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WHEN Cl i the ro e y o u t h G a r y Kenward, of Pimlico Road, decided to leave school at 16, he had little idea of the k i n d of job he wanted.


-after saying goodbye to . fellow pupils at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, he is busy carving himself an unusual career — as a ’ stonemason.


Gary’s chance to take up the age-old craft came when he had a talk with local, careers officer Mr John Atkinson. He had been thinking of joining the army but, at Mr


Atkinson’s suggestion, he. applied for a job as apprentice mason with the Department of the Environment’s ancient monuments branch.


One of five youngsters* interviewed, he landed the job and on Monday jo in e d a te am of craftsmen engaged in re n o v a t io n work at Sawley and Whalley Abbeys.


At school, Gary took an interest in the historical and practical side of woodwork and craft, which will no doubt help him in his new job. He is to attend Blackburn College^ of Technology and Design for two days


Gary, the only son of Mr and Mrs Paul Kenward, can hardly be described as a , chip off the old. block. Dad is senior su p e rv iso r at Whit­ bread’s new brewery at Samlesbury.


a week, taking a City and t Guilds certificate in


hree years.


His sister, Trudy, was in the news herself recently when she won her section of the classic “Running of the walls” race at Berwick-on-Tweed. She is a member of Black­ burn HaiTiers.


For the record, there are only 29. stonemasons in various stages of appren­ ticeship in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire.


. Thomas Morton, was also a . member and past president. Mr Morton worked- vnth


for two years in 1959 and 1960 and has served on the executive council for many years, being its oldest member. His father, the late Mr


his father at the jewelleria shop in Moor Lane as a young man and has run it himself for the past 35 years, helped by his tvife, Lena. They retired recently and moved to Beverley Drive, Clitheroe. Mr Morton is pleased to be


been elected an honorary member of Clitheroe and District Chamber of Trade m recognition of his work for the chamber. Mr Morton was president


RETIRED local business­ man Mr Stanley Morton has


Traders join to publish tourist guide


honoured by the Chamber. He hopes to attend the annual meeting and wishes the organisation every success m future efforts for the town. It is believed that there


less than the Council guide due out in November and advertising costs will be less than half. .


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are only two other honorary members, Mr G,eorge Vaughan and Mr James Parlanson.


of Trade were-originally angered after the appear­ ance of the first official u i d e , publi s 'h ed in ovember 1975, by the


Members of the Chamber


r i v a l guide, book — “Clitheroe, gateway to the Kibble Valley” — on sale by Easter and orders for 1,500 copies have already been received. It will sell for one-third


C.LITHEROE District Chamber of Trade is producing its own tourist guide, foDowing a barrage of criticism over the official Kibble Valley Council publication. Ihey


devoted a page and a quar­ ter of write-up to Clitheroe, along with two pictures, when one could easily wnte a page on CUtheroe Castle alone.”


Principle


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tising was too e.\pensive, copies were not available for sale by retailers in the town and the Clitheroe area r e c e iv e d insuffi cient coverage. Chamber president Mr


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had gone up from 30p to 45p, while the number of pages had gone down to 48," said Mr Cowgill, a Clitheroe printer and stationer. ‘We also discovered that adver­ tising had gone up and it was dear enough in the previous


edition.'" Prestige l o p


prestige — something like a trader’s donation towards the cost of the publication, but at £120 a page it is a very expensive donation. ■ “After carrying out a


have only five days to cancel and even if they do this they still have to pay 25 per cent of the cost,’’ he said. “The adverts are purely


decided to advertise tried to withdraw but were “caught by the fine print,” according to Mr Cowell. “The rules state that they


mended to withdraw their advertising from the council guide and many have agreed. Some who had already


Members were recom­


months ago, when canvas­ sing started for the second edition. “We found that the price


John Cowgill said that matters came to a head some


Home Publishing Company, of Carshalton, Smrey. They claimed that adver­


It is aimed to sell the.rival .


to the scenic attractions in * an a r e a b o u n d ed by Cl ithero e, Slaidburn, Sabden, Whalley and Hurst Green. Articles are meantime


being written and photo­ graphs taken for the new guide. The contract for its publication will soon go out to tender,. but Mr Cowgill says that he will not be tendering, as a matter of principle. “It is hoped to turn out


Executive Mr Michael Jack- son commented that if the Chamber of TVade’s publica­ tion dealt with the Clithepoe area only, it would be; a supplement to information available to tourists. It would .not fulfil the same funct ion as the official guide. “Our guide is shortly to be


Ereduced again and it is


November,” he said. “The first edition was well received and supplies for the local authority are almost finished. We feel that the new edition wall even be better.” .


