4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 28th, 198!,
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A MAN involved with the smooth running of the bus service in the Clitheroe district for manv years, Mr Leo Wells (63), will retire from his job as district superintendent with Ribble Motors in July.
of the Clitheroe depot off Pimlico Road with its 36
He has been in charge
staff since 1972 and has ensured that the timet able has always been kept -l- even if it has meant leaving his desk and going out to drive the familiar, red buses himself once or twice because of sickness. He started his career
with Ribble in Clitheroe in 1947 as a driver and spent some time at the head office in Preston before being appointed an inspector in 1962. Highlights of his career
They are a good lot at the depot and I will be sorry to leave them.” In his spare time Mr
included the depot’s move to its present site from Wellgate in 1969 and the changeover to one-man buses, which Ribble pioneered. Although the timetable
change and daughter Mar garet is a receptionist at the Health Centre.
Calling
philatelists! STAMP collectors will be interested to know of a new society which has been set up in the area. The Ribble Valley
to Malaysia‘ by a young orchestra from Britain. The' Clitheroe teena
Wells will continue his work as a member of Clitheroe Town Council, to which he was appointed in 1965, and of the Ribble Valley Council. He has been Mayor of
today is slimmer on some routes, there have been innovations such as .the in troduction of special cheap day tickets, which Mr Wells has been pleased to see. In the 1950s there were
Clitheroe on two occa sions, in 1974-75 and in 1980-81. His other great inter
30 buses at the Clitheroe depot, compared to 18 today and then the big job was to convey hundreds of factory workers to the towns. Mr Wells said: “We
est, which he shares with his wife, Elizabeth, is SS Michael and Jo h n ’s Church. He is a past Grand Knight of the Knights of St Columba. The couple, who live in
always managed to get throughjlespite the snow.
Philatelic Society, at its inaugural meeting, elected the following to office: Mr Jim Masterman (chair man), Mr Richard Roberts (treasurer) and Mr Alan Kay (secretary). Meetings are to be held
at the Dog and Partridge, Clitheroe, on the .first Tuesday in every month,
joining can contact Mr Kay (Glitheroe 23707).
from August. Anyone interested in
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Chester Avenue, have four married children. Two work in Clitheroe — son Anthony is in charge
orchestra FOUR Clitheroe teena gers will be among 72 youngsters from the Lan cashire Schools’ Sym phony Orchestra • to visit Kuala Lumpur and Singa pore in August. The tr ip , arranged
gers, who have all been abroad with the orchestra before, are violinists Lindsay Bywood (15), Susan Fielding (18) and Janet Whiteley (17) and Iain Dixon (17), who plays clarinet. Lindsay, of Edisford
Josef renews old friendship
A FORMER German PoW made a nostalgic return to Clitheroe this week to strengthen a friendship he made with a local family during the war. I t is the first time since the end of the war that
•Elizabeth Grammar School, Blackburn, and Iain is a pupil of St Mary’s Sixth Form Col lege in Blackburn. One of the concerts will
Road, is a pupil of Clitheroe Grammar School for Girls, where Susan, of Fairfield Drive, was head girl last year. Janet, of Somerset Avenue, attends Queen
Herr Josef Rick has visited the town where he was befriended by Rex and Nancy Alderson, of Pendle
Road. Last summer the Aldersons responded to an appeal
home village of Rheinbach, West Germany, where they were given a warm reception by the locals. Plans were made then for Herr Rick and his wife,
be attended by- the King and Prime Minister of Malaysia. v The orchestra will also
through the British Coun cil, will be the first ever
In August, Rex and Nancy visited Herr Rick s '
in the Advertiser and Times made by Herr Rick, through some Sheffield people he met in Germany. He wanted to thank the Clitheroe couple for their
kindness, despite the fact he had. not seen them for 36 years. '
Anni, to make a return visit to Clitheroe and on Saturday the dream came true. There was a special moment when he met Rex and
be holding a series of in strumental and orchestral workshops to help train young Malaysian players.
rou n d & about
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successes FIFTEEN pupils of St Augustine’s RC High School, Billington, were successful in the recent Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes’ pre liminary typing examina
tion. D is t in c t io n s were
achieved by Adele Barker, Fiona Boston, Helen Boston, Laura Bowden, Carol Ann Brodby, Victoria Har greaves, Clare Hewitt, Angela Holden, Lindsay Joyce, Jacqueline Korol, Catherine Munro, Julie Pascarella, Julie Patton and Joanne Louise Pil- kington and a credit by Marie Elaine Forrest.'
