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4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, July 9th, 1981


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HURST GREEN’S NEW PC TAKES OVER


HURST Green’s new bobby, PC John Ma r t la n d is no stranger to the village.


Wigan-born PC Mart- land joined the police 12 years ago, having previously been a toolmaker with BAC at Preston and later a draughtsman. He re­ cent ly passed his sergeant’s examina­ tion.


He is settling in this week on a beat he has helped to cover whi le stationed at Longridge for the past eight years.


He is seen in our pic­ ture with his wife, Edwina, and daugh­ ter , F i o n a (21 months), displaying a home-built model of a Pitt’s special aeroba­ tic bi-plane.


His hobbies include photography and building and flying radio -controlled models, a “bug” he caught as a boy from his uncle.


Wedding


display SIX Ribble Valley schools are taking part in a Royal Wedding display at the Y o r k s h i r e B a n k ’ s Clitheroe branch. The week-long display,


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CLITHEROE. couple Joe and Elizabeth Scott who were parted for more than four years during the second world war when Joe was taken prisoner by the Germans, celebrate their golden wedding a week on Saturday. ■


RC Church, Stonyhurst, Joe and Elizabeth have lived in Peel Street, Clitheroe, for the last 49 years.


Married at St Peter’s They, will mark the an­


niversary with a buffet for family and friends at the Starkie Arms Hotel tomorrow night.


starting on July 21st, will feature material on Prince Charles and Lady Diana S p e n c e r , S t P a u l ’s Cathedral, pageantry, the guests and souvenirs. Among those schools


(72), who put down their 50 happy years together to a philosophy of "share and share alike,” first met through a mutual friend some two and a half years before their marriage.


Joe (76) and Elizabeth Clitheroe-born Joe was


talang part are: Wadding- ton and West Bradford CE; Edisford County Primary; Brennand’s En­ dowed, Slaidburn; Thor- neyholme RC, Dunsop Bridge; Grindleton CE and Ribblesdale Secon­ dary.


working as a spinner at the town’s Carlton Mill at the time and continued there until it closed down shortly before the war.


Clitheroe Territorials and was taken prisoner in Greece in 1941.


In 1939, he joined the Smile of a winner


THERE was no need to ask 20-year-old Sawley farmer’s daughter Wendy Scott to say “ cheese” when she posed for this picture — she was all smiles after being judged top student on the laborat­ ory technicians’ course at the Cheshire College of Agriculture.


PC Martland’s pre­ decessor at Hurst Green, PC Arthur Dyson, has been transferred to Lon­ gridge.


Wendy, of Wes t Dockber Farm, is em­ ployed in the control laboratory at the West Marton cheesemaking creamery of Associated Fresh Foods, a division of Associated Dairies.


students attending the four-week course run


She was one of 15


as a prisoner were spent working on farms in Au­ stria and it was the out­ door life which Joe took up when he returne.d to Clitheroe. He worked on the rail­


Three of his four years Mr and Mrs Scott


way and did various other outdoor jo b s b efo re spending the last 17 years of his working life at a small textile mill in Bawd- lands. He enjoys gardening


the Legion were set - up almost immediately ■ after the foundation of the na­ tional body in 1921 and the service will celebrate both the national and local anniversaries. The parade, led by


town .mayor Coun. Bob Ainsworth, who is also president of the Clitheroe branch of the British Legion, read in g the lesson.


and spends much of his spare time helping his sister Mrs Florence Addi­ son, who herself cele­ brated her golden wed­ ding two years ago, to run the Good Companions. Club at Low Moor, very often playing the piano at their meetings. Elizabeth, who comes


from Stonyhurst, spent most of her working life as a domestic in Clitheroe and, like her husband, is a long-time member of SS Micnael and John’s RC Church. The couple have a


daughter, Jean, (47), who lives with her husband and four children at Cabus, near Garstang. They have two more grandchildren by their daughter Marie, who died about 10 years ago.


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by the Dairy Industries Training and Educa­ tion Committee and re­ ceived her prize — a cheque for £20 — at the college on Friday.


Taste of the past


A FEW weeks ago I chanced to mention that old Lancashire delicacy, oatcakes, in one of my articles and, of course, “it had to happen.” A few days later I was


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going down the street and a little boy, a very nice little boy — there are still quite a lot of them around — stopped me and ,, “Please sir”, he asked, “what are oatcakes?”. This is not an isolated


baker had his own special recipe, but basically they were all a preparation of oatmeal. Baked on a slab- of slate over an open fire, they had a flavour and texture all of their own; a


occurrence. Again and again I find that things which were perfectly familiar to folks of my generation, very ordinary


objects, things we saw or used almost every day, mean absolutely nothing to the young people oi 1981. It shakes one more than


Whalley Window


a little to see articles once used in almost every home — flat irons, box irons, stone jam jars — now displayed as rarities in the windows of antique shops. Fifty and 60 years have changed the whole picture. But what were oatcakes


or more accurately, are oatcakes, for one can still find them for sale in a number of East Lanca­ shire markets if one looks hard enough. They are, I suppose,


traditional Lancashire speciality, but cheap enough to be found in the most humble of homes. Speaking personally, I


prefer them fresh, but­ tered and newly-baked but, more usually, they were hung over the rack above the kitchen fire until they were complete­


with lashings of butter, although there were folks, rather odd folks I always thought, who preferred them dry; eaten perhaps as an accompaniment to broth or a Lancashire hot­ pot. The custom of hanging


ly crisp and dry. Again tney were eaten


cakes, although bearing no resemblence whatever to the cakes normally dis­ played in the confection­


them on a rack over the fire reminds me of the octogenarian friend who, way back in the early


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’20s, took his bride from the south country to “show her off” to old friends at the Root Farm, Dunsop, where he had spent many happy child­ hood days.


oatcake slab and the lady of the house had. “had a good bake”, on the morn­ ing of the day the young couple a r r iv e d . The newly-wed girl, unfamiliar with northern custom, gazed in astonishment at the dozens of oatcakes festooned above her head and, immediately the op­ portunity arose, turned to her husband and urgently enquired, “what have they got all those wash- leathers hanging up for?”.


The farm had it? own


son’s “Lancashire Folk­ lore" (first published 114 years ago) we find that oatcakes were formerly known as “havercakes” (oats were havers). Here they are described as “the bread eaten by labouring classes of Lancashire” anc also “pretty generally in use in the west of York­ shire”. A regiment raised in


In Harland and Wilkin­


jubilee MEMBERS of Royal British Legion branches from all over the Ribble Valley will take part in a parade and commemora­ tive service at Clitheroe Parish Church on Sunday to mark the diamond jubilee of the ex-service- men’s movement. Ribble Valleybranchesof


Slaidburn Silver Band and augmented by members of the local uniformed organ­ isations, will leave the war memorial in the castle grounds at 9-15 a.m.


9-45 and be conducted by the Vicar of Clitheroe, Canon John Hudson, with


The service will start at


parade will re-form out­ side the church and make its way back to the Brit­ ish Legion Club, Whalley Road, with Coun. Ains­ worth, Ribble Valley Mayor Coun. John Walm- sley and the presidents of the various local branches taking the salute at the Castle gates.


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the neighbouring districts in the early 19th century, we learn, was ‘known as “The Havercake Lads” and, with an oatcake for their badge, followed a re­ cruiting sergeant “who carried a similar cake on the point of his sword”. “Oatbread is still eaten


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