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Hilary's design for a carpet is a winner


A FORMER pupil of Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School is riding the magic, carpet to success after winning a national design award.


field Drive, Clitheroe, has,, won a £450 travel bursary as first prize in the Royal Society of Arts award -. scheme for carpet design.


Hilary Holden, of Fair-


in September and also has the opportunity to learn all about carpet design “ft™ the inside” during a four-week attachment to a carpet firm, which has yet to be arranged.. Hilary, who will be 22


She plans to .tour Italy —


round & about


and is shortly to be in­ cluded in a similar exhibi­ tion in Australia. Hilary has always been


last year has already been displayed in this country


tomorrow, is currently in her third year of a textile design, course'at Derby Lonsdale College. She chose to specialise in carpet design after being introduced to the craft during her second year. As far as the RSA com­


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petition is concerned, it is second time lucky, for last y ea r Hilary finished runner-up in the carpet design section. The competition, .with


year’s foundation course at Preston Polytechnic


there would be a wide ' market for a studio con­ centrating on the design of rugs and knitwear.


The work she submitted Search for


in te re s ted in design, taking A-level Art and a.


before going on to Derby, but had never specifically had ambitions in carpet design before last year. '


sections covering all as­ pects of design, involved sending two samples of work to be judged and an interview, which required further samples to be- shown.


tion means that Hilary’s designs will be exhibited at various colleges around the country over the next year.


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CROWN (• GLOSSPAINT Success in the competi­


it her career. Her college course comes to an end in June, when she will be hoping to gain member­ ship of the Society of In­ dustrial Artists and De­ signers, as well as a col­ lege diploma. Success in the. design


Now she plans-to make


competition has already gained her an associate- ship of the Royal Society of Arts. When she returns from


swords A SWORD fight scene in “The Rainbow of Happi­ ness,” a production by the Mary Waddington School of Dancihg, has hit a snag — there are no swords to make the scene authentic. Miss Waddington would


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Jim bids goodbye to Concrete firm after


20 years retired. , ■


general manager of the I North Lancashire . area, Concrete Division. He is proud to be an old


boy of Ribblesdale School, being one of .the first pupils when it opened 50 years ago with Mr Arthur Langshaw, the Clitheroe historian, as headmaster. From school he took 'up


Mr .Parker (61) was F


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screen with Haslingden and Helmshore Band and,, members of Clitheroe Parish Church • Operatic Society.


two medieval-style swords for the production, which is to be held in Clitheroe Parish Hall from May 19th to 22nd. More than 100 children


ranged by Edmond CamT . bien and Jim Parker and conducted by James Low. will be held on May 14th and 15th.


The performances,. ar­


and adults will be taking part' in the musical ex­ travaganza and proceeds are for the Ribble Valley Hospice Appeal and the Leonard Cheshire Home at Garstang. Tickets are on sale at


Italy, there is a possibility that she will set up a design studio in Oxford­ shire with a fellow stu­ dent, Lorraine Wood. Lorraine specialises in knitwear and Hilary feels


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walk THE golden jubilee of the Slaidburn .youth hostel is to be celebrated with a 22-mile two-way walk bet- ween S laid b u rn and


'Earby. Members of the public are invited to take part in , the “Pendle Marathon”


Walk, which will start simultaneously from the Slaidburn and, Earby youth: hostels on May 22nd at 9 a.m. Walkers may choose


employment with Ribbles­ dale Cement, working in the' laboratory until join­ ing the . Royal Air Force in which he served for . three years as a sergeant signaller, air crew. He was training for appoint­ ment to Mosquitos and Beaufighters when the


war ended. Mr Parker returned to


either starting point and accommodation, if needed, will be available at both hostels. : The event is being or­


ganised by the Pendle Marathon Committee with the support of the Pendle Youth Hostels’ Associa­ tion Group and the Lake­ land and Yorkshire reg­ ions of the YHA. Entry forms are. available from Mr D. Ingham, Green End, Bashall Eaves. Certificates will be


awarded to all entrants completing the route


. Miss Christine England, says it is hoped to hold a number of other events later iri the year to mark the anniversary, including a possible open day.' The hostel — formerly


within 10 hours. Trans­ port will be organised on the evening of the walk for those who need to return to their ; starting point. Warden at Slaidburn,


Ribblesdale Cement • and was second in charge to Arthur Matthews, the chief chemist, when he moved to Farnley Sand and Gravel, of Preston, in


1961. When the firm was


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taken over by. the Lime, Sand and Mortar Group, he was appointed produc­ tion manager for nine


plants. Tilcon was formed in


' Mr Parker was made area general manager looking


1971 with LSM as one of its component firms and


of the church council at Trinity Methodist Church and .is closely involved with the present efforts to raise, money for the reno-.


after 12 plants. - Mr Parker is a member


vation fund. He is alsd a property trustee.


the Black Bull .Hotel — wag officially opened in August#1932.


