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I v l Stephen steps up
tlemoor Road, was in-, stalled at the Sun Inn, Waddington, on Tues day, watched among others by his wife, Alison, who is also a member of the club. He takes over from
CLITHEROE herdsman Stephen Carins is the new president of the Ribble Valley Rotaract Club. Stephen (24), of Lit-
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Mark Thornber, who is p r e s id e n t - e le c t of Clitheroe YFC. Stephen has been
means business
herdsman for Mr Robert Berry, of Lower Stan- den Farm, Clitheroe, for about four years. In fact, Mr Berry is
currently chairman of Clitheroe Round Table, so they will be able to compare notes: about their club’s activities. Stephen has lived in Clitheroe for the past
moved here from Be- bbington. From 1975-1976 he
four y e a r s , having ■
— David Brass; secret ary — Lyrida West; as s is tan t secretary — Mary Scott; treasurer — Stephen Barker; assis tant — Nicholas Bristol; speakers’ secretary — Collette Maffia; press secretary — Mary Scott; auditors — Fred Wilson, Bill Berry. Council — Susie Owen, Simon Morgan, David Bristol, Paul Backhouse.
most of his spare time, enjoying many hobbies, and also ru n s the Clitheroe Model Railway Society. Other Rotaract offic ers are: Vice-president
studied for the National Certificate in Agricul ture at the Lancashire College of Agriculture. He likes to make the
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Calvert Ackroyd, at pre sent vicar of All Saints’ Church, Keighley, will be leaving one of the newest parishes in the country to take over one of the oldest. For, while Whalley has
A NEW vicar is : to take over at Whalley Parish Church in Sep tembe r —. nine months ; after the re tirement of the last in cumbent, the Rev. Alec Harpur. The Rev. John Michael
had a vicar since the 13th century, All Saints’ only became a parish church in its own right in April. Before that, it was
Turner fam i ly
in th e n ew s
A FORMER pupil of St M a ry ’s RC School,. Langho, Neil Turner,-has gained an upper second class honours degree in geology at Manchester University. Neil (21) is the son of
“daughter church” to a bigger parish in the West Yorkshire town, and cele brated its centenary in 1979.
round & about
happy at my present parish and will be sorry to leave,” he said, “but Whalley is about twice the size of All Saints’ and just the kind of bigger job I have been looking to get my teeth into.” Bradford-born Mr Ac
played a very active part in the transition of All Saints’ to parish status, looks on his Whalley ap pointment as a “very chal lenging opportunity.” “ I have been most
Mr Ackroyd, who
kroyd (48), became a minister relatively late in life. He was ordained eight years ago after
Mr and Mrs Ackroyd and Roland.
spending his early work ing life in the engineering industry.
curate of All Saints’ in 1974 and has been there ever since, being ap pointed Priest-in-charge in 1976 and vicar when All Saints’ ceased to be a “daughter church.” Mr Ackroyd, who has
He was ap p o in ted
one son, Roland (17), was widowed three years ago but has since re-married. His wife Marguerite is
B.Sc. degree in engineer ing from London Univer sity and was formerly a full member of the In stitution of Mechanical Engineers and an associ-
a doctor currently in gen eral practice in Keighley. Born at Watford,
she.is of Swiss extraction and spent 16 years as a medi cal missionary in Africa. Mr Ackroyd holds a
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WHENEVER a new development is plan ned anywhere in our country, inevitably a dispute arises. There are always those in favour of the project and those “agin it”. This has been demons
the concern demonstrated in our own village iri the very early days of the century when plans were publicised of proposals to build what was then termed “an asylum for pauper lunatics” on Whal ley Moor? The interest was tre
that occasion, how much greater do you think was
trated quite forcibly in our own area in recent times; there was, for ex ample, the excitement created in some circles when plans to build new council offices in Clitheroe were announced. If tension built up on
work, more going on, a greater prosperity in the district,” but another sec tion of the community was very strongly opposed. “Our women and chil dren will not be safe, we
“There would be more
will all be murdered in our beds,” they cried and, as a result, in June 1905, a public inquiry was held in the Assembly Rooms (today you know it as “ The Sandpiper” ) in Whalley. Both s id e s — the
mendous, In general the man in the street wel comed the suggestion —
of bricks and with equal alacrity the county pro duced experts, who de clared it was ideal for that purpose. In due course experience showed that these latter experts were absolutely right.
favour of the scheme were that accommodation of the type envisaged was desp erately needed, over 20 alternative sites had been considered and inspected and the one selected was by far the most suitable.
