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Soccer star chats to YC members


player Derek Fazackerley went to meet members of the


WHEN Blackburn Rovers


Hodder Valley Youth Club, he was no stranger to the dub’s se c re ta ry 17-year-old Jill Green. For I t was. only last year


that Jill and her 14-year-old sister Liz, met the player at a D u n so p B r id g e Young Farmers’ event. ’ .


club Jill and her sister are. keen Rovers fans and are usually cheering on the heroes at home matches. . She wTote to the club invit­


Like other members of the '


ing any of the, players to a tten d th e i r meeting at Newton Village Hall, and was delighted when Derek turned


up.


a chat with the player about football generally, and many had their autograph books at the ready.


About 20 members enjoyed


WADDINGTON’S GOLDEN COUPLE LOOK BACK ON HARD TIMES


PEEPS into the past do not always bring back pleasant memories for Waddington couple Ralph and Jenny Burton. Now in their seventies,


they recall only too well a youth spent during the dark days of the depression and unemployment. They remember the long


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POLICE from all over the county converged on IVhalley


on Friday . . . but they were not on duty. They were a t te n d in g the Clitheroe section’s annual ball at Calder- stones, making an attend­ ance of 550 police and guests.


headed by Sgt Tom Logan, are delighted with an even better event than before and hope to have made a profit of about £200 for the divisional sports and social fund.


'The organising committee,


dole queues throughout the country and, in particular those in Clitheroe where, in King Lane, men waited four deep to collect two shillings a week dole money. However, on Saturday —


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• Mary’s Church, Harrington, Cumberland, Mrs Burton wore a long cream dress and carried cream roses. She didn’t like a fuss then and neither does she now, 50 years later. Her own family lived near


I Mi^ Burton was one of the fortunate ones. He had work, driving a steam roller for Bow'land Rural D is tr ic t


friends- in Chipping that she met her husband.


Council. He held the job for 27


years, and steam rollers and traction engines became his life’s interest. The weekly wage on Which


Cockermouth, but it w'as while she was staying with


their golden w'edding day — Mr and Mrs Burton, of Waddow View, will only be recalling the happy times, when they celebrate with family and friends at an anniversary dinner at The Castle Restaurant, Clitheroe. For their wedding at St


deputy Ribble Valley Mayor and Mayoress, Coun. and Mrs Edward Newhouse, Ribble Valiev chief executive officer Mr Michael Jackson and two assistant chief constables — Jo e Mounsey and Tom W a tk in so n . They were welcomed by Chief Supt Ti-evor Parkinson.


On the guest list were the Music for dancing .was


provided by the Gary Stevens Sound and the Di.xieland


Showband. During the even­ ing 95 varied prizes were raffled. Pictured (back row, third


from left) is Chief Insp T. J. S um n e r , in c h a rg e a t Clitheroe, and (fifth left) Mr Watkinson.


Welcome return


grandfather, Mr Ralph Seed who farmed Chipping Laund, and his father, Mr John Burton, attended Brabin’s


Endowed School. Although Mr Burton was


brought up in the Colne area and attended Black Lane End School, he likes to visit Chip­ ping whenever he has the chance. With reading as his prime


the. couple set up home in Clitheroe, was £2 18s (£2.90p) a week. Coal then was Is 8d (8V4p) a bag. Mr Burton’s family origi­ nated from Chipping. Both his


hobby since he prematurely retired at 55 through ill-


health, Mr Burton has made a study of his ancestry and enjoys journeying into the his to ry of the places he


know's. But he is currently reading a book about the Dutch people and another about Hitler and the Groat


War. In fine weather he enjoys


changes in the village since they firet went to live there fo u r y e a r s a f t e r th e i r marriage. Their once open views of the fells are now screened by other houses. Mrs Burton enjoys a quiet


walking the one-and-a-half miles to Clitheroe, but usually takes his e.xercise around Waddington. The couple have seen many


life. A member of St Helen’s Ch u rch , she joined the Mothers’ Union and the Wesleyan Bright Hour, but now only attends the occa­ sional meeting. The couple are fortunate in


having their family living nearby. One daughter, Mrs Jean Grainger, lives in Stam­ ford Place, Clitheroe, and the other, Mrs Violet Wood, l iv e s in th e Trough of Bowland. Their son Ralph lives at Station Road, Chat- bum. Five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren complete the family.


cated at the festival in 1975 and he laces his criticisms with a rare sense of humour. He entered the Guild of Drama Adjudicators in 1954 and was elected to the guild council in 1962. In the theatre, he played in repertory and touring companies before concentrating on production, both on stage and radio.


