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IT’S funny how fate can throw Independent Radio News reporters . . . both from Clitheroe.


; They even had many of the same friends, but it was only when they joined commercial radio that they realised they knew each other from way back.


school and the same polytechnic and used to live within half a mile of each other in the town.


They went to the same


ing for Piccadilly Radio, the commercial station in M a n c h e s te r ,” says Greenwood (29). “I’d just joined and I saw John scribbling away at some scripts and humming the old school song.


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ing,” says Armstrong (31), “is that I should have been humming, of all songs, that song. It’s quite the most ridiculous I’ve ever heard. All about not shirking work or play


sive year of lunches, the venue has had to be changed. With Clitheroe’s United Reformed Church presently being redeco­ rated, the organisers have moved the talks to the hall fover of SS Michael and John’s RC Church, Lower- gate. The five lunches will be


held on Tuesday’s between 5 p.m. and 1-45 p.m.


Ploughman’s snacks will be available at a cost-of 50p, the proceeds going to Christian Aid. . The dates are: February


THE Ribble Valley Coun­ cil of Churches is again marking Lent with a series of lunches at which a vari­ ety of speakers will share their experience as Christ­ ians. But for this third succes­


“We were both work­ together. Take the story of John Armstrong and John Greenwood


round & about


and 400 years of glorious past.”


have covered some of the world’s major stories. Greenwood, for instance, was in New York for the Galente “Mafia" killings; he was the first journal­ is t to in te rv iew an exhausted Ted Heath after the Fastnet Yacht Race disaster, and has just returned from the election of the new Irish Prime Minister in Dublin. “There is a glamorous sid e to working for


Lenten lunches


26th, when local headmas­ ter Mr Howell Jones will speak‘‘On being a Christ­


ian in education," March VOcv, wVen flm foplt of Vta Ken Guy, an assessment


! Each speaker will.-talk for about 20 minutes-and then everyone can join in a general discussion. “Anyone interested is


' officer at Caiderstones will money, "h e added.


chaired by local clergy­ men. One of them, the Rev. John Cole, of Pendle­ ton, said he hoped people would support the lunches as well as they had previ­ ously.


on March 25th, Mr Peter Laycock, a planning engineer with Norweb, will talk about “Being a Christian in management." The meetings will be


be “A Christian facing dis­ ablement,” March 11th, when Mr William Holliday will speak “On being a Christian' in retirement,” and March 18th, when “A Christian in family life” will be the subject of a Blackburn Diocesan MU representative. For the last gathering,


Manchester, Armstrong moved on to Fleet Street and Independent Radio News, where he is now a political correspondent working from studios in W e s tm in s te r . Who should follow him to IRN, a mere three months later, but John Greenwood. Since then the two


After two years in .■


IRN," he says. “You can travel all over the world — but it can be darned hard work as well and a lot of people don’t realise.” Says A rm s t ro n g ,


“Many people think it’s all very simple — that all you do is sit someone in front of a microphone and ask a few questions. “But particularly in the


BUSY in the studio — John Greenwood, (left) and John Armstrong.


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lot of p r e p a r a t io n beforehand. You don’t just plonk Jim Prior down in front of you and say ‘What’s it all about then?” The story which most.


sticks in Armstrong’s mind is the assassination of Airey Neave. “When I think back to it,” he says, “I can still hear the explo­ sion and picture that awful scene.” People, even those who


comes in handy whenever they want to pass the buck or brush off a com­ plaint. Armstrong, who now


lives in St Albans, and London-based Green­ wood regularly travel back to Clitheroe and are surprised how little it has changed over the years. Greenwood’s mother


lives in Kirkmoor Road, and Armstrong, a former columnist on the Liver­ pool Daily Post, still has a local connection. His wife, formerly Anne McDougall, comes from’ Clitheroe and used to work for the Advertiser and Times, and her mother lives in Woone Lane.


know Armstrong and Greenwood quite well, still get them mixed up. “We are both from the same town, both have the same sort of voice and although we hardly look like identical twins we have the same facial fea­ tures," says Greenwood. Both admit that this


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a dance MORRIS men from a wide area will be putting on their clogs and converging on Clitheroe for a “Day of dance” on May 24th.


note behind the frolics, because the Clitheroe Mor­ r is dancers, who have organised the event, are hoping to draw attention to the poor condition of the Castle bandstand and put pressure on the Ribble Valley Council to do some­ thing about it.


