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a week tomorrow he was presented with a plaque and a cheque by the Mayor, Coun. John Walm- sley at a recent council meeting. A native of Brierfield,


Mr Bracewell, of Alma Place, Clitheroe, received his early education in his home town and later at­ tended a private commer- cial college in Burnley. After five years’ service


Offto Windsor


to receive top Scouting award


with the Royal Artillery during the second world war he joined Clitheroe Council as a committee clerk. He was later promoted


administrative assistant to the late Town Clerk, Mr Gerald Hetherington, and subsequently served under three' administra­ tive chiefs until his first retirement in 1974. Mr B ra c ew e l l , a


bachelor, is a member of Clitheroe Gramophone Society and St James’s Church. He intends to spend his retirement taking an active interest in public affairs and local organisations.


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AFTER a lifetime working for -the . Scout and Guide- movement, Mrs, Helen Crompton,


,o f P a r k .A v e n u e , ■ .Clitheroe; :.-has been awarded 'the .Silver Acorn in recognition


’ of her servicesv • April 24th will be one of


the proudest^days of her life when she' attends a St


.’ George’s Day service at St G eorg e’ s Chapel, Windsor, at which the Queen will be present. The Queen will be re­


may look different, but at heart the movement is the same' as it always has been,” said Mrs Crompton


viewing a parade of Queen’s Scouts and vari­ ous award holders. “The Scouts of today


A CLITHEROE lecturer has been chosen to lead a party of Lancashire stu­ dents to West Germany this summer, under the travel scholarship spon­ so red by T hw a ite s ’ brewery.


Mr Charles Pearce (39), of Fairfield Drive, and the


s tu d en ts , in c lu d in g Andrew Matthews, of


Langho, leave in July for a three-week stay near Hanover.


To lead party to Germany There they will live


with families, with the accent on aiding interna­ tional understanding on a personal level. The trip is sponsored


by the brewery in con­ junction with the Experi­ ment in International Living Organisation. Mr Pearce, who is


chairman of the Ribble Valley Talking News­


paper, is a lecturer in modem languages at Ac­ crington College of FE.


round & about


who is 72 and was a Cub- Scout leader and an Assis­ tant District; Commis­ sioner for Cubs until she retired in 1975.; Mrs Crompton was


born into a Scouting family, her father, Mr


Sam Walmsley, being one of the pioneers of Scout­ ing in Clitheroe and the first chairman of .the Clitheroe Boy Scouts’ As­ sociation. She joined the Brow­


nies when she was eight and was a District- Com­ missioner for the Guides before the last wait Her late. husband, Wil­


died in i970, the year he was awarded a Silver


Acorn. Though retired, Mrs


Crompton is s t i l l a member of the Scout Fel­ lowship and is district badge secretary. “The movement is worl­ dwide, but there is still a


. lot of work" to be done and I enjoy - every minute of it,” she added.


PC John’s action


Although he has visited


West Germany on .a number of occasions, it will be his first trip to this area. Leading a party of “strangers” abroad will also be a new experience. “My main role will be to


organise group activities and trips, as well as help­ ing out with language dif­ ficulties and any other problems that might a r is e ,” explained Mr Pearce, who is manned and has three children.'


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liam, was very active in the Scouting movement and she switched’from the Guides to help him with his work by becoming leader of the Loyola Cubs in Clitheroe in 1948. Mrs Crompton became


Assistant District Com­ missioner for the Cubs in 1963 and' two years later was awarded the medal of merit, with an additional bar in 1971. She had four sons, all


Scouts in Clitheroe, and now has grandchildren


' nies in other parts of the country. Her husband worked locally for British Rail and


who are Cubs and Brow-


praised A VILLAGE bobby who saved the life of a team­ mate during a football match has received a framed certificate from the St John Ambulance in recognition of his action. Thirty-two-year-old


John Barber, the village PC at Newton, went into action when West Brad­ ford FC team-mate Ken Mantle, of Newton Street, Clitheroe, collapsed and lay choking after being ac­ cidentally struck in the face during a Ribble Valley League match at


Chatburn. John, who was playing


in goal, rushed upfield to apply first aid. As Ken lay choking on his tongue,


he winded him in the stomach to try. and re­


lease the air. When that failed, he put his fingers in Ken’s mouth to free his tongue. Thanks to J oh n ’ s


prompt action, Ken was none the worse for his experience and Wes' back at work within a couple of days. .


