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Clitheme Advertiser & Times, October Btli, 1988


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A T Y O U R SERVICE ..


The local firms below provide a variety of essential services — use this guide for an easy reference


Stephen’s off to LA


| Angeles in November. Stephen (36). of Whi-


• Stone work 0 General Property Repairs O Fireplaces 0 Patios 0 Concreting and Brickwork 0 Plastering 0 Rendering 0 Pebbledash, etc.


R. S. J. BUILDERS Free Estimates


Personal attention assured. No job too small.


TEL. CLITHEROE 27160 (24 hour answering service)


CYRIL service engineer


HOOLEY Ex-Hoover


57 WOONE LANE, CLITHEROE Tel. 22023


AUTHORISED HOOVER SERVICE


Repairs,


Reconditioning and Service of


HOOVER APPLIANCES STEPHEN


INGHAM PAINTING and DECORATING


FREE ESTIMATES 3g?


25 Salt Hill Road, Clitheroe


Tel. Clitheroe 28765 Plastering Contractor


Rendering, Tyrolean, Pebble Dash, Rough Cast Cornice Mouldings Cast or Situ and Repairs.


Plastering, Ceilings, Boardings, etc.


Internal and External Decorative Finishes All types of Plaster Repairs.


MOVE IT


COLQUR TV a n §


COLOUR TV trom £5.95 per month VIDEO trom £12.95 per month


TV and VIDEO from £16.95 per month ALSO Repair, to moat TV a with f n « loan s a i l provided.


A. E. HARGREAVES MOOR LANE AND WOONE LANE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 22683


Get a quote from us before you decide


‘ VIDEO RENTALS


• Single items O Full removals 0 Storage • House clearances


DISTANCE NO OBJECT


For the best service in town ring:


MEL EDMONDSON CLITHEROE 24908


SCRUBBERS and POLISHERS • CARPET CLEANERS


ALAN RICHARDS (INDUSTRIAL FLOOR


CLEANING EQUIPMENT)


WATERLOO ROAD, CLITHEROE Telephone: 22161


M. J, HEYWOOD Roofing contractor


Specialist in slating, re-roofs and general repairs.


10-YEAR , 0 ^ S V < ^


GUARANTEE Free Estimates.


TEL. COLNE 863453


alter 6 p.m. From: ERIC DUGDALE (Merchants) Ltd


PENDLE TRADING ESTATE. CHATBURN CLITHEROE 4 1 5 9 7 .


Op#n: W00kdpy 7*30 a .m . — 5*30 p.m. S a tu rd a y 7 .3 0 a .m . — 12*30 p.m.


New carpets and vinyls


Repairs and refits CLOCK


Antique and long cane Hpecialmt


REPAIRS CMTIIER0E 23116


BARRIE ASPDEN


Fitting your own carpets


Painter and i Decorator handyman


N O JO B TO O SM A L L L. R. Ba J .


N EW LO V E Gt. Harwood 887868


Competitive prices SEED and


TEMPLEMAN 37 Wollgato, Cllthoroo


Tot. 25638, or 28401 (ovonlngB)


C. C. PARKER DECORATOR


PAINTER and


Free estimates Tel.


CLITHEROE 25473


WET VACUUMS • PRESSURE WASHERS • FLOOR


FOR HIRE 1


ALAN HOWELL LTD. (Heating


Engineers/Plumbers)


Repairs, Servicing and Installations


GAS/OIL/SOLID FUEL


For Speedy Service: TEL. WHALLEY 822770


C.O.R.G.I. Registered and British Gas Approved Instatiers


SALES, SERVICE ■ r>-w AND REPAIRS


. i WA WASHING MACHINES VACUUM CLEANERS


ALL MAKES SUPPLIED Reconditioned Washers and Vacuum Cleaners


All Tree work undertaken


LOGS FOR SALE


90p per bag or £25 and £30 loads (approx 1 ton)


TEL. GISBURN 575 or CLITHEROE 27536


DEREK LEIGH TV R E N T A L S


4 Shireburn Avenue, Clitheroe. Telephone 24168.


NO DEPOSIT TV RENTALS Portable, Teletext, Remote


e.g. 20ln TV £7.00 per Cal. Month 1


New21ln. FST Remote E10.50 per Cal. Month Discount for Annual Payment


TV Repairs, ex-Rentals.for sale h ir e Telephone Clitheroe 27183


Accrington Furniture


Established 10 years — tree I estimates


Carriers REMOVALS and STORAGE


— Telephone — Accrington 394757 V A L L E Y


PLANNING SERVICES


JOINERS AND BUILDING CONTRACTORS


Sovereign DPC and Timber Treatment


Planning and Building Regulation drawings submitted to authorities Telephone Clitheroe 22643


STOP CONDENSATinwtil Dehumidifier |


Hire Delivered RAY BLACKBURN


PLUMBING AND HEATING


ENGINEERS 19 years experience.


