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been awarded the Birmin gham School of Music’s
association diploma for teaching piano and organ. He has also passed the
graduate’s diploma exami nation needed to enter an honours degree course in academic studies starting in three weeks’ time. A scholar at Birmin
gham School of Music for the past two years, Harold studies the organ with one of the school’s principal lecturers, Dr John Bishop, a recitalist and broad caster. Piano studies come
under Josef Weingarten, formerly of the Budapest Conservatoire in Hungary, and his tutor in paperwork
ro u n d & about
is one of Europe’s leading e x p e r t s on Bach — Stephen Daw.' Harold, who is on holi
day at home with his mother, Mrs Annie Jack- son, has been preparing a thesis on Bach’s keyboard music and helping out as- organist at St Barth olomew’s Church, Chip ping, on Sundays. Recently he gave a reci
tal for the Cornwall Organ ists’ Association and he is due to give another recital in October at Birmingham Cathedral. On October 28th he has
Listen with Jane
Whalley, from now until Christmas, district chil dren's librarian Mrs Jane Wood will be reading established favourites and new stories. The ses sions are from 4 o’clock to 4-30 and suitable for the five to eight-year-olds.
THE popular storytime sessions at Clitheroe and Whalley libraries begin again next week. Each Tuesday at Clitheroe and Wednesday at
arranged for a students’ choir from Birmingham School of Music, Cantoris a Capella, to present Choral Evensong at Chipping Par ish Church. Harold recalls having
taken an active interest in classical music from the age of 12, when he joined a church choir._ After completing studies
at Birmingham, he hopes to take a diploma in educa tion at Reading University and eventually an MA degree. His ambition is to lecture at a College of Music.
Memento
of town WHEN Mrs Eileen Jones returns to America, she will be taking a special pla que with her as a reminder o f her latest visit to Clitheroe.
i It was presented to her
before the council’s public meeting last night by Town Mayor Coun. Bob Ainsworth. Mrs Jones, the eldest
daughter of Coun. and Mrs Bert Jones, of Kemple
- View, originally emigrated 13 years ago. She has returned home for the wedding of her sister, Chr ist ine, 1 at Trinity M e th o d is t C h u r c h , Clitheroe, a fortnight on Saturday. Over from Detroit with
her are husband Colin and children Sally Anne (14), Michael (11) and Amy Elizabeth (7).
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Mystery of the Written Stone
THE man who has a son who shares the same hobbies and interests can, I sup pose, consider himself fortunate. Thus it was that, when
our son returned home recently on an extended visit and became intrigued with the story of the Writ ten Stone in Written Stone Lane, one of the lesser known peculiarities and mysteries of our district, I followed his researches with interest.
W h a lle y W in d ow
The W r it ten Stone
attracts a paragraph or two’ in most, handbooks dealing with our Ribble Valley and lies close to the hamlet of Knowle Green. It can be found in the hedgerow .* and is about eight feet, long by two feet- broad by 18 inches in depth, and bears the in s c r ip t ion , “ R a u f fe Radclyffe laid this stone to lye for. ever, AD 1655.” . I t is the, subject of numerous superstitions and legends in the area, but, to date, no writer has offered a completely satis fying reason for its, pre sence and existence. Radclyffe was the owner
of the estate and one tradi tion says that he placed the stone to appease the rest less spirit of the victim of a foul - murder, alleged to’
.have;.been' committed on- the spot,in centuries -gone:. .; Another story/.tells of a
farmer “ who moved it. to serve as: a rubbing stone for his-cattle but, .having
moved, it,-his beasts gave vent .to such .uneartmy
noises and weird and gruesome sights became so
common in the area that he hurriedly restored the
, stone to its - original site.1 Now, (although-di am.a
pretty gullible sort of per son with, perhaps, more than the usual ration of romance in my nature, I take both the above stories with a very large pinch of salt and, so, what are the known facts?
Wh o w as R a u f f e
Radclyffe and what do we know about him?
