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Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 9tk, 1977 5 The ■


INEVITABLY in Jubilee week I find myself look­ ing back over ^ years. I


was an undergraduate


■ when the Queen acceded and I remember going round the tailors in Oxford looking for a black tie. As my college ' was a Koyal Foundation we were told it would be expected of us to- wear mourning for the week of Qebrge ^ ’s funeral.


I was .interested in politics


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WITH the Kibble VaUey Festivd of Sport now in full swing, everything is building up to a grand finale on Saturday, when most of the dazzling array of events will be completed. Most of the action will be


I^ecl


centred on the Castle Field, Clitheoe, where there will be something going on for people o f all ages throughout the afternoon.


There will be the traditional


fairground fo r children, a display by some young Morris ' dancers from Leyhmd, and the finals of the five-a-side football and netball competi­


tions. A dog show for pedig­ ree canines and the family'- pooch is another popular attraction which is bound to bring a host of entries on the day. The slapstick comedy of the


BBC television show “ It’s a Knockout” will be stag^ by youth dubs of Sabden, Mnity and Gisbum, and Clitheroe Swimming Club. Six members of each team Will have five zany g ^ e s to play, no doubt provicung lots of laughs for everyone. There will be a judo display


by 20 members of the dub at Tttuty Youth Centre, show­ ing self-defence techniques and the finer points of the martial art. An army team


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A critical time for Dutch elm disease spotters


^ the Kibble Valley’s campaign against Dutch elm disease swings into its third year, the area's tree- spotters face their most daunting task yet.


The disease first spread to |in


the Kibble Valley in 1975 and since then about 170 trees have been indentified and felled.


PER-


Barrow scheme


welcomed A START on building 20 new council houses at Trafford Gardens, Barrow, will be made later this year, ^bble Valley Chief Architect and


Planning Officer Mr Charles Wilson forecast to the Hous ing Committee.


The Committee gave the


final go-ahead for the scheme, which will provide 10.one- bedroom dwellings for old people, six three-person homes, two four-person homes, and two seven-person homes. The cost of the ^ em e will be an estimated £200,855.


Coun. Mrs Myra Clegg m


(Wiswell and B irow ) said there was a great demand for the housing, which would help


to keep Barrow School open, and improve the prospects of


a sale of the Barrow print­ works industrial site. Coun. Mrs Sheila Maw


(Whalley) added that the scheme would also be suitable for many people in Whalley who were on the council wait­ ing list.


But according to Kibble


Valley Paries Superintendent Mr Roger Hirst, this year’s total alone could be well over 500.


“We shall soon know the


exact position,” he explained, “^ e leaves are. now coming w t and if those on the upper branches turn yellow-brown, it is a good indication that the efans have been infected.”


The coming months are crit­


ical for Mr Hirst and his team o f spo t te rs. Fo r it now remains to be seen just how e f fe c t iv e their previous


campaigns have been. “The volunteer spotters did


a magnificent job last year and I hope thdr eariy identifi-


cation <a affected trees and subsequent action helped to prevent the disease spread- mg,” he said. ^


S r s t is resigned to a big


increase in reports cases, but is hoping the vigilance of his helpers vnll stop the disease becoming even more wide­ spread. “We will have done extre­


mely well if there are fewer than 500 cases this year. Had it not been for the spotters, however, the situation would a lmo s t certainly be fa r worse,” he added. Anyone seeing an elm tree


with yellow-brown foliage should contact Mr Hirst at the Kibble Valley Council parks department. Another teU-tale sign is the appearance of small holes in the bark caused by the Dutch elm beetle.


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Street nursery. Miss Sally Cowburn was married at Clitheroe United Reformed


Church to Mr Stephen Williamson. The bride is the only daugh­


t e r o f Mr and Mrs E'. Cowburii, of Hereford Diive, Clitheroe. The bridegroom, a- joiner, is the elder son of Mrs J. Singleton, of .Bumlev and formerly • o f West "View Clitheroe. _ Given away by her father,


the bride wore a white classi­ cal style gown with a Polyes­ ter satin train edged with French lace. Her long ved was held in ■ place By a pearl- trimmed juliet cap and she c ^ e d a spray of pink roses,


alstromeria and stephahotis. , Matron of honour wiis Mrs


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Gwyneth Plekemgill and briaesniaidB Miss Joanne Braysliaw, Miss Kerry Keys and Mis.s Sharon Metcalfe.


