4 tintusioe Advertiser--and. Times, January 8tfu, x976 Highlights of the past


YOU must have noticed how, during the past few years, there has been a tendency to hark back. Books, radio and TV give rise to the thought that :we do better, to look at the past, sorting out our souvenirs not only con­ cerning Victorian and Edwardian times, but of more recent occasions. Those who have reached the


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SIX months’ job hunting ended when he answered conservation rangers.


crash course in thd Lake Dis­ trict, Martin, who will be 17 in March, has begun a new career working in the York­


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on a crash course at the Win­ dermere camp. During the day they were taken out to work with rangers and at night they attended lectures. Martin’s love of the great


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year but Martin, like many of the boys, is hoping he will be taken on as a full-time ranger at the end of that time. At the end of the year cer­


to conserve the countryside, looking after forests and mak­ ing footpaths in national park areas. Under the heading “Task Force North,” it is a new Government scheme to try and lessen the shortage of employment fo r school leavers. The job only lasts for one


The work involves helping


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outdoors really developed only a year ago, when he joined the newly-formed Ven­ ture Scout troop in the village. Since then he has enjoyed camping, rock climbing, walk­ ing and canoeing and is keen in the long-term to take a job involving these pursuits. As a trainee ranger he will


three boys and two girls, Mar­ tin left St Cecilia’s Secondary School, Longridge, last sum­ mer. Since then he has taken odd jobs whenever he could but this new opportunity has solved a big problem for him and although it will be hard work, he is looking forward to the challenge it offers.


but Martin should be able to return to Chipping for holi­ days occasionally. The eldest of a family of


Setback


for panto THE virulent ’flu bug which has hit many of the area’s schoolchildren has also affected the cast of Trinity Methodist Church's pan­ tomime “Hansel and Gretel”. ■'Rehearsals have been under


pantomime, Mrs Bertha Brad- shaw and Mr Norman Hornby, are sur.e everything will be perfect for the opening night on January 23rd.


also had to miss rehearsals because of ’flu, and to cap it all Lindsay Knight, who takes the p ar t of Gretel, has recently torn a ligament in her ankle and cannot walk very far. But the producers of the


way since the end of October, but in the last month the mini­ epidemic has taken its toll of many of the younger members of the 50-strong cast. Several older players have


work a full day, but nights and weekends are his own and there will be plenty of oppor­ tunity to go out climbing. “Home” will be in a hostel,


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for Martin Whitaker, of Longridge Road, Chipping, an advertisement asking for boys to become trainee


formances of the pantomime, the church’s twelfth. The first show will be for elderly and handicapped people from the town and local hospitals.


Trinity Methodist School, but anyone wanting tickets had. b e t te r hurry . . . if past shows are anything to go by, the pantomime is likely to be a sell out.


Bookings open tomorrow at


Dancing clogs


A PAIR of Clitheroe clogs, made their television debut last week during the first programme of the new ATV • series “Clayhanger”. The special dancing clogs,


made in the workshop of R. Turner and Sons, of Castle Street, were featured during a scene in a pub when actress Mo Wilsher was performing a clog dance.


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pairs and I understand the other pair will be used during an epiqode in June,” said Mr John Turner.


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picture LOCAL people wondering what they looked like on that glorious day in June when Clitheroe staged its second - Petticoat Lane Market could easily put themselves in the picture.


. F or Burnley amateur photographer Mr Eric Dunnill captured the highly successful event on his cine camera and


diminishing number in the: country still making clogs, has done work for the television company before and once made a pair for Hylda Baker. ‘‘ATV wrote asking for two


The firm, one of a rapidly MARTIN . 1*. HOPEFUL OF BECOMING A RANGER.


they actually happened, how­ ever, posed several problems for him. “I found the shots of • the Morris and Maypole danc­


of joiners, builders and timber merchants, Mr Dunnill set out’ to record the unique atmos­ phere of the market. “It is a general film of the day’s hap­ penings,” he explained. ‘<1 tpok shots of the stallholders in old-time costumes, the people buying goods and the many varied attractions which took place.” His desire to film things as


soundtrack, Mr Dunnill, a member of Burnley Cine Club and Calder Film Club; will be prepared to show the film to any interested organisation. A director of a Burnley firm


his . 15-minute film will be ready for showing’ in about three weeks’ time. Once he has completed the


ing very difficult to do, as everyone crowded in front of my camera and I had to lift it above my head to get the dancers on film.”


