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CONTINUING our village tour, ■we are back in the centre of ■V^alley, walking today in the Clitheroe direc­ tion. We have already written off the Whalley 'Arms and the De Lacy; now let us consider two more of our village pubs.


history and was the local stopping place for the Manchester Mail, which called daily except on Fridays. I t was here, in 1818, that the Sisterly Love Society was formed and met. In all probability it was the very first or our local women’s organisations, the forerunner of the Trefoil Guild, the Inner 'Wheel, the ■WI, the Soroptimists and what have you.


. The Swan Hotel has a long


membership “so long as Hieir dues were paid.”


, the remaining 3d. was to spent on liquor “to be consumed at the meeting.” At the 'Whitsuntide meeting, these very early “Women's Libbers” : paid 4/-; 2/- “for meat” (i.e. the members had a dinner). Is. 6d. for the box and the remaining 6d. “for liquor to be consumed at the meeting.”


of 1,4 (that’s what it said) were eligible for member­ ship, but no children were to be admitted other than “babies at breast.” Women in the Workhouse were spec­ ifically excluded, but those •imprisoned could continue in


this women’s Friendly Soci­ ety, all women over the age


According to the rules of


the needs of the travelling public, the Swan ran its own farm, as did the 'Whalley Arms and The Dog across the road. The ■ Dog, origi­ nally 'The-Spotted Dog, was a particularly busy estab­ lishment towarfs the middle of the last century — poss­ ibly due to the building of The Arches — and such were the demands upon its hospitality that it also used the upper storeys of adja­ cent premises. Access to those to the


In addition to catering for


south (a shoe shop and a sweet shop today) was gained by means of an outside staircase, and the bricked-up doorway, high in the wall, can still be seen.


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TAKE up cycling for health and fitness — that’s the advice of vetenran cyclist Mr Harry Aspden and, after all, he should know.


Aspden, of 'W^alley New Road, Langho, holds 250 cycling awards, has ridden 756 miles from Paris to B r e s t and b ack and competes nearly every week in time trials. But in spite of this, Afr Aspden, a retired ratinjg


For at the age of 66, Mr miles His fastest


toda.y! His wife, Caroline, was also a keen cyclist until a few years ago.


cycling, he enjoys the less strenuous hobbies of watch­ repairing and photography.


When Mr Aspden isn’t V-l -/,s.


’ sprightly, thinks nothing of cycling in 24-hour trials. A member of the 'Veteran 'Time Trials Association’s North East Lancs group, he competes most weeks, mainly in the Fylde area, but occasionally in other p a r ts of th e country. Members are all over 40 and some are even around 80. “ I was given my first


officer with the former Blackburn RDC, is most proud of the fact that he cycled to work all his life without a day off! Mr Aspden, slim and


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Kenneth Tiedemann has written asking us to help him trace his family links with Clitheroe.


to correspond with anyone related to William Parkinson or his wife Ellen Knight Eastham Parkinson, who journeyed to the United States in 1864.


Mr Tiedemann would like


to Brest run'and back last year. He has also cycled the 365 miles from Bordeaux to Paris, and next year he is organising a ride from Paris to Ixindon and on to Harro­ gate, in which nearly 400 cyclists will be taking part.


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If she is still living in the Funds for


nursing A FANCY-DRESS compet­ ition, a pet dog show and a ladies’ football match will be among attractions at a fund­ raising effort at Calder- stones on Sunday. It is being organised by


23-year-old Steve Allen, a pupil nurse at the hospital, and his girlfriend Anne Day (19), of 'Wiswell Lane, to raise money for the Royal College of Nursing.


la d ie s ’ football match between Clitheroe Ladies’ FC and Nabwood FC,' a team from Bradford. The m a tch w ill be


The highlight will be the Organ


refereed by former Black- bum Rovers player Andy Burgin, landlord at the Dog and Partridge, Barrow. There will be prizes in the


youngsters’ fancy dress competition, open to chil­ dren under 11, and in the pet dog show. An o th er in te re s t in g


feature will be a demonstra­ tion by five Newfoundland rescue dogs, and there will be a photo^'ahic exhibition of them in action. To keep the toddlers


recital MORE than 100 people attended an organ recital organised by the new mana­ gers of 'Whalley Abbey, Mr and Mrs Ian Green. 'The recital was given in


■Whalley Parish Church by Mr John Craven, formerly organist at Darlington and Hatfield College, who is staying with the Greens. Refreshments were later


served in the abbey. 1 be riving


happy, there will he an air- filfed trampoline shaped like a castle.


