®< Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, January 4th, 1979 5 Blinded with science i


I AM not a mechanical genius. That statement will surprise nobody, least of all my wife. Where any mechanical or electronic device is concerned I have an inborn, inbuilt jinx. Within minutes of my'


approaching any kind of machine or automatic con­ traption, I have only to lay a single finger upon it and it immediately ceases to function.


wash, the toaster doesn’t toast and. the Hoover doesn’t hoove. Thus, when the Tele­


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communications Manager for the Blackburn area and his staff invited colleagues and myself to tour and inspect the Blackburn Telephone Exchange, act­ ing in all innocence, they took a terrible risk. “I shall not be in the


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stood enough batteries to power every car produced by British Leyland in the course of a year. There were giant tur­


“blinded with science.” In a basement there


bines and transformers which clicked into action


immediately if, for some reason, the power from the National Grid should fail. We passed to the depart­


ment where huge cables, each containing several thousand thread-like wires coiled upwards from the bowels of the earth. For a moment my mind


building half an hour," I thought, “before some­ thing will go wrong. Tele­ printers won’t teleprint, a thousand telephones will suddenly be struck dumb and computers will cease to compute.” Well. I went and they


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didn’t. 1 saw everything and when, a couple of hours later, I left, every­ thing was working as quietly and efficiently as when I first set foot in the building; a fact which, in itself, speaks volumes for the technical skill and pro­ fessional exper t ise of everybody concerned. For most of my visit 1


stood open-mouthed and with glazed eyes and a vac­


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ant expression. 1 tried hard to look reasonably intelligent, even from time to time ventured the occa­ sional question. But I found it very, very dif­ ficul t . I was literally


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allocated to the St John Ambulance, Clitheroe and July 21st to the Royal Institute for the Blind (Clitheroe). Collections throughout the Ribble Val­ ley have been authorised for the Friends of the Samar i tans on August 18th, and the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal on November 10th. House to house collec­


tions are being allowed on the same day as others because both groups will only be collecting for 20 minutes in Clitheroe. June 2nd has also been


A NUMBER of local organisations have been granted street collection permits. Cheshire Homes — on a Saturday to be arranged in March; NSPCC, Whalley — April 28th; Old People’s We l f a r e Commi t t ee, Clitheroe — May 5th; Clitheroe Ladies’ Lifeboat Gui ld — May 19th; Clitheroe Morris Men — May 19th; Gisburn Festi­ val Hall Committee — May 19th; Colne Royal Morris Men, coll ec tin g in Clitheroe, Sawley and Downham — June 2nd. The Morris Men’s collec­


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flashed back to boyhood days and the small cellar of the National Telephone Company’s exchange at Castle Gate, where the very height of technology consisted of some dozens of Leclanche cells, a sack of sal-ammoniac and sev­ eral buckets of water, plus a conglomeration of wires apparently designed by W. Heath Robinson. No tangle of wires in


mentally battered and bewi ldered. I felt as though I had been whirled to the moon by spaceship and immediately delivered back again by Telex, radio and satellite. I doubt if even Dr Who would have understood the many mira­ cles I had seen. “How on earth did all


and, in a handful of sec­ onds, we are speaking to our friends in Lands End or Ashby-de-la-Zouche Battle Abbey. And, in a mat ter of months and thr ou gh t h i s same exchange, we will be able to dial direct to Germany, France or any other conti­ nental country. I emerged from my tour


employed as a telephone operator in the local exchange and everytime a tear-filled voice inquired for the unde rt a ke r’s number, she transferred


His rival’s wife was


the call to her husband’s establishment. The hus­ band grew fat and prosper­ ous and our friend grew thinner and thinner.


self. “I shall invent some­ thing that will make man­ ual operators obsolete and


devised the int r icate equipment now in univer­ sal use.


immediately sat down to do so. Ev e n t u a l l y he


Blackburn, I can assure you. They emerged from the cables with military precision, divided into small companies, battal­ ions and platoons and finally split up into pairs — your pair, my pair, every­ body else’s pair. Each pair then marched


into one of many thousands of inst ruments, mini ­ computers’ I called ’em, which stood ranged in


banks like books on library shelves and each little wire


a number our own little wires carry an impulse to our own little computer


was home. Each time you and I dial


zled. “Why,” he asked him­ self, “Why?” and deter­ mined to find out. In a matter of days he had the


undertaker and funeral director in a one-horse, small Amer ican town began to lose business. After a while, he was alarmed to find that his turnover was rapidly declining while the busi­ ness of his only rival in the town appeared to flourish. For every deceased citizen our undertaker laid repect- fully to rest, his rival buried half a dozen. The undertaker was puz­


almost as surprising as the wonders I had already wit­ nessed. It all began because an


this start?” I asked my patient guide. “This dial­ ling system which makes manual operators unneces­ sary? Who invented it in the first place?” The story I was told was


it possible for you and I, for newspapers, banks, all forms of radio and televi­ sion, governments and every conceivable business concern to transact busi­ ness without any third party pressing a single button, throwing a single switch, plugging in a single wire, or overhearing a single word.


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astonishing as the fact that, when my tour was over, despite the mechani­ cal jinx that accompanies me everywhere I go, the whole vast complex of technology was clicking away just as happily as if I had never entered the place.


