4 ClitheroeAdvertiser and Times, April 28th, 1983
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Tea towels galore not for drying
“LIKE Topsy, it just growed.” Such can be said of a tea towel collection belonging to Mrs Jenny Gomall, of Church View, Gisburn.
her honeymoon in the Isle of Man, that Mrs Gomall saw a couple of tea towels she liked and bought them. Since then, she has
It was 13 years ago, on
round & about
lid each — most these days are about £1.50, and some have cost £2. They range from animal pic tu r e s to ones com-
kept adding to her collec tion and now she has some 200, all different. Those first ones cost 3s
. nail’s friends go on holi day they are always cer tain to. bring her back a
memorating special events, such as the Royal wedding. Many are from abroad, for whenever Mrs Gor-
. tea towel. She likes to keep her
— who is a cleaner at the New Inn, Gisburn — lends a part of her collec tion for display, she always makes sure they are freshly ironed. She has decorated halls
collection in pristine con dition, so she uses plain tea towels to dry the dishes. Whenever Mrs Gomall
Circle stands for fun, family
and friendship
NEW chairman of Clitheroe Ladies’ Circle is Mrs Kathleen Eastwood, of St •Pauls Close;
great deal of community work and fund-raising for charities. However, Mrs ■ Eastwood believes that members should re- .member that involvement in the Circle means fun, friendship and family. In addition to support
time clerical officer at Clitheroe Health Centre, has been a member for about eight years. The group carries out a
Low Moor. Mrs Eastwood, a part-
ing local charities, she has decided to help the “Lan c a sh ire Life Save r Appeal” in particular. Mrs Eastwood has for
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with them for functions, most recently the village’s Festival Hall for the WI Craft and Hobbies exhibi tion, when they came in for much admiration. Her husband Edgar and
son Antony (11) don’t quite know what to make of her unusual hobby. But whenever Mr Gornall sees an attractive tea towel, he buys it for her. Mrs Gornall, secretary
of Gisbum WI and the village’s representative
for the NSPCC and poppy appeal organiser, plans to keep on adding to her col lection. But it will be hard to
New High
beat her favourites — a little fox dressed in a hunting outfit and *a view of Paris.
Sheriff A NEW High Sheriff for Lancashire has been sworn in. Mr Leonard Broughton, a former County Council chairman and Conservative Group leader, takes, over the office.
Thanks for,
hard work RETIRING Ribble Valley councillor Jimmy Fell, of Whalley, has been thank ed for his work over the years by th e - village parish council. At last week’s meeting,
“the ir chairman, Miss Pauline Wilkinson, who is standing for re-election, for her hal'd work. Miss Wilkinson praised
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his significant contribution to public life and affairs in the Ribble Valley, in par ticular to Whalley, was praised. Councillors also thanked
many years been a friend of Mrs Sue Joinson, the inspiration behind the appeal launched to buy a “supersonic scalpel” — a tool for operating on brain and spinal tumours. Mrs Joinson started off
an appeal to buy a machine for the Royal Preston Hospital and the idea was taken up by the Lancashire Evening Post. Although the target has been met, the appeal is continuing to raise money for further equipment. Mrs Eastwood and her
Musical
comedy A MUSICAL comedy “Zip goes a million” is the choice for Calderstones Revue and Dramatic Soci ety’s latest show. The musical, produced
husband, Brian, an auto electrician at Burnley, have two children, Philip (14) and Paul (11). She is closely connected
with St Paul’s Church, Low Moor. Other Circle officers
are: Mrs Sheila Hailwood (vice-chairman), Mrs Anne Bailey (secretary), Mrs Hilary Evans (trea surer) and Mrs Elizabeth Watkins (community ser vice convenor).
Regulations
the councillors and vice- chairman Geoffrey Mitch ell, and also those retiring — Mrs Ada Smithson and Arthur Pearson — for their support and work.
art ART lovers in Lancashire have a wonderful oppor tunity to view the work of some of the world’s finest abstract artists including Picasso, Matisse, Leger and Miro. The Long Gallery at
Abstract
■ Copies can be obtained free of charge from offices of the Lancashire County Trading Standards De partment and will be av ailable shortly at local lib ra r ie s and , Citiz en s ’ Advice Bureaux.
on labelling TO explain regulations de aling with the date mark ing provisions on prepack ed foods and the identities of- food additives, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has produced a booklet enti tled “Look at the label.”
Theatre
Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham,
will.be the set ting for an Arts Council loan exhibition, on Wed nesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 2 to 6 p.m., from May 7th to 29th. The exhibition includes
drawings, original prints and photographs from the. Art Council’s own collec tions, reflecting the way abstract art has developed over the past 70 years. ,• It features the work of
some contemporary Brit ish artists, including Ben Nicholson, Victor Pass- more, Bridget Riley and Patrick Caulfield.
first Tuesday of each month at the Briton’s Pro tection Hotel, at the corner of Lower Mosley. Street and Great Bridge- water Street, Manchester, and is looking for hand bills, programmes and o th e r
Hall Association wants to hear from readers with an interest in any branch of live theatre before 1970. The group meets on the
memorabilia CALLING Clitheroe theatre huffs. Manchester’s Music
memorabilia. th e a t r e
by John Griffin, is to be staged from May 10th to 14th at the hospital. A cast of 40 are in
volved in the production, which is set in America and on an island in the Pacific.