Rotary Club of Clitheroe, has been a magistrate since 1959 and is now deputy chairman of the Clitheroe Bench. On his appointment as a magis-


He is a member of the


trate he was the youngest to take office in the town. Mr Parker is a former


Clitheroe 2.


' In his retirement, Mr


chairman of Clitheroe Borough Labour Party and served on the Board of Management, of the former Clitheroe Co­ operative Society.


Parker hopes to pursue photography as a hobby, using the camera which was presented to him. He and his wife Lottie, also e n jo y -m o to r in g and travel. They have three married children.


tradition NEW ch a irm an of Clitheroe Ladies’ Circle is Mrs Susan Haig. In her address at the


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annual meeting, held at th e Red,-Pump Inn, Bashall Eaves, Mrs Haig asked members to con­ tinue the long tradition of friendship, both to each other and to the com­ munity. Retiring chairman Mrs Lynda Leadbeater thank-


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Spensley being the last founder member of the group, she was presented with a Ladies Circle rose, “T.ablers’ Choice.” Officers elected were:


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Worth a visit


“MIND bogglingly inter­ esting” — that’s how TV and radio personality Brian Redhead describes the North-West in the English Tourist Board’s new publication.


•• In “England’s. Nhrth


Country” Mr Redhead de­ scribes the delights of the area, including the beauti­ ful countryside, the once “witch - infested” areas near Pendle and the pic­ turesque villages with in­ teresting histories, includ­ ing .Pendleton and Slaid- bum.


Care of the countryside THE other week I


wrote of the motto of the Bowland Rural District, one of the four local authorities v and parts of three' others which make up the present Borough


•of Ribble Valley.,. Today, if you will


lege and a council member for many years. ■ It ran “Nostrum est


permit, we will consider the motto of the former Clitheroe Rural District, another of those four au­ thorities. This one was rather more “classy” , which is understandable, it Having been devised by the Very Rev. Fr Vav­ a s o u r , ' SJ, . one-time Rector of Stonyhurst Col­


rura tueri” and is trans­ lated as “Our task is the care of the countryside” which, as the council con­ s is te d of 13 ru ra l parishes, was both appo­ site and appropriate. These 13 parishes —


they extended over 50 square miles — held, it'is fair, to claim, some of the loveliest villages1 in the whole of th e n o r th country.


nham and who would dis­ pute its claim to fame? Then Wiswell, which specialises in winning awards in the annual Best-Kept Village compet- 1 itions. I have been told that they have ■ won so 'many wayside seats, that


First there was Dow- • .


now they have:: difficulty in finding’ appropriate:


Whalley Window


spots in which to site them.


' certain. ■ Our village in. Whalley,


the list. “Truly rural” is , our description here and why has this ancient vil-, lage (mentioned in the Domesday Book) never entered the competitions, I wonder? With its stream and simple lines; its pic­ ture postcard attractions and its historic associa­ tions, with a little' com­ munity effort; it would be “ a snip” , ' I . am quite


Pendleton, too, is on ' t


whose1 name has now headed these columns some 800 tihies, has so many attractions I will not dwell on them today and we move on to Chip-; ping, yet another competi­ tion winner. ■ . '


town with its ancient church, its almshouses, its waterwheel, its old work-


.This, former market


■Hursti’ Green with its' splendid, former alms­


house and: countryside crafts, is i worth a couple of hours.of your time any day in the week; as also is


houses and Stonyhurst’s glorious pile. If . you contemplate a


' prominence, some hun­ dreds of; years ago; as a


tour,, don’t forget Twis- ton, with its,, ancient


boundary between the an­ cient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria; a one­ time water-powered cotton mill and a Quaker burial ground, long disused.


with its two beautiful bridges spanning the r iv e r , Bowland with Leagram, a one-time inde- p en d en t p a r t of the Forest of Bowland, Wor- ston with its bullring, Chatburn with the sad distinction of being the first village in the district


There is Lower Hodder 3 9


Come rec


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to be bombed in World War II. There is Little Mearley


BETA


22a, Clit Tel.


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with i ts boundary a Roman Road; the relics of Sawley Abbey and the


' borough from the top of Jeffrey Hill. And so I could go on.


awesome Brast Clough, and Thomley-with-Wheat- ley, with perhaps the finest viewpoint in the


' the former rural district had some very, lovely and historic countryside to cherish and to, justify its motto/


• I .have' said enough, I think, to establish that


; fqr several of the villages , I have mentioned were among the first of the' conservation areas in the • whole , of NE Lancashire.


. members certainly took their • work very seriously,


• ; The former officers and


-The countryside was cer­ tainly well cared for! J.F.


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