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Delia owes her life to miracle machine


mother is alive today thanks to one of the most advanced pieces of medical equipment in the world.


CLITHEROE


Gills Croft, Clitheroe, had part of a large brain tumour removed by


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diagnosed, Mrs Haworth was told that she would not live for more than a few7 months without the operation.


When the tumour was


tumour could not be re­ moved completely without a possibly fatal shock to the brain.. And now7 Mrs Haworth is preparing for a second operation later this year.


Due to its size, the


She frist began to feel the effects of the tumour


Mrs Delia Haworth, of


, operating time consider­ ably.


in use in this country for about a year, cuts down


> The equipment fea­ tures a hand held probe, the head of which oscil­ lates 28,000 times a second, disintegrating the tissues.


MRS HAWORTH with Simon.


three years ago, but in January her condition worsened and she began to lose her hearing and sight on the left side. Once, she was driving


parked c a r ,” Mrs Haworth said, “but it could have been much worse.” Now she cannot move


the left side of her face, not even to blink her eye. “But I’m alive which is the main thing,” she said.


through Clitheroe with her three-year-old son, Simon, when her sight suddenly went. “I almost crashed into a


had marvellous nursing care and the operation was performed by two very dedicated surgeons. I’ve nothing to grumble about.”


“I feel very lucky. I


geon Mr John Dutton and ear, nose and throat surgeon Mr Richard Ramsden earned out the 12 hour operation at Manchester Royal Infir­ mary.


Consultant neurosur­ Mr Ramsden e x ­


plained to our reporter th a t th e C avitron device, which has been


Haworth had only four days notice of her first operation, she was amazed to receive about 50 cards wishing her well.


A lth ou gh Mrs


many people got to know about it . But everyone was really nice.”


Clitheroe for almost eight years.


in


Mrs Haworth enjoys coin collecting, walking, gardening and cooking. Swimming is her other hobby, but that has been ruled out by the condi­ tion of her eye.


A former bank clerk, However, she is also


looking forward to get­ ting back behind the wheel of her new Mini Metro, bought at the be­ ginning of the year just before she was forced to give up driving.


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School sixth form, Mr Ian G. Vickers, of Brookes Lane, Whalley, has been awarded a postgraduate Certificate of Education


at St Luke’s, University of Exeter.


honours d e g r e e in mathematics he gained at the University of Shef­ field last year.


This follows the B.Sc


Whalley Methodist minis­ ter the Rev. Graham Vic­ kers and his wife, Pam, has also been awarded the Football Association’s pre­ liminary coaching certifi­ cate. He will be taking up a


Whalley six years ago, Ian was a pupil at Baines Grammar School, Poulton- le-Fylde.


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Grindleton licensee moving on


B U S IN E S S may be booming at the Duke of York Hotel, Grindleton, but licensee Mr Eddie At­ kinson has decided he will soon be pulling his last pint.


says, is youngest daugh­ ter Lucy.


And the reason, he At 19 months she is


■proving a handful with antics that includes climb­ ing on the hotel extension roof.


Mr Atkinson (44) who


. time to keep an eye on Lucy . . . she is a very active little girl that is the trouble.”


plans to leave the licens­ ing trade in September, says: “The pub is becom­ ing busier and busier and we are not having enough


Coldfield, she has lived w ith her husband, C h r is top h e r ,


Originally from Sutton


wife Nancy, who have three more daughters and two sons, will bow out after nearly four years at the Duke and three years as “mine hosts” of the Brown ■ Cow Inn, .Clitheroe, before that.


Mr Atkinson and his


Grindleton Hotel are Rosr sendale licensee Mr Tom Jones and wife Barbara, of the Farmers Glory Inn, Haslingden.


Taking over at the The Atkinsons will be


moving to Warton, near Carnforth. Eddie, who


hails from Sabden, said: “I am looking forward to a nice break and starting


off a new business. Blit I am going to leave many friends behind.”


Moved to the Waggon


NEW licensee at the Waggon and Horses, Clitheroe, is Mr Bryan Creegan. For the past two years, Mr Creegan, his wife


Christine and children Peter (15) and Kirsty (8) have been at the Bridge Inn, at Castleton, Roch­ dale. Before entering the


Cyril Walker, who with his wife Betty were at the Waggon for 17 years and who have retired from the trade.


teaching post at Glyn School, Epsom, Surrey, in September. Before coming to live in


Farmer Harry will be taking things easier


WHEN farmer Harry Bargh retires next month, it will mark the end of an era. For he decided to call it


a day after 56 years in farming — 44 of them at Horse Hey Farm, Bashall


Eaves. “There comes a time


when everyone has to


steady on a bit,” says Mr Bargh (71), who entered farming as a 14-year-old helping his father at Samuel’s Backridge Farm, Bashall Eaves. Mr Bargh moved to


Jonathan misses debut ride


Horse Hey Farm in 1938 and had seen it grow from a small concern, with a


break — I shall miss it,” says the man who belongs to a family which has farmed in Lancashire for six generations. But he will not be


stock of about 30 cows and a horse, to a herd of nearly 200 pedigree Frie- sians. “Naturally, it’s a big


giving up farming entire­ ly. For he is keeping 30 acres of land in the Ribble Valley to look after as a hobby. Mr Bargh, a founder


member of the Ribbles- dale Farmers’ Club and its first chairman, is moving to Chatbum Park Drive, Clitheroe, with his wife Joan, after giving up the tenancy of the 150- acre farm that forms part of the Worsley-Taylor estate.


WHALLEY teenager Jonathan Townson’s hopes of making his debut as a jockey were thwarted when his mount was ruled unfit for an amateur rider’s handicap hurdle because of injury.


