. Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified) 4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, June 27th, 1985


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A WALK along the banks of the Ribble brings pleasure to leisure-seekers but for Scots-born Tom Morton it is a text book and store house for his favourite hobby — fly-tying.


For the rising fish give


a hint to the size and species of the fly that ap­ peals to them. And the plumage of dead water- fowl provides the material to make an artificial repli­ ca for an identical lure. But the Morton flies


round & about


will soon become a thing of the past for the hun­ dreds of North West ang­ lers who have used them successfully for the last 20 years. At present Tom (75)


and wife Lena are packing up to leave Coppice Cot­ tages, on the Gisburne Park Estate, to set up a new home in the south. “We are sorry to go,


but the time has come to leave,” said Tom, who was chauffeur to the Hindley family for 19 years and latterly odd-job man on the estate. “I never did anything


fancy. I just studied the flies which the fish were going for and tried to make my own as similar as possible.


had a bit of a problem obtaining the more-colour­ ful feathers, as foreign countries have been tend­ ing to put protection orders on their more at­ tractive species. “It has been a case of


“In recent years I have


make do and mend.” Although his trout and


salmon flies look flamboy­ ant, they pale into insig­ nificance when he talks of his life prior to coming to the Ribble Valley. Brought up in Lanark,


he became a motor fitter and then moved to London in 1930 to find work. He became a freelance


driver and landed on the books of Rolls-Royce as a part-time chauffeur when they hired out limousines to film stars and other celebrities. In 1939, after marrying


Lena, he spent two years with the Admiralty, driv­ ing submarine parts to ports throughout Britain. While unloading at one


destination he had an acci­ dent which resulted in a two-and-a-half year stint in hospital with a hip injury. In 1945 he returned to


Tom’s long green trail started at —Whalley


IT was a proud day on Satuday for Tom Stephenson, the man who nurtured his love: oi the countryside at Whalley and inspired the


idea of a Pennine Way. Honoured


by OBE A FORMER Sabden man has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Mr Alec Nuttall (61) is


Rolls-Royce and was “hired out” to MGM film, studios in Britain. Finally, the job became permanent “because it was cheaper to buy me and the car than to hire us.” While he was behind


the wheel for the movie moguls, he became famil­ iar with stars such as Humphrey B o g a r t , Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Alan Ladd and Stanley Baker. He was also on location


driver for a Wigan scrap dealer before coming to Gisburne Park in 1956 as


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for such epics as “The Af­ rican Queen,” “The Wooden Horse” and “The Red Beret.” Later he worked as a


the chief probation officer for Cleveland and has worked in the North East for some 40 years. He was educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and lived at Sabden until after the second world war, when, he went to Ruskin Col­ lege, Oxford. Mr Nuttall, who is mar­


chauffeur to the late owner, Mr Reg Hindley. Mr Morton “retired” on


his employer’s death in 1975. He later drove the staff van at the Stirk House Hotel for seven years and then Mr Christ­ opher Hindley asked him to return to the estate as


WHALLEY’S nature con­ servation area, “Nether- ley,” is to be maintained voluntarily by the British Trust for Conservation.


The Trust will look after the site, near the


odd-job man. The Mortons have three


sons — Tom (40), a Minis­ try of Agriculture veteri­ nary surgeon in Dorset, Ian (36), a computer expert based in London, and Alan (29), a public relations officer, who also lives in London.


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bypass flyover in Mitton Road, until at least next April. The Trust helped with


work at the site over the spring bank holiday, clearing away dead wood and general tidying.


Mr Nuttall Pedal


power MORE than £180 was raised for Gisburn Cub Pack by the pedal power of three employees of The Stirk House Hotel. Kitchen porter Andrew


Crowther, chef Jonathan Davies and waitress Wendy Groves completed 124-mile sponsored


cycle ride to Windermere and back. “It took us three days


to finish and was very tiring on the home leg,” said Andrew, whose brother Stephen is the Cub Pack’s Akela.


Musical


evening AN excellent night of musical entertainment is lined up for St James’s CE School, Clitheroe, on Monday. For the Regional Music


School is presenting “Music for a summer evening,” at 7-30 p.m. Items will include "The Snowman of Kashmir,” by Peter Kay, and music for viola, clarinet and piano by Max Bruch. Entertainment will be


provided by the Regional Music School’s choir, wind ‘ band and solo instrumen­ talists. Admission is free.


ried with two daughters, frequently returns to the Ribble Valley to visit his sister, Mrs Phyllis Jack- son, of Hey House Farm, Downham.


lers from the Ribble Valley at Malham at the weekend when 92-year-old Tom was guest of honour at a rally to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bri­ tain’s best-known long­ distance path which bor­ ders the eastern side of the Ribble Valley.


There were many ramb­


Philip lands a £500


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campaigning for the es­ tablishment of national parks and footpaths are recalled in a booklet enti­ tled “The long green trail” published by the Ramb­ lers’ Association, which is currently celebrating its golden jubilee.


