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LONG before .the days of sophisticated telephoto lenses arid camera techniques which have bared the innermost secrets of nature, the late Horace Cook, with very ordinary equipment','' produced hundreds of superb colour slides of bird and animal
Horace was un unforgett able experience, whether joining him in a makeshift hide at Bashall to watch a
To go spotting with
round & about
kingfisher, or, perhaps, perched in a tree in the forest above Slaidburn, observing a sparrowhawk feeding its young.
few among his audiences could have been fully aware of the time and ex traordinary patience, in all kinds of weather, which Horace required to capture his prey on film.
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golden eagle took him to the Highlands year after year and he eventually captured close-ups of the chicks by hanging over a ledge, with his wife Hilda sitting on his legs, while a menacing mother bird soared over them.
His search for the bird-watcher and natural- members and also . by Now Horace’s fame as. a HORACE COOK . -
ist will .live on at Stocks, which for many, years' hie campaigned vigorously to keep as a nature pre serve.
opened in his memory to enable ornithologists to study the. reservoir’s wild fowl. It has been built and paid for by the Lancashire Naturalists’ Trust and Horace’s family and friends, who attended the opening along with rep resentatives of the North • West Water Authority.
On Sunday, a hide was It will be used by Trust
members, of the Clitheroe Naturalists’ Society, of which Horace was founder , > chairman and life presi dent.
of the Trust, says the hide , will be extremely valuable and make the sci entific reporting of birds at the reservoir a lot easier.
Capt. J. S, R. Huckle, t
.NWWA which'wants re cords of birds to help the planners decide how best to develop the-reservoir.
The project has been encouraged by- the
tives and friends at Sun day’s ceremony were one of his daughters, Norma, her husband Brian, and two children, who travel led from ■
Among Horace’s rela Whitton, near
, Riohmond, for the occa sion.-
Hilda, who lives in Castle View, Clitheroe: “The hide is a fitting memorial to Horace because up to his, death nearly two years ago he was fighting for the conservation of Stocks; He would have liked the idea.”
Said Horace’s widow,
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‘Exile’ seeks ;. old pals
'has written to us in the hope of contacting some of his old friends in the area.
A C H A T B U R N window-cleaner of; yesr: teryear/ now. aged 91 and “exiled’- ,in^Bolton,
; win a league champion- • ship . . . more than 60 years ago!
. mother lives - in Wind sor Avenue.
VISITING Helsinki in HMS ; Newcastle is Clitheroe sailor Paul Marson, whose grand-
■ Paul (21), who after lea v in g C lith e ro e R oyal Grammar School worked as ' a cloth spreader before
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just over a year and has visited the United S ta te s , P o r tu g a l , Naples, Mexico and West Germany.
A top star joins band
shire County Big Band, which will have Don as soloist at a concert on November 22nd. Local youngsters in the
Big Band lihe-up are Kevin Clark (trumpet), Iain Dixon (Saxaphone), Paul Haigh (trombone),
NOBODY would dis pute, I think, that the most distinguished visitor ever to spend more than a few days in our Ribble Valley was that most unfor tunate of monarchs, Henry VI, Most school children in
Abbey’s welcome for a Whalley Window
the district will tell you that the ill-fated king stayed for many months at Bolton Hall and a further period at Wad- dington, before his ulti mate betrayal and capture at Brungerley, but it is less well-known that he also spent some time at our abbey h e r e ’ in Whalley. V ' Henry was a fervently ;
religious man and was, ; welcomed ■
cians of qur village. When; at Windsor he was known' as “Holy King Henry,” ■
by the Cister-. !