Commercial


of 18,000 of those would be printed over two years, but as far as I knows only 3,850 were turned oiit,” he added! “Each advertiser received a free copy and 3,000 went to the council’s tourist informa­ tion office.


5,000 copies in the first print and they wiil be, readily available to anyone who chooses to sell them, which is more than can be said for the first edition of the coun­ cil’s guide. ‘We were told that a total


publishers said that they were going ahead with the guide with a “reduced adver- t i s i n g commi tmen t . ” Because of criticisms raised by the Chamber of Trade, it


was decided not to go ahead with a full-scale advertising campaign.


council supplies the editorial matter, but what arrange­ ments the publishers make with the advertisers , is purely a commercial transac­ tion and doesn’t affect us.” A spokesman for the


“Under our agreement the


“ I don’t know what happened to the rest, but they were never offered to retailers for sale,” said Mr CowgHl. Ribbie Val ley Chief


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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 1977 No. 4,764.


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RENT FOR ■ AUCTION MART IS FIXED


THE Ribbie Valley Council has fixed an annual rent of £3,250. for Clitheroe Auction Mart.


New face at police station


formerly with the Blackburn force for 23 years, replaces Insp. Wilf Ashworth who left in August after a year at Clitheroe. Accrington-born Insp.


'tions, including one for saving the life of a woman whose clothing had caught fire. His ,main hobby is


year. Over the years he has gained eight cornmenda-


snooker. In his first year, in the force he .won the English Police Championship and is now looking forward to play­ ing for the Clitheroe Police team in the local lea^e. Insp. Moore and his wife,


son and daughter, both m a r r i e d , and t h r e e grandchildren.


as a detective constable and in 1972 he gained promotion to detective, sergeant. He became an inspector last


Moore began his career with th e forme r Blackburn Borough Police in 1954. In 1960 he joined the CID


who arrived at Clitheroe on Monday to take over as second in command to Chief Insp, 'H .omss Sumner. - ' Insp. .; Moore, who was


C L ITHEROE Pol ice welcomed their latest “recruit” this week. He is Insp. Bill Moore,


The agreement lasts for the duration of the five-year


lease wanted earlier by the council, but will be reviewed annually in relation to the national price index.


the full council, members also decided that back rent from March, 1975, to the date of the present agree­ ment should be payable at £1,000 per year.


At lYiesday’s meeting of


more than the Auction Mart Company has so far agreed to pay, was describ.ed ai “almost ludicrous” by Coun. Bob Ainsworth (Clitheroel;


Mart reasonable security at a fair rent and look after the interests of ratepayers, to whom we are responsible,” he said


Early call


Marie, live in Windsor Road, Blackburn. They have a twin •


ton, where the outdoor boiler-house was slightly damaged by a small fire.


Slaidburn receives Jubilee prize


ing. They answered a call to Highcliffe House, Grindle-


CLITHEROE firemen were out early on Tuesday morn­


Coun. Edwin Gretton (West Bradford) at “the continuing efforts of a few indivdduals to misrepresent facts” about the Auction Mart. “The agreement we are about to reach will give the


ourselves a laughing stock we ask the company for more rent than is being charged on land in the middle of London,” he said. Concern was e.xpressed by


“Surely we are making


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feasibility study we decided that we would" Dring out our own guide at a much cheaper rate and it would be some­ thing which would do more justice to the area. ~ ‘.‘The official publication


They all took partners


MUMS, dads, teenagers, children and even the gran­ nies eagerly took their part­ ners at a harvest bam dance and family social at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor. The Hoe-down was organ­


four Ayrshires and four dairy shorthorns, qualified for the competition when he won the stock-judging at a field day at Myerscough Agricultural College this summer, followea by a series of eliminating rounds. The. third of five sons of


Mr George Whitfield, who accompanied the team to


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Warwickshire, said Peter’s award was particularly


Mr and Mrs James Roger­ son, Peter is a member of Chipping YFG and attends Preston Catholic College. YFC county organiser,


stock-judging. He had shown consistency through-, out the contest.


as it was the first n part in


Talk on houses


ing, a ploughman’s supper was served and there was a raffle.


