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Surprise visit for couple’s golden day


A CLITHEROE couple’s golden wedding celeb­ rations were made complete when their daugh­ ter, who emigrated to Canada five years ago, “dropped in” to say happy anniversary!


Crane, of Seedall Avenue, were absolutely amazed by the surprise visit from Josephine secretly plan­ ned by their other daugh­ ter, Lillian. On Friday, exactly 50


years since her mum and dad were m a r r ied . Josephine joined in the celebration party that she says she would not have missed for the world. Mr Crane (77) received


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RECENT additions to stock at Clith cro e L ib ra ry include:


“ The Kremlin k is s ” —


Brian Freemantle. A thriller in which the hero becomes in* volved in British espionage in


Russia. •‘Th e g o ld en l io n ” —


Pamela Haines. A saga involv­ ing a young. adopted ltalian- American girl and her connec­ tions with Sicily and the Mafia. • •Wa l k i n g s t i c k s ” —


Edward Hurt. A guide to the art of stick dressing, with advice on different woods and


tools. ‘•Flower festivals: Themes


and Ideas*' — Frances Par­ kinson. A hook of suggestions and ideas for church flower fes­ tivals.


Joseph ami Dorothy the British Empire Medal


for bravery during the second world war for leading a party of men who lifted landmines


while under enemy fire in North Africa. He also served at Dunkirk and Gibraltar.


Crane worked as a rail­ wayman on the Settle to Carlisle line and also as a quarryman at Giggles- wick. He joined the Ter­ ritorial Army in 1037.


Born in Durham. Mr


born at U1 version and worked at a mill near


Mrs Crane (72) was


Settle until the war. Tlie couple were mar­


ried at Settle Methodist


Chapel and later moved to Clitheroe. Mr Crane re­ tired in 107-1 after M years as a security man at Lucas.


spends his time garden­ ing, and walks the dog at 7 a.m. prompt every morning!


Still active, he now


with her knitting and reading — and the cou­ ple’s five grandchildren.


Mrs Crane is kept busy College


life THE former director of art at Stonyhurst College, Mr Andrew Henderson, who now lives in Mellor, has written a book about life at the college between 179-1 and 189-1. entitled "The Stone Phoenix".


lished by Churchman, price £9.95, and contains some delightful illustra­


The book has been pub­


tions by the author, who was art director for IS years.


Tug-of-war


challenge GIVING th em se lv e s plenty of rope this week are local teams taking part in the first Lanca­ shire Constabulary tug-of- war. The competition has at­


THE unlikely sounding Sir Rodney Tatterdamlion and his conspicuous cohorts raised a few eyeb­ rows. as well as cheers,


A wedding trip to


America


tracted 10 teams of young people, many from the Ribble Valley as well as Fleetwood, Preston and Morecambe. If Saturday’s event is a success, the police hope to hold the competition annually. For the winners there


A GROUP of 11 members of a Clitheroe family have recently returned from a family wedding — in Philadelphia. USA! Marie Hope, the daugh­


te r of Mrs Elizabeth Hope, of Groenmount, Barrow, and the late Mr Derrick Hope, was born and brought up in Lit- tlemoor Road. She lived in Bermuda


is a prize of £150 and a trophy to be retained for a year, plus individual medals. The second prize is £50 plus a trophy and medals and all com­ petitors will receive a cer­ tificate and medal. The venue is Roefield


daying fields, Edisford Bridge, and the contest starts at 11-15 a.m.


w h e n t h e y v i s i t e d


Clitheroe. Sir Rodney, alias Dave


Faulkes, leader of the “Theatre on a stick" group from Bury, enter­ tained youngsters at Castle Gate with a Punch and Judv show in which he played the eight characters. He also walked the


A holiday


school THE great success of a jumble sale will enable the pupils of Stonyhurst College to run a holiday school for handicapped children at the college in July.


streets in medieval garb, chatting with townspeople and visitors enjoying Clitheroe Chamber of Trade’s Shopping Festi­ val. With him was street impressionist Jon Sinclair, who kept the shoppers amused by providing famous voices of their choice.


for eight years before moving to Philadelphia 18 months ago. On hearing of wedding


Soccer club honour


plans, her mum organised the three-week trip of a lifetime and took with her her other children and their families. They flew to be with


Marie on her special day — and even joined her on honevmoon at Disney World!


CLITHEROE Football Club’s achievement in winning the North-West Counties Football League Championship is to be honoured by the Ribble Valley Mayor, Coun. John Walmsley. He has invited rep­


resentatives to a civic re­ ception next Wednesday in his parlour.


Wonders to cherish


AS I left church at the close of morning service on Eas t er S u n d a y , a f r iend noticed a somewhat unsightly scar on the ton of my rapidly


Whalley Window


again?” I assured him such was


balding cranium. “Hello.” he said, “has the wife been hitting you


not the case and offered the explanation that, the day before, I had been off with a party of youngs­ ters on a caving expedition in the Yorkshire Dales. ‘lsthatrcallytrue?”he


demanded, and when I crossed my throat and


hoped to die” if I were not telling the truth in all seriousness, he turned to me in mock disgust. "You great daft, gorm­


due to my stupidity in not bowing sufficiently low when we came to a short stretch where the roof was only four feet from the floor for a few yards. The party had been


My slight injury was


ning of May. made over £2.000. with most of the cash coming from a good- as-new stall.


tombola stalls also did well at the event, organ­


The bric-a-brac and


ised and run by the Hand­ icapped Children's Trust, which benefited to the tune of £150 in donations taken on the door.


Poor May with wind and rain


IT was a cold, wet and windy May. with just the first few days warm and the 16th and 26th the only others which felt like


spring. Rain fell on all but six days


trees are greener, the blossom more beautiful with every new born year. The birds are more colourful, their antics more amusing, even if the eye that observes them is somewhat dimmer than of yore and the ears that delight in their song less acute than once upon a


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given prior notice of this and the accident was en­ tirely my own fault. 1 am glad’ to’ report that the roof of the cave was not damaged in any way. and despite the incident. I t hoi*ough 1 v enj oved my visit. So did my eleven-


one has to wait so long to truly cherish the glories of the countryside in which we arc privileged — and I mean privileged — to live. What apityit is that one


and totalled four inches. Cold winds kept temtwratures down and reached gale force on the 27th and overall it was a very jKHir May. with below average temperatures and above aver­ age rainfall.


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month-old grandson, if his gurgles of delight were to be believed. He thought the whole incident sup­ remely funny. I had visited the same


solutely right. It would have been a crazy thing to do if we had “ gone caving" in the usually ac­ cepted sense of the phrase, so I hastened to explain that the cave we had visited was a "show cave.” well lit by electrici­ ty with a good well-main­ tained surface to walk on and a qualified guide in charge of the party.


cave some *10 — it could have been 50 — years previously and can hon­ estly say 1 enjoyed the second visit much more than the first. I found the whole thing much more impressive. This is something I


have noticed increasingly in recent years. The older one gets the more one appreciates the glories and wonders of nature. Every spring is lovelier than the one before; the


cannot “put old heads on young shoulders." If only we could, I am sure that there would be less vand­ alism and desecration of our heritage in the fields and woodlands, the vil­ lages and towns, with which we are surrounded. A blessed spot to be. this Ribble Valiev.


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