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Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, May 10th, 1979 7 IS OPENING
PART of the wide selection of carpets and nigs, also on show at Queen’s Mill
MANY first-time v is ito r s to the s h o w r o om at Queen’s Mill, will be surprised at the fantastic lay-out of the firm’s exciting new showcase. A wide number of
alterations and exten sions have been made to the existing struc ture of the mill, with the aim of making it the most outstanding furniture showroom in Lancashire. The whole area com
prises of some 37,000 sq. f t . , which in c lu d e s administrative offices, and
leaves nearly 22,000 sq. ft. for display and adver tising. A new and efficient
Still the same competitive prices
peted throughout, and great time and trouble has been spent selecting the decorations and back ground to provide a setting which will be pleasing to the eye, as well as informa tive about the merchan dise.
The showroom is car
large enough to provide excellent viewing for Tas ker’s range of carpets. Carpets have always
The new showrooms are
heating system has been installed to ensure a warm welcome on even the col dest day. The glass roof is a sup
ply of natural light unusual in' a furniture showroom, which complements the latest artificial lighting systems.
figured largely in Tasker’s merchandise, and the showrooms provide excel lent viewing facilities for top brands, such as Wilton Royal, Crossleys, Tomkin- son, Templeton Grey and Thomas Shephard. There will also be a wide selection of Chinese and sheepskin rugs available in three sizes. Although the show rooms have been refur
bished without regard to expense, all merchandise at Tasker’s is available at
service, which has been the hallmark of Tasker's success, will also remain to the advantage of every
the same competitive prices as it always has been, with no extra charge whatsoever. The excellent after-sales
customer. If you plan to enjoy the
ment of wine and cheese between 11 a.m. and 5 p .m .
nice to know is that excel lent free-parking facilities near the mill are also avail able to customers.
Something that’s also
room really is the shop per’s dream; pleasant, con venient and very comfort able.
Tasker’s new-look show
special--viewing-only ses sion at Tasker’s, you can enjoy a little light refresh
for anyone making a deci sion on how their home will look, after they have taken the expert advice and gui dance of Tasker’s efficient staff.
It’s the perfect setting START LIVING WITH BUOYANT AMPLE FREE CAR PARKING
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David Waddington coasts back to Westminster
SABDEN Barrister David Waddington goes back to West minster as probably the last MP for the Clitheroe Division in its present form.
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WE ARE £ HERE |
< CD AMPLE FREE CAR PARKING 'Elegance froii) Sfonp
JAMES H. SUTCLIFFE & SON LTD. Manufacturers of dining room units in elegant styles, exciting dining room tables in many different styles. Available at Tasker’s “New Look” Store.
new Parliament, it is on the cards that legislation will be enacted to re arrange constituency boundaries.
For within the life of the
sion will be largely made up of the present Ribble Valley local government area. On Thursday Mr Wad
The proposed new Divi
dington retained the seat he won at the March 1st by-election but with a smaller majority on a larger turn-out of voters. Ju d g ed on the by-
David Waddington son more than doubled his
vote. The Liberal joy was
election result, the figures showed a slight swing to Labour a g a in s t th e national trend, but the Tory majority was well up on the October, 1974,Gen- eral Election and, based on those figures, went with the national swing. However, Labour’s
tempered by Mr Wilson again losing his deposit — and this time by the annoy ingly small margin of 113 votes. But the amicable atmos
delighted” by his return to Westminster — this time to th e G o v e rnm en t benches. He was obviously also
delighted that the neigh bouring Nelson and Colne constituency, where he had been helping canvas sing, had returned a Con servative, ousting Labour MP Doug Hoyle, who fought Clitheroe in 1962. It was Mr Hoyle who
toppled Mr Waddington as MP for Nelson and Colne in October 1974. There was little political
point-scoring after the announcement of the result in the early hours of Friday. All candidates expressed
thanks to their opponents that the campaign had been cleanly fought. Mr Sutton’s jubilation
Lindsey Sutton had the satisfaction of reducing the March majority and Lib eral candidate Frank Wil-
phere after the result had been announced can be gauged from the fact that the other two candidates were among the first to commiserate with Mr Wil son over losing another £150 by so few votes. Mr Waddington declared himself “pleased and
DOUBLE POLL GOES OFF SMOOTHLY
THE Ribble Valley’s encounter with the unique General Election-District election poll was a smooth one for the administrators, according to Returning Officer Mr Michael Jackson.
papers had been accounted for, Mr Jackson said he felt his staff had coped “magni ficently” with the burden of having both polls on the
After the final ballot Upholstered Furniture
MAY YOU BE AS BUOYANT IN 1979 AS WE SHALL
furniture imi
See our range of Fine Furniture at TASKERS
‘NEW LOOK STORE’
Congratulations on the expansion of your Queen Street Premises
Lay-E-Zee
284 Bradford Road, Batley West Yorkshire, WF17 5PP
THE BEDS WITH THE EDGE ON THE REST
see our products on display at TA SK ER ’S ‘new look’store
Jentique N,7tifM *vPne ■ Rmifurp
The Jonlique 400 range combines beauty with versatility. Used individually, in two's, three's or a run ot lour, with or without end units. The variations are endless, the beauty obvious.
