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IT’S A YEAR IN THE LIFE


AFTER all the brou­ haha of 1986 and the jubilant, heady Clith- eroe 800 celebrations, o n e m ig h t h a v e expected 1987 to be a bit of an anti-climax, a year that would prove to be “ n ow t b u t


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too much to ask that 1987 turn out to be a year full of zest, tri­ umph and community spirit that bubbled the length and breadth of the valley.


middlin’.” Surely it would be


Year of the Scanner; the year of the song­ sters; a good year for our sportsmen and women; it was a big year for beauty queen Yvette Livesey; a year


But it did. For 1987 was the


of minor squabbles and major speculations; a year of success for some and sorrow for others. In f a c t , i t was another busy year in


the life of a vibrant Ribble Valley.


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VISA ■■VfVt Young at heart


den, became the “cover girl” for a holiday brochure. A lifelong railway enthusiast, former Royal Gram­


T was a good year for the young-at-heart. In March 72-year-old Mi’s Aiiiy Parkinson, of Sab-


healed the rift between herself ami Blackburn Rovers, which had lasted 27 years, when she went to Wembley to see the club beat Charlton Athletic 1-nil


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mar School teacher Mr Ronald Kay, of Chatham Park Drive, Clitheroc, celebrated his 80th birthday with a ride on the footplate of a steam engine — thanks to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. The following month Mrs Freda Jolly, of Whalley,


after she failed to get a ticket for the Rovers — Wolves FA Cup Final in I960 and vowed she would never watch a Rovers game again. And a Brockhall resident, 73-year-old Tony Miller,


in the Full Members Cup Final. Freda. (79) transferred her allegiance to Burnley


who has been in the hospital since he was eight,was acclaimed an artistic genius and became the subject of a Granada TV documentary. Only able to speak a few simple words, his sole means of communication is through his primitive art.


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month old when the Kib­ ble Valley was asked to raise 1)75,000 towards a D'/jm. scheme to buy a


IT was th e S c a n n e r Appeal that monopolised the year. The year was barely a


Cover girl — at 72


body scanner to help save the lives of East Lanca­ shire folk.


single amount ever col­ lected in lhe Ribble Val­ ley for a good cause. Per­ haps it was the impetus


It would be the biggest


of 1986, and the newly rekindled community spirit, but the quest for th e S c a n n o r c a u g h t everyone's imagination, and all over the Kibble Valiev folk just buckled down immediately to get- t i ng t h a t a w e s o m e amount in.


In every way conceivable. If it could be sponsored or sold, scaled or swum, walked or won, climbed or cajoled, you did it. In the annals of fund­


And how did you do it?


rais in g never have so many different, often


breath-taking ideas been employed by su ch a diversity of folk with one aim in mind. The first £10,0(10 was


raised by mid-April. A week later it had practi­ cally doubled. And after that the money came in in shoals. Each time we


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constituency's MP with an increased and staggering 30,000-phis majority. He ended a long, arduous stint at the Home Office and was rewarded with the prestigious post of Chief Whip.


DAR EDEVIL mum Julie McGlynn said a big thank you to baby care unit sta ff at Queen’s Park Hospital, Black­ burn, by raising money in a sponsored parachute


jump. Mrs McGlynn, of


Brownlow Street, Clith­ eroe, did the jump after her dau g h ter , Katie Louise, was born five weeks prematurely and had to spend five days in a ventilator at the unit. After her taste of the


IT was David Wad- £ dinglon’s year, too . . . although the second g, half was far more pie- |) sant than the first. He was returned as tile


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“high life”, Mrs McGlynn and her husband, Ste­ phen, presented £600 to the unit. Clitheroe Light Engi­


n e e r in g , w h ere Mr McGlynn works, paid the training expenses for the


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chester, Leeds and Lan­ caster marched — chant­ ing as they weat — through Clitheroe. They pressed petitions on local folk urging them to sign, and were ignored. They threatened Mr Wadding- ton would find no pence in his own constituency and infiltrated his adoption meeting. It must be a toss up


whi ch is the wor s t Government job — North­ ern Ireland or the Home


nasty start. David Wad- dington was under siege from demonstrators sup­ porting Sri Lankan Viraj Mendis, who after living illegally in Britain for 11) years sought sanctuary in a Manchester church to avoid deportation. Protestors from Man­


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to the grand to tal. In October the figure stood at £55,000.


