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cross this road, doesn’t it imply that a .crossing is needed?”1
CAUTION Mr Kelly’s attention was 8S&
drawn to the . number of accidents there had been on the _ road, but he said these did not enter into the county council’s criteria for judging the need for a crossing.
Referring to the figures
for the past five years, he said the majority of acci dents had involved chil dren under 13, which suggested that a school crossing patrol would be ■more beneficial than a crossing — as only one adult had been knocked down.
It was often better, he
said, for old people to exer cise natural caution when crossing a road than to use a crossing wrongly.
IMPORTANT Coun. Cowgill suggested
that as the county council was building mainly peli can crossings, the whole question boiled down to costs.
CALLING OLD SOLDIERS
ANY Ribble Valley men who served in the 10th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers are invited to attend the 32nd annual reunion dinner at the Royal Hotel, Bury, on March 1st. Further details are
available from Mr C. Dewey, 1 Lincoln Avenue, Heald Green, Cheshire,
SK8 3LH (Tel. 061 437 3743).
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A reception was held at
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The couple will live at
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costs entered into it but were not, the only factor. Couri. Rodney Bradley
Mr Kelly conceded that
(Wilpshire) said that lives were more important than cash, especially when1 so much money was “wasted” on non-essential or less important schemes, such as cutting hedgerows. It was pointed out by
, Coun. Bert Jones that the county council would end up spending more money on tr a f f ic counts in Queensway than it would cost to lay a zebra cros sing. The committee unanim
ously agreed to a proposal from Coun. Fell that the county council should start work on a zebra crossing as soon as possible, though Mr Kelly again warned there were more factors involved than money. Members hoped that if
the county council first put down a zebra crossing they could concern themselves later with a request for a pelican crossing.
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125,000 leasehold. The Hark to Bounty is
thought to be one of Lan cashire’s oldest inns. Pre sent hoteliers Coun. Peter H e y and h is w i f e , Elisabeth,' who have been at the Slaidburn inn for 13 years, are leaving to take over a hotel in Salcombe, Devon.
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all right provided that the weather did not become too cold. The first consumers
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to users, advised people with freezers to delay the purchase of food until after March 8th — when it was proposed to again discon nect the supply for 13 hours.
Outrageous One consumer off Whal-
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it “outrageous”, that He ■ should be given only a week’s notices not to buy food for the freezer. He was also rather
One householder found
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Farmer Mr Harry Vic
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that Norweb was not pre pared to help out by loan ing generators to him and to other essential users. When he telephoned to ask what arrangements the Board was making, he was offered a list of firms which hire out generators.
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WINNERS ak the Pendle Club’s bridge sesston'vere 'Mrs E. Bush and Mr,*•
■Walker, Mrs R.‘Pye and Mrs J. Sellars.
“I asked who would be
paying; they said I would 1 Norweb commented that
it was not the Board’s po! icy to lend generators to individuals. Asked by our reporter
whether Norweb felt it had given rather short notice about the cuts, the spokesman pointed out that the Board is only leg ally obliged to give 24 hours’ notice.
Annoyed He said the Board obvi
ously tried to give longer warnings, but it was dif ficult to decide on the exact period, because if people were told too far in advance they might forget.
The cut in the supply
would have meant Billing- ton Brass Band Club clos ing all day on Saturday, unless a generator was found in time. Said steward Mr Clif
ford Fleming: “What has annoyed club officials is that we have been given no notice of the power cut at
the club.” . ! Mr, Fleming, who lives in
Longworth Road, received personal notice of the cuts last Saturday in a Norweb letter posted second-class.
Olga Leach, of West View, was not one of those a f f e c t e d , b u t w a s nevertheless concerned at the length of the switch- off.
Billington councillor Mrs C o u n : Mrs Leach
thought it would have been better for the work to be done mid-week, although Norweb said this would have hit local industry. She felt that mid-week
would also have been bet ter from an economic vie wpoint. “On the local council we
are, being instructed to make all possible spending cuts, yet Norweb is emp loying men to work over time on a Saturday.”
But one chicken farmer
took a more s to ic a l attitude. Mr Bernard Nob- lett, of Hodge Field Farm, admitted that although the power cut would not have hit very hard he did not feel criticism of Norweb justified.
“The work is essential,
that’s all there is to it,” he said. He conceded that it was inconvenient for dairy farmers, but thought ordi nary households nad no cause for complaint merely on “nuisance’^ grounds.
Chemists’ rota
TODAY and tomorrow. Boots, in Castle Street, Clitheroe, will be open from 6 to 7 p.m, Sunday; R. N. and M. Read, Moor Lane, Clitheroe — 12 noon to 1 p.m. Monday to Fri day — 6 to 7 p.m.
News dated March 21st, account of the abduction.
Brownlow Street, Clitheroe, whose parents had kept it,
was
THIS old photograph of Mr and Mrs Jackson sent t
parents of
Readers help in abduction
case research
LOCAL people have this week been helping relative of the woman in the Clitheroe abauctK case of 1891.
County rate
fiction.
Mr Robert Peel, who g r ea t-great-au n t was
up lip LANCASHIRE County Council is being recom mended to approve a 13 per cent rate increase next month.
The council’s Finance
Sub-Committee is recom mending a precept of 95p in the £ for 1980-81. The current county rate is 84p.
Sub-committee chair
man County Coun. M. A. H. Bates said that the com mittee had been mindful of its responsibility to make spending cuts but also to protect existing services. “Nevertheless, what we
are recommending is one of the lowest shire county rate increases in the coun try,” he said.
