4 Clitheroe Advertiser and. Times, June 5th, 1980


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Jim rings the changes for over SO years


A CHANGE is better than a rest to bellringing Mr James Herd. For Mr Herd, of Beech Mount, Waddington, reckons he keeps well on top of his 76 years by maintaining his lifelong hobby of bellringing.


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MRS ROBINSON MRS RAW


TWO Clitheroe women who work for the Ribble Valley Council have won a prize in a North-West Tourist Board competi­ tion. Mrs Kathleen Raw and-


Mrs Linda Robinson, who: work in the tourist office, have each won a-night out for coming sixth in a sales promotion competition. They were awarded the prize for their sales of board literature. The pair will be having


their meal in Manchester. They could be even


busier in the future, for since the tourist office moved from Church Street to the new offices, the number of customers has doubled. Next year the board is


changes at St Helen’s Church in the village, for the past 55 years, and apart from three years during the second world war, he has rarely missed Sunday ringing in more that half a century. Mr Herd began ringing


He h as r u n g t h e


in 1924, joining the church team on his 21st birthday.


round & about


to bellringing than people might think, but it re­ quires skill rather than strength. He attends practice at St Helen’s every Wednesday evening and visits other churches to ring whenever poss­


ible.


dialect, Mr Herd is also in demand as an entertainer. His poems and stories have been well received by local organisations and he has performed at Waddow Hall for the be­ nefit of some London vis­


Herd and his wife Annie ran the greengrocer’s bus­ iness just opposite the church for 48 years. Now it has passed to his son. An authority on Lanca- shir e and Yorkshire


are light compared with some sets and range from 9cwt down to 3cwt. Before retirement, Mr


The bells at St Helen’s


itors anxious to hear “real Lancashire” sayings. Mr Herd has served on


committees all his life, in­ cluding the church council for many.years.- A keen gardener and admirer of the' country-


side, Mr Herd is a member of the Clitheroe


Naturalists. In fact he might de­


scribe his highly active l i f e as being “ r ee t gradely.”


He says there is more Cadets in


Germany TWO Clitheroe Army cadets and two officers are currently guests of the 14/20th Kings Hussars s t a t ioned at Honne, Germany. Lt B. Beniston, L/Cpl


Downham N


with young and old, son of whom had travelle long distances from Som


unique for Downha' Parish Church, was he on Sunday afternoon, i the invitation of the vica the Rev. F. E. Char and the churchwarden the service was attendi by people who had bet married in the church. The church was packt


Unique A special servic


eluded Lord and Lad Clitheroe’s daughter an son-in-law, Sir Marct and Lady Worsley, t Hovingham, and his sistt and brother-in-law, M and Mrs P.- Fleetwood, < Hesketh. Miss M. Barton,


rset. Hertfordshire ar Scotland. The congregation ii


church warden, had bee responsible for the dt ta iled arrangements People who returned t Downham for the servic were able to chat over ol times with friends wit whom they had lost toucl Mrs D. Brewer, c


MR HERD is pictured with his fellow bellringers —from the le ft— Richard h, Ted Rowbottom, Robin Hatherall, Eric Lucas, Simon Feathers and Shirley Pilkington.


Howarth


P. Ramsden, and cadets J. Leeming and B. Wil­ liams are among four of­ ficers, two sergeants and 52 cadets from Lancashire on the 10 day visit. The group travelled by


coach to Dover on Friday, caught the ferry to Zeeb- rugge and went through


have had a busy time re­ cently. Six of them went on a camping weekend at Dunsop Bridge with Lon- gridge ACF. One of the exercises was a 12 mile


Holland to Germany. The Clitheroe cadets


map and compass test. Three officers and 11


cadets took part in a 15 mile sponsored march for cadet funds. They went from Clitheroe to the Nick of Pendle, had lunch in Downham and marched back to Clitheroe.


Ski squad


place A PUPIL at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Robert Mansell, has been rewarded with a place in


the North-West Schools’ ski squad as a result of his fine performance in the recent championships on Pendle Hill. Robert, of Peel Park


Times, it was hoped that rest would complete her satisfactory recovery. The inquest on the


Avenue, won the under-14 section and notched the fourth fastest time of the day in the event, organ­ ised by the North-West Ski Federation. The skiers had to at­


driver who was killed, Mr James Metcalfe (26), of Rosewood Avenue, Black­ burn, has not yet been ar ranged. He was a welder at Ribblesdale Cement.


tempt two slaloms, with the times being added to­ gether and halved to give an average total. The result for Robert


Sponsored


was very creditable con­ s id e r i n g he was up against entrants from all over the North-West in­ cluding members of the


England team. He has gained ski-ing


■ area’s dry slope and on trips abroad with the school.


experience both on the Home from


jured in a fatal road acci­ dent at Billington two weeks ago Mrs Ada Smithson, of the Toby Jug, Whalley, left hospital on Monday. Mrs Audrey Davey, of


hospital ONE of the women in­


peal CLITHEROE Par ish Church bellringers are doing their bit for the church restoration fund . . . by planning a 'spon­ sored peal a week on Saturday. Eight members of the


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team intend to ring a full peal, which takes three hours. They are particu­ larly seeking sponsorship from r in g in g t e ams throughout Lancashire, who will well know the strain involved in such a marathon. The peal coincides with


BLOW LAMP SETS - Many uses


the parish gala, to be held at Standen Hall, by per­ mission of Mr John As- pinall. Transport will be avail­


publishing a new guide on valleys and villages and the Ribble Valley Council has bought advertising space.