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tions have been approved as follows: January 1st to December 31st — the Ladies’ Comfort League of Preston Royal Infirmary in Chipping, Longridge and Thornley; March 1st to February 29th, 1980 — Institute for Blind Wel­ fare, at Chipping, Hother- sa.Il, Hurst Green, Lon­ gridge and Ribchester; April 30th to May 4th — Cl i theroe Old People’s Welfare Committee; April 29th to April 28th, 1980 — Clitheroe Morris Men. The Ribble Valley Coun­


cil’s General Purposes Committee has informed LEPRA that it would favourably consider either a street collection or a house-to-house collection, but not both.


A FULL HOUSE


hymn “God rest ye merry gentlemen” the cross was carried down the aisle by Gerald Britnell, followed by the choir, and the Vicar Canon P. A. Schofield. The lessons and carols fol lowed the bidding


boy) Josephine Russell (Guide) , Ian Russel l (server), Jeffrey Wilkin­ son (member of the United Reformed Church), Ann Goodway (Mo t h e r s ’ Union), Carol Armstrong (Brownie), Phillip Whalley (Cub Scout), Carl Tunstall (Scout), and the Vicar, who also gave the blessing. The organist was Mr D. K. Hall and the choirmaster, Mr James Hargreaves.


Erayer. Lessons were read y David Simpson (choir


weather conditions St John’s Church, Read, was full on Sunday evening for the service of lessons and carols. During the processional


Despite the adverse


MEMBERS of CLOC — the Committee for Local Organisations in Clitheroe — were busy over Christmas distributing parcels in the


Clitheroe area.


PICTURE AWARD


FORMER Cl i the roe photographer Mr W. S. Sheldon is featured in the January edition of one of the count ry’s leading magazine for camera enthusiasts. Mr Sheldon was born in


grapher of the month” Award in teh SLR Camera magazine for January, 1979, which has a double centre-page spread of four of his pictures.


Decorated church


attended, were conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. F. E. Chard. The organist was Mrs B. Todd.


the Holy nativity was pre­ ceded by 15 minutes of congregational carol sing­ ing in the beautifully- decorated church of St Leonard’s, Downham, at midnight on Christmas Eve. A Christmas tree, traditionally presented by Lord Clitheroe from the estate, had been erec­ ted and decorated.by the estate gardener, Mr B. Swarbrick. The services, all well


The first Communion of


Anne’s, and is a member of St Anne’s Photographic Society. He has won the "Photo­


Brennand Street and was at Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School when Matt Henderson was headmas­ ter. Mr Sheldon worked in Customs and Excise from 1934 until retirement in 1977 after a heart attack in Spain. He now lives in St


many tasks undertaken by the group since it was formed in 1970 to co­ ordinate community ser­ vice work being duplicated by local organisations. "The liaison between the


It was just one of the


service groups also meant, and still means, that the facilities available are used to the benefit of an even g r e a t e r number of persons. This year, for the first


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AFTER 28 years with Trutcx, Mrs Hi lda Wooff, of Eshton Ter­ race, has retired. Her career with the


her honour at the Henthorn works, Mrs Woof was thanked hy works manager Mr Peter Rush, and Mr Roger Wood, manag­ ing director, presented to her a gold bracelet. A gift from her col­


firm was spent at the Waterloo Road works until 18 months ago when she transferred to th e He n l h o r n factory. At a buffet lunch in


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leagues at Henthorn was handed over by Mrs Myra Birch. In our picture, from


left, are: Mr Wood, Mrs Birch, Mrs Wooff and Mr Rush.


time, the committee joined with t he Mayor of Clitheroe (Coun. Bob Ains­ worth), to give an even better distribution of food parcels. The results will be revie­


and maintenance of per­ sonal alarms for the elderly and housebound. Much has been done in


wed by the committee in the hope of using them to advantage in the future. The other main task of CLOC is the distribution


tion able to make valuable comment about CLOC or involve themselves in its work should contact sec­ retary Mrs S. Hailwood at Clitheroe 23715.


PARTY FUN


was on the menu at the Tosside children’s Christ­ mas party on Friday. There were games for the children, and Mrs Powl showed slides of local scenes and animals. These had been loaned by parents and also by Mr Mitchell of the "Dalesman.” Each child received a present.


Traditional party fare


the past by CLOC but it is felt much more can be done by using the organisation. Any person or organisa­


Singing in the cold


BITTERLY cold weather did not deter 13 children from Park Avenue from their annual carol singing tour of their neighbours. Several of the younger


children were dressed in nat ivi ty costumes, the older children wearing traditional dress of bobble hats, scarves and gloves. One or two carried lan­ terns. The children, whose


ages ranged from four to 13 years, were: Catherine Houlker, Susan and Stuart Cunliffe, Michael Dixon, Judith Davies, Stephen and Heather Lord, Steven and Sharon Petty, David and Simon Driver and Richard and Joanne Dug- dale. The singers were led by three mothers from the avenue — Stephanie Dug- dale, Nina Driver and Jean Petty. A sum of £12.20 was collected for the Clitheroe Physiotherapy Centre.


For NSPCC


AT the Nativity play at Sabden County Primary School £17 was. collected for the NSPCC.


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