’ from East Lancashire as a whole, asked Kibble Valley council to chip in with more money. And during the pro­


FOR Sabden pensioner Amy Parkinson the year marked the debut of her modelling career — not bad at 72! The kindly Watt Street resident turned out to be quite literally “the girl next door” when PR company PEN Marketing Ltd launched a search for a special face to grace the cover of a new holiday company’s


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UP for the cup . . . Freda Jolly healed a 27-year rift between herself and Blackburn Rovers to see them beat Charlton Athletic in the Full Members Cup Final.


glossy brochure. Her jolly, caring look was a familial- sight to directors Peter and Libby Nicholson’s daugh­ ter Emma (S), who promptly friendly neighbour for the job.


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JUST A TOUCH OF CONTROVERSY


IT was a year with a touch of controversy.


A distinguished old boy of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School re tu rned for a speech day and promptly told the audience he was disappointed the school was still selective; there as the Pendle cross cam­ paign; the Edisford fence; the future of Calderstones and Brockhall; the big flu­ oridation debate; and vari­ ous proposals for two prominent buildings in Clitheroe’s King Street, which included night clubs, one with a Mexican flavour, a dry one for under-18s, a cabaret club,


a leisure complex, snooker hall, and lately an indoor mini-market.


David Melville, an old boy of the Royal Grammar School and now Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Lancashire Polytechnic, iml strong advocate of


It was in January that


rumbled throughout the year . . . the caravanners wanted it to help maintain their privacy, the locals said it would be an eye­ sore; the Clitheroe Town Council was absolutely against it and finally — even a fte r hearing it described as “an abomina­ tion” — Ribble Valley co u n c il g av e i t th e go-ahead.


question of how much the Ribble Valley wants tour­ ists. However much vari­ ous experts try to per­ suade us that tourism is the way forward, one gets


of this one particular issue was the much broader


man-in-the-hamlet, and the man-on-the-farm do not truly want all the trap­ pings that goes with it.


the clear feeling that the man-in-the-street, the


comprehensive education, returned for the first sixth form speech day and said lie was disappointed that Clitheroe still had the ele­ ven-plus selection system His speech shook the audience — many of whom had fought hard to ensure the town kept its tradi­ tional grammar school.


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illustrated by the fight over the Sabden Treacle Miners. Created by entre- peneur Bill Dewhurst, the l i t t le fur ry folk soon attracted the attention of coach tour operators from other parts of the country, who started converging on the narrow streets of Sab­ den in their droves in search of the legendary t r e a c l e m in e s . Mr Dewhurst applied to open his workshop seven days a week, to the consternation


It has been perfectly


litter problem, and despite various campaigns, sug­ gestions of on-the-spot fines, and hard work car­ ried out by groups, it always looks as if the dumpers are winning. Even when the latest in pavement-sweeping technology was introduced, there was so much for it to do that the heavy duty brushes wore through in four weeks!


tion and Bashall Eaves led the way in a whole host of awards in the Best-Kept Village competition. A councillor wryly pointed out there was little use Clitheroe entering unless there was a “Britain in Gloom” competition. The continuing nightmare for Clitheroe is the


IT was a year for great civic pride. Whalloy won the “Britain in Bloom” competi­


We’re blooming But really at the bottom


of the locals, who claimed they would tolerate five days, but certainly not seven. The net result was that


troversy over Bank Holi­ day openings. Again the visitors flooded in only to find many shops closed . . . and so were public toilets. The manager of Wool-


worths, Nick Remington, said a notice should be put on the by-pass stating “Bank Holiday — Clith­ eroe Closed.” Folk were g r e a t ly


Leon Morris, of St Mary’s, Sabden, wanted to erect a 20ft. cross on Pendle, which would be the focus for an annual interdenomi­ national pilgrimage. There were immediate objections •— some did not want a cross at all while others objected to it encroaching on the Pendle skyline. It was turned down in coun­ cil and Fr Morris said he would appeal to th e Queen. On Hallow-e’en, churchgoers climbed Pen­ dle to “claim the hill back for Jesus.” As for the controversy


divided, too, over the issue of the Pendle cross. Campaigners, led by Fr


over the two club plans for the former Hillards super­ market premises in King


Street and the old NOR- WEB building opposite, it


is back on the market after a d rin k s licence was refused and the owner lost his appeal, and a myriad of plans have been announced over the months for the supermarket, the latest being an indoor mini-mar­ ket, which brought howls of protest from shopkeep­ ers in other parts of the town.


is difficult to say what the outcome will be. The NORWEB building


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Mr Dewhurst threatened to take his miners out of the Ribble Valley to some­ where where he would be more welcome. And there was the con­


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BROCKHALL resident Tony Miller (73) thrilled the art world with his primitive style and attracted great public interest after appearing on television.


