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KIND-HEARTED REGULARS RAISE £1,000 FOR ELDERLY
KIND-HEARTED regulars at the Bridge Inn, Clitheroe, worried about the welfare of the elderly during sub-zero temperatures, have raised £1,000 for Age Concern’s “Warm Up Win ter” Appeal.
was handed over to the charity at a special pre sentation evening at the pub, Age Concern’s area organiser Mrs Pauline Walsh said the money would be used in Clitheroe for pensioners in greatest need.
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Oakhill College, Whalley, having moved to the grammar school to study for A-levels in maths, physics, chemistry and general studies. She hopes to study
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Candidate selected
THE Rib b le Valley Labour Party has selected its prospective Parliamen tary candidate. He is Mr Gregory James Pope (26), of Saunders Street, Black burn.
two children, attended St Mary’s College, Black burn, before studying at Hull University, where he gained a B.A. honours degree in politics.
Mr Pope, married with
Hyndbum Council, repre senting the Netherton ward of Great Harwood, and is employed as a pro duction worker by Star Paper Mill, Blackburn.
He currently serves on
JAZZ IN TOWN
JAZZ is coming to town . . . at the Swan and Royal Hotel, courtesy of Clitheroe Lions, next month.
The local charity fund
raisers decided that there was a shortage of live jazz entertainment in the town and hope to set the record straight. Proceeds from “Jazz at
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friends are supplying the music and tickets (price £1.50) are limited. They are available from Lions members, the Swan and Royal and the “Advertiser and Times” office in King Street.
the Swan” on February 18th will go to Clitheroe Hospital’s Megapulse Appeal. Eric Ainsworth and
Jim’s first poems are published
A LANGHO man has had his first book of poetry published.
poems of inspiration and romance” is a collection of works by Mr Jim Ash croft, who owns the Hill ock Farm Restaurant, Northcote Road.
“Love is my reason:
writing poems as a hobby for many years. He was encouraged to try and have them published by Lancashire Authors’ Asso ciation member Joan Pom- fret, of Great Harwood, who read several and was very impressed.
Mr Ashcroft has been The book is divided into
serious and romantic works. It is published by Langwood Ltd., of Bum- ley, and costs £2.50.
LIBRARY CORNER
RECENT additions to the shelves at Clitheroe Library include:
“Moonspender” — Jonathan Gash. A crime novel featuring Lovejoy, who has been engaged to oversee the running-down of a farm.
Maclean. Thriller set on an Aegean island.
"S an to r in i” — Alistair
Alicia Markova. Autobiogra-_ phy of the celebrated ballerina.
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Dales” — Frank Duerden. Twenty-eight walks of varying degrees of difficulty in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, giving detailed maps and route descriptions for each.
“Great walks: Yorkshire
sented by one of the pub’s chief fund-raisers, Mrs Anne Lambert.
wife Mrs Jean Knapton said: “Our regulars have been most helpful and gen-
Cider mug is a winner
Mug” made her the 1986 winner of the Taunton Cider Quality Assurance Project. Joanne (20), who is in
her final year studying graphic design at Somer set College, is a former pupil of Gisbum Primary School and Bowland County Secondary School. She took a two-year
A GNARLED mug based on the mythology of cider making has won a major award for Gisburn student Miss Joanne Fellowes. Her design of “Stumpy
round & about
Fellowes, of Main Street, Gisburn, will be given the chance to join a team of leading advertising agents in London for a week and is looking forward to experiencing the challenge of the advertising world.
course at Blackburn Col-- lege, where she gained a diploma in graphic design, before going to Somerset, where she is studying for a higher diploma. The project involved
Joanne, the eldest daugh ter of Mr and Mrs Antony
Caving adviser
CLITHEROE and Dis tr ic t Scout groups can extend their activities underground, following the appointment of a cav ing adviser, Mr Eric Mansfield. Mr Mansfield, of Beech-
wood Avenue, Clitheroe, has been on many trips with Burnley Caving Club since 1980, reaching the base of most of the dee pest Yorkshire pot-holes. He is head of chemistry
a t G aw th o rp e High School, Padiham.
