Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
EDITORIAL CLITHEROE 22324.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1984 ,
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THERE will be no more close shaves at the Black Bull Hotel, - Chatbum, for a few weeks . . . ’ where eight regulars and the landlord are bristling with determination to g r ow b e a rd s and moustaches. Chins are fast dis
appearing — but it’s all in . a good cause. The' men have aban doned their razors for 60 d a y s to r a is e money towards the in- s t a l l a t io n o f a
. machine in Darwen to help multiple sclerosis sufferers in this part of Lancashire. The local area rep resentative o f Friends
Seven jobs are lost as TGB
shuts down
“TWO-THIRTY” club member Alan Hodgson (bottom left) joins seven of his pals who are putting aside their razors. Next to him is Keith Tomlinson. Above (from the left) are Keith Myers, Grant Ingham and Norman Milligan; David Speak and Tommy Rostron. Top is Graham Cowking.
Diamond peal
ON January 24th, 1974, f iv e . b e l lr in g e r s g a th e r e d . a t St L e o n a r d ’s Ch ur ch , Downham, to ring a peal to celebrate the golden wedding of Lord and Lady Clitheroe..
Ten years on, the
same team of ringers — Walter Robinson, Keith Hall, Derek Clement, Colin Taylor and Geoff. Braithwaite -J- marked the diamond wedding anniversary by ringing the same peal, com posed by one of Lord Clitheroe’s ancestors.
Afterwards they were
invited to the Hall for a c elebration to a s t to L o rd and L ad y Clitheroe’s 60th year of marriage. Said Mr Braithwaite:.
“The family is very, keen on bellringing and it is a tradition we were glad to be able to maintain. Although one o f the team, Derek, now lives in. Clitheroe, the ■ snow.' didn’t stop him getting through in- time to ring with us.” . ' • Celebrations at:
Downham . . . see page 3.
SEVEN.men are to lose their jobs following a deci sion to close the Clitheroe works of TGB Motors in Woone Lane. However, a number of-
others will be offered al ternative: employment at th e par ent Primrose Group plant in Blackburn. Group managing direc
tor Mr John Pickles said that TGB was opened a number of years ago as a retail outlet for trucks. ‘With the recession and
competition from foreign imports, the profit margin was so low that this side of the business was stop ped some time ago,” he' said. “The Primrose group is
mainly concerned with the manufacture and conver sion of trucks and it tried to use the Clitheroe works as an overspill, but it did not prove .viable.” Closure will take place
as soon as possible. A number of men have been retained to finish off cer tain types of work and these will be 'offered the chance of a move to Blackburn.
Church ‘swap’
P U L P IT S w e r e ' e x changed at Chatbum at the weekend to mark Christian Unity Sunday. The Rev. G. A. Parker,
presently in charge of Christ Church, changed places with the village’s Methodist minister, the Rev. Timothy Bradshaw, who used parts of a car to demonstrate the need for “togetherness”.
of- Action Research for MS, Mrs Patricia * Mercer,' lives in Chat- bum, and is delighted at the men’s gesture. The nine men are
members of the “2-30 Club” — so called be cause they meet at., that time at the Black Bull every Saturday afternoon.' Seven o f the men—-
Grant Ingham, Keith T om l in s o n , M ick Smalley, Tommy Ros tron, Graham Cowk ing, Keith Myers and Frank Hayes — are employed at Ribble Cement. The eighth is Chatbum man David Speak, who works in Blackburn.
The idea for the
event came originally from Mr Ingham and
so far it has raised . over £500 in promised sponsorship money..
L a n d lo rd Mr
N o rm a n M i l l ig a n said: “We decided to grow beards for 60 days, from January 5th to March 7th, but I think some o f us might keep them after that.”
> Mr Milligan, who! once sported a magni ficent ginger beard, now complains that several grey hairs are showing through. .
“I tell my regulars th e y ’re blond,” he
joked, “but we’re all taking a lot of stick.” Keith Tomlinson, of
Crow Trees Brow, Chatburn, added: “We are receiving generous sponsorships of up-to £60: from the Chat- burn and Clitheroe area.” -One of the members
of the 2-30 Club, how ever, has been de clared “ineligible” to
join in the event by his fr ien d s . He is Chatburn man Mr Alan Hodgson. . Said Keith, “Alan
cannot grow a beard 1 . . so we told him we would be unable to tell whether he was cheating or not!”
