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WHEN scanning the itinerary of the “Heart of Scotland” tour spon­ sored by the Advertiser and Times and its sister papers, I was attracted to the special evening ceilidh, a highlight of the Highland tour.


will have some difficulty, in either the pronunciation or meaning of the term, let me hasten to add that as far as my own experience shows, it can be anything from an evemng by the fireside or, as in Lancashire, a “crack”; or even a semi-musical or boisterous gathering in hall or cottage.


Now, as most Sassenachs


variations or possibilities and the entire procedure may start in the evening and continue until four the following morning. There are no set rules, be the ceilidh in the Highlands, ■Islands or Ireland.


There is no limit to the


sort of thing began in the. mid-30s in Co. Armagh. A friend took me along to an isolated cottage in the south of the county where, he said, I would enjoy the ceilidh.


My own initiation to this Until that time I had not


the slightest idea what the term signified or, for that matter, where we were going or who we were about to meet. Not wishing to be unsociable and at all times anxious to savour a taste of Ireland, I went along.


along narrow country lanes and arriving at the isolated c o t tag e we were soon greeted with a friendly bois­ terous welcome.


It was dark as we drove Everyone knew everyone


else and it was obvious from the start that I, being the stranger, had all to learn and nothing to add to the prog­ ramme.


background o f . laughter, interspersed by a demand


At last, amid a continuous


for' a “tune,” ■ I managed to ■assume the role of what these days is termed a disc-


jockey. This was' a sure way of


avoiding the pressure and, escaping to a somewhat dark recess, I took charge of the gramophone. What a relief it was to watch the small croup jigging,^dancing and jostling around in the over­ crowded dimly-lit room.


As soon as the record


ended, the cry went up for more and, eager to oblige, I was kept busy winding the machine, choosing records and, most important, main­ taining a good tempo. The ordinary speed was far from being satisfactory, but with the merest touch of a finger on the speed regulator I was able to keep the entire party happy.


record “Three o’clock in the morning.” The tune was a favourite, but the cry was for a speeding up and so my


Never will I forget that


Sunday School teacher Kitty says goodbye


LIFE for Miss Kitt;


Pye has literally revo' ved round Clitheroe Parish Church Sunday School. As a child she attended classes every Sunday and became a teacher when she was 16.


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Hayhurst Street, Clitheroe, has decided — mainly because of ill health — to take a rest and retire from the post she has held for a remarkable 44 years. For the past 12 of those years she has been kindergarten superintendent. If there were prizes given


Now aged 60, Miss Pye, of


round & about


In her younger days Miss


Pye was a member of the Girl’s Friendly Society choir, taking part in two operas, “Country Girl” and “Rebel Maid,” and she was also in the ballet classes. Now she is a member of


on the environment and discusses pollution and visual amenity. Dr Hothersall studied for


a B.Sc degree at Sheffield University, for a Ph.D at Salford University and as a research fellow at Oxford. His lecturing career has taken him to Australia, France and Spain. He is the son of Mr and


the Townsend Fellowship and Clitheroe Gramophone Society studying all types of classical music. All her working life Miss


to teachers for good attend­ ance, Miss Pye would be at the front. During all her y ears with the Sunday School, there has only been an odd weekend when she


has been unable to be there. Having a great fondness


for youngsters, Miss Pye has always taken a personal interest m her charges, and has never once forgotten to provide a candle ana card on their birthday. Today there is an average


of 45 children in the depart­ ment, but about five years ago Miss Pye remembers 99 children turning up one Sunday morning. I t was then that it was decided to create another department. Miss IVe, who shares a


home with her sister Elsie, is a member of a well-known local family, being related on her mother’s side to Calver- leys, the funeral directors.


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tion with the church as Sunday school teacher, Miss Pye can count five vicars — the Rev. W. S. Helm, the Rev. H. A. Bland, the Rev. Stanley Birtwell, Canon Alan Clark and the present incumbent, the Rev. John Hudson.


During her long associa­ Last year Miss Pye felt


very proud of her young charges when they won a first, two seconds and a commendation in a competi­ tion which displayed their work at Whalley Abbey.


Pye has been a dressmaker, working from the comfort of her home. She retired last September. Recently she has taken up


art as a new interest and attends adult education clas­ ses at Ribblesdale School. Miss Pye says she will


miss the children at Sunday school, but will continue attending church and keep in


for Mothering Sunday, Miss Pye received an electric clock from the Parochial Church Council and a b o u q u e t of f low e r s presented by Andrew Moore on behalf of the kindergar­ ten teachers. A cheque from parents,


touch with the activities. During the family service


former scholars and friends will be presented to Miss Pye at a Sunday School open evening on March 13th.


Textbook


on transport CIVIL engineering expert Dr David Hothersall is the co-author of a new textbook on the environment. The 34-year-old ex-


Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil is now a civil engineering lecturer at Bradford University. The book, "Transport and


the Environment,” has been written in conjunction with R ic h a rd J. S a l te r , a colleague at the university. It deals with the effect of road, rail and air transport


Mrs Charles Hothersall, of Kirkmoor Road, Clitheroe. His father is well known as an auctioneer in Clitheroe. Dr Hothersall and his


Strongroom


wife, Dorothy, live with th e i r two children at Harden, near the Bronte village of Haworth. Mrs Hothersall is a former teacher at Waddington School. “Transport and the Envi­


ronment” is published by Crosby, Lockwood, Staples at £15.


