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aim.Jura uinj A pleasant riverside ramble


OF THE scores of people vis-. iting the Ribble.-Valley in the next few: weeks,'many will — as the local tourist informa- ' lion, siaff. has just reminded- me '— ■ be here for the first- ■ time.


And many, will.be anxious t o - ; -


taketa . walk'in .our pleasant^; pastures.-Most1 have no desire •. to break records, or even to conquer Pendle.’ They will be ■ content to .-.potter, around within easy reach of the town centre:’ . ■ Few. towns are blessed with -


such amenities as Clitheroe. Within five minutes of leaving Market Place, you are in open landscape seldom associated even with Ribblesdale. If a stranger sought my


advice on a pleasing walk (not ...- to o a rd u o u s o r tim e - consuming), I would suggest, he leaves the centre by way of King Street and turns right at the old railway station, follow­


ing.: the ‘signpost pointing Ho.'- miles: to the. north, the . Bow- Kirkmoov. Rqad. ■ * . land fells outline the sky and T h re e ih u n t lred ^ y a rd s t - to'the east: the eye follows the


further on,jtjjp first stile into j::r.gvaceful contour of Grindleton the fields reveals ari outlook fell/. -'■V-'" , • normally assp,ciiH<!d;;■ with--, Once in the last field before: places' far- away fl'bmur town. ■ .-vRibble, a short two miles:frprm' 1 Proceed dowfr'this lfiel<,T and v . i


s thq starting point,' the- visitor


you are confronted,\b>7anothei- y-r.vwill^ stand. and- 'stare as the? stile. Herey6njeaiiduLh'shaiTr>-.l<river-rushes.turbulently over right and....- Road at continue ;


and at theingxtlgatei.you,‘wjn. find yourselfvin\the. last field > before thli Rifable.1 1 There, are expansive views


of meadow- and distant fell all along this path. At times you are reminded of the sweeping pasture-lands of,-.Tipperary — of .the acres associated with a well-known brand of golden butler!


-. ■ »..-■ .| .To the leftv’shqulderlng the


horizon, is the familiar shape- of Kemple End, the tremina- tion of Longridge Fell. Ten


, roar and the. angry, swirling ^volume reaches deafening i'proportion. - It - is a sight of j'jjispirfng' grandeur, seldom /appreciated even’by those liv- '4ng/.withih easy, reach.


.Across the waters, the greensward rises to .Waddow


.:Hall,^ famous (as a .Guide centre, i The - residence, • set amid .rocky-limestone: knolls is surrounded by 'well-grown oak^; beech and elms-which give ifie whole's most attrac- live atmosphere.


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Married 50 years and the sun ’s still shining!


THE recent warm weather has brought back memories of bygone summers for many people — and especially for Clitheroe couple Arthur and Olive Forrest. For it was on a blazing hot day 50 years ago that they were married.'


July 14th, 1926, was just Courtesy . . .


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such a day as we have been enjoying recently, recalls Mrs Forrest, who has had a lifelong connection with the United Reformed Church in Clitheroe.


’ She and her husband were


married there, when it was the Congregational Church. She was already a member of the choir and still is, her contralto voice having played a big part in many other musi­ cal events in the town. None was more memorable


5,000 spectators to the Castle grounds for its two final performances, Mrs Forrest sang the leading part of Queen Elizabeth. Mr and Mrs Forrest, who


hail ’ respectively from Accrington and. Weslhough- ton, have lived in Clitheroe ever since they were married, first in Richmond Terrace and latterly in St; James’s Street. All his working life until


retirement several years ago, Mr Forrest was a dental tech­ nician in the Church Street practice of his cousin, the late Mr Edward Forrest. Before the .second war, he


was a Lancashire Combina­ tion referee. “That was in the days when it was a real league,” he says. Later, gardening became his main hobby.


.' Mr and Mrs Forrest cele­


brated their golden wedding with a family party at the Castle Restaurant, . where


than the last performance of Clitheroe’s Festival of Britain production “Merrie England”, which coincided with the couple’s silver wedding, in 1951. ' In the musical, which drew


. previously been a Guide at Skipton. During the evening two


they, were joined by Mrs Forrest’s sister Mrs Alice Parker, on a visit from Canada. Mrs Parker and her late


husband, former Dunsop Bridge man James Parker, emigrated 53 years ago, but she has made a few return visits since, Also at the party was the Forrests’ son Edward, of Great Harwood, who is married with three children.


Queen’s


Guide.; W A I) I) I hf(’, TO N ' S f i r s t Queen’s Guide, 15-year-old Barbara Singleton, received her badge at a ceremony.in the village Methodist Hall on Monday. The badge and a cer­ tificate were handed over by Mrs M. Ellis,, of Longridge, Division- Commissioner for Clitheroe and Rowland.


m o n y w e r e. ’ M r s P a t Houldsworth, Commissioner of the newly-created Bowland district, Mrs Jean Greenwood, Guider to the 1st Waddington company, and Miss Joyce Loc­ kett, of Waddow, who ran the company during the absence through illness of Mrs Green­ wood.


