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Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 27th, 1980 lq in the


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J district Horticultural liety looks rosy,' a I n t recruiting drive Ing doubled member-


r future of Whalley


| t the society’s annual I tin g , secretary Mr k Yates said that at I stage last year things led bleak, with mem- - fehip falling to below


lut now this figure is Ter the 130 mark and I society is on a much Ithier financial footing, Jiks to the efforts of; (committee, literest has been rekin- to such an extent several proposals put forward to in-


I s e activities. These lide possible question k sessions, film shows, (zzes and booking liialist speakers. The Is will be considered Ting th e summer , jmwhile, the society pencilled in August


Plan to build drive to


playing fields


AN application to make a new drive from Mitton Road, Whalley, to serve the Queen Elizabeth II playing fields has been lodged with the 'Ribble Valley Council’s Planning Department (number 0286;..


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• detached bungalows on an 850 sq. yds. site behind the Methodist Church in King Street (0306). . Another outline propos­


Also from Whalley is an outline plan to build two


al (0274) for the village" is to build a house in the garden of- 23 Clitheroe


Vicarage goes up for sale


TOSSIDE Vicarage is to go on the. market this summer.'


,i as the date for this )-'s annual show to be in the Methodist


I , Whalley. Ifficers elected for the (0-S1 season were: lirman — Mr Jack J ner; vice-chairman —


I r — Mr Arthur West- |; secretary' — Mr Jack es.


Gerry Coxon; trea-


Imittee will be filled by 1C. S. Beck, of Stocks Ise, Whalley, and Mr iThrelfall, of Kirkdale |d , Langho,, who will after the interests of


Kvo vacancies on the


|he rest of the commit- is: Mrs I. Wiggles- th, Mrs A. Seery, Mr


|ington and Langho nbers.


iDevaney, Mr T. W. l l i t t , Mr W. R. jn i tz e r and Dr B. Ith.


the Rev. J. F. Salisbury, left in November, Tosside has had no resident minis­ ter and is not likely to have one in the future. The Rural Dean, Canon


Since the former vicar, ;


■S. A. Selby, of St Mary’s Church, Gisburn,- has been in charge of weekly services at St B a r th ­ olomew’s and monthly ones at St James’s, Dale Head. Local clergy have been helping him with services. Canon Selby explained


that there did not seem to be enough clergy to go round and it was also a matter of finance. “ It is like the police


Road. It. will front on to Hayhurst Road.: From Clitheroe there is


’ Street and unit one in the Swan Courtyard. A rear extension to provide dining and utility rooms is proposed at 24 Newlands Avenue (0282).


an application (0299) to change the use from two shops to one of 26 Castle


from .Langho- to change the ' use of “Northcote,” Northcote Lane, from a house to a hotel — re­ staurant (0304). Others from Langho include a; d o rm e r extension at “Twynham,” Whinney Lane; a dining room ex­ tension at 5 Lowerfield, Rogersfield (0295); the erection of a porch at 54 Moorland Road (0296); and the addition of a bed­ room, playroom, and porch at 6 Hawthorn Close (0283).


There is an application


One of oldest


in village ONE of Low Moor’s oldest residents, Mrs Sarah Alice Starkie, has died at her home in Waddow Green. She was 91 and had lived in the village for 86 years.


Brow, Billington, there is an application (0308) to build a first-floor bed­ room, shower room and toilet, at number three and a garage at number five. Other plans are for: a


From 3 and 5 Walmsley


situation,” he said. “We don’t have as many village policemen as we used to.” No decision has yet


been made by the Brad ford Diocesan Board as to the long-term future of the parish, which has about 200 residents, but services are to continue. Mr Salisbury now as­


s is ts at a church in Skipton.


domestic c a r p o r t andstore at “Four Acre,” Pendleton Road, Wiswell (0303); the I use of a detached farm building at The Hearing, Newton, for occasional sale of fish bred on the farm (0291); outline per­ mission to build a house for farm workers on alter­ native sites at Back Lane, Rimington (0273); and re­ newal of permission to serve refreshments to the public at Slaidburn village


Starkie was regularly out and about and was a well- known and popular figure. Many of the wreaths at th e fu n e ra l, held at Clitheroe Cemetery on Monday, w ere from friends and neighbours.


Until recently, Mrs


was a member of the United Methodist Chapel, which she remembered


.F o r many years she


being built. •Mrs Starkie worked as


THE Mayor and Mayoress of the Rjbblc Valley, Coiin. and Mrs Jimmy Fell, joined forces with the local branch of NALGO to hold a buf fet dance on Friday. Held at the Sand­


piper Restaurant, Whalley, it boosted the Mayor’s charity fund by £250.


. About 170 guests were welcomed by


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■EASTER-n POST


CLITHEROE’S head post r #


office and all Ribble Valley 'sub-post offices will be closed on Good F r id a y and E a s te r Monday, but normal ser­ vices will be maintained on Easter Saturday. -


due for payment on Good F r id a y and E a s te r Monday will be paid a week in advance.


Pensions and allowances


ery of letters and parcels and collections as adver­ tised on letter boxes on Good Friday, but there will be no delivery or col­ lection on Easter Monday.