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large centres of popula tion but readily accessible by rail and a branch line to service the institution presented no difficulties in construction. . To this the objectors re
Whalley Window It was remote from the
. titioners from the sur rounding district were called to give evidence to this effect and created the impression that “when the rest of the valley was bathed in sunshine, Whal ley Moor was damp and shrouded in mist and fog.”
price to be paid for the land was too high, the County expressed a qual ified agreement, but pointed out that, as the clay to be excavated in the digging of the railway siding and foundations for the wards was to be made into bricks on the site, this would constitute a great economy and would result in a saving of some £10 per acre. Immediately the objec
To the charge that the
tors produced experts to testify that the clay in question was quite unsuit able for the manufacture
torted that the price prop osed to be paid for the land was excessive, the land itself was unsuitable and the area was particu larly unhealthy. Various medical prac-
County Council on one hand, the objecting par ties on the other — were represented by counsel and the proceedings lasted the better part of the whole week. The main arguments in
tion that the land was un healthy, it was perhaps unwise of the objectors to bring along an octogena rian countryman who de clared that this was abso lutely true. He had lived in the vicinity- all his life and it was a very, very unhealthy place.
To support the conten
the excitement, carefully watching the proceedings, was Col Hargreaves, of Whalley Abbey.
And in the middle of all
matter can be understood. He owned the 300-plus acres on which the great hospital of the future was to be built.
His in te res t in the
itry, but a loving, caring, dedicated profession which has brought count less benefits to the dis trict, the whole of the area it services and, not least, to the fortunate — and I choose the adjective deliberately — but hand icapped people for whom it has catered over the last' 60 years. A few brief facts before
Jubilee of that quiet but momentous occasion which the hospital cele brated at the weekend. Rightly it is an occasion
for g r e a t re jo ic in g ; throughout the county some thousands of men and women have rightful cause for saying, “Thank God for Calderstones”.
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military patients later, the first mentally hand icapped men and women, boys and gii’ls were wel comed into Calderstones. I t is the Diamond
I close. Clearing the land for the hospital started in 1907 — a job for pick, shovel and wheelbarrow in those days — and the institution first opened as Queen Mary’s Military Hospital (the largest in the country at that time) in April 1915. Six years and 67,000
end of the story. Nursing the mentally handicapped has long been a major source of employment in our district; not an indus-
Well, we all know the
'ate of the Institution of ■ Electrical Engineers'. He was a lay reader for
seven years before enter ing the ministry and trained for the cloth at Oxford.
choral mtfsic and is de lighted that Whalley has as distinguished a reputa tion in this field as does his present parish.
He is very interested in
van Club, Mr Ackroyd numbers caravanning among his hobbies and is also a keen “do-it-yourse- lfer.”
Earlier this year, the
Hulme Trust, which has administered the Whalley parish since 1832, dropped the long-standing stipula tion that a vicar of Whal ley must be a graduate of B raz en o se College, Oxford.
six months after the vac ancy had first been adver tised, and made the post open to any suitable ap plicant.
This came more than
applied for the living after seeing it advertised in the Church Times.
Mr Ackroyd, in fact,
fixed for him to take over at Whalley, but his ap pointment was announced to parishioners on Sunday by Rev. George Parker,
No exact date has been
who has been Priest-in charge of the parish since Mr Harpur’s retirement at the end of last year.
A member of the Cara
Monday night held in the Co: Club were: Lad Long, Mrs E. (cons). Gents Larkin, Mr R. (cons). Special ner — Mrs 1 The MC was M greaves.
Right card The winne:
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Mr and Mrs Norman Turner, of Rishton. His father retires this month as the Ribble Valley Council’s Deputy Borough Engineer. Ironically, Neil’s gradu
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ners, who formerly lived at Billington and Wilp- shire, also graduated from Manchester. Roger (25) gained an
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identical grade to his younger brother, but in geography. A former pupil at Langho, too, he now works as a land re cords officer in Scotland. A third — and eldest —
son, 27-year-old Ian, is a company accountant- with a firm in Houston, Texas. Mr Turner became
Deputy Technical Officer under a recent staff re shuffle, but opted for early retirement.
Deputy Chief Technical Officer with the Ribble Valley authority in 1974. He would have become
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