4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 'June 12th, 1980


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THERE is certainly no shortage of beautiful vases or dishes at the home of Billington woman Miss Helen Lowe.


the art of pottery making, and has plenty of exam­ ples of- her craft around ie r parents’ house in


For Helen is gifted in


Painter Wood. Helen (22) makes de­


pottery classes. At 18, she began a


lightful stoneware vessels and dishes by hand in slab or coil form. There are some wheel-thrown addi­ tions to the pots, but none of the vessels are actually made on a potter’s wheel.


she then decorates them with stoneware glazes and resist or engraved


With painstaking care


patterns. Helen who lives with


her parents, Mr and Mrs Arthur Lowe, attended Whalley CE School and Ribblesdale where she passed A-level art. She first became in­


She is also learning to play the organ and enjoys swimming, driving, mac- rame and other, handic­ rafts. She has a 19-year-old


teachers’ training course at the Ripon and York St John College, based at Ripon. She successfully completed the three-year course for the Certificate of Education and is cur­ r e n t ly te a c h in g a t W h i te a c re School, B a rrow , u n t i l the summer. _


currently on show at Whalley Library. The ex­ hibition was extended for a further two weeks from the original two and now closes on June 14th. Many of the item's were


Most of her pottery is


volved in pottery making in the sixth form at Rib-. blesdale, and in 1975 took a one-year O-level course in pottery, which she en­ joyed tremendously. She also began attending Whalley Adult Centre


Familiar


face THE new nursing officer at Clitheroe Hospital is already a familiar and f riendly face on the wards. Mr James Rennie (58),


brother, Bryan, who is a private in the army, based at Andover.


apprentices


T EENA G ERS Gary Win’ckley and William Wells have . given Clitheroe students a good name at Accrington Col­ lege, for they have won apprentice of the year awards.


Lane, Clitheroe, won his award for the best second year student on the motor vehicle apprentice course.


Gary (19), of Woone


ceived a challenge trophy, a replica and a set of spanners.


For his efforts he re­


Myers, of Clitheroe, and is a former pupil of Rib­ blesdale School.


He works for J. H.


Farm, Hurst Green, is quarry maintenance fitter at Ribblesdale Cement.


William (19); of Dene


of Union Street, Low Moor, has been a charge nurse at the hospital since 1974. He has been filling the


made when Helen was at college, although she now pursues her hobby at Whalley Adult Centre on two afternoons a week.


playing the guitar, yoga, and listening to records.


Consultant retires after 20 years


AFTER 20 years’ service, Dr Randal Stalker, of Clitheroe Road, Whalley, retired this week from his appointment as consultant chest physi­ cian to the Blackburn Hospital District.


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sionally at the Blackburn Chest Clinic and at Cal- derstones Hospital. Dr Stalker qualified at


He will still work occa­


Edinburgh in 1939 and served in the RAF from 1941 to 47, with two years


Helen’s hobbies include


apprentice award, he was presented with a chal­ lenge trophy, a replica and a set of screwdrivers.


For winning the trainee HELEN . . . pottery at library


vacant post of nursing of­ ficer since Mrs Alice Col- lingridge retired in Janu­ ary, but his appointment did not become official until last week. Mr Rennie, who has


in the annual procession to mark sermons day. Some of the Sunday School children will be at­


tired in ragged clothes to give the occasion an 18th century flavour. The procession, on June


held many varied posi­ tions during his career in nursing, worked in sever­ al northern towns before


trict Nursing Blackpool.


22nd, will move off from Church Street at 10 a.m., returning to church for a family service at 10-30. The children are prac­


coming to Clitheroe six years ago. His last job was deputy superintendent of the Dis- Service at


Frenchmen


plan a visit A GROUP of French folk musicians is keen to visit the Ribble Valley and possibly join other local bands for performances at the end of next month. The only snag is that


in India. Afterwards he worked


for Lancashire County Council as a tuberculosis officer. When Manchester Regional Hospital Board took over the county ser­


tising songs from the opera “A grain of mustard seed," written by Raikes. The preacher at the


service, the Rev. Peter Samman, vicar of Lostock Hall, recently produced a Robert Raikes festival at Blackburn Cathedral.


Cup win


for choir A CHOIR from St Mary’s Hall preparatory school, Stonyhurst, has won the


about 20 members of the group, from Le Havre, would like free family ac­ commodation in return. The group is taking


vice, he was based at Blackburn. He became consultant chest physician-


clinical tutor to the Black­ burn and District Post- Graduate Medical Centre. He served as president of the Blackburn Medical Society for a year in 1976. Dr Stalker’s two hob­


in 1960. From 1972 to 76 he was


on the Northern Circuit. Elizabeth is married to


bies are the study of Gothic architecture and wine, which encourage visits to Burgundy and Germany. Dr and Mrs Stalker


the noted Japanese violin­ ist Tomotada Soh and lives in Switzerland. She plays the violin in the Swiss Radio’s orchestra, and lectures at the Con­ servatoire in Lausanne.


have three daughters, Monica, the eldest, is a barrister, married to Mr Peter Ward. They live at Worsley and she practises under her maiden name


The youngest daughter, Morag, a pupil at Notre Dame, Blackburn,' has played the organ at the Church of the English Martyrs, Whalley, since she was nine years old.


Fair Cup for first place at the Lytham St Annes music festival.


Murray Brown said the boys, competing in the under 16s class, produced some lovely sounds in the first test piece, Britten’s “O can ye sew cushions?"


pupil of St Cecilia School, Longridge.


