4 Clitheroe. Advertiser and Times, March 13th, 1980


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‘Tottie ’ keeps local heart fund ticking


SPRIGHTLY pensioner Mr “Tottie” Titterington keeps the Clitheroe Heart Machine Fund ticking smoothly.


At the age of 75, Tottie


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DUCK STREET, CLITHEROE.


— a nickname that has stuck from childhood — is responsible for collecting contributions to the fund. Since it was started in


ro u n d & a b o u t


the middle of last year, the fund has paid for a defibril­ lator and cardiac monitor machine, worth about £2,000. This device gives the


heart an electric shock and is being put to good use at Clitheroe Health Centre — but two more machines are needed. Tottie, of Whalley Road,


says he is confident the fund will reach this target. Contributions ranging from 30p handed over by a woman in the street to £441 donated by three Masonic lodges have today pushed the total to more than £3,200. “I never thought about


reaching this kind of figure, but it’s a wonderful cause and I’ll carry on col­ lecting contributions for as long as I’m able,” adds Tottie. He decided to take


moved to Chatburn, and l a t e r r e t u r n e d to Clitheroe. During the Sec­ ond World War, Tottie served in the Navy, travel­ ling to South Africa, the Mediterranean and the Far East. He then spent 20 years


working in London in an export business, before going to live in Clitheroe and Fleetwood for short


was back to Clitheroe and they have lived in Whalley Road for the past 10 years, T o t t ie . working as a despatch clerk at Atkin­ son^ until his retirement. But despite all his


spells. The couple’s last move


travels, the nickname has remained. Explains Tottie: “My grandmother gave me the label because I was very small as a child. The name caught on with all my other relatives and I’ve been stuck with it for life.”


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charge of the collecting, following the death of his brother-in-law from a heart complaint. Tottie himself knows all about such troubles, for he sur­ vived a thrombosis three years ago. T o t t i e , re a l name


Thomas, was born in Cum­ bria and came to Clitheroe with his family at the age of two. They lived in the former lodge next to Cas­ tle House and he worked for a firm of solicitors based in what is now the museum. After he and his wife, Lily, were married, they


invitation THERE will be a tasty chain re a c t io n when mayors and mayoresses from all over Lancashire meet for lunch at Whalley Abbey in April. The dignitaries have


Civic


the Mayor’s Ball, but Coun. Fell’s was cancelled because of lack of support. The lunch, on April 9th,


will be preceded by a tour of Whalley Parish Church, guided by Coun. Fell and the vicar, the Rev Alec Harpur. Also present at the lunch


will be the Mayor’s chap­ lain, the Rev Graham Vic­ kers, the Methodist minis­ ter in Whalley, and the Ribble Valley Council’s Chief Executive, Mr Michael Jackson.


Nostalgic


revival DO you remember the annual afternoon tea and bring-and-buy sale organ­ ised in Clitheroe by the local Christie cancer fund­ raising committee?


when the ballroom at the S ta rk ie Arms Hotel became the scene of bus­ tling activity, with white- covered tables the whole length of the room form­ ing a gigantic bring-and- buy and craft stall, where home baking and hand­ iwork of every kind could be purchased. While enjoying a plated


Those were the days


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event, after a staggering 32 years in office, will be chairman Mrs Isabel Dawson, backed by her committee. Four of them are also


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AFTER 12 years of re­ search, a Blackburn man has discovered the


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. Clitheroe resident who was one of only two Coldstream guards to be. awarded the Albert Medal in World War I.


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£29, £38, £48, £58______ Tottie . . . survived a thrombosis Memories Helping to run the of ‘home’


FOR New Zealand woman Mrs Jean Gibson, the Rib­ /alley in spring con­


ble Valley


original members — trea­ surer Mrs Myra Clegg, Mrs Annie Taylor, Mrs Nina Pickthall and Mrs


Ethel Thomas. Mrs Dawson, of Kemple


View, Wiswell, founded the committee of 10 in 194S. Over the years, as­ sisted by the generosity of people in Clitneroe and district, well over £16,000 has been raised for the


been invited to this first- ever type of lunch in the Ribble Valley by the Mayor, Coun. Jimmy Fell, to return the hospitality he has received in their boroughs. This is usually done at


tea, complete with but­ tered scone and Scotch pancake, the visitor could admire another now van­ ished feature of such gra­ cious occasions — the splendid hats of the ladies on the organising com­ mittee. Now all that is being


revived next Wednesday, again at the Starkie


• Women’s Trust Fund for cancer research in the Christie Hospital, Man­ chester. The com m i t te e is


jures up najppy memories. In a letter this week to


the Advertiser and Times from her Auckland home, Mrs Gibson spoke of her family connections with Clitheroe and of her great affection for local folk. She recalled a trip five


The medal, today dis­ continued, was awarded for bravery during war in saving several lives in France when some


Si nc e t he n, he has learned that the medal his grandfather won was bought by an Au­ stralian museum three years ago.


The Clitheroe connec­ t ion wi th Mr. Dunn comes about because his parents used to live in Back Salford, which is now demolished. During the war, this was also the home of Mr Dunn’s daughter Elsie, who is Mr Nolan’s mother.


railway t r uc ks ex­ ploded.


years ago, when she and her young d a u g h te r , Janine, visited Pendle Hill and Clitheroe Castle. With the dark days of


hoping to welcome new patrons to the event, as well as faithful supporters from the past, some of whom will no doubt recall the early days when Messrs Hothersall and Forrest used to auction tea, sugar and silk stock­ ings during the afternoon.