S ep tem b e r 14th, with proceeds going to the abbey fellowship.


a n o t h e r r e c i t a l on Mr Craven will I 'VC-;


minute and 10 seconds. That was 25 years ago and he is only three minutes slower


in one hour, one time is IS 25


■ And those dues?'Two shil­ lings per quarter, of which Is. 9d. went “to the box” and


WHALLEY w a lk a bo u t part 5


■ the rope works of Thomas Spencer, and the long straight stretch along Park Villas towards the Grammar School is shown on the Ordn­ ance Survey of 1849 as ‘"The


the off-licence premises opposite The De Lacy. Right into the 1850s these were


Now let us take a look at


was achieved with the very modest expenditure of £2,500. Twenty years later


stands the 'White House, once the Dower House of the


the adjacent lecture room, kitchen and toilet facilities were added for an additional £500. Next door to the chapel


Forts of Read Hall and when, in recent years, reno­ vations were undertaken, a


stands the 105-year-old Methodist Church. Today it seems quite incredible that this SOOrseater building, together with the attached schoolroom and including the provision of the organ,


Rope Walk.” Opposite Park Villas


deejj well was unearthed within a couple of yards.of the rear entrance.


able about these, you might think, but they have stood here since the days when the machinery was dependent^ upon water power—the site of the wheel can still be seen — and later on a “donkey engine” of such antiquity that the BBC considered i t . worthwhile to make a recording of it in action. The commodious work­


Lr em i s e s of M e s s rs mgshaw. Nothing remark­


shop to the rear has witnes- sed scenes in strange contrast to the skilled toil of carpenters and joiners. In the last century, long before the village had Assembly Rooms or a Co-op Hall and such frivolities as dancing would be considered. quite outrageous in either Sunday school or church hall, it was here that villagers assem­ bled for Harvest Homes and


, Immediately behind this old house stands the joinery


times of local and national celebration. • • ,


were pushed to the wall and the somewhat uneven floor swept clear of sawdust and shavings, r Then the band struck up and John and Mary linked arms and danced the gay Sir Roger or, maybe, the naughty new­ fangled '-valtz. To close this section of our


The rough heavy benches Eresent buildings have been


school received its first char­ ter in 1549 from the Boy King, Edward '\H, in the second year of nis short _ reign.


ere since 1725, but the


however, commenced long before that date, for it is


The story of the school,


believed to be the continua­ tion of that established by the Cistercians over the West (3ate of the Abbey in the 14th century.


, It is thus among the oldest in the county and continued as a grammar school until the early years of the first


lemen, it continues to have its Board of Governors, whose small income is now devoted to providing books for college and university students from 'Whalley and th e a d ja c e n t sm a lle r villages.


tour, let us take a brief look at the Grammar School. The


: because, poor woman, she had suffered trial at Lancas­ ter under suspicion of witch­ craft.


self explanatory. Here the village stocks once stood and here, too, Margaret Pesm- son, of Padiham, did penance in the pillory


The school stands on Stocks Hill, a name that is


Margaret’s case was “not p ro v e n ,” but she was punished non-the-less. • She was ordered to stand in the pillory in the market towns of Lancaster, Clitheroe, l^aUey and Padiham, ivith a card around her neck detailing her offence.


world war. Although no longer an establishment for the education of young gent­


but Margaret would be mightily relieved. It was infinitely to be preferred to dangling from the end of a rope in Lancaster’s grim castle.


Unjust, you might think, J .F . , ■ / I 1 ^


CELEBRATING FIFTY-YEAR LOVE MATCH


TWO former pupils of Clitheroe Grammar School, Mr and I^ s Edgar Standring, of Beverley Drive, Clitheroe, celebrate their golden wedding on Monday.


Vicar’s


jubilee SPECIAL services are to be held at the parish churches of Whitewell, Mitton and Hurst Green to celebrate the Rev. Arthur Higginson’s 25 years in the priesthood. Mr Higgmson, who was


same school, the couple did not actually meet until they joined Ribblesdale Wander­ ers Cricket Club, where both played tennis.


Although they were at the


ordained in Glasgow on September 20th, 1952, became priest-in-charge of the three parishes last year. The services will take


place at St Michael’s, Whitewell, on September 19th; All Hallows, Mitton, the following day; and St John’s, Hurst Green, on the 22nd, The 'Wlutewell sendee begins at 7-^30 p.'m., the other two at-T p.m.i - i-i' ■ A f te r the Whitewell


played cricket at Ribbles­ dale for 25 years, and was captain for part of that time. A keen sportsman, he played football for St James’s, Clitheroe, in the Sunday School League for a number of years.


