4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, May 24th, 1979 Temporary
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THE Army, Navy and Air Force are joining forces for Bank Holiday weekend to stage a three-day tattoo in Witton Park, Black burn. Events include gymnas
tics, band music, precision drill displays and free- falling by the Red Devils parachute team, all taking place during the after noons and early evenings. There will also be static
job lasted 44 years
FORTY-FOUR years ago, Arthur Sharpies started work as a temporary clerk at Brockhall Hospital — and he has been there ever since.
round & about
Ark, first started at Broc khall in 1935. It was his first job. Apart from a break dur
Mr Sharpies, of 'Cow
retired on Friday, the day before his 60th birthday. The hospital presented their popular colleague with a Lego model of a g re e n h o u se — th e y couldn’t get the real one they had bought him into the room!
saying goodbye to the many friends and acquaint ances he has made over the years. Mr Sharpies plans to
He spent his last day
ing the war, when he was a quarter master sergeant in the Royal Engineers, he has always been employed there, working his way up to become section adminis trator. Mr Sharpies finally
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Golf
challenge CLITHEROE amateur go l f e r Mr G ra h am
in the area final of the State Express National
They will be taking part
spend his extra time keep ing busy with his many hobbies. “I’ve enjoyed my 44 years at Brockhall very much,” he said, ‘‘and I hope to enjoy my retire ment too.” He and his wife, Mar
displays open from 1 to 9 p.m. showing the complex ity and range of the Armed Forces.
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jorie, have two daughters, Mrs Helen Bossart and Mrs Janet Sharpe, and a son, Mr John Sharpies.
GALA DAY FUN
A TOP-LINE comedian has been invited to a grand gala day at Waddington Old Hall on June 9th. The event, which promises all the fun of the fair, is
being organised by the Clitheroe branch of the Cancel- Research Campaign. Its chairman, Miss M. R. Vinten, who formed the
committee 18 months ago, is anxious to raise as much money as possible for cancer research and is hoping for help and co-operation from both local people and traders. Prams are needed for a pram race, in which teams of
Pro-Am Challenge at Wilp- shire Golf Club a week
today. Winners will have the
office engineer, of Edis- ford Road, has been a member of the club for seven years. He will be plaving off a handicap of 17/
View, Whalley, has been professional and green- keeper at Clitheroe for more than 20 years. Mr Crowther, a post
Peter, of Woodfield
chance of competing in the grand final in Portugal in November.
club professional Peter Geddes in a national golf competition.
rowther is to partner
Scene of fight
THE peace and tranquility of Gisburne Park, Gisburn, will be shattered in June' by the roar of cannons, ground charges and the shouts of fighting men armed with muskets and shotguns.
England American Civil War Society will be re enacting the “Battle of Bull Run” on June 17th.
For the North West
will be a “Knees-up hoe down” with the Country and Western group “T C Country”, plus a disco with a licensed bar and hot snacks.
Prior to the battle, there
tions will be a tug-of-war and trade stands.
Among the many attrac
TWO Ribble Valley stu-. dents have clinched awards in the motor vehi cle section at Accrington and Rossendale College.
Peter Harper (27), of Clitheroe Road, Barrow, who is a service director with TGB M o to rs , Clitheroe. He completed courses in various profes sional disciplines to win the Associated Dairies’ Trophy as the most out standing management student, awarded by the college in conjunction with the Road Transport Industry Training Board.
Leading the way is
with the trophy by Mr H. Floyd, deputy training manager for Lancashire and Cheshire RTITB, at an open night at the col lege attended by parents and motor industry per sonnel.
Peter was presented
H. Myers Ltd, Clitheroe, John Tomlinson, won the
An apprentice with J.
Coates Trophy for the most outstanding Stage II apprentice. John (18), of Hall Street, Clitheroe, has attended two six- week courses at the col lege and beat 23 other students for the award.
dents who work with Clitheroe firms were also among the prizes. They are Simon Stockton (18), of Padiham, who works for Primrose Garage, and Vernon Barton (20), of Accrington, an appren tice at R ib b le sd a le Cement.
Greyhound-Ford trophy for the most outstanding Stage I training appren tice, and Vernon the Burnley and Blackburn Motor Traders’ award for the most outstanding Part III craft student.
