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Andrew, of Ennerdale Road, will board the sail­ ing vessel at Liverpool before heading for Fal­ mouth, in Cornwall, where the race begins.


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A NATIONAL campaign to promote England’s naval heritage prompted farmer’s wife Mrs Victoria Wood to trace her ances­ tors. Several months of pa­


home, as there will be a change of crew. The ship returns to Southampton on August 20th for a mass sail clown Southampton water, an activity in which Andrew will be taking part.


blesdale School, Andrew begins a four-year appren­


A former pupil of Rib-


ticeship as a toolmaker with a Blackburn firm in


August. He has been reading as


much as possible about boats trying to familiarise himself with terms and sailing jargon. “All in all it should be


IT’S a life on the ocean wave for Clitheroe teenager Andrew Hirst. He has gained a place


dock at Liverpool (Birken­ head), on July 10th and will be open to inspection between 3 and 8-30 p.m., Sunday 3 to 6 p.m., Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 6 to 8-30 p.m., and Wednesday noon to 8- 30 p.m.


helping to prepare the Churohill for the race can obtain information from Roger Hirst (Clitheroe 25111).


Survives


attack A FORMER pupil of Rib- blesdale School was among the survivors of HMS Glamorgan when it was hit by an Exocet mis­ sile during the Falklands campaign. Nineteen-year-old Ian


Wil cock is a radio operator. Although his pa­ rents recently moved to Cheshire from Fairfield Drive, Clitheroe, where they lived for seven years, Ian still has a number of relatives in the area. His grandmother, Mrs


quite an experience,” he said. “The only previous sailing I have done was when I paddled about in a dinghy in the Firth of Forth, in Scotland.” However, his father,


Ribble Valley Parks Superintendent Mr Roger Hirst, is no stranger to the Churchill, having sailed on it several times. Prior to the race, the Sir Winston Churchill will


Sara Smith, lives at Crowtrees Gardens, Chat- burn. Ian joined the navy


joying football, ski-ing, fencing and tennis, he is a close friend of merchant navy seaman Ian Guy, also of Fairfield Drive, who left for the Falklands last month.


Family’s naval


theme until next year to mark Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 . . . and that set Mrs Wood thinking. As she writes in her


tient research took her back 200 years, as she uncovered old photo­ graphs, recipes and naval paraphernalia. The result is a com­


170-year-old painting of a ketch, presented to Mrs. Wood’s mother at her wedding. Dishes from her great­


pamphlet: “After 20 years as a countrybound far­ mer’s wife, it has been nostalgic and fun to re­ trace the facts of my lineage. “I have gleaned a fas­


memorative pamphlet to “Maritime England” — part of an English Tourist Board promotion — which is proving a source of great interest to visitors to the Wood family’s Harrop Fold Farm Guest House, near Bolton-by- Bowland. The tourist board de­ cided to adopt the naval


cinating history of the early 1800s from the arc­ hives and libraries of the North East.” The Viking background


grandmother ’s recipe book, many featuring the


old-fashioned idea of sea­ food and red meat, are now included on the guest house menu. Says Mrs Wood, whose


of the Woods’ guest house added intrigue to the tales of her sea-faring ancestors in Wearside. Now one of the high­


lights of Harrop Fold Farm’s naval display is a


son Andrew is chef at Harrop Fold: “It’s a fresh approach and we have been thrilled to bits with people’s reaction.” By coincidence, the


East to study for a degree in agricultural engineering — and this week gradu­ ated from Newcastle Uni­ versity.


Woods’ eldest son Daniel returned to the North-


after leaving school and train ed at Plymouth before being posted to his ship at Portsmouth. A keen sportsman en­


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HOWZAT for a hat-trick? Three Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupils certainly know the score when it comes to cricket and have come close to notching up “centuries” to prove it.


ses by this year’s entrants came after months of de­ dicated preparation, in­ cluding swotting up at lunchtimes on the laws of cricket, which formed 50 per cent of the exam. The other half involved the scoring of a mock match, outlined in written form. The lads were encour­


the footsteps of former pupil Michael Musson, who also achieved a high score some three years ago. The remarkable succes­


Edwards (16) and 15-year- old Mark Baker passed with flying colours, regis­ tering marks of 90 per cent plus, when they sat the Association of Cricket Umpires exam. They are following in


Colin Dunn (17), Keith


which competes in the Chorley League, for the past four years and his father is a former skipper of the side. Keith, of Somerset


Avenue, Clitheroe, who last year won the Ribbles- dale League “scorer of the year” award, has scored for Ribblesdale Wander ers for the past six years and for the first XI for the past four. His father is a former captain of the th ird XI a t Church Meadow. Mark, of Brett Close,


From the left: Mark. Keith and Colin.


