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EASTER in. . the Ribble Valley churches was a busy­ time with large con­ gregations attending services. A Good Friday united


■family service . was-; con­ ducted by the.curate; the Rev. Peter Shephercj, fol­ lowed by a social in the Parish Hall. The usual Easter Day:'


services were conducted by the vicar, Canon John Hudson, and Mr Shepherd.


formed Church and Trin- ■ ity Methodist Church held a joint Maundy ■Thursday service at- Trinity. After the early morning,


Clitheroe United Re­


service 'at Trinity on Easter Day, a cooked breakfast was served to 40 members of the con­ gregation by the Daniels


Parish Church was the lighting of the Paschal candle' from a- small bon­ fire in the churchyard 'on. ■ Easter. Eve... A short,-


service organised by the Ribble Valley Church Council was held at Clitheroe Parish.Church. Preacher was the Rev. G. W. S. Knowles, former Glitheroe Methodist - Cir­ cuit superintendent. A special feature at the


- lar event. The service was led by the Rev. John Sals- bury. Two Easter banners


■ new feature at Sunday’s family communion at the United Reformed Church and;could become a regu-'


made by church members, based on the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, were on , display at St J am e s ’s C h u rch , Clitheroe. Speaker at the Easter


munion service, led by the Rev; James Needham^ Christine Hindle, a visitor .to Waddow for a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award weekend, read a lesson. Vanessa Waterhouse sang : “I know that my Re­ deemer liveth”.and Coun. Howel Jones' brought news of church growth in Kenya. The playing of the junior orchestra was ■ a


and Thornton families.- During the family com­


Hampson played the guitar and sang. . -Easter* flowers were distributed to the elderly and sick in the parish. On Maundy Thursday


the junior choir sang “Jesus Christ is Risen,” accompanied by Miss Louisa Roberts on the violin, Organist was Mr R o b e r t ’ T a t te r s a l l ; Licensed Readers Mr Ken I. Guy and Mrs Kate Wall- • work also participated. The general standard of


tendances at all the Sunday services at St P a u l ’s’ Church, Low Moor,’ conducted by the Rev. Brian Stevenson. At family Communion


Day family communion was Mr Peter' Williams. Miss Sarah Woodhouse sang “Behold the man” and organist was Miss Susan Robinson. The Rector, the Rev.


David Woodhouse, led an evening service of Easter p ra is e . Miss 'J a n e t Whiteley played the violin, Miss Linda Whit­ field sang and Mr Michael


. Thursday for the Mass of the Lord’s .Supper, at which Fr John Griffin presided. On Good Friday there


was a full church again for the reading of the. Passion by Mr Kieran Reddy, Fr Bernard Dobson and Fr


service and the singing of the choir and congrega­ tion at SS Michael and J o h n ’s RC Chu rch , Clitheroe, were very pleasing throughout Easter. • There was also a high attendance on . Maundy


evening the sick were - anointed with oil during the Communion service. There were good at­


; Weaver read from the Old Testament and nine young people introduced their own special prayers. The traditional Venera­


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Mass of Easter' on Holy. Saturday, members of-the- congregation- took turns in lighting a candle. ; There ; was an excellent


tion of the Cross was enacted and in the even­ ing the Stations of the Cross service was part trad i tio n a l and p a r t modern. ' At the vigil -,and first


turn-out on Easter Day,' with four Masses and an additional one; at Low Moor. Organist Was Mrs Helen Crompton and Mrs Toni^O’Donnell organised the youth orchestra. '


Christ Church, Chat- burn, on ’Sunday, organ­ ised by Miss Carol Walker and Sunday School scho­ lars, was attended by 60 people. Mrs Muriel Butlin led “Songs of Praise” on Sunday evening.. The congregation joined


An Easter, breakfast at


in a service at Chatburn Methodist Church on Good Friday, led by Mrs Catherine Bradshaw whose husband was. ill. The collection of £27 was donated to the Ribble Valley Mayor’s “Children in Need” appeal.


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•Church Easter morning service the choir sang an introit. Villagers had been invited to donate the cost of a flower in memory of a loved one and this re­ sulted in' three lovely dis­ plays. There was also an Easter garden.


A t ’ the Methodist


Cyril Law and his wife set up an Easter garden. About 330 people turned up at the three morning services. A special. service of


Read, was decorated with Easter lilies and daffodils and churchwarden Mr


St Jo h n ’s Church, .


