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WE have witnessed more dramatic changes during the last 15 years than our forebears saw in half a century. Roc­ ket s, satellites and space travel have coin­ cided with more pollu­ tion, discontent, greed, low morals, disease and lack of security, which our g ra ndpare nt s imagined were the results of poverty. Now, after sampling the


things our parents were denied, we find ourselves wondering if we have, after all, been living in a fool’s


paradise. I began thinking on these


things a f te r reading a worthwile book on the Arc­ tic tundra of North America. It is a place with good and bad aspects and one of the scourges is the menace of flies. Small flies, p a ts , blow flies and the minute black Arctic mosquito — all at cer­ tain seasons make life into­ lerable for man and beast. There is little protection


and in one five minute period the author counted 254 of these black specks on his hand until he could stand it no longer.


GIANT wood wasp laying eggs. He smeared them away,


killing them in "a mass of wet blood.” Thank goodness we are not so seriously affected in th is land, although* during the coming months there wiU be those who, while spending a day in the country, wonder why so little has been achieved in the eradication of these minute creatures.


That they are a problem


goes without saying and many laymen, while agre­ eing with the progress in


outer space, pray for some advancement near home. There are several people I


know who find it intolerable to be out and about even by Ribble and Hodder during the warmer days. Being somehow susceptible to the attacking hordes which appear from nowhere, they find no satisfaction in being out of doors. I have friends who dare not go to the High- lands in June, July or August, for fear of being eaten alive. A very- dear friend of


Cedric’s road set the pace for M-ways


BRITAIN’S first motorway was a triumph for Cedric :Kay, He saw it grow from lorry scarred grassland, sweeping around Preston, to the


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of years ago. Now Mr Kay’s 45-year


career with the county high­ ways department is coming to the end of the road. He retires as county divi­


sional surveyor at Whalley. at the end of the month. Mr Kay began work on the


adm in is tra tiv e side at County Hall, Preston. He became an articled pupil to the county surveyor in 1937 and later worked in Ulver- ston, Chorley and the Fylde Coast. His involvement with


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motorway development, which eventually brought him the MBE, began in


proud of the fact that the section of the M6 he worked on initially became Britain’s first motorway, taking traf­ fic before the Ml. He also has nostalgia for


1958. Mr Kay is immensely


the days when road con­ struction was emerging from the horse and cart era and you could see through an


ro u n d & ab o u t


improvement scheme for less than £250. Said Mr Kay: “A load of tarmac would cost you more than that now.” Mr Kq/s plans for retire-


ment include more time watching cricket, playing golf and resuming support for Preston North End now that the club has reached the Second Division. One of Mr Kay’s forebears was a founder of the club. He and his wife, Joan,


ted to the school as a pupil 100 years ago, leaving in 1879, when her family moved to Kirk Hammerton. Before taking up the


headship at the school, which has 44 pupils and two other members of staff, Mrs Green was deputy head of Meadowside primary school, Knaresborough, and previ­ ously taught in Harrogate. Her husband Neville,


whom he met while working at Ulverston, will also take the chance of more frequent visits to relatives and friends around the Lake Dis­ trict. The couple have a son,


John, who has just qualified as a solicitor, and a daugh­ ter, Elizabeth, who was a teacher before her mar­ riage.


Family ties


A HITHERTO unknown family connection has been d isco v e red by former Clitheroe Grammar School pupil Mrs Ericka Green, since she was appointed to her first post as a headmis­ tress. Mrs G re e n , w hose


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parents, Mr and Mrs J. E. Newsam, live at Teewood Farm, Waddington, became head two months ago at the CE primary school in Green Hammerton, a village on the A59 between Harrogate and York. While looking through


teaches mathematics at King Jam es com prehens ive School, Knaresborough. They live at Wicksley, not far from Green Hammerton, and have begun breeding Siamese cats as a hobby.