CLITHEROE woman Mrs Iris Owen became a racing driver for a day, complet­ ing 10 laps of Brands Hatch in a Ford 1600 c.c. car to raise £798 for UNI­ CEF. Mrs Owen, of Pen­ dle Road, won the treat in a competition.


Szczyrba, of Alma Place, donned her togs to collect money for the Ribble Val­ ley Scanner Appeal. The granny with a heart of gold raised £77 for the appeal.


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MOTHER of three Mrs Sarah Waterhouse, of Read, attempted to climb


high as she safely could and raised £700.


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THE songs ters of St Augustine’s RC School, Billington, hit the right


don for royalty, alongside some of the biggest names in entertainment, and tw i c e a p p e a r d on television.


a? remember as the crowds flockcd, in their, thousands to join in the fun, THE year had its heroes — among them fifteen-year-old Dean THE HEROES


Demaine, who saved the life o f his sister, Nicola (Hi), when fire swept through their Mitton home. And the life of shepherdess Valerie Pickard, of BoIton-hy-Bowland, was


saved by the uncanny sense of her two-year-old sheepdog, Shap, in true Lassie style.


windswept moorland as she was trying to rescue a stranded sheep. She fell unconscious and in danger of hypothermia.


In April Valerie (now 22) fell 30ft. down a gully into a stream on bleak,


•her return that she had won a top award — the Winmarleigh Rosebowl _ presented by the Lancashire College of Agriculture and Horticulture.


section of moorland, and he followed the dog for nearly a mile to find Valerie. Valeric, by the way, was one of two Young Farmers invited to study farm­ ing Down Under. She studied sheep farming in South Australia and found on


Shap went to find Dunsop Bridge farmer Tom Robinson working a different ! / F W t M i n t


c'las .well as, raising money. for charity:-As can .be seen, people entered v ’ ,.rinto-.the .truc::spirit;.of. the 'event,.-making;'it once again, a day.' to


- CLITHEKOE'S now famous Heritage Fayre once again'proved a hit, ’attracting.large numbers despite-thc.weather.- Itvwas fun all the way, s


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VARKEL and Hardy took Clithcrbc by storm in’- , J)ri ' L’fdong fans, the Rev. Brian Stevenson, '}**>*'^FLow Moor,- the Rev. Alan Keid,' Vicar' and cinema manageress Miss Barbara v


packed King George’s Hall, Blackburn, to Lon­ don acclaim at the Barbi­ can, and then a prime slot on television, the pupils hit the big time with their musical “African Jigsaw,” shown on ITV’s “Splash Special” in the summer. Then they were invited to perform on a special har­ ve s t - t ime “ Songs of Praise” from Southwell M i ns t e r , n e a r Nottingham.


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was written by teacher Peter Rose called “Care


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notes throughout 1987. They performed in Lon­


crept in during the last months of the year, par- l i c u 1 a r I y w hen t h e Health Authority, faced with a £100,000 shortfall


later came the staggering news that not only had the Kibble Valley folk reached the £75,000 tar­ g e t, bu t had b las ted through it bv another £25,000. The £100,000 milestone amazed Roy Dewhurst, chairman of the Kibble Valley com­ m i t te e , who sa id i 1 worked out at £2.50 don- a t e d p e r h e a d o f population. A bit of a sour note


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LANGHO farmer and restaurateur Auction Mart to a different use — <| Appeal. He shed some of his 26 stonil


tracted debate on fluori­ dation, more than one councillor expressed dis­ gust th a t the h e a lth authority was prepared to spend £.‘!.5in. on a scheme where the bene­ fits were so dubious and the whole issue of free­ dom of choice was at stake, while “ passing round the hogging lmwl" to get enough money for a scanner which would save lives.


of Mitton Fold Farm and Restaur j auctioneer Mr Robin Addyman.


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