Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, May 29th, 1980


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*| George saves a piece of


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A BRASS plate found by Mr George Black­ burn of Beechwood Avenue, Clitheroe, pro­


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WHEN Langho man Mr. Joseph Watson was instal­ led as president of the Blackburn and District Association of Plumbing, Heating and Mechanical services contractors, the office was not a new one'


for him. For it is the third time


Mr Watson, of Whalley Road, Langho, has been president of the associa­ tion, the other occasions being several years ago. Mr Watson (59) owns J.


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with its legend, Palace Theatre (Clitheroe) Li­


Today the building is familiar as Dawsons, the hardware people in • King . Street, but it was built as . a roller-skating rink. I t has served as a


Where was the Palace? -


cinema' and as a dance hall and has been known as the CWS‘ Agricultural Hall and the Queen’s Hall. It has also been used as a d ep ot by P r e s to n


‘.'an influential body of gentlemen” formed The


Farmers. It was in May 1909 that


Kibble Skating Rink Com­ pany. Skating, according to the “Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times” was the-


latest fad. The intention was to


Watson Plumbers at Blackburn. His wife, Agnes, helps in the firm, by taking messages and one of his sons, Christ­ opher (20), works for him. His other sons are


Michael (36), a sergeant in the Army, and Paul (29), coupli


also have a daughte r, Mr; Maureen Walsh. In


Watson is a keen gar­ dener.


his spare time Mr


build a rink on vacant land next to the gaswor­ ks and adjacent to the hew houses in Chester Avenue. The floor woiild be of American maple and there would be provision for 300 skaters. Not to be upstaged, the


LARGE SAVINGS ON vides a. link with the earliest days of the cinema


mited, came to light when Mr Blackburn was remov- . ing discarded items from a local office'.


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Example: C-PLAN CORNBR UNIT Was £1,011.00. NOW £799.00


A ll leading makes: G-Planv Ercol; Austin; Stag;


| Limelight; Strachan; Stonehill; Wrighton; Bridge; Pierce; Parker Knoll and Youngers. ■ . .


with the building of a rink on land at the end of Bal- fern Terrace in King Street, facing the railway station and opposite the Station Hotel. ' The floor of 7,.000


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square feet was said to be the finest in East Lanca­ shire. There was to be a full string band and Oc­ tober 27th was given as the opening date. The Public Hall Com­


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GEORGE with the plaque he rescued


pany countered by open­ ing for skating on Whit Monday, 1909, with “a spacious gallery for spec­ tators, a good band, and a grand piano." About this time a third


there was a fancy dress ball, which was part of the fund-raising efforts to purchase the Castle as the town’s war memorial.


organisation, styled the Clitheroe Olympic Rink Company, announced that it would build a 10,000. square feet rink, but this was a non-starter. In September 1910, the


Clitheroe Public Hall Company announced it was turning its hall in York Street into a‘skating rink. At this time the Ribble-


Rink and a Blackburn or­ ganisation amalgamated to form the Clitheroe Roller Skating Rink Com­ pany, which went ahead


King Street skating rink was leased by Daly and Reynolds, “well-known picture and variety palace caterers” under the title of the Clitheroe Pictured- l'ome and Palace of Var­ ieties. The Palace seems to


hall was taken over by Preston Farmers, who used it for about 40 years before building a new dis- t ri bu t io n c e n tre at


Some years later the


Gisburn. Incidentally, part of the ‘


building was used as a billiard hall for many years and in more recent times by an engineering business.


Civic Hall and passed into •the hands of "the Ribble Valley Borough Council on local government reor- ] ganisation.


business on January 3rd, 1921, and had lasted some I 40 years when the former | Clitheroe Corporation took over from Kinematic j Entertainments and the Clitheroe Public Hall Company. It was renamed The I


Public Hall, York Street. The Grand opened for |


have continued until March 1919, when the last advertisement for it ap­ peared in the Clitheroe Advertiser. The name Queen’s Hall


turns up in August 1923 and the first event held


of several cinemas in the town. There was the Pic­ ture Hall, King Lane (now H i l la rd s ) , the Empire in the Concert Hall, Parson Lane, and, from 1920, the Palladium, Duck Street. The Empire closed in that year and the enter­


prise was transferred to the Grand Kinema at the


BEING a subscrip­ tion-paying member of our local Horticultural society and jo in t owner of a small piece of land masquerading as a garden, as the spring advanced it became imperative that r did ' something about it.