Shoon House, Eastham Street, Clitheroe, is still detained in Blackburn Royal Infirmary with a dislocated hip. Her husband, Mr Fre­


derick Davey, who was driving one of the vehicles involved in the accident, told the Advertiser and


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able from Whiteside’s corner in Clitheroe from 2 p.m., and there will be ample parking space at the hall. Church organisations


will be running a variety of stalls, and it is hoped


that Tony Fay, of the World Waterspeed team, will make a guest appear­ ance.


Sabden treacle boom!


INTEREST in the in­ dustrial archaeology of of our district con­ tinues unabated. This fact is established


by the immediate reader reaction to my article on the Sabden “ treacle” mines. Within 24 hours of the


Whalley Window


text leaving the presses I had a phone call from Trae-kel (Minor) who had written to this paper on the. topic when my first article on the subject ap­ peared in November, 1970. He th en advanced


from success to success until, sadly, on August 21st, 1849, the once rich vein of treacle finally pe­ tered out and operations


theories quite at variance with the well authenti­ cated details 1 had pub­ lished. But more of that in a moment. Hardly had I replaced


^Trae-kel (Minor) had told me a different tale, but of the veracity of this he is now dubious. He had claimed that the treacle was used in the prepara­ tion of ladies’ cosmetics to make it adhere more closely to the face. Following the publica­


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learned that the historic mines were first disco­ vered by a Sabden farmer Sam Stickleton on April 5th, 1818. He sank the first shaft and continued to develop his find in a small way for five years or more. At that time, a period


For the first time I


ised worid (indeed, some people contend that it still is) and its inhabitants were occupied solely with their one great work — their nightly chore of hoisting the moon into its place in the heavens. T r a v e l l e r s on the


tion of his letter he had received a communication from a reader in Whitley Bay, dated September 1972, which detailed such astonishing information that (with permission) I


quote it in full.


on your treacle treatise which I consider a mas­


“Dear Trae-kel (Minor), I must congratulate you


•


terly handling of a some­ what sticky subject. . The use of treacle for making fly-papers by Sir


of considerable depression in local industry, he was joined by his th r e e brothers who had been made redundant by th e. Blacko Polony Bending Company.


. Bolton-by-Bowland En­ gineering Co. and treacle was brought to the sur­ face 1 in such quantities that a flourishing export trade developed. ■ The company now went


workforce, production es­ calated, new. machinery- was obtained from the


With this auadrupled


underground railway to Roughlee or Barrowford would sometimes break their journey at Fence, where they would climb the steps of the cathedral steeple. From this point of vantage they would, on a balmy summer evening, peer through the pall of smoke emanating from the industrial complex of Harle Syke and, perch­ ance, might see the moon rising slowly and majesti­ cal ly above the hill, hauled aloft by a frighten­ ingly complex system of ropes and pulleys. Once raised to its place


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house took care of th special flower arrange ments in the church.


Sabden


Garden party Clitheroe Division M


Mr David Waddingto will open the annu; ga rden p a r ty at S Ni ch o l a s ’s Church Sabden, on Saturday a temoon. The party' wi follow the crowning of th new rose queen Jeanett Lowe. On Sunday the churc will hold its annual pri


cession of witness, leavir the church at 2 p.m.


Winning h an d s Prizewinners at Sab-


up-:


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A. Howarth, Mrs N. M shal l . Gents: Mr Cottam, Mr H. Parki Raffle: Mrs Denney.


'two Sunday School a niversary services at tl


chapel was packed for i


Anniversary Sabden Methodi.


weekend. Visitors from as f;


afield as Blackpool ar Yorkshire joined Sabdt members and friends, ar collections during the d: amounted to £268. The minister, the Re


Over 60s whis t domino drive in St Mat Club were — Domini N. Palmer and \V. Bn ( join t) , T. Graha Andrew Riley. Whist — Ladies: it


by Mrs Buckle , o Rimington, were serve after the service by Mr Palmer, Mrs S. Fielding Mrs M. Walmsley an Mrs B. Lund. Mrs Christine New


Refreshments, provide


Roland Bamforc preached at both servici and in the evening h sermon was ent i t le “Before and after.” The Sunday School eh’


Also at:- Hemsworth


Wetherby Farslev


Knaresboroug \ The Home Improvers j


llkley Leeds


Burley-in- Wharfedale


dren gave a demonstr tion entitled “The lami of man” at the aftemor service, when they sai


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household waste (e.g. do-it-yourself materials, old furniture, garden waste) for disposal, the County Council are now providing the following freedlsposal facilities at the following household wastedisposal centres.


in the firmament, what held it there? Why of course, TREACLE, the finest in the world, hewn a t Sabden and trans­ ported at great cost and Joss of life \iross vale and


hill. Unfortunately, in this


Cecil de Sirrup (a very “refined” gentlemen) is well known. What ap­ pears to be less so is why treacle was exported to Haggate [on the outskirts of Burnley] and ■ here I must disagree with your source of information. As


* sar torial frivol i ty .as ma k e - u p l s q u i t e


ridiculous.


’ Roop, in the middle ages the thriving metropolis of Haggate was the further­ most outpost of the civil­


' According to the emi­ nent historian, Prof. Gy


.


any student of matters Haggatean is aware, wasting m o n e y


on such; LOCATION modern age, scientific re­


search has provided us with more sophisticated synthetic ■ goo and the treacle mining industry has declined. But science is not infall­


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: brought back samples' of- what they think is moon rock. We know better. Moon rock my Aunt Mary Jane. It is quite simply the fossilised remains of


ible. The American as­ tronauts have landed on th e moon and -have


Sabden treacle. ■ Yo u r s s i n c e r e l y ,


Exiled.” 1 , : 'So there you are. Now


J.F. &


what or who are we to believe?-1 confess myself completely stuck. -


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