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OIL SEARCH UNDER WAY
THE £80,000 ques tion — is there oil in the Ribble Valley? — w a s
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everyone’s lips as a L o n d on - b as e d
company began dril ling operations this week at Paradise F ar m, n e a r Gisbum.
For the next six weeks,
the Cluff Oil Company will be working round the clock, except for weekends, boring 1,148 feet beneath the farm land for rock samples. They hope that informa
tion from the samples — some over 350 million years old — will help them in the longer-term search for oil in Lancashire. For the local residents,
By Mike West
information obtained from other parts of North West England to give us an idea of oil potential on a regional
basis.” Mr Lawrence will carry
out his preliminary investi gations with a microscope and fluoroscope, looking for “live” traces m the rocks of rich organic matter which could have generated oil in the past. The samples will then
undergo tests at the Insti tute of Geological Science jn Leeds, where experts will d e te rm in e th e ir fossil content and exact age. The whole project
Cluff’s first land-based oper- ation — is costing the company about £80,000, but there is no guarantee of success. Said ■ Mr Lawrence: “I’ll
however, it is a gentle intro duction to the oil age. Anyone expecting the
scene at Paradise Farm to look like something out of “The Troubleshooters” would be disappointed. The drilling site is inevit
ably dominated by the rig — rising 66 feet against the picturesque backcloth of
the Craven basin. Friendly
Round it are clustered
several caravans which provide at least a few comforts for the two six- man drilling teams who will be working alternate 12- hour shifts.
ling contractors’ firm which Cluff is using to do the actual drilling. Cluff’s own representa
The men work for a dril
tives on site are drilling manager Mr Ken Armstrong
and geologist Mr Steve
Lawrence. Mr A rm s tro n g is a
friendly Scotsman who has spent the last 25 years on oil operations in the Middle
East. He h a s b e e n m o s t
mely friendly and hospit able,” he said. “The farmer here has also been marvell ous and I’m sure we are going to enjoy working in these surroundings.” Mr Armstrong said the
impressed by the attitude of local people to the project at Paradise. “They have been extre
noise caused by the drilling was equivalent only to that made by a tractor, so little disturbance was expected.
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A BURST water main cut off the supply to 100 proper ties in the Bawdlands area of Clitheroe, on Friday even ing. Although the water was off for five hours, the North West Water Board was able to give people adequate warning tefore carrying out repairs
K i S atpLB p ° fda S u J t I tH P lb £1.08 .b I 1 “Also, before we leave,
we are obliged to reinstate the land we have used and leave it looking good as new,” he added. Mr Armstrong explained
have a fair idea after six weeks whether the samples do have a good oil potential — if not, well, that’s the way it goes.”
Leg-pulling The oilmen’s “host” is the
that samples were obtained by a core barrel with a diamond drill bit on the end. When the drill operates perfectly, it retrieves a sample 30 feet long and ab o u t three-and-a-half inches in'"diameter. Then it’s up to Mr Lawr
ence to make a preliminary examination of the samples to assess their oil potential. Mr Lawrence, who has
worked on a North Sea oil rig, explained that Paradise had been chosen because it lies over an anticline — a hill-like rock formation under the surface. This means some of the
more ancient rock strata are raised up nearer the surface and .are easier to reach. He said the area had first
• owner of Paradise Farm’s 100 acres, Mr Richard Lancaster. His family has farmed at Horton-in-Craven for 400 years — but he’s never been better known than he is now. In addition to publicity in
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Joyce’s pancake trip is a flop!
CHAIGLEY mother of four Mrs Joyce Meyler tossed a pancake 107 times in a minute at Wigan on Tuesday. It was her best ever
performance . . . but it was only good enough for second prize in the'grand pancake derby organ ised by EMI for its 32 Lancashire bingo clubs. - Cheering her on were
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THURSDAY,-FEBRUARY 9th, 1978 No. 4,782 Price 8p
LAST FEW DAYS OF
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Record sales
THE best piece of news for the Clitheroe Adver tiser and Times was last week’s sales figure — an all time record of 9,050. But there’s one thing
about the issue that made us sad— the loss of a re g u la r re a d e r . The content of a controversial letter we published from a “Dog Hater,” advocating the abolition of man’s best friend, so incensed a Whal ley woman that she wrote to tell us she could no longer buy a paper which printed such hatred. Just as we expected,
s u p p o r t e r s f rom Clitheroe Palladium Club . . . most prominent am o n g them being “ Pancake Fairy” Mrs Nora Gomall, of Bleak House, Kemple End. They all went to Wigan
hoping to at least repeat last year’s success in the bes t decorated coach contest. Their bus looked most impressive. But all their efforts
were in vain on a day when the home club took the major honours. The Shrove Tuesday
outing was organised by Palladium manageress Mrs Winifred Dawson, seen on the coach steps with Mrs Gornall and Mrs Meyler.
