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CLITHEROE shopkeepers must aim to main tain and improve services to the public — that’s the message from Mr Roy Dewnurst, the newly-elected president of the town’s Chamber of Trade.
want Clitheroe to move down the North East Lancashire league of ' towns,” he said. “I know it has been said .
“We certainly don’t,
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before, but we have some thing special here and should try to keep it that way.”
shop owner, of Wilkinsons Farm, Twistonj is no stranger to the office of president, haying held the post 13 years ago. ■ But the buoyant times
Mr Dewhurst, a book '
of the early 1970’s have been followed by the pre sent difficult period for traders. Nevertheless, Mr De
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looking forward to impro ving shopping facilities in
various ways,” he says. P re s id e n c y of th e 4
Chamber will add another office to an already long list for Mr Dewhurst. He is a member of both
the main and local Hos pice committees; the new District Health Authority and the Rotary Club of Clitheroe; and is actively connected with Trinity Methodist Church. Other officers elected at
whurst believes he has the support of a very en thusiastic executive com mittee in trying to con solidate during the coming months. ■ “Several good promo
Mr Dewhurst . •
Pupils praised
TWO pupils from St Au- . gustine’s School, Billing- ton, have been warmly' praised for voluntary gar dening they .have done during the past 12 months for 16 pensioners in Whalley. v
the annual meeting were: vic e-president — Mr David Lancaster, trea surer— Mr Geoff Cross, assistant treasurer — Mr Barrie Stevens. Mr Andrew Byrne was
tional ideas have been in troduced recently and I’m
elected to the committee, all the retiring members being returned.
Blackburn, of •Littlemoor Road, Clitheroe,, and Paul Rankin, of Great Har wood, have spent' their Friday afternoons pruning and tidying up the gar dens at the sheltered ac commodation scheme in Riddings Lane. They finish tomorrow to
Fifth-formers
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Swimfning to top of the pops
ALTHOUGH Noel Ed- ‘ monds’ “ Swap Shop” finished at the weekend, Saturday mornings can still be fun for young pop : music lovers in Clitheroe — especially if they like
swimming too. They can enjoy .all the
top hits echoing round the : Ribblesdale Pool between 10 and 11 a.m. at the launching of “disco swim” sessions. ■These will be followed
every Saturday morning this month by an hour with giant rubber rings. Normal admission prices will apply. Said a council spokes
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man: “Now that Swap Shop has finished, we hope children will drag themselves away from the television and have fun to music in the pool.” Another new session is.
being organised at the pool, starting on Monday, between 6 and 6-45 . p.m. This is for disabled people and is being run in associ ation with the recently- formed local Disabled Action Group. Admission is 20p.
Anything
concentrate on examina tions and the scheme’s warden, Mrs Phyllis Jolly, says they will be sadly missed. “ They have rea lly
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of extinction. North-West England is the only region in Britain where the “frail pool” orchid still grows. It is found by the margins of peaty pools and
ONE of the main threats to our native wildlife is loss of habitat. In particular our wetlands are being drained at an ever increasing rate with the aid of massive grants from the Ministry of Agriculture. If further drainage of our moorlands takes place, one of our rarest plants will be in danger
tion mechanism which relies upon the fact that the flowers resemble some other creature, usu ally an insect. The insect is fooled into trying to mate with
is a delicate plant only some three inches tall. It is little known because its flowers open at night. Many orchids have a very ingenious pollina
the flowers and, in so doing, transfers pollen from one to another. Where living creatures are concerned truth is indeed often stranger than fiction. The creature which pollinates the frail pool
worked hard and gained the old people’s confi dence,” she said. “The gardens have been looking lovely and we are grateful to the boys.” The work done in Whal ley is part of a social
scheme supervised by schoolteacher Mrs Marie Fowler. Also taking part, by
running errands and doing odd jobs,, have been three o th e r pupils — Lee Rigby, of Accrington, and Padiham girls Lynne McLaughlin and Amanda Towler.
to sell? THE Rotary Club of Rib blesdale is holding a grand auction to raise money for its charities and for equipment for Clitheroe Community Hospital. “Clear out your attic
New face a t P os t Office
A NEW postmaster has been appointed to take charge of Clitheroe’s Post Office headquarters -Jn King Street. :He is Blackburn-born
Mr Eric Sagar. (56), who has held the job in an acting capacity since the retirement of Mr Jim Moran six weeks ago. Mr Sagar . joined the
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postman, he was , prom oted to counter clerk at Blackburn, but carried out r e l ie f d u t ie s in Clitheroe and Darwen. .• Prior to taking up his
present post he was an executive officer in charge
and garage and help the community” is the mes sage from the Rotarians, who are appealing for antiques, books and bric-
a-brac and second-hand - goods. These will be sold at an
auction on May 15th at Clitheroe Auction Mart. Goods can be delivered
to Stalwart Dyeing Com pany for storage, or col lections can be arranged by ringing Clitheroe 41597 or Gisburn 596.
of clerical organisation and accounting at Black- bum. Married with a grown
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the bowling section of Feniscowles Social Club, Blackburn. Since taking up his new
appointment, he has been commuting from his home in Blackburn and has not made up his mind whether' he will move to Clitheroe.
TRUE OR BLUFF?
orchid is the “oil flapor’’. moth. Since the moth is nocturnal and the flowers open only in the dark, there is little point in the flowers actually trying to look like the moth. Instead they produce an oil whose scent is
THE mystery of the gargoyle is solved! Or is it? You may recall that
exactly like that produced by the newly emerged female moth. So sensitive are the antenae of the male moth that he can detect this scent from over a mile away. Obviously life cycle of moth and orchid must
TONY COOPER
be closely linked and early this month is prob ably the ]bcst time to observe them.
some weeks ago I drew your a t te n t io n to a strange piece of carving that surmounts the por tico of one of our local banks. For some days af terwards local, residents gazed upwards" whenever they walked by. But all inquiries as to the origins of this odd creature, so elaborately carved into the stone, led to nought. “Top Brass” in the bank
W h a l l e y W i n d o w
based on one indisputable fact. The premises, it ap
town which is a city!) am going to take a pretty close look at the historic church of St Mary.
tion, a feasible explana tion,” as Robert Robinson would say. But is it true or is it a bluff.
“A reasonable explana
itself could offer no expla nation; even the hierarchy at the headquarters were equally baffled. But no longer. A con
versation with a former manager, reported to me today, provides a possible explanation. Now. there is no certainty about this, let me hasten to add. At its best it is only specula tion, but an explanation
pears, were designed by a firm of architects based in L a n c a s te r and th e member of the staff di rectly involved had in his p o ssession the very strange ornament I have described. It is suggested that it
may not. But next time I visit the county town (a
came originally from Lan caster Priory and at the whim of an architect anxi ous to add a touch of dis tinction to his work, even tually found its way to Whalley. It may be true; again it
thing. Checking on the history of the priory in the several books I pos sess about county history. I came across two expla nations — both by reput able authors — which flatly contradict each other. In the church (the same
. And here’s another odd
one from which the organ in our own St Mary’s was brought 169 years ago) there are some maginifi- cent choir stalls dated from the 14th century and most beautifully carved. “They are believed to
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