THE Higher Trapp Coun try House Hotel at Simon- stone has been bought by Mr and Mrs R. Almonti, of M in s t e r G a l l e r i e s Antiques, Clitheroe. Mr and Mrs Almonti
were for 11 years the owners of the Shireburn Arms Hotel a t Hurs t Green. Italian-born Mr Almonti
and his wife Sylvia made history when they bought the Shireburn Arms from
producing a design to em p h a s i s e q u a l i ty a s su ran ce as p a r t of industry year. Now her design is likely to be used in Taunton Cider’s head- q u a r te r s a t N o r to n Fitzwarren. In winning the project}
HEAD HUNT
WHALLEY Church Play ers are on a head-hunt of the equine variety for their February production of Alan Ayckbourn’s “Ten Times Table.” But don’t panic, pony
of a pageant which went wrong and in order for events not to follow suit at Whalley, the said stuffed item is d e s p e r a te ly required. If you can help, please contact Mrs Sylvia Ireland (Whalley 2325).
Any room?
person to help Clitheroe police with their inquiries — about accommodation for three new recruits to arrive in the near future! If you can help house
BACK IN HOTEL TRADE
manager and fluent lin guist, Mr Almonti and his wife will take over the Higher Trapp on Monday. They are to continue to run their antiques busi ness from there.
Not ‘brow’ beaten!
HAVING received three new typewriter ribbons and four bot tles of type correction fluid in my Christmas stocking, I took it as a gentle Hint that it was time I got down to writing another of th ese Whal ley Windows.
One of th e 'th in g s
people interested in our district enquire about with some frequency is Sandy Brow, that rather steep ascent out of the village if one is en route for Accrington, Burnley or another of our suburbs (Oh yes! They are all a one-time part of our an cient parish). “Why is it called Sandy
Brow?” they ask; a ques tion which to me is rather silly. It is called Sandy Brow simply because it is built on sand. Well into the present
YOU GET MORE FROM BRITAIN'S BIGGEST CLITHEROE: SALTHILL ROAD.
century there was a sand quarry in the field on the left as one approaches the village ana, some 400 years before that, the same field was designated “The Warren” by the
monks of Whalley Abbey who employed a "war- riner” to ensure nobody interfered with their future dinners. Those readers who have studied old maps of the
.{Tillage., will know that,
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prior to its being given its present name, the hill was called “Broken Brow” for very similar reasons. Undermined by some hun dreds of rabbit runs, the surface was constantly breaking away. When I wrote -on this
same topic in September, 1977, interesting comment on my views came from a reader in Bury. In error I had dated the
Bar to Padiham, which was a branch of the turn pike under an Act of 1810. I was, and am, grateful to my correspondent for his interest. I recall a rather horrific
had seen a copy of the Act in Haslingaen Public Library in which it was stipulated that toll bars on the road were to in clude one at Broken Brow, Whalley, so “the name was in existence long before the actual work commenced.” Mr Slater rightly as
road “around 1811,” but Mr F. Slater corrected me: “The Bury to Whalley turnpike of which Broken brow formed a part was. created by an Act of Par liament of 1789 and work began long before 1811,” he_wrote,__ He continued, that he
dote referring to this once notorious hill; as you come down to the village from Portfield on the left is a small hillock on which, very commendably, our local Christian Action Group erects a cross at Eastertime, a timely re minder of the significance of the season. The late Mrs M. Top
accident on this same Sandy Brow on Good Friday, I think, 1927, when the brakes and engine of a crowded charabanc failed and the vehicle ran backwards down the hill before crashing through the hedge. One further little anec
ping, a highly respected former octogenarian resi dent, once approached me to;.use my (quite mythi
said, “and there’ll be a lovely view of the valley all the way down the road. I t ’ll be easy to
cal) influence to get that little hill removed. “Take it away,” she
sumed that I had mista ken the year with that of the road from Portfield
the old sand quarry. My old friend had seen the pit in action. ■
move,” she added, “it’s only waste thrown from
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the Trustees for Catholic Purposes, who owned Stonyhurst College. It was the first time in its history that the hotel had come u n d e r p r iv a te ownership. An accomplished hotel
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from our weekly charity raffles and tote doubles during the past 12 months and decided to donate it to Age Concern after learn ing about the problems facing the elderly during the recent cold snap.”
“We raised the money
ing the elderly with extra clothing such as thermal underwear, woolly hats, gloves and socks, and is also d is t r ib u t in g hot drinks, fuel stamps and information on how to keep warm.
tribute to the “Warm Up Winter” Appeal is asked to send donations to the Age Concern Charity Shop in Shawbridge Street.
pictured receiving the che que from Mrs Lambert (second right), watched by Mrs Knapton and other fund-raisers.
Mrs Walsh (front left) is Age Concern is provid
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