Memories


■town settings and sociolog-' ists and economists have all had their say about the rise and fall of King Cotton, but what was work really like in a cotton mill before the First World War. The Cotton Industry


of t’mill MANY novels have had mill


Records team is anxious to find out before the veteran operatives all fade away, and would dearly like to hear from you if you can help them. Jill Liddington, of the


Manchester Studies Unit, based a t M a n c h e s te r Polytechnic, writes to say that she or Janet Leatherby, at Blackburn Library, are among the researchers who would like to see any photo­ graphs, diaries, scrap­ books, union cards, minute books or wage slips. “If you or someone you


some old school records, she came across the name of her g r a n dm o th e r , L au ra Stothard. Laura was admit­


know can recall that it was like to work in one of the spinning or weaving mills at the beginning of the cen­ tury, please do contact us and we can arrange to come


mine, the late Seton Gordon,' told of a trip in mid Scotland where they found it imposs­ ible to take a camping break­ fast, as the food was black with midges.


reminded of further inci­ dents. A farmer friend, noticing the irritation of one of his sheep, decided to investigate. The poor crea­ ture had an ear almost eaten away by a seething horde of maggots boring their way into the animal’s head.


N e a r e r home I am Watch the cattle by Rib­


ble or Hodder in July. Last year we were taking a pleas­ ant walk when about midday th e c l im a te su d d en ly changed. A strange, heavy, humid atmosphere was the signal for an attack of the warble flies. The cattle up to then had


been seeking shade from the sun when suddenly they became restive and in a few seconds, with tails in the air first one and then another began scampering across the field. With no apparent aim


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tain, at a cost to agriculture of £5m per annum, we have some idea of the noxious damage brought about by this warble fly.


the fly deposits her egg beneath the skin of the ani- mal brings considerable deterioration in quality and price, and who can estimate the suffering of the animal so affected?


The damage to hides after


in summer, especially when the antlers are in velvet. You will see them constantly threshing their heads as the obnoxious flies attempt to settle and feed on the deli­ cate membranes. You can also experience


they charged around, bewil­ dered and helpless, in an effort to get clear from they knew not what. With bet­ ween 30 and 40 per cent of the cattle affected in Bri­


whispering “all God’s crea­ tures great and small,” but the precept does not apply in this case. That such pests do more harm than good must be acknowledged. Even though the beasts wellbeing or otherwise does not con­ cern man, the average per­ son does not like to see suf­ fering or even discomfort. Watch the Bowland deer


I can almost hear someone


alight on ears, neck or head at the first opportunity.


When we consider the dis­


comfort and damage to ani­ mals, who can estimate the cost? A contented cow gives better returns than one in constant discomfort. Of course some insects are


really beneficial to man and when I passed through the wood a huge wood wasp caught my attention.; After lighting on a pine


log, the female wood wasp — over two inches long from head to tail — began crawl­ ing along the bark until, hav­ ing decided where to lay her eggs, halted. Reaching her full height,


she dropped her long tail or egg depositor and steadily began to bore through the thick bark. In a couple of minutes the inch-long tail penetrated to the hilt; she held herself calm and the egg was placed well beneath the surface. Later the egg would hatch


the same annoyance later in the season in field or wood- la n d . W h a t d e v i l is h annoyance, as your head is encircled with a “halo” of buzzing flies over eager to


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and the larva, after eating its way through the timber, would emerge as a fully grown wasp — a replica of the parent. In a couple of minutes the procedure was captured on film — a chance in perhaps a million.


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FURNITURE store owner Mr Allan Sowerbutts will be j e t t in g to sun-soaked Tenerife this winter — thanks to an inspired guess.


For the seven-day holiday


was first prize in a competi­ tion run by Sleepeezee Beds, whose products Mr Sower­ butts sells from his show- room in King S tre e t , Clitheroe. After hearing the result, a


delighted Mr Sowerbutts (44) said: “I couldn’t believe it when the representative told me I’d won — it’s mar­ vellous.


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Recipe for


a trophy STU D EN T M a rg a re t Comthwaite has cooked up a top award for her culinary skills at Nelson and Colne College of Further Educa­ tion.


Margaret (17), of Closes


Hall Farm, Bolton-by- Bowland, gained the “Her- bert Young Trophy” as top first year general catering student after gaining high marks for practical cookery, res tau ran t service and housekeeping.


Margaret is one of 50 stu­


dents on the two-year course and next summer she will be sitting her final City and Guild examinations.


She received her trophy at


an end-of-term dance at the Saxon Inn, Blackburn, attended by many of the col­ lege students.