Mr Standring (75), also


R. Standring and Sons, p a p e r a n d g e n e r a l merchants, of Greenacre Street, Clitheroe, until his retirement 10 years ago, when it^osed down.


He ran his family’s firm,


service, coffee will be served in the Whitewell Hotel, and after the celebra­ tions at Mitton and Hurst Green, refreshments will be available at the vicarage.


; His ivife, Edith (72), took a1>ook-keepihg job with her grandfather’s coal and haul­ age company on leaving sdiool and then became a telephonist. After that, she went into her family’s confectionery business. In the year the couple


were mamed, Mr Standr­ ing’s father, the late Aid. W. Standring, was Mayor of Clitheroe. Mr and Mrs Standring are


both keen gardeners. Mrs Standring is a member of C l i th e ro e A f te rn o o n Townswomen’s Guild and Trinity Methodist Church, Clitheroe. The couple have one son,


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Mr Kenneth Brooks Standr­ ing, who is well known in Lancashire cricket circles and still plays for Southport, where he fives. 'There are two grandchildren. A family luncheon party


at Stirk House, Gisbum, will be held on their golden wedding day and on the following Sunday they will have an “At Home” for friends.


AN increasing number of people are becoming convinced that with rapid changes taking place in and around our ■villages, the old way of life is fast giving way to an entirely foreign envi­ ronment. If, at any time, you have


been concerned with such matters during the last 25 years, you are bound to agree there is a gradual diminution of the old community life. 'Wth more and more houses and cottages being acquired, small farms are giving way to larger establishments, and with the escalating price of land and country prop­ erty, there is every good reason for supposing that the land our fathers luiew is as dead as the dodo. It will take centuries for


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when craftmanship and enduring work was of prime importance and the'age of plastics an unthougnt-of dream? Slaidbum has successfully


withstood the tide of so- called progress and the plan­ ners who, in so many places, have given us fashionable concrete creations, freakish nightmare outlines and futuristic dreams of the shape of things to come which, after a few years, offend. How different it is in


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change appears to have been haltM in many parts of the county and the economic recession has had a strong bearing, with higher rate­ able values and petrol prices. ■Whatever the future may


town and country to truly integrate. Country people, have always had a strong community spirit. The city or town dweller is more indi­ vidualistic and consequently the two are poles apart. I. speak in a general manner and not of any particular v illag e by Ribble and Hodder. However, the tide of


OLD cobblers’ shop at Toiim End, Slaidbuni. which is so obviously


years the village itself has, to everyone’s delight, retained all the character


Changes have been inevit­ able, but throughout the


Slaidbum district has been th e c e n t r e o f ' g r e a t activities,-when schemes concerning the Fylde Water Bomil and the Manchester- Thirlmere pipeline drove new water mains through the countryside. But the effects were temporary, and within a few months, wllage life and the surrounding countryside returned to normal.


outskirts during the last 15 years have been outstand-' ing. No other region in the Hodder watershed has seen such revolutionary altera­ tions. From, time to time the


many decades ago. The changes which have taken place in the immediate


•appreciated by a host of


are overlooked by the casual tourist, but where will you


find such cameos of an age


conservation order aimed at preserving qualities which are all too fast disappearing in so many parts of the North. Visit the place on a' quiet day and you will see a village which our forebears knew a centuiy ago. ' Many of its finer qualities


can no doubt be attributed to Gol. L. C. King-Wilkinson, fondly referred to by all residents as “The Squire.” Change for the sake of change is abhorrent and even.when necessary is viewed with surprise and suspicion by older residente who are content with this cap ita l of the. Hodder VaUey. Slaidbum is worthy of any


visitors at all seasons. Its distinctive personality


find myself quoting from a wealth of notes given to me by those who loiew, Slaid­ bum in years gone by. As in most things, the hills remain constant and, unlike other villages, the general stme- ture and character of Slaid­ burn is as our forebears


enjoyed.'


reached via a flight of stone steps by the roadside. 'The old cobbler’s and joiner’s shops in use just over half a century ago remind us of the days when this ■village' supplied goods and materi^ for an age when to travel to Clitheroe was a journey of some importance, and a rare event. Recalling those days,'I


Slaidburn, where we can still enjoy nooks and cran­ nies, out-of-the-way courts and e n t r ie s , cobbled sidewalks, or lichen-covered walls topped with miniature flower gardens. And who dares overlook the Victorian remnants of an age when street lighting came from oil lamps suspended on an iron frame or on top of a wooden post? • Also attractive are the small and compact bullrings


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