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UNDAUNTED by th e high cost of travel, delays. at the airports and problems over petrol, Ribble Valley holidaymakers are determined to make the best of their two weeks annual holiday.
. Spain will patiently be keeping their fingers crossed that they will not have to face delays at Manchester Airport.
sengers' had to wait for up to se v en h o u r s because of a Spanish air
Last weekend 700 pas But those heading for
t r a f f ic c o n t ro l le r s ’ 'dispute.
e n c o u r a g e d many holidaymakers to head for Canada and the USA.
things all its own way, however, for East Africa and the West Indies are on a few local itineraries. The decline
of.the dollar against the £ has also
and Cornwall are popu lar, with many plumping for a camping holiday.
Nearer home, Devon
is the best bet for good weather, according to C l i th e ro e am a te u r meteorologist Mr Tom Suttie.
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sunshine, but it will be cooler further north,” he said.
weather to be "rather changeable” for the next 10 days, becoming brigh ter again by the end of the month. .. "•There-will be some
H e e x‘p e c t s t h e
. weeks, there shohld be no trouble shopping , in Clitheroe,. though some
sub-post offices will be closed next week, but
services will be curtailed. Many Ribble Valley
SPORTING OFFER
AN afternoon at Longridge Sports Centre is available for Clitheroe children during the holi days, from July.23rd to August 31st. Each Tues day,at a cost of 70p which includes the price of admission, they can travel to the centre by special bus.. It will lcavept 1-15 p.m. and return at 4-45, picking up at a point stated on the tickets, on sale at the Information Centre, Church Street, Clitheroe, from TO a.m. daily for the. following Tuesday.
For those not taking the traditional holiday
usual during the holi days.
Clitheroe’s main post office will be open as
Council - offices will stay open during the next two weeks and refuse collec tion services will be “as normal as possible.”
All Ribble Valley
Civic Hall are taking a break but will be back in business a week on Monday.
Staff at Clitheroe’s
new counter is being installed. The library will be closed next Monday and Tuesday, but books
being given a new look during the holiday — a
Clitheroe library is
may be renewed by tele- phone. .;
gx;
in opening hours a t Clitheroe, . Whalley and Chatburn libraries is that x$: they'will close at 5 p.m. — two hours earlier, than ' vi::: normal.
The only other change Sx Y.' .
and ■ other facilities at Sx Edisford will be. open :-:-x both weeks. Revised hours for the pool during' the whole of the school x-x holidays are: Monday, $;X Tuesday and Friday —10,, a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wednes- ijS: day — noon to 8 p.m.; x-x Thursday — 10 a.m. to 8' ;X:':j p.m.; Saturday and Sun- *:•> day — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. X-X
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THURSDAY, JULY 19th, -1979
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J im and D en a h a n g
to g e th e r
out of the aeroplane with them was Mr Bernard Ashworth (43), of Black burn, who is a shift fore man at James Thornber’s Clitheroe Mill. Mrs Hacking (23), is a
£20m investment i
n existing chimneys. In the centre of the chimneys 8 & jjj
THIS scale model shows the proposed new plant f..r..o..m the Waddow side, dwarfed by
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] is the pre-heater building, the silo is on the right f,r and a small steel chimney on the left.
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CLITHEROE’S Ribblesdale Cement works is poised to take the biggest step forward in its 43-year history. It plans to spend £20m. on a new production line which will be the first of its kind in Europe.
autumn. The installation will take up to three years to complete.
Room for ‘boat people’
Committee has accepted in
principle.to house four or five families, subject to further advice from the Association of District Councils and the Home Office in relation to
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_.Jey ... — welcome some of the Vie tnamese “boat people.” The council’s Housing
after consideration of a let ter from the North Lancs Division of the Methodist Church, asking for help in housing the families. The question will be dis
methods of allocation. The decision was made
cussed more fully at the next meeting of the Hous ing Committee.
Ph<one delay
wasted money
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Coun. Geoffrey Ainsworth (Salesbury) at a meeting of the Ribbie Valley Council’s Finance and General Pur poses Committee. It had led to a complete
one removed from the Post Office.
festion made by Coun.
Michael Jackson said the telephone manager had promised to consider a sug-
th a t th e re should be another telephone at Cas tle Gate, but only after the use of the King Street one had been evaluated.
ohn Cowgill (Clitheroe) Honours
of Mr and Mrs Albert I sh e rw o o d , of New Springs Farm, Chaigley, and begins teaching art and craft at All Hallows RC High School, Penwortham, in September.
MANY Clitheroe houses were, left without water by a badly leaking main • in Pimlico. Road.
quickly carried out repairs and normal supplies were restored to all1: nouses by lunchtime. > > • :
had rung the North West' Water Authority complain ing that their ta_ps were' dry or that their, water pressure was. reduced. .N W.W A w o rkm e n
vered; on Thursday morn ing after several people
The damage was - disco-1
Taps dry .. . .
