4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 22nd, 1978


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GIVEN the opportunity of inspecting a compact bungalow, strongly built with a good roof, efficient insulation, har­ moniously fitting in with the surroundings and, in every way, ful­ filling the requirements of a family, you would acknowledge the skill of the builder.


You would also take it for


granted, from a human standpoint, that it had been carefully planned with a definite purpose having in mind the various require­ ments of the occupants. No doubt, judging from the shape, position and material you would give credit to the architect, bricklayer, join­ ers, plasterers, etc.


Now you may wonder


An ideal first home


what has all this to do with nature or the natural scene. But it certainly has, for the home I write about was con­ structed by a young couple with no special training.


yourself effort and, as far as I know, this was the first time they had ventured into this line of business.


.The house was a do-it-


would be impossible to humans.


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operations after hearing the familiar lisping call note of one of the birds. It was soon evident they were both a c t iv e ly engaged and, although watched from less than 20 paces, they were too busy to be diverted.


I first spotted the building It all took place within the


space of a few days as I followed the activities of a pair of long-tailed tits put­ ting together a home of extreme beauty and worthi­ ness.


According to some people,


these birds have little or no intelligence. But it is evident that somewhere there is a mind, perhaps subconscious, which enables these attrac­ tive residents to fashion, what, without training,


throughout nest building and feeding the birds are never secretive. They had chosen to place the nest in. an old alder tree a couple of paces from the main road, seven feet above ground, and nicely tucked away bet­ ween main trunk and an ivy branch which served as a screen, protection and camouflage. The pair had evidently been in the construction bus­


This behaviour is peculiar to th e lo n g - ta i ls and


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CLITHEROE’S globetrotting granny, Nell Bottomley, has been round, the world six times, so it is not surprising that choosing a new holiday venue is becoming increasingly difficult.


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yet to visit are Madeira, Malta and Corfu, but she hopes to remedy that. In October she is off with a party to Madeira, and in the meantime is arranging to stay with friends in Italy in July.


has organised parties for a local travel agency. Each party of 20 entitles her to a free holiday. There is con­ siderable work involved, but Nell, who has a wide know­ ledge of languages, makes a first-class courier. Many of her holiday companions return time and again to join her. The only places she has


(67), of Hayhurst Street, manages to take at least four holidays abroad each year is quite simple. For the past 10 years she


make travelling sound no more of a problem than step­ ping on a town circular. The secret of how Nell


Her tales of far-off places


round & about


free, however. She and her husband, Harold, often used to stay with friends they had met abroad, and since his death 18 months ago she has continued to travel.


Not all Nell’s holidays are


never short of an elegant evening dress, for she makes her own clothes. She trained as a seamstress and for the past 14 years has run a stall on Clitheroe market selling materials. B e fo re s e t t l i n g in


Clitheroe, Nell and her hus­ band lived in Blackburn, L o n d o n , B a r row - in - Furness, Crewe and Rish- ton, where she opened a gown shop. Later, they became mana­


gers of the Dunkenhalgh Hotel at Ciayton-le-Moors,


When on a cruise, Nell is


languages, Nell took lessons 30 years ago in Spanish, Por­ tugese and Italian. While on a cruise to the Bahamas she took a crash course in Rus­ sian, and was awarded a gold diploma. An accomplished singer,


where they added to their large circle of friends. Having a natural gift for


Nell performed profession­ ally and for charity during the war. She recalls once having three engagements an evening and having to change in a taxi between shows.


Sadly, 12 years ago she


lost her voice following a thyroid operation. But despite an injured vocal cord, she learnt to speak again, using her diaphragm, as in singing. Nell — a grandmother


three times over — has a married daughter, Mar­ garet, who has shared many of her holidays, and a son,


HOLIDAY JOB IN THE U.S.


THE chance of a lifetime has come the way of Clitheroe student William James Murphy. On Saturday, William (22)


left Gatwick Airport on the first leg of his journey to a Camp America posting in the United States. During the summer, Wil­


liam will be in charge of a group of children aged bet­ ween nine and 15 at one of the holiday ad v en tu re camps. He has just gained a B.Ed


ordinary degree from De La Salle College, Manchester, after three years of study and hopes to return next term to join the honours course. His qualifications should


sporting interests, including rock climbing, fell walking, table tennis and football, which helped him through a tough interview at Didsbury College, Manchester, to clinch his ticket to America.


After completing his spell


at the camp, William plans to embark on a tour of America via the Greyhound bus service. He has not made up his mind which parts of the country to visit, but is eagerly looking for­ ward to the prospect of choosing.


