it shows little Compared with the scene of ■1
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30 years ago,'the obvious facelift gives a cheerful uplift to those who find many of our villages deteriorating in coun t r y values. The peace and tranquility remains and as I paused at the foot of the vil lage I was reminded of a simi-. lar picture decades
ago.The irreplaceable continues to be of the utmost value to those who make plans.
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The dull wintry afternoon - failed to. hide. the attractive'
. atmosphere . and I feel the . open spacious feeling within ■ the heart of the place is in so ■ many ways, responsible' for this reaction. Wherever you walk you cannot complain of being-hemmed in; v .
.times blushing with extraordi nary red faces, see no fun in
nham, continue to thrive. But at Pendleton, with the brook providing a magnetic focal point,. the Muscovies, at all
Even the ducks, as
at.Dow-
: at . all seasons and Pendleton brook is no exception "as-1 found when chatting to Mrs R. Marsland, now'residing at the foot of. the village. Mrs Marsland, formerly Ruth
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restricting their activities to ! the immediate precincts of the stream.. Walls, gate!;, fences and even car roofs are in mo way immune from their atten tion. Freedom of access is their claim and their wander- - ings know no limits. . -
Making use of the farmer’s Land Rover is generally
accepted as normal procedure, but they appear to have no sense of ownership and many are the visitors who have been somewhat alarmed when one or more used a car roof as a landing strip.
Streams are bound to attract both tame and wild life •-
CQwperthwaite, and her fam ily cannot be separated from Pendleton and for many years her hospitality and knowledge of local matters has stood unrivalled. Indeed, it has been suggested on good authority that she has her “roots under Pendle” and the truth of this delightful reference has never, to my knowledge, been denied. -. • ' -
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thwaite and Pendleton are synonymous, as are Pendle arid Pendleton itself, You just
cannot have one and not the other. '
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inevitable subjects of conver sation, and as .we talked 'a heron alighted in the stream less than 20 paces from where ' we were standing and within 10 feet of the main road. Between watching the heron and partaking of a cup of tea, conversation was chanelled to a piece of land on Pendleside.
Matters of local history are V a °n renciiesKie. Thp. names of Cowper-.
v ..- The. portion of land divided by a stream has deep, and
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, night at the Swan with Two Necks when the letting was
’settled. Apparently the piece of
• from their grazing on Pendle and as the beasts were
-and better land in the valley. In order to prevent this, the
brought down to lower ground it was natural for them to spread out over the adjacent
•region of £1 — quite a drama-■ bearing the same name and many are the'stories told of,
local farmers combined to build a wall to restrict the wandering. At one period the letting brought in what is admitted to be an exceptional sum of-£10. Now-it is in the
tic drop, most unusual in these days of nightmarish inflation.
Pendleton could ignore the pleasant wayside pub with the strange and unusual name of
strange and unusual name of Of course no mention of
with regard to the name of Pendleton, for as we know ■there are others
The same cannot be said in England -
who will always associate the name with frustrating roads ' and a wrong destination; • There
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WHEN Mrs Mary Jane Maxwell was a young bride, nickname “Lady-go-Likely”, because he said she was Today, as she celebrates
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with four daughters, a son, 13 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren popping in to keep her abreast with the times.
be regarded as a smart person with up-to-date ideas. It is perhaps not surprising,
Mrs Maxwell normally
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stays in bed until noon, but this morning she will be up early to start her birthday with a celebration of Holy Communion by Fr E. Wil loughby, of SS Michael and John’s Church; Life has not always been as
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watching the “Upstairs Down stairs” series on television, but felt it in no way related to her own experiences. She worked for the middle classes — which she said could only be described as slavery — and was of the opinion that it must have been much easier to have been employed by the upper classes, in those days. ■ During her long working life Mrs Maxwell has turned ___ __
placid for Mrs Maxwell as it is now. Born in Leigh, she was brought up in an orphanage for a time and at the age of 12 went into service. Beginning her working day at 6 a.m. she was not able to retire at night until everything was done. Mrs Maxwell enjoyed'
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1970 and now they' have received degrees at the same time from the Memorial Uni versity of Newfoundland. . David (29), has gained a BA in sociology and a B.Ed., and Margaret a BA in English and B.Ed. They, are now both teaching at Churchill Falls, Labrador, a town built round the world’s largest under ground hydro-electric pow erhouse. ■ ,
a licentiate of Trinity College of Music, London — and is choir director and organist at. the United Church of Canada,
David teaches piano — he is
CANADA is certainly proving a land of dreams come true for former Clitheroe man David Wrigley and his wife Margaret. The couple emigrated in
Allan Wrigley, of The High lands, Beverley Close, Clitheroe, David was head boy at Ribblesdale School before t r a n s fe r r in g to Clitheroe Royal Grammar School.
