4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 26th, 1980 SUMMER s mm SAVE 121/z% to 30%


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Also large selection of high quality


REPRODUCTION DINING AND OCCASIONAL FURNITURE


CARPETS 10,000 YARDS AO 27in. WIDE,


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FLORENCE A0 AXMINSTER, 27ln. Normally £12, From.........................


AO BROADLOOMS Normally £18.43........................... A00 AXMINSTER 27ln. Normally£18.33...............................


3,000 YDS. ALL WOOL WILTON, 27in. wide HEAVY DOMESTIC.


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KING KURL WILTON, 15 colours. n a n rn Normally£14.....................................


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BRIDGE Penrith was £1.470 Now £1,095


BRIDGE Curzon was £2.760 Now £2,208


G-PLAN


Bronte was £700 Now £595 i ■ •


SCHRElBER New England was £689


Now £499


PARKER KNOLL Recllner Was £342 Now £256


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NEW president of, the Ribble Valiev Rotaract Club, Mr Mark Tlhornber, was installed at the Swan and Royal Hotel, Clitheroe, this week.


son of Mr and Mrs James Thornber, of Eastham Street, Clitheroe.


. Mark (22),, is the third frandfather, the late Aid.


manager in his family’s textile manufacturing bus­ iness. The firm was founded by Mark’s great-


He is assistant general


of Pendle Junior School and Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Black­ burn. He is a keen member of


Mayor of Clitheroe in 1919-21. Mark is a former pupil


ames Thornber, who was will begin his presidency dent of Rotaract he


round & about


ary, Mary Scott; commit- te e chairmen, David Brass, Paul Backhouse, Cath Marsden, Nick Bris­ tol, David Bristol.


Stan’s


Clitheroe Young Farmers’ Club, of which he is at present vice-chairman. When his year as presi- ends, '


of the YFC. In his spare time, Mark


are: vice-president, Peter Houghton; past president, David Bristol; treasurer, Stephen Barker; secret­


ary, Clare Sandham; speakers’ secretary, Peter Houghton; Press secret-


Rotaract as “to promote service through fellowship in the community and to develop high standards of responsibility in vocation­ al fields.” Other Rotaract officers


helps on his uncle’s farm. He described the aim of


goes out at 10 a.m. next Thursday, spotlights the aims and workings of the college which attempts to promote interest in jazz, especially in schools and colleges. The 12 programmes in


brainchild “JAZZ college,” the brain­ child of Clitneroe musician Stan Barker, is the sub­ ject of the opening prog­ ramme in a new Radio 4 series, “E n te rp r ise ,” starting next week. The broadcast, which


the weekly series are de­ signed to offset the gloom and doom flavour of today’s news by publicis­ ing a number of enterpris­ ing projects being under­ taken round the country. Next Thursday’s broad­


cast will feature Stan, of Waddington Road, talking about his hopes for the


college. Also included is a piece


from a “workshop" in which Stan and Dick Howdon, a lecturer at Leeds College of Music, supervise two talented youngsters in their bid to create a new piece of music . . . the essence of •


the jazz college. Stan welcomed the


chance to publicise the college and hopes that next week’s programme will be the first o f many.


Agriculture


graduate THE only daughter of Mr . and Mrs N. L. Shaw, of Lower Highfield, Slaid- burn, Miss Helen Mar­ garet Shaw has been awarded a BSc honours degree in agriculture at the University of New­ castle.


Helen (21) attended


Heathfield and Notre Dame schools in Black­ burn. Her father, a Slaidburn


farmer, is the chairman of the Hodder Valley Ag­ ricultural and Horticultur­ al Society and her mother is the deputy headmis­ tress of Pleckgate School, Blackburn. Helen hopes to study


the Rev. George Knowles, the Clitheroe Methodist Church superintendent, and Mr Alan Fisher, of Waddington, a circuit steward.


Mr Knowles, of Trinity Methodist Church, went


•Polytechnic from Sep­ tember. She holds the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award and in 1978 spent three weeks as the guest of Rotarians in Southern California.


for a Certificate in Furth­ er Education at Dudley


At Methodist conference


AMONG the delegates to this year’s annual Method­ ist Conference, starting in Sheffield


Method tomorrow, are


to Sheffield on Monday for a pre-conference meet­ ing with other ministers. He has been a delegate on several previous occa­ sions.


231 laymen and 184 minis­ ters elected to represent the 500,000 Methodists in the country. Among the topics to be


Mr Fisher is one of the


debated will be disarma­ ment, the Government’s proposals for assisted places in independent schools, and the involv- ment of schoolchildren in lotteries for school fund raising. Fifteen Methodists from North Lancs are attend­


ing the conference which lasts for a week.


