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to breed contempt or that state of indifference all too common nowadays. Through­ out a long association it has withstood the most severe tests and comparisons which have led me to what you may consider a wild or over enthusiastic verdict.


AFTER the dull and at times depressing days of mid-February it was good and uplifting to return to what I am con- vinced is the f inest stretch of countryside in the British Isles. As far as l am concerned, it has withstood many years of te s t ing during which period I have been in most of the English coun­ ties, the Highlands and Ireland. Familiarity, they say, tends


am at all times eager to defend my conclusions." If you are doubtful, I would ask that you return on any favourable day to taste the invigorating and immensely satisfying journey


Whatever your reaction, I


thinking all this would have been too much. On the con­ trary — now with more lei­ sure time I find the scenes as attractive as on my first trip over 40 years ago. Could there be a better' testimonial or, indeed, a more severe test? I follow a road which gives me no less pleasure than itdid in years gone by. To attempt a detailed


this part of the world for an embarrassingly long time. For a. good many years my work set me on the various high­ ways, byways and farm tra ck s crossing and re­ crossing all too familiar places at every season. You. would be excused in


mile trip. you are within the Hodder watershed and as you pass through Slaidburn, New­ ton and Dunsop Bridge to Whitewell, you are adjacent to the river. Frankly I have travelled


beginning at Tosside and ter­ minating at Whitewell. Throughout the less than 15


description, while giving the utmost pleasure, would no doubt fill a volume compar­ able to Tolstoy’s “War and


arriving at the hairpin bend at Whiteholme. Many have been the surprises at this place and those who have had reason to doubt the efficiency of their brakes should treat the sudden decline and severe tu rn with the greatest respect. Numerous are the tales concerning this bend and


tion of the Bolton-by-Bowland road a mile ahead, you cannot ignore the expansive views to the north. A glimpse of Stocks Reservoir and Catlow Fell, then, just t/efore reaching Field Head Farm once again, ■ a remarkable panorama of fer­ tile pastures and distant Croasdale Fell. Then the road drops until


Stony Bank to note various details, small circular win­ dows and the fine, .well pre­ served flight of stone steps leading to the upper storey. From this point to the junc­


Peace’.” So the best we can do is to survey the general scene as we leave the upland hamlet of Tosside and, passing Lower and Higher Stony Bank, enjoy the spacious landscape from this exhilarating upland road. You will pause at" Higher


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. in the days of the cyclist the gate in direct confrontation and leading to Whiteholme was left open to give a free run to those whose brakes had failed. I am always reminded of


. Here theescape routes fulfil a ■similar purpose, with a runa­ way motorist having recourse to a sand filled layby at inter­ vals along the steep road. Ascent to Slaidburn has not the same dangers, but in the days of less efficent brakes the open gate, by allowing a free run along the private road, saved many an accident. Slaidburn must surely be


similar thoughtfulness to be seen on the steep approach road to Lynmouth, in Devon.


one of the most progressive villages by Ribble or Hodder. The recent .changes may not be according to everyone’s desires of improvement,, but they will avoid chaos by accepting the inevitable.


. motor car gives access to the countryside, someone must find space for parking. In


most people refer to as "prog­ ress” and in an age when the


Unfortunately this is what


spite of the disadvantages,. other villages will have to fol­ low suit as the inevitable tide of tourism comes to Ribbles- dale and the Hodder Valley;


During the last 20 years


these Hodder villages have a t tra c te d an increasing number of visitors from far and near. Their popularity is understandable, for few places, both within the village and in the surrounding coun­ tryside, have such charm.


cashire towns take a trip to Slaidburn to enjoy an atmos­ phere long since lost to the town dweller and now, sad to say, slowly diminishing in sev­ eral villages due to changing population.


ficial car park, and with scores of vehicles churning up the greensward by the river the area soon resembled a soggy goalmouth a f te r a wet weekend football match.


Visitors from nearby Lan­


. car park. As I watched the bulldozer


Duckmires pasture is being converted to a more spacious


shall need all the best land for producing food. Already,


shiving off the rich riverside loam, I thought of those who are constantly drawing atten­ tion to the covering up of rich soil by concrete. This is “civil­ isation” or, as some say, prog­ ress. Small wonder that The Friends of the Earth are con­ stantly reminding us of what the future holds. Within the next 20 years we


with the alignment of foreign powers controlling many of our essentials, our future is threatened. Land will be the most valuable commodity of all in the race for survival.


The Green became the unof­ .a-


Most of this area was made prohibitive and now, with


more and more demanding ar>/>occ o cnKcfanf iol niono /if


. already. covered during the last 20 or 30 years and it is my intention to devote more space to it at a later date.. In the meantime we look forward to completing our present trip along Hodder’s pleasant vale to Whitewell next week.


