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. I mentioned the prob­ lem of acquiring an out- of print book of particu­ lar interest, even when s e c ond-hand book sellers are doing a thriv­ ing business. My own particular diffi­


culty was solved as I stum­ bled on a copy in a bookshop in Cumbria. My comments brought


about an unexpected reac­ tion as a kindly sympathiser popped various booksellers catalogues through my letter-box. Books, I find, are now big business and as I scan through the pages, often surprised at the astronomical prices. A book costing, say 7s 6d


10 years ago is now priced at £5 or £6. So the average reader is forced to the great­ est institution of all — the public library. Being a regular customer


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gem. This is my opinion of "The


Drovers,” written by a Yorkshireman and contain­ ing more aspects of country life of a past age than .in far more expensive treatises.


Details of stories concern­


ing, in the main, such items as roads, farm dogs, people and places, set thought on new fields of discovery and, above all, bring to mind similar tales associated with our own district. Whatever your opinion


me thinking and I wonder at their faithfulness, under­ standing and unrequited devotion.


Do not misunderstand, for


it is difficult not to be thril­ led when watching a work­ ing farm dog. But it is also a problem to understand the d e s i re s of those who, frankly speaking, simply enslave an animal for pure selfish purposes.


regarding dogs and their intelligence or faithfulness, this is a book to set you thinking. How easy to take them for granted and how common to find them treated with such indiffer­ ence and, at times, with cruelty.


Animals mals have always set


reveals all the varied char- teristics of a human. Each has its own particular qual­ ities and abilities. Only the expert is capable of true understanding of these indi­ vidual personalities. . Of one thing I am sure — farmer


In my opinion, a dog no general


carry on business without his dog. One of my most vivi'd recollections is that of an island crofter whose dog after eight hours checking sheep across


could terrain I know came indoors the ______is roughest i Know came uiuuun.


and, utterly exhausted, collapsed under the table where it lay asleep for a whole day.


That dog had difficulty in


even walking on the follow­ ing day. Such was the stiff­ ness in joints and muscles even on recovery, it could only walk in obvious pain.


For a well-trained human,


walking over heather and rocks is bad enough. But the dog covered 10 times the distance of its master when searching the gullies and diversions in a wilderness of small glens. And when we speak of.


extraordinary perception in man or beast, consider the story told me by the late Mr J. Leedham, international sh e ep dog tra in e r , of Dunsop Bridge. He related how, when


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responded to approaching home ground.


the rear of his van through­ out the trip and were indif­ ferent whenever a halt was made.


The dogs would remain in They were in no way


interested in their whereab­ outs, until, on reaching the Dunsop side of the Trough, they at once became very excited and on the alert. And this, mark you, was after dark.


A(» similar case of these extraordinary qualities


comes to mind as I recall a farmer friend at Newton who had no difficulty in proving the ability of his collie. It was late afternoon and


returning home with his dogs after participating in trials hundreds of miles from home, the animals


EVERY pound that rolls o f f th e f ram e of PC Malcolm Fletcher is money in the coffers of Trinity Youth Centre, Clitheroe. And the sponsored slim­


ming of the former 17- stone policeman has rung up £200 for the centre since the beginning of last month.


Malcolm’s weight is now


down to 15st. 61bs — and he hopes to lose at least another 101b. before his slim ends officially on the last day of this month. But Malcolm may not


Jackson is still looking for more sponsors to cover Malcolm’s final effort. The centre needs to raise


one of a number of efforts towards paying the bill.


stop there, he may decide to take off another half­ stone or so without benefit of sponsorship. Youth worker Geoff


£1,000 to pay for repairs and central heating instal­ lation before the winter. The sponsored slim is


Hollywood shows David how it’s done


say Wagner was filming, and David, an electrician, of M i l l th o r n e A v e n u e , Clitheroe, was in Hollywood to see it. He arrived in America to


Bionic woman star Lind­


meet the biggest storm in 15 years and throughout the trip, although the worst was over, the effects of the flood damage were still evident. Rain had washed most of


the soil from the hills and water remained on some roads, as the storm drains, large enough for a man to walk down, were spaced only every half mile. While he was there, however, the weather was kinder, and the temperature ranged from 70 to 95 degrees. In his month-long holiday


time for bringing in the cows for milking. My friend opened the barn door adja­ cent to the house and Bess immediately raced into the yard.


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I questioned his remark


that the dog was blind. Thereupon he recalled Bess and, placing several farm buckets in the direct path of the dog, again threw open the door. Once again Bess came into the open and collided with the buckets.


“Now watch,” I was told,


“watch her bring in the cattle.” Bess left the yard and,


after crossing one field and a bridge, turned to round up the cows in the far field. In less time than could be achieved by a healthy human the cows were steadily brought in for milking. How? — I leave you to


find an answer. All of this adds to the


wealth of evidence regard­ ing the value of this very humble beast which, is so often abused by some and by others permitted to become a nuisance. HORACE COOK


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THE day David Thompson went to see the Bionic woman, she was otherwise engaged — tearing down a water tank and drench­ ing her pursuers.


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David Thompson gets a touch of nostalgia froma map of the United States.


