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TEL. CLITHEROE 22323 Ex-PoW Ted goes back to Germaiiy


A “LETTER out of the blue” will re­ unite a former Clitheroe prisoner-of- war tomorrow with a German who helped feed him under the gaze, of armed guards during the second world war. Before Ted Beverley


was about to be force marched from Poland to Germany in the face of advancing Russians', he


fave attractive Hedwig


would see her again but by a million-to-one chance a letter from the German woman reached his former home at Cast- leton, near Sheffield, and was passed on to h im a t M o o r la n d Avenue, Clitheroe. The couple corres­


layer his home address. He never thought he


MR AND MRS BEVERLEY with a picture of the German friend.


ponded and Mr Beverley (61), and his wife Mar­ jorie, leave tomorrow to spend a nostalgic week with Hedwig and her


German husband, near Stuttgart.


looking forward to meet­ ing her as I owe her a great deal, for what she aid during the time I was a prisoner,” said Mr Beverley, who is quarry manager with Tarmac in Clitheroe.


“My wife and I are


wrote to my mother’s address — that was the one I gave her because I was single at the time — asking if anyone could find me. Luckily mother still lived there and she passed the letter on to me.” Mr Beverley, who served with the Ter­


“After 36 years she


broken up under the German advance and after the retreat to Dun­ kirk each man was told to fend for himself.


CHALLENGE TO LOCAL SOCIETIES


Let’s have a mini-fringe festival


Coun. Fell


Valley Drama Festival Committee, Coun. Jimmy


Chairman of the Ribble e o - o p


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£600 was raised for local charities. • ■ ■ , ■ Eighteen stalls run by the Lions attracted the crowds to the Vale House site in the centre of the vjllage:


THE SUN shone on Whalley_ Lions’ summer fair on Sunday as ; ;


:. glassware, cakes, plants and the wheel of fortune (pictured). By the end of the day, all the stalls had. nearly sold up f--ah- •; 'k


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Fell, believes the festival, which starts at the end of September, is the ideal opportunity for. such local groups to attract bigger au d ien c e s than ever before. He invites them to


create a “mini-fringe festi­ val” to show that the Ribble Valley is far from being a culturally derelict area.


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the National Drama Festi­ val Association meet Coun. Fell’s committee on Saturday to finalise de­ tails for what he describes as “the Cup Final of the amateur theatre world.” But with the festival


Representatives from


being arranged over two weekends — September 27th to 29th and October 3rd to 5th — a four-day break from the tension of Clitheroe’s ..Civic Hall has been created. This period is the


r i t o r ia l Army, was called up at the outbreak of war and went to France with the Sher­ wood Foresters. His regiment was


about for a month, sleeping in hedges and ditches,” he said. I made my bigges t rpistake when I asked a- Fren­ chwoman for food, be­ cause she reported me to the Germans and I was captured.


“I managed to dodge


year in a PoW camp in Poland but was .then given a chance to. work on a farm near Danzig — an area inhabited by, settlers of . Polish1 and German origin.


Mr Beverley spent a


Hedwig managed the local cheese factory


there. “I made friends with


her and often she would pass where I was work­ ing under guard and tell me where she had hidden a cheese for me to pick up after dark,” recalls Mr Beverley. “It made a welcome


change, for our diet con­ sisted entirely of sauer­ kraut and potatoes.


working on'the farm. But when the'Russians started moving—


“I spent four years


us, the Germans force marched all: prisoners


towards


1,500 miles to the River Elbe. Fortunately, the


long trek,' Mr ..Beverley g a v e H ed jv,i g h i s mother’s address .and re­ ceived two letters' from her after the war.'*


Americans were waiting to liberate us.” '; Before he 'l'efr,on the


West Germany; in 1950. “It was only after 30 years that-she .decided to try and contact me again. It is fortunate that my mother stayed on, at the same address, or else we might never have met up again,” added Mr Beverley.


that time she "was living in the Russian "Zone of East Germany .'and the letters were; returned unopened. L ‘ ; Hedwig moved to


He replied,' but by


ALL set to play t h e i r p a r t


Shakespeare’s world of fantasy are these elves and fairies.


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Hardly midsummer—but it’s a dream of a show


AFTER a wet, unset­ tled day, Whal ley Church Players were blessed by a fine, but cold, evening on Tues­ day for their ambiti­ ous open-air produc­ tion of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” A capacity audience of


1,000 enjoyed a spirited ge:/formance o f th e


Cl i the ro e w om a n l e a v e s


THEATRE groups and art and craft societies in the Ribble Valley have Been challenged to reap full advantage from- the British All Winners’ Drama Festival being held in Clitheroe in three months time.


over the country and even America will be descend­ ing on Clitheroe and the Ribble Valley for this pre­ stigious festival. “If they decided to stay, in the area between the


two weekends, it would be a golden chance for local groups to provide entertainment, says Coun. Fell. He invites any in­


hospi ta l £57,895


THE kindness and care shown by staff at a Burn­ ley hospital has been re­ membered in the will of a Clitheroe woman who has bequeathed almost the whole of her £57,895 estate to the hospital group.