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Polyester crepe grown trim­ med with white lace and carried a spray of alstromeria, stephanotis and stocks. The bridesmaids wore green Polyester crepe gowns trim­ med with lace £uid carried pomanders of daisies and coral roses. All four wore juliet caps trimmed with white lace.


.Best man was Mr Michael Hodges and groomsmen Mr Alan Williamson, brideg­ room’s brother, and Mr Cliff Cowburn, bride’s brother. Ushers were Mr Jim Nixon and Mr Malcolm Fletcher. • T h e c e r em o n y was


performed by the Rev.-J. Salsbury. A reception Iwas held at Stirk House Hotel, Gisburn, and the couple spent the honeymoon to the Lake DistiieL They will live to Peel Street, Cllt'neroe. P h o to g ra p h : Pye’ s of


Clitheroe.


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L O W E R G A T E RDC Also 81 NORT (Clo it I * Is from Fulwood Barracks at


.Preston will be bringing a climbing tower and a &le range. About 10 local organ­ isations are having stalls and s id e sh ow s on the mini­ market, and West Bradford Ladies’ Hockey Club will be providing pony rides.


Horse riding enthusiasts


will have their own event on Saturday at Brookhouse Farm, Mitton Koad, Whalley. Once again, there will be something to please everyone', from the new driving class for pony and trap to the ever popular gymWiana for chil­ dren. A novel attraction will be fancy dress on horseback and there will also be a simp­ lified junior class‘ for young riders not advanced enough for other events.


There will be challenge cups


for the best jtmior and senior rider from the Kibble Valley. The ponies and traps will probably be taking to the roads on a five-mile trip to Mitton and back. Events start at 10 a.m. and should finish by 5 p.m. An American tennis tourna­


ment, oiganised by Clitheroe Tennis Club, takes place at the Chatbum Road courts, starting at 2 p.m., and also on Saturday is the schoolboy cycling event, a 10-mile time trial along the Whalley- Clitheroe bypass, starting at 10 a.m. The Kibble Valley Sports


Council, festival organisers, are also co-sponsors of atxiul- try eidiibition at the C^tle Street car showrooms and a budgerigar show at Low Moor Church Hall, starting at 2 p.m.


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time trials from Clitheroe to Settle, starting from the Pendle Hotel, Chatbum, at 6- 30 p.m. Later in the evening there will be the finals of the sn o o k e r competition at Clitheroe Conservative Qub, from 7-30 p.m. The table tennis finals will take place tomorrow evening


at R ib b le sd a le School, Clitheroe, at 7 p.m., and a squash compehTion \^1 start at the same time at the Empress Squash Courts, Chatbum Road, Clitheroe. The finals of the six-a-sidc


cricket competition are at R o e f ie ld , Clitheroe, on Sunday beginning at 10 a.m., and the finals of the men’s and women’s darts competitions take place on Monday and Wednesday resp^vely . T h e f o r t n i g h t - l o n g


extravaganza of sport offi­ cially comes to an end a week tomorrow with the presenta­ tion dance at Longridge Civic Hall. It will be attended by the Mayor and M^oress of the Kibble Valley, ^ u n . and Mrs Edward Newhouse, and' | the presentations will be made, by international jum'or athlete M i c h a e l M o r t o n , o f Waddington.


Tonight sees the cycling


THE High Sheriff of Lanca­ shire, Maj. S. H.'Riddiough, and his wife Suzanne gave a helping hand when they were among guests at Slaid- bum Young Farmers’ meet­ ing at Robinsons Farm, Easing ton, home of Ribble Valley Mayor and Mayoress Coun. and Mrs Edward Newhouse. MaJ. and Mrs Riddiough judged a contest for objects made of baler twine and they are pictured (centre) with the girls who made them and the club leaders.