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F o s te r ,” by Wardale, their singing was lively and attractive, with a sparkling rhythm.


In the second, “Dr


ducted by the school’s di­ rector of music, Mr Harry Duckworth, whose wife Mary played the piano.


The choir was con­


choir, Paul Barrow and William Stone, were placed first and second re­ spectively in the under-16 boys’ solo singing class.


Two boys from the


gift WHEN residents of Lit- tlemoor House, the new Sabden sheltered housing scheme listen to their fav o u r ite records future, they will haye Ribble Valley Coun Michael Carr to thank. For Coun. Carr, of


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E ig h ta c r e Avenue Sabden, and his gir friend, Angela Jones, of Darwen, completed a 10 mile sponsored walk from the village to Barley and raised enough money to buy a record player for the pensioners. Coun. Carr, a teacher


W onder round our w ,AUXHALLS


at St Thomas Aquinas RC School, Darwen, handed over the gift to the resi­ dents on Friday.


part in a Scottish folk fes­ tival in Edinburgh bet­ ween July 16th and 20th. Before returning to


France on the 24th the musicians would like to visit one or two stops on the return journey. Any local organisations


interested in arranging any visit to the Ribble Valley should ring Le Havre 465105.


Sunday procession


DRESSED as Robert Raikes, who founded the Sunday School movement in Gloucester 200 years ago, a Sunday School teacher from Clitheroe Parish Church will walk


A playtime paradise


SIT back for a heavy dose of nostalgia this week. When I was a small boy the family lived for a period at 13 York S t r e e t , Clitheroe. Exactly how old I was


Whalley Window


when we went to that ad­ dress, I cannot be certain, but I remember clearly the ending of the first world war whilst we were there and I was only seven when that blessed event took place. Passing the old house


lent for small boys to climb upon and ideal starting points for the ascent of the sycamore


recently I noticed that it had now acquired-a name, “Regent House;” had it achieved th a t dignity whilst I was still there I would have felt like a prince. No. 13 was a splendid


tree. The courtyard was a


house and had advantages shared with our three neighbours lower down


real adventure playground for me, my brother, small sisters and the children of our neighbours. It was completely cut off from traffic (what little there was in those far off days), long enough for a rough cricket pitch, with the sy­ camore tree forming a convenient wicket. There was room, too, to


the street; each had its own small backyard, but each of those private areas opened into a spa­


Street. Firstly, it was very convenient for the Grammar School when I graduated to that establ­ ishment and, secondly, Frances lived next door but two. I fell deeply in love


with Frances and prop­ osed to her at regualr in­ tervals from the age of five to 11. The third very nice


thing about No. 13 was that it was right opposite the Public Hall and we were still there when it became The Grand Kinema, with Mr Ignatius Cullen in charge. In addition to his man­


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cious courtyard in which stood a sycamore, an ash, a small cottage where the Hindles lived, a coach house and five “two and th re e s e a te r ” s tone lavatories. The access from the


practise “shooting in,” to become more proficient with bows and arrows and, at various seasons of the year, to play hops­ cotch or buck and stick. The tarmaced coach en­


agerial duties, Mr Cullen was a brilliant pianist and accompanied the silent films on a grand piano but, my parents having an instrument he greatly ad­ mired, on days when things were quiet he would come across and play for an hour or so for the sheer pleasure of hearing the lovely tone, These were hours of


main street to the rear of the houses was through a gated “tunnel,” clearly an entrance for coaches when the property was first built.


lavatories have gone, re­ placed by a collection of


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trance provided first-rate shelter on rainy days and we were allowed to play there if we were quiet and didn’t disturb Mrs Parker and Miss Gudgeon who lived on either side. In the cottage Mr and


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Mrs F ran k Pee Brookhouse Green Dalehead, Slai Young Farmers' took part in compe for tne girls and judging for the there was also a stration of broor. crochet by Mrs D Pearson. Mrs J. Howarth, I\


Competitions While guests of


Parry and Mrs P made the folic awards in the girls p et itio n s — Se Rosemary Cross, Harrison, Joyce K- Juniors: Linda I(c Claire Townson, I Breaks, Sheila Kc Susan Pinder thank judges. The master judg


the judge, and the chairman, Neville son, thanked the hos


meeting at the Met Sunday School, er an any-questions s in which the pane Mrs Margaret Ha Mrs Brenda Howar John Barber and M: Wooff. The Rev. Ward


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H. Pickard, of Bolt Bowland, made th lowing stock ju- awards — Seniors: Harrison, Andrew F Gordon Whitfield, J Harrison. Juniors: Parker, Robert P Gary Swindlehurst : tie) David Harriso David Higham. Robert Parker th


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__, , , There were other very excel-'- nice things about 13 York


: was she, I think, who • probably awakened my in- • terest in . things old and curious.


, She often came across at night to baby sit for my sisters and me and had a remarkable fund of stories of old Clitheroe. It


Mrs Hindle lived with Mr' Hindle’s aged mother. P e rh ap s Mrs Hindle senior wasn’t terribly old, but everybody over 30 is ancient when you are very young.


pure delight and, at my special request, Mr Cullen always concluded his ad lib recitals by playing me “some exciting music, if you please, sir; the kind you play for the cowboy pictures.” Mr Cullen had one


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other talent I particularly admired — he could roll a cigarette more deftly than any man I ever met, before or since.


another skill he ‘had picked up from watching the cowboys; he really was a remarkable man and I was No. 1 in his fan club. A pity I failed to occupy the same position in Frances’s club. Re­ grettably, I was a very


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