4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Jidy 2nd, 1987


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youth club, which has stuck to an equally busy programme even though rmn stopped play several times, and she hopes to see a good few new youn- g e r m em b e r s a f t e r summer.


Waddington._ Pencilled in for this month are roller skating, rambling, sport at Trinity, a video and a meeting with Kibble Val­ ley Mayor Coun. Les Nevett. Leader Sue Shep­ herd is off on holiday, but there won’t be a summer break — so long as the youngsters themselves are men enough to keep acti­ vities going. Sue also mns St Mary’s


hoping to organise a bar­ becue, some walking and a swim. So there’s plenty of fun in store. I t ’s a l l , happening at


teenagers will be putting down their tent pegs for a night at Briercliffe, near Burnley, on August 1st. Leader Hazel Jackson is


are continuing to improve their skills on the slopes at Ski Rossendale once a fortnight and plan to have a crack at ice-skating as well. About a dozen Chatbum


set off tomorrow for Dove­ cote Barn, Horton-in- Ribblesdale, along with leaders Geoff Jackson, Winston McIntosh and Hazel Jackson, and they should return on Sunday refreshed and enlightened from the self-catering experience. Billington youngsters


build up friendship and trust — that’s the aim of this weekend’s gorge walking and caving trip for 12 teenagers from Chat- bum and Billington. The 15 to 17-year-olds


night for the second time in three weeks. The idea is to plan inter-club activities and organise joint events so th a t the resources available are used to the full — and the youngsters mix with others from out­ side their own circle. It is an excellent idea and deserves to be a success. Working together to


i That’s tne question that has led to the setting up of an embryo youth council consisting of young people from Billington, Whalley, Chatbum, West Bradford and Trinity’s Youth Action Group. The group met la s t


WHY take a minibus half full of members from one youth club on a trip out when it could be filled up by y o u n g s t e r s from another group?


den? Not for long — There is a meeting a week on Wednesday of adults and young people to try to kick off a youth club in the vil­ lage. Good luck!


the junior side of the clubs, with the help of the older ones. Nothing to do in Sab-


She is hoping to build up


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has been a policeman for more than 30 years. His late father was also a policeman and the connec­ tion with the Force is being continued by Chief S u p t. Williams’ son, Andrew, stationed at Morecambe. The new commander is


Force’s second team and cricket for Heysham in the South Lakeland League. He has a degree from Lan­ caster University, where he studied while serving with the Force.


chairman of the county police football section, plays squash for the


LIBRARY CORNER


Courier. A spv story involving agents from tne Israeli Secret Service Mosssd. Clay Country” — Rowena


RECENT additions to the stock at Clitheroe Library include: “ Code E z r a “ — Gay


Summers. Historical romance set at the time of the Crimean War. Sequel to “Killigrew Clay”. ”More tales from a country


facts” — T. Webb. Exploration of the arguments for and against the use of irradiation in food preservation.


practice” — Arthur Jackson. Memoirs of a young doctor. “ Food Irradiation — the


liams (49) is settling in as the head of the division that covers Burnley, Pen- die and Clitheroe, suc­ ceeding Mr Pat Clifford, who has retired. Chief Supt. Williams


A MAN who has served in all parts of the county is the new Pennine Police Division chief. Chief Supt. Allan Wil­


FORMER Slaidbum girl Carol Pearson is in Hong Kong today on the way to Australia to begin her job of a lifetime.


ents live at Hodder View Farm, has been picked to recruit and train 350 staff for new. luxury Hyatt Hotel, which is opening in Canberra in November.


Carol (28), whose par­


She’s off to New Delhi


challenge for her and she is very excited at the opportunity,” said Carol’s mother, Dorothy. Mrs Pearson is a Kibble Valley councillor and Carol’s fa th e r , Stanley, is a farmer.


“This is a tremendous


of personnel and training at the- five -star Hyatt Carlton Tower in London since 1982, responsible for the recruitment and train­ ing of hundreds of staff.


Carol has been director


ju s t undergone a £15m refurbishment.


High School, Carol took a hotel management degree at Surrey University and gained a diploma in per­ sonnel management.


