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sed in the spectacular league, but we must admit it passes through some of the most beautiful fell country in the land. It has also another claim


FOR its size, Langden Brook must be one of the most important waters in the Hodder Valley. In length it cannot be clas­


. production of sheep, cattle or poultry, but the ultimate numbers of the end product are far larger than those in other branches of agricul­ ture.


of ground necessary for the


to recognition, for it makes a worthwhile contribution to


the wants of Lancastrians by adding excellent water to the North West Water Authority. It also has a very important role to fulfil before adding to the waters of Hodder in Langden Holme fields. All these features are eas­


ily recognised by the casual visitor, but there are many who fail to realise that this brook, as it passes in the shadow of Mellor Knoll, sus­ tains what is one of the most striking undertakings in Bowland. Hodder vale is well known for its farms, be they low-


MR TEDSTONE at work at the fishery.


land or upland, but hereab­ outs at the entrance to the Trough we find not a sheep, or dairy farm, but Dunsop


Trade in which the old ways are best


THE ancient art of metal-working is alive and well and being practised in a small Clitheroe works. Based in North Street, tinsmith Mr Laurie Harri­ son is producing everything from coffee sets to street lamps by the old methods.


using instruments that date back centuries. Working with semi-precious metals like brass, tin and copper, one item can often take days of painstaking care to produce.


All work is .done by hand,


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ket for the milk jugs, cook­ ing pans, coal Scuttles and lanterns produced. “All kinds of people call in


But there is a ready mar­


to buy things,” said Mr Har­ rison, “but there is also a strong demand from pub owners and collectors. A Cheshire dealer recently bought 30 street lamps for distribution around the country, and the Brown Cow in Chatbum has had its din­ ing room fitted out with metal ornaments.” Twenty-six-year-old Mr


round & about


Harrison took over the works in August 1976, an accident to his leg having forced him to give up his job as a sheet metal worker. “I worked for a while in


the office after my accident, but I desperately wanted to get back to a shop floor situ­ ation," he said. "When the opportunity came to buy this business from the retiring owner, I jumped at the chance.” Though he had studied at


a.rt school and completed his apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker, Mr Harrison had to pick up tips on metal­ working from old books and fellow workers more famil­ iar with the craft. “The old tinsmiths lost


trade after the war because they did not think ahead, he explained. “The bulk of their market lay in supplying far­ mers with milk churns. “But when the Milk Mar­


keting Board took over this function and made it a mass producing industry, the tins­ miths did not know where to turn.' We had to look for new markets and we still are,” he added. Working with Mr Harri­ son is 18-year-old apprentice


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beginning to work in silver if d em an d co n t in u e s to increase. Any expansion will not be at the expense of the traditional methods, how­ ever. For Mr Harrison, at least, it seems that old ways are definitely the best.


Tony Ditri, of Littlemoor Road, Clitheroe. But Mr Harrison, who lives in Kirk- moor Hoad, is thinking of taking on another assistant. He is also considering


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ambushed SIXTEEN members of Clitheroee Round Table and their wives had an unex­ pected taste of the Wild West when they visited the Danish fishing port of Lemvig.


For the train on which


they were travelling from Lemvig to another port, Thyboron, was ambushed by two mounted cowboys.


But the whole thing was a


hoax, planned by members of Lemvig Round Table, who played host to the Clitheroe Tablers.


one of many memorable moments enjoyed by the Clitheroe party who took with them to Denmark, gifts of “Advertiser and Times” pinnies and bottles of whisky.


The railway surprise was The Clitheroe group


joined with their hosts for parties, discos, shopping expeditions and several “typically Danish” meals. Two items on the menus were huge open sandwiches and smoked trout with raw


with a garden party at the home of the Lemvig Round Table chairman, Jom Erri, who visited Clitheroe earlier this year for the Round Table’s charter night.


egg- The Danish trip ended


Denmark which amazed the Clitheroe party was the lack of traffic on the roads, even though most homes seemed to have two cars.


One of the features of


a return visit to Clitheroe for the Lemvig Round Table members, probably summer 1979.


Appointed


registrar THE new registrar for births, marriages and deaths ■ in the Clitheroe district is Mrs Jane Telford, whose husband, Leslie, is clerk to Clitheroe Town Council.


For the past two years


Mrs Telford has been deputising for Mrs Joyce Lee, of Accrington, who has


Plans are now in hand for


more regularly and letters could be dealt with more speedily. Mr T e l fo rd , former Clerk to Bowland Rural Council, became part- time Clerk to the new Clitheroe Town Council in 1974. Mr and Mrs Telford have two married daugh­ ters, Louise and Lesley, and four grandchildren.


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ONE of Britain’s top equest­ rians, Mr John Shedden, will be showing just how to take those fences in a lesson and demonstration session at Gisbum next Wednesday evening. Former Badminton three-day event winner, Mr Shedden will be at the Gis- burne Park Indoor School at a demonstration arranged by the Lancashire branch of the British Horse Society.


