Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 4th, 1981
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of tree planner
senior vice-president of the society for two years and succeeds the City Planning Officer mouth
dent for a year. to become presi- of Ply-
Architect and Planning Officer with Lancaster City Council and he re cently had the pleasure of showing members of Clitheroe Civic Society some of the improvement schemes being carried out in the city. He has been junior and
of the District Planning Officers’ Society repre senting all 333 Chief Plan ning Officers in England ana Wales. Mr Wilson is now City
FORMER Chief Architect and Planning Officer with th e R ib b le V a lley Borough Council, Mr Charles Wilson, is to become national president
CLITHEROE couple Bill and Mary Gilbert had their golden wedding pass quietly.
barrier as they celebrated with three parties — the grand finale in Bolton-by- Bowland village hall on Friday.
The years proved no
. couple’s Pjmlico home. The following evening,
May 25th — was marked with a get together, which went on into the early hours with friends and neighbours at the
The actual big day —
round & about
than let the occasion slip quietly away, we wanted something to - remember as we grow really old. The house party' was a particularly good night — I ’ve never laughed-so much in my life.”
Said Mary: “Rather ,'v
they gave a supper party, with 69-year-old Mary ca tering for 42 members, at Clitheroe’s Pendle Club.
latives from the North- East, Lincolnshire and Leicester, met at Bolton-
niversary cake made by granddaughter Geraldine, 20 on the same day.
couple m ciocu, received eane maae an P r id e o f p la c e e x h ib it io n
CLITHEROE Castle will be the venue in Sep tember for a mobile ex-. hibition organised by the Federation of Lancashire Civic Societies. The exhibition, with the title “Pride of place in
1980,” will comprise all the Lancashire entries in
the Civic Trust’s national
competition for work that' contributes to the quality and appearance of town or country.
Finally, friends and re
by-Bowland for Friday’s dance. During the evening the
Bill (76), a joiner by trade, worked on'the con struction of a number of cement works in that area and East Yorkshire.
Born in Lincolnshire,
an oy
at Ketton, he met Mary at an armistice dance at nearby Uppingham and the couple manned three years later at Mary’s home village of Morcott.
Bill started work on build ing Ribblesdale Cement’s
Waddington in 1936 when T inuvhey cam uame to live
there for 33 years until his retirement, living in one of the company’s houses. The couple moved to their present home 11 years ago. In Clitheroe, Mary worked first at the old -Searcraft clothing firm, Moor Lane, .and
plant in Clitheroe. He continued to work
in While he was working,
.Clitheroe. Parish Church and Mary is," in addition,
has seen an avalanche of more than 40 cards — one from Australia — and masses of flowers 'arriving at their home.
from their two sons Ray mond, married with two sons now living at Wall- send, \ and Gerald, also ■manned, with two daugh ters, who lives at Grindle- ton Lane Ends and works for Ribblesdale Cement.
Some, no doubt', came
. One person unfortu nately unable to be pre sent on Friday was Bill and Mary’s grandson, Raymond, who is working in Nigeria.
But he sent bottles of
they’ve had their argu ments over the last 50 years. “But the thing to remember is always to fall
in after falling out!” added Mary.
champagne for the celeb ration. The Gilberts admit that
old-time dancing a t ' Pendle Club, and Bill also likes fishing and garden ing. They are members of
The couple both- enjoy
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connected with the ’76 group. Their golden wedding”
Mr and Mrs Gilbert'
Old faithful runs into trouble
BAD weather and a misunderstanding at .the halfway stage marred'a 10th consecutive Man chester to Blackpool veteran and vintage car, run on Sunday for Clitheroe'driver Mr Edward Preston.
Bawdlands,-in his faithful 1925 Delage motor car-, accompanied by Mr Jack Spencer, also of Clitheroe, ran intov trouble with the organisers at the halfway stage at Hutton.'
waited exactly 30 minutes — including time for a driving test — before hit ting the road again for the coast.
They should have
i Unfortunately, they stayed only 22 minutes and so lost eight marks for starting that many mi nutes early. One official told us we were all right to start, but we later dis covered we’ would lose eight marks. It was an unfortunate misunder s ta n d in g ,” said Mr Preston. Bad w e a th e r also
dogged the 70 mile run, particularly as cars ap proached Blackpool, where it was “shocking,” according to Mr Preston.
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Mr Preston (67), of
done 43,000 miles, having taken Mr Preston and his wife Mary on ’numerous holiday trips all over Great Britain in recent years.
Landscapes
WHALLEY library is the venue for two exhibitions starting on Saturday for a fortnight. In the gallery, there
will be a display of paint ings by Kenneth Crab tre e , of Simonstone, whose favourite subjects are the Lakes and Dales. Meanwhile, the work of landscape artist David Diggins, of Burnley, will be on show in the lending department.
of satisfaction from-being able to complete' his 10th consecutive journey from Manchester to Blackpool — part of this year.’s Red Rose'Festival. The Delage has now
But he derived plenty
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Standen Road, Clitheroe, took up his new beat in Ashton-under-Lyne on Monday. Insp. Morrison (31)
' Oldham. Married with two chil
began his police career as a cadet in Burnley and was later stationed at Ashton, Manchester and
dren, Ian (3) and Jenny (14 months), he is a holder of the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.. He is a keen sportsman and represents the police at football and cricket. He formerly - played football for Trinity in the Ribble Valley League.