Muck to make the rhubarb grow Whalley Window


' barrow-loads, . but tha’ll have to shift it thisel’.” Have you ever tried


“green fingers”.(mine are rather inky), I called in our local experts for advice and they arrived in


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bit of nature reserve, pushed ' the soil around with the toes of their shoes, crumbled the earth between their fingers, smelt it, discarded it and their verdict was unani­ mous.


a body. They surveyed my little •


and a vendor. "Oh aye,” he said. “Tha’ con hev a couple o’


pushing a barrow-load of very ripe manure through the middle of a very busy village in the heat of the afternoon — that odd af­ ternoon that seemed to have strayed from the very heart of summer and was really warm and sunny? If you have, you will


and prevent the manure from decanting on the roadway, and all this within a couple of yards of a-notice exhorting me to “keep Whalley tidy”. I put down the barrow,


readjusted my cap and continued on my way, a sickly smile disfiguring my features. The editor would hesitate to publish the comments of my male acquaintances; I no longer regard them as friends. ' “Hello, hesta tecken up


“It’s muck tha’ wants,”


said Alf, who had as­ sumed the role of foreman of the jury. .“Muck! Tha’ wants a ton of it.”


'


“Where on earth will I get a ton?”


“A ton!” I said alarmed.


manding. “A couple of barrow-loads will do for a. start,” he said in conciliat­ ory tones. I was informed that


Arthur was less de­


“muck” of the right con­ sistency is rather difficult to get and in g r e a t demand at this time of the year — it doesn’t grow on trees — but eventually, I was able to find a midden


have realised that it can be a humbling and ehas- tenirig experience; inevit­ ably one meets all the people one would prefer not to meet on such an occasion. “How d’y do,” I said to the policeman on duty. He


The palace was only one On Health


Council WADDINGTON JP Mrs I Margaret Lupton has been elected to the Burn-1 ley, Pendle and .Rossen- dale Community Health | Council. As a member of the I


council, which is con­ cerned with all aspects of health work, particularly


the patients’ interest, she will attend meetings and |


sit on various committees. She was nominated' for I


and bushes have displayed little gratitude, but we are hoping for better things —• “blooms of ex­ quisite colour and fragr­ ance” in accordance with the catalogue promise — and fine firm sticks of rhubarb.


handiwork.; “Not so bad,” he commented, “but tha’ slipped up, tha’ knows.”


Alf came round this morning to survey my


Whatever have I done wrong now?” I asked.


My face fell. “Why?


nodded, looked distasteful­ ly at my barrow, made a wry face, sniffed and wrinkled up his nose. “All right,” I said. “It’s,


the manure, not me.” “Arta sure?” he asked. Then I met a lady, a


rather, nice lady, and automatically my hand went up to raise my bat­ tered cap. When you are pushing a heavily-laden barrow it is indiscreet to attempt to raise your hat. And a mistake! It was only by prodigi­


ous effort that I was able to maintain my balance


farmin'?" said number one. “Arta flittin’ agean?” queried number two,, and the postman was very corny. “Is that fer thi rhubarb?” he asked. In response to my nod of assent, “We put custard on ours," he said with a chuckle and disappeared through a convenient gateway. Finally, with consider­


straw protruding from the earth. “Tha’s getten long manure," he said. “Tha should hev getten short stuff. Good snort manure, that’s what this ground needs.” I ’m learning all the


Alf pulled out a long


the council by the Lanca­ sh ire F ed e ra t io n of Women’s Institutes, of which she. is past chair- ] man, and Age Concern. Mrs Lupton has been a I


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given to the club. Whist winners wei


Ladies — Mrs J. Holde Mrs J. Robinson. Ger. — Mr C. Snape, Mr Bailey.


Hurst Gree N


Green Over 60s Club h an enjoyable week’s he day m Ilfracoombe. They: were blessed wi


Holiday Members of Hur


glorious sunshine ai their driver, Bill, w first class, taking tl party on many excursio to see the beautif


rugged coastline of Nor Devon.


able and there was ent tainment each evenin Thanks were expressed Mrs D. Lakeland, who c ganised the holiday. At the club’s fortnight


The hotel was comfoi


effort, a whist and domi drive, Mr J. Robins, presented Mrs Lakelai


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(^M a u r e e J i Cook§oTi


OF WHALLEY


trate. in 1962 and is a member of the juvenile panel and vice-chairman of the domestic panel. In her spare time she


member of Waddington WI for 31 years. She is also an editor of the Ribble Valley Talking Newspaper and helps with tne meals-on-wheels I service in Waddington. She became a -magis- |


SUPER SUMMER


enjoys gardening and playing golf. She and her I husband, Alec, have three sons, Jonathan, Christ- | opher and James.


New vicar


time. I didn’t even know there were two varieties of the horrible, filthy stuff. You just can’t win with these expert garden­ ers, can you?


J.F.


able relief, I reached the sanctuary of home, where another snag awaited me. The barrow was too wide to pass through the rear gate. I sighed and re­ moved tn e pungent burden a forkful at a time. Now my roses and


HEAD of the science de- I partment at Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School for nearly 30 years, the Rev. Harry Brown, will be in-1 stituted as vicar of St Paul’s, Warton, on Sep- j tember 5th.


