4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, January 22nd, 1981


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is no deterrent to artist Philip


For his hobby of water­


colour painting involves him making regular treks into the countryside to capture some of his favourite views — even during cold winters!


Mr Glynn (48), of Bever­ ley Drive, has been paint­ ing since he was at school and has had several works on view at art exhibitions. His work has also been exhibited at Whalley Library.


A chartered surveyor, “The Ribble Valley is


ideal for landscape paint­ ing,” said Mr Glynn. “The dominant feature must be Pendle Hill, but many of the old buildings, such as barns, make (rood subjects because of their character and settings.”


round & about


Mr Glynn has sold sev­


Pendle, Mr Glynn’s work includes paintings of the g atew ay to Whalley Abbey and a look at Clitheroe from the Nick o’ Pendle. Born in London, Mr


Glynn and his wife moved to Clitheroe from Black­ pool about 10 years ago. He joined Whalley Golf


Club about that time and was club captain for the 1979-80 season.


Chatburn photos needed for book


THE help of readers is being sought by a Clitheroe-born man who is planning a book about the history of Chatburn, with which he' has connections.


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of 28 Thorndale Street, Hellifield, has a fund of material about Chatburn, including the 1379 Poll Tax, the Hearth Tax, and parish minutes for 1797, to mention some of the more important items in his collection. But a book, Mr Fish­


Mr James C. Fishwick,


wick feels, needs to be illustrated and that is where he is hoping our readers may be able to help.


The sort of photographs


or postcards he would like to borrow are of village events of long ago, such as church processions, field days and foundation stone laying at the Parish Church and Methodist Church. Pictures of the building of the present, but now


closed, railway station and the bus run by the Holgate family would also be of interest. No doubt some of these


wick is the son of Mr James Fishwick, of Chat­ burn, who in his day was a well-known naturalist and a frequent contributor to the Advertiser and Times. Mr Fishwick, a retired railwayman, is thought to be the first man to have driven . the Royal train, which he did between Clapham and Leeds, when the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited the Leeds Centenary Music Festival in 1958.


pictorial records are awaiting rediscovery in forgotten postcard albums of long ago. Incidentally, Mr Fish­


eral of his . pictures and though ', enjoyment is the key factor behind his hobby, he says it does help to cover costs. B e s id e s v iew s of


Like father


like son THERE is no such thing as a generation gap when it comes to academic achievement in the Red­ ding household. For son Don, with four


of engineering at W. R. Tuson College, Preston.


Unity


week MEETINGS and services are continuing at churches in the Clitheroe area to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Clitheroe Parish Church


hosts a morning Holy Communion service to­ morrow at 10-30 and later in the day there will be Mass followed by a social at SS Michael and John’s at 7-30 p.m. and an open m e e t in g o f T r in ity Methodist Ladies Evening Fellowship at 7-45 p.m.


Focal point of the week


wall be a united service at St James’s Church on Sunday evening at 6 p.m., conducted by the Rector, the Rev . Kenneth


St J am e s ’s Primary School, Clitheroe, and Queen Elizabeth’s Gram­ mar School, Blackburn, is the middle son of David and his wife, Wendy, who live in Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe. Mr Redding (54) is head


A-levels at grade ‘A’ al­ ready under his belt, has gained a place reading English at Trinity Col­ lege, Cambridge, just two months after his» father, David, received an MA degree in educational re­ search at Lancaster Uni­ versity. Don, a former pupil of


MR GLYNN . . . paints for enjoyment


Broadhurst. The preacher, will be the Methodist Cir­ cuit Superintendent, the Rev. James Needham. Finally, on Wednesday,


Neil qualifies, v


A FORMER Clitheroe man, Mr Neil Morton, has become a member of the Institute of Civil En­ gineers.


complete a written exami­ nation and compile a report of the work he does for a civil engineer­ ing firm in Warrington, where he now lives.


To qualify he had to Neil (25) attended


QEGS, Blackburn, and London Imperial College. When in Clitheroe, he was a member o f 'S t Mary’s Scouts and played table-tennis locally.


