4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, July 12th, 1984
CONVENTIONAL HEARING AIDS MAY NOT BE NEEDED •
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The facts about Modern Hearing Aids and Correctors EXHIBITION FEATURES
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everyone can be helped with an aid but what- . ever hearing correction is shown to be benefi-
IS THERE A SUITABLE AID FO FOR ME? Not
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AFTER 35 y ea r s teaching domestic sci ence at Bowland County Secondary School, Miss Dora-
Peac e , the la s t member of the origi nal staff, is retiring.
chester, she attended Bury Grammar School and, following a course at the Manchester College of Domestic Economy, s ta r ted her teaching career at a Radcliffe sec ondary school.
A native of North Man
Ribble Valley, domestic science at Bowland was taught in two rooms, one on either side of a gym nasium!
When she came to the
that girls had to run from one room to the other car rying pans of hot onions while all around pupils were doing PE,” she laughed.
“I can remember once
some time been senior mistress and has looked after the girls’ welfare.
Miss Peace has for
round & about
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______ " MANV**C1U*< M M »OVia CAAft
outdoors, she has in the past organised school trips to places such as Switzerland, Austria and Sweden.
A lover of the great
Close, Waddington, and all her. efforts are now to be channelled into making it spic and span.
In February she bought bungalow in Church
hoping to buy a dog. “Be cause of my job and com mitments I have never really had the time to look after one before,” she said.
She loves animals and is
retirement, she says that she will miss the comrade-, ship shared with staff and pupils, but will have all the time she wants to pursue her hobbies, which includes walking, sewing and reading.
Looking forward to her
Maria samples Swiss lifestyle
ENJOYING spending her nights under canvas in Switzerland at the moment is Langho Ranger Guide Maria Gee.
pupil of St Augustine’s, Billington, has been chosen as the East Lanca shire Guides’ representa tive on a three-week trip. Maria, of Hillcrest
For the 15-year-old
Road, flew from Manches ter on Sunday and is stay ing in a training centre in Calanca, with colleagues from all over the world.
full range of activities in- cluding sig h tsee in g , hiking and sports. For the last week of her holiday, she will be staying at the home of a Swiss Guide. A Queen’s Guide Badge
She is taking part in a
ing two interviews. Her younger sister,
very much a family affair, for the girls’ parents, Jen nifer and William Gee are just as keenly • involved. Mr Gee is an assistant leader with St Mary’s Scout Troop, and Mrs Gee is Brown Owl of the church Brownie pack.
Scouting and Guiding is
All hands to pump!
holder, Maria was chosen as one of six Guides from the north of England, after successfully complet
;
Dawn (14), a member of Langho’s St Mary’s Guide unit, is also a Queen’s Guide and hopes one day to follow in her sister’s footsteps and take part in- an international camp.
judges for the Beautiful Britain/Britain in Bloom contest will be in the vil lage on July 24th.
WADDINGTON Parish Council has heard that the
being made for further tidying work to be done during the next fortnight and it is hoped that all village organisations and individuals will co-oper ate.
A r ran g em en ts are
won the regional competi tion.
Last year Waddington Battleground at Edisford
IN 1877 a Mr Charles Hardwick, of the Man chester Literary Club, gave an address to his fellow members. The title of his talk was
Whalley Window
“Battles near Whalley and Clitheroe”, and recently, through the kindness of a reader, I was given a copy of the paper which was subsequently pub lished. This pleased me im
mensely. “My heart' leaped up,”as Wordsworth so picturesquely, phrased it. I had only ever read of two battles in our immedi ate area and now I was going to learn of a lot more. Not so. My immediate
page of the book, came news of a battle I had not previously encountered — not at Whalley but much nearer to Clitheroe. Actually I must have
years, much of this could only be assumption rather than undisputed fact where co n f irm a to ry documentary evidence was not available. . Then, on the very last
reaction on reading the paper was one of disap pointment; by far the gre ater part of the 12-page closely-printed booklet was devoted to the two conflicts' of which I had read and written previ ously; the Battle of Billan- gahoh in 798 in which the Chieftain Wadda was slain (Waddington . was “Wadda’s Town”) and that running battle between Parliamentarians and Royalists in 1643 which started with an ambush at Old Read Bridge. There was some detail
venerable ruin of the keep of Clitheroe Castle is a handsome modern bridge named Edisford or Eads- ford to which I have pre viously referred.
of both encounters which was new to me but, after the passage of so many
been a little careless in my reading for, since studying Mr Hardwick’s account, I have come across references in two o th e r .books on my shelves. - Where children today fish for tiddlers; mums, when the opportunity offers, indulge in a spot of sunbathing; fathers occa sionally try for bigger fish but frequently spend more time running back wards and forwards with lollipops and ice-creams; once a sanguinary — I refrain from using the other adjective — battle took place. Let me quote Mr Hard
wick and, his paper: “About a mile below the
gulstald, records that in this neighbourhood, in the year 1138, one William; son of. the bastard brother of David, King of Scot land, when engaged on a foray into England, was gallantly encountered by a small band. Being over powered by numbers how ever, the Lancashire men suffered a signal defeat and the Scots took a con siderable number of pris oners.
“Johannes, Prior of Ha-
GOT slS '
, both the memory and the 'site of this conflict. Mr Edward Baines says: “Vestiges of this sangui nary engagement have been found at Edisford Bridge and along the banks of the Ribble during successive ages up to the present ■ time.” (Baines wrote in the early 1820s).
Tradition has sustained
' news to. you. Next time you pitch your tent or park your caravan at Edisford, think pf this. You will be on historic ground.
have it as I had it. It was news to me; perhaps it is
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