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acted as caller and, after a demonstration of bam and square dancing, everyone was keen to join in. In keeping with the even­


ised jointly by the Parents’ Association and Mothers’ Union and the £33 profit was their harvest offering. Mrs Durham, of T^ston,


SLAIDBURN received its Jubilee prize on Saturday afternoon, when the Mayor of the.Ribble Valley, Coun. Edward-Newhouse, accom­ panied by the- Mayoress, presented a carved oak seat to the village.' ■ .


ceremony took place in thd Village Hall instead of in


Due . to heavy rain, the


. where the seat will stand. A welcome was given to


the memorial garden,


Coun. and Mrs .Newhouse by ' the chairman of the Jubilee committee, Mr W, Richard King-Wilkinson. The seat was awarded by


the Ribbie Valley Borough Council for the best deco­ rated village in the valley in Jubilee year. ,


- their - co-opted helpers -— responsible mainly for the decorations — and^the


expressed thanks to the Jubilee committee' and


thatwing the Mayor and the donors. Mr J . Thompson-


Vice-chairman of Slaidburn and .Easington Parish Louncil received the seat,


.Mr George Robinson,;


■ wi t h the Mayor and Mayoress are Mr George R o b i n s o n a n d Mr s Margaret Shaw, secretary of Slaidburn and Easing­ to n P a r i s h Council , watched by council and committee members and visitors.


voluntary workers who had prepared the garden. , Trying out the new scat


tors’ Club. The next meeting is at the Sun Inn, Wadding- ton, on November 7th, when Mr J. Boyce will speak qn antique c ^ cases.


vacancies and new members would be very welcome.,.. . S .


■ The club now has several . • ..Y- ■ .


MEDIEVAL, Tudor, and. Elizabethan country/ houses were the subjects cnosen by Mr J. A. Hanison, of South- ort, for his. lecture at llitheroe Antique Collec­


he ivill hold for a year, he was presented with a cassette recorder and will also receive an engraved medal. Peter, , who had to judge


young farmers, he had 143 points out of a possible 150 and was seven points above th e s e c o n d - p l a c e d competitors. His team — one o f ' three from Lanca- shire — came seventh overall. Apart from the cup, which


Farmers and Stockbreeders perpetual challenge cup in the young farmers’ stock- judging fmals, making him the first indi-vidual junior winner in Lancashire. Competing against 68


CHIPPING farmer’s son Peter Rogerson, of Handel- steads Farm, carried off a major championship award in national stock-judging finals at Stoneleigh agricul­ tural college, Warwickshire. Peter was awarded the


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PAINT, plasticine, paper and plenty of fun combined to provide 25 children with a happy and artistic Satur­ day morning at Whalley Adult Centre.


weekly sessions in “visual arts,” led by Clitheroe artist Richard Bancroft and arranged by Ribbie Valley arts organiser Mr Tony Cavender.


Children between seven and 16 are invi ted to


It was the first of 10


“explore the visual world and make things from paint, paper, cardboard and wood.”


mainly involved in making a 12-foot frieze depicting the Ribbie Valley.


Saturday’s work was


young artists with the frieze. •


was a great success and the children had a marvellous time.” Our picture shows the


Said Mr Cavender: “It


Wrong use of ‘sacred ground’


THE use of skateboards in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle was slammed at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Ribbie Valley Council by the Mayor of Clitheroe; Coun. Bob Ainsworth, who said the area had been bought by public subscrip­ tion to commemorate the dead of World War I.


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gardens — scene of an offi­ cial skateboarding site — being used for the new craze.


He disliked seeing the ‘sacred ground” of the


(Billington) rose in defence of the skateboarders. He said positive steps had been taken to deal >vith a current • craze which-might .soon


But Coun. Bill Fleming


some youngster being killed because we,turned oui' backs and didn’t do anything for him,” he added.


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