Ralph as he is variously designated, was probably a descendant of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancas ter’s “dear Squire Thomas de Radcliff.” From a study of parish
Rauffe, .or Rafe, or
registers and other docu ments it is noted that sev eral deaths occurred in his family in the y e a r s immediately preceding the date on the. stone and one writer suggests that the stone was “ laid” to mollify the evil influences which had caused Rauffe so much personal distress. It is known that “a great
pestilence" ,-raged in the county in the middle 1660s, and it is . also suggested that he caused the stone to
- be inscribed to perpetuate his own name and in antici pation of his imminent demise. • Two dates are given in the relevant registers for Rauffe’s death (if it was the same Rauffe) and this duplication adds to the mystery although his last will and testament is fairly dated January 20th, 1655, the year the stone was
' laid. Now, let me offer you
• viously published. ; . V -; In England from 1649 to
: so-called Commonwealth ‘ existed.
Fori 11 years Cromwell . •- i
and his Puritans held sway and all over the'country iconoclasts were desecrat ing churches, ■ overthrow ing crosses,: tearing down other religious symbols. ■ It was in this period that-
- the Paulinus cfosshs in oiir churchyard were uprooted
my son’s theory which is, I think, - more-probable and acceptable than others pre: ;
’ 1660,when Charles II was , rfestored'to the;throne, the
by Clitheroe’s Doctor Webster and similar des truction was wrought on many other ancient crosses a n d . s t and ing stones throughout our district and the-entire country.
.Did Rauffe Radclyffe
lay down the stone at Knowle Green — its shape gives some indication (it narrows to a blunt point at one end) that it was origi nally a standing stone — and having done so, caused the inscription to be carved as confirmation that he
accepted full responsibility for the deed? Was it an e f f o r t ,
perhaps, to curry favour with the new'rulers of the country?
Of course, there can be
no certainty in this: It is, as I have said, mere surmi- sal. We can find no indica tion of Rauffe’s political persuasions or personal religious inclinations although he attended,. as all others were compelled to do, the established church and lies buried in Ribchester churchyard.
dents suggest, perhaps,' that he would be a Royalist supporter. Did he “ lay the stone” to put Puritan accusers “off the scent” ?
His Royalist antece RIBBLE Interesting specula
tions, you will agree. They take us, I think, a little nearer to an explanation of the mystery of the Writ ten Stone.
Andjust a final word for
take read improvements in the lane, , do not, , in any
the benefit of our county council highway officials. If, at some future date, you tare,minded to,under
/circumstances move the Written Stone. Bearing in mind the stories
older.resi- dents in the .district have related (the last ’ time it
was moved the cows gave blood instead of milk) the very-least you could expect would ,be a succession of burst' tyres, slipping clutches, brakes failing and big ends knocking. J.F.
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remarkable is the fact that Fred (67),’ of Meadowside, Grindleton, is not just a Sunday driver, but for 48 years earned his daily bread at the wheel of heavy vehicles.
In recognition of his
record of trouble-free m o t o r in g , Fred has received a letter of con gratulations from the Vet eran Motorists’ Club, which he joined 20. years ago. In front of his car is the
club’s distinctive “V’ badge •to which Fred has now added the number 50. For each year tl\at a
member’s licence stays clean they can record the fact on their badge, but a motoring conviction means
a driver starting again from scratch. -When Fred first took
the wheel at 17, after leav ing Clitheroe Royal Gram mar School, he started driving buses between Bol- ton-by-Bowland and Low M o o r f o r Mr I sa a c Bleazard.; - • Eleven years later he
, behind the wheel with the 51st Highland Division. He served in France — being evacuated from Dunkirk — the Middle East, Italy and Germany. After the war he went
moved to the CWS cream ery, at Chaigley, deliver ing milk in bulk. In 1939 he volunteered for the Army, staying
’prefers to go on holiday by coach. .
He finds very-little plea •
sure : in . motoring these days, because the traffic is so much faster than it used
to be. ■ Formany years while he
was a driver, goods vehi cles were limited to 20 m.p.h. ■ . ■
Fred’s wife, Elizabeth,
who is secretary at Bow- land County Secondary School, has never learnt to- drive. But their daughter
back to the CWS, later moving to Ribblesdale Cement. He stayed with the company for 23 years, travelling-over a million miles,> delivering cement in the North of England. Since retirement two
years ago, Fred has not done much motoring and
Mrs Sylvia Malone, a teacher at the same school, drives and so does son,- David, who is serving with the Queen’s Lancs Regi ment, stationed in Cyprus, where he recently obtained his heavy goods vehicle licence.
been warden at Grindleton Parish Church,for 18years and is clerk to the trustees for the Alms houses — has set his sights on another 10 years safe motoring.
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