Mr and Mrs J. H. Morton, of Littlemoor Road, Clitheroe. Mr Morton re­ cently retired as head of the technical department at Burnley Grammar School and Mrs Morton is a ward sister at Clitheroe Hospital.


Their other son, Euan,


Steaming cup that cheers


T H E R E a r e f e w things that add more to the enjoyment of life than a good cup of tea. It adds so much to the social wellbeing of our rural and sub­ urban existence.


for a, few moments, when friends pay the unex­ pected call, when work­ men are in the house or the minister pays more than a momentary visit, it is not more than a few minutes before the kettle is plugged in and the brown leaves are being tossed in the pot. It is the same at inter­


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A. Naturally healthy heat.


B. A chimney provides regular air changes which reduces condensation,


C. Personal fuel delivery service.


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D. Efficient and easy to control heating to give the right balance ot comfod and economy.


E. Cheerful welcoming fire is a focal point tor any room.


service' is the most important benefit, then place the letter 'C' in the first square and so on. Then just complete the sentence below using not more than 12 words.


Please note that prizes are not transferable lor cash


F. Installations guaranteed lor 2 years when tilted by SFAS appointed experts.


G. Wide choice of appliances (open fires, • roomheaters and boilers).


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I. Fuel reserves calculated to last for,, centuries.


J. Factory made chimneys available lor non-chimney homes.


□ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ I think Coal is the fuel of the future because


COMPETITION RULES


1. The entry must be fully completed. 2. Each entrant may submit only one entry. 3. No employee of Solid Fuel Advisory Service or National Fuel Distributors or their advertising agents or members or relatives of members of Blackburn & District Coal Traders' Association are permitted to enter this competition. 4. The panel of judges will consist of representatives of the Solid Fuel Advisory Service and Blackburn and District Coal Traders’ Association. Their decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. 5. Winners will be informed by post within .14 days of the closing date of 9th February 1981.


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(Not more than 12 words) Name Address


■ Coal Merchantt's Name (iitf any)_______._________< VA1I entries must be received by 9th February 1981


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C.E. Leach Ltd., 28 Railway Road, Darwen.


Shepherd Brothers, 34 Ne.wton Street, Clitheroe.


Whalley Window


the hundred will assure you that the cup carried upstairs to the slowly- waking wife each morning really does help to get the day off to a reasonable start. Thus, with my heart­


added enormously to na­ tional morale halfway through a weary spell of fire-watching, or as one snatched a few moment’s relaxation after hours in the operating theatre, or when one laid down the tools at the end of a par­ ticularly exacting task. The steaming “cuppa” really did help to make life worth the living, our civilisation worth fighting for, the sacrifices worth­ while. And married men by


During the war, too, it


When neighbours pop in vhe


to 1853. A very remark­ able man, and • original thinker, I find myself in complete agreement with mucn that ne has to say — but never, never, never on the subject of tea.


Admittedly, Cobbett


lived at a time when the product was, in compari­ son to incomes, much more expensive than it is today (hard to believe, that, isn’t it?) and devotes several hundred words (and figures!) to “proving” that, due to its insidious effects, the whole British nation was in decline. “I view tea drinking as


vals in our local entertain­ ments or after church on Sunday mornings; to­ wards the end of our sales of work or numerous, jumble sales. A good cup' of tea is inseparable from the occasion.


a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an engender of effeminacy ana laziness, a debaucher of youth and a maker of misery for old age,” he wrote. By a series of intricate


warming beverage rank­ ing so highly in my esti­ mation, I was astonished to! meet the most vitriolic attack upon it when read­ ing William Cobbett’s “Country Book” recently. William, just in case


you don’t know him, was the most radical of radi­ cals and lived from 1763


was “the ruination of the working man.” It under­ mined his constitution and he returned from his work at night “with legs hardly sufficient to maintain him and thus makes his miser­ able progress towards that death which he finds 10 or 15 years sooner than he would have found it had he made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.” By another series of calculations, the miserable old curmudgeon proceeds to establish that the homebrewing of the last named beverage would, if his instructions were faithfully followed, save the honest labourer at least half the money he fritters away on “the, cup that cheers but does not inebriate.” From which you will


conclude that William liked beer and did not like tea. I am sorry, old man,


but oh this occasion I just cannot agree with you. I relish my cup of tea.


