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t r a w f c - j « . 4 ».-- v - ; .v : : .r i sa&i t"33% r . i ft 12 Clithcroc Advertiser and Times, February 3rd, 1977 a ^ :. :E 3
Old-fashiohed setting fer a go-ahead firm
THE old and the new are coming together in a special way in Clitheroe’s new Swan Courtyard shopping centre.
provides the best of modern shop design in picturesque old-fashioned surroundings.
The courtyard itself
' stand fully the products they have purchased before he leaves the home. : '
' . The after-sales service
department, run by director Mr Jeff Abbott, gives prompt reliable servicing, normally within three days of request.
Benefit Mr Wade is expanding his
-the location and the lack of a similar high-quality domestic appliance store in the town. “Clitheroe and its district is
will play host to a busi ness dealing in the most up-to-date of quality domestic appliances — but adhering to the fine old-fashioned virtues of honesty and good sendee.
And from Saturday it
Wade DA and i t is expanding to the Swan Courtyard a f te r five y e a r s in Blackburn during which it has estab lished itself as a reliable
purveyor of some of the best goods available.
the customer with a comprehensive range of high-quality electrical appliances from washing machines, dishwashers, fridges and freezers to built-in cookers, hobs, cooker hoods and waste disposal units.
Wade DA can provide • Quality
DA provides these goods in the top quality ranges — but at very competi tive prices. Among the top international brand names available from Wade DA are Miele, AEG and Braun (all West Germany) and Hobart (USA).
Furthermore, Wade
Wade DA is making a number oj excellent star-
Comprehansive The business is called
, quality goods are going at , give-away prices.
quality of goods which makes Wade DA unique in the area. It’s the qual ity of service, too.
But it’s not only the
-'branch in motion in person — has always laid g re a t store by good service.
the customer — ask any of our clients. In my view we owe it to the customer to back up fine goods with good service.”
up a separate service company to a t ten d to
Mr Wade has even set
Demonstrations “I do all I can to please
Wade — who will be setting the Clitheroe
Proprietor Mr Freddie ter offers in which high-
MR FREDDIE WADE . . . proprietor of Wade DA. delivery and after-sales
t ic appliance shops, p r o v i d e s u c h a
five service vehicles to carry out deliveries, d em o n s tra t io n s and after-sales service. The experience of delivery
comprehensive delivery service. Wade DA has a fleet of
unpack and demonstrate the machine at no extra cost to the customer,” says-Mr Wade. “We can also provide plumbers- and electricians if so desired.”. Very few other domes-
appliance from Wade DA you will receive a deliv ery service second-to- none as well as your actual purchase. “ We will d e l iv e r ,
service. When you buy an
the kind of area that needs a shop of this type. We are offering something that the town and villages can gain great benefit from,” says Mr
' Wade.; No longer will local people
have to travel 10 or 15 miles to find a good range of domestic appliances. What they are looking for will, from Satur day, be available right on their doorstep — in the Swan Courtyard. The new purpose-built
shops in the old courtyard have a number of advantages which Mr Wade believes will prove an added attraction for shoppers.
those with children, will have no traffic to disturb them and they will have leisure to look around in pleasant surround ings.”
Wade DA will have a
spacious showToom on two floors in their well-appointed premises. The built-in items will be displayed on the upper floor with the rest on ground level. The old courtyard has found
expert Mr Derek Hartley helps customers to under-
a new lease of life in bringing the latest quality goods to Clitheroe in combination with the old business virtue of honest service. . Mr Wade’s thanks go to Miele, the Lighting Centre (Blackburn) and M; and M. Carpets (Blackburn) for their support in helping him to
establish the business in Clitheroe.
area with a pleasant atmos phere, lying directly en route between other town centre shops and excellent parking facilities in Lowergate. “ Shoppers, particularly
1 Traffic free “It’s an attractive shopping
\ < READY to go — the Wade DA staff and service fleet line up in the Swan Courtyard. From the '^ 4 — Mafcolm Massey (engineer), Derek Hartley (driver, sales) Mr Wade Paul Davies |- t ( s a l e s m a n , Blackburn), Mike Fleming (manager, Blackburn), Jef f Abbott (sales director)
■MEMORIES OF THE COACHING DAYS-
BACK in the first half of the 19th century nothing could have been further from the minds of people using the Swan Courtyard than that the place would later become a shopping centre.
The yard was, during that
time, a terminus o f the c o a ch service tha t ran between the Swan and Royal and the Old Bull at Black burn.
The Swan itse lf was. a
staging post where travellers would stop for a meal, or-
overnight, as they awaited coaches to take them on to Skipton, or in the other d i r e c t i o n t o P r e s t o n , Haslingden, Manchester, or . back to Blackburn.
The courtyard frequently
echoed to the clip<lop of horses’ hooves, the rattle of the coach over the stones, and the creak of the livery as coaches pulled in and out. The yard was one o f
several Clitheroe inns which served the treble purpose of stabling, coach hou s ing and farmyard. E v i d e n c e o f t h i s link
between ho s t e l r ie s and a g r i c u l t u r e in the town persists today down Kirk- moor Road, where one of the
■ f ields is still called Swan Field.
Fierce competition raged
between the Swan coach — named “Victoria” — and other coaches running to and from Clitheroe. Amo n g the s tr o n g e s t
rivalry was that between the Swan and one of its former drivers, Hugh Goodbier, who later took the Black-Bull Inn and started an opposition coach, the “Live and let l i v e . ”
A y o u n g man named
Samue l Wi lk in son died during the years of competi tion when he jumped off one coach as it returned into Clitheroe through Salford. He was run over by another coach racing to reach the town first. The coaches were usually
accompanied by buglers — and the first one to reach Clitheroe would often strike up the air, •
'"Oh dear, whatcan the matter be,
‘ fJohnnie stays long at the air." The coming of the railway
to Clitheroe in 1850 sounded the death knell for coach passenger services, but old photographs taken as late as 1880 show the Swan still describing itself as a posting house.
And for many years after
the railway came, the Swan Courtyard remained a place from which gigs could be hired by prirate indmduals. Later the old stables were
used as garages — and now the latest twist in the long history of the yard has made it as smart as it ever was.
business to Clitheroe for two reasons: the attractiveness of
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OFRCIAL OPENING THIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 1977,10 am., BY COUNCILLOR '_______ FRED GREEN (Mayor of the Ribble Valley)
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