'4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 18th, 1982 -


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degree of skill reveals her


EXAMPES of needlework by former Clitheroe Grammar School pupil Carol Aspden are currently on show at an exhibition of “patchwork old and new“ at Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham.


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House, Parson Lane, it is the second time that' she has been given the chance to exhibit examples of the hobby she has been doing for as long as she cares to remember. Last November, some


mounted by The Quilters Guild, continues until May 9th and then transfers to Rawtenstall for a four- week showing at the- town’s central library. For Carol, of Surbiton


The e x h ib i t io n ,


round & about


my degree course and in­ vited me to put a couple of items on show,” • said Carol (21), who specialises in embroidered quilting.


five months after graduat­ ing in embroidery and textiles from London Uni­ versity, two of her pieces were featured in an exhib­ ition of “British Women’s Art 1981” at the House of Commons. “The • organiser of the


exhibition saw some of the work 1 had done for


in needlework since I was a child, but my interest really picked up when I went to college, where there were facilities to dye thread and do , other intricate processes."


“1 have been interested


:and the amount of time spent on each can range from one to about four weeks, working all day, every day.


embroiders vary from cushions, to bedspreads


Book — the first recorded census of England in 1086 — there icere 480 acres under the plough in Mitton, 480 in Bashall and 240 in West Bradford and Waddington. This is one of the historical facts “dug up” for


DID you hnoiv .


Under the plough .


The items which Carol * •'


plenty of patience, but it is very satisfying when the items are finished and I am very proud to be invited to exhibit, the work.” :


“You have to have . ;


ery, Carol — who is cur­ rently looking for a job, hopefully in an artistic line — enjoys dressmak­ ing and other needlework. Born in Clitheroe, she


Besides her embroid­


studied at Nelson and Colne College for two years between leaving the Grammar School and going to University. Her parents, Mr and


' s f ‘* 1 ■ * * *eh "" M ,1.’


Ambitioii comes true foir Neil


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GLOBE-TROTT.lisTb ; Whailey Rutherford has "landed a top job restaurant in Bermuda. . .


Park, will be leaving Eng-. land’s; grey skies for sunny Bermuda at .the end of this month to become manager of an es­ tablishment in Hamilton, the capital.- ,


Neil (30), of'. Green


fulfilled fdr Neil.' He has waited years for the op­ portunity of working in “the millionaire’s play- ' ground” and was overjoy­ ed when he heard he had :


The job is an ambition \ CAROL with some of her work


passion play every two years and producer this year is Fr Leon Morris, of Sabden. Performances will be


Mrs Derek Aspden, live in Langshaw Drive, Clitheroe, and she has a sister, Susan (23), who works as a radiographer and lives in Lancaster.


Passion . according to the Domesday


the parish magazine of All Halloivs’ Church, Mitton, by the Vicar, the Rev. Brian Cave.


play FORTY-SEVEN second- year pupils of St Augus­ tine’s School, Billington, are busily rehearsing for their forthcoming passion play, “The human sac­ rifice.”


The school performs a


given on March 29th, 30th and 31st at 1-30 p.m. and on April 1st at 7-30 p.m.


Lifetime


in town CELEBRATING her 90th birthday a week today in the house in Highfield Road, Clitheroe, in which she has lived all her life will be Mrs Esther Margaret Pym. Mrs Pym, who was


have the time these days to stop and talk. I re­ member when housewives used to sit chatting on the doorstep outside their homes in Highfield Road, but that does not happen now,” she said.. Mrs Pym has four nieces


“People do not seem to


got the post. “ I ’ve w a i ted lo n g ,


enough for it,”- said, Neil. “I’ve always wanted to go


there, as I’ve heard such a lot about it.”


through an agency in Switzerland and has a two-year contract.


. with the rich and famous aboard Cunard’s giant liner, the QE 2.


travelling the world. In 1975 he rubbed shoulders


and a nephew living in C l i th e ro e . She is • a member of the United Re­ formed Church in Moor Lane and also belongs to the Pendle Club.


the plush Britannia re­ staurant on the ship, which visited every conti­ nent, calling at 24 ports in places as far apart as


He was a steward in


he has been working in Germany, in hotels and as head waiter on a pas­ senger ship on the Rhine.


New York and Bombay. For the past four years


born in the house, says the character of the town has changed totally during her lifetime.


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Her husband, John,


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THE' Clitheroe branch of th e A r th r i t i s and Rheumatism Council for Research is appealing for ' knitters to help in its latest fund-raising bid. ' The branch is holding a


sponsored knit-in at 4 Buccleuch Avenue a week on Saturday, start­ ing at' 2-30 p.m. Anyone who is willing to spare an hour and a little wool is invited to go along. Those who can help and


blesdale School, Clitheroe, Neil entered the catering trade when he was 16. He worked at several local hotels, including the Spread Eagle at Sawley:


A former pupil of Rib-


A. Rutherford, he has seven brothers and foul- sisters.


The son of Mr and Mrs


New faces


WHEN Jim and Olga Leach take over GrindleT ton Post Office next Wed­ nesday, it will be a wel­ come return to the village where Mrs Leach was bom and lived until she was 14. After Mr Leach was


He applied for the post Neil is no stranger to •


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TAKING your four­ legged friend for a walk could result in a consid­ erable sum of money for charity and make new friends among the area’s dog lovers.


is arranging a sponsored dog walk for May 9th, the proceeds of which will aid Pendle Club’s scheme to provide toilets for the disabled and also the Ribble Valley Hos­ pice Fund.


