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from her native Wallasey a year ago, when husband Mike Graham took up the- post of curator of natural history at Burnley’s Tow- neley Hall Art Gallery and Museum. Nine months ago she


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ing china or teaching the skill to others, Helen, who uses her ap p ro p r ia te maiden name of Potter for professional purposes, rather than her married name, paints botanical pic­ tures for the Royal Horti­ cultural Society. She has also made life-sized wax flowers for a Luxembourg museum and is a passion­ ate conservationist. Helen’s class at Whalley Adult Centre teaches stu­


athon Ross. Det. Supt Rogers investigates the murder of


Mary-Rose Hayes. The story of the three sisters who flee from England to America in an attempt to conceal the secrets of their past. “Sudden departures” —Jon­


RECENT additions to the stock at Clitheroe Library include: “The winter woman” —


lectures on the subject at centres in Birkenhead, the L ak e D i s t r i c t and Whalley. When she is not mend­


began her own china­ mending business and also


teer at Liverpool Museum, w h e re she r e p a i re d damaged Egyptian relics. Her work there included dealing with many unusual requests, including reset­ ting a mummy’s broken arm with a splint! Helen moved to Barrow


as a restorer 10 years ago, while working as a volun­


stakingly piecing together everything from priceless Tiffany lamps and 18th century Dresden china to seaside souvenirs with sentimental' value has brought commissions from all over the country. She acquired her skills


student. Her expertise at pain­


PICKING up the pieces is a way of life for Barrow’s Helen Potter. Repairing the shat­


through the autumn, more students will be required and anyone interested in seeing what is involved in china conservation can contact the adult centre or go along on the next two Friday evenings, between 7-15 and 9-15 p.m. Helen is pictured at the class with Mrs Joan Leach


(left) and Mrs Edith Oliver (right).


ROUND AND ABOUT A different beat for these local police officers


IT’S all change for three Clitheroe police officers who are on the move, two being promoted and one becoming an instructor. On their way to pas­


tures new are John Spencer, Dave Reclclin and David Fletcher.


Insp. Spencer was Insp. Spencer


LIBRARY CORNER Andrew Lattimer, burnt to


dri Jones. Comprehensive study companion for all GCSE English candidates.


Top awards for local Scouts


HARD work and personal commitment were rewarded this week when eight Ribble Valley Scouts were presented with Chief Scout Awards.


Bowland Scout Group, one is a member of St Mary’s Scouts, Clithcroe, and the remaining two are connected with St John’s Scout Group, Read.


TV personality Bill Beaumont at Accrington and Rossendale College, Rawtenstall.


The presentations were made by rugby star and


ing the four years they spent working for the award.


The Scouts undertook a variety of projects dur­


received certificates were: Roger Marsdcn (15), Halsteads Farm, West Bradford; John Christopher Silcock (15), Old Town Head, Eaves Hall Lane, West Bradford;.lohn Simon Moore (14), Eaves Hall Cottage, Waddington Road, West Bradford; Robert Sutcliffe (14), Abbey House, Worston; Dean Thompson (14), Dark Wood Crescent, Chalburn.


Members of the 1st Bowland Scout Group who


The Scout from St Mary’s is Stewart Brass (13), of Hill House, Delacy Street, Clithcroe.


of Berkeley Drive, and Nicholas Edward Wharf (15), The Willows, Buckingham Drive.


The Read Scouts were Andrew John Tiffin (15), Five of the recipients are members of the 1st


Alfred Wainwrighl. Beautifully illustrated record of the author’s travels through Scotland. Based on the BBC television series. “English on course” — Rho-


‘Wainwrigr


death in an exploding car. nt in Scotland” —


promoted from ser­ geant last week and on Monday took up his n e w po st i n Lancaster.


tion from Lancashire’s Chief Constable Brian Johnson, at a presentation ceremony at Hutton.


will continue to live in Clitheroe for the time being, first started work in the town in 1974, trans­ ferring from the task force based at Nelson.


Insp. Spencer (39), who He stayed until 1980,


when he was promoted to sergeant and went to Colne as Divisional Train­ ing Officer, returning to Clitheroe three years later.


Police Training College, instructing on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.


enjoys photography, par­ ticularly taking unusual shots of local scenes, and is a keen gardener. Insp. Spencer is also involved in many family activities with his wife, Margaret and two sons.


