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M a rie’s frien d ly voice w ill be m issed


CLITHEROE woman Mrs Marie Coe, whose cheerful voice is familiar to dairy farmers throughout the north west, has retired after 15 years as a clerk at the Whalley Cattle Breeding Centre.


Old specs wanted


DON’T throw away those old and un­ wanted spectacles! Whalley and district Lions are collecting them to send to help the eyesight of people in under-privileged countries. In Whalley, there


Coe (60), of Victoria Street, has dispensed good will and advice to the many breeders who use the services of the centre. Many of them she re­


Over the years, Mrs


S tan ley adds to h is rock collection


PIECES of rock 300 million years old, brought to the surface by drilling work at Clitheroe, have been proving particularly fascinating to keen local geologist Mr Stanley Westhead.


gards as personal friends, even though she has never seen their faces. “Most of our longstand­


drilling tests at Four Lane Ends, carried out for the British Geological Survey, reached a depth of 300ft. and the chance to see samples from so far down was one Mr Westh­ ead could not resist.


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are collection points at the grocer’s shop in Mitton Road, the doc­ tors' surgery, post office and chemist’s in King Street and the Spar shop in George Street. There will also be


ing clients are very famil­ iar to me, and it will be a bit sad not to be involved any more,” she said. As a receptionist, her


main responsibility was to pass on farmers’ requests for information or for a visit from one of the centre’s inseminators. The biggest change she


collection boxes at the newsagent’s shop in Barrow, Sabden Post Office, the grocer’s in Billington and the Post Office and Spar groc­ ers at Langho.


Another y e a r in office


COUN. and Mrs Howel Jones have been re ­ elected Mayor and May­ oress of Clitheroe for the coming year. Also re­ elected at a town council meeting were deputy mayor and mayoress, Coun. and Mrs James McGhie.


Policeman Mohammad hopes to return


has experienced was the computerisation, last year, of the centre’s files


and records. But despite the new


technology, the service always remained personal and friendly with Mrs Coe as the first link in the chain.


her farewells to friends and staff at a party in her honour in the DeLacyi


Although Mrs Coe said


Arms, Whalley, she should have no difficulty keeping in touch, for her youngest son, Russell (21), works at the centre as an inseminator! She is hoping for an


BANGLADESHI police­ man Sgt Mohammad Golam Mehebub had only one regret when he vis­ ited the area as guest of the Ribble Valley Mayor Coun. Bernard Thornton — that he did not have time to take photographs of Pendle Hill.


round & about


active retirement and to take up golf with the help of husband Douglas, a Whalley Golf Club member.


man with his home force in Dhaka, who is in Lan­ cashire to discover more about British traffic methods, received an invi­ tation to tour the Ribble Valley Council headquar­ ters at Clitheroe when he


Sgt Mehebub, a police­ met Coun. Thornton at a


police quiz. During his visit he was


shown the mayoral re­ galia, introduced to the s ta ff and received a plaque and other memen­ toes to mark the occasion. Sgt Mehebub was en­


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sils came up with the rock, which would have been necessary to identify it exactly. I would expect it to be part of the Wor- ston shale limestone bed which spreads from Salth- ill to the lower slopes of Pendle.”


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chanted with the recep­ tion and with the country­ side he saw on his return to his digs at Hutton Hall, the Lancashire Police training school. He hopes to take time


off during his remaining two weeks in the country to explore and photograph the Ribble Valley, and with his wife to return again one day for a


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in contest INVITATIONS have been sent to villages and communities throughout Lancashire to enter the 1985 Best-Kept Village Competition. About 60 villages en­


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ead it was formed about 300 million years ago, during the carboniferous period, when the area was submerged. Because the water was full of sedi­ ment, the Worston shale is an impure limestone.


According to Mr Westh­


Pendle was formed,” added Mr Westhead. “It forced itself up from the rest of the land because of faults in the earth’s sur­


“ About th a t time


face.” The ground above the


limestone is boulder clay which is relatively new . . being formed only one million years ago when the Ribble Valley was co­ vered by a glacier!


Name change


tered last year’s competi­ tion, but the introduction of a new category for very small communities is hoped to increase the number this time. Final judging will be in


THE Red Rose Festival Committee is changing its name to the Red Rose Tourism Committee. The committee was set


August by TV personality Frank Mellor. The prizes will be presented .in October. Village schools have


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for bike ride CLITHEROE and Dis­ trict Mentally Handicap­ ped Association is hoping to break the £2,000 bar­ rier with next month’s sponsored bicycle ride. More than 80 people


took part last year and raised £1,800 for recrea­ tional facilities at the Meteor Club, Clitheroe. The ride, on April 21st,


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history and me; Lent aroused ma tions at St I Mothers’ Union, \ ton. The speakei C. F. Goodchi thanked by 1 Jackson. Mrs D. Penr Presiding membe Bollana Deane ported on the las tive meeting she tended, dealing ar rangements Mothers’ Unioi next year. Bran being asked to m; well in advance, and attract a women as possibl Mrs E. Loxh;


Questions An informal tal


tess for the af served refreshme


Cub party Mid-morning si


St Helen’s Cnuri dington, on Sund: family occasion, by members of t dington and We ford Cub Scout p Akela, Mrs Ver; and her assista: Judith Smith and verly Moore. The colour p;


sisted of Mark 1 Michael Stott am Robarts. Cubs ; sidesmen were Bedford and Moore. The service '


begins at the Edisford Road car park. The route will take the cyclists at a g entle pace through Chaigley, Whitewell and Slaidburn, finishing at the Higher Buck Inn, Wad- dington.