Among those ab the cere- It was while Miss Lockett


was in charge that Barbara joined the. company, having


new members, Ruth Coldwell . and ■ Alison ! Watts were enrolled. The presentation was. watched by.members of the Waddington Brownies and several mothers. The Guides ran a penny bazaar and there were-also games and a camp fire for the- Brownies..


After the presentation, the


seven Waddington Guides assembled in the Coronation Gardens for a photograph. -Barbara is pictured receiving her certificate from Mrs Ellis, with Miss Lockett (left) and Mrs Greenwood.


Cameras at pool


ON a blazing day, Clitheroe provided the ideal setting for the finals of BBC TV’s “We are the Champions” — a sports competition for school children.


More than 200 children ;


from four'towns around the country came to the Ribbles­ dale Pool and Roefie.ld football pitches to cheer on their teams. The BBC cameras, u n d e r t h e '. d ire c tio n of producer Clive Doig and production -assistant Alan Lenoir/ spent'a full day film­ ing races and obstacle events both in the sun baked open air and .in the cool of the pool. Each of the four schools in '


the final — frpm Galashiels,' Llangefni, Kidjington, and Noythallerton brought along a six strong team to take p a r t in specially devised


games such, as ‘ Binball’ and “Getta letter.' The youngsters from the


Gosford Hill school in Kidling- Lon stayed overnight at


Waddow Hall. The others stay ed a t a s umme r


camp in Burnley and with families in Preston. Children ,and television crews had lunch at Ribblesdale School. Celebrity guest at.the film­


ing, which was compered;l>y programme presenter Ron Pickering, was referee Clive Thomas. Clive, who officiated at this


year’s FA Cup and the Euro­ pean Nations Cup Finals, started some - of the events and also held a question and answer session with some of the competitors on sporting topics.


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Clitheroe had been chosen as the venue for the programme


because it was a “neutral” place ideally situated between all the towns taking part. “ The programme is all


about the kids enjoying them­ selves, playing games that can be played at any school with the minimum of equipment," he said. With all the shouting and


cheering that was going on there is no doubt that the youngsters did enjoy them­ selves. But to find out which school came tops of “We are the Champions” you’ll have to l o o k in on T u e s d a y , September 21st, when the show goes out on BBC 1.


! Producer Clive-Doig said'


Saltpots pour in


■ A LOT has happened to Clitheroe woman Mrs Mary


Heaton since her unusual hobby of collecting salt-cellars was featured in the Adver­ tiser and Times recently.


Mrs .Heaton, of Dorset


Drive, was whisked away by taxi to the BBC TV studios in Manchester to be interviewed for "Nationwide” and since then several people have contacted her with offers of salt cellar's, or just to chat about her pastime.


An 82-year-old Cheshire


woman promised to send two salt cellars she no longer wants and a lady in Whitefield has sent another pair-made of pink glass with silver tops'.


A Clitheroe woman offered her a silver salt cellar while


another said she could have a tiny salt spoon.


Tale of Jinny Greenteeth


WHEN I was a. small boy, a lady'by the name, of. Jinny Greenteeth was a permanent resident in most of'the deep and nullify ponds .in bur immediate- neighbourhood. ; H o w:' s h e m a n a g e eh t o


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-inhabit so. many damp dwel­ lings-at the same time was never, .'explained tb me but,: wherever, sh'e was found, her activities-were, the same. She wits’ liable at any moment to emerge from the slimy depths and. abduct any; recalcitrant children -who chanced,'to ven­ ture too*-near the. banks of her’ noisome, ab.ocje., Oddly enough, she seemed to have sisters! or close relatives in almost, every corner of Lanca­ shire.


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VS h ewa s , I suppose, a female boggart. In Edwardian


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and Victorian days (and prob­ ably for. some centuries before) our valley seems to have been well populated by members of that clan. In Clitheroe, for example,


there was Th’ Owd Hall Bog­ gart,, but lie seems to have disappeared entirely since the installation of modern street lighting and I have not beard of his manifestations for some years. In.my youth, he.was very active. True, I never actually saw him, but he was there. If you happened to be. out alone at night and ven­ tured anywhere near his repu­ ted haunting grounds you could feel his presence right dow.n ’.in the pit of your, stomach. •If"I went down Th’ Owd


Hall Brow at night;,-and the lamp outside the . lower entr­ ance to the Congregational Sunday school didn’t happen - to bo lit, he was around, lurk-: ing somewhere in a. dark


corner that my eyes were unable to penetrate.


; My seal]) began to tingle and my,hair to. rise abruptly. If, at that moment, some love-


' lorn cat gave vent to his, or her, frustrated feelings and poured out discordant lamen­ tations to the black sky, my


; step would .immediately quic­ ken. I was liable -at any moment to make a mad ter­ rified rush to seek the safety of some better illuminated area. v


Despite its exorbitant


charges, this is one good thing we can credit to the North West Electricity Board. They seem to have banished Th’ Owd Hall Boggart for ever.