thority for this elevation and there is no saint of that name in the Roman calendar, but this did not deter1 our local ecclesias tics, who apprently sanc tified him of their own accord. Their Lady Chapel was
but here the monks went one better — he became St Henry. There was no Papal au
dedicated to . the Virgin Mary and St Henry and. it is unfortunate that this same Chapel is the only part of the monastic, re mains that today’s experts have been unable to posi tively identify. The only part of the present pre-
cincts hot known to have been investigated is the large lawn facing the east' wing of the present Con ference House and the former Abbot’s Lodging. Is' it possible that be
* charity under the terms of ; which two monks “were to;sirijg for his good estate while living and -for the soul of Henry, Duke of Lancaster” and the abbey was to celebrate his death
l on the banks of the Calder, for he founded a
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A L T H 0 U G H m o le h i l l s are a common sight; most people have never seen an actual mole., Despite spending
: only seen two living specimens on the
. surface. H ow eve r, th is
week I found a dead . one, apparently .un-
,. injured,, on -. a track' in Rowland Forest. I can only presume that it died in ,the p rev ious n ig h t ’s frost, being unable to burrow through the limestone chip-'
- pings. Like their ■
< close relatives, the shrew, moles have a
- - very high metabolic rate and soon die if
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-.see: how'' it is ' adapted for Under g rou n d :;life.'. The ;
- deprived of food. . This was,1 a good' opportunity - to have
: most; prominent ; fea-v: ‘ > ture is , the; pair ' of ; h a nd s ; ; a l t h o u g h
:’ ^often>/described * as,; 7 spade-like, . they are.' not used,for, digging a /.'at, all ’when;burrow-
’’ jing in soft ground.^. - r f — ------— ^
i many hours in the . countryside I have,
Instead they are
■ ex te rn al e a r . are . rudimentary and the tail is short, being of l i t t le or no use underground. A dead mole can .’ be of use, and not
just for making the proverbial waistcoat. Mine is now in the deep freeze so that it can Be ’ sent to the North West Museum
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used to grip the sides of the burrow while the pointed snout' is pushed into the earth. In hard ground, the hands are used as scrapers; It was difficult to resist stroking the sh o r t g rey fu r , w h ich can - be brushed in any .di-< rection with equal ease. The eyes and -
. each year with “30 chap lains.” His Majesty left our
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valley in great ignominy, his feet tied beneath the belly of his horse, a crown of straw upon his troubled brow, but he left behind reminders of his sojourn in tangible and intangible form. At Bolton Hall he left a
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-building is demolished and one wonders where these precious relics are today? ' He left, too,;
the.tradi
spoon, a pair of gloves and a pair of boots. They were preserved at the hall for many years.. Now the
that King Henry had a high regard for the abbey
neath this green turf and ancient yew lie the found ations of the chapel the monks were engaged in building when the dissolu tion came? It would be interesting to know..- - It cannot be doubted
SEVEN youngsters from the Clitheroe area will have the'pleasure of play ing alongside, one of the country’s top trombonists, Don Lusher, at- Ribbles- dale School', Clitheroe, later this month. They play in the Lanca
Alison King(flute), Naomi King (baritone \ sax) and Katie Shepherd and Elizabeth Walmsley on flutes.
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The music' starts at 7-30
is not specified. Could this' possibly have been Whal ley and. is that why he was so kindly disposed to wards our village? , • .
tells that, following' the battle of Hexham, the un happy monarch spent a period disguised as a monk within the walls of a monastery. The name of the abbey
ated in the Tower of London, in 1471. It was reported that he died “of pure ^displeasure and melancholy,” but it is also alleged that he was mur dered by: the Duke of Gloucester. One final note about the
Henry died, incarcer
la te r , . his successor, Henry VII, made petition to Pope Julius II for the canonisation-of the former king. However,, this proved an expensive busi ness .and the charges levied were so high that the careful, frugally- minded monarch with drew the application. Unlucky in life, particu
king who sojourned so long in our valley. Years
tion that, while in sanctu ary at Bolton-by-Bowland, he designed the tower of the’ present lovely' church, and miracles were said to be wrought by bathing in the waters of the well Henry caused to be sunk in the grounds of the hall for his private enjoyment. Yet another tradition'
of a miner, who became a full-time writer in ,1962, Stan will be giving read ings , from his own and other works. , . Now one of
the.coun try’s most prolific writers,
FANS of novelist Stan Barstow, will. have the chance to meet the man in person at Whalley adult c e n t re , a week on Monday. The Yorkshire-born son
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Navy in 1975, is now a weapons electrical mechanic. He has'been serving in HMS Newcastle for
Royal
. hoping that a few of his old batting and bowling pals will. still be alive today. • If they remember him.
und e rs ta tement: “ I understand not a lot of tha t team are s t i l l living.” . He is , h ow ev e r ,
. in cricketing- parallels: ' “I ’m still batting, but only on a sticky, wicket which .gets worse every day. , , “I shall have to carry
, ner” recently after 63 years of married life.
my bat because I can’t afford to die!” He adds that sadly he lost his ” “batting part-
Face to face
his first novel “A kind of Loving,” written in the early sixties, is recognised as one of the most impor tant novels of that era and was filmed in 1962 by John Schlesinger. Mr Barstow’s latest
novel, “A Brother’s Tale,” was published in April. •He is appearing under
the auspicies of the North West Arts’ circuit touring scheme.
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