Bramley Meade closure rumour alarms doctors
. the P ress, the drilling project has attracted cover age from television. BBC cameras were there to record the “spud-in” — oilmen’s language for the start of drilling — at 8 a.m on Monday. Said Mr L a n c a s te r :
“Wherever I go, people ask me about the drilling and I have to put up with quite a lot of leg-pulling. But I don’t mind — the oilmen have been very considerate and the company’s paying me rent for using the land, so that’s fine.” The choice of Paradise
been “mapped” for drilling in the late 1940s, but it was only about two years ago that Cluff began detailed surface studies. These had proved promis-
in g and th e company obtained the necessary exploration licence from the Government and planning permission for a borehole from Lancashire County and Ribble Valley Councils.
Potential The borehole — nick
named Swinden 1 — was sunk at the end of January and once the rig had been brought down from its last operating ground near Whitehaven, it was all systems go. Mr Lawrence stressed
that the company was not e x p e c t in g \ to s tr ik e a “gusher” at Paradise. “We are simply taking core samples and obtaining as much information from them
as we can,” he said. “This will then be added to
Early
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IF THAT middle-aged spread is becoming too muck of a good thing, the Ribblesdale Pool staff can help you combat it. As an experiment, pool manager Mr David Phillips is willing to open the pool specially for y ou. between 8 and 8-30 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Mr Phillips has
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CUTOFF
CLITHEROE Ladies’ Circle set themselves a target of £500 to raise over two years for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
And on Monday night they handed over £524 —
six months ahead of schedule. The money was raised by a series of sales and coffee mornings.
off for five hours, the North As the circle nearea me casn target, inewueiB sui«, 00,19866 °W
visited the association’s centre at Bolton to see how the money would be used.
The association’s North-West representative, Mrs Joan Lawson, who brought along, guide dog Cleo, is
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As the Circle neared the cash target, members t h o r n y TouTd^be u s e T ^ 6 3
seen receiving the cheque from Circle chairman Mrs Liz Parkinson.
With them at the back from left are: Mrs Chris . ^AA wine and cheese evening held for local chanties "“"riw siLghSJissss. 11111111 t i l 11 t JM
at Mrs Heanan’s West Bradford home on Saturday raised about £100.
wiine'and che se evening heldfor local charities .
Bellamy, driver for the association, Mrs Jean Smith, vice-chairman, Mrs Helen Rushton immediate past chairman and Mrs Margaret Berry, past treasurer. Front: Mrs Linda Leadbeater, trea surer, and Mrs Glenda Heanan, community services convenor.
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an American comedy series about a hillbilly family who s tr ik e oil in their back g a r d e n an d b ecom e millionaires overnight. Unfortunately Mr Lancas
Farm for drilling has a touch of irony about it, for Mr Lancaster’s favourite televi sion programme is “The Beverley Hillbillies.” Made in the 1960s, it was
ter would probably not be in the same position if “black gold” happened to be disco vered beneath his farm. “I believe all oil disco
v ered is automatically owned by the State,” he said. “Still I don’t mind — I’m happy being a farmer anyway.”
TOP Health Service officials are to meet within the next month to decide if Whalley’s Bramley Meade Hospi tal should be axed under a long-term plan to centranse all maternity service in Blackburn. And the Ribble Valley’s 14
general practitioners are so disturbed at the prospect that they have jointly sent a letter to the Lancashire Area Health Authority setting out a case for Bram ley Meade’s retention.
Also facing closure are
maternity units at Accring ton Victoria — which is rela
tively new — and Bull Hill, Darwen, to make way for a multi-million pound complex proposed for Queen’s Park, Blackburn. Within the next month the
be retained and a smaller unit built at Blackburn. However, rumours that
Blackburn District Health Management team _ will be considering the findings of a survey made 18 months ago into the unsatisfactory state of the district’s maternity
services. As a result it was recom
mended that one single unit should serve the entire district, including the Ribble Valley. As an alternative it was
proposed that either the 12- bed Accrington, or the 25- bed Bramley Meade should
Plaque for well
ST MARY’S Well, which bubbled from the depths for centuries, is to have an offi cial nameplate on Saturday. As part of Clitheroe Civic
Society’s contribution to Jubilee year, its chairman Mr Joseph Robinson is to unveil a plaque telling the well’s history. The Mayor and Mayoress of the Ribble Valley, Coun. and Mrs Edward Newhouse, will attend the ceremony in Well Terrace.