Close, Burnley, also has some film of the first Petticoat Lane Market in June 1972, but he was only able to arrive towards the end and could hot photograph many of the events. He is, however, pre­ pared to show what bit of film he has of that day, together with the one taken last year.


Mr Dunnill, of 8 Redgate


interest he would like to show are those of the “Bambi” deer family at the Bolton-by- Bowland Farm of Mr and Mrs H. Hodgson, and a Bashall Eaves wool-gatherer who spins her own wool. Anyone with ideas for any


VERY shortly now we will have looked through this “Whalley Window” together some 500 times and, since that Friday in 1966 when No. 1 appeared, we have learned a lot.


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in our almost 10 years of “looking and seeing?” We have learned, for a start, that if you really want to get the facts about some happening in .the past and have difficulty in obtaining full details, the quic­ kest and most certain way of doing so is'to publish an incor­ rect statement.


. Within days, the letters


start arriving with the sole object of "putting me right.” Some writers are apologetic. “I am sorry,” the correspon- . dent will start, “but I am afraid you have made a slight mistake” and then continues


with his—or'her—version 'of. the facts;


Others are less 'polite. , •


“You’ve slipped up very badly,” wrote one “gentle­ man” (I hope he was a gentle-


you remember, a much shor­ ter series dealing, with the developments in our village over the preceding 50 years and these stimulated so much interest that it became inevit­ able that the present series was born. Well, what have we learned


These articles followed, if


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man); “You really are a twerp. You are. Completely off the mark,” and then produced his version of the affair, underlin­ ing the phrase ‘.‘these are the facts’’ several times. "


Oddly, the two versions sel­


dom agree but between the opinions^ of Miss “A” and Mr ' “B”*we are able eventually to get to the bottom of the mat­ ter and everybody is happy— I hope!


from America who called upon ’ me at work one afternoon, having flown ip to Heathrow from the continent that morn/ ing. His ancestors, he said, came from Wiswell 300 years earlier and he would-like to know more about them.:


- The second thing we have learned is what a tremendous lot of Whalleys there are in the world; Whalleys in Canada,' New.Zealand, Australia, America, South Africa, who all fervently believe that their ancestors were Lords of the Manor here in centuries gone. r There .was even'the:man


When I suggested that-we '


do a little searching aroUnd together the following day he shook his head. “No, Mister,” he told me, “Not possible. I’ve got to leave, here in three hours for London. Fm flying back to the States tonight!’1


■'folklore, of geology, of dialect, of architecture. Some


.notebooks, sketch pads, even one or two with tape recor­ ders, they arrive to do their individual bit of research, ask their questions qnd do a little “brain-picking.”


have been here for short periods, some have never heard of us until allocated a subject for research, but one at a time, sometimes in couples or small groups, along they come.- Armed' with


course; and to help as much as. one can but, in general, by far the best course would be for. them to'visit one or another of


It’s'nice to see them; of.


•universities and colleges throughout the country who are taking an interest in our village; students of history, of


And a third thing? How many students there are at


Among other films of local


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say Knight is Carol Gregson as Hansel. In charge of cos­ tumes are Mrs Mary Carus and Mrs Audrey Dickinson, and Mr Roy Hope is the stage manager. There will be eight per­


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age of discretion have ceased to wonder* They just acknow­ ledge the ridiculous economic situation which• at all times offers little hope for , the future. Consequently we, having survived the past, turn back to it in search of happy memories. To look ahead, at least for those who are really involved, is depressing, and as it is part of human nature to fear the unknown,’ what better than the pleasure of the assured past, and those exploits and excursions down memory lane? Were it not for this form of escapism, many could not face the future. Take consola­


; sleep, enables • us to escape from the so-called realities of life.


i • Let us, therefore, cast our tion that nature, in providing


minds over the past year and, - th e Welfare State and ignoring.the Alice in Wonder-' increased incomes we find land world about us, recall the best things in which we have participated. Although the world appears to be upside down, things natural were not too-bad. The seasons; thank goodness, are very stable and the sunrises and sunsets very reliable.