Sponsorship forms are available from association chairman Mr G. M. Haworth, of Lowfield House, Railway View, C l ith e ro e (23576 or 26971).


Abbey’s gift


up some years ago by the Ribble Valley, Rossen- dale, Burnley and Pendle councils to promote and organise an annual festi­ val in June. Over the years the com­


also been invited to submit entries describing “My favourite season in the village”. Trophies and cash p r iz e s will be awarded in age groups 4-7 years, 7-9 and 9-11.


A GENEROUS donation from a charitable trust has enabled Whalley Abbey to purchase new communion sets. The abbey received a


mittee has promoted the area to great effect and has now decided to furth­ er encourage the develop­ ment of tourism, in addi­ tion to carrying on with the festival.


gift of 500 dollars from the Whaley Trust — a charity founded by a lady of the same name who left her fortune amassed from interests in the American oil industry to be used for promoting new charitable and religious work.


Fully in tune again


TUCKED away in a trunk in a corner of the attic is an old Vic­ torian ear trumpet. It belonged, I am told, to a grandfather I was never destined to see. It is about 18 inches


long, is enamelled black, made of tin and in ap­ pearance. is something like a miniature sax­ ophone bereft of keys. It was not an instru­


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ment for making music, of course; it was a hearing aid and, for aught I know, possibly Queen Victoria herself used one. Now in recent months


cause it might have at­ tracted too much atten­ tion and provoked a degree of hilarity on sometimes serious occa­ sions. It would never have


job splendidly. Sounds I have only


attractive young ladies and I am delighted with it. The aid is comfortable to wear, is inconspicious and, in my admittedly li­ mited experience, does its


my own hearing has been less acute than I would wish it to be and there have been occasions when, if I had important functions to attend, I have been tempted to dig out the old trumpet and take it along. It certainly did amplify


done, for example, to sud­ denly produce it in church; it could easily have put the gravest of' clerics completely off his stride. The Rev. Patrick Bronte would have taken it with equanimity, but I am dubious of its effect on our 20th century parsons. So today, after a previ­


the sound waves to some degree and I have only refrained from using it be-


ous visit, I have been along to hospital to collect a modern and completely up-to-date instrument. I was instructed in its


heard imperfectly, if at all, for years, now have much greater clarity; I can identify with ease the various instruments in an orchestra and the subtle nuances in an instrumen­ tal work which can give so much pleasure. I anticipate, too, that a


ducted by the Canon C. F. G who also gave dress. The ch under the directii Jean Hartley Donald Hartley organist.


Union, Waddir holding a wfc domino drive m nesday afternc Nora Goodchild <j “This is a br* tradition for us. we hold the • Shrove Tuesday, the new date w get better suppo1


Having a ct St Helen’s


Cub Pack is moment enjoyin successful year won the Badei Spirit Trophy, t Country Troph\ the individual nr to David Bialec the Vida Cr Trophy for Si Seconds, shai Pendle Tigers. The pack’s 1;


Winning m The 1st Wa


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cess has been the football tean| ly leaders of Football LeagiJ has won the Tournament. Next Wedne


Cubs’ trophies • show at a coffe and bring-and-l Helen’s Sunda; which they hop well supported.


heed of covet were the subjei talk given to W Methodist Worn lowship on Thv the Rev. J. Neet He told amusi


Money "Money” an


use by the most courte­ ous, polite and efficient of


tendency to doze off in the middle of a sermon will, in future, occur with much less frequency. When, with certain speak­ ers, one has had to make an educated guess at every third or fourth word, the situation is very conducive to somno­ lence, particularly when one has been listening to such addresses for in excess of 60 years. All the same, an experi­


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ence such as I have had today has , in some degree, a sobering effect — I use the adjective in the best possible sense. It is much the same as when a chap realises he needs spectacles for the first time — the fact is forced upon him that he is no­ where near as young as he.would wish to be. “There is only one thing


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1985, as many pi for information! publicity depart] the first six 1984, he said. With the tout!


worse than growing old,” I read recently, "and that is the alternative.” None- the-less, there are also many compensations in the added years. How for­ tunate we are to live in an age when science and technology have made possible the production of an instrument to facilitate the hearing which is so efficient and so small that it can be slipped with ease into the waistcoat pocket, just as Steve Davis does with his snooker chalk. Wouldn’t grandpa have


about to start, tl ment is gearing a deluge of ill about what til Valley has to ofl In a special r


incentive, the cl Historl


A TALK aboj history from Ref to the presen'l given to Clith| Society by Mr! The second


been grateful had he been provided with a similar, in­ strument all those years ago. I’m sure he.would have found much more joy in living. H e1 looked pretty grim in all his photographs! .


J.F.


“son et lumierej tion described in Rome. He w| by vice-chairm| Watson. The next mj


be at the Stewa at the Castle] 2nd, when Mr 1 speak on Harts]


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