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heard about one of her talks, but had some diffi­ culty in persuading Mrs Huddleston they were genuine.


Granada’s researchers


friends was having me. on. It was only when the re­ searcher came to visit me that I realised it was no hoax!” she said. The programme has a


“1 thought one of my


have recorded the prog­ ramme — then they could have cut out the bits that might go wrong,” she said.


MRS HUDDLESTON . . . scared stiff


Meanwhile, Mrs Hud­ dleston is busy studying


on a full-time .college’ course. for hairdressing and beauty, to supple­ ment her already healthy expertise.


Commuting


to Surrey FORMER Hurst Green hotelier Mr Anthony Perry has been appointed editor of “Market Place,” the official journal of the Institute of Grocery Dis­ tribution.


in Redhill, Surrey, and represents all sections of the food industry, from manufacturing to retail.


tinue to live in Hurst Green, is no stranger to Redhill. He used to live there and was a Liberal candidate for the council 12 years ago. He- says: “My new job


theme of food, and horror film star Vincent Price, who is a gourmet and a herbalist, will be ap­ pearing. Mrs Huddleston, mar­


Mr Perry, who will con­ The magazine is based- Long-serving clerk


WHEN Whalley parish councillors found them-, selves without a clerk, mill employee Mr Jim Holden was approached and asked if he would take the job for a tempor­ ary period. That “temporary” job


has lasted for 15 years, but will come to an end in March, when Mr Holden finally puts his books away and retires. He submitted his resig­


interesting, although it has become a lot more involved since the 1974 local government reorgan­ isation.” " ■ He has worked under - six chairmen and is one of the longest-serving parish clerks in the Ribble Valley. A native of the Darwen


nation at last week’s meeting of the parish council, allowing them four months to find a re­ placement. “I thought it was time


area, Mr Holden worked in the cotton industry for 51 years.. He came to Whalley in-1955, after he was appointed head of the preparation department at the old Judge Walmesley mill. Following its closure he


to call it a day,” said Mr Holden, of Woodlands Drive, Whalley. “I have found the work


Society is


ried with one daughter, has never been on televi­ sion before and admits to being scared stiff at the thought of doing a live demonstration in front of the cameras. “Ten minutes is an


awful long time to be on the air. It would not have been so bad if I could


brings me to writing about su p e rma rk e ts , superstores, groceries and food, on behalf of the In­ stitute, It is proving fas­ cinating, if a long way to commute.” ■ Since leaving Hurst Green’s Bayley Arms, Mr Perry has edited indust­ rial publications in West Yorkshire, specialising in the textile industry. He has also been co-author of a major text book on the licensed trade now being prepared.


ship-shape IT’S all ship-shape and Bristol fashion for Calder- stones Revue and Drama­ tic Society’s pantomime Dick Whittington. After an appeal, by the


Retires after 46 years in family firm


WADDINGTON businessman Mr Alec Lupton, who has retired- at the age.of 64, now plans to spend' some of his spare, time- perfecting the solar, heating of his house.


ing panels have- not been working as well as Mr Lupton would like, so he intends to redesign them.


The existing solar heat­


chairman and joint man­ aging director of Lupton Brothers, the Accrington ■ company founded by his grandfather, and its Brad­ ford subsidiary Walker B e n n e t t and R. H. Lupton.'


Mr Lupton retires as


continue as a non-execu­ tive director of the'firm, was born in Clitheroe and attended the Royal Gram­ mar School. He started work for Luptons’ in 1934.


Mr Lupton, who will


went to Green Brothers’ Abbey Mill, in Billington, as a salesman. He retired in 1976. Mr Holden is a sides­


man at Whalley Parish Church and also serves on the PCC.


-involved in precision turning.


been based in' Accrington for more than 100 years, makes accessories for weaving looms and is in­ volved in press work, general engineering for the motor industry and the telecommunications field. Walker Bennett is


The firm, which has


ees of the firm attended a farewell party at Accring­ ton Conservative Club.


More than 100 employ­


Cricketer closes a long innings


Advertiser and Times, the society has received three offers of a ship’s wheel — from Trinity Methodist Church, Accrington Sea Cadets and a reader in West Bradford. Groups of men have


A MEMBER of a well-known Whalley, cricket­ ing family has just closed a marathon “innings” with a top West Midlands league.


also offered to help make scenery for next month’s show.


Arthur Peters has de­ clared after 27 years as chairman of Peterborough Cricket League.


Retired headmaster Mr


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stalwart Jim Peters, who played for Whalley for more than 30 years, Mr Peters was educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, where he was cricket captain and head prefect.


The son of cricketing


teacher at St Luke’s Col­ lege, Exeter, he returned to Clitheroe to teach at the former council school, off Parson Lane, and at Ribblesdale from 1930 to 1944.


’ After training as a


Peterborough area, where he was headmaster of two secondary modem schools until his retirement. nine years ago.


