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4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, March 2!,th, 19S3


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TOMBOY Biddy Hodson, of Dunsop Bridge, has always wanted to go on the stage . . . and her first step towards that ambition will be realised at the tender age of 11. For Bickly has been acting ambition goes, this


chosen to play the heroine’s cousin in “St Ur­ sula’s in danger,” an ad­ venture in the best tradi­ tion of schoolgirl comics, to be televised on BBC 2. Her chance for fame


Hth — which happens to be Biddy’s 11th birthday — and will take about is three weeks. Her mother


will either kill or cure it!” Filming starts on April


came after a television team visited Hanford School, near Blandford Forum, Dorset, to make a film in the autumn. They liked the place so


the present Clitheroe con­ stituency, will have 50,903 electors. The new boundary ar­


rangements mean that parts of the present Clitheroe constituency will be lost to the new


Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn constituencies. But Ribble Valley will gain parts of the existing Skipton and Preston con­ stituencies. The Clitheroe district


will lose Padiham, Great Harwood, Barley and other villages, including Blacko, Fence, New- church, Altham, Foul- ridge and Higham. It will gain Wadding- ton, West Bradford,


‘ they returned to film the sequel to “Schoolgirl chums,” shown on TV the weekend


Christmas. Biddy, who is the


before


younger daughter of Major and Mrs K. M. Hodson, of Mill House, and granddaughter of the late Col. and Mrs L. C. King-Wilkinson, has acted in school plays before, but nothing like this.


Newton, Grindleton, Slaidburn, Billington, Langho, the Fulwood area of Preston and other parishes, among them Grimsargh, Goosnargh, Haighton and Whittin- gham.


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volve much speaking, but there is plenty of . action, in which Biddy is involved throughout. She even has. the chance to perform some Shakespeare as Ariel in “The Tempest,” the school play at St Ur­ sula’s.


Her part does not in­


the school, so Biddy is very lucky to have been given the part,” said her mother. “As far as her


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spend the first two weeks of filming with her during the school holidays.


travelling to Dorset to


much that they decided to write in a small part for one of the pupils when


Think


bike MOTORISTS in the Ribble Valley are re­ minded to “think bike” as spring approaches and the lighter nights are here. Mr Colin E v e re t t ,


Clitheroe 22324


a m v a J * * * r n m i g o m t a m m


Farms days as an inn


OUR recent note about the “legend” of the name tn Bounty” — ancl


‘Hark to Bounty the letter from a reader describing it as ludicr­ ous” _ has prompted an


Bellman was one of John Peel’s hounds, as were


Mrs Collinson says that


“Bounty” and “Towler. There is a “Hark to Towler” inn at Leigh.


• “Our farmhouse, origi­


after the present Chat- burn Road was completed in 1827 and received its first licence in that year,


she says. “ I t was, for many


county council road safety organiser for the area, asks for particular care because of the increased number of young cyclists who will be on the l'oad d u r in g th e coming months. Figures show that 11


child cyclists in the Ribble Valley were injured last spring and summer, one of them seriously. This compares with no


nally called ‘Hardhill, _ became the ‘Bellman Inn


interesting note fi-om Mrs Ruth Collinson, of Bell­ man Farm, Clitheroe.


Fresh


challenge LICENSEE Mr Derek A’ Lee has left behind a 15th- century pub to take on a fresh challenge in the Ribble Valley. Mr A’ Lee (42), his wife


years, the only house bet- ween the Clitheroe bound- ary stone and Chatburn


BONUS FOR TWO GOOD IDEAS


TWO w o rk e rs at Clitheroe’s ICI plant have made themselves some cash by saving thfeir firm money! The men with the ideas


cycle accidents involving children during the latter part of 1982. Mr Everett asks motor­


ists to allow young cyc­ lists adequate room when overtaking them, particu­ larly where they are riding with friends.


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company use grade oil in machines.


are Bill Schofield (63), of Ribblesdale Square, Chat- burn, a mechanical ser­ viceman (on the right of our picture) and Les Young (54), a fitter, of Meadowside, Grindleton. Bill received £397 for his suggestion that the


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a lighter pelleting


buy and requires less time to be spent on changes.


cheques from works’ man­ ager Mr Jim Johnstone who said the awards rep­ resented 50 per cent sav­ ings in their first year. He was grateful for the


They received their


improvement in efficiency that the suggestions had brought about.


The oil is cheaper to


idea of reusing wearing p la te s on p e l le t in g machines.


Les won £238 for his


Road end. “Later the inn name


was changed to “The Hark To Bellman.” Inci­ dentally, the fox hounds used to travel on the ti'ain from Bolton to Chatburn Station and then walk to meet at Bellman Inn.”


that the house has three cellars, one with the open­ ing where barrels would be slid down, lots of stone slabs and an arched ceil­ ing full of hooks.


