Wall not needed after all
RIBBLE VALLEY Coun- cil s Planning and Trans portation Committee has waived one of its original
. When planning permis sion was granted, the com mittee stipulated that a 5ft. high wall should be built along the Whalley
conditions , re la tin g to extensions at Greenacre Garage, Clitheroe.
Road front to provide a screening effect. Garage owner Mr Phillip
Pozzi has , now completed th e e x t e n s io n s and removed a low wall from the original site. However he has not replaced it as t directed and aid not wish
while the wall .was there the front had become a dumping ground for litter. Since its removal he said people had commented th a t th e area looked t cleaner’ and more, pleasing
o do so. Mr Pozzi claimed that
c om m i t te e members decided that Mr Pozzi need
o the eye. After hearing the facts,
OLFENDEN
bouquet was of pink buds and stephanotis. ar bridesmaids wore el gowns of white s lisse patterned . in
.el shades and had ■hing flowers in their They carried pink
THE Whalley branch of the NSPCC is throwing a party on Tuesday at 7-15 p.m.
ouds, lily-of-the-valley carnations. best man was Mr
n M. Holmes and the omsman was th e egroom’s cousin, Mr T. Rawling. Ushers Mr John M. Ban- the bridegroom’s
be the village Methodist School, where there will be a variety of games, a bee tle drive, a disco and a hot- ,pot supper. All proceeds will go to
The scene of the fun will ' '
branch funds. Admission is 50p for adults and 30p for children.
ber, and Mr Michael ey, the bride’s cousin, le ceremony, at St ,’s Church, Gisburn, performed by Canon . Selby and Mrs E.
ney was the organist, church was decorated Irs M. Oldfield, reception was held at Plough Inn, Wiggles- h and the couple left honeymoon in the Isle
Ian. They will live at icroft, Bentlea Road, urn.
otograph: K. and J. y, Settle.
bus
ular er
s never been the s, as it trundles its he Ribble Valley,
le wheel, has become a liar sight in the dis- , linking the villages of dleton, Gisburn, How- Rimington, Downham T w i s t o n w i th
i voted a hit by regular engers and tourists, e bus, with Betty •, of Bolland Prospect,
it as the midibus is t to embark on its sec- year of service to in rural areas, it had
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eroe. June a revised service introduced on Mon- and Wednesdays, to shoppers to Nelson Burnley, and this has ed to be well used, ises leave at 8-45 a.m. Jrindleton, Bolton-by- land, Rimington,
•to, Nelson and round gate into Burnley, ning from Burnley
nation at 1.15 p.m. lother addition is a day s e r v i c e to 'ton. e bus, subsidised by ashire County Coun run by Ribble, whose oiler in Clitheroe, Mr Wells, is full of praise he service, and par- irly for Betty, who is ular driver.
r laden, it had carried reasonable loads and certainly filling a need tlying areas.
; pointed out that ugh the bus was
.1 Help on :
the way THEROE d is tr ic t , e who have under-. or are about to
1CA — has b e en :d and the chairman is Watson, of 69
Burnley and North Conduit Association
has 45 members — ling children — from - Iks of life. The main are to help people
rsall Road, Nelson. 53261.
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Stic matters, and to them to resume a
e and after the opera: with problems with ances, social • and ,
nd normal life after peration.
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id local branch of a ' nal organisation.
go a bladder by-pass tion can obtain help vice from a newly->
b eyranch of the Uri-’ AY
3 Castle Street, Clitheroe Telephone Clitheroe 23362
CLITHEROE TRAVEL
£78-75 i
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Louise' Ben-Accom; of- Padiham Road, Sabden, looked as pretty as a flower herself when she broke off from her job as a programme seller to pose for our photographer. Louise’s mother and grandmother were responsi ble for one of the arrangements..
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not erect another wall after all. PARTY TIME
J t e s i K & T
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, .August 16th, 1979. 7 3* M p i m fM
jar of mixed pickles turned out to be a* slug, Mr Paul Timson, prosecuting for thq Ribble Valley Council, told Clitheroe magistrates.
..The packers
of.the jar,
A DARK patch which a Whalley woman noticed on a E
piece of cauliflower in a
A GROUP of organisers join1
visitors in admiring one of the displays
Churches at Sabden say it with flowers
■
bined with the Women’s Institute to portray the life, » of Jesus in flowers.
SABDEN Baptist Church was ablaze with colour when the ladies of the vil lage’s four churches com
• The team of 29 from the! Baptist Church, St Mary’s RC, Methodist Church, St Nicholas’s Parish Church and the Women’s Institute had spent many hours pre paring and working on col ourful arrangements and displays, and not a corner of the church or entrance was left undecorated. The Baptistry was deco rated to represent the
September
HomeTown to HomeTown J
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River Jordan and the Women’s Institute inter preted “The Last Supper” in flowers.
roses, carnations, gladioli, pinks and fuchsia, had cost' about £110, but the ladies were’ hoping to reap the benefits by making a profit for church funds and the WI. The porch entrance was
The flowers, including
th e work of Mrs J . Peachey, displays in the foyer were by Mrs E. Newmark, Mrs J. Hartley, Mrs J. Swannick and Mrs N. Hargreaves, and “The Ascension” was portrayed by Mrs D. Dyson. Other arrangements were by Mrs E. Jackson
Mrs P. Stansfield (The fishermen), Mrs J. Garth (Suffer little children) and Mrs D. Briddock (The Crucifixion).