Nancy enjoys a bit of noise


rhubarb have had a sub­ stantial feed and I have forked their breakfast carefully in round the roots. To date, both plants


WHEN Miss Nancy Ward settled into her neat little bungalow in Sabden 15 years ago she thought she was in for a quiet, leisure­ ly retirement. But villagers thought


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differently. Nancy soon became one . of Sabden’s most popular characters and very few days pass when sne doesn’t have friends popping in to see her. Last Thursday was no exception when sprightly Nancy celebrated her 94th birthday. Lots of friends dropped in to see her and she had countless birth­ day cards from well-


wishers. . Nancy is so popular


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that she was asked to unveil a clock presented to the Littlemoor Com­ munity Centre when it opened a few weeks ago, . and she is always being invited to village events. Born in Cork, Southern


Ireland, Nancy started work at 13 as a maid at a


private hotel. When she


was 23 she met a visiting English family who asked her to return with them, as. housekeeper .and she


has been one of the family


ever since. “ I was housekeeper,


cook and iack-pf-aU trades, travelling with-he family everywhere they


wentf It was a hard life but I enjoyed every


minute ’’ says Nancy. , H er ' favourite role,


:


however, was nanny to the daughter pf the family


who' is now; a grand­ mother herself. ;


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for the London AGi with the help of VCO M J. Bright, members formed joint delegate M W. Byrne, of Dilwort that they were also favour of the other thr — concerning perina: deaths and damage birth, industry’s impo: ance to the communi and under-age drinking. A mystery drive v replace the June meetin


Discussing resolutio Wiswell


for a playing field has i yet been officially ham over, Wiswell Par: Council chairman Mr Fenlon reported at council’s open meeting. The land, which <


Hold up The plot of land bouj


£2,000, is an acre ground behind Washb .Close and the first pi ty is to fence it of; grant towards the Has been obtained f the Ribble Valley Cou. Other matters discus


included the dangei access to Washori Close from the main rt and the indiscrimin parking of vehicles. The meeting, in Ban


Resolutions Legislation to seen


School, was told that dumping of rubbish on former printworks was an eyesore and coming a health hazard. Both Wiswell a


Barrow have entered Best Kept Village comr


ition and there is also be a competition for c dren. The question o: new site for the Bari notice board was (


cussed.A suggestion foi Garden of Rest for < mated remains at Wha and Wiswell Cemet. met with approval. Counc i l memb t elected to serve on


for


“Miss Mary” who comes to visit her every fort­ night from Liverpool,! sometimes with her chil­ dren, who Nancy alsol looked after.-


But to Nancy she is still


“adopted” family she has a sister from Windsor, who once worked in ser­ vice at Windsor Castle, | and some remaining rela­ tives in Ireland, j


Ap ar t f r om h e r l When we introduced our annual


payment plan on this 20 ” colourTV, it seemed a pretty good offer. But wedidn't realise just howgood


it really was, until we phoned'some of our major competitors. -


to Ireland regularly. But since the troubles she has | not been back.


Nancy used to go home |


service, Nancy retired to the sheltered housing estate in Stubbins Lane, | Sabden. She is still, lively, likes


After her lifetime in I At the time of going to press, onlyone


came anywhere near matching it. However, don't just take our word for it


Wh^ not phone a few of our competitors yourself, and check


their prices? ; Wo think you'll end up coming


to us.


to do her own hqusework and although, unable to attend to her -garden as well as she used to, she has a large collection of | pot plants. . Sne is also _ a keen i


only £ 7 7 5 per month? TMonlhlyequivalent, based on payingayeaft rental in advance'. ■ /


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This new 17.” B & WTV with push button channel; selection is yours for only E2.99 per month! (Subject to 6 months statutory deposit).: ;


reader and television fan. “It may sound unusual I but I love noise and I love children coming to visit,” | she says.


i v .V •


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DESPITE rain ct ing part of the sp ing ’ programme to abandoned at t annual Slaidbu Newton, Duns Bridge and Lane E May Queen Festi thei village par took, place in f weather. - Crowds watched


F lc


ieave the church aft< service led by the Rec the Rev. G. H. Gaze.


raily- coloured proces


Rev. Martin W\ Garner, vicar of Bu near Kendal. The le was read by Mr J Kenyon and organist Mr John Cowking.


Guest preacher wa. The procession fo


outside the church, le Slaidburn Silver Ban-


Festival Committee c man Mr R. E. Raw. Included in the pr


sion was Linda Raw putising for retiring q Sarah Massey, who on holiday. New queen C


sword b ea rer r Pinderr and train be David Beattie and


Cottam. 1 Attendants were


Parker was follow e> her retinue — « bearer Russell Pn


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