Edge Hill College of Educa tion in Ormskirk, where they both trained to be teachers. After training, he taught at Gawthorpe, Secondary School, Padiham, and Margaret at a school in her home town of Poynton, Cheshire. - They were married in
He and his wife first met at
August 1970 and flew to a new life in Newfoundland four days after the wedding. At first they lived and
recital on the Canadian Radio network. The son of Mr and Mrs
Churchill Falls. He has already given a classical piano
worked at Fortune, on the southern tip of Newfound land, and it was there that David’s parents paid them a five-week visit two years ago. “It’s a completely different way of life out there—the cost
of living is not much higher but the standard is much bet ter,” said Mr Allan Wrigley. “They went to Canada because it was a land of new
'a better job. “There is no telling whether
opportunities and they are very happy there. “Discipline is stronger in schools which makes teaching
they will eventually come back to England — at the moment they are both hoping to go back to university to do postgraduate work.” But at the moment David
and Margaret‘are weathering the Canadian winter in Chur
ture to fall 60 degrees below freezing. - They sometimes have to
Wear plastic face shields to p ro te c t them from the
extreme cold-and, according to David’s father, “taking a car out is like a rally'on the icy roads'at this time of year. Skidoos and snowploughs are more common forms of trans port.” That should not dismay David, who was a keen member of Clitheroe Motor Club when he lived here.
Churchill Falls is the free electricity provided in the town — even to the extent of special leads to be plugged into cars which are parked in the town centre to stop them from freezing.
One consolation of living in
chill Falls, where it is not uncommon
for.the tempera
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Talent for making music
A LIFETIME’S interest in music began for Miss Margot Downer-Bottomley when she was just old enough to reach the keys of her mother’s piano.
her husband gave her the a smart walker.
her hand to every job under the sun. She has been a wait ress, chambermaid and cook, taken in washing and sewing and even done men’s barber- ing pudding-bowl style.
dren 55 years ago, she had to do her best for them, and she recalls with pride that they managed to have a holiday at Blackpool every year.
example of her own saying, “Hard work killed no one.” She worked hard and saved hard, and now she likes to watch youngsters having a good time, although she despises hooliganism. Life was much harder in her younger days, and when she was widowed there was no help from the state as there would be today.
Mrs Maxwell is a living
month course to the technical college.
she worked part-time in a munitions factory in Black pool. In the second war, when she lived in Bolton, she bil leted young Air Force men who were sent on a three-
During the first world war Left a widow with five chil
MRS MAXWELL with her youngest great- granddaughter, two-month-old Laura Cook
Even today, one of them
keeps in touch with her. He is now a head teacher in Wales and three years ago came on a surprise visit to see her. To all the boys she was affection ately called “Ma” and was proud that they all regarded her home as their own.
" Between the wars Mrs Maxwell took parties of underprivileged children to Blackpool for day’s outings. Some had never seen the sea before and were very excited to have a picnic on the beach.
character, Mrs Maxwell recalls first seeing her hus band, Thomas William, when he was chasing a dog past her window. She decided there and then that this was the man she wanted to marry, and told h er b ro th e r , who arranged a meeting. All three went to the pictures — the
A woman of determined
start to further meetings. Six months later they mar
ried and bought a house in Oldham. Mr Maxwell ended up as head waiter at Blackpool Tower, with his wife working as a waitress.
Padiham 21 years ago and has been at Clitheroe for the past 13 years. Life is very comfort able with her daughter and son-in-law Henry. She goes out to parties and dances — and gets up to dance, too. Up to three years ago she spent holidays in Cornwall with the family, and she has also
Mrs Maxwell went to live at
her daughter with the chores, such as washing up and pre paring vegetables for dinner. Once a week a visiting hair dresser restyles her hair, helping her to keep a bright and modern outlook on life.
travelled to Belgium and France. Mrs Maxwell likes to help
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principal topic of conversation in the pubs. It concerned Mrs Appleby, the young wife of Edgar
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known and' well-liked in the village. On many an occasion, when hearing of a family in difficult circumstances, she would call and offer tactful help and many an elderly per son, Sick and lying on a bed of pain, was comforted by the unexpected gift of fruit, but ter, eggs, perhaps a home-■ made cake, and all kinds of goodies delivered to the door on the instructions of the ladies at the abbey.
Mrs Appleby was both well-
tle and radiant smile must' surely have, brought moments of happiness to the grannies at whose bedsides her mother halted for a.few minutes of
quently aOcbmpanied her mother on -these charitable missions and her childish prat
Little Edith Mary fre
ON September 13th, 1881, Whalley was shocked and sha ken as news of a sad tragedy was whispered from mouth to mouth. It was told over gar den walls between neighbours and, later in the day was the
VILLAGE IN MOURNING Whalley Window
lady of the Victorian era in social responsibility, lady-like d u ty , d em e a n o u r and decorum. It is fair to say that when
As Mrs Appleby stepped into her carriage at
the.foot of the steps of that Hanoverian entr ance to the conference House, few could have guessed her journey would have been of such short duration or end so sadly. Whether she was to visit friends,- or was just tak ing the air in the hopes of brightening .the roses in her daughter’s cheeks, the old lady who recounted the story to me was unable to tell. Not quite old enough to remember
Mrs Appleby drove through the village in her brougham, Edith Mary at her side, many caps would be touched and many a curtsey dropped in response to the graceful \Vave and gracious smile. Then came that fateful day;
understanding and sympathe tic conversation. It was, of course, an accepted part of the training of every little
the tragedy herself, she had heard the story at her mother’s knee.
