4 Clitlieroe Advertiser and Times, March Mh, 1982


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TRIBUTE to two officials who have jointly given more than 70 years’ service to the Whal­ ley branch of the Royal British Legion was paid at a surprise presentation during a charity


concert. Branch president Mr Gardens, received an en- . "


Bob Clarke has retired after 12 years as secret­ ary and Mi- Norman Dudman has also called it


a day after 17 years in the forces in 1946, served in office of branch chairman, the Royal Artillery .'from


th e Whalley Legion branch on leaving the


tinue to actively partici­ pate in branch business as members, with Mr Clarke


round & about \


also continuing as presi­ dent — a post he has held- for the past three years.'


lives with his wife Alice in Sydney Avenue, Whalley, first joined the' village Legion branch in 1945, after serving with the RAF in India during the second world war.


Mr Clarke (74), who


since he was a child and over the years has been


He has lived in Whalley


very active , in the village, being scorer for the local cricket team in the 1920s and 30s and holding the post- of clerk to Whalley Parish Council from 1948 to 1966.


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a framed scroll hand- p a in te d by b ran ch member Mr Bill G re en h a lg h and Mr Dudman, of Billingto'n


He was presented with But both men will con­


graved pen. Mr Dudman, who joined


the desert under General Montgomery, as well as in Palestine, France and


1940.- After service in Norway, he saw action in


Malta. R He later joined the


Corps and was a nurse up ■ the end of his Forces career.


Thursday’s cex-emony in Billington Brass Band Club were made by Brit­ ish Legion area secretary Mr George Pollard.


The presentations at


. dard bearer, succeeds Mr Dudman and Mr Harold Bale -takes over from Mr Clarke.


men will be taking over the offices of chairman and secretary. Mr Jack Priest, who is also stan-


Two Great Harwood


which featured bingo, a raffle and performances’ by four* artists, raised about £60 for branch fimds.


The charity concert,


Clarke (front left) receiv­ ing his framed scroll from


Our picture shows Mr


Mr Pollard, with Mr Q h r \ \A / IQ 3 Dudman fright) and other OIIUVV IO Cl


members looking on. oyal Army Medical End of


an era NEXT month will signal the end of an . era at Wil­ liam Langshaw and Sons, the long-established Whal­ ley funeral directors and joiners. The King Street busi­


sell-out


. production of “Oliver” by R ib b le sd a le School, Clitheroe. Preparations for the


ALL tickets have already been sold for a four-night


musical, which involves more than 100 pupils in the cast or behind the scenes, began last June. Everyone has been


ness, set up nearly 120 years ago, is being split up from April 1st. The funeral side is


being taken over by the Clitheroe firm, Calver-


ley’s, though it will con­ tinue to operate as Lang- shaw’s Funeral Service under the present owner, Mr Robert. Chew. 'Meanwhile, the joinery


been so high that such' shows could become annual features of the school’s programme. •


complete with a “thrust” stage, lends itself perfect­ ly to performances ,of “Oliver”.


I ts drama complex,


side are teachers Mrs Carol Dobson and Mr Nigel Wilkinson.


In charge of the musical


■ joint producers Mr Dennis Pickering and Mr Richard


busy rehearsing through­ out the spring term, under the watchful eye of


Cowman. Now it’s all systems go


for the opening night a week on Wednesday. Response at the box


work — to go under the title William Langshaw and Sons — will be super- v ise d by Mr F re d Crowther' who has been with Langshaw’s for 14 years. -


quired for the actors are Victorian men’s hats, par­ ticularly top hats.. Anyone who can help should con­ tact the school.


The only props still re­


office has amazed Mr Pic­ kering. “In 20 years of involvement in such pro­ ductions I ' have never known tickets sell so fast,” he said. . The school has put on


For fans of patchwork


three major productions in the past six years and interest in . “Oliver” has


DEVOTEES of patch- work will enjoy seeing a display featuring the work of The Quilters Guild in the Long Gallery at G aw th o rp e H all,


Padiham. The exhibition, on


‘Homecoming for narisn s new


Ft wasPa - welcome return to an area he had come to lova a quarter of a century ago.


came to Langho in 1955, following a year in hospi­ tal, to assist the ailing Fr Geoghan, and after, his death stayed for a year until a new priest was appointed.


Fr Dwyer (61), first


Dwyer was ordained in 1946 at St Bede’s College in the city. He spent three years on the stall at St Bede’s and then two short spells at St Marys, Denton, and St Josephs, Manchester.


Born in Manchester, Fr ; ■


... F o r four y e a rs he taught at Hopwood Col­ lege of Education, Middle- ton, and during his time as chaplain at the Good Shepherd Convent, Man­ chester, was chief religi­ ous inspector of schools for the Salford Diocese. Prior to his appoint­


other Manchester parishes _ St Robert’s', Long- sight, and St Alphonsus, and as a curate in Bacup.


He has worked in . two . .


Fr Dwyer is very glad to be back in Langho. “Those 12 months are


ford, for 10 years. Despite all his travels,


-


ment in Langho, he has been parish priest of St, Thomas of Canterbury, Higher Broughton, Sal­


very green in my memory dnd it was a very happy period in my life,” he said. “The place has changed, it’s grown since that time, but I feel, in a sense, that I’m coming home.” . F r Dwyer’s brother,


George Patrick Dwyer, has also served the Catholic Church and re­ tired in October as Ar­ chbishop of Birmingham.


