4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, October 2nd, 1980 D.I.Y. BEST BUYS prepare to the nuptial knot


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ASSOCIATED WITH Scouting for the'past 37 yearsMr Alban Snape is well accustomed to tying knots ; but. the>kind he intendsio tie next Spring Bank Holiday is an unfamiliar one.


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a .bachelor - in his for- - ties, plans to marry Miss Jean Dickinson, of Pendle Road.


jOn May 25th,. Alban,


, has accompanied Alban to various Scout dances and socials. • She is' known in Clitheroe a s . a former singer and dancer in local operatic perform-. arices arid pantomimes. -Their romance blos­


. 12 months. They became, engaged on Thursday. Alban plans to carry on Scouting and he and


somed among the shoes and now they , have been “going steady” for


. and repairing shoes- for 35 years,1 and .where Jean has fitted ladies’ • shoes for 11 years. Jean has no -connec- ■ tion with Scouting, , but


ner’s shoe shop where Alban, o f . Littlemoor Road, has been .em­ ployed making clogs


. They. met. at Tur­ .


ro u n d & about


Jean hope to continue their jobs'at the shoe


• shop. Already Alban, who -


is assistant District Commissioner for , ■Scouts, has had plenty : of ribbing about his forthcoming wedding and he is definite about one thing — their hon­ eymoon will -be well ■ away from Scout camps and jamborees.


Mayor’s


attendant CLITHEROE Town Council has appointed Mr Keith Niland, of Highfield Road, as the new Mayor’s attendant.


Mr John Smalley, who is at present unwell, is due to retire on October 25th., Mr Niland, a plant at­


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The previous attendant,-


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council, for about four years, Mr Niland has been acting as Mayor’s at-


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; tendant since,Mr’Smalley- became ill. a few months ago.


A good


effort THE Langho, Billington and Dinckley branch of the Darwen Conservative Association has1 won the Markland Trophy for its fund raising efforts. ■ - The branch raised more


MORTIMER,! KERR a |


fire and anyone able to help is asked to - contact


than £900' to earn the trophy, presented at its annual meeting for the highest percentage quota in the constituency. ‘


Monster


bonfire NOVEMBER 5th will go with an extra bang in Clitheroe, thanks to the efforts of three, local or­ ganisations.


-will be staging a monster bonfire on the Castle Field. The bonfire and a display of fireworks, worth £300, will be run on similar lines to last year’s event. ,


The Rotary Clubs of Clitheroe and Ribblesdale and. the Rotaract Club


There will be an appeal for material for the bon­


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help sought THE Salvation Army is again co-operating with


BBC’s Nationwide prog­ ramme to provide Christ­ mas gifts for the needy, elderly, housebound, dep­ rived families, and neg­ lected children. ,


anxious to play its part in the appeal, but needs re­ ception, points for gifts and a place where they can be stored.


The Clitheroe branch is


should' contact Mrs Edna Tagg, the Army’s local campaign organiser, at 131 Clitheroe. Road, Sabden. Tel. Padiham 71007.


Anyone able to help ; WHALLEY — the


i“Field of Wells.” Al­ though various other derivations of the name of our village have been suggested, I still adhere to Dr Whitaker’s original definition. It . is, I- think) by far the most likely.


ous wells dotted around the village; at least two in the cellars of private houses, as I have previ­ ously written and doubt­ less there are many more which have been flagged over or filled in over the last 60 or 100 years.


There are still numer­


■ the first piped supply was laid to village homes — it


sites of a dozen or more myself. In recent years T have met with several “ old-timers” born in houses locally where the only available water supply was from a well in the garden or one of sev­ eral communal supplies. Remembering that it was only in the’ 1840s that


I could point out the


FIRST SINK YOUR WELL... W h a l l e y W i n d o w


came from the well still flowing at the head of Ar­ chbishop’s Wood — it is reasonable to assume that, all the larger houses then standing had their person­ al wells or pumps. Some still have, and each-group of cottages and-smaller premises would have a communal supply in close1 proximity.


of some distinction had such an affection for their old pump that when they moved house they took it with them and you will see it today topping the gable end downspout ^at the Manor House • in- Brookes Lane. I- was interested to read


■ Indeed, one local family


recently of the methods adopted to sink wells ■ in the Fylde district 100 or more years ago, as re­ corded in the memory of an old rural craftsman. He was passing on


. mason and: builder in the early years of the last century. Unquestionably the same procedure would be followed in our . own district and other-parts of the' county and, almost


knowledge. gained at an early age’ from his aged father, who had been a


, certainly, throughout the ' whole country.