There is much more to be said of Slaidburn than I have


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KNOTTY ASH is famous for its Diddymen who supposedly work the village jam butty mines from dawn till dusk.


equality, Bolton-by-Bowland villager Mrs Elizabeth Crow­ der has created their female counterparts — Diddywomen.


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dolls, patiently fashioned out of old clothes pegs and dres­ sed in pretty coloured mate­ rial.


They are quaint home-made Mrs Crowder has exhibited


several times before, at Higham and Haworth, and her work has attracted a great deal of interest wherever it has been displayed.


said Mrs Crowder, “but I have never really made any­ thing out of old materials before. “It looked a difficult thing to do so I decided to have a go


about 10 months ago, after seeing an article on the sub­ ject in a women’s magazine, although she had never really done anything like it before. “I can sew and embroider,”


She started making dolls


der to put the dolls on show, and last Easter she exhibited in Higham for the first time. Since then she has also exhi­


bited in Haworth Library, where three dolls depicting


at making a doll and the whole thing snowballed from there." A friend advised Mrs Crow­


from- clothes pegs, with the prongs acting as legs and the knob on top as a head. The facial details are drawn in, and the hair consists of strands of cotton. Each stands on a decorated base and is about four or five inches high. Some depict women in the Medieval and Tudor period, o th e rs more up-to-date characters such as Mrs Bridges, from the television series “Upstairs Downstairs.” Mrs Crowder has also made


the famous Bronte sisters who lived in the village were par­ ticularly popular. The dolls are basically made


minister at churches in Brad­ ford, Orpington, Ilfracombe, Hemel Hempstead and, from 1965 to 1972, at Marlow, Buc­ kinghamshire. As a slight variation from


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Keeping Ann busy


dolls of Victorian and Egyp­ tian women up to 18 inches high, but these can take sev­ eral days, whereas the smaller ones take anything from an hour upwards to complete. She particularly likes work­


ing with ribbons, and one of the most attractive dolls is dressed in a flowing wedding gown made from several of these. 'Mrs Crowder has lived with


NEWTON schoolgirl Ann Marsden (15), whose unusual ambition is to be a painter- decorator when she leaves school in the summer, received an early offer of work when Dunsop Bridge pensioner Mrs Margaret Eccles read in the Advertiser and Times of her hopes. Mrs Eccles (84), of The


her husband Frank in a cot­ tage on Gisburn Road since the couple moved to the vil­ lage eight years ago. She hopes to exhibit at


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return THE new minister of Read United Reformed Church, the Rev. Geoffrey Walker, will be inducted a fortnight tomorrow at Great Harwood. Mr Walker, who is retired,


will be covering both Read and Great Harwood, which have been looked after by lay preachers since the departure of the Rev. J. W. Eastwood. For Mr Walker, at present


living in Lockleaze, Bristol, it will be a nostalgic return, for


she is gaining will stand her in good stead when she starts to look for an opening in the decorating trade later this year.


With a


difference THESE days holidays must offer something a little diffe­ rent . . . a boarding house by the sea is not enough of an ' attraction for many people. So when readers of a


decorating the bungalow of Billington pensioner Miss Eva Durnall, whom she visits as a member of the Voluntary Social Work Team at St Augustine’s School. Ann hopes the experience


Crescent, has asked Ann, of Marl Hill Farm, to paint her outside windows. Ann has gladly taken up the offer and hopes to have the job done before long. She has already finished


MRS CROWDER ivith a few of the dolls from her collection.


response. The Abbey is,of course, the


national newspaper saw an advertisement offering a fur­ nished holiday flat in a 13th century Cistercian Abbey, there was an immediate


has already proved a popular place for holidays and is booked for five weeks bet­ ween July and August for


with an audio-visual aid so that parties of lip to 40 can learn the history of the Abbey before touring the grounds. It proves particularly useful for school parties and occasions when no guide is available. The Conference house itself


gatehouse is now being used for the reception of visitors to the Abbey. The sitting room has been turned into a shop with souvenirs and refresh­ ments. A door leads through to the former coach-house, where catering is available for large parties. This room is also equipped


gatehouse sleeps four and has a large bed-sitting room, a smaller room, bathroom and kitchen. It is available from Easter to the end of Sep­ tember and, in the winter, can double up as an annexe for the Conference house. The ground floor of the


one at Whalley, and the advertisement brought a response which delighted the warden, Miss Peggy Grad- well. T h e f l a t ab o v e th e


senior citizens and those wish­ ing to ramble in Ribblesdale.