Artist’s


work A TWO-WEEK exhibition of paintings and drawings by Clayton-le-Moors artist Mr Frank Picton starts at Whal­ ley Library on Saturday. Mr Picton has lived in Clayton-le-Moors all his life and his love of painting and drawing stems from his early teens. He has exhibited previ­


ously at the Civic Hall in Clayton, the Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington, the Blackburn Artists’ Society’s annual exhibition, the Lewis Textile Museum at Black­ burn and the Harris Insti­ tute in Preston. Mr P ic to n h a s n o t


attended any formal art school, but learned his craft through trial and error. Most of his works are land­ scapes.


“HAVE you anything to declare?” is a question familiar to every reader who has ever taken a trip abroad or entered the country by sea or air following a Continental holiday. None-the-less, it would


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certainly surprise many of them to learn that, had they been travelling from Bashall Town to Clitheroe rather more than 600 years ago, they would have been asked much the same kind of ques­ tion on reaching Edisford Bridge. The list of dutiable goods with which they were presented would be every bit as formidable as those thrust before their noses at Gatwick or Heathrow. Edisford is certainly one


necessary work and the men making ap p l ica tio n to E dw a rd I I I fo r th is privilege were Robert de Radcliffe and Robert de Cl iderhowe, who thus acquired the responsibility of arranging for the collec­ tion of the tolls due and putting the necessary work in progress.


A document laying down


of the oldest bridges in the Ribble Valley (with the possible exception of some of the small packhorse bridges) and there is a defi­ nite record of one bestriding the Ribble at that spot as long ago as .1339. That is had been in exist­


ence a long time before that date is proved by the fact that, in that year, it had fallen into ruinous and dangerous state and was in urgent need of repair. • As a result of its parlous


condition, Royal letters patent were procured to legalise the exactment of toSs to pay for this very


the payments to be made still exists and a very remarkable document it is What I found most surpris­ ing on a first reading was the great variety of mer­ chandise crossing the bridge in days hitherto regarded as almost primitive.


The truth is that in many


■it all and the magnificence of the concept, and achieve­ ment. But to return to our list.


respects they were very far from primitive. These were the days when great cathed­ rals, churches and abbeys were built by craftsmen of superlative skills. One can­ not stand in any of our great cathedrals without gazing, overawed and in complete veneration, at the wonder of


The tolls exacted varied from a farthing for a quar­


tern of oats to threepence (a considerable sum) for a cask of honey or a bale of shoe leather. When one considers the vast changes in the value of money, for inflation has been with us continuously throughout the centuries — and we are speaking of days when a few coppers were all a labourer would receive for a whole week’s work — one is almost inclined to look at Mr Denis Healey with a more tolerant eye. What kind of merchandise


was carried over the bridge at “The Nobleman’s Ford” (that’s what the name is said to mean) 600 years ago? Pep­ per, almonds, figs, raisins, garlic, onions, teazles are all listed; so are ironware, lead, steel, copper, roof nails and nails of all kinds. Wine was taxed at 2d the


cask, oil and ale at Id; you would be charged 14d on your flitch of bacon, V4d for a quarter of salt, Vtd for a grindstone. You would be required to pay Id to convey a horse load of sea fish into the town, 4d for a cartload, %d for a horse, mare, cow or ox crossing the bridge, and 2d for hundredweight of


wax. Ten goats were quite


dozens of tickets in my time and I can never remember winning anything before This was a good time for my luck to change.”


Mr Sowerbutts will be


accompanied to Tenerife by his wife, Karen, and the couple plan to go in early January.


entered the competition, as well as the couple’s son, Ian, and Mr Sowerbutts’ mother, Elizabeth.


Mrs Sowerbutts also They had to guess the


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. The Nobleman’s Ford pre­ sents a very different pic­ ture today and the bridge is firm and strong, judging by the great juggernauts and lorries that cross it hourly. The riverside, with its crowds of happy picnickers, campers and caravanners, the children playing at the water’s edge and- barking dogs retrieving stones from the riverbed, makes a delightful scene. It is, a chance-met caravanner told me, “the best run site I have met in any part of Britain,” something which members of the Ribble Valley Council can note with a justified degree of pride and satisfac­ tion.


But, and this you will


note, 638 years later we still pay our dues for the mainte­ nance and repair of this ancient bridge — and many other bridges, too. The dif­ ference is that now we call them rates and we pay them to the county council. And rightly so.


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