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O P E N E V E R Y D A Y CHRISTMAS


U N T I L Heaping, wiiat we sew


ALTHOUGH we have a tremendously long way


to travel along the road


. of knowledge, there is ■ at the end of the tunnel a glimmer of light giving hope of better imderstanaing in those walks of life vital to our happiness and survival. T h e b r e a k - u p o f


marriages, family life and in d e ed s o c ie ty , , i f y^e continue to follow a way of permissiveness, is, we must admit, our own fault. We have sown the seeds


and are now reaping what we have sown. It is an old law and, as far as I can see, no-one seems to find that .if we sow virtues we reap the reward. These are basic simple laws of the universe, of which, in every hedge plant, insect or bird, we find anmle lessons. Of course we have been


misled by the majority of naturalists and evolution­ is ts , with every candid sociologist admitting there has grown to maturity a generation which, to all mtents and purposes, has no belief in either religion or life.


To them, life has no


purpose. Indeed, they fail to see, in spite of the evidence


beneath their feet, that creation is purpose and pmpose creation.


To ignore such purpose is


to foohshly imagine you can avoid any result which will inevitably follow a disregard of this fundamental law 'of nature. So we find low stan- dards, false values and beliefs bringing about a bored existence .— hence a generation of bored, unset­ tled, discontented individu­ als with very little respect.


During this period the agnostics and unbelievers


have prevailed and now they themselves wonder how it


. ah catne about, as if it were a visitation of disease brought by a flock of starlings. However, we do find a ray of hope that the tide is'tum- ing, although many believe it may be too late.


t The pseudo-scient ific


interpretation of nature during the last 30 years been


crammed down our throats from the classroom and


lecture hall, when we have been told that the veir existence of man, bird, insect or plant has been evolved by a law of aggres­ sion;


A closer, more intense


look at nature in field and hedgerow offers'an example of how we, so dependent, on nature, should live. An intel­ ligent, interpretation shows that progress is only poss­ ible by co-operation and not aggression.


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ASK any little girl today what she would most like for Christmas and the answer will almost certainly be a doll.


Throughout special appeal. A women who knows


more about dolls than most is Mrs Jean Walmsley, who devotes much of her spare tim e to repair ing and renovating doUs and dolls’ houses at her home at Painter Wood, Billington.


All her life she has been


fa s c in a te d with dolls, particularly those from the past, and it is mostly the early ones that she works on.


Mrs Walmsley believes people are becoming more


mterested in old dolls and are rooting them out of their attics in order to have them restored to their former g lo^ — one way of recap­ turing the magic of child­ hood. To a serious collector,


however, renovated dolls are of no interest. Mrs Walmsley and her


husband Robert, a retired police sergeant now working


the years,


I even in today’s age o:f scien- tific toys, dolls have never fai led


to maintain their


for a burglar alarm firm, moved from a modem house in Blackburn six months ago to begin restoration of their p r e s e n t c o t t a g e at Billington.


Now Mrs Walmsley has


numerous dolls waiting for her expert touch, perhaps needing new hip joints, fingers or toes. Some have to have half a foot replaced, others have bodies needing new heads or even heads■ needing new bodies.


Whatever the problem,


Mrs Walmsley can usually manage it. Although she can buy wigs for dolls, she has been known to use her own hair and that of her two


daughters to make a wig, sewmg it on to a foundation.


Some of the original hair


. on older dolls is made of sheep’s wool and therefore easily replaced.


M rs Wa lms l e y has


lovingly kept her own dolls from childhood, but much to her'disappointment both her daughters — Gillian (22) and Julie (20) — much preferred teddy bearsi when they were small.


Through her interest,- she


has made numerous friends and travels widely to see suitable dolls to buy.


A talented and artistic


person, Mrs Walmsley is an e x p e r t at embroidery, takmg classes for adults at Blackburn, Rishton and Brockhall Hospital.


She is able to adapt her


skills with a needle to make and repair the intricate


clothing worn by dolls-of a bygone age. Making dresses and sewing sequins and tiny buttons on the pantaloons, flannelette petticoats and skirts is all p ^ of the enjoy­ ment.


“pati cnir


O n e o f h e r t i n y


jatients,” with a delicate face and ‘lifelike


expression, is waiting to have its “flirty” eyes righted and a new head of hair.


The doll was given to its


owner _ by her' father, who made it a wardrobe in the form of a box which holds, both the doll and a range of clothes on tiny hangers.