IT was quite a thrill for me recently when a kindly reader from Bury wrote offering the loan of a book on our valley I had not previously encoun­ tered. Naturally, I accepted


with alacrity and a day or two later the book ar­ rived. A lovely book and quite a treasure. Published, I am gues­


CATCH THE EARLY BIRD BARGAINS


LORDS SALE OF FOOTWEAR


AT D. LORD and SON 5 MOOR LANE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 22488


sing, in the early 1920s by the Lancashire and York­ shire Railway Company — no date is given and no author named — it is one of the most detailed and comprehensive guides I have yet seen. Titled “The beautiful


A ‘sparks’ on the ocean wave


“SPLICE the main- brace” could well be the message from sailor Ian Willcock, whose home is in F a irfield D r iv e , Clitheroe. For Ian (17) has


mouth, before going to the Mercury for special­ ised training. Now, as a Junior


plenty to celebrate, having just qualified as a radio operator at the Navy’s communications and navigations inshore training school, HMS Mercury, near Peters- field, Hampshire. Ian, who joined the


fuided missile destroyer


Radio Operator (Tacti­ cal), he is soon to join HMS Glamorgan, a


ased at Portsmouth. An all-round sports­


Navy on leaving Rib- blesdale School, com­ pleted his basic training in HMS Raleigh, at Ply­


man, Ian used to be a member of the Pendle Ski Club and the tennis section of Clitheroe Cric­ ket, Tennis and Bowling Club. He is also keen on football and fencing. While at school he re­


Early tourist guide Whalley Window


at The Whalley Arms, to p p in g the l i s t of hoteliers, was prepared to serve 100 — a number paralleled by the then Co­ operative Society. The book has lists of


accommodation, too, with full particulars of the com­ forts available. Mr Wareing, at his


Ribble Valley”, it is pro­ fusely illustrated with a photograph on almost every page and there are sections on over 40 of our Ribble and Pendleside vil­ lages. There is a mass of other


Vale House establishment (obviously in business in a big way) offered eight bedrooms and three pri­ vate sitting rooms; the Swan Hotel five bedrooms and two sitting rooms and all the other hoteliers were ready and eager to welcome guests for “bed and breakfast or full board”. All this at a time when


information, too, much of it very surprising infor­ mation. For example, in Whalley at the time 11 caterers are quoted (actu­ ally, I think there were a good many more), but the facilities listed are- quite eye-opening. Mr J. Wareing, of The


years ago — a world that so many of my Whalley friends can well r e ­ member, and in which they were happy, for the changes came so slowly that somehow we hardly seemed to notice them.


the first automatic bacon slicer in a village grocers really caused a sensation and brought people flock­ ing to gaze in at his window and s e e th e machine in motion.


Indeed, the arrival of


visitors to the area had to come by train or on their own two feet, for the bus services were yet to make their appearance and members of the public boasting their own private transport were few and far between. Had they pockets that


ceived the Duke of Edin­ burgh silver award.


Friars’ Temperance Hotel (today it is a very fine antique shop) had seating for 150 and Mrs Har­ greaves at Banks Farm, Whalley Nab, could pro­ vide for parties of 200 pic­ nickers. Mr Chew, in The Square, had facilities for 30


flooding (are timers?) and Miss Pollard you old


pretty keen on tourism, it seems. They offered to loan sets of slides entitled “A tour through the Ribble Valley” absolutely free to bona-fide lectur­ ers, together with sets of printed descriptive notes.


The old L and YR were


think. I wonder if today’s e n t h u s i a s t i c to u r operators can match it? If they can, they should


the memories, back,


were well-lined, of course, they could hire taxis, waggonettes, landaus, Victorias, Ralli-cars, cabs, traps, gigs or hansoms from Mr J. R. Garlick, who offered instant ser­ v ic e from We,ligate, Borough Mews or The Swan and Royal Yard, in Clitheroe. Difficult to believe that


this vastly changed world we lived in was only 60


A pretty good offer, I


stand up and tell us about it. They would be inun­ dated with requests from church organisations, women's institutes, youth clubs and a dozen other enterprising organisations I am certain. Our lovely valley is just


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The decision was


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Helper Mrs Joan Bolton-by-Bow


Drama Group held meeting in the Coai Horses Hotel. M Wright was chairmi among items disc were the arrangeme a fancy dress dis< was decided that should be held on O 10th.


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Evening out Members of Wisil


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of Christ Church, burn, Mothers' Un an evening mystery was Townelev Hall, ley, where they ex| the grounds. Tnen, on through the R] dale Valley to the of Crawsnawbooth party enjoyed a del supper at Sunni House, the Mann Diocesan Confe Centre. The buildiJ some fine panelling


Mystery First stop for md


Ger] ve


IT has been t with her husb their golden w


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The party cak< The first was


Leybum, and M


over a farm at 1 After 11 year


their son, Brian] Mr Fawcett


war, but apart i to no other orga He is 74, and


Read


Winning han Winners at this


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Hensby. MC: Mrs greaves.


He .has had a s from' Mr Richar


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