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Players deserve better vehicle for their talents
TO venture out on a very cold February evening takes either a very brave person or a very dedicated one, and those who did so to see Whalley Church Players’ presentation of “Elementary My Dear” were certainly dedi
cated. This farce, by King and
Boland, is not the best example of the genre, but the five-strong cast did battle with it and won. With a very, very thin story-line, I felt that the players were worthier of better material and cer tainly the ladies had the better narts. Carole Dcwhurst’s por
trayal of the frustrated, chocolate-eating sister had
just the right ennui; Mary Jackson, as a 15-year-old sch o o lg ir l, was well studied and resisted the urge to go “over the top”; Patience Carlisle, as played by Liz Caton. was a small, but well acted “femme fatale”, with a b e a u t i f u 11 y - a c h i e v c d character reversal at the end.
drop to order is not as simple as one thinks and it was obvious that Alan Mercer’s trousers had a
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WE hare just experienced the coldest February since 19-17, which was itself the coldest this century. However, this time we have been spared the deep snow which I remember so well. When waters become frozen for tong periods, birds such as kingfisher and heron often starve and their populations may lake several years to recover. The water rail is a relative of coot and
mind of their own — they were not going to drop. That apart, his interpreta tion of the over-keen novice de te c t ive was good, for the material he had. The part of James Tiller
Autocycle centre honours Derek
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was wordy and one, can understand why Eric Holden played it as a de mented marionette; it was the best he could do with it!
shaw must really have had to work hard to
Producer Doreen Grim-
infuse some life into such a mediocre script; a laud able effort. A pleasing set by David Chambers must have lifted the cast some what and skilful lighting by Alan Shaw com plemented the set. A good effort all round
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but I think the Players have far more talent than they were allowed to dis play here.
T.J.I)
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WINNERS of the duplicate (jame at Clitheroe Bridge Club were: NS Mr W. C.rindlev and Mr .1. Leader. Mr J. Higson and Mr N. Proctor. EW Mrs l A. Birtwistle and Mrs M. Phil;
ips, Mr R. Atkinson and Mr P.
should open two no trumps and south then has a difficult deci wion. If he decides to pass,
and south will run off his five 1 heart tricks to defeat the con tract.
est will bid three no trumps
t At one table south overcalled fhree hearts, west bravely bid oour clubs and this was passed fut to obtain a very good result
tricks were made. c East chose to pass the four
or east-west, as exactly 10
slub bid. as nearly all the mis eing honour cards not held by sast-west must be held bv louth, and declarer is thus
plete surprise when, at the annual dinner at The Savoy, Blackpool, Derek was presented with the Albert Sowerbutts Memo rial Trophy, given to the person having done the most work in the past 12 months for the centre. “It came as a complete
AWARDS for personal care to residents of Calderstones Hospi tal, Whalley, above and beyond the call of duty, have been pre s e n t e d to t " o workers. Mrs Maureen Gray,
shock,” said Derek, a familiar face at race meet
A cold F e b r u a r y
o f Abbey F ie ld s , Whallcy, a laundry assistant, received the Muriel Kay award and Mrs I’hylis Monk, of Shakespeare Street, Padiham, a domestic assistant, was pre sented with the Flor ence Heywood award. Mrs Gray chose a
for the record books
of hearts, and either the king of diamonds or the king of spades, one of which south
ikelv to lose the ace and king
moorhen, hat with a total Hritish population of only two or three thousand pairs. It is normally active only around dawn and dusk, foraying in reed beds' so that it is rarely seen. However,
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freezing conditions wilt force it out into the open in daylight and I was fortunate enough to see one such bird at Harrow Lodge last week. Most song thrashes move away from this area
in the winter and yet this gear I have seen more than usual. It is a well-known fart that they feed on snails, bat l had not appreciated the extent to which they rely on this source of food in the winter until my recent trip to the
lodge. The margins of the lodge hove a rich vegeta
tion, mainly of reed canary grass. The deep tiller formed when this dies down is an ideal place for the snails to hibernate. The new owner has laid down paths for the benefit of the fishermen, but the song thrushes have also be nefited from what to them is one long continu ous anvil. They have obviously been successful in finding the snails hidden in the litter be cause the path is covered with hundreds of their shells smashed open on the stones.
