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CLITHEROE’S Trinity Youth Group was the centre of attention when Prince Charles called at the Douglas House recreation centre during his tour of Calderstones. Here he admires one of assistant youth leader Val Weston’s badges as leader Geoff Jackson looks on.
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JUST' before he left Calderstones, Prince Charles' had some warm words of' praise for the hospital/staff. Me told them: \ M
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enjoyed my visit more:' It has been a marvel!• ous opportunity for me to see the kind of work youfdo here so magni ficently. It wish you the very best ~fdr the future. Keep up the good work, f
; , ’/-/ Prince Charming wins all hearts
A Royal day to remember
C L I T H E ROE took a smiling and
bronzed Prince Charles to its '’ h e a r t
as h e
passed through t h e
t o w n on
Friday oh his way to Calderstones. .
The. route from the sta tion was lined by hun
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dreds of flag-waving townspeople and visitors manning every vantage,, point.
Crowds were 10 deep at
some points and spec tators spilled on to the road as the Royal car made its way via Station Road, Parson Lane, Castle Street, Wellgate and Whalley Road.
People began taking up vantage points throughout
the town about two hours before the Prince was due. But the area around the
station was the chief ral lying point. People were shoulder to shoulder out side the narrow exit from the platform, among them several disabled people in wheelchairs.
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son’s shop was packed ■ with onlookers and the line continued all along Railway Road to Parson Lane. Another popular vantage point was by the Castle entrance. At the junction with
The footpath by. Daw
King; Street the crowd continually drifted across the road, but was quite good humoured when the
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olice gently moved them ack so that traffic could1
The police also kept a
fatherly eye on the scores of young children, among them Brownies and pupils of Moorland School, assur ing them and their elders that if they stayed in posi tion they would have a good view of the Royal visitor.
them not to worry. “Leave the way clear and I will drive slowly,” he said.
One police driver told There was a general
free and easy atmosphere with people being allowed much closer to the Prince than had been expected. . But on the station itself
security was very tight. There was a large contin-
—Looking ahead—
PLANS to celebrate the Royal wedding with a torchlight procession through the streets of Clitheroe are being drawn, up. The date has been set for Saturday* Sep
tember 5th, because the’ actual wedding day, July 29th, falls in the middle of Clitheroe holidays and the night would be too light. The evening will also include a firework
display and a variety of sideshows on the Castle Field. The town council is determined to make it the biggest celebration of its kind held in Clitheroe in recent years. Full details on page 6.
CHARLES the joker.
BEDECKED in red, white and blue, from head to foot are Mrs Catherine Lancaster and sons Peter (7) and Andrew (4) who were thrilled to see the Prince at Clitheroe, Calderstones and Blackpool.
gent of Lancashire and British’Rail police and the Special Branch officers. Only those with special
passes were allowed on to • the platform nearest the town where the Prince arrived.
Crossing On the opposite plat
form a dog handler was on duty to warn off spec tators. Un k n own to mos t
people, however, the Royal train ■ had already t r a v e l l e d t h r o u g h Clitheroe station earlier in the morning. At 3-23 a.m. it passed
through the crossing at E shton Terrace on its way from Preston to Hel-
lifield where the Prince spent the night in a siding. This was in marked
contrast to the return journey. Hundreds of spectators were waiting to cheer as the Royal train and its four coaches drew into the station at eight minutes past 10 — two minutes early. The cheering continued
as the smiling, grey- suited Prince left the second-last coach to be met by the Lord Lieuten ant of Lancashire, Mr Simon Towneley. Waiting to be presented
to the Prince was a line up of civic dignitaries, in cluding Ribble Valley Mayor Coun. John Walm- sley and Mrs Walmsley, the Ribble Valley Coun cil’s Chief Executive, Mr Michael Jackson and Mrs Jackson, Clitheroe Divi sion MP Mr David Wad- dington and his wife, and Clitheroe Town Mayor Coun.
Bob.Ainsworth and Mrs Ainsworth. A last-minute appear
ance was made by Lord Clitheroe, following a recent spell of illness. After shaking hands
been in use since 1974, Coun. Walmsley added: “I can’t tell you much about it as I have only been
Mayor for about a fort
night. The Prince then wished
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THE flag-waving crowd, in Station Road surges forward’ for a closer look as the motorcade • begins its journey through the town.
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AMONG the gifts presented to Prince Charles during his short stay in the Ribble Valley was a pencil sketch of his fiancee Lady Diana Spencer, drawn by Clitheroe student Graham Patten. Graham’s family and friends were so
pleased 'with the sketch that they persuaded him it ivas good enough to frame and prese?it to the Prince.
Coun. Bob Ainsworth, the sketch was given to the Prince during his visit. •
So with the help of the Mayor of Clitheroe,
the crowd watching the Prince airive at the station. “But I asked the Mayor to hand it over for me as he was meeting the Prince,” said Graham.
Graham (18), of Shirebum Avenue, was in
Noiu the Mayor has commissioned Graham to do another portrait of Lady
Diana to grace the walls of the Mayor’s Parlour. Graluim, who has been sitting for his A
levels at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School this week, enjoys art as a hobby and drew the sketch when the Royal couple announced their engagement earlier in the year.
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