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Jim aims for a
slim line
WHEN Mr Jim Wilson, landlord of the ' Three Fishes at Mitton, found he was putting on.weight, he decided he must forego the social drinks with cus tomers and his wife’s deli cious cooking in order to shed th e unwanted pounds. But .the only way he
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A job for the girls
.Gaze‘ to restore" two. brass candelabra above the altar in StvAn- drew’s. Church.
SLAIDBURN children have/just earned their wings by: helping, the ■Rector, the Rev; ‘G. H.
Over the years a few
of,'the/.doves’ wings ■ on^.\parish".invitedctoy fit;i- the top'of the gas-lit' them.' candelabra have been .
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lost,-so. when the fit- Our'picture .shows tingswere converted to '. Janet, Whitaker; (9), of ,
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- electricity,1 it-, was de;: J W o o d e n d j j , F.a r m, c i d ed • .t o ; r e f u r b i s h Dunsop Bridge‘,replac--y, .them.
New. wings' were cast wa tch ed t by .o th e r and-the-children’of the helpers.
; ■ ' ing the (last wing, ,
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WHEN 18-yearvold Eric Conway passed out as a Royal Marine Commando, his grandfather, a keen photographer,: was on the spot to, see him awarded the Green Beret and to record the
occasion.
Harold Eccles, of Gates- garth, Littlemoor Road, Clitheroe, is president of the Ribblesdale Camera Club. He was at the cere mony a t th e Royal Marines Commando train ing centre at Lympstone, Devon, together with his wife, Florrie, and Eric’s parents, Mr and Mrs R. F. Conway, formerly of Clitheroe and who now live in Wolverhampton. Eric, who joined the Marines in January, also received the King, George V-Badge for the best all round re c ru it in the King’s Squad. The badge is worn on a-soldier’s left shoulder throughout his career.
Eric’s grandfather, Mr
could keep rigidly to' a diet of salad and one glass of lager a day was by enlisting the help of cus tomers and making it a sponsored slim! Now, every time he is
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Eric served alongside Prince Andrew, who was there on a three weeks course from Dartmouth. .E r ic ’s mother, Mrs
While at Lympstone, .
round & about
Wins rosebowl
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A WALLIS and Steevens “Advance” six-ton twin- cylinder' road, roller', owned by Mr Rufus Can’, of Rimington, won the G. C. Hardinge Rose Bowl for the best roller at the recent Castle Howard Steam Fair . . . . for the fifth time.
trophy from Mr George Howard, the newly-ap pointed BBC governor. The machine was built
Mr Carr received the
in Basingstoke in 1923 and restored to rally con dition seven years ago.
tempted to have a drink, he has to submit to jibes from any one of his 40 or so sponsors who might be on the other side of the bar.
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which Jim hopes will reduce him from his pre sent 141/2 stone to around 11 stone, is scheduled to end by the second week in September, when he ex pects to have a tidy , sum to send to cancer re search.
The self-imposed slim, !
REHEARSALS have just begun for Clitheroe Parish Church Dramatic Society’s 'n ex t play, “Celebration,” by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. It will be given from November 27th to 29th.-
Helen Conway, taught at' Ribblesdale School and was PE mistress and Guide captain before moving to Wolverhampton where she is a remedial supervisor.
Where to park
VISITORS to Clitheroe will in future be able to pick up free leaflets in the town’s shops, showing where they can park their cars. The Ribble Valley
Council has just printed 1,500 giveaway maps of the most convenient park ing places near the town centre in response to a suggestion from the Clitheroe and District Chamber of Trade. Most of the leaflets are already on the shop counters and a- further. 1,000 are to be printed.-
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Kept tracks in trim
CLITHEROE man Mr Harold Septimus Wooff has received .a certificate to mark 42 years’ service looking after the region’s railway tracks. Mr Wooff (63), of Pim
lico Road — whose unusu al middle name stems from him being his fami ly’s seventh son — has retired early because of ill health. He was presented
track, he was based at Carnforth and , Kirkby Stephen, being promoted to his present position of inspector in 1959.- - - For the past 11 years
many weekends, being on call 24 hours a day, and as a result he found it im possible to enjpy any
hobbies. ' Since ' re t i r em e n t ,
he has operated from Hel- lifield, while living in Clitheroe. This involved working
for Mike THE manager’s assistant a t : Barclays Clitheroe branch, Mr Mike McFa- dyen (48) has been ap pointed manager of Barc lays Cockermouth branch in Cumbria.
though, he has had time to .do some gardening and motoring. He and . his wife Dorothy have- two chil dren, both married.