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Broadloom Carpets Limited Wheattieid'Mill, Rishton,
Gasketl Broad k>om
Blackburn,'Lancashire 881 4NU Telephone: Gt. Harwood (0254) 805566 Telegrams: Broadloom Rishlon Telex: 63480
Beresford & Hicks Ltd
STANLEYCUNDLELTD. wishes
TASKER’S
every success in their New Look’ super store.
YOU WILL FIND OUR MAGNIFICENT REPRODUCTION FURNITURE ON DISPLAYatTASKERS‘NEW LOOK STORE1
italics a luxury of life... A'l^ook Real Leader fui*i?iturc TOMKINSONS CARPETS LIMITED
Manufacturers of fine Axminster and Tufted Carpets,
I Congratulate J. W. TASKER &
SON LTD. on their ‘NEW LOOK’ STORE.”
PIERCE of Accrington
Mill Brook Furniture is upholstered in the finest British hide. There is no substitute for it. Real Leather is durable and beautiful; natural and luxurious.
Available at TASKERS “NEW LOOK” STORE Congratulations to
PAINTING fr DECORATING
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DflDTEDC DECORATING 18-20 WARNER STREET, ACCRINGTON. TEL. 33170
rU H I LUO CONTRACTORS Established 1872
J. W. TASKER and SON LIMITED on their ‘New Look’ Store
Heating and Mechanical Services throughout by: THE
McKIERNAN GROUP LIMITED Crown Street Works, Accrington, Lancashire.
Telephone No. Accrington 356S9. Heating, Ventilation, Mechanical Services.
for leprosy sufferers. The amount raised was £90. The Mayor, Corn. Bob Ainsworth, and Mrs Ains-
TAKING coffee in the Town Mayor’s parlour are Clitheroe supporters of Lepra, which raises money
worth attended. In the cente of the front row, wearing a dark jacket, is Lepra’s new president, Conn. Mrs Mary Bridge. To her right is her pre decessor, Mrs Matthews.
congratulations to J. W. TASKER
on the opening of their “new look” showrooms.
all ELECTRICAL WORK and FITTINGS supplied by
HYNDBURN ELECTRICAL SERVICES
2 WOODLEY AVENUE, ACCRINGTON Tel. 381559
CONSORT
FURNITURE LTD., We wish TASKER’S
every success in their ‘NEW LOOK STORE’
same day. He added: “Everything
went smoothly. The count ing staff had a gruelling time, but all went accord ing to plan.” The General Election
ling and Longridge. The double poll in most
return to St James’s in the evening to count the dis trict election votes. These were also counted at Bil-
of the Ribble Valley posed enormous problems of administration and sec urity.
result was announced at St James’s School, Clitheroe, shortly after 2-30 a.m. on Friday. Some staff who had been
counting since the first bal lot boxes arrived shortly after 10 p.m. — and had been on duty at polling sta- tions from 7 a.m. — wended their way home with the prospect of a day’s work and then a
Four put on the spot
UPHOLSTERY
BE A UTIFULL Y DESIGNED CLASSIC STYLES AT REASONABLE PRICES.
BOTH sides of industry and the church were rep resented at a Trinity Methodist Church forum on the subject “Work and Witness.”
ing the influence of the Christian believer in his or her daily employment had been received in advance, following sermons on the subject preached at local Methodist churches.
Many questions concern
local authority and Par liamentary constituency boundaries, some district council votes had to be shuttled between P a r liamentary counting rooms and the district counting rooms, often involving journeys of several miles. Votes in both elections
Because of overlapping
were placed in the same ballot boxes, the contents of which were f i r s t checked by the Parliamen tary Returning Officer in each constituency. District council and Gen
eral Election votes from Slaidburn for example went first to the Returning Officer for the Skipton Parliamentary Division, within whose boundary the village lies. The district votes were then passed on to Clitheroe. Local authority votes
from Great Harwood first came to Clitheroe with P a r l iam e n ta ry votes before being passed on to the Hyndburn District Council count. Mr Jackson was quick to
over increasing his by- election vote and cutting the majority by more than 1,000 was tempered by the news from nearby con stituencies. But he was bitterly dis
improvement on the by- election and I am delighted that the Labour voters have shown confidence in
own performance. “ I t has been a vast
. me,” he said. Frank Wilson’s cause for
celebration was 3,000 votes more than in the by- election. He said: “My main objective this time was to increase the Liberal vote substantially and I am much happier than I was at this time in March.” Mr Wilson said he had
high hopes of the Liberals making inroads in the area in the future.