Waddington, was deco­ rated byi a band of church workers in readiness for Easter Day. There was a large congregation at the Eucharist, which opened with a processional hymn


ford; on Easter Day and the,- weather encouraged many to stop in the chur­ chyard afterwards to . meet friends. St Helen’s Church,


ers from ■ Tosside and Dale Head Churches met for a thanksgiving service-


More’’than 50 parishion­


led by tne choir. ' There -was a good at­


hymns, readings and prayers was held at St Mary’s, Gisburn, on Good Friday, and • on Easter Sunday the vicar sang sacred songs, accompany­ ing himself on guitar. Daf­ fodils ■ stretched right across the churchyard and inside the;’spring flowers were delightful. At Whalley Parish


tendance at Waddington Methodist Church for the Easter Day Communion service. The Sunshine Band provided spring flowers and the young people sang. After the evening ser­


■ tering for the three- course meal. “The crosses of life”


crossed the road to the village institute for their first Easter feast, which was so popular that it may become an annual event. I}CC member Mr John Parry, of Lower Stoney Bank Farm, his wife; Marian, and family undertook the task of ca-


on Sunday. Afterwards parishioners


Church the Rev. Michael Ackroyd said there was the highest ever number he. had known taking Communion in the-' morning. Fr Thomas Murray was


pleased, with the turnout at the English Martyrs’ Church, Whalley, where an altar of_ repose was built by members of 'the congregation for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Slaidburn Silver .Band


St Mary’s, Langho, in­ cluded a Good Friday Pas­ sion service in which Fr James Dwyer was as­ sisted by F r Thomas Burns, of the Marist House, Blackburn! . The vicar of St Am­


vice a bouquet and a card signed; by church, mem­ bers were taken to Mrs Isabella Bewsher, of West View, who celebrated her 90th birthday on Monday. Easter celebrations at


"■for Easter Day were’ par­ ticularly pleasing at St Mary’s RC Church, Sabden, where services were full to ■ overflowing.


played for an Ecumenical service held.- by Whalley Christian Action Group on the Vale House site. Methodist .minister the Rev. Clifford Foster preached and clergy from other churches took part. The church decorations i


brose Church, Grindle-' ton, Fr Trevor Vaughan, was disappointed that more young people did not attend family worship on Good Friday, but this was compensated by the Evensong service shared with Grindleton Method­ ists. Preacher was the Rev. James Needham. Saturday’s Easter Vigil


saw the \blessing of. the Paschal light, when each member of the congrega­ tion lit a candle, and on Easter Day a processional cross was dedicated in memory of Margaret Bir- chenough, a church stal­ wart for many years. Fr Vaughan was very


' “The ladies of the parish, did a really good job and the church looked beauti­ ful,” said Fr Leon Morris. A neglected part of the


for Sung Eucharist at St Catherine’s, West Brad-


Served 15 years as


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A CLITHEROE man who served for 15 years as a churchwarden at St Paul’s, Low Moor, Mr Harry Fox (73), died at his home in Balmoral Avenue on’Thursday.


shire, Mr Fox moved, with his wife Doris to Clitheroe 20 years ago and worked in the maintenance de­ p ar tm en t of Bowker Brothers, Clitheroe.


A native of Leicester­


terested in woodwork and made two flower pedes­ tals for St Paul’s Church and a ' Remembrance cabinet for St John’s Church, Read.


He was keenly in­


Mr Fox had served as a sidesman from the age of 18 and only retired a year ago through ill health. . On his retirement as churchwarden in 1981, he was presented with' a radio-cassette recorder on behalf of the parish by the Rural Dean, Canon John Hudson. Mr Fox was interested


in sport and played crick­ et in his youth. He is survived by his


wife, son Kenneth and daughter Kathleen.: A service will be held


at St Paul’s Church today, prior to cremation at Ac­ crington.


Nursed at


Calder stones A CHARGE nurse at Cal- derstones Hospital for 34 years,. Mr Clifford Sling­ er, of Park Avenue, Chtheroe, died in Hospital on Sunday,-aged 72. In his retirement, Mr


Eucharist was revived at St Nicholas’s Church, Sabden, when the • Rev. Denis McWilliam washed the feet of two parishion­ ers in a symbolic cere­ mony. There was a full church


at St Leonard’s Church, Downham, began with the traditional Maundy Thursday Lord’s Supper, during which various members of the congrega­ tion took leading parts. On E a s te r Sunday morning the choir sang an anthem and the re-telling of Easter events in words- and music under the title “The great heritage’’ took place in the evening. The children’s - choir


was the theme of an Easter Day service at Salem Congregational Chapel, Martin Top.’ The message in the evening was taken from “The road to Emmaus.” Preparations for Easter


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sang an item and the full choir performed various pieces of sacred music in­ cluding one from Stainer’s “Crucifixion.” * There were good con­


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gregations for Easter, ser­ vices at All S a in ts ’


olomew’s, Chipping, were conducted by the Rev. J. K. Lynch, of Barton.


pleased with the lively singing of the choir at the six services. Spring flowers deco­


ra ted SS Pe’te r and Paul’s Church, Bolton- by-Bowland, where an af­ ternoon service on Easter Day was conducted for visitors by lay reader Mr Richard Fallows. Mrs Jenny Wilde, of Grindle- tori Almshouses, was pre­ sented with a cut-glass vase to mark her work for the church.