He then left for the


followed his father’s foot­ steps and was actively in­ volved in the Ribblesdale .Cricket League.


While in Clitheroe, he


and Clitheroe and also turned out for Great Harwood.


he maintained his interest in the sport and played for the Peterborough town side until he was 63, averaging more than 100 wickets each.season as a spin bowler.


When he moved south,


if ever I took less than 100 wickets I would retire,” he said. “In 1971 I dislocated a finger and only captured 99, so I de­ cided to call it a day.”


“I made a promise that


continuing his interest in the town club, both as chairman and fixtures sec­ retary, positions he has held for 30 years.


However, Mr Peters is


but confines his activities to the local indoor and outdoor bowling greens!


He still bowls regularly, He played for Whalley


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Mr Lupton was presented with a silver tray and his wife, Margaret, received a bouquet.


on his heating problems, Mr Lupton will be devot­ ing more time to golf at the Clitheroe club and gardening.


In addition to working


. Mrs Lupton will be con­ tinuing her activities in many spheres, including duties as a magistrate, an editor for the Ribble Valley Talking News­ paper and a member of Waddington WI.


Remembered as conjuror


THE war y e a rs in Clitheroe wer.e recalled on the ITV programme “This Is Your Life”, when re­ nowned international film director John Schlesinger was the subject last week. Schlesinger, the man


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•and Thora Hird, as well as Julie Christie, Jon Voight and Vanessa Red­ grave, appeared on the programme to pay tribute to one of Britain’s most successful film-makers.


ger’s big chance came when he was asked to d i re c t “ A Kind of Loving”, based on the novel by Stan Barstow, who was himself speaking in Clitheroe and Whalley last week. The stars of that film, Alan Bates, June Ritchie


N How lucky we are


“HARD TIMES” was one of the Dickens’s novels which was - of particular interest to Lancashire people because it is be­ lieved to have been based on Preston; and it could be that some folk today would consider that the county is now going through p re t ty hard times. In some respects this is


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certainly true although those among us old enough to remember the last years of the 1920s and first years, of the Thirties, and who queued outside labour exchanges two or three times a week for what would today be considered a mere pitt­ ance, can be excused, perhaps, if they smile a little wryly. But if people considered


own area was graphically described by John Ward, the Low Moor weaver whose diary was, almost miraculously, saved from the incinerator almost 40 years ago and later, pub­ lished in the “Transac­ tions of the Historic Soci­ ety of Lancashire and Cheshire.” John’s diary is quoted


The situation iri our


themselves hard done by in the melancholy years quoted, conditions then prevailing were almost idyllic compared to the appalling distress experi­ enced by our Lancashire grandparents and great- grandparents in the first five years of the 1860s. I am at present reading


gradation of applying to the Guardians of the Poor for relief. It was either that or


the workhouse. And that relief, often


grudgingly granted, came in two forms — half in vouchers to be exchanged for food, half in cash. The total value of that was 15p in today’s money. This pitiful sum had to


with. some frequency in Longmate’s book. But if Clitheroe weavers went through a very lean time, then the situation in the larger cotton towns was truly harrowing. In Preston and Black­


put to work in quarries at 5p per day; it was out of that labour that some of the. town’s first parks were created. In Accrington, the un­


be “paid” for in labour by the applicant, possibly stone-breaking or picking oakum. In Blackburn, men were


“The Hungry Mills — The story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine, 1860- 1865” by Norman Long- mate, and published by Temple Smith.-The story of the plight of the county and its people throughout that period should be made compulsory reading for every Dismal Jimmy and Doleful Johnny of today. We just do not, know


i item ■of bedding was in pawn. ’ • Edwin Waugh, Lanca­


.when : compared to the: tragic state of Lancashire ' at that,time.


how lucty we are and the - trivial tribulations we now endure fade in r, oblivion


burn, for example, resear­ chers found whole streets where the residents of every house,' fathers, mothers, and children, were totally unemployed; towns "where literally thousands queued at soup kitchens for - their only meal of the day; house­ holds where every stick of furniture, every kitchen utensil; every stitch of decent clothing and every


: where he was shown 50 and 60 - pawn tickets. and where the - only bedding


' was a pile of straw in a fireless . room;- People


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shire Journalist of the period and noted dialect writer, * tells. of homes'


• balls which indicated the pawnbroker’s trade. And still we moan and groan and bewail our lot.


pawned all their, posses­ sions before the final de-


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ing, distressing days we have a thousand — a hundred thousand I—


Even in these perplex­ ..


. happened little over 100 years ago in towns where, today, you would walk from end to end without seeing -the three brass


employed went into the hills, to. gather “ bog cotton” — a moss-like substance which was dried and stitched bet­ ween layers of old mate­ rial to provide warmth — or picked shreds of wool from walls and thorn bushes - to be woven by hand into vests for their s ta rv in g , b a re fo o t families. All this (and I have only sketched an outline)


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