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AMATEUR historian Phil Dinsdale met a mys- tei’y man while cleaning out the garage of his parents house at Upbrooks, Cfitheroe, and
unearthed a First World War treasuretroye. Among a pile of odds
and ends, tucked away in a dark corner, Phil found a mouldy old canvas bag and was about to throw it away when curiosity im pelled him to look inside.
of West View, Clitheroe, found a bundle of fading photographs, medals, but tons and other personal items, which he disco vered on closer inspection belonged to a Mr W. H. Dugdale.
To his amazement, Phil,
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man is nothing but a name on a discoloured medal and a face on a series of old photographs. But Phil is eager to find out more. He discovered the bag
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PHIL looks for a clue to the airman’s identity
round & about
Dugdale’s Clitheroe con nection was an envelope sent to him by a Mrs H. Dugdale, of 38 Whalley Road. Unfortunately there was no sign of the letter. The envelope and a
The only clue to Mr
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silver medal show that he was stationed in Bagdad, Mesopotamia (Iraq), with the India Expeditionary Force from 1917 to 1919, and served with the 72nd Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, the fore runner of the RAF. The bag also contained
while helping his parents clear out the house, “Mus- bury,” which they have recently sold. He can only assume the bag belonged to someone who owned or lived in the house before his parents bought it about five years ago.
Phil, who is particularly interested in the history
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made produce! quested for Clitheroe Her! on June 2nd, t | to Mrs Sally Mrs Hazel Rel teers were alsl to run the stall!
Contribution'! IS anyone related to this man?
a dog tag, a sewing kit, a rusted penknife, and most exciting of- all, an RFC hat and blue-tinted flying goggles.
of the period, has done some homework to show that several of the old snapshots are of a Martin- syde G100 “Elephant” bi plane, which was used by the RFC in Mesopotamia at the time Mr Dugdale served there. He would like to return
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THE Ribble Valley Rotaract Club has a new president — Mr Richard Cornish (27), of New Bothy Cottage, Higher Standen. Mr Cornish, who moved
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him solve the mystery is asked to contact the “Ad vertiser and Times.”
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THE new head teacher at Gisburn County Primary School is a familiar face to pupils and parents. For the post has gone to Mrs Jackie Hargreaves, the present acting head. Mrs Hargreaves, of
of the club for three years. His other interests include golf and cricket. One of his first tasks,
Hayhurst Road, Whalley,. was deputy head at the school for five years before being appointed acting head in April when Mr Dan Packer retired. Born and educated in
Bolton, Mrs Hargreaves returned there for her first teaching post. She then taught at Whalley for a short time before leaving to have a family. Mrs Hargreaves resumed teaching at Western County School, Great Harwood, for three- and-a-half years before moving to Gisbum. Her husband, Harold,
■ The other officers are: Miss Helen Green (secret ary), Mr Paul Fox (trea surer), Mr David Brass (finance), Mrs Brian Alston (club service), Miss Nina Di Pietro (communi ty), Miss Lesley Gut- teridge (international) and Miss Diane Gutteridge (vocational). The vice- president will be elected at a later date.
as president, will be to help the c(ub select a local charity to work for during the coming year.
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was head teacher of Laneside School, Whalley, before taking early retire ment when it closed some two years ago. They have three chil
dren, Lois, Jonathan and Robert. In her spare time, Mrs
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for several areas in the county and the constabul ary also wants to compile waiting lists for places where there are no vacan cies at present. Further details are av
MEMBERS of Slaidbum Silver Band are to go to France and Belgium in September to play and to honour the war dead. The band will be travel
ailable from the Civilian P e rso n n e l Manager, Lancs Constabulary HQ, PO Box 77, Hutton, Pre ston (Preston - 614444 ext
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ling by coach and during the visit, from September 6th to 8th, will be playing at a concert and visiting the French village of Eperlecques, where mem-, hers have made friends on previous trips.
• who died there in battle 40 years ago. For 59-year-old Bill, of
journey WHALLEY man Mr Bill Edwardson made a senti mental journey to a forest in Germany last week to pay homage to 29 friends
Mitton Road, it brought back memories of the most harrowing time of his service in the South Lancashire Regiment. His friends died during
a battle for a road in the Reichweld Forest, where a cemetery containing 7,640 war graves now
stands. “I was- so lucky to
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Village way of life
THE family tree of the lady I chatted with this afternoon has roots which go deep into our Whalley history.
that .threatened to freeze us both to the marrow, her personal memories and her stories of her pa rents and grandparents provided a fascinating ‘20
Despite an icy wind
minutes and our conversa tion opened with our joint amazement that cottages that changed hands in the early 1900s for £50 were now b r in g in g over £20,000.
in Church Lane and, when he was a boy, went to the Grammar School,” my friend told me. “He wasn’t a scholar, he was the boot- hoy, but they taught him to read and
“My grandfather lived
I. carrier came from Preston | — only once a week it was — and he brought: a newspaper. Then every body who could crowd' into our/ living room, neighbours and friends, and grandfather read them the news.”
“The big night of . the week was on tne day the
mentioned, it seems clear that these “weekly read ings’,’ must have 'been pnor to . 1850 when the
Although dates weren’t-
railway was opened and a regular service was main tained, but it could have been some years earlier. In due course grand
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yon chap. Thee get thi coit on and get these din ners to t’mill afore they get cowd!”
may have been the same one — approached her father and timorously asked for “three ’appence to buy a geography book.” (About the equiva lent of our recent half penny). Father was astounded.
Later an aunty — it
write; a beautiful copper agree, but one that must plate hand, he had.
father acquired quite a large family; eight of them in fact, still in the two up, two down cot tage. Apparently, three of the children snared the front room with Dad and Mum, while the back bed room was divided by a curtain. On one side grandfather and an uncle shared a bed; on the other all the girls slept. Hardly an ideal ar-‘ ran g em en t, you will
have been repeated many t im e s ' in days when families of 10
or-.more could be found in every street. As we chatted, other
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“A geography book?” he roared. “What use will a geography book ever be to thee? All t’geography tha’ll need is how to get from here to t ’bottom mill! “And so it turned out,”
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me friend told me, “for Aunty lived in Church. Lane here all her life and was buried in the chur chyard just across the road.” Fascinating stories, I
think, which tell us about the villag'e way of life much more vividly than a dozen erudite tomes. , Just to arouse the envy
memories were recalled; the story o f . an aunty whose task, _ as a school girl, was to carry dinners to Lorigworth Mill. As dinner time approached her mother marched across to the school, poked her head round the door, ignored the head master and called -to her daugher: “Never mind
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' into the bleak and fading afternoon. “Every .night of her married life -my grandma had to take a jug to the hack door.of the
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of one or two of our male readers, one final: anec dote from my friend before we hurried away
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: Shoulder of Mutton (now the De Lacy Arms) “for three ha’porth ,of ale.” Grandad, it seems, was a thirsty chap.
J.F.
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