Advice on
business THINKING of going into
business? Then a Business Advice Night organised by Lancashire County Council may be of interest to you. It is being held at the
Saxon Inn, Yew Tree Drive, Preston New Road, Blackburn, on April 28th, between 5 and 8-30 p.m. It is aimed specifically
THE band Own Lam ment was away whe whistle-s Clitheroe 0:
tery weatl and office ' a lunchtime out to hear a performa gate, befor Market Pla
But desj
Mayor, Co Clegg, wa: plaud and i smen to a afterwards Parlour.
The Ri
was played ing tunes of friendsh numbers s from MAS around the
A wide v
at people who are contem plating setting up a small business, perhaps using redundancy money, and for those who have al ready taken the plunge and require further help and advice. : Experienced consul tants will be in attendance to offer advice on all as pects, including finance, personnel, tax incentives, accommodation and plan ning.
First in fashion
SLAIDBURN Young Farmers’ Club member Elizabeth Robinson has been awarded first place in a county fashion com petition. Elizabeth (19), of Smal-
to design an evening outfit suitable for . a summer holiday , in the contest, which was held at Penwortham. 1 She works as a clerk for an accountant. .
den House Farm, near Bolton-by-Bowland, had
Council manages bank
SOME people might consider it a promo tion; the-Environmen tal Health Officer (im pressive title, ' that!) for the Ribble Valley Council is now a bank manager.
no charges to depositors, provides a round-the-clock . service and can prove a - considerable asset
to.the borough if people can be induced to take advantage of the facility it provides.
It is a bank that makes
'sorted and re-used whole; they have to be broken up and pulverised .before ac ceptance by. the proces sing plants. Thus_vast numbers . of - Bottles are necessary before the exer cise becomes a money making proposition. That being said, now
outlay, secondly the stor age of the retrieved con tents, the cost of trans porting these to the pro cessing plants and the considerable labour in volved. ‘ Contrary -to popular, belief, the bottles are not
bottle bank on the Booth’s car park, Clitheroe, and it is true to say we would have had . such a bank years ago but for one fact. Bottle banks, cost money and, in many instances, t are hot a viable proposi There is first the capital
It is, of course, the ion. . ..
Whqlley Window
rations of the larger towns and cities collected the domestic refuse by horse and cart (it was still collected, by these means when I was a boy in Clitheroe) and • then deli vered, it to official dumps.
. Here scavengers were employed for a few cop pers. a week to sort out the bottles, scraps of metal, bones, leather and other items of rubbish for re-sale to the manufactur e rs of : various com modities.
- Then the Industrial Re solution ; gained > momen-' turn; sales declined as new manufacturing techniques reduced' production 1 costs' and the whole “scaveng ing” system was changed.. By, mid-Victorian’’ days
cils involved were able to pay-for the collection ser vice and even make a handsome profit by this system.' Ashes and. straightforward dust were used- in roadmaking schemes and . the .whole was a very laudable idea.
. Indeed the astute coun
emerges the' strange, fact that salvaging bottles and other items of rubbish for re-sale is nothing new; it . was common practice ■ in
municipalities as far back as the late 18th century. In those days the corpo
mind boyhood days in Clitheroe when a well- known local personality, Lucy Lawrence, an un kempt, tattered, frankly dirty, old tramp of a woman, could frequently be found seated on a high step in York Street, adja cent to the White Lion Hotel, munching scraps of stale bread and. sorting out her rags and other rubbish. .. She was reputed to live
day’s rubbish dumps, long disused, have now become an El Dorado- for collec tors of antique bottles and other examples of Vic torians. Some thousands of enthusiasts spend their leisure time digging on disused-municipal tips and larger authorities even charge an admission fee for the privilege. All of which brings to
course, it all goes “on the rates.” Yet, strangely; yester
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: her tumbledown .shack on the tip with , the scraps of -mouldy food -we some times observed her chew
' tween us , and walked by with apprehension, look ing ‘straight ahead: arid fearful of the “evil eye.” We often wondered'how ' she managed to survive in
oh the Pimlico tip and we youngsters regarded- her as a witch! We put the width.of the pavement be-
the whole -of the domestic ■: and industrial rubbish was taken to tips'and dumped; -, the new,, system cost; money' and ’today, of
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-’trove long, before - today’s bottle collectors. ’ • •
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ring. What was the even- ; tual fate.-, of this’ pathetic •old woman 'I never, knew. ■Perhaps, Lucy had:disco vered the tip • treasure
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was band Howson, Chipping, been in th nine years in the bar seven.
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