But there is a serious As well as the Clitheroe


ladies and mens’ teams there will be visiting per­ formers from Manchester, Workington, Saddleworth and two parties from Coventry.


teams will be splitting into three and setting off on separate tours of the town. However, each contingent will be passing through the


During the morning, the


Market Place at some time.


Lunch will be at the


Swan and Royal Hotel, with the action from 4 p.m. onwards switching to the bandstand, where there will be music by a band from Skipton. In the even­ ing the dancers will go to


the Starkie Arms Hotel for a meal. All costs are being met


by the Clitheroe group and will be offset by any dona­ tions received.


Newcomers’


debut TWO new members of Whalley Players will be making their debut in the next production, “Intent to Murder,” next Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Whalley Adult Centre.


ing a young girl and Briar Haworth takes the lead, George.


Carole Dewhurst is play­


nan male


the familiar faces of John and Liz Caton, Edith Tre­ vor and young member


Audiences will also see


welcome to come and go as \-\ve-s ptease and at tfop Mae lunch is good value for


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developer, who built Whal- Nd He lies buried in our old


churchyard and a stained glass window in the south msta of owe pafv&V church c om m em o r a te s his


kindness of a tegular reader (to whom l am grateful) 1 can tell you


memory. Today, through the


something of yet another Brooks of this village who achieved great distinction.


service and politics by being elevated to the peer­ age. He is yet another oi the alumni of Whalley


Grammar School whose achievements are worthy of record.


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moved to Crawshawbooth on the fringes of the then rapidly growing town of Burnley where he went into partnership with a Mr


Butterworth as a calico printer in premises thev


christened the Sunnyside Printworks.


pered and, in due course John fathered a son!- Thomas, who was sent to Whalley to commence his education at the Grammar . ocnool. Thomas proved an apt pupil and later moved


The partnership pros-


to Pans where he studied for several years. Returning to this coun- 1


The story of the family


Indeed, he ended a career in commerce, public


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Stewart Moody, who made his mark in the Players’ last production, “Watch it, Sailor."


P ro d u c e r Gay Cox


describes the thriller as “not so much a whodunnit,


but a will-they-get-away- with-it?” Tickets are selling well


and can_ be obtained at Whitakers sweet' shop or from any member. Auditions for the Play­


ers’ forthcoming produc­ tion of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer N ig h t ’s Dream” are being held on February 27th and 28th at Whalley CE School.


Reunion for Scouts


THERE will be a chance to chat about old times for a leader and two Scouts from Clitheroe when they attend the World Jam­ boree Reunion in Preston next month.


tant district commissioner; Duncan Fielding (18), of Peel Park Avenue; and Jeremy Barker (16), of Shays Drive, were among about 250 Scouts from other countries to visit the Jamboree in New Mexico last year.


in County Hall, Preston, on March 1st,' is to be attended by Scouts from Lancashire and some from Cumbria.


A DISTINGUISHED SON W h a ) ) e y W i n d o w


try, he learned the art of ca/fco printing'at the Sad­ den works of Richard Cob- .


engaged in the manage­ rs/ the Crawshaw-


throughout the county and was u^wovcAed High.


f\m\ was wow \wlxKv wvwg and Thomas pospered. He became w e l l k n ow n


five \wdwsbt\a\ fLevolw-


tested the Rossendale Par­ liamentary Division as a Unionist, but failed to gain the seat.


peerage in the year of his electoral defeat and took1 the title of Baron Craw- shaw, of Crawshawbooth. Not bad for a lad who com­ menced his education at the little grammar school in a small Lancashire village. For a number of years


He was elevated to the


he served as a JP, was for a time Deputy Lieutenant of the county and, by way of contrast, was Master of the Rossendale hunt for a


long period. In Alfred Peel’s detailed


an d im m a c u l a t e ly researched “His story of Crawshawbooth and dis­ trict,” from which much of the detail of this article is taken, I read the following: “The generosity of he


(i.e. Lora Crawshaw) and his family has indeed been great. Their benefactions to all deserving obiects, the poor, political and edu­ cational in s t i tu t io n s , churches and chapels, will cause his and th e i r memories to be held in kindly remembrance for many years, especially by the inhabitants of . Craw­ shawbooth in,whose pros­ perity they, have for,so


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From the foregoing we of owr village was, aome- \w


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new to me, only one thing puzzles me and th is \ must take pains to elucidate. John Brooks and the


Samuel Brooks to whom I made reference in my opening paragraphs were, within a year or two, con-


Now, with all this infor- mation, which was quite


there were two families of the same name who hoth’ achieved considerahie fame and fortune. Here, certainly, is scope


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