Secretary of the Civic
Society, Mr Jim Stewart said that the plaque, made of bronze ana aluminium, had cost about £30, which had been raised by the society.
He said the other two
remaining town wells were already marked. — Stocks well by an old plaque and the Wellgate well by a sign put out by fish merchant Mr Jack Hall.
Bramley Meade may lose its maternity facilities have reached local GPs and they fear' that, in time, they will be unable to treat patients during their confinements.
A spokesman for the
doctors told our reporter: “When the survey was
carried out it was felt that if any GP maternity hospital was to be kept open it should be Bramley Meade.
“A t that time Ribble
Valley doctors pointed out the special geographical •needs for such a unit in a remote area like ours.
at Queen’s Park it is going to be impossible for patients in the Ribble Valley to have their own doctors treat them during confinement because of the distances involved.”
“If all services are centred He added that for the
same reason some expectant mothers in remote areas might decide to have their babies at home when they should have them in hospi tal. Home confinements were not always best in an area short of midwives, and there was also the problem of getting mothers to hospi-
Circle beats Guide Dog target
tal quickly in the event of complications. “At the moment we are
only going on rumours, but if there is any move to take maternity services away from Bramley Meade we will protest,” said the doctor. Mr Lionel Bamford,
general adminstrator for the Blackburn district, said that the matter was still in its infancy and the district management team would only start to discuss it in the next month. “All sorts of people have
to be consulted in a thing like this. Even if we took a d ecision tomorrow to c e n t r a l i s e m a te rn i ty services at Blackburn it would take at least five years to plan and build a new
unit.” He added that even if the
hospitals stopped admitting maternity cases it would not mean that they would close — they would be used for other medical purposes. Rumours about Bramley
M e a d e ’s fu tu re have disturbed Dunsop Brid Women’s In s t i tu te , i present mothers-to-be have to travel 10 miles from the Dunsop area to have their babies in Whalley, and do not take kindly to the pros pect of having to travel even further. The WI considers mater
nity services should be avail able at a small unit where there is individual care. “In a large hospital things
are run like a production unit and people are just numbers on a piece of paper,” said a member. Bramley Meade was built
in 1882 — the home of a local mill owner. In 1946 it was bought by
Lancashire County Council as a maternity unit for the people of the Clitheroe area but because of various snags and hold-ups did not come into operation until 1951. Six years ago local doctors
were assured that there were no closure plans for the hospital “in the foreseeable future” after rumours circu lated locally that it would no longer function as a mater nity unit.
Rush to buy old books
BOOK bargain hunters snapped up more than 1,000 copies on the first day of Whalley library’s second
book sale. The readers’ rush on
Monday meant slim pick ings for people intending to buy at the later sales, yesterday and tomorrow. Deputy district librarian
Mrs Susan Holden said that children’s books were the biggest sellers. About 800 had been sold on Monday. The proceeds of the sale
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-Wanted- man!
THE 17-stone frame of policeman Malcolm Fletcher is to go on a “Wanted” poster.
What is wanted is cash fo r T r in i ty Youth C e n t re , Cl ith e ro e . Malcolm who is Whal ley’s village constable, is to start a two-month sp o n so re d slim on March 1st.
however, readers were quick to exercise the right to have their say on this bone of contention — and to speak out on another important issue — the plans for a new town hall. Interest in the old days
of Clitheroe station, recal led by a Hellifield man, has also been high and it’s been full steam ahead for our sets of railway locomotive cards and albums, offered for the first time last week. The demand surprised
us so much th a t we temporarily ran out of s to c k s , b u t fu r th e r supplies are now available, enough, we hope to satisfy all our customers. The la te s t coupon
And before Malcolm (31) makes his bid to take off a couple of stones for charity, the youth centre will circulate sponsorship leaflets with his photograph on them.
appears on Page 4. However,. not all our
Youth leader Mr Geoff Jackson hopes that the sponsored slim will contribute more than £ 2 0 0 tow a rd s th e centre’s £1,000 target for a l te ra t io n s and central heating instal lation.
He said: “We intend to hold regular weigh-ins and keep an eye on Malcolm’s weight after his slimming effort has started.”
Malcolm has been assis t a n t le ad e r a t the centre since last April, when he returned to the a r e a a f t e r b e in g stationed at Shaw, near
Oldham
re a d e r s a re railway addicts; there are obvi ously even more whist enthusiasts, judging by the speed with which the tickets are selling for the Ribble Valley’s biggest whist drive. Prizes are also rolling in
for this jumbo event on February 25th at Calder- stones Hospital ballroom. It’s being organised by
th e R o ta ry Club of Clitheroe and the Adver tiser and Times in aid of the handicapped. Tickets at £1 (including light refreshments) are avail able at our office. If you were one of our
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