TOUR OF MILL
LAST week’s meeting of Clitheroe YFC took the
form of a visit to Holmes Mill, Greenacre Street, at the invitation of Mr Jim
Thornber. 1 After being taken on a
conducted tour of the mill, members were entertained to supper.
The congratulations , .
were extended to Frank Coar, who won the bil liards tournament .at t*Je regional sports night in Downham village hall. Three senior debating
teams from the club have qualified for the quartei-
fmals of the YFC count) competition to be held next
Tuesday.
abducted by her own hus band outside the gates of Clitheroe Parish Church, travelled from Hampshire to research details of the dramatic story. Mr P e e l has b e en
gathering information to help an author friend who hopes to write a book about the case. Mr Peel spent several
hours looking through the newspaper files of the Clitheroe Advertiser, copying obituaries of people involved in the case. He also visited the
homes of several Clitheroe people who gave what information they could about the lives of the lead ing protagonists in the
drama. Mr P e e l w as a lso !
interested to read an old j pamphlet sent to the j Clitheroe Advertiser by ; Mr Robert Waterworth, of B 'r en n an d S t r e e t , Clitheroe. The booklet, “The true
story of the Clitheroe j abduction” or “Why I ran j ife"
away with my written by Mr Edmund ! Haughton Jackson, the j abducting husband.
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STREET ! NAME
MELLOR Parish Council has rejected as “com p le te ly unsuitable” a request from t.he builder developing a site at Els- wick Mill that the street should be called "The Hamlet”. Ribble Valley Council’s
’ to retain “Elswick” for the street name; >as the area had been known as -Els- w ick b ey o n d l iv in g memory. • •' ■ l. The Parish'Councils
Public Works-and’Health Committee heard at its meeting on- Tuesday that the Parish Council wanted
'suggestion1 was; “Elswick ; Gardens” ; :: which ;was : accepted! by- the ‘com-, mittee.
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in_ by Mr Marvin Hayhurst, together with a copy pf. Police
T H E R E w i l l be strange goings-on in Ch a tb u rn to n ig h t w h e n t h e e v i l Bluebeard walks the dungeons of “Castle Creeps”. With a cast which
includes “ Gurgling Godfrey and the Ghos- ties”, audiences at the pantomime presented by Chatburn Playing Fields Committee are assured of laughs as well as shocks. Performances are
being given tonight, tomorrow and Satur day in the school hall at Chatburn.
Higher prices
for fat cows
1891, giving an
FAT cattle were slightly dearer at Monday’s fat- stock sale at Clitheroe Auction Mart and fat cows mad e s u b s t a n t i a l increases. Hoggs main tained similar, rates to last week.
Forward were 72 fat cat
tle, including 23 fat cows, 47 ewes and 291; hoggs.
8 7 .2p per kg (average 82.7p), medium to 88.6p (82.Ip), light heifers to 81.6p (76.4p), medium to 80p (76. Ip). Overall steers and heifers averaged
79.7p. Uncertified steers made
to 80.6p (77.2p), heifers to 78p (71.4p), fat cows to 65p (58.4p).
Light lambs made to
167.5p (average 155.2p), standard to 158p (147,5p), medium to 149.5p (142.2p), heavy to 138p (136p). Overall lambs averaged 150.4p. Half-bred ewes made to £19 per head (average £17.40), horned to £18 (£14.05).
There was good trade
for all stock at Friday’s sale, with 18 in-calf and 104 store cattle forward. Feb.-March calving cows made to £470 (average £412), April calving cows
to £470 (£381), in-calf heif
ers to £420 )£402). Friesian bullocks made
to £296, Hereford to £302, Charolais to £280, Murray Grey to £280, Friesian heifers made to £306, H e r e fo r d to £ 2 2 8 , Charolais to £336. Friesian bull stirks made to £212, Hereford to £190.
Gisburn
Shire horses A talk on the breeding
and showing of Shire horses, illustrated by slides, was given to Gis burn wl by Mr and Mrs G. Emmott, of Steeton, near Keighley. They answered q u e s t io n s and w e r e thanked by Mrs Gwen Moorhouse. ■ President Mrs Susan Graveston asked members to observe a silence in memory of Mrs R. Slater, a founder member. ,. A competition for a piece of brass, judged by Mr Emmott, was won by Mrs A. Frankland, Mrs E. Pre ston, Mrs E. Asquith, Mrs J. Dibb and Mrs L. McDougall. - The birthday party,
postponed because of bad weather, is to be held on March 20th.
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DEVOTED ANGLER DIES (70)
ONE of the best-known I anglers in the Clitheroe area, Mr Harry Lester, died in Queen’s Park Hos p ita l , Blackburn, on| Tuesday. Mr Lester (70), of Kirk I
Avenue, Low Moor, had been ill for only a short | time. A native of the village, I
he worked at Low Moor Mill for a time as a weaver before moving to Shrop shire where he worked on | a farm for several years. He later returned to the I
area and worked at a farm near Whalley before join ing the maintenance sec-1 tion at the CWS Withgill
Estate in 1947. He was regarded as an I
expert in hedging, ditching | and draining. He retired from the I
estate in 1974. Mr Lester was a devoted angler and I spent most of.his spare| time at the sport. He was one of the I
longest serving members of RibblesdaVe Angling! Association and was club| bailiff for about 20 years. ,A bachelor, Mr Lester
leaves a brother and four sisters. A funeral service at St
Paul’s Church, Low Moor, tomorrow will be followed b y c r e m a t i o n a Accrington.
Fined £15
FOR driving a car without a test certificate in Lower- gate, Clitheroe, Colin Stanley Meekins, Padiham Road, Sabden, was fined £15 at Clitheroe.
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