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Clithero e, regula r ly scores for the Grammar School’s first and second teams.


aged to take the test by grammar school master Mr Ian Gott, who himself has extensive umpiring experience. Passing the exam enti­


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Wilpshire, has scored for Salesbury’s first team,


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was printed for private circulation 104 years ago and edited by the Rev. Alexander Grosart, of Blackburn, from manus­ cripts held at Towneley Hall.


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Nowell and why, over 400 years after his death, are his will and dispositions of such great interest in our village?


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Great Plague rampaged through the city, he pru­ dently made his will and appointed his brothers Alexander, Dean of St Paul’s, and Lawrence, Dean of Lichfield, with his half-brother Mr John .Towneley, of Burnley; to be his executors.


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A PAIR of mute swans have bred near Clitheroe for the first time for several years. The nest, a mound of vegetation two feet thick and six feet across, was built in late April and the female was sitting by May. Since incubation lasts for up to six weeks, she


must leave the nest to feed, though she partially covers the eggs before doing so. The rotting vegetation then helps keep them warm. Since I had seen only three eggs, I was


Robert did not succumb


rected that, when all his p e r so n a l d eb ts and legacies had been dis­ charged, the remainder of his monies should go to “the poor.”


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poor women who brought “trotes” (trout) and sever­ al “that brought whimber- ries.”


distributed in “Whalley. town” was five shillings to “Mr Ashton to geue to the m a r r ia g e of a poor maiden” and more money went to the “poor of Wis- well and Pendliton.”


Included in the gifts


persons in our own and adjoining villages (all being within the then parish of Whalley) bene­ fited from the generosity of this kindly man — a bachelor, it is thought, for no spouse or children are recorded in his will.


In all, over 1,600 poor


spent? It went to buy black gowns for poor stu­ dents at university — the poet, Edmund Spenser, among them — and former sch o lars , all named, at the Whalley and Clitheroe grammar schools. From time^ to time, small grants were made to enable them to continue their education and “poor curates” were also numbered among the beneficiaries.


How was the money


delighted to find that five young had hatched in mid-June. Though covered in grey dogyn. at the moment, they will shortly be turning into ugly ducklings by growing brown feathers. They will grow some white feathers this autumn, but will not become adult for two years, taking at least one further year before they are able to breed. If they survive infancy, the average life span


is seven years, with some living for up to 17. A few die'from collisions with power lines and some from starvation, but the main cause of death is now lead poisoning. The major source of this lead is shot discarded by careless or unthinking anglers. The swans pick up the shot to use as grit in


their gizzards. The lead itself becomes ground down and enters the blood stream with fatal results. On some Midlands rivers with large numbers of coarse fishermen, up to 90 per cent of swans die from this cause. It has been estimated that anglers use 250 tons


of lead each year. The message is clear, please discard it in the dustbin and not in the river. TONY COOPER


many more — ag;ain all named — and gifts of linen and woollen cloths werei made to some hun­ dreds of poor persons. Dean Alexander clearly believed in supporting “home industries,” for he made a personal trip north to distribute his brother’s largess and bought all the materials from local chapmen and handloom weavers.


There were many,


, Ribchester” is named and was helped; so too, were


Richard Shireburn, of Stonyhurst, “towards the m a r r ia g e of a poor maiden;” more money to “the • collectors towards the building of the new Hodder Bridge.” A “poor blind man in


Money went to Sir


was described by the editor as “a village of old thatched cottages with high pitched roofs, many of them tenantless and de­ caying. Between 50 and 60 families were included in this distribution and the population was then, perhaps, equal to what it is now.”


“Wiswall,” incidentally,


ten and, apart from the poor, money was dis­ bursed “towards the med- ninge of Sabden bridge.” Now for one or two


Sabden was not forgot­


names that will revive memories of former (and, in some instances, pre­ sent) Whalley families. Early in the accounts we find the name of Elies Pollard, “a poor curate born in Billington” and a member of the family who had a small freehold estate in Billington first recorded in 1538. The name is not unknown in the village today. The Eatoughs were


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