4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, October 9tli, 1980 . HR AD of H IN? EAR G


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AN association with the education service lasting 44 years ends , at Christmas with the retirement of Mr Fred Calvert,


been education officer for the Ribble Valley district of the County Council since reorganisation in 1974.


Mr Calvert. (GO)- has ■ ;


of Westwood Avenue, Rishton, is looking for­ ward to retirement, • he will miss the many people who*have made his job so absorbing and rewarding. If there have been any


Although 'Mr Calvert,


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things he wanted to do for the schools. • 7 The job had been ab-,


disappointments about'the service, they have been in the last few years'.'when the economic climate made it difficult to achieve many of the


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sorbing from the point of; view of the variety of in-; volvement, covering negotiations with ar­ chitects, transport ser­ vices, the appointment of staff and dealings.: with the public. A native of Blackburn


and a pupil of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Mr C a lv e r t started with the education


, in 1949 was appointed first assistant in the former Division 10 at Rishton. ■ '■ Following reorganisa­


from 1940 to 46-and'was awarded the BEM in De­ cember 1943.- He ■ returned, to _ Black­ burn ; education office and


service at the Blackburn office in August 1936. He was in the RAF


/ His connection with Clitheroe began with the old divisional executive committee which met at Whalley from 1951 until 1974. ; In 1972 he was made, acting divisional education officer.


tion in 1951, Mr Calvert was made .chief, assistant in Division 5, based at Rishton. •


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; and electronics and in all forms of engineering. Music is another hobby


..the RAF, Mr Calvert has maintained an interest in the development .of radio


Annie when she was youth employment officer in Blackburn. They have a son Peter (21), who re­ cently graduated from Preston Polytechnic with a law degree and is work­ ing for Hampshire County, Council. A wireless mechanic in


Mr Calvert met his wife . THE Steeles . . . happy here Ready to


entertain CLITHEROE Morris Men want to hear from -villages in the Ribble Valley which would like a visit from the troupe next year. .


has been drawn up from February to September including locations from the Lake District to Hampshire. Among, these are tours of Clitheroe and Whalley and a day of dance in Clitheroe.


A draft programme


and Mr Calvert is a highly skilled pianist and,organ­ ist. He is vice-president of Great Harwood Brass Band Club and hopes to be able to spend a little more time with them in his retirement.


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the borough council will now enable the Morris Men to call at locations they would not normally have been able to afford to visit.


However, a grant from


to parish councils round the borough asking them to suggest places, perhaps coinciding with local, fes­ tivities, which the dancers could visit. Surfaces must be hard to accommodate the clogs and within easy distance of refreshments!


The troupe has written


by the Morris Men should be! given to the troupe’s secretary, Mr Bill Alker, 21 Greenfield Avenue, Chatburn (Tel. 41676) 'by November 15th.


Any requests for, a visit Dairy


talk GROUPS planning a programme of events for next year may be in­ terested to know that they can have a cookery demonstration and learn all about the value of milk and da iry produce through the Milk Market­ ing Board.


visit by “Mary from the dairy,” who will also be glad to speak to schools and colleges, can be made by contacting the MMB at Skipton Road, Harrogate.


Arrangements for a • Chance to


speak up PEOPLE in Clitheroe have the chance to air their views on the coun­ try’s problems at a public meeting at- the Parish Hall on Monday (8 p.m.) It has been organised by Clitheroe Division MP Mr David Waddington; who is anxious to keep in touch with the thoughts of his constituents. Plenty of time will be given for questions and comments from the audience.


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CLITHEROE pub man-, ager Jack Steele was sick­ ened when he learned that his- public house was to be switched from man­ agement; to tenancy.


had been at the King’s Arms, Bawdlands, little I more than a year, but they had been extremely happy since they moved to Clitheroe from Preston.


He and his wife Sharon 1


pointment that they might | be transferred to another managed pub in another I town ended this week when the brewery offered 1 them the tenancy of the | King’s Arms.