Mrs Collinson tells us


the corner and stone spiral stairs leading to a walled-up doorway.


Another has a spring in


somewhere, has a photo­ graph showing the house when it was an mn. If so, I’d love to see it,” she adds.


“ Perhaps someone,


Ann and th e i r two daughters are settling in as the new hosts of the P e t re Arms Hotel, Langho, following their move from the historic St Mary’s Vaults, Stamford. Mr A’ Lee, licensee for


Q/.


seven-and-a-half years at the Lincolnshire pub, said he wanted the challenge of working-in a more rural environment. “The Petre has just as


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Clitheroe 22321


w i th


CONSl


much character in its own way,” he said. Mr A’ Lee — the name


is Cornish but he hails from Monton, near Eccles — has been in the cater­ ing business for about 25 years. He was general man­


ager for a catering firm in York before entering the licensing trade 16 years


ago.


running a pub is a “25- houn-a-day job” leaving little time for hobbies, but when he has a spare moment he enjoys playing golf and has a handicap of 16..


As Mr A’ Lee says, Lending a helping hand


PUPILS of Bowland School have been busy over the past few months raising about £500 for charity.


members of the Bowland Helpers’ Club have been aiming to raise £250 to sponsor a guide dog for


Since the autumn term,


the blind, ing last


school raised £80, passing the target.


A coffee even- week at the


also taken food parcels to some residents of Sawley. Over £100 was raised


Club members have


for the Blue Peter Dialy­ sis Appeal when fifth-year


pupils held a sponsored netball shoot and a spon­ sored silence. First-year pupils raised


£58 for the Royal National Institute for the Blind, ‘ and £56 was given to the Ribble Valley^Hospice Appeal from a collection at the Christmas carol


Better in the workhouse


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Chipping and Ribchester and there might well have been many others.


cottages, I think, with a handful of more impo’sing homes and — perhaps this wall be news to you — just a few yards from


A lovely cluster of trim


W h a l l e y W i n d o w


some pretty horrific pic­ tures of workhouses in Victorian days — Oliver Twist had a miserable childhood in one of them, you will remember — and films and television have shown us what grim places many of them were, but I find it difficult to accept that conditions so primitive and cold hearted could ever have prevailed in our Lanca­ shire countryside.


Charles Dickens painted


If they did, then I’m pretty certain they must


distinction in our country­ side, of course. I have sim told you previously of


ilar establishments in


have been staffed by “foreigners.” The likes of Mr Bumble would be hard to find among our native Ribblesdalians. E x a c t ly what th e


Holden establishment was like, I have scant informa-


am getting to the ideal age for being “mugged" — following a visit to a London theatre I hurried through side streets and back streets to catch the Tube. I was shocked and appalled at some of the dreadful sights that met my eyes. Huddled in corners,


lying on the cold pave­ ments, covered with newspapers and odd scraps of packaging were the most miserable of humans trying to snatch a few hours’ sleep. Ragged, tattered and totally de­ crepit they were, and this on a night when I shi­ vered in a thick scarf and overcoat. One or two of these


tion, but an experience in London some months ago compelled me to revise my thoughts a little on workhouses in general. Foolishly, perhaps — I


SEE O U l WITH MP| AT UNBElf


KING BLACt


outcasts, the dregs of hu­ manity, were more fortu­ nate than others. They lay on grids in the pave­ ment which provided the ventilation for the rear basement kitchens of posh restaurants above. From these ventilators


\Knm


there came not only the most appetising of smells but also great waves of warmth — meagre com­ fort, perhaps for the tat­ tered wrecks lying on the cold iron gratings. A mis­ erable, miserable sight that kept sleep at bay for many hours after I put my head on the pillow. Workhouses were elimi­


PHEASAl A fashion upholsterl


3-SEATEl


nated for good and ever, it was said, when I was still a young man; their depar­ ture was hailed with satis­ faction on all sides, but now I began to wonder. Was this the right- deci­ sion, particularly where casual vagrants were con- cerned? Surely, I thought, the


pitiful 'creatures lying on the streets of London would ■ have been far better off in a warm bed, however 'drab the sur­ roundings, however hard the mattress. I, see little wrong in


following.morning! • ‘ As- the . old . watchman


think; chums?” L • * ■ 5 ’ ’ J . F .


P '


d r e ! (illust MIRtf


HOU| MOh


asking them to “pay” for their nights’ ' rest, with a 1 couple of hours’ work the


used , to say in .“Monday N ig h t-a t Eight” (re­ member' the old steam radio?) , “What do you


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