These beneficent activities


appear to have been equally effective in other parts of •Lancashire although I doubt if


. even ■ Noi'web' could have coped with Owd Nick. He manifested himself in broad daylight on V Sunday after-.


and variety of its mysterious visitors. No tourists these, they stayed for many years Syke Lumb Farm, Black:


burn, had its own special bog­ gart who was credited with the most variable of tempera­ ments. On those days (or nights)


when he had got out of the right side of his goblin bed, he would" milk the cattle, cut the hay, fodder the cows, harness the horses, stack the crops, clean the shippon and under­ t ake, all manner of time consuming jobs.


chance or accident the farmei or his wife or any member of the household incurred his dis­ pleasure, he would break croc­ kery, turn the milk sour and


On the other hand, if by


. curdle the cream. Cattle and horses would be turned loose, hedges torn , down and gates


; noon in Crawshawbooth.I can- ■ not give, you the exact date when this historic incident occurred I have yet to meet


anvone who knows the exact date but the facts are clear and undisputed.


It appears that a gang of


lads, illicitly indulging in a game of football on that par­ ticular Sabbath, were sur­ prised when their solitary' spectator suddenly kicked the


: bull so high and hard that it was never seen again. It dis­ appeared completely in the ; clouded sky.


( minntion to this remarkable ’feat;-this satanic soccer-fan : became airborne himself and , followed the leather sphere into oblivion. But the team


• Only seconds later, as a cul- . : ■


. Not many miles away Hothersall Hall, Ribchester, had a similar- and equally energetic visitant who, for some reason known only to memb e r s of the goblin fraternity, made his home under, a large laurel tree in the garden. Towneley Hall, too, had its


left swinging. *


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, It is a matter of regret that my own modest home is tot­ ally devoid of boggarts or gob tins of any, kind. Although wd; have no cattle to tend or crops to harvest, he could be very useful for such jobs-as lawn­ mowing, window cleaning, gotting-the coal in and numer-


own special boggart and, I suppose, Clitheroe’s (or.Wad- dington’s) Peg O’Neil could well come 'into the same category.


: members obtained a clear view -.of the cloven hoof and barbell tail which established


; the identity of the spectator : beyond doubt or -question. . I n the last century,, the : Borough of Ribble. Valley had it then existed could have


: claimed parity with even the most boggart-ridden quarters i of the county in the.number


■ ous other domestic chores. •He need never be out of work. He could sweep the


'paths and clean .the car. He could, I feel; be a very useful member of the household.


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must-- decide \yhich .’path -toL choose. : Turn1


arrive !at-..Low ^Moor..;-Turni: rightiand the riverside - track loadsto -Bfungerley-1 Bridge . and the paik’


!and. you t My. choice is.rthe J'ight, -jr , ' ,


l i • through. the mixed - wood: into: ’ ’-the op'en.;pasture,--:giving': a'- . • magnificent: view.'of - the. fam-; ous site 'o f '-the,.'"Hippiin g r- stones,!’ where .the-Zill-fated; ‘ Henry VI was captured. Soon:; the path leads to^, stile giving; - access.to Waddington Road. A; brief diversion of?fifty.puces: uphill and Brungcrley Park.is, reached. Keeping to the lower path by , the river the visitor will


, find in the next half-mile all • th a t’could be desired as an;' escape from the bustle of traf-,. fic-laden roads or busy pave-i ments. The sylvan atmosphere offers views- across fields to


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: Facing- Waddow! Hall, you’.|- Waddingtqn;;with Grindleton ":'left,1


Jells,onvthV,skyline. As with; . mostVpark's:tBrungerley, shows -. sign^;Of • wear and tear.- How-. ever/ it is . still- a • wonderful


-place for,a variety of wild life and prqvides'a pleasing diver-, .sion far jh e ’b’ird .watcher.- The. !botani5t'will also find a-great deal of interest-in common and rarer, p la n t , l i fe .- . '<• - •> -• . - If you wanSa'.loftier, view,- I suggest a" short’"diversion'to


-the upper path.:From such a commanding situation you will; fe a s t on .the: .Ribblesdale / scene..-


From this grandstand, - ' ■


meadows, woodlands and fells stretch'out to distant Kcmple to the west with Waddington, -West Bradford and1 Grindle­ ton fells to the North-East. - Below,' almost at your feet, the Ribble curls: in a majestic


- sweep, diverted by the limes­ tone- buttress, on which is s i tu a ted the - lower path


through the park^Note how,, '-where the tiny streams cas-- .cade into the major water,,the. lime has' formed huge banks of . pumice-like stone....;


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By-continuing through the-. :1 parkand the old quarrjes.(now,


- “ a huge hawthorn thicket),-you •arrive on the West,Bradford- road, with a choice of. turning1 '-right towards vRimlico or.


■ ‘entering the gate at the crest' . off the .-road and following the


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