“Patchwork old and new”, is open from March 17th to May 2nd, on Wednes­ day, Saturday and Sunday afternoons between 2 and


6.


selection of traditional quilts from the Rachel Kay Shuttleworth Collec­ tion housed at the hall.


Also on show will be a Musical


treat SHOPPERS and visitors at Clitheroe market on Tuesday lunchtime'will be treated to a feast of music. _


,


chestral and popular pieces will be performed by the band of the Queen’s Lan-. cashire Regiment.


Military, jazz, light or-'


12-30 and 2 p.m., will be switched to Clitheroe Civic Hall, with free ad­ mission, if the weather is


The concert, between


performed in the Ribble Valley was as part of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee


bad. The last time the band


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Clitheroe. In essence, all such


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schemes are, in effect,, a partnership between the residents and owners of the properties and the borough councils.


dents: “Look here, if you undertake to make certain desirable improvements to your home, we will make all possible grants, avail­ able. We, on our part, will undertake to improve the surrounding environ­ ment — roads, drains, general appearance, etc.


The council says to resi­


, “ Your homes will become much more valu­ able and the district will become a much more de­ sirable area. in which to live. The design will be in the hands of experts and, while the -improvements will be manifold, the es­ sential character of the area will be retained.” Under such a scheme,


Whalley Window


such a state that the sky had been clearly visible through broken and van­ dalised roofs, a most de­ lightful area has been created. This one-time tin y '


hamlet has such a fas­ cinating story that the local history society in the town has compiled a spe­ cial booklet to tell the “New Town Story.”


when a young man, Edmund Eccles, newly qualified as a doctor, built himself a home on • land bequeathed to him about one mile from the centre of the then village of Lon- gridge. His home completed, he


It all started in 1825


jority now toiled in the “dark satanic mills.” In the list of occupa­


of weavers, but the ma­


tions of residents we now find an oatbread maker, a bread seller, a chair bot- tomer, a blacksmith, a publican, 75 weavers, but only two nailmakers plus representatives of a dozen other trades and profes­ sions.


name from the fact that there the pump for the community stood — for many years the only source of fresh water — and, we read, “it was not unknown for the doctor to escort a. patient from the surgery round the corner in order to spray the cool, crystal water on to an ailing limb.”


Pump Street gained its


set up in practice"Und, in. partnership with three friends, built 26 small ter­ raced houses. These were c h r is te n e d D o c to r ’s House, Pump Street and Pancake Row and, be-, cause they were sited dis­ tan t from the village p ro p e r , th e h am le t


became known as .New Town. ' The project was com­


(Completed scheme at New ■ Town, in Longridge, ,at • the very westerly end of our borough. From a ram­ shackle : collection - of ter­ raced, cottages 150 and more years old,, some in


old properties which, be­ cause of their age, would shortly have to be de­ molished are given a new lease of life and money is saved.. -It is much more economical to renovate an old hbuse than to knock it down and build a new one. • ‘ . Lately' I have had the opportunity to inspect a


pleted by 1835. In many respects the houses were of unique design, for each had. a room set aside for the cottage industries of either handloom weaving' or nail making. The census of: 1841 tells us that the 26. houses- were occupied by 158 people, an; average of six per house.


years, the advance of the In d u s tr ia l Revolution made . handloom weaving uneconomic and the occu­ pations of the' residents changed. By 1861 there was still a • predominance


With the passing of the


inevitably, many of the houses fell into disrepair, but now the doctor’s Pump Street and Pancake Row have had more than a facelift. They have been transformed; the houses look better than when they were first built, the environs more attractive. A unique little communi­ ty, full of character, has been created.


The years went by and,


’ . And,, as a centrepiece to the GIA, a pump as old as the original and in full


. working order has been donated by a Blackburn man. It has been erected where its predecessor stood and once more Pump S tre e t and its neighbours, under the new name of Southern Close, has become a very desirable area in which to live. The Longridge Local


■ THE First season’s fieldwork for the British Trust for Ornithology winter atlas came to an end last weekend. This census of wintering birds will be resumed in each of the next two winters. My last walk took place in 10km square No.


1 the opposite bank of the river to the path, I hasten to add, while buds on many of the honeysuckle plants in the woods were already


SD64, which includes part of the Hodder Valley and it was heartening to see so many signs of spring. There were great drifts of snowdrops, on


sprouting green.


severe weather. In some places ivy berries which are not even ripe had been stripped from the plants. I did not see a single wren of grey r wagtail and other small birds were few and tar


singing, which made it much easier to count them, while the dippers had already taken up territory on the river and there was much chas­ ing up and down where there was a boundary 1 dispute. I also saw my First curlew of the year back on the high ground. , However, there were also signs of the recent


Robins, dunnocks and song thrushes were all .


beiween, except near farms and villages. Many birds must have relied on humans for


1 garden dropped during the very severe weather and thought that they had succumbed, only to find that their numbers have now increased


gardens.


their food recently. Perhaps, like me, you noticed that the number of birds visiting your


again.It seems likely that more people than usual put out food while the weather was very bad, and so the birds were spread out over more


TONY COOPER


■ History Society, in telling its story, has performed a valuable public service. Who, I wonder, When the Bawdlands scheme is com­ pleted, will perform a s im i la r e x e rc is e in Clitheroe?


J.F.


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