After leaving Settle


don, she is stopping over in Macau for a personnel managers’ meeting, before arriving in the Australian capital.


she hopes to do some sight-seeing before start­ ing her key role in the hotel group’s great Aus­ tralian development.


Here and in Hong Kong Gains degree


WHALLEY girl Miss Jen­ nifer Walsh (22), daughter of William and Marjorie W a ls h , of B ram le y Avenue, has gained a BA honours degree in Classics and English at Cambridge University. Jennifer, a former pupil


of Clitheroe Girls’ Gram­ mar School, is going back to Cambridge in the autumn for a teacher training course.


Flying out from Lon­


p le ’s s to re H a r ro d s , includes the diplomatic elite and many Americans among its guests and has


'The hotel, near top peo­ Dance banid


corded discs of the Jock Caton Dance Band, pri­ vately recorded at Belle Vue, Manchester, and in Liverpool. They can be heard at the headquarters at Clitheroe Castle’s (Did Steward’s Office.


sounds RARE recordings of one of the area’s most impor­ tant dance bands of the 1950s are among the latest acquisitions by the North West Sound Archive, based at Clitheroe. The archive has re-re-


will meet at the Nick lo’ Pendle at noon, with a choice of two walks. The experts can tackle a 12- mile route around Pendle, while the less ambitious will walk six miles over Wiswell Moor. The venture is the latest


out DOCTORS, dentists and Clitheroe Health Centre staff will be taking to the hills on Sunday for a spon­ sored walk. Around 40 fund-raisers


Stepping


in a series of fund-raising e f fo r ts by the health centre for the Scanner Appeal.


USA TOUR IN OFFING FOR SIMON


A TRIP to USA in September and the possibil­ ity of radio and television broadcasts await Clitheroe’s man of a thousand voices, Simon Entwistle.


Road, whose polished mimicry act has already been featured on British TV and radio, is hoping to woo audiences in Indianap­ olis and Philadelphia.


Simon, of Waddington


a friendly response from the Mayor’s office in Indianapolis and officials have shown an interest in his demonstration tape.


He says he has received


their encouragement will lead to radio and TV spots. He has also been in


Simpn is hopeful that


touch \vith the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and says that programme p u r c h a s e r s h a v e


expressed an interest in the BBC’s “North West Tonight” programme, which was filmed in Clith­ eroe, in 1985, and features some of Simon’s sound effects — and several local scenes. They have also informed


him that should he ever visit Australia they might be interested in engaging him for an appearance on th e i r c u r re n t a f fa irs progi'amme. Meanwhile, Simon is


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LEARNING about Indian culture and family life is high on the agenda for Katie White, of Langho, who jets off to New Delhi later this month. Katie (18), of York


Lane, is among nine young ambassadors from the North West chosen for the Thwaites scholarship. A pupil of Clitheroe


ners at Sabden Over 60s drive were: Mrs I. Cot- tarn, Mr G. Harper, Mrs P. Whittaker and Mr H. Swannick. Whist: Ladies — Mrs N. Marshall, Mrs C. Sefton. Gents — Mrs G. Walmsley, Mr F. Cot-


Miss Hayes, Miss A. Alston, Mr H. Swannick. Whist: Ladies — Mrs Walmsley, Mrs Marshall. Gents — Mr L. Grime, Mrs J. Swannick. Raffle: Mr Swannick.


tarn. Raffle: Miss E. Hayes. Thursday’s dominoes:


Tricks and spots Monday’s domino win­


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Royal (Grammar School, Katie will stay with an Indian host family and one of the highlights will be a visit to the Taj Mahal.


the public are welcome to attend.


tions including a garden stall.


Biilington


orgpised by the Ladies’ Social Hour at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Billing­ ton, raised £30.18 for home missions. There will be no meetings in July.