Accom (Jesus the Car penter), Mrs K. Dyer and Mrs I. Metcalfe (River Jor dan), Mrs P. Whitwell and
E. Harrop,produced an inspiring Last Supper and Mrs L. Moorhouse and Mrs M. Bridge did an arrange ment representing “The Multitudes.”
, Mrs.M. Walker and Mrs
and Mrs E. Parker (Palm Sunday), Mrs J. Troillet and Mrs E. Parfitt (Five loaves and two fishes), Miss D. Dawson and Miss J. Blandford (The wedding in C a n a ) , M r s M. Moorhouse and. Mrs E. Bond (Jesus going to the Tempie), Mrs E. Ben- Accom and Mrs J. Ben-
Miss J. Blandford and flowers in the exit porch by Miss B. Heap and Miss E. Bibby. • All the flowers used in
Pillar displays were by
Housing allocation cut by
the festival were after wards given to the elderly and sick of the parish. The idea of the festival
£300,000 THE Ribble Valley’s hous ing allocation for 1979-80 has been cut by £300,000. This was announced last
•church by the Linden Sin gers, of Colne, who were BBC television. prizewinJ ners in 1978 and 1979.
came from the ladies of the Baptist Church. On -Sun day a concert wa§ given in
week by the Secretary of State for the Environment in a programme of national cuts to follow the policy of reducing public expendi ture outlined in the recent Budget. But the Ribble Valley has escaped lightly com-
Eared with other areas
tion figure of £1,870,000 has been chopped to £1,570,000, but Ribble Val ley Council’s treasurer Mr Gordon Onslow was not too despondent. “The money we have
over, due to underspending last year, and this will help soften the blow. The provisional alloca
ecause it has £166,000 left
S E T S o n l y
saved should enable us to k e e p up o u r h o u s e improvements and adv ances,” he said, “but we are certainly going to have to keep an eye on how things develop.”
HOLIDAY POST
THE main and sub-post offices in Clitheroe and the surrounding area will be closed all day on Bank Holiday Monday, August 27th. Pensions and allowances
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EMULSION BRILL. WHITE
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over the telephone at all times.
vered between 9 a.m. and noon and may be dictated
Churches plan a meeting with MP
EXTENSIONS M AND
EPAIRS — UNDERTAKEN
FABRICATION WORK
All types of ALUMINIUM
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY REPAIRS and FABRICATIONS in STEEL
Also CONTRACTORS’ PLANT and TALK
•Ribble Valley.,Talking Newspaper. Signed books
ADMIRERS of local wri ter Jessica Lofthouse will be able to spend an even ing with her in aid of the
.lower Parish Hall on Sep tember 11th. .
and. paintings
will..be. on view at the event, in the
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CALUMINIUM V OMMERCIAL REHICLE BODY
ODIFICATIONS
the Ribble Valley Council of1 Churches, will provide an opportunity for people to meet their MP and find out how his views on sub jects of popular interest — such as the Health Service, divorce reform or abortion — compare with" their opinions. The meeting will be held
on September 13th in Trim ity Methodist Hall, Parson Lane, Clitheroe, at 7-30 p.m. The chairman will be the
LOCAL churches are to take part in a public meeting with Clitheroe Division MP Mr David Waddington next month. The event, arranged by
Members soar
to 90
A MEMBER of the Ribble Valley Model Gliding Club, Dave Worrall, of Horton, came seventh ir\ an inter national event at *Amay, Belgium,’ recently.
handed in advance to local clergy or sent direct to Mr Vickers, 1 Brookes Lane, Whalley (Tel. Whalley 2130).
Rev. Graham A. Vickers, of the Clitheroe Methodist Circuit, this year’s chair man of the Council of Churches. Written questions can be
'combining timed distance, duration and thermal soaring.
Council’s recognition of model gliding as a sport, rather than a pastime, has created an interest which has resulted in the Ribble Valley Club’s membership increasing to 90., •.: • _
The B r i t ish Sports
first /Tuesday .of each month at the Victoria Hotel,'Clitheroe. ' .
The club^meets on thfe
a national thermal gliding eyent sponsored by Lucas Aerospace; at Towneley
; Last weekend, members competed unsuccessfully in
Hall,' Burnley. ■ -l . J
representing Britain, Dave flew his model in an event
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R.; Jones said the firm had been in business for 87 years and this was only the, second prosecution in the last 20 years. The first one had been for a piece of splintered glass in a jar. The cauliflower had
Pandora Pickle Company, of Middleton Manchester, were fined £25 with" £20 costs after pleading guilty to contravening the 1955 Food and Drugs Act. For the company. Mr E.
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