■ Whenever a new house was projected and you had the land, and the money, you went ahead and built it, the first es­ sential being to ensure the availability of an ade­ quate water supply. No need to worry about the formality of planning per­ mission in those days. Thus, if there wasn’t water already on the site, you went ahead and sank a well. ' . The first step was to make . a' circular cage of wood; . 4ft. 6in. in diame-


Friendly Basil will be missed


MORE than a quarter of: a century of ferryingi Clitheroe’s sick ’and injured to hospitaf ends today for. ambulanceman Mr Basil1 Lord, of Peel Street. ■


At a ceremony this -af­


: Authority chairman Mr R. E. Hodd will .present, a carriage clock to him- to mark his early retirement due to ill health. . .'


ternoon . at the • town’s Princess-Avenue station; Lancashire Area' -Health


■ and patients on the day ward at Clitheroe Hos­ pital. \ ' . ■ - ,


Lord (54) has received are a decanter from his collea­ gues and a cut-glass rosebowl ; from the staff


Among other gifts Mr


Lord was brought up in U pbrooks and later Pim­ lico Road, and, attended Pendle - Junior and' Rib­ blesdale Schools.


Born in", Clitheroe, ’ Mr


ter. A hole of sufficient size was then dug and the. cage slotted in. ..A-worker then jumped,


in -and started to dig away, pulling the cage down after him every few feet. At intervals he paused to. “brick, in” the sides of the cavity, the bricks being forced into the' earth on every side and then, once more, it was dig, dig, dig, ;:


was raised to ground, level in a bucket — a slow and laborious ta s k— and when a water level was reached the water, was disposed of in 'the same manner. Now. th e digging


The earth dislodged


World War, :. he served with the RAF in: the Far East, returning to work for the former Clitheroe potato merchants' W. Blackburn and Sons,' who were based in Montague Street. A keen sportsman in his


During1 the Second ,


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younger days, lje played football for Clitheroe and DarwenJn the- Lancashire Combination'and Jater for Waddington.


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■. The wooden -cage was left'in the bottom for all time and the surface work was completed. The work of building the house-then went ahead with -owner: and contractor happy in the knowledge that future residents . would: not lack the ■


happy, domestic life. ■ ? Not a,popular task, this


first essential for a


^imagine,:, for the’ unfortu­ nate man who had to work. in such a very con­ fined space and certainly : no task , for a claus­ trophobic worker. I think I’ll stick to'writing.


J.F.


became easier, but the job dirtier, and when the water began to flow more-, quickly, than it could • be, baled out — at a depth of- anything from six to 30 feet, depending on the various strata of rock, earth, and clay — the triumphant digger was' pulled out in a hurry.


regretfully, the end of a friendly1 relationship', fos­ tered over the years, with patients throughout, the district.


-. Retirement .also mearis, . ’


•and the equipment’ today is far more efficient. . ' “In my early days we


• “The vehicles ; have changed tremendously


has seen many changes in the structure of the local ambulance service and in the equipment.


In that time Mr Lord -■


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digging of a well, I would ■


; Mr Lord’s; colleagues and. their wives said farewell to him at a dinner at Chipping’s Brick


’ He an d h isw ife , have three children: Anthea, a nurse;. John,; who .works for Neotechnic, arid Jererny, a former pupil of ■Clitheroe1


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, which her doys had disturbed in the hedyerow. ■ ITe. found-a small mammal curled up into a:< ball,- but. there the resemblance to a hedyehog :


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A COLLEAGUE of mine was stopped recently on


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