Aptly


named NEWEST recruit to the Royal Society for the Protec­ tion of Birds is, appropriately, Mr Alan Bird, who formerly worked for a Clitheroe firm of land agents and chartered sur­ veyors. Mr Bird, whose colleagues


include Barbara Buzzard, John Partridge, Celia and Helen Peacock and Dorothy Rook, is the Society’s assis­ tant reserves manager.


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also his responsibility to pre­ sent honours and awards to Lancastrians who did not receive their awards at Buc­ kingham Palace, and this


support DURING Lord Clitheroc's te rm of office as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, he lias been responsible for the arrangements for some 20 Royal visits and on behalf of the Queen has presented no less than 10 Queen’s Qwards to Industry to LaiAashire firms. As Lord Lieutenant it was


from the office following his 75 th birthday has been much praised by Lancashire County Council for his “unstinted and untiring assistance and sup­ port” throughout the long period of the complicated pro­ cess of local government reor­ ganisation, which proved of inestimable help to them.


Any recruits?


THE Clitheroe branch of the St John Ambulance has formed an ambulance cadet division for bovs aged 11 to 15.


of the ambulance division, Mi- Gilbert Barnes, is running the Monday evening meetings, which are at 7-15 in the Ambu­ lance Hall on Church Brow.


Divisional superintendent


joining should go along one Monday evening and Mr Barnes will explain just what the group will be doing.


for girls aged eight to 16 still meets in the hall on Mondays, an hour before the boys’ session.


The nursing cadet division


random one evening. The first was dated March 17th, 1537, a traumatic year in the history of our village. It was in the form of a copy letter from His Majesty King Henry VIII to Robert Raddiffe, Earl of Sussex. .


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was pleased; we can imagine him rubbing his hands glee­ fully together before giving Sussex a verbal pat on the back, but his gratification did not soften to .any degree his determination to continue his


dissolution of our abbey, John Paslew had been taken to Lancaster and ' had paid the supreme penalty, an inven­ tory of 'the lands and posses­ sions of the monastery had been compiled and, of all these activities, His Majesty had been informed. The. much .married monarch


The Earl had completed the


IN my desk I have a file into which I slip all those odd items of Whalley information I come across in the course of my travels. Some are mere snippets, little items which are interesting in themselves but do not offer sufficient scope to justify a full article on their own in this series. Two of these I pulled out at


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execution of th’ Abbot of Whalley, ye have taken ordre for the good direction of the house and the sauf keeping of the goods, without embesel- ment, til further knowledge of our pleasure, approving moche your good foresight thereof, we have thought it convenient to signifie unto you that, for as moche as it npperethe that the House of Whalley hathe' been so sore corrupt, amongse other, that i t shud seem that there remavneth very few therein t i iu l . . . . ..


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continue in such an incorpora­ tion, concernying th’old man whom you wrote you have


ruthless ways. He wrote, or some minion wrote at his com­ mand, as follows; . “Right trusty and well- biloved cousins, and trusty and well biloved, we greet you well. And have received your letters the 11th day of this rnonthe, by the contynue thereof we.doo right well per- ceyve the great dexteite, cir­ cumspection and diligence which you have used. ‘‘And whereas upon th’ "


respited, upon the lammenta- tion he made at the barre, and th’allegation of his service thries heretofor against the Scottes and otherwise doon unto us; albeit we cannot but take your stay of him in good parte, yet, considering he hath soo often received our wages, and wold, neverless, at the last be corrupted against us, we thinke him for an example more worthy to suffer thenne the rest, that before had non experience of our princely puissance, one had receyved any benefite from us; and soo remytte him unto you to be executed according to his judgement given for his offences com- mytted against us.” All of which confirms the


deep religions conviction was, all in all, a thoroughly nasty piece of work,


impression we have had for many years — that “bluff King Hal,” despite his love of fun and games (what sort of games we are not prepared to specify), his delight in music, his attitude of “hale fellow •• .**


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indication of the cruelty and b lo o d sh e d th a t found expression in the Civil War of 1642-i649. From the “Court Mercurie-number 5,” we cul­ led the following: “Wednes­ day, July 31st.


The second snippet gives an


.“ . . . I received intelligence that more execution of Cruel- tie has bin practised by Prince Ruperts Army in Lancashire at a place called Clithero or between thence and Latham- House, where some of his Forces hanged foure or five Grasiers for refusing to deliver up the "Money that they had a little before received, notwithstanding they had a passe from one Froud a Lieutenant Collonel of Prince Ruperts for their security. Which money being about Two hundred and oddei pounds they tooke away with their lives, and keepe the Countrie in such terror and feare, that scarce any dares travell to Market.”


"Thank heaven that kind of thing couldn’t happen in our country today — we’ve grown beyond that kind of thing." But have we? Recent reports of bombings, hi-jackings,- shootings and rape give one- seriously to ponder. . .. " J.F. Sab*


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