Glazing, Gutters, and Roof Repairs.


SERVICING AND SPARES


Oil, Gas and Solid Fuel Tel:


Clltheroo 26460 for prompt attention


FULL BOILER


Win dow s and Doors


In hardwood, softwood, uPVC. DIY and timber supplies contact:


R. & P. HARGREAVES Joiners and Building Contractors CANDLEMAKERS CROFT


(BEHIND LABOUR EXCHANGE)


LOWERGATE, CLITHEROE. Tel. 26929 For a friendly and personal service


PETER A.


H1GHAM Plumbing and


Healing Repairs and Installations


Clitheroe 24947 Telephone:


Prompt attention to emergency calls


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I award. An impressive thesis on


I teacre Lane, is a service d ire c to r with Romers Electronics, of Rishton, and recently won the Great Britain Sony service en g in ee r of the year


I electronics and his practi­ cal ability during a gruell­ ing test at Sony headquar­ ters in Berkshire earned


I work over there. Lucky entrants will be taken on a trip to the Grand Canyon and will take time off to see something of the City [ of the Angels.


| him a place in California. But it will not be all


I BARROW man Stephen Westell is to represent the United Kingdom in a world electronics competi­ tion to be held in Los


doing anything like this before and it was a case of building up a collection. Now that I have 50 or so pictures, I thought I would have a go,” said


LIBRARY CORNER


Coen, who struggles to build a new life in Arizona after the tragedy of her mother’s death.


West of England, revolving round the life of I)r Jonathan Brooks, casualty officer at the local hospital.


"Coming of age" — Jonathan llnvnrd. A novel set in the North


memoirs of the Munich crisis and succeeding events. “Guide to better ACOI. bridge" — Bon Klinger. Guide for the more experienced player.


“Countdown to war” — Geoffrey Cox. Foreign correspondent's


LATEST additions to the stock at Clithcrue l.ibraiv include: “West of Eden" — Gloria Goldrcicli. The storv of Emma


Valley, Coun. Albert Atkinson, saw Lawrence’s work and encouraged him to exhibit for' the first time. “I had never thought of


a painting and decorating business in the village and in his spare time has enjoyed his hobby as a naturalist, painting pic­ tures of the wildlife he sees. The Mayor of Ribble


Pickard, of Whalley Road, is holding his first ever exhibition at the Ribble Valley Council Offices in Clitheroe. For 20 years he has run


ley wildlife. Fifty-year-old Lawrence


A SABDEN decorator has turned to art to capture on canvas the beauty of Ribble Val­


ROUND & ABOUT


he is inspired by what he sees. He works in water­ colour, pastel, pencil and acrylic.


Lawrence, who is married with a son and daughter. Often in his daily work


ing to do, he feels, can be captured with pencil, as he is particularly interested in shape and texture. Oils are out because they take too long to dry.


mals and birds is a fair cross-section of his work. There is a sparrow hawk and a green woodpecker and even a great crested grebe, which was seen nesting near the Clitheroe bypass. Thankfully, the very rare barn owl is also still to be seen locally.


a n d I am g r e a t l y encouraged by what there is to see, providing you know where to look,” he said.


every line is the hard part and for the detail he relies on photographs. But it is not all detail. A study of a tree stump, for


Capturing meticulously


Jimmy,” or “You never mentioned that." P e r f e c t ly t r u e , of


SIGNWRITING


Vehicles — Shops — Signboards — Public Houses — Goldleaf Work — Pictorials — Artwork


G. HOLGATE & SONS, Beckside Works, Taylor Street, Clitheroe


S 27891/24296


wrote to me and, on one occasion, her postcard read "When the ‘Adver-


our “old-timers” will know exactly who I mean. She alw ay s took a g re a t interest in local affairs and, subsequent to her retirement, left the village with reluctance to live in the south of the country. From time to time she


the local doctor who, if he took an hour or two off in the evening, would ring the operator and say, “I’m going out for a while, Mrs C. Please give me a call at such and such a number,” or "Please take a message and I'll call you immedia­ tely I get back” and Mrs C always obliged. Dear Mrs C — most of


th e local te le p h o n e exchange, which was pro­ moted from “manually operated” to automatic in comparatively recent years. Great advantages came with the innovation, to be sure but, in a small community like this, there were drawbacks, too. For instance, there was


course, although 1 had indicated that the changes were many more than could be included in my weekly 600 to 600 words. There was, for example,


all my local readers for, in the days immediately fol­ lowing publication. I was chided several times, “You never mentioned this,


than in the preceding 700, when it was noted in the Domesday Book that the church in Whalley held two carucates of land. Sadly, I failed to satisfy


