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THERE is a warning sign about flooding at •:.


Clitheroe’s Waddington Road bridge, but snow the side entrance of the sorting office. w a s an unexpected hazard for this motorist.4


a LETTER trolley came in useful for Clitheroe postmen to shift snow from ;


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THIS was the scene for the people of Brennand Street when they woke up on Monday . . . typical of many side streets. • —


HAVING fun in the snow are these mums and children from Stirling Close, Clithcroc.


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RIBBLE VALLEY people are suffering from an icy hangover following an Arctic weekend . which brought the lowest temperatures and the biggest snowfall to the area for more than 30 years. Yesterday. many outly­


ing farms were isolated by deep drifts, there was single-line traffic on a number .of minor roads and people still slithered and slipped to work in Clitheroe th ro u g h ,.12 inches of snow. Many cars remained


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FIREMEN 'wearing breathing .apparatus rescued 83-year-old Mr Robert Sumner


after he was trapped by flames in a flat above a Whalley shop. : . The blaze, which broke \


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•PARISH priest of SS Michael and. John’s RC Church for. the past eight years, Fr Edmund Xavier Willoughby, is leaving


-Parish Priest of St' Wil- 'f-rid’s RC C h u rch , ■


i Clitheroe /next! month to take over-,.as “Rector and


’Preston. His replacement will be


. town’s- Newman College; :.He takes over >his first . appointment as'fa parish, , priest on January 11th. f: ;; Fr.'/Willoughby, who


■Fr: Joseph--Waring, a native - of rPreston, who has‘been .teaching at the


- become Rector and Palish -P r ie s t of St-Wilfrid’s _ Church, Preston:


. hails'originally. from Spin- khill> : Derbyshire, -will


\ ' V Ya . He will be sorry to •*


leave Clitheroe, however,'; where he says he has had “a very fruitful and happy,: time”. '


l Sheffield, -he - completed'1 his National: Service - in the RAF and then began.; training as a Jesuit noviti­ ate at Harlaxton Manor, Grantham; - before /going; on to study philosophy at , Heythrop College - in Ox-' fordshire.-


'After leaving De La Salle ; Grammar School, in


J


: returning to-Heythrop for." , a four-year course of.


• taught ,--at:' St - Michael's' Grammar,, School, Leeds,']


. For, two y e a r s ! he,


. theology;; during - which ,. time.-he was ordained. , , . .


, Following his ordination


■ in 1965; he was engaged. in parish j work; and was


, priest : in-his native parish : of Spinkhill and Eckington .


' appointed -parish priest - ■the following year. 1 '


-val; Fr; Kevin 'McElhatton was? forced - to re t i re i through ill health and F r : Willoughby took over h is :. duties. -He was officially i


-for four-years,’ moving to 1 • Clitheroe in 1972. Shortly ' after his am - '


dained in 1962 at Heyth­ rop: -College -in Oxford­ shire ;■ like Fr Willoughby. He has: taught Scripture, religious, studies, / Latin and Greek. at Newman College for the - last - 11 years ’and has frequently- undertaken-; holiday relief work in parishes all over" the country."


Fr Waring: (50) was or­ He :is; already familiar


i His new -appointment; takes; him -to , Preston’s i. town centre RC -parish, ; which is • substantially bigger. than, SS- Michael/ and, J ohn’s and; includes s a : large community, of r e - , -tired and semi-retired • priests., t


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with Clitheroe and is:very, pleased with the >new ap­ pointment. /.Since last week, he has been living in the: town: to familiarise' ■ himself with the parish.


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; v Following ;Fr':Willough­ by’s • departure, Fr John Griffin will; continue in his capacity as curate. r


j IN THE RIBBLE VALLEY £2,995 '


out on Saturday evening, caused about £20,000 worth of damage to stock and property at Sumners’- sweets and tobacco shop and snack' bar ,. King Street./ , Fears th a t the fire


might spark a gas explo­ sion forced Mr Ian Shaw to evacuate diners from the . neighbouring Tudor Grill restaurant. According to the shop’s


owner, Mr Ken Sumner, the blaze started when a Rayburn fire overheated about 6 p.m. —just as he arrived home in Pasture-' lands Drive, Billington. However, he was soon


back in . King Street fight­ ing the,-blaze with Mr Shaw, using their own ex­ tinguishers and those from the nearby Swan Hotel and an off-licence. They managed to control the flames until firemen from Great Harwood ar­ rived at 6-30 p.m. But they failed to reach


Mr Sumner’s fa th e r , Robert, who was trapped in the upstairs flat where he lives. “The flames’cut off the


•said Mr Sumner.. “But when the firemen arrived, they,,-couldn’t pull him clear because the window, ■was too narrow.” Eventually the firemen


stairs, so we told him to go to the front window,”


decided to put out the fire as quickly as possible and then entered 'the; building wearing breathing, ap? p a ra tu s to bring .Mr Sumner sen. to safety..


