Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified) 4 Clitheroe AdvcHiser and Times, December 6th, 1981,


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H an n ah ’s word power pays a


FORMER headmistress Miss Hannah .Bretherton, of Hurst Green, is not a woman to cross, words with, as 50 other entrants m a Christmas hamper competition found out.


For Hannah, of Lon-


gridge Road, won first prize in the competi­ tion organised by H.


M. Sowerbutts’ house furnishers, Clitheroe, by making an incred­ ible 1,060 words of


four or more letters from “ Christmas Hamper.”


the hamper by head of the family firm, Mr Allan Sowerbutts, who was very pleased with the re­ sponse to the competition.


She was presented with L . '


rrum and Mason prize would come in very handy


Hannah said the Fort- around &bout


at a family gathering she will have at her home on Christmas Day.


in word competitions all her life, but this is only her second ever win.


She has been interested


interest is researching her family tree, but she has yet to discover any family skeleton!


Hannah’s . other major


. apart from seven years as a teacher at Middles­ brough.


lived in the district for more than 200 years, a tradition she herself is continuing. For Hannah has spent all her life in the Hurst Green area,


Hannah’s family has


long association with St Peter and St Paul’s RC School, Ribchester, which she attended as a girl. In 1938 she joined the teach­ ing staff and was head­ mistress for 21 years until her retirement 12 years


She has also enjoyed a ago.


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SABDEN PR director. Mrs Libby Nicholson was in the dark about under­ ground water mainte­ nance until she took the piunge on behalf of a client. Her visit down a sewer


band, Peter, earlier this


year. Clad in protective clo­


was all part of her day’s work as a partner in PEN Marketing, the firm she founded with her hus-


Seasonal


cheer A BUSY time is in store for the Mayor and May­ oress of the Ribble Valley, Coun. and Mrs Bernard Thornton, in the two weeks leading up to Christmas.. For they are planning


thing and safety helmet, Libby climbed down the ladder with Mr Jack T ay lo r , of Planned Maintenance (Pennine), Sabden, one of her many new clients, which deals with w a te r s to ra g e systems. “It is part of our policy


to find out everything we can before we draw up promotional and technical material, but this was a bit unusual,” said Libby, whose previous job was in the rather more sedate line of riding instruction. “My husband has been


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stand, but , only if they have sufficient food to oxidise in order to release the necessary heat energy. A small bird may burn up a considerable percentage of its body weight just keeping warm on a frosty night. Food put out in your garden may mean the difference between life and death. It follows that high energy foods are best


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on four children's homes in the Valley, including St Denys,' Clitheroe.


Village history


making all sorts of jokes about me going down the drain, but I believe this is to hide the fact that he is claustrophobic and that wiid horses could not have persuaded him down


there,” she joked. Libby (33) and Peter


(38), who have three 'chil­ dren Ailsa (8), Emma (6) and Claire (4), operate the company from their home


A START has been made by Clitheroe library staff on the preparation of local history information dos­ siers on the villages of West Bradford, Chatburn and Grindleton. The dossiers will be


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kept at the library and are expected to become a unique source of local his­ tory information. The villages were


selected because of the number of inquiries re­ ceived about them and the lack of easily accessible


material on them. Nostalgic conversation


A PLEASANT sur­ o c togenar ian


prise this afternoon — my


friend from Cumbria popped in for a couple of hours’ chat. . Around twice a year he


Whalley Window


comes along, always unan­ nounced and, because the first 30 years of his life were spent here in the. village — perhaps rather more than 30 — always our conversation takes a nostalgic turn. “I re­ member, I remember.”


recall why, the talk turned to that lovely old house, The Marjorie, a picture of which you will find on the front cover of the most attractive tele­ phone directory ever issued in the district.


On this occasion, I don’t


said Eddie, “that’s where the Halls used to live — Miss Madeline and her father. The old man always used to read the lessons in church. He


“Ah, The Marjorie,”


wasn’t a clergyman but always wore a gown to read the lesson and I asked my aunty why it was always him. ‘Because ’e knows ’ow to speak proper,’ she told me.”


was quite a personality in the village, as other old timers have told me. An artist, she was always a iittle flamboyant in dress and invariably wore lots and lots of beads. She ap­ peared at local entertain­ ments as an elocutionist and recited her poems with a tremendous sense of gesture and dramatic effect.


The daughter Madeline


She has far more than a local reputation as an il-


lustrator of children’s books in the early years of the century and I recall seeing one of her products which was the treasured possession of one of her contemporaries. It was fascinating to


-story: “One night,” he said, “I went to a church bazaar in the schoolroom where Miss Madeline gave all the children a sheet of paper and we had to put blobs of paint on one side. Then we had to fold the paper down the middle and press it down firmly and there was a prize for the best picture of a but­ terfly created jjy these means.


study the book and to identify local beauty spots and the church interior used as settings for the whimsical characters in the story. Another local family has a delightful water colour of “Spring Wood in bluebell time” with her signature. Eddie resumed his


not to be announced until the end of the evening and so I had to wait to the finish to find out who had won. I didn’t and, disappointed, I walked home to Billington up Neddy Lane. “ Calderstones was


“The winning entry was y


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being built at this time and a lot of the navvies used to sleep rough on nights when they'd had a jot of drink. Trudging on in the darkness, 1 fell over two of them in Neddy.Lane and then set off and ran all the rest of the way home. “When I got there, all


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'harmful to birds. They should never be given anything salty such as salted peanuts, potato crisps or the rind from salty bacon. Spicy foods should also be avoided as should desiccated coconut which swells up in the bird’s stomach with fatal results; fresh coconut is safe.' Don’t forget that they also need water, both for drink­


when the weather is really cold. Fats and peanuts are excellent. However, a variety of foods is better and this will also tempt a wider range of species to your garden. _ There are’ certain foods ’which are actually


ing and for bathing. The British Trust for' Ornithology is now


beginning the 15th year of its garden bird feed­ ing survey, which is based on almost 200 gardens


throughout the British Isles. Previous years’ results show that the 12


. great tit, chaffinch, dunnock, greenfinch, song i thrush, coal tit and collared dove.


species most likely to visit your garden are: blue tit, blackbird, robin; house sparrow, starling,


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• that way again and never, e v e r on a- S atu rd ay night.’ And I never did.” That was Eddie’s story


,me off. You’re lucky to get here alive,he said. ‘Them navvies are every­ where. Never you come


out of breath, my uncle wanted to know what I’d been up to. He really told


of an exjierience over 70 years ago. Sadly, some apprehension • is still "felt by parents for the safety of their children ps they walk home /from social events, even-through the centre of the village, par­ ticularly / on Saturday nights. Man and manners don’t seem to improve much, do they?


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