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THE Rt Hon. Lord Clitheroe PC, first Baron of Downham (family motto “I am neither proud nor afraid ) died peaceful­ ly at his family home, Downham Hall, on Tuesday morning.


Lady Clitheroe, who Lmjc' Clitheroe had suft was at his bedside, said fered from low blood


she said. “ I am very glad that it was so sudden and that he didn’t have any


pain.”


n o t ' felt very well on Monday and had had a


slight fall. The 83-year-old peer


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made one of his last ap­ pearances in public just over a week ago at the wedding in Downham of Miss Sophia Yorke, the daughter of his nephew, Mr David Yorke, and, said Lady Clitheroe, had thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.


Unwell _ Among the first visitors


to the Hall to offer condo­ lences was Mr Yorke, who had come directly from Clitheroe Magis­ trates’ Court where, as chairman of the Bench, he called for a mihute’s si­ lence as a mark of respect for Lord Clitheroe, a former magistrate. Lord Clitheroe’s elder


son, Mr Ralph John Assheton, heard at his desk in London of his father’s death and drove to Downham straight away to be with his


mother. He had been due to fly


to the USA for business meetings, but cancelled these on hearing that his father was unwell. He now assumes the


title Lord Clitheroe, his wife, Juliet, becoming Lady Clitheroe and his mother taking the title Sylvia, Lady Clitheroe. He will make his home at Downham Hall, but will


continue his work in


London. His brother, Nicholas,


flew back from Stockholm on Tuesday and his sister, Bridget, will be coming from Yorkshire to attend


the funeral. A private service, for


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family and villagers only, will be held tomorrow af­ ternoon at the village church of St Leonard’s, where Lord and Lady Clitheroe worshipped each


Sunday. Memorial It will be conducted by


the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev. Stewart Cross, assisted by Dow- nham’s vicar, the Rev. Eric Chard, - and inter­ ment will follow in the vault under the Assheton Chapel, where heads of the family are traditional­


ly-laid to rest. Although no date has


yet been fixed, a memo­ rial service will be held at Westminster Abbey later


in the year. Lord__CHtheroe ..was


made a High Steward of


SEEN “ sampling ' the goodies” . . . and obvious­ ly enjoying them- are Waddington’s Royal Brit­ ish Legion branch beauty 'queen Miss Caroline E1H--


son (third from right)- and the Poppy Appeal fund. Mrs Val Boothman. They More than 100 people were'sampling a feast of packed into the villages food at Waddington Leg- social club, where attrac- ion’s annual coffee, even- tions included a tombola


ing, which made £150 for and cake, jewellery ■ and bring-and-buy stalls.


V-cess-Alexandra.' and'-.Prin- cess Anne. He had only just submitted his resig-.


the Abbey in 1962 and in this capacity was involved in the weddings of Prin-


. nation from the officej__ _ A memorial service will


also be held at Blackburn Cathedral. Lord Clitheroe, who


was in his twenties when he first began running the 5,000-acre estate at Dow­ nham, kept its interests


deeply at heart. One of his main aims


was to preserve the vil­ lage as it was. As a result of his efforts the tele­ phone cables were laid underground, there are no posters or hoardings and the phone kiosk is painted grey to merge with the surrounding buildings. Even the village hall was constructed to blend into the local scene.


A gentle man R e c e n t ly


Son Ralph succeeds to title


.'CHE;:.- -new L ord Clitheroe, the* Hon.


Ralph John Asshe­ ton, of Worston Hall Farm, Worston, is the 15th male heir of the fami ly to be named Ralph over the past 500 years.


' Ralph John was born in 1929 in London and christened in Downham. He was educated at Eton where he was an Oppi­ dan scholar, gaining the school chemistry prize. He also won an open scholarship in science to Christ Church, Oxford, where he took an hon ou r s d e g r e e


it


chemistry. In this, he was follow


ing in his father’s foot; steps as he too, was edu­ cated at Eton and Christ


Church. After leaving Oxford,


L o r d , Ralph John joined the


Clitheroe had been keenly involved with Downham’s f ig h t to save the threatened CE primary school from closure. Only two weeks ago his


“ Life Guards as a trooper and later received a com­


mission. In 1961, he married


son announced that the family was considering making the school inde­ pendent in a bid to save it. Lord Clitheroe had written to Sir Keith J o s ep h s e e k in g the reasons for its closure, but had not received a


reply. Mr Chard, who is Rural


Dean, described’ Lord Clitheroe as “ a gentle


■ Miss Juliet Hanbury of Juniper Hill, Burnham, Buckinghamshire. They have three chil­


dren — Ralph Christ­ opher (22), John Hotham (20) and Elizabeth (15). He was appointed to


the board o f Borax Con­ solidated in 1960, o f which his father was the chairman. Since then he has become a highly suc­ cessful businessman who l i t e ra l ly travels the


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players


“GENTLEMEN and cricket” are no longer synonymous in the eyes of Clitheroe’s


hockey girls. For the hockey club has


been told it can no longer play at Church Meadow, home of Ribblesdale Wan­


derers’ Cricket Club, be­ cause a start is being made at the weekend on essential pitch repairs.


The hockey players are


furious at being given only a week’s notice, at the start’ of the season, to find a fresh home.


Health unions in jobs fight at Langho


CONFRONTATION. Js lpoming-betweemhealth


service unions §£nd“MdncKester City Council over the closure of the Langho Colony at the end of October.