FIGURES
♦David Waddington (Con).......................25,081 Lindsay Sutton (Lab) 13,502
appointed that his close friend, Mike Noble, has lost the Rossendale consti tuency, in which Mr Sutton lives. But the joy came to the fore as he reviewed his
— Waddington 22,185, Sutton 9,685, Wilson 2,242. Con. maj. 12,500. Percentage poll: 62.9. 1974 — *David Walder
March 1st by-election
(Con) 19,643; Barry McGolgan (Lab) 12,775; Bill Roberts (Lib) 8,503. Con. maj. 6,868.
Frank Wilson (Lib) .5,362 Con. maj..................11,579 Percentage poll: 80.92. No change.
GASKELL — TAYLOR
four bridesmaids attended Miss Audrey Susan Taylor at her wedding at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, to Mr William Frank Gaskell.
A matron of honour and
daughter of Mr and Mrs E. Taylor, of Castle View, Clitheroe, is a machinist. The bridegroom, a welder fo r TGB M o to r s , Clitheroe, is only son of Mrs K. L ey lan d , of Linaker Street, Southport, and the late MrT. Gaskell.
The bride, youngest
squash one suggestion that a polling station in Whalley had opened half an hour late on Thursday. Said Mr Jackson; “The
Miss Mavis Chaddock, of Whalley, a teacher at Dar- wen Vale High School; Mr Eric Cooper, of Prestwich, regional secretary of the Confederation of Health Service Employees; Mr Andrew S. Crook, West Bradford, engineering manager at Platt Saco Lowell, Bolton; and the Rev. Richard D. C. Jones, Burnley, secretary of the Methodist Church-in- Industry committee in North Lancashire.
The panel of four were:
of Radio Blackburn, was the question master, and the Rev. Graham A. Vic- k e r s , of W h a l le y , chairman.
Mr Fletcher Richardson,
away by her father. She wore a gown of cream nylon jersey trimmed with lace, with a matching shoulder-length veil held in place by a Juliet cap. Her bouquet was of cream and pink flowers. Mrs Christine Hewitt,
The bride was given
polling station definitely opened on time. I think there must have been a mistake when some people did not realise it had been changed from Whalley CE School to the Methodist School. “We put up notices and
did everything we could to inform people about the change.” Mr Jackson also refuted
matter and have been told that electors received their cards by the morning of the poll at the latest. The vast majority were in fact delivered by the Wednes day morning.”
a suggestion that poll cards had not been sent to all voters in the village. “They were sent to the post office for delivery on the Friday before the election. “I have inquired into the
sister of the bride, the matron of honour, and Miss Marjorie Gaskell, the
bridegroom’s sister, wore dresses of blue floral chif fon with matching capes. They carried bouquets of cream and blue flowers.
ter of the bridegroom, and the bride’s nieces, Miss Claire Baldwin and Miss Caroline Driver, wore dresses of pink broderie anglaise lined with blue. They carried pink posies.
Miss Alison Gaskell, sis
Llewellyn. Groomsman was Mr Stephen Hillary, and the ushers were Mr Robert Hewitt and Mr Rodney Read.
Best man was Mr Ian
officiated and Mr Anthony Taylor was the organist. The reception was at the Black Bull, Riminton.
The Rev. Arthur Siddall
Chatburn Road. Photograph: Castle Studios, Clitheroe.
Bus tokens dates fixed
PENSIONERS in the Rib ble Valley area can collect their new allocation of bus tokens from next Thurs day to the following Thursday. It is expected that more than 7,000 will take advantage of the
places are published elsewhere in the news paper, T -
place at Clitheroe Civic Hall throughout the week and at various schools and halls in the villages. Full details of times and
scheme. Distribution will take
okens worth £6 will be
issued to pensioners in Clitheroe, Whalley and Longridge, and to the value of £8 in rural areas.
lected by May 24th, they can be obtained from the borough council’s mobile office on its tours of the villages, or from the infor mation office in Church Street, Clitheroe, from June 4th. Blind and disabled
If tokens cannot be col The couple are to live in
people can make applica tion for travel passes to the Lancashire Social Ser vices Department in Prin cess Avenue, Clitheroe.
Raise cash for worthy cause
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