Valerie has her hobby all tied up


Rogersfield, Langho, first became interested in mac­ rame after seeing the de­ monstration, and now spends much of her spare time making plant han­ gers and cute owls for exhibitions in the area.


tive embroidered pictures and her home is adorned with samples of her work.


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erie took a teachers’ train­ ing course in Manchester where she met her hus­ band, Ian, who is a com­ pany director.


they lived in South Africa and Rhodesia for several years, later moving to Holcombe Brook and then, four years ago, to their present home in Langho.


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in needlecraft, she enjoys fell walking, and also works part-time for a Blackburn estate agent.


In contrast-to her skill Born in Leicester, Val­


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embroidery from her grandmother. With pain­ staking care she embroid­ ers flowers, which in their delicate colours on a black


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A DEMONSTRATION of macrame at a coffee evening in South Africa more than 11 years ago has led to a Langho woman displaying at many local exhibitions her adeptness at the craft ; Mrs Valerie White, of


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Tributes to John


MEMBERS of Clitheroe Town Council held a pre­ sentation ceremony in the Mayor’s parlour in honour of Mr John Smalley, who retired as Mayor’s atten­ dant in October after 34 years’ connection with civic affairs in Clitheroe.' On behalf of the council,


■work he had put in during his years as Mayor’s at­ tendant. “My wife and I are par­


bute to Mr Smalley for all the hard and dedicated


plant. Coun. Wells paid tri­


and to his wife, Susan, a y many and varied, from


became a groundsman at Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School, where he tended the gardens, among other duties, but still main- • tained his connection with the Corporation as a hal­ berdier.


gardening to working on the roads. After 15 years’, he


Grammar School 15 years later, due to ill health and became Mayor’s attendant four years ago.


He retired from the


the Mayor, Coun. Leo Wells, presented to Mr r ..


Smalley a silver tray and T I I6 S [11011 six cut glass wine glasses


Michael .


Road, Clitheroe, retired from the job on his 65th . birthday, October 23rd at which time he said he was looking forward to pursu­ ing his main hobby of gar­ dening during his retire­ ment.


ticularly grateful for the help he gave us when we became the first Town Mayor and Mayoress after local government reorgan­ isation,” said Coun. Wells, “It was a difficult time for us and he helped us through it splendidly.” Mr Smalley, of Pimlico


RAF, he did a fortnight’s work as a baker before joining Clitheroe Corpora­ tion. His duties were


he served his time as a baker and when war broke out, he joined the RAF, s ta t io n e d in England. After six years in the


Born in Woone Lane, Regional


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football, squash and cross­ county running and he now takes flying training as the first step to gaining the coveted wings of an RAF pilot.


Michael went on to gain a BSc Honours degree in aero-engineering at Man­ chester University. His hobbies include


whose parents live in Derby Street, Clitheroe, was congratulated by the reviewing officer at a graduation ceremony held at RAF College Cranwell, in L in c o ln sh ire , on Thursday. After leaving school,


Clitheroe Royal Grammar School has been awarded a commission as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force. Michael O’Hagan (22),


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daughters, he lives at Utley, Keighley. He pre­ viously worked for the Lion Brewery, Blackburn, and later Asda. He has been area manager with Hillards, since 1979.


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o u r very few wild evergreen broad-leaved trees. It mav reach a height of 60ft. under favourable conditions, though it is more usual


Faded old picture tells a story


HANGING in the Whalley branch lib­ rary you will find a faded old watercolour. It is of particular in­ terest to students and others interested in the development of the district prior to the coming of the rail­ ways, for it is the only one I know which shows the north end of the village as it was before 1850.


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' where there will not be room for a picture of that


“advancing years compel me to break up my home and 'move into a small flat


picture and told me that it was painted by her grand­ father, Mr J. G. Booth, of Padiham, when a 12-year- old student at Whalley Grammar School. “Now,” she continued,


before that date and came to my notice in an unusual way. One morning a letter arrived from an elderly lady in London, who had come across my name in some publication or other. She gave details of the


It was painted 10 years


size.” If it could be cared for and hung publicly, she would be pleased to send it along.


this could not be refused and in due course it ar­ rived, beautifully packed, and was handed over to the Parish Council. The artist must have been a lad of considerable ability, for his work would grace anyone’s home.


