‘1 CUtheroc Advertiser and Times. March 17th, 19S.1
Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified)
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A FORMER Clitheroe woman, Mrs Sue Join- son, is the inspiration behind a £75,000 appeal launched in Lancashire to buy a “supersonic scalpel” — the headline-making tool for operating on brain and spinal tumours. Sue’s husband Tony, a
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43-year-old . sales man ager, who was also born in the town, survived a series of operations to remove a brain tumour, but in a cruel twist of fate, last November, fell victim to an infection. Sue, who as Sue Carus,
attended Pendle Junior and Ribblesdale . Schools, vowed to repay the dedi cated medical team. With a donation of £250
she started off an appeal to buy a machine for the Royal Preston Hospital, the only neurological unit
cial name is the Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical As pirator — works by vib ra t in g xhe tip of a titanium probe 23,000 times a second, melting away tumours but leaving healthy tissue unharmed. One was used recently
in the county, but it was on loan, as there are only nine machines for use throughout Britain. The NHS cannot afford one for Lancashire. Sue’s idea was taken up
of commercial vehicle dealers and lives at Nook- field, Leyland.
.individuals. “One child has had to
the people of this area are when it comes to a good cause, Sue is hoping that the appeal will be adopted by local organisations and
Knowing how generous
by our sister paper, the Lancashire Evening Post, and the appeal has al ready passed the half-way mark. Sue was married at St
Paul’s Church, Low Moor. At the time she lived in Kemple View, and Tony’s
Accrington and then Lytham, before moving to Fairfield Drive; Clitheroe, where they remained until five years ago. Their son, Steven (19) was born in Clitheroe,
home was in Whalley Road, Pendleton. They went to live at
• another person has had the operation carried out in Dundee, on borrowed equipment.
sh ire have i ts own machine?” she asks.
go to the United States for an operation, causing his parents to go into debt,” says Sue. “And
daughter, Sara (12),. is secretary to the managing director of a Preston firm
Brookside School. Sue, who also has a
Clitheroe, and licensee Mr Gordon Miller had plenty to celebrate the
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Anyone interested in
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reference books were printed before the new dates were ap proved by Parliament last November and in accurately give March 20th as the start of summer time. In fact, clocks go
IF YOUR diary is one of the many that gives Sunday as the start of summer time, ignore it and wait another week. Some diaries and
forward an hour a t .l a.m. on March 27th. Make a note that it
will be clocks back on October 23rd.
Campaign for Real Ale, presented the pub with a certificate to mark its appearance — for the 10th consecutive year under the same tenancy — in the Good Beer
Guide.The certificate now has pride of place in the Thwai t e s pub,
other dag. For CAMRA,
the
CHEERS! Regulars of th e
years. Out o f the 6,0.00
where Mr Miller has been for nearly 11
, real ale, only 200 have been selected to receive special certificates and of them only three are from the north west. In our, picture, Mr
named in the CAMRA guide for their services to the preservation of
Remnants of
station’s past
Miller (centre) displays ■ the certificate, to the delight of some of his regulars and members of CAMRA.
Aiming to bring riding lessons nearer home
FEELING sorry for local children who had to travel at least seven miles from Clitheroe for riding lessons, Mrs Susan Hanson, of West Bradford, decided to start her own stables. Mrs Hanson, who lives attract a wide range of
with her husband Roger age groups. and eight-year-old daugh ter Claire at Hillside
Drive, will open her the right sort of horses riding school with eight for novices to learn on,” horses at Eaves House Farm, Waddington, on March 26th.
‘I have travelled all over Lancashire to buy
she said. Mrs Hanson would also
a yard from the farmer, Mr James Aspin, and aim to make riding as much fun as possible.”
She said: “I have rented
riding and hacking ■ and will take students on two- hour rides and picnic rides. They will also be able to learn to drive with a trap.
She will teach basic
p re s e n t a p a r t- tim e teacher at Chatburn CE School, says she hopes to
Mi's Hanson, who is at
like to provide riding facilities for the disabled at some time in the future. She has had a lifelong
interest in horses and helped at Readwood Stables, Read, for 14 years, when she lived in a cottage nearby. Mrs Hanson has won
WHEN Jane Priestley started looking for damp and rot in the ceiling of one of the waiting rooms at Whalley’s - disused Mitton Road railway sta-. tion, she literally stepped into a time tunnel taking her back over 100 years.
space fluttered a batch of delivery and luggage tick ets from 1882 when steam trains used the line.
have suffered little and are still in very good con
The century-old papers
dition. Some of the delivery
notes feature details of cargoes, such' as bales of . cotton, reminding us that Lancashire used to be the heart of the cotton in dustry.
of “parchment” were de tails of a delivery made by the Whalley Abbey printing works at Barrow, which in 1931 during the depression shifted its dyeing and printing oper ations to Cheshire.
On one particular piece
the station’s past need only one thing . . . a home.
prizes in many local riding events. Last year she came third in the com bined driving event at Gisburn and fourth in a similar event at Holker Hall, Cartmel.
