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4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, November 15th, 1979 * .' first in north


JUST a year after retiring as Lancashire East County Commissioner for Guides, Mrs Penelope Thompson, of Wiswell Lane, Whalley, has become UK president of the Trefoil Guild.


include attending confer­ ences in London and Europe and visiting the various Guild branches to which she is invited.'


officially took up her new role a week ago, is a founder member of the Whalley Trefoil Guild, formed 24 years ago. Her new duties will


tion of Guiding, open to anyone in the movement from the age of 18, and members are anxious to attract younger people in order to create a more youthfuj image. Trefoil acts as a back-up


Welcome scheme in the pipeline


CLITHEROE could become a children’s para­ dise for a week next August.


week’s meeting, gave full support to the scheme, and is to decide the amount to


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planning a pilot' play scheme during the summer holidays next year and has asked Clitheroe Town Council for financial sup­ port should the project go ahead. The council, at last


has organised a prog­ ramme of work camps and other activities, designed to give young people the opportunity to be involved in something outside their usual experience. Currently, however, it is


Toe H for some years be given at its estimates meeting in January.


will be to provide play facilities for up to 150 chil­ dren between the age of eight and 10 years old. An assessment will also


be made to see if an enlarged scheme could be needed in the future, and public reaction and support will be monitored. It is proposed to start


ject would be about £600. The aim of the project-


The total cost of the pro­ ,


for the Guide Association, helping among o th e r things to provide finance while the Guides get on with the actual job. . Mrs Thompson was born


missioner for Bowland and Clitheroe, before becom­ ing County Commissioner — a position she filled for 10 years. Before accepting her


the scheme on ’Monday, August 18th, finishing on Saturday, August 23rd, with a sports day.


te r Anne shared her enthusiasm for the Guides, helping to organise events in Whalley. She now lives in Essex and'is married, with two daughters.


Local matchstick men


I WONDER if you have seen the painting titled “A Street in Clitheroe” by L. S. Lowry, postcard reproductions of which (and larger prints, too, for all I know) are now available in the shops?


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easel somewhere near the Brown Cow Inn at the junction of Salford and Woone Lane and put on canvas a view showing the southern end of Lowergate and Moor Lane but, heaven knows why, has altered the scene very con­ siderably. Clearly, -some aspects of the streets did not appeal to his artistic eye.


The artist has set up his


Church, now adapted to more mundane use, is there in Lowergate and along this stretch the mas­ ter has reproduced the urban scene quite faith­ fully, but he has “mucked about” with Moor Lane to a degree that would cause near apoplexy in some members of our Civic Society.


The former Mount Zion


Whalley Window


like painting shops, for he has wiped out every one on the west side of Moor Lane and, in their place, has planted a typical cotton mill filched from some other quarter of the town. T h e n , p e rh a p s to


Perhaps Lowry didn’t


stringy dogs in the picture, too, each one unaccom-


& rouse the ire of some mem­ bers of our Public Works and Health Committee if these wandering canines had been found roaming in the Henthorn area.


anied; not a lot of them, ut quite sufficient to


ergate there is quite a crowd gathering, with further members of the matchstick fraternity hur­ rying across the road to join them. “What,” I won­ dered, “was the attraction that had excited so much interest.” I was lost bet- w e e n tw o pos s ib le answers.


ity of the gathering crowd once stood the rear entr- ance to T h omp s o n Oxburgh’s painters’ shop an d w h e n e v e r the craftsman and his staff had been out on a job, their practice appeared to be to clean their brushes on the back door of the establish­ ment.


many colours, lavishlv applied in splot ches ,


- The result was a door of


streaks and whirls; a hide­ ous, unidentifiable con­ glomeration.


balance his picture, he has inserted a number of fac­ tory chimneys, mostly belching black smoke (which would infuriate our Environmental Health Officer to an u n p re ­ cedented degree). To my mind a more faithful repro­ duction of the street as it really is (or was) would be much more acceptable. Alterations are not invari­ ably improvements.


well populated with the famous matchstick people (I wonder if the emaciated pimply youth with -the rounded shoulders and badly in need of a haircut is meant to be me? I must have been around in Clitheroe at the time the picture* was painted) and there is an unusually large proportion - of children - on the scene.


Naturally, the picture is


exhibition of modern or futuristic art, Thompson Oxburgh’s back door would have been certain to gain the praise of way-out cri­ tics and fetch an unpre­ cedented price. Joseph’s multi-coloured dream coat would have looked both dull and insipid displayed at its side.


If displayed in any


was that around here, late in the 20s, was the kitchen entrance to Messrs How­ ards’ Dining Rooms . . . the forerunner of the mod-


The other alternative


ern take-away. Here people .queued for a basin of “taty-pie and peas" for 4d. or, for 6d., a beefsteak pudding and peas. Jolly good they were, too, either being a substantial lunch for the hungriest British working man.


tives would have.appealed to Lancashire Lowry, I am certain...


an earlier age had stronger reproductive urges ..than .the townsfolk of today. Or


contraceptive devices were less'readily available. :


, Clearly Clitheroni ans of


’painting horses, either. . J.F.


the present day observer: nownere in the picture is a single carj lorry, bus, motor-cycle, what you will. Not even a horse and cart. Perhaps Lowry didn’t'like


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new role, Mrs Thompson was assured of support from her husband Ian, chairman and managing director of Lodematic in Clitheroe, and their sons Miles and Clive. Mrs Thompson’s daugh­


and bred in Whalley, where she joined the Guides. She was Division Com­


cerned that many people have the wrong impression of the Trefoil Guild, believ­ ing it to be a “grazing ground” for old Guides. In fact it is a continua­


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ro u n d &


Arthur (81) knows how to keep fit


PEOPLE who see Ar t h u r Ho d g son travelling around the Ribble Valley on his trusty bicycle may think little of it.


But Arthur, of Nelson


Street, Low Moor, is often pedalling hard to help his family and friends tend their gardens. And his cyc­ ling-gardener service is no mean feat, for he cele­ brated his 81st birthday on bonfire night.


Mr Hodgson retired


from his job as gardener at Calderstones Hospital, Whalley, in 1963. For 32 years he pedalled his way to work and back, and ever since his retirement has kept himself fit cycling and gardening.


“1 am just thankful that


I have had good health and been able to continue,” he said.


Elizabeth have lived in the same house in Low Moor since their marriage in 1932. Prior to that, he was a signaller gunner in the


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PEOPLE living in the Rib­ ble Valley can help make this Christmas unforgett­ able for thousands of the world’s poorest people when Help the Aged launches a special appeal in the area.


now regularly financed by Help the Aged in centres around the world. Last year, £60,000 was spent in providing meals for people in'mpre than 60 countries.


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