Clearly an offer like


point on the Hellicliffes, it shows the grammar school almost isolated at the top end of the village, the only nearby properties being “The White House”, Stocks Hill and the few cottages once at the end of what is now Station Road.


stretch of road was called The Rope Walk then), no Methodist Church and, the Adam Cottam Alms­ houses apart (new proper­ ties then!), there were just a few odd farmsteads and no other buildings until the grey pile of Little Mitton Hall and the squat tower of the church were outlined against the


No Park Villas (the Painted from a vantage


Wha l ley Win d ow


Bowland fells. In the dis­ tance, the lofty pinnacles of Stonyhurst could just be seen.


continued with his artistic hobby, :I cannot say, for later he became a doctor and practised in his native Padiham for many years.


ings of, the village extant, of course, but these are devoted to individual buildings and offer no general views. There are a number of the West Gate of the Abbey — a building that seemed to attract the attention of every artist who ever wielded a brush; the Abbey and the church, but no pictures, as far as I am aware,' covering the whole of the village scene.


What a pity. A view of There are older paint­ Whether J. G. Booth


King S tre et with its meandering stream and the CockshuU Bridge at the. Town Gate, where the traffic lights now wink and blink, could tell us much of our village in ear­ lier days.


very informative and are invaluable in providing d etail or confirming theories about the village which was so very much smaller than the one we love today.


Bridge Qottage (a much narrower bridge in those days) and the Corn Mill, but no Coronation Build­ ings, no Mechanics Ter­ race, no Queen Street, Princess Street, Wood-


show our four pubs near the centre, and Church Lane and Poole End would both be there. South of the traffic lights we would see one or two of our Georgian houses, cheek-by-jowl with the handful of little cottages which still stand, Sally Picken’s half-timbered cottage (now demolished) and three old farmsteads. Closer to the river were


Such a painting would Old paintings can be


field View or Calder Vale; no South View in the Ac­ crington Road.


community with a popula­ tion of a third of that today and all crammed into about one tenth of the number of houses there are standing today. Bigger families were then the order of the day.


It was a truly rural


backwater became a vital living community.


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proved because of the de­ velopment which then began? From the pictures­ que point of view, em­ phatically no! But, despite the turmoil and industrial strife of the present time, the traffic and the parking problems and a few houses which can hardly be considered triumphs of the architect’s craft, I’m quite certain that it was. A sleepy little rural


tion, the building of mills in Billington, the further extension of Barrow Print works, the coming of the railway, were to change all that within the next few decades. Was the village im­


The Industrial Revolu­


o u r minds a t th is season. The holly is one of


THE holly and the ivy are two native plants which are very much in


autumn, the berries re­ m a in in g g reen all winter, ripening the following spring when there is little else for the birds to feed on.


two kinds of leaves, the typical, palmate shape on the creeping and climbing shoots and a much sim p ler oval shape on the flowering shoots. It flowers in the


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climbs up into the light. Like holly, ivy bears


form an ex ten s iv e carpet on the woodland floor, though it will only flower when it


leaved evergreen, which most people know as a c l im b in g p la n t on ro u g h -b a rk ed tree s such as ash and elm and also on rocks and walls. However, it can also


and used for making chessmen and also for inlays and marquetry. Ivy is also a broad­


or female, so th a t many of them never bear berries. If not taken for Christmas de­ corations, the berries will remain on the female trees well into February, providing valuable food for many b ird s , p a r t ic u la r ly thrushes. Holly timber is white


have the typical prickly shape; the upper leaves out of reach of brows­ ing animals are oval and without thorns. Trees are either male


to find it as a hedgerow shrub or as woodland undergrowth. Only the lower leaves


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