Tom’s early days and Tom was born at Chor-


ley, the eldest of nine children. For his first seven years he liyed with his grandparents, after­ wards returning to Whal­ ley to be with his parents. His father was a calico


- printing engraver. Tom was fortunate to


be able to stay at school full-time until he was 13. Then he began work in the printing works at Barrow, doing an illegal 12-hour day from 6 a.m.


from work to Clitheroe to spend the evening in the town’s library and then four miles home. Perhaps this is how his love of walking began.


He would often walk The first book he took


out of Clitheroe Library was Darwin’s “Origin of the Species,” from which he drew inspiration to try and become a geologist.


always alone, first around Pendle Hill, then in the Yorkshire Pennines and further afield. When he was 14 he walked through the Trough of Bowland and on to the Lake Dis­ trict, usually sleeping rough.


He began his walking,


counts of his walks to “The Times.”


“They always came


back and probably f in ish ed up in the Clitheroe paper,” he recalls.


In 1931 Tom became a


journalist proper and four years later, in the Daily Herald, floated the idea of a trail from Derbyshire to the Scottish border.


He was one of the prin­


cipal forces behind the campaign for access to the countryside, but it was not until 1965 that the Pennine Way became reality.


Among those at Satur­


day’s rally were two par­ ties from Clitheroe Ramb­ lers’ Association.


One, led by Frank Par­


rott walked along the Pennine Way from Gar- grave. The other, led by Pat Parrott, started from Airton.


A CLITHEROE school­ boy who has just taken a computer science O-level will be able to put his theories into practice with a £500 prize won in a breakfast cereal competi­


tion. Philip Waterhouse (16),


of Milton Avenue, picked up a Dragon 64 computer, a portable colour televi­ sion, floppy disc, drive and data recorder after enter­ ing the competition in January “just for fun.” “It’s the only competi­


tion of this kind that I’ve entered and, in fact, I had forgotten all about it until I received a letter from the organisers,” said Philip. A pupil of Moorland


School, Philip has just completed seven O-levels and three CSEs. He will not be baffled by the micro-chip technology as he has taken an 18-month computer science course at the school. His father, Jack, is no


slouch on the keyboards either as he used to teach computer studies at a < Widnes Technical College before moving to Ribbles- dale School to take engin­ eering. Philip is hoping to start


at Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School in September and so will have plenty of time to use his prize, in between appearances on the trombone for the County Big Band.


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fourth year, have found jobs with Clitheroe and Blackburn firms and businesses for the work experience course. Mr Kevin Read, careers


teacher at Ribblesdale, has helped fix-up the pupils with engineering firms, banks and sol­ icitors’ offices. “The course offers the


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to catch Sally, a light bay heavy mare. “Catching Sally” was no simple task. She had her own routine and the rules of the game she had devised had to be observed each morning before, finally, she con­ descended to enter the stable and enjoy the ration of bran and oats that awaited her.


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munched happily away, Joe’s duty was to groom and harness her before going in to the farmhouse breakfast: “pin head meal porridge, bacon and eggs (plural, you’ll note) and home-made bread that Grandma had prepared.” Sally did not give undi­


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and cleaned the night before, and Grandfather and Joe’s uncle lifted the heavy kits of milk from the trough where they had stood cooling for the past couple of hours. Then, with a “See you, lass” from Grandpa to Grandma, off the turnout went.


Once in the village,


vided attention to her oats while, Joe groomed her; at intervals she would gently squeeze him against the sides of her stall and had to be tickled before releasing the pressure. She -would sneak his cap from his head or give a playful nip at his braces or bottom as he proceeded with his task. Sally was quite a horse. Breakfast over, the


next job'was to back Sally into the “float," scrubbed


Grandpameasured out the milk (no bottles and one and a half old pence a pint in those days) and Joe and his uncle, only a year or two older than Joe him­ self, carried it and poured it into the jugs and basins waiting on several dozen doorsteps — jugs of every size and shape, some enamel, some plain pot and earthenware, others finest china with beaded and crocheted doylies ', to protect the milk from flies.


Sally knew the round


by heart and stopped at each customer’s door without bidding, moving on when the two boys stepped back into the float. She knew e x a c t ly


where:to go and-where to stop and went at her own sweet pace until nearing the home of Mrs Green. • Now -she moved' more


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smartly along, lifting her legs a little higher, hold­ ing her head a little more erect. Mrs Green always had a


snack for Sally, a “jam butty” each weekday, a


Eie c e of cake every unday, and patted,


petted and admired her. And until Mrs Green had presented her gift and performed her little cour­ tesies “not one step would Sally move,” Joe told me. She then resumed her


normal pace and moved less elegantly along to the next customer, perhaps a little less generous.


“There were thousands


like Sally,” said Joe, “and every small farm had one. Muck spreading, mowing, p u l l in g hay making machinery maulingthehay to the barn, the daily de­ livering of milk, carrying the boss to the market — all were demanded of Sally. These horses were the “king pins of fanning in the 1920s and for many years before.”


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