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4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 21st, 1979


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MODEL and picture. Joe fashioned this portrait as a going-away gift for former ICI (Clitheroe) teorks engineer Ron Gordon.


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ICI plant engineer Joe Working in his garage at


Sanderson has turned science into art. immense.


home, he creates remark­ abl e p ic tu r e s from thousands of tiny catalyst pel l et s made at t he Clitheroe factory. Arranging up to 20,000


r o u n d & a b o u t


pellets with tweezers is not a job for the impatient. It takes him several weeks to complete a collage. The novelty and diffi­


culty of using catalysts to create art appealed to the engineer and artist. He enjoys conventional paint­ ing but finds it less of a challenge. Some of his pictures


have been used on ICI stands at international symposiums. Joe wanted to produce


something unique for his company’s stand to get away from the “rows and rows of bottles of pellets.”


march on competitors in the industry when his pic­ ture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa was revealed at a symposium in Italy. The president of the Italian Chemical Society, Prof. Gianfranco Pregaglia, was so impressed with the work that ICI presented him with the portrait. Joe’s latest work for


He certainly stole a


takes only seven or eight pellets to make up an eye, and that the eye has to look exactly like the subject’s. The colours of the pel­


He explained that it


lets are not what they used to be. Catalysts now obso­ lete provided more varied colours, so he has to “cheat” a bit by colouring them to achieve the right tints and tones. It took Joe a long and frustrating time to find the ideal glue with which to stick the pellets. Before he discovered the


future symposiums is of the Queen. The layman looking at the picture


would never guess that it has been composed of pel­ lets used in ICI vast ammonia, methanol and fertilizer complex at Billin-


gham. These catalysts, and


many others made at ICI


Clitheroe — one of the world’s most important factories — play a vital part in the agriculture and industry of every conti­


nent.


b u r n P a r k Dr i v e , Clitheroe, has also pro­ duced portraits of his col­ leagues. They have been presented to people being transferred from Clitheroe or r e t i r ing from the company. This unique parting gift


Joe, who lives in Chat- , ™ .


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right resin he once had the daunting experience of completing a picture one evening to find it had “lifted” the next morning . . . and he had to start all over again. He works in complete


ENGINEER and artist Joe Sanderson. In the


picture


ELEVEN Scouts from two Clitheroe troops will be one big happy gang a week on Wednesday when they each pick up their Chief Scout Award Certifi­ cates. Over a period of months


isolation, “I don’t like people looking over my shoulder,” he says. People do not sit for him, he works from photographs to make a composite portrait.. He modestly admits to


being worried about the reaction of a colleague to receiving a picture. But nis fears seem


groundless. When ICI bor­ rowed a picture of Ralph Pickles, the former senior p l a n t m a n a g e r a t Clitheroe, his wife com­ plained: “I miss my hus­ band hanging on the wall!”


means the employee nas a fine portrait to hang on the wall, and a permanent reminder of the product with which he spent his


WADDINGTON camera enthusiast Mr John Green has had his photograph skills rewarded.


the Scouts have success­ fully completed tasks in activities such as fell walk­ ing and canoeing as well as organising patrol camps and helping out with hospi­ tal services. The certifi­ cates will be presented by the High Sheriff of Lanca­ shire, Mr C. J. Ainsworth. Award winners from St


Waddow Grove f rom Blackburn at the turn of the year, caught the judges’ eye with a selec­ tion of his work and earned a licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Soci­ ety of Great Britain.


Mr Green, who moved to


Mary’s troop, who all live in Clitheroe, are Russell and Steven Cowgill, of Hereford Drive; Jeremy Barker, of Shays Drive; John Davies, of Park Avenue; Roger Dickinson, of Pimlico Road; Trevor Lord and Garry Lomax, both of Waddington Road; John Nicholas, of Fox Street; and Martin Rim- mer, of Hayhurst Street. The other two are both


working life. His first portrait was of


Dr P. J. Reynolds, former deputy chairman of ICI Agricultural division. It was presented to him in 1971 when he retired. The most recent was of former Clitheroe works engineer Mr Ron Gordon on his transfer to Billingham. The difficulty of creat­


ing a likeness with the pel­ lets, which range in size from 3.2mm to 16.6mm, is


covered various topics, and some of them featured views within the Ribble Valley.


The pictures submitted


Waddington provides an ideal setting for me to practise my photography,” said Mr Green, who has been headmaster of Moor End Ju ni o r School , Oswaldtwistle, for the past 12 years.


“The countryside around


members of the 1st Pendle troop — Donald Redding, of Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe and Peter Eglin, of Windsor Avenue,


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THOUSANDS of pellets were used to make this portrait of the Queen.


FORMER Cl ith er oe Grammar School pupil Miss Bridget Atkinson has passed the final qualifying examinations for the Law Society. After taking her law


On catering


course CLITHEROE Careers’ Office senior clerk Mrs Kathleen Scott has this week been attending a catering careers course at Blackpool.


degree at Hull university, she completed her studies at Chester. Bridget is the daughter


cour s e was to br ing careers staff in the county up to date with the variety of jobs and opportunities offered by the hotel and catering industry to young people.


The aim behind the


of Mr and Mrs J. Atkinson, of Lingfield Avenue, Clitheroe. She hopes to start work for a firm of olicitors in Cardiff on February.


to hotels, hospitals and industrial catering units to see work done by young people. Mrs Scott, of Abbots Dene, Rimingtoh, and her husband, Colin, have a son, David (8).


