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OUR shopkeepers, are renowned for swapping pleasantrieswith their customers about the weather. But one Ciitheroe newsagent has decided to go a step further. Mr Tom Suttie has turned his Wellgate premises into sometlung of a weather centre, making available to customers statistics about the previous day’s climate.


For Mr Suttie (44) is an


ready each morning at about 5-30 a.m., so I have time to look at the instruments, listen


enjoys providing this extra service for his customers and passers-by. “Tve been inter­ ested in the weather for a long time and find it is a fascinat­ ing subject," he says. I’m up getting the papers


board, together with details of the coldest, warmest, wettest and most sunny parts of the country the previous day. Mr S u t t ie thoroughly


wave radio system to bro,ad- casts from weather stations all over the country and works out a forecast for the Kibble Valley. This is also displayed on the


takes readings on the rain gauge and thermometer screen in the back garden of th e a d jo in in g Dog and Partridge Hotel. Then he displays the information on a peg board in his shop window at about 7 a.m. each day. He also listens on his short


amateur meteorologist and has been since he was a boy. E a r ly each'morning he


round & about


as much room at Wellgate so some of his equipment has had


to be stored] Mr Suttie also takes a keen


interest in European weather, and about seven years ago f o r m e d a n a m a t e u r meteorological group which now has members from all over the Continent. Most members have not met, it’s more of a postal


Cyril unveils his new Mini


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national — third of 10 events in the championship — starts th is afternoon at Barry,


him to \ictory in the RAC ch:unpionship — to find the premier off-road rally driver in Britain. Tile I,(XX)-mile Welsh Inter­


through the forests of Wales today in a new 1275 Mini provided for him by Leyland Motors. C^Til is hoping it will take Glamorgan, and finishes there


number of .stages often in forests or the grounds of stately homes, and will take the drivers to all parts of Wales.


on Saturday morning. It involves rallying over-a


Cyril’s navigator is Ian


Grindrod, of Stonyhurst, and ■ in his service crew are Ian Grant, of Newton, and Derek Ormrod, of Langho.


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is entirely different involving no rallying on the public roads. Nevertheless Cyril (34), of


regarded as the premier road rallying test in Britain. Cyril competed in a Mini sponsored by Minisport, of Padiham, who are also backing the new Leyland car. But the RAC championship


to Cyril by Leyland because they were so impressed with his third-place finish in last y e a r ’s M o to r in g News National Championship. The News championship is


LANGHO rally ace Cyril Bolton will be flashing


newsagent’s business two months ago after moving from Billington where he had a weather station at his semi­ detached home. Unfortunately there is not


in t e r e s t in the service although you can never be right with forecasts every time. However, at one period some time ago, I was forecast­ ing correctly about 85 per cent of the time." Mr' Suttie took over the


to the radio and put together the board. “People are showing an


thing. But each month one of them compiles a newsheet of weather information from s ta t is t ic s sent in by the others. When the group first started Mr Suttie compiled the newsheet, but eventually had to give up. Mr Suttie is occasionally


if I ask them to lend a hand they will,” he says.


E n g in e e rs


Moor at the beginning of the year to take a job in industry, was chaplain to the local RE branch. The dance is being organised by th e ladies’ committee as a thank-you to him. It will take place in the Conservative Club.


C h r is t ian


Brian Clark the camp starts with a meeting at 7-30 p.m. on


cannp THE annual gathering at Bucks Farm, West Bradford, this year entitled “Christian Camp ’7 7 ,” is open to everyone interested in taking part in meetings and various other organised activities. Organised by Mr and Mrs


s a y th an k s THE former Vicar of Low Moor, the Rev Alan Hunt, and his wife will be guests of honour at a buffet dance to be held tomorrow evening by the Ciitheroe branch of the Royal Engineers’ Association. Mr' Hunt, who left Low-


helped in his weather work by his wife Sheila and daughters Beverley (11) and Lindsay (9). “They are not too keen, but


provide their own tents, cara­ vans and camping equipment, but the organisers may be able to help any who cannot provide for themselves, if, they contact Bucks Farm. Day visitors are welcome, but anyone under 16 years of age must have their parents’ permission to attend.


F r id a y , July 15th, and concludes with tea on the Sunday. Campers are expected to


M a k in g merry


Diane Bovill, of Foulridge, who will give a demonstration of gun dog training. An acknowledged ■ expert in her field, she will be working with


attractions includes at least 15 May queens from all parts of th e Blackburn Diocese. Special jubilee prizes will be awarded in children’s fancy dress competitions.


la b r a d o r s and sp r in g e r spaniels. The wide variety of other


THE May Merrymaking at ■Whalley Abbey on Saturday will have a novel event which has already attracted the interest of the BBC’s mid-day television programme “Pebble ' Mill.” It is the appearance of Dr


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90-year-old helps -out on the farm-


IT doesn’t seem unusual that Mr James Richardson Jackson should pop up from Downham Village to Hey House Farm to help with bottling the milk — until you learn that he wras 90 last week!.


was busy with his favourite le isu re time a c tiv ity — gardening. Happy to be “as fit as a


And on a sunny morning he


45B Main Road, is ablaze with polyanthus and in his sheltered back gm-den cabbage plants, given to him by a friendly neighbour, are sdready flour­ ishing.