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pressure cooker and pan as her award gift, and received it from Air Bruce Pockling- ton, linen services manager. Mrs Monk chose a clock and a watch, which she re ceived from Mrs Lys- betli Clark, domestic services manager. Mr Tom McLean,
director of nursing, praised the women for
their care and resi dents Kenny Deans and Doreen Rutter presented them with a r r a n g em e n t s o f flowers. The presentation as made during the
IT was the most bitter and cold February in the Ribble Valley-since 1947. Biting winds from the north and east kept day time temperatures down to practically freezing point and there were severe frosts every night except the 1st. The coldest nights were
ings at north west venues including Oulton Park, Cheshire, and Aintrec. Motorsport is very
much a family affair. Derek’s two sons, Trevor and Keith, both compete a c t iv e ly in different spheres. Trevor, a paraplegic,
Clitheroc 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (At
Whalley
Oriental look The speaker at Whalley
Mothers’ Union was one of its own members, Mrs Ada Smithson, who spent two days in Bangkok on her way to Australia to visit her daughter.
street scenes, the wonder ful Royal Palace and many ornate temples, in contrast with scenes of the canal and market. To round off the even
Slides showed colourful
ing there were slides of the International Festival at Liverpool when all the flowers were at their best.
given by Mrs Margaret de Laurier and tea was
A vote of thanks was
served by Mrs R. Ken nedy. Mrs M. Duckworth and Mrs J. Bradley. On April 24th at Whal
rallies a specially-pre pared Ford Escort. Keith, a self-employed motor cycle mechanic, tries his skills on trial bikes and has won trophies in com p e t i t io n s all over England.
Firemen's
the 21st, 23rd and 24th, with 14 degrees of frost. Fortunately snowfall
was minimal, and long sunny periods each day- helped to give the impres sion that spring is not far
aw a y . Day
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birthday celebrations of the hospital’s '73 club. Pictured are, from
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the left: back — Mr P o c k l in g t o n . Mr Deans, Mr McLean; front — Mrs Clark, .Mrs Monk. .Mrs Gray and Miss Rutter.
G u ita r recital
Holiday post
ON Good Friday and Easter Monday, Clitheroe Post Office and all sub post offices will be closed. Pensions and allowances will be paid a week advance.
Blackburn and Clitheroe postal district will also be c lo sed on E a s te r Saturday.
Sub-post offices in the
THE classical guitar sound of BBC TV "Young Musician of the Y
winner Paul Galbraith will be heard for the first time on W ednesda y by C l i th e r o e C on c e r ts ' Society. The society has
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ranged for Paul, a winner of the television contest's string section in 19S2. to give a recital at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School’s Chatham Road s ite Among the music to be played are items by Bach, Havdn. Dowland and Schonberg.
PROCEEDS of a “Ceilidh night" at Ribblesdale School a week on Satur day will go to Trinity- Youth and Community- Centre.
Irish and Scottish music is being organised by The Clithe roe Dangerous Music Society and will fe ature the East^ Lanca shire-based Millstone
The night of traditional Band. 180 years of action
PERHAPS a dozen times each year young people contact me s e e K i n g assistance with school or college projects on the history of our village. The young lady who
Whalley Window
phoned the other night, however, was a little dif ferent. Her project was a history one. too, but only since *1800. Unlike the ma
jority she was not con cerned with the story of our church and abbey. I gave her what assist
ance I could in a 10 minute phone call, but later sat down to think
about it. The last 180 years have
probably se en more changes than in the many hundreds of years that preceded them. They have been packed with
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In the period under review it has doubled and doubled again. The civil administration of the vil lage has changed four times and there are 10 times the houses in the village than there were all those years ago — largely because houses that now provide comfortable ac commodation for two or three people once housed families of eight, nine or 10.
foundation of the local ag ricultural society, one of the earliest in the county, which held its annual show until the early 1920s.