• . Whatever the reason for 1 the outing, whatever the cause of the disaster so soon to interrupt it, as the carriage passed over the cobbled drive way beyond the north east gate, the horse or horses took fright and bolted. It may have been the yap
ment at St Augustine’s School, Billington, for the past 12 years, Miss Downer- Bottomley has fully immersed herself in a wide variety of musical projects. At school she runs two cboirs, a brass ensemble, a rumba band and other groups playing guitars and recorders. Miss Downer-Bottomley, of
'years ago that she had a talent for composing.
at my piano a musical idea just came into my head and I knew I had to write it down,” she explained. “I worked on the piece intermittently, changing things I didn’t like very much and -found myself with my first composition.” .
musical colleges in London, Manchester and Vienna, but decided she needed expert tui tion in the art of composition and went to Cologne to study with Dr Rohrig.
She had already studied at
find a stone with the simple words, "In their lives they
unlikely that any other of the many memorials in the green acre tell of lives so suddenly and sadly terminated.
. afterwards in the presence of many tearful, mourners, mother and child were laid to ' rest beneath the elms in Wlial-' ley’s ancient' churchyard..1 •Above their grave you >;"’ •
ping of some silly dog close to their hooves; a eat perhaps, that ran across the road, but within minutes the carriage overturned and Mrs Appleby, and her daughter Were flung. violently to the ground. ; V Whether death was instan-- taneous, whether the unfortu nate young wife lingered in • pain for a few days before quietly drawing her last breath, again we are not told, We do know that v e ry shortly
will find other interesting memorials. Stones with dates that never existed and are not written on any calendar; April 31st and that recording the passing of Jacob Green at the age of three on February 30th, 1819.
' There is; tpo, the grave of George Crawshaw, husband
man of Read, who attained the great age of 105, the tomb- of the Jeliicoe family which ,
■gave to Britain one of her great naval heroes and, of course, the box tomb-of the
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‘yourself, Finding them will bring an interesting if melan choly hour ;and provide, perhaps, much food for reflec tion and contemplation.
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were lovely and in death were not divided." Nineteen years later the sorrowing husband and father was buried in the same hallowed spot. An unhappy story and it is
that one of her pieces was scored and played by the Col ogne Symphony Orchestra for broadcast on Radio Hamburg.
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• Miss Downer-Bottomley not only composes classical music, however. She enjoys all types of music and writes . songs with a more popular appeal, with titles like “Never fall in love” and “Castle in the clouds.”
Bottomley has both a testing ground and an outlet for her work.
songs on, the children and if they like them it gives them a kind of seal of approval. When
but I can’t say to myself that I .will compose something and just sit down and do it. It usually starts with a Vague musical idea which has to be developed gradually until you
are left with the finished item. ' “This can take ages until
you are satisfied that the par ■
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works can take .months to complete. “I can play music by ear,
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land formed, the .pathway covered. by the. cattle to and
•• strange-, connections .and-is commonly referred-to as “The Dene.” Traditionally the ■ ten ant of. nearby Wymondhouses; has the yearly letting, of/The. Dene and l am assured that in the old days it was a very big
; :is not merely./ the name but • also the• sign,which portrays a two-necked swan.
Obviously, there .has. been great play, and distortion/-:in
/establishing what mustadmit-
tedly.be a freakish sign. Origi- • nally the sign would conform to the generally accepted way of marking swans, these large
• motive which brought, into ; being the present sign. ' Although it is a strange travesty of actual fact, it does , serve a very useful purpose . and seldom fails to bring com
‘birds being marked by nicking the mandible, the initial
ment from visitors. It is I con sider, unique and you will travel far to find a com parison.
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places ..of..-the
.-.same name within a radius of 30 miles and just as. Waddington attracted many war vehicles during the
last conflict as they searched for their /headquarters, so Pendleton lures the innocent.
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comments are entirely unsuit- able for. this or any other respectable column. I did con sole him and it so happened that he was destined for Pend leton near Manchester. What that fellow thought of the nar row lanes fringed with tall hawthorns I leave to your, imagination, naturalist
I have vivid recollections of one such instance when I was- standing at the head of the village by' Wiswell road end. It was mid-morning and a large cumbersome lorry slowly found its way down the narrow hedge-skirted lane. Brakes were applied and the obviously distracted driver asked if I could tell him of the whereabouts of so-and-so’s engineering works. I told him there was no such place which could be anticipating such a huge delivery, at least not in this neck of the woods. He was astonished and his
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