Many


Walmsley repairs have china heads and kid bodies, and


- these often need-re-pacldng and stitching. Heads can be repaired with plaster or papier-mache and tiny toes r e p la c e d by means o f plaster.


Mrs Walmsley always


makes sure that the new part does not stand out from the faded or dirtier colour of the remaining limb.


Although Mrs Walmsley


has enough bits and pieces of dolls to keep her busy for some time ahead, sire is always interested in seeing ,


more dolls and adding them to her collection.


Whatever their age or


condition, she finds them all fascinating and reads up whenever she can on their history, which helps her with the restoration work.


Of the present-day dolls,


Mrs Walmsley thinks there are many attractive ones


about, but on the whole they have little character.


Her main ambition is to


find time some day to create a doll herself, and, no doubt, with her enthusiasm for the subject, she eventually will.


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S E A R C H I N G for stories and legends of OUT. district that are new to me, I recently met up with a tale of Hoghton Towe r s ’ I had not encountered previously.


This famous old house is


well-known to us and we are aware of the tale that it was following the warm ho^ital- ity extended to James I here (an expenditure which left, his host financially embar­ rassed for many years to co_me)that he knighted the


loin of beef, but here we have a story of a very diffe­ rent kind.


It concerns a young man,


Edgar Astley, who came to the Towers in the d ^ s of the first Elizabeth. Edgar habitually dressed in the deepest mourning, for a double tragedy had entered


his life. Deeply in love with a girl of rare beauty, within a few days of the wedding ceremony she jilted him and married another, but this imion was fated to be short-lived,, for within 12 months the bride lay dead. The young man was allo­


cated a room high in the' tower where all, including


the servants, regarded him with genuine sympathy and affection but as lus stay at


Ho g h t o n , lengthened, Edgar' became - more and


more a recluse, keeping the door of his room securely. locked and rarely leaving it, even for meals. Soon speculation became


widespread as to how he occupied himself during his


self-imposed isolation. The servants began whispering


EDGAR’S SECRET TRYST Whalley Window


among themselves: the young man they opined, was m league with Satan; in the darkness of his room he carried out all kinds of mysterious rites, and so one cold and gloomy night .an under-steward determined to find out the truth for himself.


the tower clock, the man crept silently up the stair­ way and, his heart pulsing madly against his ribs, applied his eye to the keyhole of Edgar’s room. The strange scene that met his eye terrified, horrified .and fascinated him.


As midnight chimed from Edgar, garbed all in


sombre black, traced with shaking finger the lettering in an ancient book and, as he read, made manipulations and muttered incantations


.o v e r the red and purple flames that flared from the open fire. He was invoking


the spirit of his lost love. He paused and there


followed a period of uncanny and ominous silence. Then, ou t o f the long gaunt shadows in a remote comer of the tower came the most; dreadful voice, the veiy sound of which sent icy shiv­ ers streaking doiVn the spine of the secret listener. “One more spell,” said the


voice, “ one last spell and your love will come to you


beneath the oak at midmght on the morrow.”


The wind shrieked and


moaned around the lofty turret. “Darest thou look upon me?” demanded the unseen speaker.“ Yes, yes indeed I dare,’! cried Edgar and the castle gre-w so intensely cold that the watcher 'fainted where he knelt.


Next night, as the witch­


ing hour approached, Edgar crept silently from Ws room andi as he descended the stairway of the 'tower, he was joined by a shrouded, hooded figure who grasped him firmly by the arm and led him into the courtyard where stood a solitary oak.


Here they halted and,


under the instructions of the dark stranger, the forlorn young man mscribed a circle on the rough stones and began to mutter, the wildest incantations.


Now, in the centre of the


circle there came a dull glow which slowly, brightened' until, in the midst of the incandescence, appeared the ■ figure of a nakea child. In moments the figure faded and was replaced by the form of a beautiful woman; Slowly Edgar -moved


■ t o w a r d s h e r ,wi t h outstretched arms and as he did so the storm that how raged grew in intensity. When he was but a few feet from the apparition, the


