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A sparkling day for Flo and Charlie


TODAY is very special to Clitheroe couple Charlie and Flo Ayre, for it is their diamond wedding anniversary. To celebrate their 60


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years of married life, they will be welcoming friends and relatives to their home in Lowergate, fol­ lowed by a family party at their daughter’s house later in the week. Charlie (86) and Flo


job in a factory. The couple came to


(82) first met in a beauty spot in Newcastle when a friend introduced them. Two years later they were married at Newcas-. tie Baptist Church. Charlie was born in the


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Tyneside city and served with the Seaforth High­ landers in the first world war. He then worked as a driver, first on lorries and then on the buses. During the second


and worked as a fitter on the railways. He and his wife then moved to Hounslow, where he was an engineer, and later to Leyland, where he had a


Clitheroe when they retired. Flo, who was born in


Hounslow, was an office worker, taking jobs in various parts of the coun­ try as she moved around with her family. She gave up work when


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evening and buy at Wail raised £190 i equipment' l native schools where children ing from dise; malnutrition.


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TOGETHER again . . . Herr J °sefj^j.ci " nj . his wife Anni (centre) welcome Rex and ISancy


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world war he was with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and was mentioned in de­ spatches for distinguished service. After the war he re­ turned to his home city


she and Charlie had a family — Jack, who is now an inspector on the Metro in Newcastle, and Mrs Grace Warren, of C la rem o n t Avenue, Clitheroe, who is secret­ ary to her husband, Ber­ nard, headmaster at SS Michael and J o h n ’s School. In the past Charlie and


Wartime friendship feted in Germany


A CLITHEROE couple


Flo, who have eight gran d ch ild ren and a great-grandchild, have en­ joyed playing bingo, but now they spend their time gardening and watching television. They are also avid readers.


More time for hobbies


NATURE lover Ralph Bailey has more time these days to “indulge”


his many hobbies, ranging from bird watching to skiing.


C la rem o n t Avenue, Clitheroe, has retired after 28 years in teaching — the last 16 of them as a headmaster.


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tourists to the Alps, was head of Moorhead High School, Accrington, for eight years, and head of its predecessor, Accring­ ton Grammar, for eight years before that.


Clitheroe Naturalists, Clitheroe Golf and Em­ press Squash clubs, and a former chairman of the Lancashire Schools’ Bad­ minton Association.


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daughters, hopes to work as a guide during the summer months for a loc- a l ly -b a s e d company.


Charity


pram race BRIDGE Inn customers are rallying to the Guide Dogs for the Blind cause. After raising £500 since


February, they hope to more than double this with a pram race around Clitheroe on September 18th.


have provided the cash for a dog — now they want to raise enough to train a blind person how to use his or her .“guide.”


Already their efforts


the race will be calling at eight pubs along the way, starting and finishing at the Bridge Inn. They have to down half a pint at each according to the


Teams taking part in


race volunteers, but Bridge Inn landlady Mrs Jean Knapton, one of the organisers, said: “We are. desperate for prams.” Clitheronians warmed


race “rules.” There is no shortage of


to the Guide Dogs cause at a flag day in the town, which made around £400.


memorating the opening


spoke this week of the amazing reception given to them by the villagers of Rheinbach, West Ger­ many, while visiting a man they helped as a pris­ oner-of-war in 1945. It was the first time


of a new branch in 1981. Rex and Nancy, who


were given a five apart­ ment flat to live in, were also taken on trips to the University of Bonn, Col­ ogne, and the Rhine. “We had a fabulous


Rex and Nancy Alderson, of Pendle Road, had seen Herr Josef Rick for 36 years. On the last occasion he


was a 19-year-old soldier being held near Clitheroe after the war. Earlier this year, the


Advertiser and Times car­ ried a story about a Shef­ field couple who had met


next summer, and the Al­ dersons are also planning a return trip, possibly with their daughter, Val­


erie, who lives in Lan­ caster.


time,” said Nancy, “we just could not believe the friendliness and generosi­ ty of the people. We thought we were just going to visit Joe, but we were kept busy all the


time.” Now Herr Rick, mar­


ried with five children, in­ tends to visit Clitheroe


Herr Rick, who told them he wanted to thank the Aldersons for their kind­


ness. As a result, Rex and


Nancy spent a fortnight with their old friend — but they had no idea the welcome would be so grand. On the second night of


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their visit, a party was held by the village, with the local band playing, and the Clitheroe couple were presented with a cut-glass vase by the bur­ gomaster. They were also invited


CRACK-shot Michael Meggison, who used to live in Clitheroe, has won p r iz e s worth n ea r ly £7,500 at a clay pigeon shoot in Northampton. And now Michael (33),


to an annual shooting competition, where they were presented with another vase, showing the shooting club’s coat of


arms. The local bank manager


conducted them round the premises and presented them with a medal com­


t r a v e l Top riders


compete CALLING Ribble Valley, motor cyclists! A day of competition and exhibi­ tions unfolds at the Lan­ cashire police headquar- ters, Hutton, on Sunday. Entitled “Lancon Bike


’83,” it is billed as a top motor cycle show aimed at promoting road safety. Lancashire Police are


particularly keen to at­ tract young riders and their parents, to show them what training is av­ ailable and the advantages of wearing the right equipment. Last year, 1,634 people


who runs a gunsmith's in Blackburn, has to decide whether to go on entering financially-rewarding com­ petitions or give them up to qualify under amateur s ta tu s for th e Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. Michael, an instrument


Herr Rick when he was working at Bolland Pros­ pect. Near the end of the war, they obtained per­ mission to have four Ger­ mans from the camp visit their house, Herr Rick among them.


