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flight bag from the dinner and welfare ladies.


staff and children. He was also given a


/.h.-Mron


with two suitcases from gifts from' deputy head- ^off


(64), of Nab View, Billing- ton; retired from his post as caretaker of St Mary’s RC School, Langho, on Friday, he was presented


• master Mr S. J. Sweeney J. R. Ripley. ^ J V a t u r e ^ f o t e s f ^


ALTHOUGH snow is actually falling as I write this, and much of the coldest weather of the winter is probably yet to come, there are signs


blackbird in full song, and a friend reported a skylark in song flight only last week. All these birds were singing on bright sunny days. Later in the year, singing will take place


that spring is not too far away. Already I have heard robin, wren, blue tit and


whether or not the sun is shining. Typically, song is given by the male bird when in his territory and it occurs as part of the


winter territories and it is not possible to tell which is singing at this time of the year. Robins sing for a greater part of the year than


seasonal breeding cycle. In the case of the robin,however, both sexes hold


production in the robin may begin as early as the first week in January, when the days are only 14 minutes longer than they were at their shortest in mid-December. Actually, the earliest of our native birds to breed is the raven, which often lays its eggs in


daylight stimulates the production of sex hor­ mones by the pituitary gland. It isn’t only young men whose fancy turns to love in the spring! So sensitive is this mechanism that sperm


any other of our native birds, only stopping for a short period in midsummer when they go into moult, having reared their young. It has been shown that increasing length of


WHEN Mr James Benson and his wife Gladys set off) on their summer holiday to the Gower peninsular in Wales, they will, have smart new luggage to accompany them. For when Mr Benson


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round & about


Mr Benson received his


and was thanked for his services by headmaster Mr


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the children he would pic­ ture, them hard at work at school while he was enjoy­ ing his holiday with his. new luggage. Parish priest Mgr J.


In reply, Mr Benson told


Guerin a t te n d e d the farewell. On the previous night,


Mr Benson was presented with money ana a card from Langho Brownies and Guides during their


popular figure at the school, which he took great pride in keeping spick and span, will still maintain a link, for his daughter, Joyce, is school secretary. New caretaker will be


Mr William Holden, of Elker Lane, Billington.


Leap into final


Helmshore 106-90 in the semi-final of the National Junior Team Gymnastic Championships at Burn­ ley’s Thompson Centre. Now they go forward to


SIX 11-year-old girl gym­ nasts from Edisford Prim­ ary School, Clitheroe, have leapt and vaulted their way into the regional final of a national competition — the school’s best-ever performance. They beat a school from


compete against th ree other teams in the regional final at Warrington on February 24th. Members of the team


February. None breed in Lancashire, though a pair have attempted to do so in Bowland and would probably


succeed if left undisturbed. It was therefore an exciting prospect to see one


flying over Stocks Reservoir only last weekend. TONY COOPER


GENUINE CAPO-DI-MONTE “THE GYPSY ENCAMPMENT”


meeting. Mr Benson, who was a


MR BENSON is pictured with Mr Ripley and the children.


pleased with. their per­ formance and optimistic about the girls’ chances in the regional final.


tic Association’s award scheme, a vault and a group sequence. Mr Marsh was very


By pony


and trap A WOMAN who started the first taxi service In Chipping when she drove the local doctor on his rounds in her pony and trap in the early 1900s, was taken on a surprise drive herself on Wednes­ day — her 80th birthday. Mrs Doris Ashworth, of


Watling Street Road, Pre­ ston, returned to Chipping for a surprise party given by. her nephew, Mr Jeff Rich and his wife Gwenda, at their home, Leagram


are: Sarah Legg, of Fair- field Drive; Janet Skellorn, of Siddows Avenue; Linda Britton, of Garnett Road; Sarah Mortimer, of Lan­ caster Drive; Sylvia Hol-


den, of Langdale Avenue; and Lynn Johnson, of


Central Avenue. Reserves were Tracey


Dickinson and Karen Wal­ lace, both of The Crescent. They are coached by


Morris. V' * To win their semi-final,


27 close relatives and friends waiting to greet her with good wishes and g if ts , and e sp e c ia l ly pleased to see her lifelong friend, Mrs Molly Johnson (85). Doris was born at Stakes