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Stella Cutler visited her s is te r , Mrs Evelyn Melling, in Australia, she felt well and truly “at home.” For during her nine-week


stay, she met no fewer than


-1 1 p e o p l e who h a d emigrated from Clitheroe. Not only that, 49-year-old


Mrs Cutler, a widow, of St Paul’s Street, £ow Moor, now has a very special Jubilee year souvenir . . . a treasured photograph taken when she chatted to Prince Charles in Perth’s Mall. T h e c h a t was dul y


recorded on Australian tele­ vision and when Mrs Cutler


returned to her sister’s home in Perth she found herself a “celebrity!” Fi r s t o f the former


Clitheroe families to be visited were Mr and Mrs Harry Downham and them four children. They moved from Nelson Street, .Low


Moor, nearly seven years ago. Anoth er coupl e Mrs


Cutler met were Mr and Mrs Clifford Cross, formerly of the fruit shop in Castle S tre e t , Clitheroe, who emigrated six years ago. Next on the calling list


were Mr and Mrs Ted Driver, formerly of Low


Moor, and there was also a visit to Mrs Annie (}utts (70), who moved from Shaw-


bridge to Australia'40 years ago. Most of Mrs Cutler’s stay


was with her sister, brother- in-law Harry and their 10- year-old daughter Deborah. They" all left Low Moor seven years ago.


Mrs Cutler’s holiday of a


lifetime involved thousands of miles of travel within Austrah'a itself. In addition


’ to meeting the Prince, she will always remember a cruise on the River Swan, during which dolphins leapt out of the water alongside the launch. Now she is having diffi- 1


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Graham (27) and Raymond (22).


“ I just can’t describe'some


of the country, because it had to be seen to be believed. The friendliness of the people was remarkable and I enjoyed numerous barbecues and champagne recmtions,” she said. “ 'The -worst part was I


coming back to England and its cold weather.”


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In the thin light of the


moon, Edgar s t c^ in solit- p y ' distress, the tears cours ing down his wan cheeks as he leaned against the blasted oak. Gentle hands led him quietly away, incoherent and unresisting; a shattered, demented creature who never spoke or regained his wits throughout the rest of his mortal days.


Throughout his remaining


years he bore on his forearm the prints of four fingers and a thumb, where the d emo ni c s tran g e r had grasMd him and the marks reddened and grew in inten­ sity as the hour of his death approached.


: A true story? Or merely a


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■ - So, next time you pass


Hoghton Towers and look up that long drive that was once canieted from end to end to greet a king, remember Edgar Astley. You wouldn’t like to find yourself in a siihilar position, would you? ,NB A good story,.I think,'


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.'If aggression were the answer,’ most forms of life


would have ceased to exist long ago. This is a fact, not an assumption. Such practi­ cal and indeed philosophical considerations are more appropriate at this season than at any other, for is it not at this time that we seek to understand and interpret?


Granted, the dismal John-


nies cannot, in December or Januaiy, see the abundance


of evidence, which tells of i new l i fe or re-creation everywhere. There is a negative- outlook, sad and dismal, -with little future, for as the great scientist Eins­ tein says- — “the man who regarfs his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but is almost disqualified for life” .


, Einstein, a practical man


whose philosophy. we dare not ignore,; as usual hit the


C O U N T R Y D I A R Y


nail on , the head, as did another who, 2,000 years


■ ago, provided a law of biol­ og y enshrined in those words concerning how, in nature, we reap what we sow and seldom, if ever,


gather grapes from thistles. ’ It seems we do not-wish to


learn, for history proves it repeats itself. Obviously the


sooner--we §et down to a


more scientific interpreta­ tion o f nature and life, the


- b e t t e r ou r ch ance o f survival.


, ^ There will be' much gnash­


ing of teeth and protest, for it IS a great man who admits he has made a mistake in


' following a false.path or 'belief. But it has been said that the tears will soon dry when a' more, hopefiil plM ■within nature is recognised. It is no use saying it can


never happen, for do we not find other advanced civilisa­ tion's which have passed away


because they failed to learn


from the abundance of e-vidence readUy available.


So perhaps instead of


being saturated by the ‘■‘box” or the orthodox teachings of


the iMt half-century, you will, find it more up^ting and far more entertaining


, and ,enlightening to see what life is all about in the


immediate countryside. Don’t be saddened by


what some people'consider this dead season, for there are abundant signs’ of hope for the future. Everywhere we n o te , c r e a t ion and purpose.


, ' First try to accept that


^irit is superior to matter. The abundance of dead and d e c a y i n g m a t t e r ! everywhere means little when purpose or spirit has | gone. But soon the spirit, which is life, will take over again.


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