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sn a c k s WHEN Mr Roy Swales decided to extend his ice­ cream parlour and cafe in Wellgate, he literally had to break in to the bank to do it. For the disused room


adjoining his cafe was once th e vault of a former Manchester and County bank. Hopefully by Easter,


customers will be able to sit in the vault extension to enjoy refreshments. The only indication of its former use is an antique “Withers” wall safe, which Mr Swales intends to leave as a feature,, and part of the heavy stone walls. Mr Swales believes it is


over 100 years since the building was used as a bank. Then, the vault was reached by a flight of steps which led up from the cellar. -• Before he bought the


93 (East Lancashire) squad­ ron, s ta t io n e d at the b a r ra c k s , C an te rb u ry S tre et , Blackburn. The emphasis there is on radio communications. It’s not just open to the


fellas, for girls are welcome — but they don’t receive special treatment. More details can be


obtained at an Open Day at the barracks on Saturday, between 10 a.m. and 4-30 p.m. Anyone interested but


property, less than three years ago, it was a doctors’ surgery, with a doorway on ground level into the vault, which was used as a records


office. Mr Swales unfortunately


unable to attend should contact the barracks during the day (Blackburn 59751) or ring the same number on Tuesday evenings between 7-30 and 9-30.


the old vault, Mr Swales has knocked through another solid wall and the combined space will give him half as much room again as his present cafe, with seating for up to another 30 people. The family business of wholesale sweets, ice-cream


has not come across any gold bars or treasure trove while carrying out alterations, but he has been visited by several people interested in the antiquity of the building. Apart from opening up


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TWICE every day, come rain, hail, snow or sunshine, year in, year out, we take our old dog for a country walk. • Or — as with the insidious


Rags prefers best butter! Whalley Window


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creeping on of the years, our legs do not function quite as rapidly as formerly, particu- ■ larly when going uphill — a “country stroll” might be a more appropriate descrip­ tion. Immediately we leave the


highway, off comes the lead and, with a fair degree of intelligence^ Rags follows us at will. One minute she is trotting sedately at our side, then she pauses a moment to investigate some unusually intrigmng smell, but quickly catches up and, a few seconds later, is 50 or more yards ahead. ■ Constantly she amazes


house was poorly, I was sent up to the spring with a jug. Tne water was supposed to be full of iron and it always did them good.”


I last saw the lady and I do hope she continues “fit and well.” However, to return to my story, it is the grass from the side of this little spring, where the brown, b ra c k ish w a te r flows, continuously, that is the special favourite of the dog.


It is a long time now since


us with her meipory, percep­ tion and knowledge. As we go up Lawstonsteads, a “must” in her programme is to spend several minutes chewing a variety of coarse grass that grows at the edge of the stream. Now, near the stile that


leads on to the Hellicliffes, there is a spring, reputed to have medicinal qualities, which overflows into the stream. I well remember first hearing of it from a la d y r e a d e r of v ery advanced years. “When I was a girl,” she


told me, “I used to have holidays at the farm and whenever anybody in the


invariably seems to “keep her regular” and put a shine on her coat. We are certain it is the grass, plus her daily dose of gin, that makes her visits to the vet so extre­ mely rare.


Her almost daily tonic, it


Yes. In the garden there grows a juniper tree and each day, on our return home, Rags immediately runs to the juniper and licks the brown earth below. It is from the fruit of the juniper, I am told, that gin derives its very individual flavour. (So I am told again). ■


Her daily dose of gin? Dogs, I am auite certain,


have senses ana perceptions of which we poor humans know nothing. They hear things we cannot’hear, see


things we cannot see, sense things of which we have no knowledge and are acutely sensitive to atmosphere. There are two places in


our village where Rags only accompanies us with the Utmost reluctance. She drags on her lead, her .tail droops, her apprehension is


obvious. Her dislike of one of these


places we can understand. The path passes hard by a local slaughter-house and the old bitch clearly senses the odour of death, but the other place offers a mystery we shall never solve.


In broad daylight the dog


will accompany us ■ quite happily along the Sands and under the West Gate of the Abbey that- here bestrides the road.


But never, after nightfall.


