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FROM Australia comes a plea from a former Clitheroe woman for help in tracing the history of her family locally in the 19th century. Mrs Betty Eastwood,


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A CLITHEROE woman who decided as a child that school­ t e a ching was the career for her retires tomorrow after almost 40 years in the clas­ srooms of East Lanca­ shire. Mrs Patricia, Altham, of


Chatburn Park Drive, first entered the profes­ sion in 1943 and for the last eight years has been looking after “problem” children at Rishton Tuto­ rial Centre — for the last 12 months as deputy head. Before th a t , Mrs


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Altham, who is currently president of Great Har­ wood and Rishton Inner Wheel Club, spent 16 years at Great Harwood Parish School and 13 years at Whalley CE School, as well as a couple of years on stand-by duty round the area. In 1972, after she had left the Whalley School


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came from Kendal and his wife, Jane, was a Whalley woman. They died in Bil­ lington and Whalley re­ spectively in 1858-59. Jane’s maiden name may have been Dewhurst. T h e ir son, Jo h n ,


unit until it was merged with the newly-opened Rishton Tutorial Centre. That signalled the start of her highly enjoyable as­ sociation with the special school formed by the edu­ cation authority to cater for children with learning and behavioural difficul­ ties. Situated in the former


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Moor, has qualified as a radio operator at the Navy’s communications and navigation training school, HMS Mercury, in Hampshire. A former pupil of St Augustine’s School, Billington, David completed his


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and indeed in the teaching profession as a whole, have been really enjoy­ able,” said Mrs Altham, who is taking an early retirement option at the age of 59.


changes in education — in fact the children them­ selves represent one of the biggest changes,” she said.


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adults these days and treat their teachers a lot more as equals than they ever did before.”


Clitheroe all her life and attended the former Na­ tional School, Pendle Junior and the town’s Grammar School in the days when girls, as well as boys, were housed' in the York Street buildings.


Mrs Altham has lived in


Rishton police station on Station Road, the school can accommodate 24 pupils between the ages of seven and 11, from an area which covers most of East Lancashire. The youngsters spend


grated to Australia in 1947 and lives in a suburb; of Melbourne. She re­ turned to Clitheroe for holidays in .1957 and 1972.


varying amounts of time at the centre — between one and three years in most cases — and the em­ phasis is on individual at­ tention. “My years at Rishton,


moved to the City of Leeds Teacher Training College, completed her training at Scarborough after evacuation and took up her first post at Sal­ ford, before the Great Harwood job in 1944.


At the age of 18, she


ward to having more time to devote to her hobbies, which include cooking, dressmaking, gardening, driving, walking and reading.


She is now looking for­ “I have seen a lot of Pat on


the back VILLAGERS at Martin Top have received a pat on the back for their hos­ pitality from New Zealand couple Reg and' Myrtle Baker. Their (laughter, Bever­


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ley, married the Congre­ gational Church’s minis­ ter, the Rev Donald Cul- l in g fo rd , ju s t a f te r Christmas. Following the wedding,


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Mr and Mrs Baker spent eight weeks in the area and from their home in New Zealand they wrote to the Advertiser and Times expressing their appreciation of the villa­ gers’ welcome. “We have brought home


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A REPORT last week gave the impression that a bitch owned by former Clitheronian Mr Joe Whit­ taker had won a top prize at Crufts. Although “Singleton


husband Bill have been married 28 years and have a son, Roger (26).


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Gingerbread Lady” qual­ ified for Crufts by being voted “best in show” at the Bedlington Terrier Association champion­ ships, she failed to win a prize.


NOSING around Edisford recently (not difficult with a probos­ cis like mine) I ex­ amined the work cur- renly being underta­ ken by our Ribble Valley Council to pre­ vent large portions of the river bank being swept downstream to enhance the shores of Lytham and


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just 141 years ago, when similar work was in prog­ ress further down our river at Cuerdale, a fabul­ ous treasure — reputedly one of the richest such finds ever unearthed in the country — came to light. I t ap p e a rs th a t a


Annes. It reminded me that


Hoard of buried treasure W h a l l e y W in d o w


labourer, loosening soil on the river bank, withdrew his pick to find a veritable cascade of silver coins falling at his feet. Silver coins (there were


930 and among them were coins of English, French and oriental origin. This great accumulation


over 6,800 of them!) weren’t all this amazing hoard contained. There were, in addition, 16 ingots of solid silver, small bars of the same metal with a total weight of 860oz. and rings, brooches, amulets and chains weighing 103oz. The oldest coin in the


collection was dated AD 860; the most recent AD


was not, we are informed, the whole of this fairytale find, for before Squire Assheton — that same Squire Assheton whose family has presided so long over lovely Dow- nham — arrived to take charge of the riches disco­ vered on his land, it is suggested that workers and casual observers had helped themselves to a large number of illicit souvenirs.


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hoard? An official inquest was held in August, 1841, presided over by the Coroner of the Hundred of Blackburn and, at the end of the proceedings, it was agreed that the whole of the amazing find must go to HM the late queen Victoria in her capacity as Duke of Lancaster. It was forthwith handed over to the Duchy.


And the rest of the


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hoard ha,d originally been placed in a leaden chest, itself encased in a chest of wood (for fragments of both were found on the site) before burial or before the silt and sand of the river had hidden it from sight for nigh on 900 years.


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was the treasure chest of an invading Viking fleet carrying an apparently defeated army or band of pirates.. The river has .changed its course many times in the intervening years and was navigable much further upsteam than is possible today.


It is believed that this


' It can hardly have been deliberately buried by the native population for, as­ suredly, once the heat and turmoil of battle had sub­ sided, they would 1 have hastened to retrieve their riches.


. during the current opera­ tions a t : Edisford. From the point of view of our escalating, rates, this can only be classified as a very great pity.


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And so the. mystery re­


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