RECENTLY I wrote of th e v a s t n um b e r of changes that had taken place in the village in the, historically speaking, com­ paratively short time of 1,800 years — far more


More on changes to our


Whalley Window


tiser and Times’ arrives each week, first I read the obituaries and then I read Jimifel.”


tainly been changes and the word is not always s y n o n y m o u s w i th improvement. We no longer have a blacksmith in the village, a wheel­ wright, a far rier or a saddler. Splendid crafts­ men, all of them, when I first came to the village and all quite willing to do


Boost for tidy up campaign


summer in grants to schools, youth and commu­ nity clubs, civic trusts and parish councils, in sup­ port of environmental projects.


THE campaign to tidy up Lancashire has received a major boost of £10,000 from British Telecom. The money is likely to lie used next spring and


the Tidy Up Lancashire Committee and the Com­ munity Council of Lancashire, with whom British Telecom has already joined forces to provide cash help for community projects in rural Lancashire. Under the new village projects fund, schemes such as tree plnnting, nature trails, playgroups,


British Telecom's backing has been welcomed by


the restoration of old buildings, community trans­ port and old people's luncheon clubs could receive some of the £4,0(10 on offer from the fund.


sidered for inclusion in the projects or further details should write to Mr E. Townsend, British


Telecom, Telephone House, 170-175 Moor Lnno, Preston.


4 Kibble Valley organisations wishing to he con­


ject, he takes the cutting from his wallet and pro­ ceeds to read it aloud to me.” Yes, there have cer­


anger. “You have done me a very bad tu rn ,” she chided. “I had just got Mr C in the mind to have twin beds when you wrote this verse of yours. Now, every time I raise the sub­


consolate husband, but few weeks later conjugal felicity was re s to red when, on Christmas Eve, the lady changed her mind and when her husband mounted the stairs that night he found the double bed restored to its former place. “Best Christmas present I ever had,” he declared. Mrs C wrote in mock


gentle reprimand. The previous week I had pub­ lished a verse telling of the experiences of a local lady who, despite a lack of enthusiasm from her hus­ band, had disposed of the marital double bed and replaced it with beds of the twin variety. Result — a rather dis­


There was, too, the occasion when she sent a


the little jobs not directly connected with their trade — things like making run­ ners for the boys’ sledges, putting a new bottom in the copper coal scuttle or re p a i r in g a damaged suitcase.


not so old days, if an arti­ cle got damaged you could always find somebody to repair it. Today the ten­ dency is to throw the damaged object on the scrap heap and replace it with new. It seems a very wasteful procedure. We have become a “throw away society.”


In the old days and the J.F.


COMPARED with many other European coun­ tries, Britain has comparatively few birds of prey. The kestrel, of course, is relatively conspicuous, with its habit of hovering over roadside verges, hut the number of individuals involved is not very large.


cies, such as the hen harrier. This is a moorland breeding bird which had colonised Northern England comparatively recently, probably from Scotland, where suitable breeding habitat has been reduced by blanket afforestation with conifers.


It is always exciting to see one of the rarer spe­ “It is a splendid heritage The exhibition of ani­ Much of what he is try­


example, contains an in t e r e s t in g h in t of abstract.


beings in the Ribble Val­ ley. Nests in walls are an obvious example, but at least one Sabden pair of robins has made a home out of an empty beans can.


how animals have adapted to living among human


ambition in the art field, but would welcome the challenge of book illustrat­ ing. On a wider level, he is interested by the works of contemporary artists Basil Ede and Eric Anyon.


Lawrence has no great


Mr Pickard (left) with the Mayor.


until October 16th. Our photograph shows


The exhibition lasts The works demonstrate


Youngsters praised


our young people feel it their right to welcome them and talk to them. Our visiting speakers have said that they are an easy group to feel comfortable with.”


^Nature c fN o te s ^ .


report says: “A lot of the youth club time has been spent outside the centre and we feel that this has given the members a less insular look about meeting other people. “When we have visitors,


senior youth club based at Trinity Youth and Com­ m u n i ty C e n t r e a re described as “a very pleas­ ant group of individuals." The c e n tre ’s annual


MEMBERS of a Clitheroe youth club have received a special pat on the back from their leaders. The over 14s at the


Captures wildlife — on canvas " W \ v II


Clitlieroe 22321, (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising)- Burnley 22331 (Classified)


Clitheroe 22321, (Editoriall


SABDEN


• Mr R. Eden. Whist: L a d ie s — Mrs A. Howarth. Gents — Mr E. Wilson. Raffle: Mr R. Eden.