• “It was quite an ordeal


for him and we were very fortunate indeed not to have any fu r th e r in­ juries,” added his son. ' Mr Sumner sen. was af­


fected by the smoke and spent two days in hospital before returning home. ’The stock and property


did not escape so lightly, though. The kitchen and back of the shop were gutted and‘ all the stock ruined. Mr Sumner put the


It’s lucky for some


NOT everyone is dream- ■ ing of a xwhite Christ­ mas, but for Clitheroe engineers Econ Atkin­ son’s it means a mini­ boom. The wintry weather


has already led to the speed-up of a £45,000 Ministry of Defence order. ■ s Employees at the En­


abandoned throughout the arqa — an added hazard to snowploughs and glit­ ters which have, been operating round the clock to .clear drifts up to eight feet deep.


normal • at Ribble Valley schools, which had to close because pupils were unable to reach them through the deep' snow. Hastily being reorganised were carol services and other Christmas celebra­ tions cancelled because of the sudden change in the weather. The blizzard struck


Life slowly returned to


' tomers wanting early • delivery of ordered grit- ' ters. ■ ■ ' ^ The firm played its -


tachable snowploughs and four glitters for de­ liver to ministry establ- ishments round th e . country by Christmas. The firm has also been inundated with inquiries -for repairs and from cus-


terprise Works are now busy turning out 32 at­


part in the battle against the snow in Clitheroe on Monday by sending out ' a plough to help clear roads.


damage at. £20,000 and fears it may be as long as six months before he can reopen the business. “This could not have happened at a worse time with Chr is tmas only days away,” he added.


— DAY — EARLY


NEXT w e ek ’s Clitheroe Adver­ tiser and Times will be out a day earlier ' than usual —■ on Wednesday.


Correspondents


are therefore asked to : l e t ' us have items of news by 10 a.m. on Monday at the latest.' There will be a


member of staff on duty on Saturday morning for those who wish to phone in their reports.


with dramatic speed on Sunday afternoon, just over 24 hours after the Clitheroe • area -shivered under a record-breaking temperature of minus 12 degrees C.


Like glass


wind, it snowed for over , 12 hours and on Monday morning people faced drifts of. up tc five feet outside their doors. It sig­ nalled the start of “Opera­ tion dig-out” when young and old seized spades and shovels to clear drives and pavements. v ■ After reaching their cars, " many motorists found them impossible to: move and decided either to walk to work or take the day off. ■ Those who managed to


Whipped by a gale-force


reach the road found con­ ditions treacherous until snowploughs and glitters were on the move. While adults bemoaned


. on Tuesday as well, to allow the children time to travel home before dark.' Transport difficulties


ary Schools closed early


meant that St Augustine’s RC High School at Bil­ lington had to stay closed on Tuesday and Bowland County Secondary School at Grindleton closed again in the afternoon because of eight-foot snowdrifts and a path “like a sheet of glass” In the playground. At C h a tb u rn CE


School, however, where h e a dm a s te r Mr. Ted Boden said: “We never close,” there was an en­ couraging turn-out of 49 of th e 65 pupils on Monday. Whalley CE School


faced a different problem, - shutting down yesterday


until' further notice be­ cause tankers v could not deliver fuel. Priorities for tanker drivers at the moment are deliveries to hospitals and old people’s homes.


'


at least one road open to every village in the Ribble Valley and Divi- ’ sional Road Surveyor Mr 1 Ian Robertson paid tri­ bute to staff at the Whal­ ley depot for their, efforts in carving a way through. The fell road to .Newton


.By Tuesday, there was Cut off


and Slaidbum wa's pass­ able with great care on Monday morning, but Tosside remained cut off from the outside world until about 1 p.m. A further heavy snowfall on Monday afternoon caused the road through the vil­ lage, to be closed again on Monday night, re-opening the following morning.


lord of the Dog and Par­ tridge pub., for more than 20 years, said he had seen worse conditions in the village, but never so early in the winter. One pub forced to close


Mr Roy Bicknell, land­


its doors because of the weather was the Wellspr- ings Inn, on the Nick o’Pendle.