In 1810 there was the
Wars the r ev e r en d fathers from Stonyhurst were summoned before magistrates in the Whal- lev Arms because it was hinted that they were French spies. They were
During the Napoleonic
ordered to leave the coun try within a month, but wiser councils prevailed and the order was resci nded. Earlier than that, in
1S06 a Methodist Church was officially established
in the village in a couple of converted cottages in Church Lane. Another 120 years were to pass b e fo r e the Catholic Church of the English Martyrs welcomed its first members after a long, long wait. In 1S46 the present in
fants* school was opened and has since been ex tended on at least two occasions, although the Grammar School had flourished since 15-19 and there were at least two private schools in the
village. In the IS-IOs , too, steam
powered cotton mills were established in neighbour ing Billington and pro vided employment for many local people, as did the Print Works at Barrow. Shortly after this, piped
water and gas were intro duced into the village ant), in 1850 — a major de velopment — the Arches were completed and the railway came to Whalley. The* passenger line
quickly put the mail coaches out of business
and, 112 years later, motor buses ran the rail
way off the local lines. Our present police sta
tion only dates from 1S94 although we had one long before that in a tiny King
Street cottage, since de molished. In the early years of
the 19th century our almshouses were built and the Ass e m b 1 y R o o rn s (now Rio’s Bar) date from 1S90. The Whalley Nursing
Association, founded 1897. lasted until the institution of the National Health Service and seven years before that the Whalley Division of the St John A m b u lane e c a m e i n t o being and lasted into the middle years of the pre sent century. Five Friendly Societies
were established in tin* village but they, too. became victims of the NHS and improved social services. Mention must be made
An EverlastingFOR M O TH ER ’S!
of the cricket club, now 126 years old. and the former Whalley anil Bil lington Co-operative Soci ety which ended so sadly in 1962, was established in 1S71. In the present century the biggest event must
have been the building of Calderstones which, from 1915 until the early 1920s, was the largest military hospital in the country known, nationwide, as Queen Mary's Military Hospital. Other changes? Their number is legion — far
too many to cover in the space of this article. But mention must be made of
the eulverting of the stream which ran down
the cobbled main street,
the demolition of Cock- shutt Bridge which stood at the Town Gate (where the traffic lights now are), and so we would go on. and on and on. Perhaps we’ll return to
the subject on a future occasion.
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TWO Ribble Valley fire- men have received awards for long service and pood
conduct. Chipping r e s id en t .
joined the service 22 years ago. Currently based at Preston, he has also worked for the ser vice at Liverpool, Chorley and Euxton. Mr Mutch, who is mar
Leading Fireman David Mutch, of Kirkfield.
ried, is the captain of the Brick House Restaurant Bowling Club. He is also a member of Chipping Cricket Club and enjoys cycling. A similar award has
Clitheroe. a part-timer at the town’s station. He joined the fire service in May, 1965, and was prom oted Leading Fireman in January, 1967 and Sub-of ficer the following De cember. A lorry driver for
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ley Abbey there is to be an information day about the work of the MU over seas. Details are available from Mrs Sylvia Ireland. March 7th is Womens World Dav of Praver at Whalley at
outing to Chester is being’ f<] Tynn planned for July 12th.
2-30-3U p.m..
Parish Church, and
and Abbey drive
citizens’ drive at Wkalley, whist winners were — Ladies: Mrs E. Howarth, Mrs M. Duckett. Gents: Mrs R. Sanderson. Miss N. Allan. Dominoes: Mr J. Hartley.
At the Abbey senior
lev, a ceilidh featuring the Clarkson Cloggies, will be
Ceilidh A novel event in Whal-
staged in the CE School tomorrow night. It is
being organised by the parents’ group of the 2nd Whalley Scouts. Guides. Cub Scouts and Brownies.
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music student in Vienna were described to Stand- fast Wl, Whalley. by Miss r a p e j
M. Downer-Bottomlev. Slain| Her friend’s father was mers s
been received by Sub-of ficer Bobby Davis, of Stamford
the Mayor, so she had recvcle access to many places and ited a visited he school where a trip | the Vienna Boys’ Choir rink lived.
ssed thanks.
ported on the spring coun- Mrs cil meeting at Bolton and Clithe| notice was given of the them I group meeting at Higham pate School on April 22nd.
Mrs P. Birtwistle re- cooker)
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noon, bring-and-buy stall tion foi and fashion show at the J u n i o next meeting. Competi- Binder tion winners were Miss Marsu H. Blade, Miss C. Doher- Hodso: ty and Mrs Birtwistle.
Members were re- hrvn F minded of the coffee after-
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Mrs M. Harrison expre- evenim| The
providil
Senior-
the Ribble Valley Council. Finder, presented an audio-visual The display of the district’s capital beautv spots to members R. Ke of whalley Methodist Duckw Ladies’ Evening Fellow- thank ship on Monday.
Beauty spots Mr Brian Manning, of Robin
information that over Finals. 11,000 people were ein- lost to ployed in connection with senior tourism in the valley, the of Lutv
He gave the surprising
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