Do^ham in 1910 from his native ’Thurham (near Lancas­ ter) and in 1921 he married a Chatburn girl. Miss Mercy Preston who died five years ago. His first work was as a


Mr J a c k s o n came to


stonemason, to which job he returned (working for the Assheton family) ^ te r serv­ ing on the Somme with the East Lancashire Regiment and later with horse transport with the 12th King’s Liverpool Regiment. His first married home was


fiddle” his only regret is that he can’t see small seeds as well as he’d like. 'The front of his cottage, at


at Brookside, Downham, but later he farmed at Twiston (imtil 1937) and then at Hey House, where his son now r e s id e s ; and where the veteran still likes to Help out, He doesn't like to “fuss,”


preferring to share celebra' tions in a few days time with a family 21st birthday party, for a nephew. B u t h is b ir th d ay was


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years of work he has enjoyed church activities: and still follows his favourite Black- bum Rovers. But instead of th e season tickets of his younger days he now has to wait for their infrequent appearance on television.


Spring Terrace, is confident he can do well and is hoping to make a flying start to the Welsh International today. He is competing in the group' one class for cars up to 1300cc.


modest and in a way insig­ nificant w'ith smooth contours, has few rivals. More than most it has a pleasing person­ ality and never at any season spells gloom or desolation. The mighty Cairngorms,


th.-it time, a further astronom­ ical amount of water having passed almost at the foot of this model hill of perfect contour, it has served to give me more pleasure than many of more spectacular stature. This, my ideal, though


since, oh my first trip, I H a l t e d on t h e r o a d between Whitewell and Dunsop Bridge to inquire ' from a fellow passer-by if he could tell me the name of the pleasant hill just to the north of the Hodder. He could not help, but since


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Gable, all have their devotees, and the cynic who worships at the foot of the Munroes of 4,000 feet would, consider this gem of Hodder — Mellor Knoll — just another insig­ nificant postule.


Highland peaks, my opinion is considered and my conclusion fiu- from hasty. Indeed, after several decades, particularly follow-ing a dusting of snow, Mellor lOioH’s pleasing aspect is fully revealed.


Having seen most of the


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yet if you had been in our village six or seven hundred years ago, you would have had almost as many to contend with and they would have affected your life even more closely. True? I assure you that it is.


-euphemism, more or less, for serf or slave), but much more likely the latter, for they e.xceeded the freemen in number three or four times over.


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one-roomed house of rough timber, wattle and daub, without chimney or windows, with a mud floor and a thatched roof and this accom­ modation you would share with whatever cattle or other livestock you happened to


You would have lived in a Queen Millj Queen mm


overflowing with fish, but would have no right to catch anK you would pot be gjlow^, to hunt the deer or set a snare for hare or rabbit. Let nie quobe >>00 an actual example; “John Aubrey holds


of. land to till, on which to grow- all the produce for your family, but you would have other duties, too. You might well be, called upon to repair the roads, fell timber, build bridges, repair hedges, all at the whim imd fancy of your ?ovcrIord’] (who might well be the abbot at the Abbey). , You would live, by a river


You would have a few acres


would have been like here in Whalley, in those far-off feudal and manorial days. You would have been either a freeman or a bondsman (a


Try to imagine what life


FED up with paying ra te s and taxes? Frus­ trated by modem rules and regulations? I r r i ­ tated b y . traffic condi­ tions, by parking difficul­ ties, public officials and a thousand and one “do’s and don’ts?” Annoying, I must agree and


W h e n l i f e w a s f e u d a l


Whalley Window


repair the roof of the hall, harrow the oat-land along with his fellows, and he shsill receive one hen and 16 eggs.


His services are valued at 9s 8d. and. he pays a rent of 2s


6d. John was not a local man, but I quote from the records of a village much more complete than our own, and, as the customs of a community varied little wherever in the countiy they happened to be, similar restrictions and condi­ tions might well apply here in our own village.


these regulations, you decided to run away, your good.s would be immediately seized and you could be arrested in any jilace at any time, if you cqntrived to remain at liberty for a year and a day, you would become 3 free man, out you would never be able to return to the village of your


you had been John and your daughter wishes ■ to marry, you might well be called upon to pay a fee — possibly 2s or more — to the lord of the manor. If the poor girl wished to mairy an “outsider” (a man dwelling in another parish) the fee payable would be even more. If your son wished to enter holy orders (a popular way of casting off the yoke of a bondsman, even though he was devoid of any formal education, which the vast majority were, once more a fee would be required. If; by now, "fed. up” of


That, however, is not all. If


18 acres and a house and he must do 52 days’ work a year. He must plough for two days, do boon work at harvest, mow in the meadow for two days. He must cart the hay,


birth and would immediately become subject to the customs of the community in which you eventually settl^.


only to the dictates of Courts Baron and Courts Leet, to Manorial courts and various other courts, legally or other­ wise constituted, but also to Ecclesiastical Courts; here in Whalley they were held in our parish church, the only church.