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TONIGHT I am very annoyed with myself. I have called myself an ass, an idiot, an imbe­ cile and a variety of other, all uncom­ plimentary names. In my anger and humili­


ation, I do assure you, I would have torn my hair, had not there been so little left to tear, and would have k ic k ed m y s e lf with


extreme vigour on the most tender part of my anatomy, had I been cap­ able of such physical con­ tortion.


For what reason am I ven­ ting on my own person the spleen I so rarely vent on


Why, you may well ask.


others? , The reason is quite sim­


ple. Some weeks ago 1 wrote about one John Brooks, a Whalley lad who


moved to Crawshawbooth, where he attained not only a position of high social standing but amassed con­


or not he was any connec­ tion with the more famous Samuel Brooks, the two men being contemporary


siderable personal wealth in so doing. I speculated on whether


Samuel’s elder brother and that the two young men were brought up together at Lawsonsteads and worked cheek by jowl on tjieir father’s farm. ,


‘' Which all goes to prove how fallible is human mem­ ory, for I must have read


the item at least once all those years ago, or 1 would not have taken the trouble to preserve it so carefully.


Whalley Window paper) 1 can start to specu-


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had any


dence of any relationship. And 1 was wrong.


evi­


collected and preserved news cuttings and articles which made reference to the history and old cus­ toms of our area and tonight, seeking an item I had misplaced, skimmed through one of the earliest of these albums; one, quite truthfully, I had not seen for the past 18 years. I did not find the item I


For many years I have


what subsided (it is a good way of getting rid of built- in passion to sit down and place your thoughts on


the natural order of such things, would likely leave the nouse in Brooks Lane some years before Samuel took a' similar decision. Was it John’s success,


Now, my anger some­


autumn drawing in “down under,” Mrs Gibson also remembered her walks through bluebell-laden woods of the Ribble Valiev and fields clustered witn marigolds. Mrs Gibson emigrated


from Preston in 1947, but her grandmother, Alice Nuttall, was born in Low Moor and h er great- grandparents are buried in Clitheroe Parish Chur­ chyard.


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In thi s peri od, Mr Dunn’s mother remar­ ried, taking the name Brown. Mr Nolan is therefore trying to trace members of the Brown family, some of whom could still be living in the Clitheroe area.


Two of th e Browns were killed in the war and another two died at an early age, but Mr Nolan believes there were five or six other membeis-of the family in the town.


Freder i ck Brown was one of those killed i action. His name is o th e c e n o t a p h a Clitheroe Castle and on a memorial tablet in SS Michael and John’ Church, Lowergate.


The youngest, Walter at one time lived in Pimlico Road. He mar­ ried Miss Mary Ed mondson and their son Raymond would now be in his forties.


Anyone who can help Mr Nolan in his search for his relations can con­ tact him after 6 p.m. at Blackburn 55407.


Mr Nolan thinks Walter worked on the railway in Clitheroe and later, as a chimney sweep.


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ting from an un-named publication 1 read the h e a d l in e “ W h a l le y brothers who found fame and fortune" and, reading on, found that John was


had lost but, almost on the very last page, I found the article resonsible for tonight’s chagrin and self abasement. Above an undated cut­


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THE _ Ramblers’ A| sociation wants nel public rights of w;f along the banks of Ribble to create a 4| mile riverside walk.


would start from Payt| orne Bridge near Gisbuif and follow the river to i| estuary in the Irish Se| near Preston.


The “ Ribble Wail


path envisaged is 42 mill of which only 23 are exisl ing rights of way. Til remainder is mostly .. private fishermen’s patll and would need to be d | dicated to the public.


The total length of t il


The Association is seell ing the support of thl


Countryside Commissiol which has powers to makf substantial grants to pnl jects of this nature.


I - f X : * 1 a j i -


shire Dales. That propos; failed to win the suppoil of the Countryside Coni mission . . . so this timl we have kept the patl entirely within Lancal shire.”


the Ribble in the Yori a long-


the wa av


even in its shortened forr the Ribble Way wouliL open up to country-loverl some magnificent scenerg at present enjoyed onlj by farmers, landowners! anglers and trespassers. He said that the Ribbltl


Mr Howard added tha|


because of its beauty am] nearness to the towns c; industrial Lancashire, wai ideal for a recreations path. “We do not think th-|


man of the association! mid-Lancashire area, saij "We originally suggeste •aistanc


listance path to the source (|


Mr Alan Howard, chai:| wa


banks wi l l be com- crowded with visitor] except in a few of thll


Housii


AN application for lol velopment on more tl between Bramley Mel Clitheroe Road. Whall the Ribble Valley Cc ment (number 0246). Also from Whalley is


plan to build a car port or the gable end of 12 The Sands (0232).


Speakers' Club ,


THE life and times o Grizzly Adams was Johi Lawson’s topic in his firs speech at Cl i therot , Speakers'Club.


tied “A happy day” wai given by Don Meadows Both were well received Frank Nelson was chair man, Chris Roberts wa: topics chairman and Alai ■Ross timekeeper. Evaluations were mad<


Another speech, enti


bv Brian Allison, Don An derson, Dr Khnshn:


Gurumurthy and Lei Long: The next meeting at the Swan and Roya


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Hotel, on Tuesday will bi a joint, one with Black burn Ladies Speakers


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