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[entertain THE younger generation


laddington. I The


first play,


Irmed by pupils of Ington ana We


|r a CE School. ton ana


hesents” was the title of a bpular ent er t ainment


|ven by village children in Helen’s Sunday School,


The Song of the Year,” lowing scenes |u r


called from the


seasons, was per- of Wad-


est Brad-


Taking the parts of bes, flowers, wheat and rds were Stephen Bell, lile Cox, Damien Keefe,


lichel Oldroyd, Lucy Itherell, Rebecca Wood, ' lidrew Mason, Timothy pore, Peter Whiteside, lehel Edlington, Andrew Inliffe, Jacqueline Bell Id Claire Spencer.


(Jonathan Cunliffe was le piper, Jane Whiteside |e narrator and Deborah ason the fairy.


ICaroline Whitehead and lizabeth Hevwood played lino and clarinet solos,’ lazer Hoyle played the lilin and Shaun McCree [lighted the audience th magic tricks.


Iple of the church. Their liurful 14th-century cos- lies, designed and made ] their mothers, contri- led to the success of the Iformance.


The second play, enti- ' “Six Wives of Calais” performed by young


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faking part were Susan - leeman, El i z a b e t h ;- lyw oo d, Ca ro li n e s |itehead, Helen Potter, dget Hartshorne and jhel le Aspin. Marie


liin made an attractive le maid.


bhe whole entertain-


Any years. She thanked leryone who had helped 1th the production;


Int was produced by Mrs ■mice Barlow, who had pn connected with Wad- tgton Drama Group for


£nked Mrs Barlow for [ r work and congratu- led the youngsters for [oviding the entertain­


iCanon "C. F. Goodchild 4 ment.


|The plays were a com- |e t e sell-out, attracting lsidents of the village and li e n d s f rom fur ther


field.


J Raf f le winners were llrs J. Potter, Mrs H. laines, Miss C. Knaggs nd Mrs M. Mason.


The proceeds of £130 are the Sunday School nprovement Fund. .


I Pictured in costume are Ime of the cast.


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CUSTOMERS who enjoy the friendly, personal service pro video by a Clitheroe furnishing firm can now browse m the spacious luxury of a comfortable walk- round showroom.


For t h e l o n g -


established family bus­ iness of H. M. Sower- butts has extended its King Street premises to double the display space and enable more furniture to be stocked and put on show.


Such expansion is


vital for a firm which h a s o p e r a t e d in Clitheroe for well over, a century, says the owner, Mr Allan Sow- erbutts.


“We have to keep


the business up to date and that means a big- e r s h o w r o o m , ecause people want to


see more and more stock in better dis­ plays,” he adds. ‘U have a second son,


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upholstering were once


carried out. “It is just not practi­


cal to continue with the old skills today when mass production is dominating the indus­ try. So we decided to put the garage and workshops to good use by creating more dis­ play room, says Allan. Not all the firm’s


Mark, coming into the firm this summer and want to ensure that he and his elder brother, Ian, have a thriving b u s in e s s to ke ep going.” The big transforma­


tion at the start of a new decade has been at the expense of an old- fashioned section of the.firm. The extension, built


during the past six months, has replaced the old garage and workshops where the traditional skills of cabinet-making and


heritage will be lost, however, as Mr Sower- butts intends to keep t h e m ach in es, “although the chances of finding any uphol­ sterers to use them again are slim.” . Over the t h r e e


y e a r s , demand for lines from armchairs to beds has been steady. Regular customers come from an area bounded by Matlock, Penrith, Liverpool ana Leeds , as we ll 'a s wi thin the Ribble Valley. They must be satis­


fied with Sowerbutts’ friendly service, which includes delivery by the firm’s van, driven by Ian. ■


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