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At Keighley, a steam train


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about the church and the abbey, too. But you’ve never told us much about the very early days — what it was like here in the very begin­ ning.”


And you’ve told us lots Then the Romans came My reader, of course, was


right. To be perfectly honest


(not an unusual procedure. I assure you), I’ve written very little abou the earliest years because I KNOW very l it tle about the earliest years. My one consolation is that


I am not alone in this; nobody else knows very much about the earliest days of our village. There are, however, one


or two assumptions that one can safely make. The hills were here, the rivers were h e re , th e re were vast stretches of wild moorland, miles of rough, swampy, undrained, uncultivated land at the lower levels. The rivers meandered


and settled here. We know this by the many evidences of their occupation they left behind. They made roads and houses of stone, were skilled in many crafts and they subjugated the natives. And the natives learned a


lot.


passed and, for a period, blank pages fill the history books. Man fought and quar­ relled with his neighbours, as he still does but on a much larger scale, and then Christianity came to the north country. On the authority of the


Three, four hundred years


Whalley Window


cates of land free of all custom.” These “two carucates” —


the area of land a team of oxen could plough in a season — comprised the whole of the township. Thus it will be seen that


the whole of the village was church property, ruled over and supervised by succes­ sive Deans of Whalley, as was the vast parish of which it was the centre. Then came our one and


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published in local papers and broadcast over BBC Radio Blackburn at the beginning of May. Last year, the Press Ball


Committee held a pre- Christmas Press Ball, and raised over £1,000 for Queen’s Park Hospital chil­ dren’s ward in Blackburn, and the NUJ Widows and Orphans Fund. Profits from the “Evening Express” will go to the same causes.


41 years of


only rector, Petre de Cestria (1235—1294) on whose death the Abbey of Whalley was established and our long line of vicars began. Each administered a


teaching A FORMER headmistress of Read Congregational ana Wiswell schools, Mrs Alice Clarke, of Whalley, is retir­ ing after 41 years in the teaching profession. She was at Read from


Venerable Bede we know that St Paulinus visited our area in the early Seventh Century and he is reputed to have baptised thousands of pilgrims in the swift flow­ ing Calder. The ancient stone crosses


along, frequently overflow­ ing their self-made banks and there were many, many trees. The fox, perhaps the wolf,


in our churchyard are believed to commemorate these visits, but men still fought among themselves. Then a church was raised;


the deer, the badger, the wild boar and dozens of smaller mammals ran freely where they willed and the hawk and eagle ruled the sky. Then one day man came


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along. He and his brothers built a camp high on the hillside — way up on Clerk Hill more likely than not — so the approach of enemies could be quickly observed. They lived by hunting the creatures of the wild and they dressed themselv.es in their skins. Centuries came and went and man learned to till the


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•earth with his primitive instruments, how to tend sheep and to herd cattle, how to spin and weave and, gradually, as he tamed the land he came down from the hillsides.


parish comprising a ninth part of the whole of Lanca­ shire, according to Dr Whitaker, an 11th part according to the Ordnance Survey, and a considerable part of Yorkshire, too, for the whole of Bowland once came under the purview of th e m o th e r church in Whalley. It is of interest to note


that many places, once of little significance within our parish, are today towns of co n s id e rab le size and importance — Blackburn, A cc r in g to n , B u rn ley , Nelson, Clitheroe, Colne. All have surpassed us in


a church built of stout timbers, the “White Church under the Hill,” and soon after the Norman Conquest, this was replaced by a church of stones carved from our own hillsides. Dr Whitaker hints at the


possibility that a Roman Temple occupied the same s i te a thousand years ea r lier , but irrefutable evidence to this effect is still lacking. It is, however, a possibility — perhaps a probability — we cannot totally discard. The earliest written refer­


ence to our village by name is found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles which record a great battle here in 798 and in the Domesday Book of 1086 for William didn’t take long in setting his clerks


and scribes to work, it was written, “the church of St Mary had in Wallei two caru-


1947 to 1948 and headmis­ tress at Wiswell at the time of its closure in 1963. Apart from five years, she


has spent the whole of her career in East Lancashire,


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size, population and indust­ rial growth, but not one can! boast so long or so disting­ uished a history. And Whalley itself, where


once “The people were so scattered, so untamed and wild" (Status de Blackburn- shire), still remains but little changed over several hundred years. It remains basically little


affected by the Industrial R e v o lu t io n and what changes there have been are, in the main, improve­ ments. Which claim makes, the


Conservation Order now in force in our village a very important document indeed. And which makes the local r e a d e r .w h o s e g en t le reprimand set me thinking on these matters, almost as knowledgeable, within the confines of our space — on the story of our village as I am myseif. But not quite.


J.F.


and is at present senior mistress at Gawthorpe School, Padiham. Mrs Clarke comes from a


teaching family. Her late father, Mr T. A. Starkie, of Whalley, was a teacher, and her sister, Mrs Ivy Starkie, and daughter Judith still are. ' Mrs Clarke, of Sydney


Avenue, Whalley, says her greatest thrill about teach­ ing is watching the progress in life of former pupils. Over the years she has


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