You would be subject not


you could be fined or ordered to perform various uneomfort- able p enances for non-


Summoned to appear here,


the pillory, in the stocks, or very much worse off in pocket and, if you were a woman .and .your tongue w.aggcd too freely, to the ducking stool .YOU would go. If by chance you stole a sheep, the gallows Was your likely fate. By and large, you would have a pretty thin time of it.


something to be said for present day “custom and usage”.


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brewed and sold your owm ale — and many people did —^you could be fined for not haring' the correct measures, for brewing your ale too weak or too strong. As there w-ere then no scientific means of determining the strength or btherw ise of the brew, you w’ould be solely dependent on the judgjnent of the local ale taster, ^ d if your prijduct failed to please his palate you were in trouble right aw’ay. " You could find yourself in


attendance at church, for alleged fomification, for doing varying forms of manual labour on the Sabbath, for baking on a Sunday or for doing the weekly wa.sh on a Sunday. You could be fined for making a noise during the times of services (whether in or outside church or even some distance away). In other courts, i f'you


Ben Nevis, Ben More, Suilvan or Cruachan rising from Loch Awe or Waatwater’s Great


lel to Hodder and on passing Hodder. Bank Farm, the first and only farm adjacent to the road north of the river b e twi x t Whitewell and Dmisop, Mellor Knoll is on your left.


Knoll’s pastures run to the river. 'The steeper flanks tinged with russet and almost encircled by a fringe of conif­ ers certainly add distinction to this gem of Hodder. Half a mile ahead, near Langden Holme Farm, set within flat green pastures, the hill domi­ nates the northern aspect, reminding one of the contours seen in Glen Tilt, near Blair Atholl.


reaching the War Memorial and consider the reclining fe a tu re s of the Old Man against the skyline. THe pecul­ iar formation has been formed by a huge slip of the upper height on the northern side. No d o u b t a l a n d s l i d e thousands of y e a rs ago brought about the strange foiTnation.


Knoll has a perfectly smooth outline when viewed from the road or from the south, the only exception arising from this scar giving rise to the Old Man. Being of such modest contour and of low stature, we must now take a look from faraway places in order to realise that bulk alone does not qualify for eminence.


more importance, and when considered on your way to Newton via Rougher Syke and Boarsden,. the slopes stand out even against the massive hulks of the fells beyond. It even challenges mighty Toteridge.


out as a landmark even when you are 10 or more miles


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• Mellor Knoll and with little effort is plainly visible the entire len^h of the Hodder Valley. 'You may travel to faraway Tosside ;uid by look­ ing to the west ea.sily pick out MulloV Knoll, with Toteridge as a backcloth.


from Ciitheroe, but Pendle i s tw i c e t h e h e i g h t of


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,. I t is, you see, a hill of outstanding features in form, tre e s and vegetation and when r climbed it several years ago its modest height was out of . all proportion to


Pendle, with' its familiar whale - like massif, stands


Character and shape is of Generally speaking, Mellor


location gives an entirely diffemet riews.Lo and behold when seen through the mixed plantation near the road junc­ tion, it is easy to pick out with a little imagination the famil­ iar profile of the “Old Man of Bowl.-md.” Better still, turn just before


Half a mile on, near the Fish Hatchery, the changed


You could almost say Mellor


After pxisHing over Burholme Bndge, your road runs paral­


:is always, forming a back­ ground, but given early after­ noon sunlight the form of Mellor Knoll is picked out clearly.' You see, once accus­ tomed to the shape, this hill cannot be ignored from a vari­ ety of places throughout the l e n g t h of th e Ho d d e r Watershed.


cattle grid and look to the rolling hills to the wost. You will notice Toteridge,


When you pass from Holden past Threape Green along the


Clapham road by Champion Moor, take a careful look far


to th e west. Particularly about noon, the modest 1,000 foot Mellor Knoll cannot fail to impress.


eye view, what about a glimpse from the heights on Barney or, to those not so familiar with local mames, the roa d f rom Cow Ark to Newton. From Marl Hill or Birkett Heights, the angle g i v e s a mo s t un usu a l impression, but the fringe of trees and the Smooth cone like top somehow recalls the b id ­ ing head of a huge giant eager to preserve a receding hair­ line.


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the tremendous view over this part of HoddeFs vale. When you travel from Waddington to Newton, pause by the first


8V4d an hour, and “managed' for himself in the army, Mr Jackson enjoys remaining in his own home, with the family keeping an eye on his welfare. In addition to nearly 80


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