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Dialect account of lads’ hike
A NARRATIVE of an expedition through the Trough of Bowland by three boys and a dog is superbly related in Lancashire dialect by Mr Eddie Flintoff, of Kirk Hammerton, York, in a recently published booklet called “Crossing Bow- land.”
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toff explains that with no maps to show the way, the small party was guided sol ely by whichever object on the horizon looked to be most interesting.
has also appeared in the Lancashire Dialect Society newsletter, tells how, as teenagers, he- and his brother and a pal, along with Lassie the dog, set off northwards from Chipping into the Forest of Bowland to explore the unknown. In the foreword Mr Flin
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HOCKEY is the first love of Downham vicar’s daughter Helen Chard, but she isn’t stumped when it comes to cricket.
on vicarage lawns with her cricket-enthusiast father, the Rev. Eric Chard, paid off when Helen played her first game of tne season for Downham Youth Club.
Many hours of practice
Hollins School, Accring ton, definitely felt it was not quite cricket when a 5ft. 4ins. girl ran up to bowl.
The all-male team from
pace deliveries clean bowled two of them — including the opening bats man. She then caught and bowled another and ran out a fourth.
But Helen’s medium-
three for eight from four overs helped Downham to a one-run victory on the Barley Field. Unfortunately, when it came to batting, she was
Her bowling figures of
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run out by her captain, Terry Braithwaite, who scored 52 out of the Dow nham total of 74.
plays for the youth club, Helen, who celebrates her 17th birthday today, is hoping to stay a little longer at the crease.
But the next time she
Mr and Mrs Chard, would like to join a ladies team in the area. But finding time to add cricket to her long list of sporting interests may be a problem, espe cially as sne is studying hard for A-levels next year.
Her main sporting ambi Helen, only daughter of
tion is not to play cricket for the England ladies side, but to walk out on to the Wembley turf as a member of the England ladies hockey team.
other exuberant school girls she has stood on the Wembley terraces and dreamed of being out there on the pitch.
Along with thousands of
for West Bradford ladies 1st XI since she was 12 and is still the youngest player in the side.
rific,” she sail Helen has played hockey
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tain at Clitheroe Grammar School for Girls — and cap tain of a hockey team which lost only one game last season.
R ib b le sd a le S ch o o l, Christine knows quite a lot about the game; for the past five years she has been scorer for the Dow nham side. She is a secret ary at Borough Print Works, Clitheroe.
father is captain of the Downham village cricket team, was also run out, but she is regarded as a very promising all-rounder. A fo rm e r pupil of
Christine Swarbrick, Dow- nham’s second girl player, who made her debut against Hollins. Christine (17), whose
Helen developed h er enthusiasm for sport. Her father was a Durham Uni versity hockey blue and s t i l l r e f e r e e s loc a l matches. He also used to play cricket for the Dioce san cricket team . . . hence the coaching on the vicar age lawn. Helen is pictured with
Lancashire schoolgirls’ hockey team and also lists netball, rounders, tennis, badminton, athletics and squash among her inter ests. It is easy to see how
by Mrs Pam Boulton, head of PE at the school, wants to be a physical education teacher herself one day. She is reserve for the
Helen, who is coached .«Wv HELEN prepares for a spell in the crease, with Christine keeping wicket Appointed
headmaster NEW headmaster at Bra- bin’s Endowed School, Chipping, is Mr John Vic tor Robinson, of Coniston Close, Longridge.
August, takes over from Mr Gordon Bottomley at the start of the autumn term.
Mr Robinson, 38 in
with two children, Justin (6) and Fiona (4). His wife, B a rb a r a , h a s b e e n associated with Longridge
gridge for the past 30 y e a r s , a tten d in g the former Council School, before going on to Hutton Grammar School, and Leeds and Manchester Universities. Mr Robinson is married,
at St Peter’s CE School, Fulwood, Mr Robinson is looking forward to the challenge his new appoint ment will offer. He has lived in Lon
At present deputy head
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Guild on the move
isation’s third move in 16 years. When it was formed in 1963 there were 130 members. Now there are 150.
does not have a waiting list and anyone interested in joining should write to the
A LOCAL re ad e r really made my day recently when he sent along a copy of the old est Lancashire paper it has ever been my good fortune to read — the Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser for Saturday, July 21st, 1838.
of it, the first, to be sure, and exactly how many pages the complete journal possessed one can only guess — 50 years later the same publication had 12 — but so small and close was the print that there was sufficient matter on this one page and its reverse to occupy the average reader for an hour.
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weekly paper was the price “4'Ad reaay money, 5s 3d per quarter on credit, 4s 9d per quarter if paid in adv ance.” As a man, an artisan or
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displayed adverts as such, although the proprietors of various patent medicines, pills and potions each devoted six or seven hundred words on extol ling the virtues of their individtial preparations. Each, apparently, was
esting adverts was the announcement of a new coach, The Railway, from Preston to Blackpool. In the opposite direction the coach was scheduled to leave Preston for Bolton at 4-45 a.m. arriving there “in time to catch the 7 a.m.
Among the more inter
for an additional £5 per share from investors in both the Preston and Lon gridge and Lancaster and Preston Junction railways and offered for sale in Marton was “all that excellent wind corn mill known as Marton Mill, wi t h d r y i n g k i l n , granaries, dwelling house and all appurtenances."
train to Manchester.” There were, too, calls
it ran to some 400 words — extolled the delights of Mr B a ld e r so n ’s Dancing Academy. “Mr Balderson, I read, “ has recently returned from London where he spared neither exertion nor expense in o b ta in in g everything fashionable in dancing in
cation of the rising popu larity and potential pros perity of the nearby little resort of Blackpool. An intriguing advert —
village was a “malt kiln with dwelling house, etc.” and nearer the coast, in Layton with Norbreck, were several cottages “usually let as furnished lodging houses.” Clearly this was an indi
Also on sale in the same
the guild more scope, par ticularly for the choir and drama group. At present the guild
the Conservative Club on July 4th, 1963, moving to the St John Ambulance rooms in 1970. The latest move gives
The Guild first met at
CLITHEROE Evening Townswomen’s Guild is about to change its meet ing place. From next Thursday, the Boys Gram mar school hall, York Street, will be the guild’s new venue. This will be the organ
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appended a list of numer ous ladies of rank and nobility with whom the fortunate gentleman had enjoyed the privilege of “tripping the light fan tastic.”
The announcement
note that there was a vac ancy for an apprentice at the “Manchester Infir mary, Dispensary, Lunatic Hospital and Asylum,” who would be required to pay a premium of 300 guineas for a minimum of five years’ tuition.
It was interesting to
what about the news? Regrettably, this was the least intriguing feature of th e paper, consisting c h i efly of interm inably long accounts of Parliamentary proceedings.
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however, catch my eye. At the Town Hall a “dirty- looking lad who had given himself up as a vagrant” was sent to the “House of Correction” for 14 days and two young women charged with "wandering about the streets as com mon prostitutes” received similar punishments. I do wish the rest of this
Two small items did,
CLITHEROE Parish Church’s annual garden party, to be opened by MP Mr David Waddington, will be held this year at “Templewood,” Pendle Road, on July 14th. It will feature a display by gym n a s ts from Edisford School.
centre is holding an open evening to show off its improvements, which include new central heat ing, a suspended ceiling and redecoration, includ ing the murals. Most of the work has
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