Hall Farm. She was amazed to find


. She ferried local people 'n her pony trap, which


headmasterrMr Jim Marsh / and teacher Miss Paula


the girls had to perform an individual sequence made up of movements in the


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A RELATIVE of the woman in “Clitheroe’s S'eat abduction case” is travelling from his


research details of the events that became talking point throughout the country nearly 89 years ago.


ampshire home to Clitheroe next week to


man’s abduction of his own wife outside the gates of Clitheroe Parish Church and later resulted in an important High Court ruling. ■ This caused nationwide


The case concerned a


brothers, Mr Dixon Robin­ son and Dr W. H. Robin son, who lived at Clitheroe


_ Castle. She was held prisoner at


interest at the time, but few people today, even Clitheronians, have heard of the dramatic story which began on March 8th, 1891.


a house in Blackburn by her husband until, follow ing a vigil in the street outside by members of her family, the case went before the Court of Appeal in London. It was ruled that a hus­


Farm, Whitewell, moving to Chipping when her


“Pendle”, 1 Plovers Way, Alton, Hampshire (Alton 85790) is appealing to read­ ers who can supply any information to contact him, as an author friend of his intends writing a book about the case.


Now Mr Robert Peel, of


parents took over the Tal­ bot Hotel.


With her late* husband ran the Market Hotel in Pre­ ston, retiring from the t r a d e when i t w as demolished to make way for the new bus station.


Was eventually replaced by- a motor/car. ..v v , She: married inl926,and


. first member 'of the family ) to become .patron “of the


by h e r h usband, Mr Edmund Haughton Jack- son, with the nelp of two


is the present .incumbent. Mrs Jackson was seized


was Mrs Emily Emma Maude Jackson (nee Hall), who was Mr'Peel’s great- great-aunt. She was the


The woman abducted


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band had no r ig h t to imprison his wife and make her reside with him against her will. It seems the decision


was not popular with the people of Clitheroe at that time, for Mrs Jackson’s effigy was burned in the streets and her house stoned.


'h iving:; of /the, .Parish:. Church, of. which Mr Peel -


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,saw something I had not seen for many years, which immediately set in train a series of nostalgic memories.


The driver — to his intense frustration, I am ' sure — had drawn in


‘ This comprised great bales of raw cotton, wrap­ ped in coarse sacking and with tufts of the fluffy grey-white fibres protrud­ ing from every corner. When I was a lad (which


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today the increasing ten­ dency seems to be the purchase of a pony for pre­ cisely the same reason. Today, also, the Jones family would appear to live in every other house in every other street. It is, I suppose, an indi­


wasn’t 1,000 years ago, despite the thoughts the younger generation might lave to tne contrary) such


lorries were a common sight on our Lancashire roads and always, as they passed, one caught a whiff of the characteristic dusty cotton smell that per­ meated the atmosphere in the vicinity of every fac­ tory and weaving shed.


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whole districts were redo­ lent of it; for a couple of hundred yards of every spinning mill it hung upon tne air. Cotton was King and the smell was the odour of the county’s pros­ perity.


In the larger towns, Each Friday evening a . . ..


long train pulled, away from'Whalley station b u t- . dened with the week’s labour of the.local mills and those at Barrow, Langho and Sabden — a sight we shall never, see again. ■ Nor shall-we see those slow moving horse-drawn lorries that rumbled oyer the- cobbles ,of Station Road with sweating horses straining, at the shafts as they mounted the steep incline to the railway goods yard.


Now, few of the farmers \ .


• riding purposes only. It is, perhaps, a little


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even keep v a 'horse any more and the .few we see around the village are the hacks and ponies kept for.


■cal; technological age, whereas once .Mr and Mrs


cation of advancing years, but one cannot help but regard with lingering affection those days when not only the mill lorries, but the baker’s cart, the g reen g ro c er ’s and the butcher’s, the hawkers, the general dealers, not forgetting the oatcake and muffin man, each had a finely-kept horse between


the shafts of their respec­ tive vehicles. So often many of them


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