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APPOINTED HEAD OF HIGH SCHOOL


A FORMER deputy head boy at CRGS, Mr James E. Wilkinsbn, will soon be talang up the headship of Walton High School, Stafford.


Mr Wilkinson (41) is at


present deputy headmaster at a secondary school in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Gaining the new position was no mean feat, for Mr Wilkinson had to compete against 145 others for the job at the'900-pupil school.


children will be moving to Stafford in the near future in time for Mr Wilkinson to start at Walton High after Easter.


He and his .wife and three


school in 1954 Mr Wilkinson did two years’ national service and then went', to Oxfori University gaining his MA in theology and his Diploma in


When he Irtt the grammar FO R B U Y IN Q A N D SELLUViia’M ^ .


Education. Mr Wilkinson’s parent.=,Mr


and Mrs Tom Wilkinson, still liv e in Highficld Road, Clitheroe, and until he retii-ed recen tly his fa th e r was caretaker at the girls’ gram­ mar school. Throughout his years at


CRGS Mr Wilkinson was a member of the School Drama­ tic Society. He starred in many productions starting as Eliza Doolittle in “Pygmalion” when he was 11 and ending his local acting: career with a distinguished performance as the Lieutenant Governor in “His Excellency.” His wife Hilma — formerly


Hilma Coates — was a pupfl at Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School. She too is a teacher, eui’ren t ly at a school in Nottingham.


THE Dean of Westminster, th e Very Rev. Edward Carpenter, preached the trad­ itional Assheton sermon at St Leonard’s Church, Downham, on Sunday, upholding a tradi­ tion established 288 years ago following the death of Sir Ralph Assheton, ,MP for Clitheroe in the Long Parlia­ ment.


ments in his will for a sermon on one - of two Resurrection texts to be preached annually at Downham on the anniver­ sary of his death — January 30th, 1689. The Dean, who had been


Sir Ralph made arrange­


Rescues documents from blazing car


A GRINDLETON man escaped unhurt when his car bui’st into flames after a collision on Chester Avenue,


Clitheroe, on Saturday. Mr Bert Eatough, a promo­


tions organiser fpr the Milk Marketing Board, rescued valuable work documents and two 40oz. bottles of whisky from the blazing vehicle.


invited to Downham by Lord C l i th e ro e , S ir R a lp h ’s descendant, took as his text Colossians 3. ’The Vicar, the Rev. Eric


Mr Eatough, of The Bam, Grindleton, vvas driving a company vehicle out of a side street onto Chester Avenue.


’The collision took place as


Chard, conducted the service, which was attended by Lord and Lady Clitheroe and a large congregation. Pictural afterwiarda with


M r Eatough told our repor­


some of the congregation are, from the left: Lady Clitheroe, L o rd C l i th e r o e M rs Carpenter, the Dean and Mr Chard. •


ter that his bonnet flew open and flames shot out of the engine. He jumped out of the car, but went back to rescue the contents. The fire did not extend beyond the engine


bulkhead.


The other car, a Vauxhall d r iv e n by Mrs A ..M .


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Ashworth, of Burnley Road, Padiham, with one passenger, was not damaged by the fire. Both occupants were unhurt. Mr Eatough added: !‘The


f ire brigade was on the scene very quickly and put the fire out, but the ear is probably a


WTite-off. “I was very surprised that a


minor bump had such a result.”


FELLOWSHIP


TRINITY Women’s Fellow­ ship enjoyed slides and a talk on* a re c e n t holiday in A u s tra lia by Mr Ronnie Cams, of Clitheroe, He u'as thanked by Mrs J. Wilkinson, who presided.


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MAKING a welcome return visit to Clitheroe will be Mr Bernard Prentice, of London, who is to adjudicate at the Ribble Valley Drama Festival in the Civic Hall from April 18th to 23rd. Mr Prentice first adjudi­


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