S imo n wo n t h e
are: Simon, John, Vernon and Peter.
men will run between the Waddington pubs, and all manner of gifts are required for sale on the various stalls. Visitors will be able to enjoy sideshows, a mini
market, roundabouts for the children, Morris dancing displays and a balloon race. The committee is also hoping there will be some brave
volunteers to sit in the stocks outside the Sun Inn and have wet sponges thrown at them. Those interested in sport can watch a soccer match
stalls can contact Mrs Neville (Clitheroe 24219) or Mrs Tindall (23763).
evening should round off an unforgettable day. People wishing to offer their services or gifts for the
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between the Lower Buck and the Sun Inn teams on the football pitch. A disco dance with buffet supper at the Sun Inn in the
SEARCHING for items of interest to pass on to you, I came across notes compiled for me some 14 years ago by the late Harry Walne who, for almost three decades, was a very popular booking cl erk at Whal l ey station. Today the poor old sta
others so severely vandal ised it is hard to realise that, half a century ago, this was by far the busiest place in the whole of our village. F o r a s t a r t , Mr
tion is in a pretty decrepit condition — weeds grow waist tall on the paved latforms, buildings have een demolished and
t
Townshend, the Station Master and Goods Agent, had a staff of 17 men under his supervision — booking clerks, signalmen, porters, shunters, goods clerks and platelayers (one of the last- named was allocated duties in the Officers’ Mess when later he was called up for military service). In addition to the 32 pas
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their milk to the station twice on every weekday and once on Sunday, carts and wagons from the two mills in Billington, from Sabden and from Barrow printworks, went con stantly backwards and for wards carting coal to feed the hungry furnaces.
shuttle-service with three carts and horses and all the organisations named main tained their own stables and teams of horses.
Stonyhurst College ran a
jirivate line and sidings for the transport of goods (ambulance, trains, too, during World War 1) and, a year or two later, the printworks found a Foden steam wagon more effec tive. This vehicle became a familiar sight on the short run from works to station. It was only after the ces
The hospital had its own
senger trains that halted at the station every weekday (on Sunday there were only 10) there was a tre mendous amount of goods traffic. All the supplies for
Stonyhurst College, for Queen Mary's Hospital, for local shopkeepers, buil ders, joiners and other craftsmen, came by rail and all the produce of the district left by the same means. Twenty farmers brought
ment of white Wyandottes from the C.W.S. poultry farm at Mitton sent by direct van to Tilbury Docks for shipment to
toirs," Harry noted, “sent van loads of meat nearly every day. Most of the milk went to Liverpool by passenger train and there was a great trade in day- old chicks. “I remember a consign
sation of hostilities that Stonyhurst indulged in the luxury of a petrol powered lorry. “The Co-operative Abat
Russia. Fruit and fish always came by passenger train.”
arrived by goods train at 5- 45 a.m. and the outward mail left at 12-27 and 6-55 p.m.
Mail for the village
When, under pressure from the hospital, a post-
box was sited outside the station entrance, the book ing clerk on “late turn” was given the job of emptying this and placing the con tents in a mail bag at 7-50 p.m. for transport to Blackburn by the 7-57 train. All the wounded for the
passenger train were deli vered twice daily by Bill Martin, on his handcart, for a radius of one mile from the station. Bulkier goods were taken by car riers to the more remote areas. At 7-36 and 9-05 a.m.
Monday to Friday, bowler- ha t t ed businessmen gathered on the south bound platform to catch the Manchester expresses which, of course, all had
hospital, nearly 67,000 of them, passed through the station as well as the per sonnel coming from, or going on, leave at Easter, August and Christmas, special trains were ordered for the Stonyhurst stu dents as they departed on, or returned from, holiday. All parcels arriving by
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London connections and arrived back in the village, pe rhaps sl ight ly less spruce, at 5-59 or, if they were lucky, at 4-41.
his staff they’d had a busy day.
Like Mr Townshend and
their hard-earned pay were passengers required to disburse to complete their journeys? I give the single fares in
Finally, how much of
old currency. If they were only going to Langho it would cost them 2d., to Blackburn 7d., to Black pool 3s, to Manchester 2s 7!4>d., to London £2 17s 6d. In the opposite direc
t i on, t r a v e l l i n g to Clitheroe cost 3V4d., Gis burn lid., and Hellifield Is 5d.
return journey, but your son and daughter, if still at school went “halves.” Pretty expensive, did
Double the fares for the
you say? Well, maybe, but remember in 1915 “there was a war on” and cheap fares had been abolished “for the duration.” As they were once more in 1939.
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