J.F.


calculations, he estab­ lished that, in one way or another, one third of the country labourer’s annual income was spent on tea, the various utensils essen­ tial to its infusion, the time wasted waiting for the kettle to boil, the fires necessary to heat the kettle, the cups, the spoons, the sugar, etc. “Tea”, wrote William,


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He is the elder son of


who gained a B.Sc. in En­ vironmental Science at Warwick University, is now at a kibbutz in Israel.


Dinner guest


FORMER England inter­ national Alan Ball, now player-manager with


Blackpool FC, will be a guest speaker along with comedian Jim Bowen at a sportsman’s dinner in Clitheroe next month.


It takes place at the


Swan and Royal Hotel on February 23rd, at 7-30 p.m. Tickets cost £8.50.


at the United Reformed Church’s wives’ group, Canon Williams will speak on “Queen Anne,” at 8 p.m.


weather


WINTRY scenes in the Ribble Valley give Clitheroe man Mr Philip Wynn the chance to paint many snow-laden beauty spots.


He attends an evening


course in art run by the Ribble Valley Adult Edu­ cation service at Wad- dington.. ■ ’


Riverside scheme


features in f i lm


THE Ribble Valley ; Coun­ cil’s £lm. Riverside estate at Low Moor is featured in the: film “A first home,” produced by the Depart­ ment of the Environment. The 84-house scheme is


one of six round the' coun­ try which have provided low cost homes for .first


time buyers'. ' The film explains how:


, On the front cover of a ' folder that accompanies' the film are two views of the Riverside estate, where 'residents half-buy , arid half-rent their homes.


the new' Housing Act and dif ferent. financial ar­ rangements can help other local councils which are contemplating starting : such'schemes. '! ■'


Arms race


question WORLD disarmament will be put under the mic­ roscope at a meeting in Clitheroe a week on Tuesday. Sister Deidre Duffy, a


prominent Roman Catholic nun, is giving a talk entitled “Swords into ploughshares” at the United Reformed Church, Moor Lane, stalling at 7- 30 p.m. A member of the Holy


See delegation to a recent special session of the United Nations on disar­ mament, her talk will con­ trast the hoped-for reduc­ tion in the arms race with


by the Ribble Valley Church Council, is the result of last year’s One World Week in Clitheroe, during which the relation­ ship between the western nations and the Third World was considered.


the possible end of world poverty. The meeting, sponsored


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J ig n Tiie


with distinction in that campaign and veterans travel from all parts of the country to attend the reunion. Further details can be


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Rev. Alan Reid, anecdotes on his pas periences in vai parishes when he wa speaker at Read L Friendly Circle at United Reformed Scl There was an excr


Anecdotes The Vicar of Rear


attendance despite bad weather. The spr was introduced by a chairman Miss A. L and thanked bv Freda Garth.


were presented badges during their i mg in the United formed School. Footpath badges


Badges Several Read Bro\


awarded to Gill Loci Juliet Catlow and J Law and roadway ba to Susie Calam and Sutton.


Isobel Richards recr highway badges, Parkinson a veil badge and Helen We musician badge.


Marcia Sinkinson


Show the flag Read United Refoi


Victoria Briggs and Parkinson and the co tion was taken up Jenny Law, Jeani Ashton and Susie Cain


Church Brownies par: at the Sunday after) service. The flag was ried by Isobel Richa escorted by Ja Greenhalgh and A1 Garnett. Lessons were read


Survival After church paradt


Sunday six Read John’s Scouts who working for their Duk Edinburgh award hike Padiham Heights to their “backwoods cool and survival course.” They were M


Newton, David Simp Simon Hughes, Vi Khawaja, Andrew E\ and Darren Lewthwail


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Turn up trump At Monday nig


Bowker. MC was Mis Ennis.


Popular One of the best-evei


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