Perhaps William’s only


hold him in good stead dur­ ing his nine weeks at the camp. William, who lives in Woone Lane, has many


regret will be missing his degree congregation in Man­ chester. He will now receive his degree 'certificate by post, but no doubt this will be compensated by the many adventures in store for him at Camp America.


N E L L a first-class courier


tented life is to always look forward to something, and to have a lot of people who like you and a few who love you. Every night when she


goes to bed, Nell says she thinks of something pleasant to look forward to next day — perhaps in her case it’s planning another holiday.


Party


opener FORMER warden of Whai- ley Abbey, Miss Peggy G ra dw e l l , w ill open Clitheroe Parish Church garden party on Saturday.


Miss Gradwell retired last


year after 14 years at the Abbey, first as housekeeper and then as warden from 1965. Clitheroe-born Miss Grad­


well taught domestic science at Ribblesdale School during the war and was later a teacher at Whiteacre School, Barrow. She now lives at Read. The garden party is to be


held at Mayfield, Eastham Street. If wet, it will move indoors to the Parish Hail. Among the attractions for children will be a Punch and Judy show.


Jack, who is a consultant at Liverpool University. Her philosophy for a con­


Branch closes


THE Clitheroe branch of Mercantile Manufacturing, which sells curtains, fabrics and furnishing fittings, is closing down on July 7th.


mises are in Burnley, is owned by Waddington businessman Mr Alexander Drew.


been run by his wife, Elizabeth, and an assistant, since it opened five years ago.


The Clitheroe shop has But Mrs Drew said this


week that the lease on the premises — the former Dewhurst’s grocery store — was due to run out next month.


rather tiring being there so much and with the lease due to expire it seems an ideal time to close down,” she said. “Now I’m going to r e t i r e t o b e i n g a grandmother and doing some gardening.


“I ’ve been finding it


I have enjoyed having the shop in Clitheroe. It has been very popular and we have met some very nice customers.”


“I’m sad in a way because


IN the late 1960s the trustees of Whalley Methodist Church, knowing that the cente­ nary of the present chapel would fall in 1972, decided that it really was time some­ thing was done about the modernisation and redecoration of their buildings.


were becoming increasingly evident, the floor in the adjoining schoolroom was in a very poor state, and it was agreed that everything must be put in good order for the forthcoming very important anniversary.


Various structural defects


expert advice was essential, and architect Mr Eric Kenyon, a former scholar at the school and the son of a family with a long connec­ tion with the church was called upon. Mr Kenyon did his job


In these circumstances,


y e a rs of research and inquiries, many hours of reading and study in the County Archives at Preston and, later, at Chester. (For a long period Whalley was in


“did they do this? What was the purpose in building this wall in this particular manner?" His professional curiosity was aroused and he determined to find the answers. There followed almost 10


thoroughly. He made a minute survey of the old b u ild in g s and, to his s u rp r i s e , come across several deviations from conventional building techni­ ques. “Why,” he asked himself,


The arrival of Methodism Whalley Window


the Chester Diocese). Later still, visits were paid to museums and the Public Records Department in London.


Kenyon didn’t find the answers to the questions that first stimulated his interest, but he did unearth details of the early history of non-conformity in .o u r village which are completely new to us (despite the fact that they are a couple of hundred years old!). I t has long been the


At the end of it all, Mr


v illag e she converted first her brothers and later her mother, and a Methodist Meeting House was estab­ lished at their Shayhouses


dearly-held tradition of Whalley Methodists' that their particular faith was first brought to the village by a young girl, Nancy Hart­ ley, who, on a chance visit to P adiham, h ea rd John Wesley preach and was immediately converted. On her return to the


farm. T h at th e re was this Fellowship at Shayhouses is documented history and it cannot be disputed that it was the work and dedication of its members that led to the establishment of the first Methodist church in the village .in 1806.


The growth and success of


this first church led in due course to the building of the present fine chapel in King Street,- which was officially ’


opened, with all due cere­ mony, in 1872. Now, as a result of Mr


K e n y o n ’ s d i l i g e n t researches, (and his every claim is fully and clearly documented) we learn that there were actually TWO licenced Methodist assembly places in this part of the parish of Whalley long before the probable date when Nancy paid her event­ ful visit to Padiham. The first of these was


licensed in 1777, when the maid was only 11 years of age and so was very unlikely to have influenced her mother and brothers in the manner she eventually did. The first registration was


in Wiswell, at the home of Thomas. Dewhurst. The precise site cannot, at this moment, be pin-pointed, but it is reasonable to assume that it would be in close proximity to the land he farmed. From the location of these


f i e l d s , a g a i n f u l l y d o cum en ted , it would appear that the meeting house was in the neighbour­ hood of the Wiswell Cross — possibly near the present Clegg House Farm. A few years later, in 1785,


a second meeting place was registered. This was prob­ ably closer to the centre of the village and was the home of Richard Paitfield, a “nailor” by trade. The first DISSENTING