There will be one deliv­


the Mayor and May­ oress, and the vice- president of the


Ribble Valley branch of NALGO, Mr Ian P o t te r , and Mrs


Potter. •Afterwards there was dancing to the


resident band, a tom­ bola and a raffle in which the first prize of an electronic ball­ point pen was won by


Mrs C. Dawson. The Mayor thank­


Catering assistant marries


A RECEPTION at the Calf’s Head Hotel, Wor- ston, followed the wed­ ding of Miss Susan Catherine Nutter and Mr P e t e r M a rs d en a t Clitheroe Register Office.


a winder, retiring at the age of 60 from Holmes Mill. Her husband, Mr Albert Edward Starkie, died 19 years ago. She le a v e s a son and daughter.


as s is tan t at Brockhall Hospital, is the elder daughter of- Mr and Mrs Gordon Nutter, of Pimlico Road, Clitheroe.


The bride, a catering


charge nurse at Calder- stones Hospital. Witnesses were the bridegroom’s son, Peter,


The bridegroom is a


and the bride’s sister, Mrs Yvonne Helm. The b r id e wore a


mauve and pink three- piece suit with matching accessories and a spray of


silk flowers. The couple are honey­


mooning in Tenerife and are to live in Whalley.


Pendle Club


WINNERS at Clitheroe Pendle Club’s bridge game were Mr C. Hill and Mr F. Walker, Mrs M. Manning and Mrs P.


Adey.


ed the guests for sup­ porting the dance, which had been such


a success - that he hopes it will become an annual affair.


M0-30 a.m. on Good Friday and between 9 a.m. and 12 noon on Easter Monday. They will also be accepted by tele­ phone at all times on both days.


Telegrams will be deli­ vered between 9 a.m. and


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A PLAY concerning the problems of teenagers m the modern world brought capacity audiences, many of them youngsters, to R ib b le sd a le School,


Clitheroe, last week. “The Chicken Run,” by


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Graveyard care passes to parish


WHALLEY Parish Council is to take over responsibility for the historic Parish Church graveyard from the PCC.


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to the parish, it is hoping for assistance from the Ribble Valley Council — particularly towards the £850 a year needed for grass cutting.


To offset the extra cost


Evening is a big success


GUESTS from other clubs helped generate a mar­ vellous atmosphere at last w eek ’s m e e t in g of Clitheroe Speakers Club.


s ta n d in g sp e e c h e s , making it one of the club’s most enjoyable evenings of the year.


There were some out­


Geoff -Lever welcomed member!?: from Burnley and Blackburn Ladies’. Speakers Clubs'; the Castle and Tower Clubs,


Clitheroe president _ ...........v:!I I HILLARDS


j&frDistnbutive Industries^ !8 ? j Award tor Stall Training


Blackburn; and Hyndburn and Burnley:-Speakers Clubs.'


- Chairman for the educa­ tion; section > -was-/Eileen


Hayes; • topics chairman Geoff -L o v e r ;v.and t ime k e e p e r : D erek


Holmes. • Speeches were-made by


• Frank Nelson and cvalua- .tions were-(riven by Sheila


Margaret Dunlevy and


- Church,/Lionel Patterson,’ Alan Ross': and ;.Roil


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' Members feit that the graveyard, now closed, would not be given the same attention and repair


if it went under the con­ trol of the Borough


Council. Coun. A.'Pearson said:


“The old gravestones might be taken up and put round the walls and then we would lose a lot of character.” Coun.; Michael Green


added: -“Maintenance


should be our responsibili­ ty. It’s a wonderful chur­ chyard with a tremendous lot of history.” Taking a different view, Peter Lancaster


Shm (Simon Clarke), a 15- year-old school leaver who is constantly arguing with his parents (Catherine Ingham and Stephen Parker).


g ro u p le a d e r Dave (Richard Thornton), Trout (Andrew Holden) — who is interested in fishing, but is pursued by the lovesick Megen (Nicola Bill) — Abraham (Michael Evans) and Hetty (Karen Holden).


Other “news kids” are


at tem p ts to join the Mobs, a motor cycle gang led by Dobber (John Machon).


To prove himself, Slim Archie (Peter McCune),


Wilf (Christopher Swar- brick), Queenie (Zoe Copeland), Tich (Christ­ opher Barnes) and Mute (Paul Burgess) are typical bikers, with sophistication provided by Dobber’s girl (Julie Spenceley).


test — hence the title of the play — and to cap it all is accused of theft from the flat of Gran Jones (Heather Whitehead).


Slim fails his initiation The resulting fight


scene between Dave and Slim was excellently por­ trayed with the help of strobascope lighting.


Coun. ------ said: "We would serve the church better if we let


Ribble Valley do _the grass cutting and mainte­


nance, and we could do extra work in the chur­ chyard with the extra money we would have. There was some critic


attempt at a serious play and all the people behind the scenes, as svell as the actors, deserved con­ gratulations for an excel­ lent production.


It was an entertaining


ism of the state of. the churchyard, where graves are neglected, the foot­ path is uneven and - slip­ pery in winter and the wall needs , repair., in'


places.


; given an undertaking .to repair the wall and time had also' been-spent clear


' But 'Coun. Geoffrey Mitchell said the PCC had


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t ing up litter.- • -Members eventually de


; cided1 unanimously to take • responsibility for . the 'churchyard. i They also ■iagreed to ask -Ribble. i Valley.( Council fo r , finan­ cial ' as s is tan ce an d to i inform the -Vicar- of-Whal-


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MEMBERS of Read and Whalley Luncheon Club have in the past enjoyed talks by romantic novelist Miss Ida Cook so much that they invited her. back for a third time to speak


to them. Miss Cook,, b e t te r


known as Mary Burchell, gave a talk entitled “The -commonsense world of the romantic novelisti”. She was introduced and thank-,


■ ed -by chairman Mrs Sheila Maw. ‘ ,


;< .The • meeting, -at. WhaL ley Abbey,* was the last in the session. - The club meets again, in October.


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