WHEN Mr Jimmy Fell, of Whalley,' donned the uniform of an “old soldier” to entertain at a “Lanca shire Neet Out” at Whal ley Methodist School, on Saturday, a member of the audience recalled seeing the same act 44
years.ago! “I first did my old sol
dier monologue and songs 1940 in Whalley . ...
and an old man ap proached me to say he could remember it,” said Mr Fell. More than 100 people
HEAVY snow brought- chaos to the Ribble Valley on Monday, virtually cutting off Clitheroe for a short time and ’ " 1
------ in - -— D0Zehs of schools and offices on the treacherous roads
As council workmen in their snow ploughs and
- gritters valiantly battled • to keep the main roads clear, a partial thaw set in overnight and by Tuesday all local villages were ac cessible again with care.. Overnight snow caused
traffic problems yesterday morning as 'vehicles left the Ribble . Valley and' joined people driving Ho work at Burnley, Black- bum and Preston. These journeys were taking up to twice as long. ' The fu r th e r sn ow
caused more difficulties on side streets and pave ments in Clitheroe, but on the whole, snow plough drivers did a good job ort the main roads. H ow e v e r , T o s s id e
School and St Mary’s RC School, Sabden, remained closed and Betty!s Bus, which serves local vil lages, was again can celled. The ambulance service
was only turning out for emergency calls as these
.were taking much longer than usual.
School closure protesters have London date
PARENTS and governors fighting against the closure of Downnam School are to air-their views to the Department of Education and Science, in London, on Tuesday. A meeting with the
Work on homes rises
THE Ribble Valley Coun cil has overspent on a scheme . to improve 21 homes at Henthom Road and Central Avenue, fol lowing an “unfortunate chapter of events”. ,
Housing Committee
members were told that the final bill for the work will now exceed £200,000.
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v Borough Health and Housing Officer Mr Peter Gladwin said that the 'cost of the improvements ran to £194,956 so far, £7,282 more than the tender..
One reasdn for the
extra costs was that the council- had -'to' go- out: to tender again after; the original firm carrying , out the job went into liquida tion. The council antici pates recovering- some of the costs from the bonds man of the firm.
Another, reason, said
Mr Gladwin, )vas that cavities had been found badly blocked with bird nesting- materials and debris — in some case up to sue feet' high - — while work.. was .being, under taken.
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Under Secretary to Edu cation Minister Sir Keith Joseph, has been:, ar ranged by Ribble Valley MP Mr David Wadding- ton, who. at the weekend, received a 40-page dossier outlining the action com mittee’s reasons for keep ing the school open. ■ ■It contained photo
graphs featuring the most dangerous routes that children would have to tackle on. their way, to and from Chatbum School. ; Our photograph shows
- The representatives, who will be headed by the chairman; of th e ! gover nors, the .‘Rev! Eric Chard, will be! anxious to
the 150ft. drop over the bypass bridge. “Imagine young children having to cross that bn their own,” said Mrs -Eileen Wilson, Press secretary of the action committee, r
; emphasise the problems of reaching the school in winter. . ! ' ';
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,managed to , through'.
: “On Monday, only eight out.- of. the, .25; children s tru g g le
Imagine wnat
d i f f e r e n c e 1 the-- ex tra couple of miles to Chat-
!bum would make,” said
* Mrs Wilson.' ; “ I wish Sir
..Keith
'Joseph had been h e r e ... . there would,be no talk of
closing-the school/’
: carved out of snoiv by a family friend on the ;•
: rejoicing in . h isn ew' home t- an igloo
i (i-It took - mechanic:- \ 1 - '
-three^year-old 'Mark : Horan, of- Ennerdale- Road, Clitheroe, was-
WHILE the neighbours:: were busy digging their- iars out-of the-smw,
. igloo is like, : and now ■. he knows," said'his . mother, Sheila. : There
fro n t - drive of his - home. ■
-Peter wer friend.
AersLeanne and Janet', who ns Peter's»girl- ir Rice, 'sister Janet.^and-,
to encourage- ire Mark’s : sis- - :
' ' ' Hazelwood,i Charlotte
t Garage,- five, hours v to ’ build the igloo. ‘ “Mark always won- -, dered what an eskimo’s
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Peter'Smith (17), who- works-at Greenacre
\ with neighbours..' One took a photograph and several children asked Pieter to-> 'one, too.
: The igloo - was a hit build-rthem
‘ (fromj bottom) \fnendc i lam Cross :,andJDavidy-
- With- Mark trying the igloo for-size are
Fortunately, there were
no serious casualties in the wintry weather, al though a Sabden pen sioner had. a nightmare
journey home from hospi tal in Burnley.
The ambulance return ing with widow- Mrs
Temperatures
. CHATBURN Weather Sta t ion recorded a. snowfall of lOVi inches on Monday. Minimum temperature readings over the past few days were: Thursday 22 deg F, Friday 26, Satur day 30, Sunday 26, Monday 30.
Elizabeth Brown (80) could not tackle treacher ous' ’conditions into the village. An appeal went out for
help over local radio and a mystery Good Samaritan with a Land-Rover re ndezvoused with the am bulance at Clayton-le- Moors to take Mrs Brown safely to her home in W h a l le y Ro ad . Mrs Brown, who had a heart attack a couple,of years ago, had been undergoing routine treatment. By lu n ch t im e on
Monday most schools in the area had closed. But staff at St Augus
tine’s, Billington, were faced with a headache
when several of their 13 buses failed to turn up . for the children. Staff decided to send
the 400 pupils home on foot, accompanied by some members of staff . . . many of them having to walk several miles to P ad ih am and Great Harwood.
