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Friday, October 14th, from 8 p.m.


Eat, Sing a n d b e Merry Listen and Dance to


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Sunday, Octobar 9th 1.30 p.m.


Preacher Mr R. Carter 7 p.m.


Preacher r Mr B. WIIIiam8


ADMISSION 5p REFRESHMENTS


RIBBLE VALLEY LADIES’ AUXILIARY


Monday, October 10th D O O R S O P EN 6-30 p.m.


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Saturday, Sth'October In Church 7-30 p.m.


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M O N D A Y , N O V E M B E R 1 4 th at 8 p.m.


DUNSOP VILLAGE HALL


Woman’s cheque


returned


ing the carpet, Barbara Hibble (39), of Turner Street, was fined £50 and ordered to pay compensa­ tion


account in February, the most she had had in it


defending, said his client had a genuine inability to deal with money and thought the bank would pay for the carpet.


Mr Geoffrey Isherwood, Happiness


chairman Mrs J. Wilkin­ son and the committee served tea and biscuits. The speaker next Wed­


nesday will be the Rev. J. Needham.


THERE was a good at­ te n d an c e a t T r in i ty Ladies Afternoon Fellow­ ship to hear one of its own members, Mrs H. Mikanowicz, speak on “Five ways of happiness,” choosing ap p ro p r iate hymns. She was thanked by


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DOMINOES WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12th


Waddington Village Club


Commence 7-30 p.m.— Admission 75p


(Inc. Plated Supper)


10. (13) “Tahiti” from Mutiny on the Bounty — David Essex.


15. (7) “Dolce vita” — Ryan Paris. 16. (8) “Big apple” — Kajagoogoo. 17. (6) “Mama” — Genesis. 18. (14) “Go deh yaka (go to the top)” — Monyaka. 19. (16) “Soul inside” — Soft Cell. 20. (—) “In your eyes” — George Benson.


12. (—) “New song” — Howard Jones. 13. (—) “Rebel run” — Toyah. 14. (4) “Tonight I celebrate my love” — Bryson and Roberto Flack.


11- (—) “68 guns” — The Alarm. Peabo


National placings are in brackets. Tip for the top: “Tell her about it” — Billy Joel. LP of the week: “Hit


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Clitheroe engineering firm Econ Atkinson said goodbye to two long-serving colleagues last week. Mrs Barbara Pear­


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secuting, said that since the defendant opened her


A WOMAN who paid a cheque for £174 for a carpet had insufficient funds in her account to meet the bill, Clitheroe magistrates were told. For dishonestly obtain­


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Liaison Committee an item on the agenda was the closure of one of the two schools in Hurst Green. It was suggested th a t pupils from the closed school should go to Bashall Eaves School. The idea made sense — Hurst Green would still have a centre for social activities, so would Bashall Eaves. The closure of Hurst


member of Ribble Valley Education Liaison Com­ mittee. School rolls were falling then and the Tory- controlled County Council decided on a policy of school closures. At the time the chairman of the Education Committee was County Coun. Fitzher- bert-Brockholes. At a meeting of the


Eight years ago I was a ^ DG AD PATIDE


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“ A N D O N ” Live on Friday


■ . October 7th : Admission £1


10 p.m. to 1 a.m. : OSATURDAY I


CTOBER 8th I D ISCO 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.


School closures issue ‘ always been political’


THE statement by Coun. John Walmsley — that bringing politics into school closures was disgraceful — is a little naive, as the issue has never been anything else but political.


centre for village activity, every effort should be made to keep it open. Maybe we should look back to where' and when the policy of school clo­ sures began.


If a school is the only


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, October 6th, 19S3 3 Sabden turns back the clock


Choirs join


forces


MEMBERS of Chatburn’s two church choirs have been working together in sweet harmony.


joint harvest supper. Now members hope to


arrange another combined effort for Christmas or Easter.


tracted well over 100 people. It featured a varied programme of choral music arranged by Christ Church choirmas­ ter Mr Hubert Jackson, plus musical rounds and games for the children ar- r a n g e d b y Mr Neil Turpin, of the Methodist choir.


Green School never took place and one can only assume that somewhere behind the political cur­ tain a compromise had been reached.


people are crying out today, not because they are concerned about the schools, but because the County Council is Labour- controlled. That, Coun. Walmsley, is the disgrace of politics on the issue of school closures.


MR C. GEURARD, 3 Springs Road, Longridge.


were all the loud voices which are now crying out “save our village schools”? The fact is that a lot of


however, is that failure to close Hurst Green School brought about the closure of Bashall Eaves School and the loss of its use as a social centre for village activities. Where at that time


One thing about it,


who lives in Victoria Street, Clitheroe, with some of tlie guests.