John’s Church; Hurst Green, there was a ser­ vice <of readings and medi- • ta t io n . The E a s te r ' Sunday services, in a church beautifully deco­ rated by volunteers, were attended by about 130 people. On Sunday morning,


On Good Friday at St


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readers at the service at St Andrew’s P a r ish Church, Slaidbum, were Mr J. C. Kenyon and Mr D. J. F. Service. At S laidburn Methodist Church the preacher was Mrs E. Cowperthwaite, of Clitheroe.


Langho couple head for Australia


BUILDING a new life in warmer climes are Langhb couple Michael and Bridget Ainsworth who emigrated to Australia on Tuesday.


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Bridget, (22), who both nursed at Calderstones, will'.be staying with Michael’s brother, John (34), who moved to Why- alla, Adelaide, two years ago. ; Michael and Bridget are


Michael (27), and


Former weaver


making the move with their four-month-old son, Michael, because they feel Australia is a better place to raise a family, and be­ cause of Britain’s present financial climate. A former pupil of St


A WEAVER at South- worth’s Jubilee Mill, Clitheroe, for most of her working life, Mrs- Nellie Howarth (85) died'in hos­ pital on Saturday.


Mary’s College, Black­ burn, Michael trained at Calderstones as a Regis­ tered Nurse for the Men­ tally Sub-Normal. He undertook psychiatric training at Cheadle for a year before becoming a Registered Mental Nurse. His hobbies include run­


.been a resident of Cast- leford for nearly four years.


ning and he has won the Whalley Nab Race once and finished in the top three on - four occasions. He also enjoys swimming and tennis. - Michael hopes to land a


nursing job in Australia. Bridget is a state enrolled nurse and has also been trained as a nursery nurse.


Singing


with hope TWO choirboys from St Helen’s Church, Wadding­ ton, have been taking part in an Easter course which could' lead, to the title -of Britain’s, top choirboy.


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Clitheroe Parish Church choir, he took part in a number of productions;by the church’s operatic and dramatic* society;'- He' -'also played football -for the .church team in his youth.


member of Clitheroe Con­ servative Club, is -sur­ vived by his wife.; Edith, sons Billy - and ■


i Mr Slinger,'who'was a


d a u g h te r s ;’-Ruth* and Marie.


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•V A service will!be'Held ■at' Clither.oe; P ar ish Church ' tomorrow,, ’. prior, to crematioq !at;:Accring­ ton.


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Slinger, a native* of Chtheroe; had suffered a long-period of ill health. A , former member of


I Southfield -Drive, West Bradford, spent several days at Rossall School;at a residential course held - by-, the Royal School- of Church Music; ; „


Pinder Close,: Wadding­ ton, and Simon Jones, of


Jonathan Cunliffe, of


been singing at St Helen’s for four orfive years, face stiff competition. >. 1 '


The boys,who have both j; .Audit system 1


boys from-''all over the country have entered the competition 'and only 16 will be - chosen from: the courses for. final auditions.


More than 1,600 choir­


wins £2,000 for .his church to improve choral facilities and receives ;• a personal prize ■ sion."'"'


i .The; first-placed boy- of * a ’ colour televi­ . •:


, sion’s more expensive ser- . vices at £170 per day;!;'.''';”'


, before i coming to a deci­ sion on whether to use! i t : , At present, the - council uses vtiie ■ 'Audit'; Gommis-1


THE Ribble-Valley Coun­ cil’s Finance and General : Purposes Sub-committee ’ has called for more infor­ mation on the County, Council’s audit system’1


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work as a . weaver at Brooks Mill, Clitheroe, and when it closed moved to the Jubilee Mill. Her favourite hobbies were walking and embroidery. . Mrs H'owarth is sur­


Mrs Howarth started


vived by her son, Derrick. Cremation is at Ac­ crington tomorrow. ,


PARKING PROBLEM


. done about the problems . caused by motorists who park at the junction of Church Lane and King Street..


WHALLEY parish coun­ cil is writing to the police to ask if anything can be


wants police to supervise the area, and to. move , motorists on.


The parish council


fall said that it was dif­ ficult to emerge. from Church Lane in a car be­ cause other vehicles parked there made vision .difficult. There was no room for an'error in judg- ■ ment. - ) ■ -. ■■■„■■( i.-


Coun. Mrs Clara Hors­


Mrs Howarth lived in Newton Street for most of her married life. Her hus­ band, James,died 20 years ago, and following ill health, Mrs Howarth had


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