For missions A bring-and-buy sale


House, Sabden, are hold­ ing a summer fair on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to noon, with various attrac­


Summer fair Residents of Littlemoor


meets on Tuesdav at 7-30 p.m. in the Methodist Rooms, when members of


Come along Sabden Parish Council


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Mandy HollingMl Ogden, f Debbie Webster I Steven | Boxall, Joanne Cl Dawson. I


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Read Cll one mat(I (M-16).. ^ final rest last ganl and Sale-j win ma| with th)l tieing foil In Rc|


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still proving popular with English audiences and last week shared the stage at King George’s Hall, Black­ burn, with well-known impressionist and come­ dian, Phil Cool.


Remembered with affection


LOOKING through that battered book of old “Advertiser and Times” cuttings loaned to me by Mr ’T. P. Rushton, of which I have written pre­ viously, I came across a report that brought the memories flooding back.


her answer. Her happiest, memory was of “learning to dance as a child” and her birthday wish; if it were possible, “to re-meet' all her Sunday school scholars', then scattered all over the world, and have “a real old-fashioned party ^


she was asked: “What are your dearest treasures?” “My old friends,” was


Sunday school teacher for over 50 years and I have a


opened two years before her birth. A charming old lady,


of “the hordes of navvies coming to the village to build the viaduct,’^ but this, I think, must have been something she was told about rather than personally saw, for the railway was officially


room, she told of her child­ hood in the village almost 100 years earlier. She was bom at the Dog Inn in the very heart of the village and recalled the stage coaches halting at the Swan Inn directly oppo­ site, remembering her brother boarding one to travel to London, where he took his finals prior to becoming a doctor. Miss Brewer told, too,


Brewer, whose home had been Stocks Hill House for over 60 of those years, and she was interviewed on her birthday, in May 1949. Frail and confined to her


lady who was probably one of the best-known person­ alities in the village at the time, with very good rea­ son. She had lived here longer than anybody else — 97 years, in fact. She was Miss Elizabeth


I t was the story of a


Whalley Winidow


photograph of her leading her class in the CE Whit­ suntide procession in the very early days of the century.


she recalled a certain church concert many years ago, when some of the leading artists fell off the improvised platform. One of them could well have been the la te A r th u r La n g s h aw, l a te r to become so very prominent in Clitheroe, according to


She chuckled merrily as


them — oh yes, there are qui t e a numbe r st i l l around — told me; “I have a 78 gg'amophone record of Grade Fields singing ‘Lit­ tle old lady passing by’ and every time I play it I remember Miss Brewer.” J.F.


(fN^turecfJ\Iotes 4


was. The purple flowers are only about one centi­ metre across, but with a striking yellow cone in the


. both belong to the family Solanaceae, as do potato and deadly nightshade.


- Anybody ^who has grown tomatoes would recognise the similiarity in the flowers immediately, for they


centre formed by the stamens sticking together,


the plant contain solaninc, a poisonous alkaloid. However, the poison in the fruits is broken down as they ripen and they are dispersed by birds and small mammals. Unfortunately, the fact that they have turned red is no guarantee that all the poison has gone and although birds and small mammals can tell, children cannot and a fatal case was reported a few years ago.


—just like we used to.” Miss Brewer had been a •


that have turned green.-Keep them in the dark for two or three weeks until the green colour .has dis- appeared-and they will be safe once more.


do us any harm, but the green parts of the plant do. Potato fruits are also poisonous, as are any tubers


Tomato fruits do not contain enough solanine to TONY COOPER


The fruits of woody nightshade are oval green Iw tT ic s which become red when ripe. All parts of


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nightshade running rampant through a flowering shrub, which I still have to identify. Woody night­ shade is a climbing perennial which scrambles and trails over bushes and trees in'woods and hedges. It dies back to a woody base and it must have been in that condition when I cleared that particular sec­ tion of the garden some weeks ago. As soon as the flowers opened I knew what it


HAVING moved house in the spring, we are still finding out which plants arc present in our garden. We have carefully tended some young growths only to find later that they were weeds. Last weekend I found a specimen of woody


passing brought tears to the eyes of many of her former scholars. It would please her to know, I am sure, that today, almost 50 years later, she is still r e m e m b e r e d wit h affection. Only recently one of


and just a fortnight after her 99th birthday. Miss Elizabeth died and her


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