ions, the old year saw a further threat to wild life caused by motorways and the facilities of travel. Many people remember the days when lack of money or


the year, followed by harsh East winds.'Extremes were avoided and, true to form, we soon found some truth in the adage “If November ice holds a duck, there will follow slush and muck.’.’ November and December just past gave simi­ lar conditions, leaving us with the thought that we are to get a repetition of early 1975. Once again, as in other reg­


We had a wet beginning to


they: said, was the result of: deprivation. Experience has proved them wrong and with


even poverty was said to." be the root of our- evils. Crime,


■. more crime, vandalism, self-; ish motives and lack of consid-


( and kestrels — all to add to an: \ income which, ‘20 years ago, would have been considered of the .'highest standard. •' These people have no care or consid­ eration for wild life or indeed for any kind of life when money is- the objective. Perhaps the “recession” will bring about a wave of sanity and curb obnoxious activity, thus giving wild life a respite from human predators. On the brighter side of the


•We saw gangs travelling 50 miles to raid our district in the quest for owls, sparrowhawks'


picture, it is encouraging to note an increase in the king­ fisher population.-As with most sections of wild life, it is difficult to give an overall estimate of Ribblesdale, but it is good to hear from an old


friend and naturalist; Mr Bert • Holgate, of, West Bradford,'


: who reported the successful breeding season of these exo- : tic birds on his length of the Kibble. ■ Who.can deny that the gold­


: eration for all amenities than at any time in our history.’ ■


finch, surely, second to none in brilliance, save perhaps the kingfisher,' shows every sign of extending its territory both .


• in 1975 it spread to the 'uplands.


> ■ Another -welcome sign


comes from two readers; one in. the Bolton-by-Bowland area and one in Sabden. Both report sightings of’ a diminu­ tive resident — the lesser spotted woodpecker — in • these areas. Additions such as • these • are most welcome and few people, whatever their' interests, will be disturbed by their presence. - Sad to say, the same does


- by, Ribble and .Hodder. Not only has this beautiful finch flourished in the lowlands but •


stage to dwell on: the-sordid affair, a fuller survey is called for in the near future. : .


indications .that the wheels of democratic, opinion,: slow but : sure,, are in' motion/. Public


,-In the,meantime there are


i "ears to the-ground.” • " Om to.more uplifting sub­


feeling will be .encouraged with. the-efforts of Goun. J. Fell and others who, realising the grave: threat,-have their


• bird,. seldom seen' but.somer. times ■ heard after nightfall, was first reported in the Lit- tlemoor Mill district by Mr B. Dent, who saw. the bird on occasions,silhouetted against the evening sky.


jects,’ bird observers in par­ ticular will be as surprised as I Was on 'hearing of the pre­ sence -of. avnightjar, in late autumn. This’ most unusual


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not apply to the finest and most noble of all Ribblesdale amenities — the deer. They have stood a bludgeoning and are reduced in numbers, and . while I do not intend at this


on hearing the unusual call. Later the bird was seen and often heard in the Claremont, area arid .there are those, who had visions of some enormous cricket calling, incessantly at the front of their garden.


■ At first he 'Was mystified


, of colouration and feathering reminiscent of the woodcock.


the nightjar must be one of the strangest; almost reptilian in appearance, with a scheme


: The bird, which spent • some i time in the. Clitheroe area must have been on passage


, after nesting, perhaps on the 1 surrounding moors.


• have its ups-and-downs in this part of the world. Bird watch- ers will, I- know, be keeping a


'.by Ribble.and Hodder and as with most wild life- seems' to


It has always :been scarce


■ watch, or should I say keeping their ears on. the alert next


' August, when the' birds return to our territory.


, year provided the odd bird which was reported to me by Mr T. Lord; of Chatburn


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how proud and interested in the story of our — their — village are our own “old- timers.” Over the years they have passed to me a wealth of stories and anecdotes which, until this series got under way, had never previously


the larger libraries or the County Records Office.where today most of our ancient records are kept. Finally, we have learned


rappeared in print "and which, otherwise, almost inevitably with the passing of time, would soon have been com­ pletely forgotten. ■ _ And (and this is. additionally


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