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4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, January 5th-198i


Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising)'. Bumley 22331 .(Classified) . . ■ T . ' ' ■


Derek’s studies lead to degree


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CLITHEROE. Conservative Club steward Mr Neville Mitchell is planning a return to football . . . as a scout for his old club, Bolton Wan­ derers.


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IT was a proud moment ' for former Ribble Valley Labour councillor Mr Derek Akker when he stepped up. to- collect his MA degree in Social and - Community. ' ■ Work . Studies.


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the degree diploma was none other * than former. Labour Prime - Minister Sir Harold Wilson.


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Bury with his wife Susan and sons Simon and Matthew. He studied- for his degree as a day stu­ dent at- Bradford Univer­ sity.


.former pupil of Ribbles- dale School and now works in Rochdale for the Children’s Society as leader-of a community project.


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Lucy Akker, of Bawd-’ lands, Clitheroe, he is a


The son of Harry and Mr Akker (37);lives in-


former job of seeking out talent for the famous Lan­ cashire club after retiring as1 steward at the - end of- January with; HVh -years, service behind him. ■; Mr Mitchell, ?, who hails


He aims to take up his ’


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from Little:. Lever,, near Bolton, was an inside-for-!. ward for- the Wanderers and a scout from 1953 to 1965.


Hurst and Roger Kenyon, made their names as. Everton stars.: • Mr Mitchell’s likely return to scouting, which will be on a part-time basis, follows 25 years in the licensing trade. He is standing down as


Two of his “finds”, John .


■ age. A successor has been appointed. Mr Mitchell,- who lives


steward because he has reached. 65 — retirement


.with his wife Alice in a flat at .the Castle Street dub, said he would miss people’s company. . • /A m o n g the visitors,-he ‘ has welcomed as steward a re former P remier Edward Heath in 1973 and snooker celebrity Alex Higgins, who took on John Virgo there. Mr Mitchell said of his


“retirement”: “I have got on' very well with every­ one and we are staying in Clitheroe.”


Exchanging lbs for £s ,


i FIGHTING, the flab and winning! That’s Clitheroe woman Mrs Jessyca Wilson, who is losing'lbs


-■ eggs, fresh fruit and exer­ cise.


/-■ However, Mrs Wilson did break her diet over-


(where she has helped trim her figure by weight lifting. “Already clothes .are be­ ginning to hang better,” she said, “and. I’ve lost three- inches -from- my waistline.’”


diet, Mrs Wilson has at­ tended. Lee C a r te r ’s health studio in Clitheroe


Since starting on the


-Christmas and enjoyed tucking into just about ev- ' erything — except Christ-


-slim in-November, when she weighed 15 and a half stone, Mrs Wilson, of. Moss Street, has lost a staggering-171b. ■ Her winning recipe in­ cludes plenty of boiled


Since beginning the ... RUTH’S book.


: mas pudding 'which she ; does not like.


' reach 12 and a half stone by the time she finishes the slim at the end of February.


Her objective is to


the slim is Mrs Diane Broughton, 'of Corporation Street, Clitheroe; She started off by weighing 11


Accompanying her on


and a half stone and is well on the way to her


written in Lotu Moor.


forts will make more than £300 for research for a cause in which Mrs Wilson is involved, as chairman of the Clitheroe branch of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council. Would-be sponsors can


target loss of 281b, having already shed one stone. The pair hope their ef­


co n ta c t Mrs . Wilson (Clitheroe 24370) or Mrs Broughton (Clitheroe 23239).


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MY domestic chores were interrupted with some frequency on November 24th. You may recall that on that date I had specu­ lated on the authentic­ ity of a claim in an old reference book that Clitheroe was: noted, among other things, for. its gaol and paper manufacture. ' My egg was still in the


Whalley Window


and there were occasional calls for the next three or ' fourdays; The upshot of all these


frying pan ,when, the phone. rang for the- first time- and I %as in the process of finishing the third slice of toast when the second call arrived. A fter • th a t , things


welcome interruptions in . routine is that, in the last century, paper making was one of our local indus­ tries in thS* premises at ’Primrose known some­ times as-sthe Bleach Works and. others: as the


quietened off to a call around every 30 minutes


Printworks. It was conducted by the


Mitchell family* and only ceased following an ex-


pensive legal action in which, it was alleged, pol­ lution in the Pendleton Brook had . caused unwar­ ranted difficulties in the manufacturing process.