The Aldersons first met Dialect


winner THE Sam Laycock Trophy for dialect verse at Fleetwood Folk Festi­ val has come to Whalley for the second time in three years, having been won by Mr Jimmy Fell.


theme of “Med i’ Lanca­ shire” came top of 36 en­ tries and he had the satis­ faction of speaking the lines at Sunday evening’s concluding programme.


His verse on the set


in 1980 and was runner-up in 1981, but did not com­ pete last year. In addition to the trophy, he received a framed certificate as a permanent memento.


Jimmy won the trophy


a r t i f ic e r a t ICI in Clitheroe until 1975, won the Clubman of the Year title at the Winchester Sporting Gun Champion­


ships on Monday, repre­ senting the Great Har­ wood Gun Club. He scored a maximum


Britain at rifle shooting at the 1980 Moscow Olym­ pics and is on the shortlist to go to Los Angeles, pro­ vided he does not carry on winning prizes. His son, Aaron, is a


were killed or injured in motor cycle accidents in Lancashire, most of them aged 20 and under. Star attvaction will be


the 9th round of the Honda/UDT 250 c.c. ATC National Championships, in which some of the


country’s top riders are racing: Other events include a


keen shot, while Mr Meg- gison’s father, Les, who lives at Bolton-by-Bow- land, is also a well-known marksman.


“NOT now, darling,” is very much on the lips at two local drama groups. For it is the title of a


manoeuvrability competi­ tion, a “trail park” and a


the open day, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4-30 p.m.


free bike checking service provided by the police vehicle maintenance unit. Admission is free for


25 points in the down-the- line section and 23 out of 25 in the variable angle shooting. His prizes were four shotguns worth £3,500 and the free use of an Austin Maestro for a year. Michael represented


Reviving


memories SCHOOLDAYS are said to be the happiest days of your life.


former pupils of Whalley CE School are planning to celebrate its centenary year by meeting to recall their memories and catch up on news.


To prove the point,


■ The get-together — for pupils who were in the late Miss Robens class 53 years ago — is provision­ ally set for November 30th at Whalley Abbey.


class and would like to go along should contact either Mrs Marion Thorn- ber (Whalley 2643) or Mrs Sally Wiggans (Whalley 3896).


Anyone who was in the A popular play


comedy by Ray Cooney and John Chapman which has been chosen by both Clitheroe Parish Church Operatic and Dramatic Society and Calderstones Revue and Dramatic Soci­ ety to be produced in October. The Calderstones pro­


duction is to.take place in m id -O c to b e r while Clitheroe’s will be per­ formed at the end of the month. P ro d u c e r of the


Clitheroe group, Barbara Scattergood, said neither


group knew the other was considering doing the play until both had made the decision to go ahead with it. “It just proves it is very popular,” she said.


THIS week’s “Read­ e r ’s L e t t e r ” came from a Clitheroe lady who, after a period of unemployment in the early 1930s — a some­ what unhappy time for many, of today’s grandmas and grand­ pas — obtained a post 18 miles from her native town. She had long working


hours but, on alternate Sundays was off duty until one o’clock. How do you think this


young lady . spent’ those brief hours of.freedom? She rose early, even


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packet. Then, in no time at all, it was back on the bike to take up duty at one o’clock. How would such a prog­


ramme appeal to the young people of today, one wonders? Many would hardly consider it the ideal way of spending a few hours off, I think. Oddly, I mentioned this


when she had been work­ ing until 10 o’clock the night before, jumped on her bike and arrived in Clitheroe in good time’ to attend the 8 a.m. Mass in the Catholic Church..: v The service over, it was


home .for breakfast and an hour or ■ so; “natter with mum,!’■


hand/ over her wage ■ when she would


joint post in charge of a small children’s home. In the years that fol- >


In due course, the newly-weds took over a


. member of the. staff who was an army reservist.


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' letter my cycling corres­ pondent told me a re­ markable; story. One of her;; colleagues, another; Clitheroe lass, 'married a


story to an octogenarian reader who phoned me' a day or two later. She ex­ pressed ■ little surprise.- “Why,” she, said,'! “ I handed my wage packet over until I was 34!” . In the course of her


lowed they cared for their young charges with both dedication and. affection' and became known as mum and dad to every member of th e ir big family. Then came 1939 and the •


. quickly .called to the col­ ours and, in the misfor­ tunes of war, became a member of the ill-fated Norwegian expedition. . As chaps of my age will


dreadful holocaust that followed. The young hus­ band, as a reservist, was ‘


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. He was rescued in a distressed condition and regained consciousness on the deck of a naval vessel. Kneeling at his side was a


force. Among the unfortu­ nate land forces was the man in our story.


■ He was one of the boys who, just a year or two previously, dad had cared for in the little orphanage. “All the way back he could not do enough for his dad,” wrote my cor­ respondent. A s t r a n g e , . th e


“Whatever- would mum say if she could see you like this?”


: remember, this .turned out a disastrous venture and the navy had to inter­ vene and rushed to evacu­ ate [i£he expeditionary


Told in- a novel, readers might say, “ too fa r ­ fetched, too ■ improbable,” but in this case the story happens to be true. So many times in life, truth ■ is stranger than •fiction.


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deeply-concerned young sailor. “Dad, dad,” he said,


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