Clitheroe Rotary Club X.


not only to dog lovers but also to everyone else, including children, to back them in making a huge success of The First Great Sponsored Dog Walk in Clitheroe.


Rotary is appealing


Brungerley Bridge to Grindleton and back, taking in both sides of the river, a total dis­ tance of about six miles.


The route will be from


the Clitheroe firm of animal food manufactur­ ers, are meeting the cost of the walk and provid­ ing prizes for the best- sponsored dogs.


B. Dugdale and Sons,


is new to the area but it is a method of money­ raising used successfully by Rotary in the South for the past eight years.


A sponsored dog walk


for them, although Mrs Leach — who has been working for social services at The Grange, a com­ munity home in Wilpshire — has had some experi­ ence in the retail trade in the past. The couple presently live in West View, ■


lington, and Mrs Leach will continue as a village representative o n - th e Ribble Valley Council. Although she thinks it


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made redundant as a stock controller at Atkin­ son’s of Clitheroe in Oc­ tober, the couple decided to look for a business and the post office cum village shop provided an ideal op­ portunity. It will be a new venture


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ON 1 0


Stephen’s crusade


is better for a representa­ tive to live in the same area, she will remain on the parish council and keep very much in contact with Billington. The couple, who have a


like to hear from anyone with any spare balls of double knitting wool to offer.


VISITING a frien d recently I heard a dif­ ferent kind of story. The friend in question


IN


otherwise, she has a horror of creepy crawlies and mice — a fact which is, to say the least, incon­ venient when there is no man around the house to repel and expel the un­ wanted invaders.


is not exactly a conven­ tional lady; she is artistic, vivacious, 'a little Bohe­ mian in fact; a lady who would be perfectly at home in Chelsea but who, none-the-less, contrives to live very happily in one of our smaller rural 'com­ munities where she de­ lights in all kinds of coun­ try pursuits, such as jam making, pickling, prepar­ ing chutney and the dozen or more other activities beloved of members of the WI. But in common with all other ladies, Bohemian or


six-year-old daughter, Victoria, are taking over the post office from Mrs Mavis. Hodgson, who is leaving the district after two years.


EVANGELIST Stephen Gillham will be returning to his native Lancashire fo r an e v a n g e l is t ic crusade a t Henthorn Gospel Church, Millthorne Avenue, Clitheroe, next week.


Farnworth, used to teach in the Chorley area. He joined the Dorset counties as a full-time evangelist about eight years ago.


March 23rd to April 4th, is intended to reach both young and old. He hopes') to visit all the schools in the area.


His c ru s a d e , from BIT OF A JAM


Whalley Window


with the jam pan and off to- the supermarket for sugar. Once all was ready and


prepared, the lady went to work; the constantly stirred pan emitted a deli­ cious aroma and, the task l completed, the jam was:


about a dozen; plenty in the outhouse.” So off to the outhouse she went.


lady. “Jam jars. I’ll need


eft to cool. “J a r s ,” thought the


Now this outhouse, like many other small’:' build­


jars and counted them! .- “Eleven,” she told herself.


ings, was rather dark,1 with a stone floor. The lady gathered up, her‘jam


, Not to exterminate them, of course, that would be quite unthink­ able; get rid of them by all means, but never, never hurt the poor crea­ tures.


ing. the lady was jam ■ making. Unlike the trees in her, neighbour’s garden, forthis had been a poor season for soft fruits, my friend’s tree, had, inexplic- ably, provided a bountiful harvest and so it was out


On this particular mom- • .


, I need just one more.” ' ' Spying one-in a far


went crashing to the ground. ■ - No wonder : the ladv


backwards and the - jars,


emitted an involuntary- cry Startled, she stepped ’


corner, she stooped • to‘ UP> gasped an'd


“pulled herself together,” calmed her shattered nerves and leaned for­ ward to take a closer look.


C o u rag e o u s ly she ,-


jured by one of the falling jars.


mediate remorse. From the tiny creature came a thin trickle, of red fluid; it had been struck and • in­


She was filled with im-' Stephen, who hails from H


man Neil in a luxury


Clithen


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■ -“Ugh! Blood,” thought the lady. ‘T daren't pick it up. A shovel. I must find a .shovel.”- . • Taking .a stick conve-'.


niently handy, gingerly she poked the poor, im­ mobile fragment on to the shovel. Suppressing a


, laughed, f‘. “If,; the neigh­ bours - had-heard, they


, tremulous, she carried the stricken creature to the window to. make, a closer ‘inspection. ,, Then shejlaughed.. She j,laughed and (laughed and


shudder and still a little


• less,- tiny object now re­ pealed, in the light of day. f it was van overrripe plum, •'dropped in the"comer and


. would .have'thought I’d gone crazy,” she told me. I t'wasn’t - a mouse,--it wasn’t, a shrew, that life-


jar, curled tightly in the' corner was a little furrv something. A mouse? A '


was startled. Behind the •


shrew? The light was poor, and the lady was uncer- ■


; forgptten,.\.which; had begun, to, grow, a hairy mould. No wonder the lady from — no, I won’t ‘give you her address —


, was ;s ta rtled. And no . wonder she laughed.-


..... . . . . '■ J.F.


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