’ As the deadline draws


nearer, the unions — N U PE , COHSE and NALGO — are angry that the 60 remaining staff still


Playgroup will use


old school


HURST Green school, closed in July on economy grounds, could, once more, soon be singing to the sound of young voices. For there are plans to


use it for a playgroup starting, it is hoped, before Christmas, to be followed by a youth group in the New Year. ' The school, owned by


St John’s Church, has to be kept in trust for educa­ tion purposes. Mrs Valerie Cave, wife


of the vicar, said that a playgroup would fill a de­ finite need in the village. At present, mothers were having to take their chil­ dren to g r ou p s at Clitheroe, Whalley and Waddington. Running the playgroup


will be Mrs Monica Ashton, of Smithy Row, who may be contacted on Stonyhurst 539. Plans for the new youth


group are now being pre­ pared. It will be open to


all village children. Time to forget the diets


do not know if they will have a job to go to. Now NUPE is


threatening to prevent the last 50 residents from being transferred else­ where — thus effectively keeping open the centre


beyond October. In response to union


pressure, Manchester City Council Personnel Committee last week reaf­ firmed its pledge to still find posts in Manchester for those staff wanting them, and to help with living accommodation. But this does not satis­


fy Mr John Dempsey, As­ sistant Divisional Officer of NUPE. “The remaining 60 men


and women appear to have been thrown on to the scrap heap. They still don’t know whether they will have a job after Oc tober,” he said. “The council has been


negative and skinflint, contrary to its claim to be a radical, caring administ­ r a t i o n , ” said ' Mr Dempsey. Accordingly, he had


asked the Manchester NALGO branch to ban its members transferring the residents, while talks were held about jobs Since closui-e was an­


nounced two years ago the number of residents has been reduced from 120 to 50, and nearly 400 staff have been found pos­ itions mainly in the Man­ chester area, or taken re­ dundancy. Hospital officials were


disappointed at the threat to stop the transfer of the last residents and a spokesman yesterday ap­ pealed to the union to consider their welfare. ■ “Many of them have


lived here for years, and it would be a pity if they became pawns in a game,”


he said. Meanwhile, negotiations


are proceeding on the sale of the centre and its ex­ tensive grounds, opened in 1905 for the care of epileptics: " I t1 is hoped to announce a buyer within the next two weeks. The centre was put on


the market; for around £750,000 and; according to spokesman for the


agents, there have been several bids, ’ including some from local sources. A variety of ideas had


been suggested, including running it along similar lines to now, said the spokesman. . ~


“Just where we are


going to play on Saturday I just don’t know,” said hockey club treasurer Mrs Chris Farnsworth. She is angry that the


club only found out last Saturday, when chairman Mrs Sadie Baker con­ tacted Wanderers’ chair­ man Mr Dennis Birch to ask when they could mark off the pitch. He said a letter of notice was on its


way to her. Mrs Farnsworth claims


seemed the pitch.was not going to be attended to until next year,” she said According to Mr Birch,


Wanderers are using the pitch as an excuse to “get rid of us” and that they have been treated in a cavalier way by the gent­ lemen of cricket. “As far as we were con


however, the hockey club was told in the summer of the urgent need for pitch repairs and asked to con­ sider paying a bigger fee to help meet the cost. The club felt £1 a head


not unreasonable, but the ladies only offered £8.50 a game — an increase of £1.50 — after thinking about it for three months. Mr Birch said that re pairs could only be tack­


led in the winter. He claimed the club has


bent over backwards to help the hockey players and had allowed them full use of the club house facilities.


Toddler


fund nets £4,480


A SIX month campaign in Clithe ro e has raised £4,480 for the national


“Save a toddler" fund. The main organiser,


Mrs Margery Seed, a part-time cook at the Vic­ toria, is delighted by the town’s tremendous re­ sponse. She said that all the


fund-raising activities had been very well supported, and that people had do­ nated generously to the 95 charity bottles kept in local pubs, clubs and shops. The proceeds will be


handed over next month to the Michael McGough Research Fund for liver transplants at King’s Col­ lege Hospital, London, the Miriam Grenfell Leukaemia Fund and the Leuka 2000 Fund to equip the hone marrow trans­ plant unit at London’s Hammersmith Hospital.


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MAKING a sampler is the subject of the Young Em­ broiderers’ Society of Whalley 'and d istrict branch of the Embroider­ ers’ Guild, which is meet­ ing on Saturday. The youngsters, aged


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CO LOU R FU L town criers and minstrels, charming street vendors and delightful maypole dancers made Chipping a sight to behold at the weekend — when villa­ gers looked back 300 years to.the formation of Brabin’s Trust. The street was alive


with people, the majority in period costume, who set out to mark the an­ niversary in fine style. John Brabin, the mer­


chant who amassed a for­ tune during his lifetime in the cotton trade, became Chipping’s greatest be­ nefactor the year follow­ ing his death in 1683. The celebrations started


with a procession from the Water Wheel Re­ staurant to the steps of St Bartholomew’s Church, where Mr Jack Berry, chairman of the governors o f Brabin’ s Endowed School and also of the charitable trust, gave an


address. The R ib b le Valley


Mayor and Mayoress, Coun. and Mrs Bernard T h o rn ton , o f f ic ia l ly


opened the proceedings. The three clergy in the


village.— the Rev. Fred Cheall, vicar of Chipping, Fr 'Vincent Whelan, the Roman Catholic priest, and Mr Eric Bainhridge, the Congregational minis­ ter — led prayers and gave the blessing.' Then the town criers


announced the numerous activities that had been arranged, including hand bell ringing, brass bands, street theatre, a pig roast, greasy pole, “anti­ que” sports and various s t r e e t s ta lls sellin g souvenirs and mementoes. On the Sunday, in addi­


tion to all the activities, Mrs Linda Oakley, of Chipping, brought along an ancient breed of sheep and demonstrated the craft of spinning. Everyone agreed that


the weekend, organised by Mrs Andree Livesey and staff of the school, together with village or­ ganisations, was every-


. thing they had hoped for. Any proceeds are to be


used for improvements to the village hall.


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