Parking fine


A FULWOOD motorist who parked his car in a restricted area on Whal- ley Road, Stony hurst, was fined £40 at Clitheroe. Admitting the offence, Ian Philip West- ney (20), of Marina Drive, was ordered to pay £6 costs.


only nine, delighted everybody with a ballet sketch. Our photo shows Helen,


The Cloggies, girl clog dancers of Oswaldtwistle, along with four ladies of th e ch u rc h , Mari a n Bridge, Elizabeth Britclif- fe, Laura Moorhouse and Marion Briddock, dressed as bathing belles. Helen Robinson, who is


Donald Briddock and his wife, Marion, performed a comedy sk e tch and Sabden historian Clifford Moorhouse read some Lancashire dialect items. Colour was provided by


sketches, clog dances and Lancashire dialect recita­ tions among the items at a Victorian evening on Saturday, held to raise money to renovate the church. The. minister, the Rev.


THE clock was turned back 100 years at Sabden Baptist Church — and £140 was raised for a good cause. There were comedy


Church spotlights the harvest of


community work THE work of more than 15 community groups goes under the spotlight for three days from at Trinity Methodist Church,


tomorrow Clitheroe.


part are the fire, health and social services and police departments, the Friends of Clitheroe Hos­ pital, the Ribble Valley C o u n c il, WRVS, the Pendle Club, the Ribble Valley Talking News­ paper Group, Trinity Youth and Community CeiV’-e, Round Table, local0 Rotarians, the St John Ambulance, and the Methodist Association of YOuth Clubs.


Barbara says goodbye


m Mr Peter Tidey, pro­


was £32 and a number of cheques had been re­ turned.


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entitled “By their Fruits” trill be a mobile chiropody unit display and, on Saturday, the. police will be there stamping owners’ p o s tc o d e s on th e i r machines so they can be traced in the event of theft. Among those taking


showing the range and deptli of community ser­ vice around Clitheroe, is being staged as a special extension to the church’s harvest thanksgiving. Included in the festival,


An exhibition aimed at


the work of the Duke of E d in b u rg h Award scheme, a slide show of scenes and activities in the Ribble Valley, and the


Also featured will be


to be fully aware of the services they can call on.


ganisers Mr Lionel Barn- ford said tlie aim was to show people the tremend­ ous range of services that are available to them in the locality. Many people tend not


It may help, particularly the voluntary services, to recruit people,” he said. The exhibiton follows


promoting the harvest and community service theme will complement the church’s traditional harvest decorations. One of tlie festival or­


Trinity Methodist Church bookstall. Craft and floral displays


Dr Ian’s Antarctic thesis


FORMER Clitheroe man Ian Slaiding has been awarded a PhD in chemis­ try by the University of London.


charides extracted' from Antarctic seaweeds. His work formed part of the investigations of the Brit­ ish Antarctic Survey into environmental adaptation.


Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Dr Slaiding gained a B.Sc honours degree in chemistry at the Universi­ ty of London.


A former pupil of


Dorothy Slaiding. of Castle View, and the late Mr E. Slaiding, lie now lives in Surrey.


Tlie younger son of Mrs


joined the Brewing Re­ search Foundation as a flavour scientist.


After completing his thesis earlier this year he


his thesis on three years rese arch on polysac­


Dr Slaiding (25) based


the first time in many years at the civic service in June for the Ribble Valley Mayor, Coun. Ted Bodcn.


for the morning harvest thanksgiving service at Christ Church and, on Sunday, for the evening th an k sg iv in g at the Methodist Church.


They also got together


Ex-weaver dies, 79


Speak, of Pendle Court, Clitheroe. started as a half-timer aged 13 and re­ tired from Thornber’s Mill as a weaver. She also


Clitheroe’s cotton mills has died at 79. Mrs Elsie Frances


worked for many years at Sun Street mill. Her late husband. John,


died in 19(15. Mrs Speak is survived


A WOMAN who worked for half a century in


The choirs combined for The harvest supper at­


Church and the Methodist Church joined ranks at a


The choirs of Christ


by a son and two daugh­ ters.


Crematorium tomorrow (7th).


S p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, and 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. on Sunday in between the harvest service at 10.30 a.m. and 6 p.m.


Fined £15


FOR urinating in a public place, Clitheroe man Stephen Wilson, of Pim­ lico Road, was fined £15 with £6 costs by the town’s magistrates. In a letter to the court,


Wilson (20), who was seen in Lowergate, said lie had a weak biadder and could not make it to a public convenience.


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the success two years ago, of a festival organ­ ised by the church about local industry. It runs from 10 a.m. to


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