Lobbying
in London RIBBLESDALE School te a c h e r s Mr Chris Roberts and Mr Graham Barker took part in a mass lobby of MPs by. members of the NAS/ UWT over the teachers’, pay dispute. Mr Roberts, vice-presi
dent of the Accrington branch, and Mr Barker, the school’s NAS/UWT leader, met Ribble Valley MP Mr David Waddington at the Houses of Parlia ment. The teachers tried to
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Sabden CONSERVATIVE Albert Atkinson is Sabden’s new representative on the Ribble Valley Council. Mr Atkinson (44), of
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Nancy’s daughter, Valerie, who is now married ahd living in Lancaster. I t was the first time he had set eyes on her since she was three years old. Herr Rick is also planning a return to the site of
■ many of the local beauty spots during their two-week visit and have included a trip to York on the agenda. They will also be showing the Ricks the Mayoral
the old PoW camp at Stanhill, near Accrington, where he was held as a 19-year-old soldier. Rex and Nancy are hoping to show their visitors
regalia, since Nancy’s brother, the late Bob Ains worth, was Mayor three years ago. Rex and Nancy orginally met Herr Rick when he
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was working on Bolland Prospect. Near the end of the war, they obtained permission to have four Germans from the camp visit their home and Herr Rick was among them. Picture: Valerie (centre front) meets Herr Rick
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and his wife, Anni, for the first time since the war. With Rex and Nancy (behind) are Valerie’s husband Mr Ken Purnell (right) and children Anne (17) and Adam (13).
Fete day for NSPCC
THE village of Bolton-by- Bowland will be “en fete” in August to raise money for the NSPCC.
have answered a call by the secretary/treasurer of the Lancashire Appeal, Mr Eric Walmsley, of Brookside, Holden, to lay on something special. Lancashire has been
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asked to raise £80,000 to wards a £12m. national target. The money is being spent on reorganis ing the society so that more effort can be concen tra ted on preventive work. Mr Walmsley — who in
Crowtrees Road, Sabden, won the by-election, held following the resignation of Coun. Anthony De- whurst. Married' with two teen
enlist Mr Waddington’s support for an offer of arbitration in the dispute, since the Government has 15 votes on the committee which decides teachers’, salaries.
age children, Mr Atkinson has lived in the village for 15 years and is chairman of its Conservative group. He is works manager at
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July stands down as presi dent of the Rotary Club of Blackburn — and his wife, Christine, have been delighted by the response from the village’s 12 or ganisations. On the g rea t day,
Pendle Furniture and has served on the executive committee of the Ribble Valley Conservatives.
a great chance for the village people to do some thing together and al ready things are shaping up very well.”
Said Mr Walmsley: “It’s ■
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WHEN I awoke this morning the sun was shining, the birds , were twittering and spring, I thought, is really with us.‘ “A lovely day,” I told my wife and didn’t feel a day over £0. Com paratively young, in fact. Looking from my
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window, I noticed that the grass was' ready for its first haircut of the season, but dismissed the oppressive thought from my mind and remembered that last year at this time we had a ‘visit, from a heron to the pond at the bottom of the garden.
he -— appears to be very fond of frog spawn.
stumps , that -were once poplar, trees ' provide us with a lot of interest.. When we first came here 18 years ago, there were three trees, each one 80 or more feet in height and landmarks for miles around. '
‘The two elongated . ■
a comparatively snort life,' I was a little apprehen-, sive that; 'one day, or
■Because the poplar has He — I presume he is a ;
W h a l le y W in d o w
night they might come crashing down on a neigh-' hour’s property. I .called in an expert.
declared, “all three of them. Have them pol larded — about 18ft. or so — and they’ll do fine!” ,
“Sound as a bell," he-
quate for nesting pur poses.. Perhaps- they are planning a large family. "So the industriou's «
couple have gone to work; in and out of the hole they go, emerging each time with a sliver of wood in their beaks. They drop the fragments indiscrimi nately in the garden and get on with the job. For 20, . minutes at a
time they are at it; take a few minutes break and
His "advice” was taken,"’
. For a year or two .they were popular, with the woodpecker but the hordes of .starlings .in the area made such nuisances of themselves that we: haven’t se em -h im ’for some time. Now he .has departed-
we had them pollarded and the following winter' they all died.. So much for experts! /■/■'' :
.holes- in ''the- ro ttin g stumps but; apparently, the capacity is hardly, ade
ly busy. They have taken; over one of-the numerous
One pair
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. would envy and roundly applaud. ' I sweep up the chip-
then ' resume their , task with, speed and efficiency the management at Fords
for pastures new, we con- , elude, but the starlings remain.
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-still quite ■ a number of holes in the poplar stumps; ■ all vacant, and
pings and will keep a watchful eye on the build ing sjte, for the next few weeks. 1 think we are going to have a lot more starlings to feed in a very short time. : Special note to the' bird fraternity. There are
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August 12th, they will be manning stalls and . serv ing ploughman’s lunches and teas in the village hall.
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