THE annual Christmas concert at Clitheroe Hospi tal by members of SS Michael and John's Brownie- pack was so good that they <twere asked to give a summer perjormance.
more than an hour, by 25 Brownies, who: sang, danced,- played recorders, violins and guitars and performed short plays.
'J- Most of the hospital’s patients were entertained for
weeks, rehearsing for the show, under the guidance of Tawny Owl Miss Marie Preedy and Brown Owl Mrs Frances-Nelson. - . . • •
. .v . . w - v r U V 1 V , i u i o 4 1 I I 1 6 H U 4 U U I O I I U H of Chtheroe. .■ , ; •
treat and they have been invited back at Christmas. - The Brownies, with patients Miss-Doris Whalley,: of West Bradford (left), Mrs Amelia Marshall and Mrs Constance Lumley,yboth%
- Needless'to :say, their performance went down a The’ youngsters have spent the past five to six- No change > 7 , ,r s< > pulsory^-v ^ —. . . . -’y ^
‘Government.policy on big- Cger discounts 'fo r sitting tenants wishing,.to buy their- own council:housesr until formal legislation is introduced making it com-
i l 1U U U U L c U : I I l a K i J l K 11 C O m - m m
Borough Council is to, make , no move to adopt
R I B B L E - V A L L E Y Well™
St. Martin’s College of Education, Lancaster, for th e p a s t four years, received her degree from Princess Alexandra at a ceremony at Lancaster University. ' She is the only daughter
FORMER Ribblesdale School pupil Miss Joyce Shane Isherwood (22) has graduated with a B.Ed. honours degree in art. Joyce, wno has been at
rm Chief Executive Mr
Singleton ■ (Longridge) commented: “Once we-had a site meeting, the matter was settled in minutes.” The kiosk will replace
waste of public money, he declared, referring to the many discussions. Chairman Coun. Fred
THE long delay in provid ing a public telephone kiosk at the junction of King Street and Market Street, Clitheroe, has been due to a difference in siting of only nine inches. This was revealed by
Injured in lorry collision
A CLITHEROE lorry driver is “comfortable” in hospital after his vehicle collided with a lorry driven by a man working on the same route. Mr Robert Warburton (28), who lives with his
to Ormskirk and District General Hospital and Mr Gardner was released soon afterwards.
employed, was returning from Burscough a f te r emptying his load. Both drivers were taken
loyed by haulage contrac tor John Myers, of Kirk- moor Road, was taking a load of gravel from Carn- forth to Burscough. Mr Gardner, who is self
on Friday morning at Lathom, near Ormskirk. The lorries, which were write-offs, blocked the road for two and a half hours. Mr Warburton, emp
lo r ry , Mr James John Gardner (50), of Kirklands, Chipping, escaped with minor cuts. The accident happened
eral places and badly gashed his head and right shoulder. The driver of the other
Earents in Henthorn Road, roke his right arm in sev
mission and unforeseen hold-ups, work on the new plant could start in the
the most up-to-date man ufacturing technology, will mean the phasing-out of older and less efficient plant — and lead to huge savings in fuel.
The development, using Halved
John Adderley. describes; the
project.as “energy sav- ing.m a big way.”
General manager Mr
new construction, sited deep inside the works, will be 227ft. The scheme was outlined to union leaders at a meet
plant, which will be built within the existing works, will use a dry process sys tem of cement manufac ture. Closure of the older kilns will halve the amount of water vapour emitted by the two 340ft. chim neys. The tallest part of the
tons of coal a year, but the new system will use only 120,000 tons,” he said. The new production
“We now use 170,000 Subject to planning per
a s su ra n c e th a t i t is unlikely to result in redun dancies, though neither will it mean an increase in jobs.
ing yesterday, with an
. company making a signific ant increase in its six to seven per cent, share of the cement-manufacturing market in the UK.
the new machinery'would not necessarily lead to the
working on a scheme to improve its facilities for rail transport of cement.
-thus avoiding the need to increase road traffic. Mr Adderley said that
silo specifically for the loading of rail tankers,
ments nave been studied by the Alkali Inspectorate, which has approved the scheme as fully in accord with, the latest standards for pollution control. The company is also
th e in v e s tm e n t is to repla c e outdated plant with the most efficient available. The proposed develop
The prime purpose of vicars
for Chatburn and Read
It plans to build a new
TWO Ribble Valley churches will be welcoming new' vicars in the next few months.
the company started look ing for a dry process sys-
continucd on page 2 .. Seeing stars
astronomer, wants to build the observatory at the rear of Pendle Street East. It will consist of an eight feet diameter fibreglass dome
approved an application for an astrological obser vatory at Sabden. . Mr N. Crompton, a keen
n m * n v n d ' u n ’ o n n l l n o t i n n
R I B B L E V A L L E Y set on breeze block walls. Borough Council’s Devel- Council officers are opment Sub-committee has satisfied that although the
c t t n i n f i iK n •••111 L . . f i l ____
been notified of the prop osed observatory and no- one has objected.
