8 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, May 3rd, 198b


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PERHAPS fittingly in view of the district’s new reliance on the in­ dustry, Cleveland Guest (Engineering) Ltd has one of the biggest dis­ plays a t the Trades Fair.


stands and is matched in size by another com­ pany which represents an even more recent- trend, Nelson Glass Co Ltd. This is a firm which has built itself up d u r in g a period when home renovation , has been an important - feature of moves to get -


I t has taken four Mixconcrete Ltd (Member of the International Pioneer Group)


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Ltd has taken three stands, reflecting its stake in local industry, and there are several other textile displays. . These include the Bell Woven Label Co Ltd, which -has three stands as well, the East Lan­ c a sh ire T ow e l . Co., Libra Textiles and Em­ press Mills.


try is still here, an im­ portant employer still, and sending goods all over the world. C. V. Woven Fabrics


proprietors of a range of industrial; units at th e fo rm e r U t t le y ’s Mill, Nelson, also have three stands. Other exhibitors in­ clude Farmhouse Bis­


Glenfield Park, the ''


the best from the local environment. But the textile indus­


and textiles


cuits, Outline Engrav­ ing, Eureka Products, Brierfield Nurseries, Progress Engineering, Timbercraft, Glasdon, Burnley and Pendle Joint Transport Com­ mittee, Edenhall Con- - crete Products, PTE, Asquith Electrics, the council’s Leisure Ser­ vices and Planning arid Development depart­ ments, Fort Vale En­ g in e e r in g , LBS Polythene, Spaw Publi­ c a t io n s , L an c a sh ire M ic ro f i lm , E . A. F o u ld s , T h o rn to n ' Blinds, G. B. Shelving, Pendle Power Pipes, Sankey’s, Colin Blafcey Galleries, Bronte Car­ pets, A lipa t Crafts, Pendle Travel Services, P. and J. Jones and P en d le Communica­ tions.


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one of the most impres­ sive displays of all — th a t o f Coachwork C o n v e rs io n s , which makes l ig h t vehicle, bodies for a wide range of public undertakings and private firms.


And outside will be


. will certainly be aiming to make sales direct to visitors to the trade fair, or at least inspire thoughts of sales to come. i; Others are exhibiting


partly out of loyalty to the area, and partly to show local people what they do, although their own markets are miles away.


goods , on show is a good indication of the effort Peridle people have gone to in diver­ sifying the area’s in­ dustrial base.


The very range of


’ have local customers. But there are “cot­


P ro d u c ts make and market floor sanding machines from pre­ mises in Nelson, while PTE L td , based in Colne, is in the train­ ing weights and equip­ ment field. Both will


For instance, Eureka


. makes and markets a wide range of soft toys. s ta lls were made av­


ailable to exhibitors on Tuesday, and all have spent many hours 'of . work on their displays.


ta g e ” industries ex­ hibitors too —• for inst­ ance, A lipa t C raf ts


Some o f th e ex ­ hibitors are firms who


ommercial Vehicle Bodybuilders •N


PENDLE makes it all right — from sophisti­ cated products for the aero industry to biscuits, from intricately woven labels for a myriad of purposes to sweets, from . Pendle witch models to specialist vehicle bodies.


. dustries’l . existed as re­ cently as 30 years : ago, and hardly any were here before the war. .


: have.


dustries have not turned Pendle into a . pocket Utopia, an oasis of unre­ lieved joy in the North - East Lancashire desert. No one pretends they


Of course, the new in­


ers to think we are un-_ realistic or complacent ’ — \ve do fervently hope that they will see how1 we have tackled our problems and feel that they might like to bring new industries to join us.


' We don’t want outsid­


they come to the conclu­ sion that we have done just that bit better than s u r ro u n d in g p la ce s which started with more advantages, why, we shall put modesty to one side and agree with -them!


On the other hand, if ,


finer tr ib u te to the area’s people and to its' natural resilience in the face of the tortured death throes of textiles that few of the “new in-


And there could be no hy TIM PROCTER


and moved to engineer­ ing, plastics, furniture, and a myriad other in­ dustries as the ground, collapsed under poor King Cotton.