A magical place
“NOW,” said the Commonwealth vis itors recently in the village, “We’ve been all round your Ribble Valley and it’s just lovely. We just love your cute little fields. We have nothing like them in Ontario. Now what is the most in teresting spot you can send us to for a real nice half-day trip before we move south?”
our own village and borough — they’d been here almost a fortnight — so I didn’t hesitate. I sent them to.Wycoller. I wonder if you know
Well, they’d exhausted
, — and when I first visited there, many years ago I was completely capti vated. Irrepressibly, I was re
it? It lies just beyond Colne — a further three or four miles into the hills
Whalley Window
down; doors hung drunk- enly on broken hinges, windows were shattered, weeds flourished on state less roofs; once trim gar dens had ceased to exist. Today it is very diffe rent. Obviously, much
minded of Goldsmith’s. “Deserted Village.” Apart from a few. rubber-necks like myself, the . hamlet
provided a splendid car park off the only negoti able approach and you
to drive into the narrow main, and only, street. The County Council has
careful restoration has been undertaken and the in te re s t s ta r ts even before you enter the village. You are not permitted
been an affluent little place. Every house, liter ally every house, was quaint and interesting and some had obviously once known grandeur. Now they were tumble
really was deserted. Clearly, it had once
must leave your car there' and complete your ap proach on shanks’s pony. - Look into the fields on
separated from each other by the dry stone walls or thorn hedges you might expect, but by, great slabs of roughly-hewn stones set perpendicularly edge to edge. Nobody can say with
lage where many, of the houses have now. been lovingly restored and al though Wycoller; Hall itself (thought by many to have proyided the inspira tion for Charlotte Brontes “Ferndean Manor”) will never return to its former magnificence,: enough re mains to enable the vis . itor to visualise its one-
other than the natural beauty of the valley, what else is there to see in . Wycoller?
time opulence. The houses apart, and
the quaintest bridges you will ever encounter; a clam bridge, a' clapper bridge, a two-arched pac- khorse bridge — each one a part of yesterday!s England. Have I finished? No,
You will see some of
no, no! I could go on for hours.
people responsive to psychic influences and visit Wycoller late on a wet, stormy night, you might well meet a ghost. The village is reputed to have several; one and the most'terrible, a headless, frenzied horseman who gallops • madly down the street to the ruined hall' on a horse as unsubstan tial as himself. Have I seen one of
If you are one of those
:in Wycoller that is very, very; strange -—
SEE-the ghosts, you can , feel them all-around you. ■ Go and meet them for
very different. V . . If you don’t - actually
r- very, yourself. ,vV. J. F. i
course, and probably would be seared halfway to death, but must confess the magic of the place has quite enraptured me. ’■ , ■ Therq is an atmosphere
certainty how old they are, where the stones were quarried, who drag ged them to their present positions; but they come close to being unique. • Move down to the vil
your right as you walk down the pretty lane. Certain of these are not
up a centre for transport studies in the building, is hoping that any train museums interested might contact her to,pick up the pieces.
And Jane, who has set
Proposing to extend area
of beauty
’ negotiations to have parts of Worston, Mearley and Pendleton included in the Bowland Forest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. . The Commission, is to
THE Countryside Com mission is continuing
Cal
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Now these remnants of For out of the roofing
and a ra~ Chippin raised £32
Playgr The sale
along, wi Hall at th £42 for Ch Theatrical winners Howarth Mrs W. PI and Mrs H
Singal An old-
stay-at-hon f toddlers ti
Mums An opr
Mother Group will Thursday, p.m. The charge of 5 hire of tin freshments
a month i ised in Chij The first
or a social
Charnley ; girls can the age of
graduating 10.
drive orga
Pony cl A whist
the village raised ovei ping Browi Brown C
Browni A coffei
in the Pendle area was drawn up prior to the con struction of the new A59 and follows a minor road to the east of the bypass. ' The Commission be lieves that the _A59 would make a strong boundary t to the Pendle section of
he area.
Totem signs
of the station — Clitheroe or Blackburn — printed boldly on it . . . similar to the real signs on plat forms.
signs ai-e available at 30p each from the CPRE Centre, Samlesbury Hall, Samlesburyl
The vinyl self-adhesive • ■ New chief
these strange spectres myself? No, I must be ‘ frank; 1 haven’t. I would love to, 'o f
: the - Police, Force as a cadet in Newcastle 35 years ago.
ranks to . .become Detec tive . Chief Inspector at Tyneside in 1969, was promoted Assistant Chief Constable of Northumbria in 1977 and .Deputy Chief Constable of Lancashire . last year. ■ ' Mr "Johnson (50), a keen
He rose' through the , '
NEWLY-appointed Chief Constable of Lancashire is the present deputy, Mr Brian Johnson, who joined
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White on a maroon back ground, are each lOin. long and ideal for display in windows.' Each sign has the name
AS part of its campaign to reintroduce passenger services on, the Clitheroe to Blackburn lines, the Lancashire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England is busy producing miniature sta tion totem signs. The signs, which are all •
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submit a formal designa tion order to the Secret ary of State for the Envi- ■ ronment for his confirma tion. The original boundary
football supporter, is(mar-■ ried witEWd daughters.
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