Mrs V. Lightbown, Mrs F. Boocoek, Mrs D. Bass and


Monday social, domino winners were: Mr R. Eden, Miss E. Hayes, Mrs Lightbown, Mrs M. Simm and Mrs F. Boocock. Whist: Ladies — Mrs N. Dixon, Mrs M. Wade and Mrs C. Sefton (joint). Gents — Mrs G. Walms- ley, Mr E. Wilson. Raffle: Mrs C. Sefton. Thursday’s dominoes:


Winning hands At Sabden Over 60s’


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School enjoyed a happy and successful harvest ser­ vice on Friday morning. Children from all classes, including the nursery, took part in songs, read­ ings and poems and the school was decorated with harvest gifts. More than 60 parents and friends packed in and afterwards the children took their harvest gifts to the elderly and sick in the village.


Packed Sabden County Primary


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David Bromley, 91 Padi- ham Road; Mrs Lambert, 22 Stubbins Lane; Mrs J. Ashworth, 17 Padiham Road. Medium — Mrs E. Sutheran, 5 Clitheroe Road; Mr H. Hunt, 68 Padiham Road; Mrs M. Knowles, 95 Clitheroe Road. Small — Mrs M. Parkinson, 51 Whalley Road; Mrs Mary Ragnall, 5 Littlemoor House; Miss Heyes, 85 Whalley Road. Special features — Mrs


has announced the winners of its best-kept gardens competition. The trophies will be awarded at a Par­ ish Council event later in the year to the following: Large garden — Mr


Gardens contest Sabden Parish Council


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ject to a certain amount of interference. Outside the breeding season the birds disperse, often to the coast, though up to a few years ago I regularly sighted wintering individuals in the Stocks Reser­ voir area. For some reason I have seen hardly any there for the past two or'three years, so was delighted to see both a male and female there together last week.


rump as the bird flies low over the ground hoping to take its prey by surprise. The female is other­ wise mainly brown, but the male is a handsome pale grey with black wingtips.


The most striking feature is the prominent white


carrion crow that was harassing it, but the male landed at the reservoir edge to bathe. Standing up to his thighs in water, he gave himself a thorough soaking, before taking off without any preliminary preening. However, while in the air, he did shake himself like a dog two or three times, before disap­ pearing over the horizon.


The female flew over, seemingly ignoring the TONY COOPER


Hen harriers do breed in Bowland, though sub­


out by members of Sabden Horticultural Society.


Whalley Road; Mr Chris Haekett, 25 Pendle Street East. The judging was carried


D. Graham, 23 Whalley Road; Mrs E. Broadley, 12 Whins Avenue; Mr J . Bowker, 33 Whalley Road. Hanging baskets — Mr A. Parfitt, 10 St Nicholas Avenue; Mr Les Barnes,


dren presented a small p la y le t based on the “Rainbow People.” the theme of which was that if everything was shared, everyone would have suf­ ficient. They went round with begging bowls and the proceeds of £67 are to be.sent to the Save the Children Fund. Guest p re a ch e r for


packed to the doors for the family harvest festival ser­ vice on Sunday morning. Almost 150 gifts were given by the children of Read for distribution to the elderly and sick of the village. Some were also taken to nursing homes. The Sunday school chil­


Begging bowls Read C h u rch was


Evensong was Canon Edmund Wynne.


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STALWART DYEING CO. LIMITED, PRIMROSE WORKS, CLITHEROE — Telephone: 290(Ui


FREE PARKING — OPEN: Saturday, 9 a.m. — 1 p.m.; Open weekdays,'Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.


LATE NIGHT OPENING, THURSDAY, till S p.m.


won by Mrs J. Bailey and MC was Mrs P. Larkin.


Read Constitutional Club, prizewinners were: Ladies — Mrs J. Coward, Mrs P. Longbottom. Gents — Mrs Cropper. Mrs E. Hutchin­ son. The special prize was


All the aces At the whist drive in


Social Read Football Club is


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holding a social evening on Saturday night in Read Constitutional Club. All are welcome.


going from Foulridge via Nelson, Burnley and Padi­ ham. Money will go to Whalley Abbey Restora­ tion fund for urgent roof


be taking part in the Whaliey Abbey sponsored pilgrimage on October 15tn, when five routes from all over the Black- bum diocese will converge on Whalley Abbey for community hymn singing. Read is on route A,


three miles from Read, together with sponsor forms, can be obtained from the vicar.


started its 1988/89 pro­ gramme with an excellent attendance for an enrol­ ment service in St John’s Parish Church. During Communion, the following committee members were


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