Annoyed An education spokes
man said: “The children went in groups for safety . . . we did not want to risk waiting until it was dark.” However, some parents
complained. Mr John O’Brien, of St Hubert’s Road, Great Harwood, said he was “very annoy ed” when his 13-year-old daughter, Wendy, arrived home wet through and frozen after a six-mile trek. “Other arrangements
could surely have been made,” he said. , “Wendy was in ordinary
shoes and ' uniform . certainly not kitted out for a marathon trek in those conditions.” '
Children ■ at Bowland
Schqol had to wait an hour for their bus when it became stuck on Grindle- ton Brow. -The bus, run by Hodder
Motor S e r v ic e s of Clitheroe, was freed with the help of a salt wagon
• Continued on page 2
In a holiday mood despite the weather
A SUPERB display of information on holiday; in Great Britain in 1984. was opened by tn< Mayor of Ribble Valley, Coun. Ted Boden, at the Council Offices, in Clitheroe, on Monday — while a snowstorm raged outside.
Poppy fund
WITH some money still outstanding, Clitheroe’s poppy ; day contributions amount to £3,075. Included is £1,380 from
house-to-house collections, £351 for wreaths, £159 from church collections and £126 from the Festi val of Remembrance. Twelve additional spe
cial efforts by the Royal British Legion Club and the branch raised £602 and £414 respectively. House - to-hou se and
street collections by Mr Tom Pritchard, of Peel
.Street, Clitheroe, brought in £253.
Such a n-ice home! Last year it was torren- I
tial rain which marred the opening of the display and this time the snow was so bad that the Mayor’s car I had a hard time getting through.
‘ But the cold weather |
did not stop 29-year-old Susan Ingham, who works in the Chief Executive’s department, from enter ing into the holiday mood for the promotion. She donned her multi-coloured bikini as planned.’
There to emphasise
local tourist spots was in formation • assistant Kath Law, dressed as a Pendle witch, with broom sup plied by one of the council departments.
; Completing the picture
were colleagues Pauline Brown ; wearing a Lanca shire shawl and Olwen
Jones, - sporting a tennis theme. The display contains all |
types ofiholiday informa tion, local and national.
The .’ Mayor expressed I
the hope that, as many people as possible would
take advantage of it.
EMINENT PREACHER
THE parish church of | Downham is to receive a visit from a very eminent churchman next Sunday, in the person of the Most i Rev. and Rt Hon. Stuart Blanch, of Bishopthorp, the recently retired Ar-. chbishop of York.
He is to preach the his-1 to r ic Assheton: sermon
and ■ visitors will be - very | welcome; to
attend...The i service starts-,a t . 10-30 | a.m.
Second trek
THE recently-formed Ribblesdale ana District
-Bridleways’ Association is holding. its second trek, on February-5th; starting at the White.Hart, Sabden., .
■ The 'trek, on horseback, ; for. all ages,, will. be. eight ■
miles: long. ■ ;
It.follows ■ the i highly., successful;ifirst
; meeting uin',* December; : which. attracted 40. riders,
iV . . >4-f -C 'j
V E LV E T at only
£5.99 yd. B U Y BRITISH — B U Y r
attended the event, which was organised by the Ladies’ Evening Fellow ship and raised £50 for church funds. Other entertainment
was provided , by The Ossie Cloggies, and four young local girls Judith Sowerby, Kate Fulwell, H a r r ie t and Louisa Roberts — who formed the folk - group, “The Weaving Shed Four.” MC was Mr Fell who
organised games for the children and led the com munity singing. There was a photo
graphic display of local beauty spots loaned by Ribble; Yalleyt Council ■
and ladies of the commit tee served hot pot and parkin. In our picture, Mr Fell
doffs his hat to a group of young admirers.
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A joint affair
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A SPECTACULAR coun try heritage fair is to be the first joint venture or ganised by Clitheroe Lions and C lithe roe Round Table.
Attractions will include
bands, dancers, stalls and sideshows presented by local organisations and clubs.
The fair, taking place
on Sunday, June 3rd, will also feature an inflatable “jumping ca s t le ” for youngsters, and a hot-air balloon is planned for the more adventurous.
Mr Roland Hailwood,
public relations officer for the event, stressed: “The fair is for the benefit of. Clitheroe and Clithero- nians. Commercial ven tures hoping to cash in will not be made wel come.”
sale prior to the day-and will contain a star-draw number. .
Programmes will be on Anyone with sugges
tions or inquiries should contact Mr Bill Barker, on Clitheroe 23521, or . Mr Ian Lloyd, on 27331.
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