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Envoy Mrs Isabella Hogg, assisted by Mrs Edna Tagg and ladies of the Home League.


THERE are the odd times — fortunately not too frequent — when I feel an abso­ lute idiot. I am humili­ ated and embarrassed. One of these occasions


wards the divisional “Helping Hand” fund to provide equipment for hospitals abroad. I t was organised by


A TOTAL' of £60 was raised by a coffee after­ noon held by Clitheroe Salvation Army at the Lowergate hall. Proceeds will go to­


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Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified) Fine year for Bowland troop


tSTRIGHT FOR YOU.


. Reynolds, Ian Broughton, Paul Craig, Andrew; Greg- son, Simon Nicholson, Andrew Mason, Dylan Morris and David Shack- leton. Winning the shield


badges at the awards ceremony: David Shackle- ton (shooting), Gary Simkin and Jonathan Lockley (cycling), Neil Reynolds (cycling and canoeing), Paul Craig, Mark Johnson, Stephen Harrison, James Bamford (canoeing) and Mark Alker (swimming and canoeing).


McDonald Memorial Trophy for orienteering and came second in the district swimming gala. Several boys received


Julie’s


award A PUPIL of Oakhill Col­ lege, Whalley, has gained the top award in the Guide movement. Julie Kempster (15), of


are horse riding and sewing, has been with St Leonard’s Guides for three years. For the service part of


Greenhurst Nook, Dinck- ley, was presented with her Queen’s Guide badge on Monday a t St L e o n a rd ’s School, Langho, by the former vicar of St Leonard’s, the Rev. Paul Warren. Julie, whose hobbies


her badge, she helped out on a local farm and also did a lot of sewing and craftwork.


crowns a fine year for the 30-strong troop, which meets each Tuesday at Grindleton. It also won the Barry


camp in the Lake District, gained the trophy for win? ning eight proficiency badges — the highest number of any local troop. The boys were: Neil


awards evening to Patrol Leader Simon Nicholson by ADC Simon Nanson (right). The troop, which held


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School history proves boys haven't changed!


tory of the school, it tells the story from the grant­


a year’s work by the head of classics, Mr Dudley Green, of New’by Lane, Rimington, and the head of religious education, Mr Keith Harwood, of Pas- turelands Drive, Bil- lington.


ing of the Charter in 1554 up to the present day. It is the culmination of


A FASCINATING insight into the life of boys and their teachers at Chtheroe Royal Grammar School has been produced in booklet form by two of the masters. The first complete his­


years. “They were kicking


Governors, one was ac­ cused of murder, one com­ mitted suicide, one never ta u g h t a t all, while another made the school one of the most famous in the North of England. Mr Green said: “There


ters came across contrast­ ing characters among the various headmasters. One was sacked by the


note in the defence of the head accused of murder, John Glazebrook. The his­ torian Arthur Langshaw mentions this in one of his books as being kept in a house in Church Lane, Clitheroe.” Mr Green added that


is a wealth of school re­ cords in the Lancashire Record Office at Preston. However one piece of in­ formation eluded us. “This was a solicitor’s


one fact that had emerged was th a t boys had changed little over the


with the idea to coincide with the recent retire­ ment of headmaster Mr Gerald Hood. During the search for information, the two mas­


Mr Harwood came up


booklet were read by Mr Peter Houldsworth, the school’s head of the Engl­ ish department, and the booklet contains many photographs. It is hoped to produce another purely photographic record in a year’s time. The booklet, “Queen


footballs and breaking windows in the 17th cen­ tury,” he said. Manuscripts for the


from the school, the Kaydee Bookshop and Cowgill's shop at the price of £3. It can also be ob­ tained through Clitheroe, Whalley and several branch libraries.


Mary’s Grammar School, Clitheroe,” is available


Aiming for


£1,000 THE Whalley Circle of King George’s Fund for Sailors is aiming to reach four figures at its 25th annual coffee morning on Tuesday, after raising a record £920 at last year’s event. There will be plenty of


ideas for Christmas, as well as stalls selling cakes, fancy goods and handicrafts. The event starts at 10-30 a.m. in Whalley Golf Clubhouse. The fund distributes


LOST FOR WORDS


Whalley Window


happened quite recently. This prominent public offi­ cial approached me and, “Ah,” said he, “you’re the chap who can put me right. You’ve written a good many thousand


words about the Ribble Valley, so tell me, what does the word ‘Ribble’


really mean?” Apparently the official


had had the same ques-


tion put to him a week or two previously and had been lost for an answer. “I felt dreadful,” he said, “I didn’t know, I hadn’t a clue.”


neither had I. In all my years, walking, cycling, driving, reading, writing, talking about the Valley, the thought had never oc-


And to tell the truth,


curred to me. I made my confession


and was completely abashed. “But I’ll find out,” I told my inquisitor. “I’ll find out and let you know in a couple of days.”


for a while my search was fruitless. I consulted half- a-dozen books from my shelves which might have provided an answer. They didn’t. I wracked my brains and was on the point of, dashing to the library and the Ency- lopaedia Britannica when inspiration struck.


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the familiar “go back, go back, go back” call and shortly afterwards several birds took flight. Take-off involves a whirring of the wings but, once in the air, the rapid wing beats are alter­ nated with long glides on bowed wings as the birds fly low over the ground before quickly disappearing over the nearest rise. Very few birds remain on the moors at this


that l went just over one week ago to make sure that the red grouse was recorded in the Clitheroe 10km square during the third and final season of the British Trust for Ornithology’s Winter Atlas Project. I had hardly left the roadside before hearing


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redstart. The total British population” is only about 30 pairs and those mainly confined to the South-East, so this was a very unusual sighting for our area. A few have wintered on the Fylde coast and it is possible that this individual was on its way there. The. species seems to like ruined buildings,


time of the year and, I did not really expect to sight any other, species after seeing two carrion crows and a few meadow pipits. I assumed that it was just another meadow pipit that I saw near the wireless mast on the Fell summit and hardly bothered to raise my binoculars. It was fortu­ nate that I did so. The bird I had spotted was a male black


ONE of the best places to see red grouse in this area is on Waddington Fell. Indeed, the Moor­ cock Inn is named after this species and Wad­ dington Fell Quarry has a picture of the bird on its sign board and all its wagons. Therefore, it was to the summit of the Fell


was particularly applic­ able to the Ribble because of its many tributaries. Apart from the Hodder and the Calder there were, and are, literally hun d red s of brooks, streams and rivulets and some of these, for inst­ ance, Mearley Brook, are not inconsiderable water­ ways. The words for “head of


place (Volume I of the 1872 edition, pages 3/7) he tells us that the Romans called the river “Bellisa- ma,” which translated means “ head . of the waters." This name, 'he claims,


solved. I held my head a little higher and was able to tell the top ranking of­ ficial (who, incidentally, I consider .a very good friend) the result of my researches. Or, more ac­ curately, Dr Whitaker’s researches. The top official was


the waters” in the early British language were RHIU BEL and from these the present name is an obvious derivative. So the problem was


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possibly due to lack of its natural habitat, which is rocky country. The upper fringes of the quarry therefore provided a perfect setting for studying the bird and its habits. I left only when it flew down into the main quarry and disap­ peared.


TONY COOPER


, surance and authority. It is, I promise you, a very satisfying feeling. L


very pleased and you, dear reader, if ever asked the same question, will now be able to supply the answer with complete as-


august author of the “His­ tory of the Parish of Whalley,” would surely have something to say on the subject. He had. In the first


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