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. children following them into the trade — in­ stead, they, went into others, notably engineer­ ing, where for years there were numerous ap­ prenticeships to.be had. Even those without


on the wall for the mills for so ..long, many pa­ rents had stopped their


But with the writing


benefit of a formal train­ ing had many oppor­ tunities to learn. And many of those displaced by mill closures found that- they were much handier than they ex­ pected at adapting to the previously unheard of skills demanded by the new industries coming into the area.


. Tales of the strict way mills. used to be run have certainly been em­ bellished in the telling, but there is no doubt that generations of local workpeople were used to a disciplined environ- . ment — and their realis­ tic view that what’s good for the boss is probably:


food for them too has ’


Pendle’s ■ Planning and Development Officer, ; sees what he calls “the quality of the- local economic ; environment”.’ e. as a: fundamental factor '• in the council’s work in both helping existing in-' dustnes arid attracting - new ones. The best evi-, dence that can be of- . fered for its quality, he points out, is the establ­ ishment and growth of such a wide variety of industries and enter­ prises over the past 30 years. F o r Pendle -really


Mr Richard Kirby,-;


means business — a point underlined by the fact that although only a third of Britain’s work­ ers are employed in ac­ tually making goods, in Pendle the proportion is two thirds, a very sub­ stantial difference iril statistical terms. There’s no doubt that


fenerous grant aid, Pen- le’s most valuable busi-


ness asset is its work­ force! A proportion started working life in the mill


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despite its wide range of industrial premises, its new motorway links and its worthwhile if not


GLYNIS POWIS, OfficeKanaget (7 yea.o Pendle Trave!j^


tion for, a - co-operative approach and high pro­ ductivity.


elped give, us a reputa­


• A l th o u g h we a re proud enough of the new in d u s t r ia l buildings which ;reflect;:! consider- •


able new investment .in the area, it’s-true to say that the ; mill heritage left ’ u s . not only with a solid, dependable work- force, but with equally valuable working space as well.


tour round Pendle’s in­ dustrial areas shows an incredible variety of manufacturing, businesr ses working away where once the looms clattered. Well over half the ex­


A quick mind’s-eye


.their relative. cheapness : — became - more' and more realised and now th e re is v ery- l i t t le former mill space - left anywhere. '


hibitors at the Trades F a i r , fo r in s ta n c e , ' occupy former textile premises!


. And nearly all the old mills have been exten­ sively renovated, in both works and office areas, with many ingenious ways of removing the iron stanchions / which were a feature of most weaving sheds;


as though we would become an area of ghost­ ly mills ro ttin g into decay, as has happened in some other areas. :


At one time it seemed But then the potential


ment to us that some-, national firms who have come here have built their own premises from ■ scratch, .and if. we have a complaint, it is that so : few firms have come.to_ offer technical, degree-! standard employment to , our'university educated young p eo p le . '/T h is week’s fair might just : impress : any such firm 1 enough to make it look hard at what we have to offer. _ .


But it’s 1 also a compli- ' ,i, ■ Now” may we -hope . . .


that , this ambitious. and pioneering Trades. Fair will draw our virtues to wider attention and help us c o n so l id a te . an d 1 indeed expand our al­ ready considerable in­ dustrial achievements? ; .


A thanks to the ladies!


SEX_ equality has long been a feature of working life m this area, with women as an important feature of the textile industry’s workforce.


, Although, for many years i t . has been skilled' engineers., whose services have been at a premium locally, women,workers, were also in great demand- — at least until the'recent recession. . - -


industries has been of benefit to wives as well as to their husbands. In fact, several large firms which' have come into the area decided to do so,because of' the availability of large numbers of women used to operating machinery such as looms.


The change-over to a great variety of different , > ■


, Although things are now looking up,' we still have ar! nvanable pool of workers for firms coming in, with better road communications making it worth-' while for some to travel a distance. Those whose job _ it is to. publicise our assets .


always make a point of the reputation of our workforce — men and women!


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CHANGING f more flexible merit legislator it wider pow helped the loca offer more aacti in d u s t ry tha before.


' in-them and then sion plans and ho


were very mucl when pressure on the Govemr over a decade speed up the c the, motorway area.


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