Jonathan, son of Na­


tional Hunt trainer Mr John Townson, of Brook House Farm, went to Exeter hoping to race Charlie’s Sunshine last Thursday. But the horse had to be pulled out of the event after jarring a leg in a previous race.


“Naturally I am'disap­


pointed, but there is plenty of time. I will just carry on looking for rides,” said Jonathan, whose ambition is to be come a professional jockey and ultimately a trainer.


been his life. He can even recall the total amount of milk produced by his first Friesian, cow7 called Tarn- brook Alice..


Mr Bargh and his wife


say they will miss village life. He is a former parish


councillor, being clerk to the parish meeting at Bashall Eaves for more


l ic e n s in g tr a d e , Mr Creegan (37), was a lorry driver. He takes over from Mr


Horse Hey will be Wad- dington farmer Mr Harry Cowgill.


tee member and former se c r e ta ry of Bashall Eaves WI and was found­ er member and former treasurer of Clitheroe Lady farmers. Mr Bargh’s successor at


than 20 years. He was also a manager of the former Bashall Eaves school. Mrs Bargh is a commit­


Farming, he says, has Off to


Clitheroe 22324 (i


Rimingi


Toastmistre; P re s id e n t J


Robinson welco members and four to Rimington WI pressed thanks to had supported stall at Gisbun coffee evening.


were made for tin raft and produce August 13th in th rial Institute. News was giv


Final arrang


a social evening vest supper on Se 14th. There will audio visual pres of the travels of Stanley Jeeves, lesbury Hall, “Where the me meet the sky." T1 has been widely a and should prove entertaining. The LFWI


forthcoming food the Charter Theai ston, on 7th to l1 tember. run by th in conjunction v NFU. There will ery demonstrati food displays anc tions. Rimington WI i


Peel Street, Clitheroe, is


Canada A FORMER pupil of Clitheroe Boys’ Grammar School, Mr Andrew Gel- dard has a busy time in store later this month when he h ead s for Canada. For Andrew (22), of


B .S c d e g r e e from Swansea last year, having taken geography and American studies, has been working for Spirof- low UK in Clitheroe to fill in time before going to Canada.


A talented poet


WHERE books of al­ leged poetry by little known authors are concerned, I am a pretty caustic critic. Well, perhaps not pretty, but certainly caustic — so when re­ cently a reader passed me a booklet, “Peace on Pendle” by Lucy M. Key, I opened it without a great deal


have acquired “slim vol­ umes of verse” the con­ tents of which, on exami­ nation, proved quite ap-


of enthusiasm. From time to time I


Whalley Window


p a l l in g . The v e r s e s rhymed — well, usually — but from all other tech­ nical aspects they were, putting it mildly, quite stomach-turning.


different with “Peace on P e n d le ” . I g lan c ed through the table of con­ tents; Pendle Lanes, Near Pendleton Hall, Sawley in May, Cha tburn, Whitewell, Newton, Slaid- burn, Dunsop Bridge, Witches on Pendle and Clitheroe Castle; over 70 poems in all and so many of them inspired by the charms of our unique countryside.


It proved to be very So many held the care­


fully sculptured phrases and original thoughts that could only come from


somebody who knew our hills and valley intimately; from the heart and mind of somebody who really loved the riches of our language and knew how to use the words.


ly quickened. I read the verses and: read them again; not all quite 22 carat, of course, but so many of them 18 carat and all quite charming; not merely rhyming lines, but poems in every sense of the word.


— the date is ! not given but I would guess''some-‘ time in the early 1940s — by . the Burnley Express, so11 went right to the top and. consulted the editor' of oifr sister paper. A nice young chap (yes ,1-


Lucy M. Key, I decided; she has given me consid­ erable pleasure. I must find out more about her. The book was published


A talented poet, this My interest immediate­


time,” he told me, which I had realised before I rang him, but “I’ll see what I can dig up,” he added. Very kind of him, I thought in thanking him and I live in hope.


“A little before my


the nature of a very be­ lated review of her book and where Lucy M. Key is today I have no idea. She may have moved away from our district; 40 or so years on she could be quite an old lady or, a sad thought, this, possibly she isn’t around any more to look at old Pendle, to think her lovely thoughts and dream her lovely dreams. But wherever she is, or


This, I suppose, is in


to get out the battered old typewriter my wife gave me on our silver wedding day (and I’m not going to tell you how long ago that was) and type out some of Lucy’s poems, for the copy in my posses­ sion is on very temporary loan.


think about the verses. Anybody who writes so delightfully about our valley and the great hill,


That shows how much I


we p ermit B u rn ley , Nelson and Colne to gaze on the back side of, is certainly a friend of mine, in this world or the next.


J. F.


Piano needed


hearsals on Tuesday for “New Moon” and needs a


even fellows in their for- - ties I consider young these days), but he was unable to help me.


piano to make , things go with a swing.


Caprine Whitham' (Tel. a2o50). \


: Anyone should contac t Mrs interested.


RENTALS fro


be pleased to hear from them. The Society starts re­


they don’t want, then Clitheroe Operatic and Dramatic Society would


IF anyone has a good up­ right iron-frame piano


even if she isn’t, I would like her to know what ple­ asure her verses have given me. And if you, dear reader, happen to be the fortunate possessor of “Peace on Pendle”, trea­ sure it. As for me, I am going


to take up a post teaching geography at the Univer­ sity of Manitoba, in Win­ nipeg, as well as studying for a Master of Arts degree in the subject. Andrew, who gained a


council meeting place at King Hall, Blackburn, tober 3rd at 7-30 The speaker wa Hudson, of Glasg talked about hei wide travels and ing experiences her membership Toastmistress 1 tional Organisa'


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