Once more she drags on her lead, pulls vigorously in the • opposite direction, the tail droops, the hackles rise and, the moment we are clear of the ancient arches, she strains forward eager.to put as much distance between herself- and that dreaded spot as quickly as possible. The fear is more marked at certain seasons of the year. Why? Oh why, oh why? ..What dark and mysterious


Farewell


gifts STAFF at Clitheroe’s ICI works said farewell to elec­ trical instrument engineer Mr Rex Walker with two presentations at a retire­ ment party. Mr Walker (58) spent 13


years at the Clitheroe plant, having formerly worked at the company’s Billingham works for 30 years. Clitheroe works manager


deed was here perpetrated in days long past? Was it through this gateway that Abbot Paslew was led in ignominy to his trial and execution at Lancaster 441 years ago? What is it that this mongrel dog with extrasensory perception knows or feels that is hidden from human knowledge? Whoever you may be who-


chances to read these lines, does your dog behave in the same way? To my wife and me the whole thing is quite uncanny; If you have met with similar experiences, why not write to the editor and let him know? Finally, one other quality


of our highly-prized and intelligent mongrel that really mystifies, bewilders and puzzles. No matter in what-part of the house the dog might chance to_ be, doors closed and no direct contact, whenever my wife unwraps a package of butter the aog comes running, eager to lick the paper and perhaps be rewarded with a morsel for her cleverness. But — and this is the


strange thing about it — the same thing never happens w h e n a p a c k a g e of margarine is unwrapped. Rags remains immobile in her observation post by the window, totally unin­ terested. Our old dog, you see,


proves all the advertise­ ments wrong. She really can tell margarine from butter!


J. F.


Mr Jim Johnstone presented him with a clock on behalf of the company and a car jack from his colleagues, at a r e t i r e m e n t p a r ty at Clitheroe Cricket Club. Mr W a lk e r , who is


married with two children, has now moved from his home in Beech wood Avenue to H e s t B a n k , n e a r Morecambe. A.member of Morecambe Sailing Club, he will be using his spare time to build a boat.


Revival


of folk FOLK music will make a real revival in the Ribble Valley if three enthusiasts from Blackburn have their way. Sisters Mrs Gill Bell and


and confectionery is almost part of Clitheroe’s history itself. It was started by Mr Swales’ grandfather Ernest and handed down to his father, Henry Jepson. Two of Mr Sw a le s ’


b ro th e rs have another branch of the original busi­ ness — E. and P. Swales, ice-cream and confectionery wholesalers, in Bawdlands, Clitheroe.


Promotion


for Derek A FORMER pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Mr Derek Shaw (41) has been appointed assistant a r e a m an ag e r of th e National Westminster Bank at its Stockport Area office. During his banking career


he has served in Blackburn and Accrington, eventually becoming assistant manager at one of the Liverpool branches. Mr Shaw, who is presi­


dent of Liverpool Speakers Club, is married, with two children.


lasting memories of that Irish ceilidh are of rushing, fleeting figures ■ galivanting round the floor at double the . normal speed. However, they all had a good time, d a n c in g , jo k in g and commenting on things in general. My second experience


came much later when we were invited to a ceilidh in Tiree. It was held in a large army-type hut and the even­ ing was as varied as one could wish. We had displays of Highland dancing, singing and several interludes of piping. Now I love to hear the bagpipes in the hills and


flens, but imagine them in ull blast confined to a


. limited area. I mentioned this to an


Islander several years later and with a smile he recalled how, when in South Uist, well known for its pipers, the pipes were passed round and each of the menfolk contributed to the entertain­


COUNTRY BIABY


ment. This, he emphasised, was in a small cottage/ To the Scot, the music of


the pipe is sgated close to the heart. In contrast, to the Englishman the meaning and tone so often confounds and he can never interpret Bums, whisky, the haggis or the bagpipes as does the Highlander. Of course, th e re are


exceptions and those who find, as did Dr Johnson, a satisfaction in this music are few and far between. Of Dr Johnson it is said he could stand for some considerable time with his ear dose to the great drone. There are, however, those


who would feel under such conditions as if they were entombed in a belfry during a royal celebration. Or one thing we can be


sure, ceilidhs bring forth contrasting reactions, but to the stranger they are essen­ tial in understanding the other fellows’ poini of view. In this respect, I recall a


more recent gathering of islanders, mostly relatives, for a similar purpose in a remote cottage. The visitors began to arrive when most civilised


-people were preparing for a night’s rest. The noise from such a small group was unbelievable, ’file “crack” was good and the flow of whisky considerable by English standards and at the parting of the ways at first light the departure could be heard two miles away. “Cheerio — see you soon.


Haste ye’ back,” accom­ panied by loud laughter must have sounded like some distant tribal war dance, but again all had a good time. So, as with most things —


one man’s meat is another’s poison, and what gives plea­ sure to one brings sadness to another. But it is on occasion


worthwhile to participate just to see how others live.


Horace Cook


Pub side welcome French team


EASTER AT THE Waggon a n d H o r s e s p u b in Clitheroe will have


th a t Continental touch about i t . Arrangements have been made for the French football side Stada Olympique, of Riveslates, to visit the town over the Easter weekend’.


The pub’s football team


crossed the Channel last April to play a match against the side. The trip was made possible thanks to the efforts of Francois Sanmar- tin, a former French assis­ tant at the CRGS, who lives in the French town.


Now i t ’s the turn of


Clitheroe to be host and the Frenchmen will be coming over to play against the Waggon at Clitheroe FC’s ground on Easter Sunday. One of the French team — Joseph Bonard —■ played for his national side in the 1966 World Cup.


will go to the Pat Seed cancer scanner appeal fund. Afterwards, Clitheroe’s Mayor, Coun. Bob Ains­ worth, will give a civic reception in the Mayor’s Parlour.


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