The course took in visits


I t’s going to be a


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WHALLEY Church Play­ ers are planning a big out­ door production of “A Mid­ summer Night’s Dream” in the grounds of Whalley Abbey next summer. The play will be per­


formed on June 25th, it was decided at the group’s annual meeting. Members hope to make


the night one to remember with a champagne supper after the play for cast and audience. For their next produc­


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The clatter of clogs


WHAT’S the connec­ tion between clogs and


the Ribbl e Val l e y Mayor, Conn. Jimmy Fell? The answer is a book entitled "Concern­ ing clogs" by Blackpool author Bob Dobson. The book contains a


poem by Conn. Fell. En t i t l e d “T ’r i n g o’clogs,” it is full of the nostalgia associated with clogs in Lanca­ shire. Fortner Clitheroe Mayor and master dog­ ger Dick Turner is also mentioned. The book, published


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called at the town hall to hand over a copy to Cotin. Fell and leave one for Mr Turner.


ANNUAL TREAT


A FORM of Sunday School treat familiar to and popular with read­ ers of my own genera­ tion some 50 — almost 60 — years ago seems to have completely dis­ appeared in its then established form. Today, coach trips to the


remarkable and 1 have not seen their like before or


Whalley Window


seaside, to ci ty pan­ tomimes, to safari parks and all kinds of major attractions are arranged — a far cry from the field (lays which were once a highlight of the Sunday School year. T h e n , o n a d a t e


moved too quickly for the four and five-year-olds and had to halt and mark time every 100 yards or so for the rest of the parade too catch up, but excitement lends speed to little legs and soon we moved along at quite a smart pace. Older boys — those of


announced well in advance and eagerly awaited in the intervening weeks, the events were held in the summer or early autumn. On the appointed hour and day, invariably Saturday, the scholars, immaculate in Sunday best, attended at the school premises to be joined by their teachers and senior officials of the church. Each child had been


since. Each individual bun


must have weighed at least half a pound and must have been made specially for the occasion. Certainly one never saw similar buns dis played for sale in the local


run with small prizes for each class. Every child received an apple or an orange and .ononememor able occasion, a sixpenny piece as well. Around 6.30 we were


shops. After tea, races were


eight or nine, I mean (and girls too, I suppose, although 1 wasn't“girl con­ scious” at that age), unable to stuff mugs and cups into jacket pockets, threaded a handkerchief through the handles and swung them at their side in time to the


music. To the teachers’ injunc­


instructed to “bring a mug or cup" and, arriving 20 minutes or half-an-hour before the stipulated time, our impatience was dif­ ficult to suppress. At around 1-45 (we were


due to march off at 2 p.m.) the excitement intensified as the band arrived and the next few minutes became slightly chaotic. With the primary children in front, for we were compelled to adjust our speed to the shortest legs, we lined up behind the band with our respective teachers in attendance to maintain a little order. These good ladies did a


tions to “Put your shoul­ ders back" and “Put your caps on straight", we prog­ ressed in fairly orderly fashion and were only occasionally interrupted when two cups, too vigor­ ously swung, crashed together and shattered to a chorus of momentary t e a r s , laughter and threatened fisticuffs. E ve ntu al ly t h e


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rounded up and began the trudge homewards. The pr imary children, now tired, a little grubby, hot and inclined to be tearful, were granted a ride on the tea wagon (a privilege we older ones greatly envied) and this unexpected addi­ tional treat dried the tears immediately. Of course it never rained


on these occasions, the weather was always beaut iful, except on one well remembered Saturday when the heavens opened, this was at the old Congre g a t i o na 1 School


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rapid check on those pre­ sent and then arose frantic cries of “Where’s Willy Brown?” or “Where’s Peter Smith?”. Officials made a hasty check in hid­ den nooks and corners and then, red faced and out of breath, Willy and Peter arrived.Their Saturday pennies had been burning a hole in their pockets and, unable to resist the temptation to spend any longer, they had made a sur rept i t ious


dash to the sweet shop down the street. Amid general sighs of relief the procession moved off. Invariably the band


appointed venue was reached and we were instructed where to con­ gregate for the games soon to be arranged and where to assemble for our teas, each in the respective clas­ ses. In Whalley, I under­ stand (for this was before my time in the village) the selected field was either at Holehouses or Mi l ton Road Cricket Ground. In Clitheroe we marched


to entertain us, but few parsons are very good comedians, especial ly when they are trying to be funny, and his efforts fell


Clitheroe. The Minister did his best


in


rather flat. Then the late Aid James


Thornber provided us with a magic lantern show, but his slides of old Clitheroe (a magnificent collection and quite priceless, for I have seen them on a number of occasions since) were hardly calculated to appeal to the juvenile spec­ tator. Fortunately, the follow­


to either Knuncknowles or, on at least one occasion, the Forty-Acre Field at Edisford. Games: Blind man s


buff, tig, pull the stick over etc. filled the time


until 4 p.m. when the horse-drawn tea wa^on lumbered on to the field and, in classes, we queued for our tea and buns. The tea, brewed in the


ing year we were again blessed wi th lovely weather. (Footnote: Possibly the


school kitchen, was trans­ ported to the field in bor­ rowed milk churns and was beginning to cool off, but the buns, sparsely cur- r a n t e d , wer e qui t e


wet occasion would have been enlivened had a prac­ tise noted in Bennet’s “History of Marsden and Nelson” been revived. When the first Methodist Chapel was opened there in 1827, the Sunday School scholars had an annual treat, when the boys were issued with a currant bun and a gill of ale. What the girls received is not stated).


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