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ON May Day I walked out and shivered in the bitterly cold east wind. In nostalgic mood I was curious to see if just one of the old customs that were so familiar in the days of my youth still survived. It wasn’t like a May day at


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down the street his horse told you the day of the year. You only had to look at him: tail and mane plaited, braided and ribboned, har­ ness be-medalled with gleaming brasses. The sm a r t c h e s tn u t


seemed fully aware that this was a rather special day; his step was more sprightly, his head was held more proudly and his master, ladelling


weather, when I was a lad one didn’t need to study the calendar to know that the loveliest month of the year had arrived: the month when the promise of spring is at last fully, fulfilled, with trees and hedgerows dressed in virgin green, Spring Wood a carpet of bluebells and meadows incandescent with 10,000 ce landines and daisies. When the milkman came


all this year. Just as in March we enjoyed one or two days stolen from spring, this was a day purloined from December or early January. D i s r e g a r d i n g th e


Not so merry England Whalley Window


your quart or pint from the gleaming 30-gallon kit, wore a smile much broader than on other days of the year. This was May Day.


As we made our way to


school, we were alert in case any of our mates tried to make “May noddies” of us. A “May noddy” was the equi­ valent of an “April fool” on a slightly smaller scale.


“Noddy Day is dead and gone,


brated a month earlier, the opportunity to joke with your friends ceased abruptly at noon and anybody so fool­ ish as to try to extend the time limit was immediately met with a traditional chant:


Like the custom cele­


You’re two noddies for mak­ ing me one.” The girls, little Mary and


Nelly, their friends from next door-but-one and a couple from down the street had secretly been making their Maypole for several days. The properties required


immaterial) and you had the bones of a splendid Maypole.


sed — any white dress would do, decorated with paper flowers and sashes, plus, as an indication of Her Majesty, a train fashioned from mother’s discarded lace curtains for the “queen" — the team was ready to per­ form wherever in the adja­ cent streets they could col­ lect an audience.


was very pretty (and show me, if you can, a little girl who isn’t pretty) the girls often collected more than they sometimes did six months later when they cried “Penny for the guy”. The boys had a different


were simple: a couple .of* hoops from an apple-barrel mounted atop the handle of an old broom; some crepe paper and a few yards of gay ribbons (the-colours were


activity. Wearing their old­ est clothes and father’s bat­ tered “billycock,” hands and faces blackened with burnt cork (or even soot from the chimney in emergency) they marched forth to perform “Addy ong, con kay”. The most athletic of the


group was conscripted to play “the bear” and dressed in a sack with holes cut for ears and nose and a rope around the middle, he danced and tippled “top-tail”


Once the girls were dres­ .


new hours, which coincide with the hours his wife works except for her Mon­ day afternoon “shift,” would suit him personally and also benefit the public. He could sort the post


brought a change in the opening hours of the Town Council offices in Church Street.'They will now open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings instead of the former two days a week. Mr Telford said that the


retired as registrar through ill health. The appointment has


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Bridge trout farm. The acreage of five may


not appear extensive in com­ parison to the vast amount


that in the hatchery over 300,000 eggs are laid down, even compared to a poultry farm engaged in egg produc­ tion, the trout man talks in astronomical figures. From these eggs the small


Indeed, if we consider :


fish begin their complicated l ife cycle to progress through 35 ponds until they reach maturity, when they are transported to all parts of the . country to restock rivers; lakes and reservoirs in an effort to keep the ang­ lers happy. I went along in the early


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tle; and I soon came to the conclusion that there is far more to successful fish farm­ ing than at first meets the eye.


job is most interesting and demands constant supervir sion at all times and at all seasons. Constant .watch must be given to ■ water temperature and aeration and any floodwater from the vital River Langderi.,,


One thing is certain: the


part of the year, which must surely be the most impor­ tant and enlightening period for a true insight into this exciting business. Mr Tedstone, with the


assistance of Barry Single- ton, manages the trout farm for owner Mr A. H. Birtwis­


the trays of eggs are effi­ ciently arranged in shallow ribbed . containers prior to hatching, I followed the life- cycle of the rainbow trout as far as the large pond where


.the fish are graded for deliv­ ery to various regions. The yearlings and two-


year-old® fish are enough to tu rn the schoolboy and indeed the adult angler green with envy and as we


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passed along the paths bet­ ween the massive ponds, we w e re t r e a t e d to an impressive display when Mr Tedstone tossed a handful of tempting morsels into the still waters. In seconds the surface


• happy memories of my first visit to this delightful Hod­ der Valley farm with a dif­ ference set in superb sur­ roundings. There have been many


was alive and threshed in fury by the large trout as they took the food from the figure they undoubtedly rec­ ognised on the edge of the pond. It brought back many


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as his companions together:


sang


“Addy ong con kay, addy ong con kay, Addy, addy, addy,.addy cong cong kay.”


They ended with a joyous


shout of “Roily over, roily over” and the “bear” com­ plied with their wishes. Hardly the most inspiring of verses, with lyrics quite d efy in g translation or interpretation, butit brought jingling coppers to empty pockets and served its pur­ pose well.


Why, if the May queen.


I searched for these tradi­ tional activities in vain. The working horse had disap­ peared from our streets and the milkman’s cart, the coal­ man’s and hawkers’ waggons are all motorised and require 20 or 30 horses to do., the work once performed by one. The youngsters of this


So came May Day, ’78 and


electronic age seek more sophisticated forms of enter­ tainment. They would scorn the few worn coppers our vocalising used to bring to juveniles in a state of semi­ permanent bankruptcy. Maybe I’m an over senti­


mental, over nostalgic old codger, but I do deplore the passing of these lovely old traditions. Pagan in their ancient origins, all of them, I know, but to me, England is less merry without them. J .F .


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