for the region has been p re s e n te d to tra c k machine supervisor .Mr Alfred Thompson, of H en th o rn Road,. Clitheroe. Mr Thompson, who re
A - long-service award
ceived a digital clock radio, joined British Rail as a trackman at Chat-
' bum in 1947. MR WOOFF
with his certificate by Mr A. H. King, British Rail’s Divisional Civil Engineer at Preston. Shortly after starting
- bers of the Army Cadet Force had a successful time at the recent annual camp at Scarborough.
at camp CLITHEROE unit mem-
Cadets
work at Boltori-le-Sands, where he maintained the tracks; Mr Wooff was called up for military ser vice and spent six years in Western Europe with the Lancashire Fusliers, Gordon Highlanders and the Black Watch. On returning to the
. All/ the unit’s senior cadets passed their exams at ‘the camp. Cadet. Taylor was the best’but .of his class of 50 and . was; prom oted to Lt. Col, Junior' recruits under
took further training and are shortly going to Ful- wood Barracks for exams.
MR McFADYEN Penny for the peepshow
BUSY with my chores this morning, I was interrupted by the ringing of the door bell. I was not expect ing any visitors and so, pausing ofily to push my pinny under a cushion (well, mother always did it!), I rushed to see who my visitor could
be. - . .
former nursing colleague. “Ah, Jimmy”, said she, “my husband wondered if these old photographs would be any interest for your articles?”
To my pleasure it was a
appertaining to our village or-district they were of
Well, like anything old ,\ £105.00
I had seen on previous occasions in our -bygone,, “Old Whalley” exhibitions. There were1 fading
Whalley Window
far between in the district at the time.
these I had seen before, along with the groups of veterans outside the cric ket pavilion and our lady morris dancers in a varie ty of graceful poses. How ever, one or two of the photographs were com pletely new to me.
As I have said, many of
There was, lor examp- pie, the one labelled
very real interest , al-*: “‘Floods in Langho, June though a number of them 9th, 1910, with water
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■5; Peace,-of,course,-:\vas a : • popular' -and .-appropriate • entry,. and * others,on - the horse-drawn, floats . de picted - the,.“Nations of the
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the members; of : the St John Ambulance Brigade — a very-healthy organ-. isation in the village at • the time — and these pre-. ceded the ladies and chil dren ,of the area in a series of tableaux -repre-1 senting, a ; dozen or more i patrioticithemes.-
- ■ They were followed by> .
photographs, many by the -late Ted Pye of Clitheroe; of our 1920 peace celebrations with a cobbled King S tre e t massed with spectators < for the mile-long . proces- ■ sions. The local ex-Service men we r e . t h e r e . i n ,. force: and: there -, was a big' contingent -of, “men in blue” from Queen Mary’s Hospital. ■
cascading down Whinney Lane like a river in spate: and a splendid photo of the late • Herbert Lang, one-time fish and. fruit salesman, with his smart ly turned out horse and lorry. . ■.■
however, was the picture which, judging .by the attire of the one man, the six small boys and three small girls depicted must have' dated from very early Edwardian days.- - ■ - The group ’ is gathered around a .-ramshackle handcart mounted on perambulator wheels and; on top of this was a small, house-shaped, wooden structure into which one
of.the small girls is, intent ly peering. • The' caption at the, foot
Most intriguing of all, ■ ■,'
of the' .picture .is partly obscured b u t r e a d s , “Tommy” (or possibly Tony);. Chipper, :,and. ^his Peepshow.”. . f-Mostv of? the’,, small tboys are- wearing buckled
Empire,’’.“‘the arts”, “The clogs, three;have the stiff ^glorious future” and other./;icelluloidLjcolldi's. i s1111.1woiti noble and inspiring topics.. .>vhen I ^myself went to
v • Naturally, J o h n 'B u l l ’ school:and,''ast th e |photo-
*and -’ Britannia’/ were:'both’ ’-t graph,had only a tall^ brick prominent;:’thei/local -. ^ h .a s 'a backgi'ound, it_is
'^ne-'representation of presumably. Mr Chipper
i churches paraded vtheir j,-impossible t o ‘guess ;banners; and > there ;was,
precise; location. -The. man
-have never previously en countered. Now I am intrigued
Here is a facet of rural entertainment I, have not met with before. Who was Tommy Chipper? Was he a local man or an itinerant who visited the district? Were those little girls
and boys the children of our own or an. adjacent village? Somewhere in our valley it is possible that there .is a reader . with personal memories of this photograph depicting, as it does, a form of enter tainment which has com pletely disappeared from the rural scene". ■ So far my inquiries
: offer helpful or- fuller in formation I- would be verv, verv grateful.
have resulted in complete blanks. If any. reader can
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he has lived in Colne since 1970 and has worked in Clitheroe for the past three years.
Married with two sons,
Mr Ian Warren (36), of Carnforth, who has been manager’s assistant at the bank’s Euston Road branch in Morecambe.
He will be succeeded by
; Mr Warren, whose wife is.expecting a baby later this month, is to live Read.
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