4 Clitlieroe Advertiser and Times, November 25th, 19S2


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Young farmer in line for top award


A CHIPPING youth is one of five boys and a girl who will be competing for the Agricultural Training Board’s 1982 English Apprentice of the Year Award.


land Cowell, of Hall Trees Farm, has passed 12 pro­ ficiency tests to become a craftsman in milk, beef and sheep production, as well as mechanised opera­ tions. To reach the final he


Nineteen-year-old Mor-


won the Northern Ap­ prentice of the Year Award and joins the best of 1,000 candidates who will compete for a bank study award of £500. He gained distinctions


joined by members of the Whalley churches. Between 10 a.m. and


noon, coffee and mince pies will be available in the Methodist Church Hall, where Whalley chil­ dren will stage a Christ­ mas exhibition. The crib will be on view


in the City and Guilds Phase II examinations on day-release at the Lanca­ shire College of Agricul­ ture, Preston. Morland is involved with all aspects of the


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173-acre family farming business. He milks the 80- cow herd once a day and is responsible for the grassland management and machinery mainte­ nance. Recently he took over


New job for Bob


Shays Drive, is returning to work in East Lanca­ shire after spells at the bank’s Nelson branch from October, 1973 to January, 1978, and at the Preston branch, where he was district corporate manager covering Cum­ bria and East Lancashire. “I love this part of the


A CLITHEROE man has been appointed manager of the Manchester Road branch of Barclays Bank in Burnley. Mr Bob Edwards, of


the farm accounts. He in­ tends to take additional courses in dairy hygiene and forager maintenance. Morland was awarded


the Longridge NFU Spe­ cial Prize for his achieve­


ments in 1981-2, and if he wins the national award


he intends to go to Hol­ land to study the effective use of permanent pasture.


Festive


plans THE Whalley Christian Action Group will set up its Christmas crib outside the National Westminster Bank in the village on De­ cember 18th. . Mr Derek Hartley,


world and am happy to return to the Burnley area,” he said. Mr Edwards is vice-


president of Ribblesdale Rotary Club, chairman of Ribble Valley Christian


Aid and treasurer of St Mary’s S c ou ts in


Clitheroe. He enjoys fish­ ing and photography. His wife, Elizabeth, is


head o f S a lte r fo r th County Primary School and they have three daughters. Two of them attend


until the end of the fes­ tive season.


Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advents y — ---------------------


“ Financial aid for


historic homes


THE Ribble Valley Coun­ cil is spending- £2,000


helping some of the buu historic buildings in the area with their repair


bills. The first recipient of a


£200 grant will be Dow- nham H a l l, where thousands of pounds are needed to treat an exten­ sive outbreak of dry rot.


rest of Lancashire, the council is carrying out an obligatory survey to pre­ serve its historic homes for future generations, the Planning and Trans­ portation Committee was


In common with the


told. Borough Planning and


Technical Officer Mr Philip Bailey suggested dividing the £2,000 into a number of modest grants to contribute to the max- imum number of proper­


ties. He conceded that £200


would in most cases be ‘ a drop in the ocean,” but pointed out that such a grant would demonstrate the council’s support for the preservation of listed


buildings. For dialect fans


WHALLEY councillor Jimmy Fell was one of the judges in a Lancashire dialect competition which has resulted in the publi­ cation of an 83-page book.


The book, entitled “Living Lancashire,” con­


tains 41 poems and 13 stories which, says the Lancashire Dialect Socie­ ty, should be eagerly de­ voured by dialect fans.


Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School and one has just started university. Born in Scarborough,


in the competition — verse and prose — was Joan Pomfret, who lives at Great Harwood. One of the poems in the


Winner of both classes


book, “Willie’s Coartin,” has been written by Mrs Christine Thistlethwaite, of Lower Gills Farm, Rimington.


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“Living Lancashire” is Sound of strings


PENDLETON village hall ivill be filled with the 1 sound of guitar music a week on Saturday.


Studio — run by Mr Nicholas Mackey from his I home in Fabfield Drive — will be giving their


Some 40 students from the Clitheroe Guitar


third annual concert. The evening, ivhich starts at 7-15 p.m., gives the


musicians, both children and adults, experience of ' performing before an audience of relatives ’


friends. TRAGEDY THAT SHOOK US ALL


manager of Whalley Abbey, will lead carol singing at the crib from 11-30 a.m. and will be


Mr Edwards started his banking career in Filey in 1950. He is treasurer of B u rn ley NSPCC, a member of Nelson 41 Club and serves on the committee of COSIRA, the Council for Small In­ dustries in Rural Areas.


INCREDIBLY, it is 20 years since one of the saddest events in our local story oc­ curred.


the failure of our local Co­ operative Society. It was a tragedy in which many village families lost their


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and I had the privilege of undertaking the secreta­ rial work. It was an experience


which taught me a great deal about the character of the men and women with whom I came into contact and gave me an insight into the sturdy in­ dependence of Lancashire folk. From the very begin­


ning and throughout the dreary eight years that dragged by before the


formed under the chair­ manship of Fr Tierney to make what representa­ tions it could on behalf of the villagers and to raise funds to assist those in most immediate need. The other clergy in the


cial help was given to a large number of people over several months, not one family came and asked for monetary assist­


ance. Help was given in fil­


proached ■ tactfully and- , ended, a man cametome ------ £3, £4, £7 - and


ling in legal forms and documents, but nobody — and some were in consid­ erable need — asked for money. Some, indeed, when ap-


too, of the generosity of local people, particularly at that first unhappy Christmas; of the lady who phoned to say “see the worst hit get a bag of coal and I will pay for it. I won’t see people cold;” the man who told me “let me know how many chick­ ens you need and I will see they get one.” There was, too, the


the proffered assistance. “If we’re really stuck,” they promised, “we’ll come and see you,” but they never did. I learned a great deal,


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gentlemen — himself a creditor for a very sub­ stantial sum but who never claimed it — who said: “I want the names of 15 families, not people you are helping from the funds, but others in need, who could do with £10


quietly by night, refused and handed over small “ -


each. And they’re not to know where it comes from.” He insisted on anonymi­


ty then and I respect his wishes now that he is no longer with us.


appealed for funds all sorts of people promoted efforts; the wealthier dug deeply into their pockets and the widow gave her mite. On several occasion, until the matter was


When the committee


tive Union, which had been asked eight long years previously to appeal to its members for the equivalent of one week’s “divi,” came up trumps. It provided a sum in


£50,000 next week you shall have that too.” Knowing him well, I am quite certain he meant it and, had Dame Fortune smiled upon him, he would have kept his word. Finally the Co-opera­


sums said “these are my pool winnings; use them as you' think best.” He once added “if it’s


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A CLITHEROE man, Martin Butters, of Moor­ land Avenue, was one of a team of six Blackburn- based telephone engineers who won a British Tele­ com regional quiz in Man­ chester.


Strowger Shield in a tech­ nical quiz competing in the final against a team from Lancaster.


The team won the The team will now go


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excess of £80,000 and if members didn’t get back everything they had lost, they did get very substan­ tial sums. A most unhap­ py story had a fairiy happy ending.


J.F.


TINIAN


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