Head of school for 14 years


A FORMER headmaster of Ribblesdale School, Mr Tom C h a dw ick , has died in Australia two years after he and his wife Mona emigrated. Mr Chadwick was at


Kibblesdale from 1946 to 1960 and is remembered as a forward-looking headmaster, who a t the same time respected tradition. &nior master at the time,


Mr Leonard King, of Whalley Road, Pendleton, remembers that Ribblesdale Modern School — as it was then


.known — was, above all, a very happy school in Mr Chadwiclrs day. An o ld boy o f Queen


Elizabeth’s Grammar &hool, Blackburn, Mr Chadwick came to Ribblesdale after


.spells as head at Heyhouses Endowed School, St Annes, and St Mary Ma^alen CE School, Acenngton. He helped found school


sports associations in Accring­ ton and Lytham, and'was at one time chairman of Lanca- 8 hire Schools’ . A thlet ics ■'Assodation. For many years he was


treasurer of the Lancashire County Teachers’ Association, and among other activities he had four books on history published.


about f iv e years, before moving to Lytham St Aimes and later to Dismore, New South Wales, Australia. Sadly, Mr Chadwick spent


most of his time in Ausbalia


in hospital. In addition to his wife, he leaves two sons. Dr


John Chadwick, of Usmore, and Maj. Tom Chadwick, of Lytham.


THE hilarious adventures of that famous bungling French p o l i c em a n , I h s p e c t o r Clouseau, are featured in ‘Tink Panther Strikes Again,” at Clitheroe’s Civic Hall next week. The film, the third in the Fink Panther series, stars Peter Sellers.


HILARIOUS


in those, days, but if anyone had predicted that within seven years I should be fight­ ing in a General Election and, two years later, entering Parliament for the first time by way of a by-election, I should have considered them slightly deranged. Like many other people, if


they were honest, I would have to admit that I drift^ , into politics. Perhaps for that reason I have always fought shy of, and distrusted, anyone who declares that he always wanted to be an MP or, worse stiU, States a plain ambition to


be Prime Minister. However, for good or ill, I


have spent nearly half of the Queen’s reign as a member of the House of Comrfions. I wonder, therefore, what has changed. Really changed, I mean, not just on the surface, in British politics'in that time. At the two extreme ends of


the spectrum, fashion and appearances and Britain’s appearance in the world, there have been vast changes. At the most trivial, in 1961


bowler hats abounded with, as runner up, the homburg or “ Anthony Eden” as it was then called. I have always detested hats, I was endlessly losing mine in the Army, so I was pleased to; shed one as soon as possible. There are very few left in the Commons now, worn by one or two elderly gentlemen, some barristers, and on the heads of Jeremy Tliorpe and Nicholas Fairbaim, two Westminster d a n d ie s . B ea rds have sprouted everywhere and - great slabs of sidewhiskers like doormats, not only on the f a c e s o f H o n o u r a b le Members, but, most notice­ ably, under the helmets of our policemen, nearly all of whom look as if they are about to sing in “The Krates of Penz­ ance”. More s e r iou s ly , . I can


remember in those days senior responsible statesmen predicting the disappearance


Chonsters thanked


. .


After his retirement, Mr and Mrs Chadwick stayed at their home in Pimlico Road for


RIBBLE Valley choristers were among more than 80 recipients of long-service awards fo r church choir "singing. At a presentation at Black-


bum (Cathedral, the Bishop of Lancaster, the Rt Rev.


Dennis Fountain-Page and the


Provost of Blackburn, the Very Rev. Lawrence Jackson, presented certificates and Royal School of Church Music medals.


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aw a rd s w e r e : G i l l ia n VVoodhead, Susan Holden, V a le r ie Hardman, Jane Roberts, Judith Davies, Fiona S h a ^ , Austen EUison and Philip Caton (Whalley Parish Church), Alison Jane Potts (St. Leonard’s , Balderstone), Helen Chard and Diane Smith, (Downham Parish Church), Andrew David Asht’on (St Maly’s, Mellor),


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Westminster Viewpoint by DAVID .. WALDER Clitheroe Division MP ■.


of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, and of course, being a very small^ minority, the Liberal Party.' None of which has come to pass, but no one then took


Scottish Nationalism seri­ ously, nor was the tragic sitii-i_ ation in Northern Ireland^" predicted by anyone.


