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resumed after the Christ­ mas break, for dancers and actors alike, and the tiny-tot dancers are about to s ta r t learning their routines.


LIBRARY CORNER


RECENT additions to the stock at Clitheroe Library include: “ Bye bye b la ck b ird ” —


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resident, will give mem- iers and their friends the


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Frances Kennett. Story of a divorcee who becomes a suc­ cessful couturiere. Set in Lon­ don and New York at the turn of the century. “Odd noises from the barn"


P a t r i c ia W endor f. Third volume in the Patteran trilogy, set in the 1920s, when a gipsy boy marries a girl from a Somerset farming family. “A woman by design” —


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received £150 and was highly commended in the Village Ventures competi­ tion and Simonstone School Conservation Club was awarded a special certificate.


fun night and fireworks display enables villagers to enjoy Guy Fawkes night in safety and the free fun days have become a firm fa v o u r i te with local children. The Holme Committee


S c an n e r Appeal has received £l,000-as a result of the annual country mar­ ket, which now attracts thousands of visitors from a wide area. In addition, a bonfire


Spirit,” the article recalls how the committee began and looks back at some of the many events organ­ ised, such as fun days for children, discos for teen­ agers, socials for the elderly and dances for the community. The East Lancashire


has since gone from strength to strength, has received a pat on the back in the recent issue of the Community Council of Lancashire News. Under the heading, ‘Fostering Community


A VILLAGE street party 10 years ago to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee led to the formation of the S a b d e n H o l m e Committee. The organisation, which


wife Marian, former power s ta t io n e n g in e e r Mr Osborne Fogg lists his favourite hobby as show­ ing films and is particu­ larly proud of his small collection of elderly copies, of mainly pre-war films. His fascination with


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his films around local schools last year and showed excerpts recently at a pre-Christmas party for Whalley Methodist Women’s Fellowship. He would like to hear from a n y o r g a n i s a t i o n s interested in his hobby.


advertising film made about 50 years ago, say­ ing: “It has umpteen joins and ju s t about holds together. I inspect it care­ fully before showing it, but it always seems to manage to come apart somewhere — the joins sometimes give way.” Mr Fogg took some of


black and white short ones, but I do have a cou­ ple of feature-lengths — my favourite is ‘100 men and a girl’ starring Deanna Durbin,” he said. He also prizes an old


on shows at children’s Christmas parties and at homes for the elderly in the days before televisions became so commonplace. “Most of my films are


16mm sound projector and have gone on from there — mainly I used to do projections of hired films for my own pleasure and for other people.” Mr Fogg recalls putting


cine-projection. “ I bought myself a


Priscilla’s golden dozen


THERE’S gold in them thar shops . . . thanks to Priscilla the Goose from Trinity Methodist Church pantomime.


panto, which is being staged on January 22nd, 23rd, 28th and 29th and' 30th, with matinees on the 23rd and 30th, there is a competition to find 12 golden eggs.


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eggs in 12 shops in Moor Lane, Castle Street, King Street, Market Place and York Street.


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competition is January 21st and the first correct entry drawn will receive a prize.


The closing date for the


Business degree for ‘old boy’


AN old boy of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Michael Laurence O’Ha­ gan (30), has recently furthered his already glit­ tering career by gaining a Masters Degree in busi­ ness administration.


. Employed by British Aerospace PLC, he won a scholarship from them to finance the course, at Cranfield School of Man­ agement, Bedfordshire, where he won the prize for the best student in busi­ ness policy specialising in marketing and business strategy.


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Patchwork quilt of country life


UNTIL what we once knew as “The Assembly R o om s” w e re b u i l t towards the end of the last century (1895, if memory serves me right) there was no public room available in the village where the lads and lasses, their dads and mums, could hold a dance, a ball, or a jolly good “knees up.” Concerts could be held


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ers turn at times of har­ vest home and similar rural celebrations? To Langshaw’s joiner’s shop! Heavy benches were pushed to the walls and there, ’midst the fragrant smell of shavings and saw­ dust, peasant and (possi­ bly) gentry danced the gay “Sir Roger” and the new­ fangled waltz to the strains, maybe, of fiddle,


picture it conjures up and in Bashall Eaves, as I have recently written, similar functions were held on the upper floor of an old granary, with wagons resting and horses stabled underneath. In Dunsop Bridge, if


jolly rhythm of the barn dance, they resorted to the most appropriate place — a barn at Root Farm. True, in due course and until comparatively recent years, they dignified it with the name of The Root Ballroom, but it remained what it always was — a very fine farm building. I recall being invited to


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“but I thought you were having a dance later. How can you have a dance with-


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in the church and Method­ ist schoolrooms, rather staid concerts by today’s standards, but dancing was quite, quite out of the question. It would not be considered for a single moment. So where did the villag­


player,” they said. “We can’t keep a piano up here. I t ’s too damp.” Well, despite these


out a pianist?” “We have a record


this? Because it occurs to me that, in the 30-plus vil­ lages in our chiefly rural borough, long before vil­ lage h a lls became a


drawbacks, it turned out to be a splendid concert and dance, n eith er of which I will ever forget. Why am I telling you all


remotely viable proposi­ tion, there must have been celebrations of every kind in the most unlikely venues. Where, for instance, did


.their shindigs and general village do’s? It,wou ld be mo s t


which have quite excellent village halls today) hold


the residents of Rimington or Pendleton (both of


interesting to know, so if any “old-timers” have memories of those occa­ sions, if only for the sake of record, I would love to hear about them. It is all a part of our local history and deserves a place in the patchwork qui l t which makes up our country life. J.F.


Force, Mr O’Hagan is a keen traveller and enjoys ski-ing and running. His proud p a re n ts ,


Mary and Laurence O’Ha­ gan, live in Derby Street, Clitheroe.


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THE British Trust for Ornithology links a small paid staff to a large number of amateur observers. Together they provide information on wild birds and their habitats that is used for research, education and conservation by universities, government departments and organisations such as the RSI’li and the County Trusts for Nature Conservation. To help with this essential work the BTO intends to build a National Centre for Ornithology near its present offices at Tring.


funds by holding a sponsored bird count and this year’s money will go towards the new centre. As the BTO’s regional representative, I felt morally obliged to take part this time; I needn’t tell readers what a wet miserable day it turned out to be, but duty called and off I went, accompanied by two friends. I had decided to restrict myself to the Ribblc Val­


Every New Year’s Day, members of the BTO raise 5 i&


ley District, so where better to start than in my own garden. Before setting off, we had already recorded 13 different species, including one welcome harbin­ ger of spring, a male song thrush in full song. First stop was Primrose Lodge and then on to the Grind- leton Bridge area of the Ribblc. Here we had a family party of long-tailed tits and the unexpected bonus of a lone pink-footed goose flying down the river with a cormorant. As we headed towards Stocks Reservoir with 31


New Year and may our local wild life continue lo flourish.


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heavy rain and hill fog making conditions very diffi­ cult. For the first time ever, there wasn’t a single Canada goose up there. We returned via Waddington Fell, where we spotted one bedraggled red grouse on a wall, before calling at Standen Hall and the Calder


species already recorded, we were confident of a good tally, but then the weather really closed in,


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