Tribute
, vice. The officers are Mr Jack Ruffley, Chief Legal and Administrative Of ficer, and Mr Dennis Black, Borough Engineer.
paid MEMBERS of the Ribble Valley Housing Commit tee paid tribute at their meeting to two chief offic ers on the eve of their leaving the council’s ser-
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• From the chair, the vice-chairman, Coun. • Geoffrey Ainsworth (Clay- ton-le-Dale)'said, “We are proud 'of what they have clone for the council and we hold them in very high esteem.” The committee’s tribute was minuted.
Bridging the gap .a
of my knowledge, is “no”, never one within the vil lage boundaries, although in the original parish th e re were q u i te a number.
Whalley?” The answer, to the best
dote will emerge from the story I tell you now.
attention to this matter? Simply because, just- a couple of days later and by sheer coincidence, I came across an anecdote relating to the pit which finally closed immediately after World War II. ■The nature of the anec
rang and, after I had identified myself, the caller asked, “Are you on
This morning the ’phone
was at Cock Bridge, just off the Accrington road, and within a few hundred yards of our boundary. Why do I draw your
The nearest of These
RECENTLY an in terested inquirer put to me a question I have not previously met. “Was there ever coalmine
in
Whalley Window
th e ’ Rjbble Valley council?”
such was my privilege and the caller, a'Preston man, then asked, “Have you lost any bridges lately?”
I -acknowledged that
“Now I’ll tell you where it is,” and identified a spot miles down-stream at Frenchwood, Preston._
to the department' re sponsible and the very helpful official in charge started to reminisce. “Ah, a cheap job that,” he said, and “That’s why it
Within minutes I spoke Stature £JVotes
SEEDS co n ta in a high concentration of food reserves intended for the first-growth stages of the new plant. For this reason they arc much sought after by various ani mals. Both squirrels and crossbills are able to breed in late winter because the cones of many conifers contain . ripe seeds at th a t time.
feed mainly up in the trees, they will also eat seeds .from cones which have fallen n atu ra lly . In such cases the animal usu ally sits where it can see all around.
Although squirrels
.Bashall,... where thin ning has taken place, I r e c e n t ly fo u n d , gnawed cones and'de tached scales on many of . the tree stumps. Squirrels always start a t th e base when gnawing scales off the',
In one wood. near
cone; the upper scales are not removed be- . cause it .is here that the cone is held down by one paw.' Conse-
q u 'en tly a cone gnawed by a squirrel
less common in our area than squirrels, though there have been several sightings in the Tosside area in re c en t y e a rs . The upper and lower man dibles of the beak are curved in such a way . that they cross over
has a characteristic shape. . Crossbills arc much
c ro s sb i l ls , do n o t remove the scales but use their powerful beak to bend them back while removing the two seeds with th e -
one another, hence the bird’s name. Unlike squirrels,-,
(sticky tongue. . This results in t h e ' i n d i vidual scales being torn lengthways so that a cone attacked by. a crossbill also has
a characteristic ap- : pearance. Anybody who has
- how ' powerful the bird’s beak must be.
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ndividual scale on a . - cone will realise just
itried ;to bend back an TONY COOPER
in the storms at the back end.” “Right,” said the caller.
then “Yes,” I told him, “the Dinkley, suspension bridge was washed away
I thought quickly and
was washed away,” I in terjected.
cheap in that respect. You remember there used to be a ferry there?” '
“Noj” he told me., “Not
“Been across it many a time. ‘Per tuppence per person per trip’ ”.
“Of course,” I nodded.
cableway supports and a few hundred yards of cable and transported them to the river. He fixed one of the piers on either bank, built his bridge, a public right of way was maintained and the county ratepayers
let me remind you that, some hundreds of years ago, there was no bridge across the Ribble between Edisford and Ribchester. Mitton Bridge did not
folk miles and miles of weary walking. There was one at. Hacking and the one at Dinkley where'the river ran some 36ft. deep. The Hacking boat was
and there, the occasional stepping stones,' but no bridges and so two femes were established.' They saved the country
come u n til the 19th century. There were fords here
—. Perhaps . some reader, . better, informed" than
e s ta b l is h e d ' by: the Shireburns, of Stoney- hurst, to enable their Catholic tenants to attend for worship at Old Langho and possibly the Dinkley ■ ferry served some similar .! purpose.
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.interested to 'hears all about it.
' , ■ - And so would I! ,. ■ J . F .
■myself on that particular area,, will know-the: de tailed history.* " 1 , , .- If they do,:I know that lots' of readers' would be
been a tremendous con venience and given a lot of pleasure to hundreds and thousands of walkers and we hope it will soon be restored. To complete the story,
were saved an awful lot of money.” The bridge has since
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1951 or 1952 the lady re sponsible for its operation gave notice that she was no longer prepared to do the job and the county was in a bit of a fix. Then “Jim” Drake, the County Brrdgemaster, had a brainwave. He remem bered th a t the Cock Bridge pit had recently closed and that they had an overhead cableway. He acquired two of the
He grinned. “Well in
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