We thought then of bigger


units and not smaller. An empire had given way, more gracefully and successfully than many would have thought, to African, Asian and Caribbean nationalism.


It was thought that all these


could be contained within a Commonwealth which could also contain some curious Federations and South Africa as well. It would have been a bold


spirit in the fifties who would r have predicted that both our economic and military effort would have been concentrated by the seventies, in Western E u rop e . ' Paradoxically, though, I think that President Amin would have had shorter shrift then than now. For there can be no doubt


that economically and militar­ ily we have moved out of the Great Power League, if we were ever in it after 1945. 'The trouble is perhaps that not enough o? us have realised it. Many of us stili apparently think of Britain as being a nation which is infinitely rich,' without top much effort of course, and also exercising some sort of magical world­ wide influence, without the power to sustain it — judging at least by those curious things. Early, Day Motions in the House of Commons. They attract the signatures of MPs, they are rarely, very rarely, debated, but form a conve­ nient way of assessing opin­ ion. Some for this reason are worthwhile but many, urging


HM Government to use its influence, e.\press its disap­ proval or give its approval in various parts of the world totally outside our control would have been appropriate in 'Victoria’s day, but now look plain silly. Anyone present at the • Spithead Naval Review will be able, quite easily, to count the Queen’s ships, 113 (there were 870 in 1952) and also observe that we no longer


.have any gun-boats. Much nearer home/ have


there been any great changes in constituency politics? In 1952 the day of the big


political meeting was declin­ ing — now it has almost disap-


peared completely. The demand for personal contact has increased, yet paradoxi­ cally more people take their politics from the telly than


world


f Am inquiry of their own MP. He, of course, has as his


problem the difficulty of keep­ ing pace with the vast amount of information, facts, as well as opinions and haK-truths, which pour out of the box — which he does not see or hear, save at weekends, as the Commons sits throughout all peak viewing hours.


• Nevertheless, it is perhaps television which has made us a be t te r informed and less prejudiced nation than we were 25 years ago. Though perhaps one observation may be forgiven to someone who once worked for a publishing firm, we 'may be better educated in and by the spoken word, but our spelling has deteriorated and the worst spelt letters I receive are otherwise beautifully typed


•by organisations "which ought to know better. . In- a ragbag of impressions


one final reflection on the Queen herself. Everything I have experienced in.my active political years at national level has gone to convince me of her personal worth, well recog­ n is e d by sp on ta n e ou s enthusiasm in this the 25th year of herreign. Above that, however, there is her unas­ sailable position above poli­ tics. ■What would our history


have been in the last 25 years if we were this week merely celebrating, say, the 5th in line of a succession of five presidents?


Two-point plan on land dispute


A TWOFOLD course of action -was agreed at a public meeting in Waddington to try and resolve a long standing dispute over land at the Old Smithy.


It was decided that the


Parish Council should ask to' see the deeds of the property, owned by Mr Roger Wilson, so that the line of the bound­ ary between his land and the road could be established once. and for all.


At the same time, the


county council is to be pressed to clear away unsightly rubble around a bench, which stands on the land in dispute.


The meeting first consi­


dered a county council plan, approved by Mr Wilson’s solicitors, to mark the edge of the road with stone setts. On the plan, the bench was shown


as standing on Mr Wilson’s land, although it was said that he had agreed to allow access to it. But Mr Leslie Baines prop­


osed that the deeds should first be examined. “ I think we should see them before giving way on anything,” he said. The motion was carried 31-5. T h e re was unanimous


support for .Mr Stanley Pear­ son when he proposal that something be'done to clear rubble round the bench


question. “ I think we should get the ebunty council to clear that up and then argue the toss over where the boundary lies,” he said.


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