4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 26th, 1981


End of an erdi for owner of craft shop


CLITHEROE will lose one of its longest-serving shopkeepers — and- one of a rapidly disappearing breed of true traditional"craftsmen—when, Mr Dick Tattersall retires this week after 43 years trading in York


Street. ■


served his time as a bes­ poke shoe repairer after leaving school at the age of 14 and first went into business by himself in a' shoe repair and leather goods shop at the Chat- burn Road end of York Street in 1938. He moved the 200


Mr T a t te r s a l l (71)


yards' or so towards the town centre in 1953 and


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since then has catered for the model-making needs of successive generations of enthusiasts.


round & about


Mr Tattersall diver­


sified into artists’ and model makers’ materials and stationery in the mid- 50s, when he detected a steady drop in demand for genuine leather goods.- Business boomed as the


off as his shop’s reputa­ tio n sp re ad rap id ly throughout the area and for miles around.


Aladdin’s cave of every­ thing from bulldog clips to balsa wood — still at­ tracts customers from as


The shop — a veritable $


popularity of crafts in­ creased with the emerg­ ence of adult classes and Mr Tattersall’s ploy paid


far away as Manchester and Mr Tattersall is sure the business will continue to thrive under new owner Mr Rodney Baines, of West View, Clitheroe, who has been learning the ropes on Saturday morn­ ings for some weeks now and takes over perma­ nently next Friday. “Even in this day and


age, when traditional corner shops- seem to be closing at the rate of one a week, I believe there is still a place for friendly, personal service and that is the basis on which I have run my business for the past 43 years,” said Mr Tattersall. As an accomplished


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painter as well as a photo­ grapher, Mr Tattersall has been able to pass on expert advice to the countless customers who have called in for artists’ materials over the years. “When you use the


materials yourself, you know exactly what is suit­ able for a particular cus­ tomer’s needs,” he said. As an amateur photo­


(41), who lives at Eden- field, is a lecturer in in­ dus tr ia l archaeology; Judith (38) is a school­ teacher and former head­ mistress in Blackpool; and Robert (31), who studied at Cambridge and Ohio State University, now travels all over North America as a financial analyst for a Canadian company. Mr and Mrs Tattersall


grapher, Mr Tattersall ex­ hibited his work at the Royal Photographic Socie­ ty exhibitions in London in 1930 and 1931, as well as at exhibitions at Black­ pool and Preston. He and his wife Alice


Whalley CE School,, which has no stage of its own, but which can ac­ commodate nearly twice as many : as the-Old Grammar' School; the usual venue.


Dukes, produced - by Dorothy Duckworth, opens on April 2nd for


The play, by Ashley


the village policeman at Newton 95 years ago? Well, a woman who be­


lieves she is also related to th a t same ; village policeman has been in touch with Coun. Fell, who would like to arrange for the two to meet. The only problem is


have visited Robert — former head boy of Clitheroe Royal Grammar


were manned in 1936 and have three children, all of whom have excelled them­ selves in academic circles. Eldest daughter Joan


School and Thwaites’ scholarship winner — a number of times over the past few years, but now they plan to settle down at their new home in Waddington Road. ■ “After 30 or more years living in the town centre, we did not want to be far away from the shops and the post office,” said Mr Tattersall. Born and b red in


Clitheroe, he attended the former council school and believes he was one of the last indentured apprentice shoe ’repairers in Lanca-. shire.


enjoyable years,” he said, “and I would just like my customers past and pre­ sent to know how much their patronage has been appreciated.”


Village


policeman ARE you the Clitheroe reader who. wrote to “Whalley Window” scribe Coun. Jimmy Fell about your grandfather being


“They have been' very' .


that. Coun. Fell has mis­ laid the name and address of the original correspon­ dent, so he would be very grateful if the reader could contact him again.


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tained from the Chief Fire Officer, Brigade Head­ quarters, Garstang Road Fuhvood, Preston.


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A tale worth telling


RECENTLY a kindly reader brought along a book which I have read with tremendous pleasure. Over th e y e a rs I


.Well, not new exactly; it was first published over


thought I had read every word ever written about this district of ours, but here was something new,


■ 50 years ago, but this was my first indication that such a work ever existed. Titled “The Black


Monk,” it was written by a lady, Sybil Parker, of Browsholme. and ap­ p e a rs to have been printed for private circu­ lation and thus I was sur­ prised to see a note at the foot of the title page which ran: “This story was first published in the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times in serial form, 1930." This puzzled me, too.


W h a l l e y W i n d o w


suffering at the hands of a scoundrelly Abbot ‘ of Whalley, one of the most devious villains it has ever been our pleasure to encounter, before his ulti­ mate rise to fame and great riches.


We learn of the lad’s


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terious book all about? It is a mixture of fact and fiction. Like Harrison Ainsworth and Robert Neill, the author has taken local history and folklore and woven them, into an in t r ig u in g romance. As the story unfolds,


many details of the arrival of ill-fated King Henry VI into our area and of his sojourns at both Bolton and Waddington halls. We read, too, of his eventual capture at the hipping stones of Brungerley, and the duplicity of the Tal­ bots of Bashall, the Tem­ pests of Waddington, even an assortment of witches, necromancers and ghosts who all play th e i r . parts alongside -kings, queens and nobles of the Plantagenet court.


Into our tale are woven


lage and murder most foul; an attempt to wall up our hero alive in the stones of Whalley Abbey and yet, through it all, there runs a story of tender unceasing love and unrequited’ passion which, despite" many tribulations and hazardous adven­ tu r e s , ' 'u l t im a te ly triumphs. ■:■■■'■:" ■ j \


There is usurpation! pil­


■harrassed years of the Wars of the Roses, v ,


we learn of the- misfor­ tunes, (and fortunes) of a foundling boy given a: home by a genial squire of our district in the ’days immediately preceding the


' characters as noble; as the best.


It is a splendid'story, ,


family re ta in e r s , of hu’mbie hinds and'cotta­ gers \yith whom. we can identify who, despite their lowly circumstances; have'


, We-read, too,’ of loyal


immaculately researched, clearly the work of a writer who knew and loved every inch and acre of the district she de­ scribed; a writer thrilled and inspired by tragic episodes in national his­ tory enacted 'almost on our doorsteps 500 years ago.


taken many months, years maybe, in -the writing and the lady arouses my pro found admiration. Has the story no fault?


Inevitably it must have .


Well, yes. Despite the special interest aroused by its local setting, the tale moves .too slowly perhaps for the present- day reader. - There are'.long-descrip­


TH ’ era.


tive. passages and sent­ ences, of inordinate length which tend to become little tedious to reader more accustomed to the abrupt and vital'.style of novelists of the present


. to the lady who brought it to my notice;! for 4 am b e t te r informed as


But I am very glad to have read it and grateful


, appears fictional , is based on documents to which the average scribbler has no access. • ■ Perhaps it is: a pity the book-, is not' available to


: result. I am quite sun : that much that at first


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! please. >1 am '• pretty well occupied knocking off this


i But don’t ask , me to write; jit,'!;' Mr;; Editor


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