structure will be of rather unusual appearance, it will not have an adverse affect on the amenities of nearby houses. Local residents have
-Maddock, who recently retired as vicar of Christ Church, Chatburn. At St John’s Church,
have a son Timothy, who is a teacher at St Wil fred’s School, Blackburn, and daughter, Joy, who is to be married today.
vicar of St Peter’s, Hal- liwell, Bolton, will be instituted at Chatburn on November 1st. He and his wife Muriel
Return visit by popular request P - R R A 1311
Read, the Rev. Alan Reid, who was born in Burnley, . succeeds the l ate Ca no n P. A. Schofield. Canon Butlin, now
Butlin, from the Man chester Diocese, is to suc ceed the Rev. Norman
Canon Cecil Roger
Emmanuel College, Cam bridge, and training at the London College of Divinity.
his e a r ly 60s, was ordained in 1940 after r a d u a t i n g f r om
curacies at St Helen’s and Bootle, he was appointed rector of a Salford church in 1946. In 1952 he became Rector of St Cle ment’s Higher Openshaw and from 1959 to 1964 was a Proctor, in Convo cation for the Manchester Diocese. He went to Bol ton in 1963.
Af t e r serving two
Aged 48, he is married with two children and is presently vicar of War- ton, near Preston.
expects to take over the parish in mid-September.
R e a d ’s new vi car
Grammar School, he. worked for more than' five years in Burnley, council’s t r e a s u r e r ’s department.
An old boy of Burnley
King’s College, London, and has spent more than 20 years in the Blackburn Diocese since his ordina- t ion in Black bur n Cathedral in 1956.
man he succeeds, was curate at Mr Reid’s first
' Canon . Schofield, the
;>went: to St Leonard’s, Penwortham,and from 1963 to 1972 was vicar of i St Luke’s,: Brierfield. He became vicar of
Warton in 1972. His wife Muriel is a pharmacist. Their children’are Helen. ,(16) and Michael (13). '
parish,, St Mary’s, Pen wortham. Mr Reid later1
He studied theology, at Canon Butlin, who is in Mr Adderley said that
FEEDING TIME AT WEST BRADFORD
THE Lambert family, of West Bradford, has taken in a rather unusual lodger this week.
The Lamberts phoned the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Manchester to ask what
Mrs Eileen Lambert came to the rescue of the chick when its nest, built on the side of the house, fell down.
The kitchen of their home in Southfield Drive is now the home of a fledg ing house martin, which is doing very nicely, thank you.
“By that time I just hadn’t the heart to take it, so I decided to feed it as best I could,” she said.
, sugar from an eye drop- , per. Now it opens its
Initially the fledgling was fed a mixture of milk and
There was some delay before the Lamberts could contact a vet, however.
“We-were told that it would be impossible to feed the. bird ourselves and we should take it to . the vet to be put down,” said Mrs Lambert.
to do with the sole sur vivor, as its three other nest mates all died.*
beak eagerly and “guz zles” bread and milk with greenfly.
Soon Martina will be able to fly and Mrs Lambert
But for the moment she is building up her strength ready for the time when- she has to leave the Lamberts and face the outside world.
inter.
Some days ago Mrs Lam bert even took the bird to the village school, where the children were thrilled to see it.
■ is wondering what will happen when the time comes for her to migrate w to warmer climes for the
The bird, christened Mar tina by Mrs Lambert’s three sons — Mark (13), Shaun (11) and Craig (7) — hops about happily on the fawn, but so far there has been no sign of the parent birds.
praised by Mr Ashworth for their courage. He is an ex-paratrooper and knows what" a nervy
much that they are off to Flookburgh again at the weekend to repeat the manoeuvre — this time just for fun!
Time to pay
told the Ribble Valley Council’s Finance and Gen eral Purposes Committee.
SOME 3,000 Ribble Valley rate defaulters have this week received notice to pay up, Mr Gordon Ons low, Borough Treasurer,
experience making the big jump can be. But they enjoyed it so
hope to raise more than £200 and present a che que to the area organiser for cancer research next month at the Black Bull, Rimington, where locals have also backed ‘the effort. The Hackings were
been doing the same with his mates at Ribblesdale Cement, where he is a welder. The three daredevils
weaver at the mill and she and Mr Ashworth have been busy asking fellow employees to spon sor them. Husband Jim (24) has
his wife, Dena, of Gar nett Road, had their first taste of parachute jump ing when they fell from the sky over Flookburgh. And flinging himself
A CLITHEROE couple this week leapt from 2,500 feet into the wide blue yonder to raise money for the Cancer Research Fund. Mr Jim Hacking and
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