New stock at library


NEW additions to the stock at Clitheroe Library include:


FICTION . “Live free or die” — Johi*


Harris. A further novel of the second, world war concerning Charles Scully, a British


sergeant who is cut off from his unit and becomes involved in


the liberation of Paris, at the same time finding a new mean-' > ing to his life.


. ° ‘The Parsifal mosaic” — R.


Ludlam. Ah ex-secret agent is “to be killed on sight,” but he


is the key to the mystery of a madman, sought . by the Rus­ sians and Americans, who could bring mankind to the edge of destruction while trying to cure the world of its ills. ' - “The Doria Rafe case” — Hillary Waugh. Thriller featur­ ing private eye Simon Kaye, whose client this time is the girl from the corner candy


store in the street where he


grew up. Her father is under pressure from a protection racket and Simon promises to find the extortionist and put him out of business.


NON-FICTION “Teach yourself a foreign


language quickly” — Em- manual Azzopardi. The author is self-taught in several lan­ guages ana reveals the techni­ ques he has developed through which anyone can learn a fore­ ign language quickly and easily. “ The new astrologer” —


Martin Seymour-Smith. Pro­ vides a clear explanation of as­ trology for the astrologer and the general reader and includes a new more scientific and more accurate method of interpreting .birth charts. “Sadat” — David Hirst. A biography of Anwar Sadat, the . late Egyptian president.


FACT OR FICTION


SECRET passages. The v e r y phrase starts the adrenalin f lowing and the tummy tingling.


Over the years I have


heard stories of several in different parts of our dis­ trict but,-on investigation, few of them turn out to have any substance.


Persisting among old-


timers in our village and still occasionally passed to me is the story that one such passage ran from the abbey to the cellars of a local hostelry. So fre­ quently did older resi­ dents give me this infor­ mation when I first came here 50 years ago that I determined to find out for myself.


1 went to the landlord


and asked him: “ Is it true?” He looked at me with a twinkle in his eye. “Well, lad,” he finally said, “ I suppose it could be. I only know one thing against it. We haven’t any cellars!” As a very small boy I


was shown the entrance to a passage at Wadding- ton Hall through which the ill-fated Henry VI was said to have made his. fru it le s s attempt to escape the treacherous Talbots of Bashall. Whether this is strictly


true or not, I cannot tes­ tify, for years later I saw an old drawing with His Majesty making an ig­ nominious' exit through an-


Whalley Window


upstairs window and down a ladder from a building very unlike the Waddington Hall of today.


It was very shortly


after this that I was taken on my f irst visit to . Sawley Abbey and, at the highlight of the tour — “There boy,” said my guide, “is the secret pas­ sage that ran all the way from here to Whalley Abbey.” What a load of old rubbish!


' I know today that the


entrance to the tunnel was nothing more roman­ tic than a main drain and so, too, was the one at Whalley an old lady wrote from Canada to tell me about; She had played in the abbey grounds as a child.


• Monks’ H o le s and


secret rooms are much more frequent; some of them are well authenti-' cated and can still be seen today.'


several “priests’ hides” in the older fabric of -Stony- hurst and at Chingle Hall, on the fringe of our area, knowledgeable guides will show you quite a number. At Towneley Hall in


I understand there are


Burnley (not in our boundaries today, but a part of our parish when first built) is a magnifi­ cent secret chapel for all


to see. Some years ago, during


renovations at The Old Vicarage in Wiswell, a priest’s hide was disco­ vered and there is an old house in our village where, during similar ac­ tivities, yet another was found. .


Judge the excitement of


the young owners when, gazing down into the narrow cavity, they spot­ ted an old slipper. “Won­ derful! wonderful,” ' they thought and stooped to retrieve it. Judge too, their disappointment when it disintegrated 7n their hands. No slipper to proudly show but a lovely memory to treasure!


I must admit that some


o f the alleged hiding places I have been shown I have viewed with a degree of polite scepticism — I think sometimes they owe more to a fertile im­ agination or possibly to a builder’ s inaccuracies, than to historic fact. All the same there is


something very exciting about secret rooms and passages, whether true or false, which is why I have always had a yen to live in a really old house. You never know what you are going to find!


J.F.


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