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C L ITH E R O E chorister Christopher Carlton has


received the Provost of Blackburn’s award to choirboys for long and faithful service. The son of Mr and Mrs


P. Carlton, of Ryelands, C h a t b u r n


R o a d ,


Clitheroe, Christopher (13) started as a choirboy with the I m m a n u e 1 Church choir, Oswaldtwis- tie, at the age of five. For the last six years


lie has sung with St Mary’s Parish Church


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pleted tests before singing Evensong at Blackburn Cathedral with 31 other young choristers receiving awards. A member of St Mary’s


Scouts, Young Communic­ ants1 Croup, Youth Club and Badminton Club, Christopher attends St W ilfr id’s C E School, Blackburn.


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Ken hopes to become movie star


STAGE-STRUCK Ken MacMillan plans to lead a double life during the next 15 months in the hope that he may be spotted by a big-time movie talent scout.


During weekdays he


will follow the normal routine of working for the Preston branch of a na­ tional finance company. But at weekends he will


don a second world war German pilot’s uniform and play the lead role in a large-scale amateur film being shot- in the Rossen- daie Valley.


Eagle," it tells the story of a young Luftwaffe pilot shot down over Britain who is befriended by an English housewife. Ken (22), of Croasdale


Drive, Clitheroe, was chosen for the part from scores of young hopefuls by Darwen ambulance driver Ron Irwin, who has written and directed the film as well as provid­ ing £7,000 to finance it. Filming began in July


Entitled “Love of an


round & about


an actor and was thinking of making it his career when he left Ribblesdale School. “However, I decided


not to risk it and went for a steady job instead," he said. “Now I can combine the


•act or rehearse at the weekends. “I hope that we manage


best of both worlds — I have my normal job during the week and I can


to win a place in the com­ petition and then go on the international circuit. “With a bit of luck I could be spotted by one of


the major studios." Ken is no stranger to


the Ciitheroe amateur


but it is anticipated that it will not finish until next year. After editing, it will be entered in the “Ten Best” amateur film com­ petition the following year. About 4 0 amateur


actors are taking part in the film and there is a production crew of more than 20. Ken, who is unmarried


and lives with his parents, has always wanted to be


stage. He has appeared in productions with Trinity Players and Clitheroe Parish Church Operatic and Dramatic Society.


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French Connection members last week joined Ian Botham as he passed through Blackburn on part of his country-long walk and presented him with £25 for leukaemia re­ search.


world! THE identities of the two local men Down Under, mentioned in a story in last week’s Advertiser and Times, have been re­ vealed. They are James Parkinson (20), of St Paul’s Street, Low Moor, and Simon Laxton (21), of New Page Fold Farm, Waddington.


Small James’s mother, Mrs


Barbara Parkinson, con­ tacted our office to report that the two pioneers have been given six- month visas and arc


travelling round the coun­ try looking for work. James, a former pupil


of Ribblesdale School, and Simon, who attended Riversmead, bumped into a Manchester couple who emigrated eight years ago. The lads met Mr and


Mrs E. Furnish outside the Royal Perth Hospital and asked for directions for a bus to Albany. After saying goodbye


the couple later wished they had extended their hospitality further. Now, thanks to the Ad­


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AROUND a couple of hundred years ago — it could have been more or slightly less — somebody built a short row of cottages in the village. They were at the junc­


tion of Mitton Road — now it is Station Road although the station has not functioned as such for almost a quarter of a cen­ tury — and Clitheroe Road. The cottages were on a historic site, opposite the old Grammar School, on what used to be known as Stocks Hill. "I'm not sure whether I


saw them there myself." the late "Billy” Pollard once told me towards the end of his almost 90 years, “or whether I was told about them as a very small hoy, but that is where the village stocks used to stand." This the name would confirm. Time went by and. in


due course, the end cot­ tage became a smithy and wheelwright's shop run by a member of the Eatough family, a name inextric­ ably ‘linked with our vil­ lage for some (100 years or more. The site proved ideal


for such a purpose be­ cause. almost on the door­ step. was a broad well which the wheelwright used when shrinking the


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metal tyres on to the cart wheels he so laboriously fashioned and, no doubt, in so doing contrived to earn a very adequate living.


Shortly after the end of


the 14-lS war the cottages were demolished — you can see a painting of them in the abbey should you so desire — for they were quite inadequate for 20th century living. Using the most modern of building techniques, the County Council built a couple of houses on the site and the well was filled in.


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technology proved less re­ liable than practices fol­ lowed for some centuries; within 60 years the build­ ings developed serious structural faults and the bulldozers moved in.


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became a pile of unsightly nibble. The site lay dere­ lict for several years and then the District Council moved in and announced plans to build there. The council officers, prudent chaps, were de­


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termined not to be caught napping. Before finalising their plans they decided to investigate the sub-soil. A derrick was erected and drillers went to work. “Are they digging for


oil?" a local wag asked me. “They’ve certainly brought up some very funny stuff,” an official told me and it was then I was able to pass on infor­ mation about the well sunk there centuries before. Why am I telling you


this? It all goes to prove, 1 think, how very useful a knowledge (however slight, for we shall never know it all) can be. Not only does it provide a fas­ cinating subject for study, but for very good practi­ cal reasons. In a village the very


name of which is inter­ preted as meaning “The Field of Wells,” where less than 200 years ago there were no less than seven public wells and a much greater number of private ones, he would be a foolish builder indeed who did not investigate the soil beneath his feet. A knowledge of things


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