Too narrow Licensee’s son Mr Peter


Hoyle said that it had, been closed since Sunday lunchtime because of the impassable state of the Clitheroe-Sabden road. Bus services in the area


were badly hit by the weather,' although main routes from Clitheroe to Blackburn, Burnley and Manchester were operat­ ing largely as.normal,from early .Monday. : Clitheroe manager for Ribble Motors, Mr Leo


. Clitheroe-Preston services was that the roads, al­ though passable,, were not wide enough for buses. More snow would have


Wells, said the main prob­ lem in villages served by th e C e n t re l in k and


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to melt or be cleared before services could op­ erate again.' He added that piles of snow thrown up by snowploughs were making it difficult for pas­ sengers to board buses on the routes still running.


badly affected, with- just two wagons s ta r t in g rounds on Monday morn­ ing. The picture was much the .same on Tues- - day, with little chance of reaching the .villages.


ever, that by today a number of village services could be back on the road. Refuse collections were


Housing Officer Mr Peter Gladwin appealed to the public to be patient. “Refuse will be ■ collected as soon as possible,” he said. - Postal services were


Borough Health and Patient v-


IT looked as though Mrs Susan Ghallinor, of Henthorn Road, Clithcroe, would be snowed in ' for some time until these council workmen came to her rescue: from the left, Michael Wilson, Martin O’Rourke, Jonathan Hosty and, Keith Wilson.


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also hit, with deliveries only in Clitheroe town centre on Monday and much of the mail being delayed on its way from other towns.


picture was brighter, with Clitheroe postmaster Mr James Moran claiming a. 90 per cent successful de­ livery service'.. On the industrial scene,


But by Tuesday, the


'firms on Monday morning. Just six people turned up for work a t T ru tex , Grindleton, but steadily improving conditions


the conditions meant a gloomy picture for many


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• Continued on page 14. A ru n o n w e l l ie s


CLITHEROE shoe shops are reeling — under a wellie-buying boom! ■


th e i r fate', however, schoolchildren were ju­ bilant. All secondary schools in


the area, as well as 13 of the1 Valley’s 35, primary


sch o o ls ,, closed,, on. Monday, and Waddington and West Bradford CE and Sabden County Prim-


sold 140 pairs on Monday alone — and by Tuesday stockrooms were left bare,-as snowbound shop­ pers snapped up almost every available pair.


One town centre shop


r e p o r te r - . th a t since' Monday , their stock had been:■ nearly cleared out.


Another, trader told our


Wellies had been a good seller during the summer becaitse of, 'the poor weather, but nothing like this week.


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• Unexpectedly the bad weather brought a boom for local t ra d e r s on Monday. So many people found themselves snow­ bound and unable to go to work, they decided to go C h r is tm a s , sho p p in g instead.


•


weathec;; this 'weekend- traders are expecting the Christmas shopping spree to start'in earnest. Clitheroe market will


were . sledges ■ to keep the youngsters happy and several shops had sold out by yesterday. But-, w h atev er the


Top of the list- for many


be open as usual on Tues­ day and also on Christmas Eve, but will be closed on Boxing Day. The-follow­ ing week there will be the usual Tuesday and Satur­ day markets. - To cope with the ■ ex­


/ The -Ribblesdale -Pool , will be closed from today until Monday, ’ December 28th an’


p e c te d ■ ru sh , most Clitheroe shops will be open all next’ Wednesday, which is usually early- closing day. .


d on New < Year’s


close .for - a’ week from Monday,’ reopening on -Tuesday, December 29th. Longridge Sports' Centre will. close on Christmas Eve’’-and "reopen 1 on: De? cember -29th.-;.!It.-will also be closed on New Year’s Day.. . - - , , . The Ribble11 y a l le y


Day. - Glitheroe Civic Hall will


Counciloffices' - wi l l be closed .on1,Christmas - Day, December; 28th > and--- New Year’s;Day. v,The council's mobile- van ■'will] not be operating from next-Tues- day,until January 12th..


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