(as distinct from Methodist) Meeting Place in the village


was actually registered in 1689 — long before the founding of Methodism. This was at Surey, the location of which has puzzled local historians for many years, but which can now be posi­ tively identified. Many long-term residents


Surey is of particular inter­ est, because here lived the young boy who became known as “The Surey Demoniac.” It was on behalf of this tormented lad that Thomas Joliie and his congregation at Wymon- dhouses spent a whole year in prayer in an effort to rid the boy of the demons said to beset him. To students of the history


will recall the stepping stones across the Calder from below St John’s Wood to the south bank of the r iv e r . The field on the Porterfield side was known as Surey and there stood the barn of Thomas Dugdale — the first Dissenting meeting place to be registered. The identification of


“THE LANCASHIRE ANTIQUE DEALERS FAIR”


THURNHAM HALL, LANCASTER


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l i i i i i i l i i l i l :


iness for a couple of days. Two days later the home — no larger than a good-sized breakfast cup — was com­ plete with roof and lining. How they intertwine the moss, hair, spiders’ webs and extremely fine shreds of herbage is difficult to com­ prehend.


is wonderful, but the inter­ nal decoration is just bewil­ dering, being lined with more than 2,000 feathers. * The entrance hole near the peak of the coconut-shaped nest is about the size of a human finger.


From the outside the nest Here is an example of skill


and perfection and all the more remarkable because the builders had no training, nor have they witnessed any similar undertaking. Yet, with each generation they invariably follow a set


design. There must be an answer, but who dares ven­ ture an explanation? We see design and purpose fulfilling every useful need. Remember that at one


period in the dim past every detail had to be learned and, just as the human body func­ tions subconsciously, so a well-tried habit becomes natural. Thus the diminutive long-


not unique. What about the common blackbird or thrush to be seen everywhere by Ribble and Hodder? What finer examples of individual­ ity than, say, the nest of the song thrush, with its inter­ laced grasses serving as a


The case of the long-tail is J U S T i


tailed t i ts ’ nest is just another example of the won­ derful realm within nature. And this is but one item among a galaxy of others if we have the time and inter­ est to take a closer look and, in doing so, seek an explana­ tion. You will have no difficulty


in finding further study. There is no need to travel abroad when there is so much under our very noses demanding attention.


irotection for the efficient- y-lined interior.


nest with mud which after drying becomes hard and smooth. In contrast her near relative, the blackbird, after building a similar structure lines her abode with dry grasses.


The thrush plasters her


CURTAINS, RAILS and FITTINGS


SHOWER Altogether an expression


of the infallibility of nature and the wonder around us which I have found so inter­ esting and enough to occupy me during the last half century.


HORACE COOK


From USA for pal’s wedding


FORMER Clitheroe man Robert Wiggles- wo r th returned to America on Tuesday after being best man at the wedding of his old s c h o o l f r iend f rom Ribblesdale, Kenneth Mantle. Kenneth was married


a t SS Michael and J o h n ’ s C h u r c h , Cli theroe,


to Miss


Christine Rush, and Robert was delighted to make the trip back to his native town for the occasion. Robert now lives in a


suburb of Chicago and works for a firm that imports art glasses and distributes silver lines throughout the United States. Twenty-six-year-old


Robert emigrated in 1975 and this was the second t ime he has returned to England since. He stayed for 10 days


at his parents’ home in Park Avenue, and took the opportunity to look up old f r i ends and haunts. He will be remem­


of the wedding is on page 7-


Attending


conference CLITHEROE will have two rep resen tat iv es at the Methodist Church’s annual conference which begins in Bradford tomorrow. They are Clitheroe Circuit


week. Major topics under discussion will include the i n t r o d u c t i o n of tape- recorded sermons in small rural churches, a scheme for Methodists to give one per cent of their take-home pay towards world development, and an anti-racism prog­ ramme.


Superintendent the Rev. George Knowles and Mr George Braithwaite. The conference lasts a


bered in Clitheroe as an opening bowler fo r Clitheroe Cricket Club and a Trinity FC player. A report and picture


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of the village, Mr Kenyon’s discoveries are of immense interest and his painstaking researches must eventually lead to a re-writing of the story of Methodism in our district. It is rarely that “new”


facts are brought to light in this fashion and inevitably the question must be asked, “What more is there to


learn?” Wha t other hitherto


unpublished details of the early history of our village lie hidden away in dusty a r c h i v e s , a t t i c s or cupboards, awaiting discov- e r y by th e dilig ent researcher?


J.F.


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