However, their disap­


delighted when the bre­ wery said we could stay j and take over as tenants,” said Mr Steele.


“We were absolutely I


. first term at Clitheroe | Royal Grammar School.


Mr Steele (32), is now a businessman in his own right and no longer re-, ceives a,salary as,he did [ as a manager.


By becoming a tenant, I


He has worked for the | Matthew Brown brewery,


Blackburn, for five years i and says he never ex­ pected to be able to | obtain a tenancy so soon.


warm tribute to his regu-, I lar customers, who sent a | petition to the brewery when they heard he might | be leaving.


Mr Steele added a I


licensee to know he has I that kind of support among his regulars,”- he said.


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had ■ been particularly I upset about the prospect of moving, because. their 11-year-old son Christ­ opher had just started his


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SOME of the members of Ribblesdale Camera Club found themselves on the other side of the lens when they held their annual club supper at the Duke


of York; Grindleton.


main winter syllabus. The long dark months ahead wilt be brightened every Tuesday evening with a varied programme of photographic activities, guest speakers and practical demonstrations.


The dinner, for members, wives and friends, marked the opening of the ■ ■ ■ , . .. . , Recorded for posterity


IN May, 1905, the first edition of a new Lancashire magazine appeared, “The Ram­ bler,” and I am fortu­ nate in possessing copies of the first 18 issues., • In the main the journal


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records the activities of the Spring. Vale Ramb­ lers, of Darwen, but there are articles also on : local history and the fauna and flora of the district and as most, of the ramblers’ ex­ cursions were into our Ribble Valley area, they are of considerable inter­ est to those folk who, 80 years later, follow in their footsteps. -■


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’ live in Abbey: Fold and quickly became-a . promi­ nent personality, on : the village scene. . • A ■ frequent contributor to, the, magazine .was, the late Stephen Clarke,; of


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! features and •; beauty, spots : which,. regrettably,i. have


1 long,since disappeared.. . < ! ,.There are, for example, : ; four, excellent! pictures.; of i the’,, former. Bolton./HalL


: as “Roman remains” but ! were, in reality,- a typical 18th century folly. This fact clearly had not-been


once the refuge of King Henry VI but now de­ molished, and there are fine photographs, too, of our Whalley Baby House Towers which suffered a similar fate 30 to 40 years ago. - Amusingly, these latter are described in the text


■ conveyed to this earlier writer, who informed his readers that , the .central tower was'“the chief one used in troublous times as a look-out station so that any enemy might be de­ tected from “afar” and that “the two smaller towers held provisions for the garrison on duty.”


came under the au­ ctioneer’s hammer in 1924 - the hall itself and his­ toric Park Head, birth­ place of Roger Kenyon, one-time Governor of the Isle of Man, together with a dozen or more other farmsteads. From that date on,


contribution to village life in Victorian and Edwar­ dian days. The whole of the estate


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Moreton had a chequered history. It was a tempor­ ary home for British and Polish troops in the last war .and was finally de. molished - soon after the end of hostilities. . A pity, I think, for. it was unique. Moreton Hall was a “calendar house”


its smoke.” Finally, from time to


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v. these, perhaps, can be ex- - cused because excavations in the early ■ 1930s re-: vealed detail of which the: author could, not . have; -been aware,in 19p5.


: - In the description -of our abbey, too, there are ■ a-number of :errors,, but


;. t.'Of greater value are the ; photographs .ofMoreton ' Hall,: a splendid -old fman- : sion, once the home of the : Wprsley-Taylors, which


■; worked at the: hall, or in j the extensive grounds and i farmlands, and, the, family ! in^ reqidepce imadqf a <


•■:was an object of. pride to ; every Whalley villager. • Many : of r our, old-timers


great-


' timbered mansion and the inscription .* “Old , Moreton, Hall,” under the mistaken belief that.the plates illus­ trate a‘ ■ former, hall -.de­ molished i; in . 1805 which


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: the,; later - .building:, re ­ placed.


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t 'A pity, I wish it was ours!


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