' at their offices in Castle Gate.


. It was following this that-the late brothers, Capt. Frank ■ and John Mitchell established them­ selves as paper merchants on a very extensive scale


• .the -former borough'. He had.the best of reasons for knowing that paper was made in the town; his father worked there and' he had a number of stories, -some humorous, some otherwise, of inci- dents at the works.


'plants is. already in flower. Although its main flowering period lasts for only/two or three months, beginning in March or April, the gorse bush is capable of flowering for a much longer period. With a mild winter, such as 'we have experienced so far, it will.flower/’sporadically throughout.. v. ■ . X/, A I saw one such plant on a bare hillside near Dunsop Bridge only last week. As I admired the


AS the New Year begins, one of our native


■ Regarding the question - of the gaol,: several callers mentioned the two cells


, dent sustained in the course of his employment.


bright yellow flowers, a movement in the base of Here in Whalley, for thebushcaught my _ eye a n d l fo u n d myself example, it was St"the .looking at a goldcrest, Britain’s ,smallest bird.


< i almost, every'one of our larger, villages hadits own lock-up.


/: prison' /a t a -.time when fN THIS YO\


This tiny olive-green warbler can, be very Aif- i / the Aoixth-east ; side of flcult to spot in its normal-habitat'high up in a — —


' would have been perfectly camouflaged.in the' gorse bush.


■ It is then possible to admire its bright yellow -crown-stripe; but for its restless behaviour, it


- both much rarer.and, together with a few win­ tering chiff chaffs, are almost entirely confined.. to the south and south west. ■> ■ However, there is .one other : warbler which-r


. Warblers are insectivorous, birds; lack of suit-.; able food in winter means that the vast majority' are summer.: migrants and the . goldcrest'. is our * only common resident. Other residents are -the - firecrest and Dartford warbler, but ( these are


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• may be found in this -area in winter, the black­ cap.-Ringing studies have proved that these are;


conifer, but: in winter it often, conies nearer: to: the ground and visits other plants.' v < ■.. > .


■ Lane, recently?” he in­ quired and went on to


; not residents but Scandinavian birds; our breed­ ing population departs.in the. autumn and there - is a gap ..of'.about one month'before-these.


; : northerners arrive. - Although .the male- has a black cap, the '-


: female’s is red. :I have already/seen two'females and one.male in different parts of the Valley, this winter.


' - be fortunate enough :to see one :of these interest- ing visitors in your garden. , ' *


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AN ambition has been ful­ filled for. Ruth Braith- . waite with, the publishing of her book “Martha,” which;; she wrote while living; in Union Street, Low Moor. •


describes as partly a novel, partly a search for her own roots, is based on the life - of her grand­ mother.


“Martha,” which Ruth


tions with Clitheroe going back 20 ■ years and who lived in Low Moor for a time, now lives in Union Street, Pocklington.


Ruth,, who has connec­


ist, who worked on vari­ ous papers, including the Lancashire Evening Tele­ graph.


She is a former journal­


a trilogy based on.family history. The second book, “Young Ben,” is to be published later this year and the third is “The House in Kingston Square.”


“Martha” is the first of -


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ANIMAL; portraits' by artist-Helen! Backhouse, formerly :of< Bashall Eaves, will be featured1 in an exhibition- at Rathmell


has illustrated books, - in- . eluding; one of -children’s fairy stories,; will have on show p o r t ra i ts of. racehorses, some dogs . and possibly birds.


hibition, to be held at Cappleside meeting room, Rathmell, near Settle, are David Roberts, a cabinet­ maker, and Richard Wardle, a screen printer. .


Joining her in the ex­


May 6th and will run for a week;


The exhibition starts on .


.for Girls. She studied illustration


Cappleside,'was educated a t Moorland. School, Clitheroe, then at Caster- ton Public School,. Kirkby Lonsdale, and later at Clitheroe Grammar School


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the Hutton Press, is on sale at bookshops, price £3.75.


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