Stark, who was 84, died in Burnley General Hospi­ tal in February.


Miss E d r aNS op h ia


terested local groups to contact him at 7 Limefield Avenue, Whalley. (Tel. Whalley 3141). Meanwhile, prepara­


groups representing the cream of the country’s amateur theatrical talent, will be chosen to come to ClitheroeT The firs t weekend,


Council's 'no' to


tions for the national fes­ tival are in full swing. Early next month, eight


chance for all local drama­ tic and artistic groups to play their part in making the national festival a great success and improv­ ing the Ribble Valley’s image, says Coun. Fell. He wants to leave the


starting on Friday, Sep­ tember 26th, will he de­ voted to three one-act p la y s . The following weekend, five full-lengtn plays will be performed at the Civic Hall, with the fe s t iv a l’s grand finale taking place on the even­ ing of Sunday, October 5tn.


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details of a fringe event to the groups themselves, al­ though any ac tivitie s would be given full public­ ity, both at the major fes­ tival and in its souvenir programme.


“ I ’m th in k in g of


perhaps groups in the vil­ lages,organising their own show or exhibition in their local halls. “A lot of people from all


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the venue for two impor- ta n t m e e t in g s tnat weekend. On the Satur­ day the annual conference of the National Drama Festival Association takes place at 2-30 p.m. in the council chamber, which the following day stages


Clitheroe will also be continued on page 3


community centre THE elderly residents of Clitheroe’s Garnett Road housing estate have been turned down by the Ribble Valley Council in their campaign for a community centre. The idea was rejected


at Tuesday’s council meet­ ing, despite'pleas in sup­ port of a 200-strong peti­ tion for the centre from Clitheroe members Coun. Bert Jones, Coun. Mrs Barbara Speak and Coun. Mrs Beryl Cassidy.


centre was turned down by the Housing Commit­ ted, but Coun. Jones asked for the matter to be referred back. He said the council


The proposal for the


offices. She suggested that one of the portable cabins formerly used by the council’s Planning De­ partment, could be the answer.


centre would help not only the elderly people who were isolated, but would provide an" ideal base for a playgroup. Housing Committee


should back the residents and the en th u s ia s t ic warden1 Mrs Pauline Lewis -in their attempts to improve life on the estate. Coun. .Ca ssidy d e ­


She claimed that a


from newly-crowned rose queen at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, Ann Marie Driver and her retinue.


IT’S smiles all-round


Hodder Drive, was crowned by Clilheroe Mayoress Mrs Alice Wells at Saturday's gala. The Mayoress was introduced by the Vicar, the Rev. Arthur Siddall.


Ann Marie, of


succeeds Gillian Booth, was attended by Lisa Waddinglon, Sadie Ellis, Deborah Haslem and Nicola Walmsley and Master David Nutlall was her page.


Ann Marie, who


scribed the committee’s refusal as “rather pathe-. tic” in view of the money spent on the new council


chairman Coun. Harry Riding (Longridge) stres­ sed there was no money available for a centre and claimed that even the set­ ting up of the portable cabin would cost “several thousand pounds.” . The council approved Coun. Riding’s motion that the Housing Committee’s de­ cision should remain unal­ tered.


and report of Saturday’s gala, please turn to page 9.


For another picture Flag day


THE flag day arranged by the Clitheroe branch of the NSPCC raised £275. The organisers thank everyone for. their con­ tributions, which were only £10 less than a year ago.


Bargains snapped up at Lions’fair


£58,233 gross, £57,895 net, and after personal legacies of £3,250 the re­ mainder, including the fam i ly h ou se r‘The Pentre,” Pendle Road, Clitheroe, goes to the Burnley district Group of Hospitals. Mass Stark became con­


In her will she leaves


nected with the General Hospital when her late brother was a patient there several years ago. Mr Fred Parr, the


hakespearean fantasy in


the splendid setting of when the; Whalley Abbey.


only one minor hitch, when the floodlights blew just before the interval. But the fault was quickly rectified.


The show went off with The backroom boys had


also been busy over the weekend setting up the stage, stand and seating. Much of the work was done by Friday and as a


precaution, to protect thousands of pounds


worth of equipment, stage manager David Chambers and a -group of volunteers took it in turn to camp out overnight on the set. The R e v . Geo rg e


mantle the stand and move equipment. Producer Liz Caton is


appealing for helpers who can spare any time today


or this evenimr. “It’s such a big job that


we will need all possible help,” she said.


Men steal% 15 rings


CLITHEROE police are on the look-out for two


Parker, who was respons­ ible for the sound and musical effects,- said that the precautions paid off on Sunday when tne three guards disturbed some in­ truders. “ F o r tu n a te ly they


men who stole £150-worth of jewellery from a town centre fancy goods shop. While one man asked to


see a selection of belts at Dean’s in Market Place, his companion lifted a dis­ play case, from th e window containing 15 silver dress rings. One man is described as


quickly left without caus­ ing any harm,” said Mr Parker. The P la y e r s face another big task today


“


being aged 20-25, 5ft. Sin. in height and stocky build. He had dark hair and a moustache and spoke with a northern accent.


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