In his spare time he


up a new post on Monday, at Police Headquarters, Hutton. He will become a full-time instructor there after travelling to London at the end of the month for a six-week course.


reader, Sgt Fletcher (43) came to Clitheroe almost


A keen fisherman and A lovely letter


WHEN I carried out the ashes this morning the rain pattered gently down upon this balding pate, yet despite this, for me the sun shone and the gods smiled when I opened a letter from a Clitheroe reader.


and it brought with it the copy of a letter written 31 years ago from a boyhood friend congratulating my kind co rre sp o n d en t’s father on the occasion of that gentleman’s golden wedding.


A lovely letter it was


teenage activities of Dad and his Whalley mates in the closing years of the last century and lively, fun-loving young chaps they must have been, as you will read.


This letter detailed the


but they were no longer the mischievous rascals I read about this morning. Now they were all mature, s e d a t e an d h ig h ly respected members of-the village community — one, indeed, a notable Clitheroe personality.


lads I came to know myself, many years later,


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antics these scallywags got up to in the years when Queen Victoria was busy celebrating her Golden and


What exactly were the


Diamond Jubilees? Read on and you will learn.


When an elderly gentle­ man had planted rows of


J At least three of those


Whalley Window


lettuce seeds in his garden they carefully dug them up and replaced them with radish seed. Two of these boys were employed at the cornmill and one day, while a customer was transacting his business, they unharnessed his horse from the cart, took the horse into an adjoining field, closed the gate, put the shafts of the card through the gate and then reharnessed old Dobbin at the other side.


chapwhosechimney was on fire. Always eager to help,


man says, “Come here. There's more.” This, how­ ever, is a story of a differ­ ent kind. For some small service rendered, the writer of the letter was rewarded with the gift of a ticket for a Christinas raf­ fle. This immediately put the lad in something of a dilemma.


disciplinarian, deeply reli­ gious, rigidly opposed to


His father was a strict


conflagration — with buckets and buckets of water. And, as that droll Irish­


two of the lads climbed to the roof and doused the


Then there was the old


gambling and raffles of any kind.


wise, the ticket won a prize — four pounds of prime pork. What was the lad to do? He made con­ fession and how did father react? He made his erring son walk the four miles to Clitheroe to collect the meat, carry it home again and then walk the further four miles to the Wilpshire Orphanage to present the succulent joint to tile mas­ ter in charge.


attitude, I think, to that some fathers might adopt today.


A somewhat different


remininsccnces which are neither your business nor mine, the letter closed with stories of the high


Apart from personal


jinks in the torchlight pro­ cession held in the village


to celebrate Her Imperial Majesty’s 60 years as monarch.


lar celebration to you some years ago and will not repeat myself, hut where the activities of this partic­ ular group of young men were concerned, highly diverting as I found them, I fear I know what Her Serene Majesty’s re action would have been. “Boys,” she would icily have declared. “We are not amused."


J.F. I described this particu­ Fortunately, or other­ Sgt Fletcher also took


1985, Insp. Spencer was on secondment to Hutton’s


During 1984 and early


DROPPING IN FROMGHINA


over the accommodation at the hotel on Church View. Proprietors Mr Ronald Green and his wife Mar­ garet have thoroughly enjoyed playing host to their Oriental visitors and made one or two changes on the menu to make them feel at home.


Keen interest in the local community


A WHALLEY woman who lived at The Sands for more than 40 years and took a keen interest in community activities, Miss Marion Jane McVittie, has died, aged 82.


daughter of Mr and Mrs James McVittie, her father was clerk of works for the building firm which constructed Calderstones and Langho Colony. A f te r tra in in g as a


Born in Langho, the


Deanery Festival


year ago, Miss McVittie enjoyed painting in oils and was a member of the village’s Adult Centre for a number of years. She was also a keen cook.


s i s te r , Helen, and a nephew.


All Hallows Church, Mit- ton, last Thursday, prior


A service took place at


to c r e m a t i o n a t Accrington.


Caravan theft


A CARAVAN w orth £2,900 has been stolen from the Pendle Trading Estate, Chatburn. The *reen and cream Monza loliday caravan, registra­ tion C005 MST, was taken complete with towing bracket.


Miss McVittie leaves a


long commitment to Whal ley WI, the Friends of Whalley Abbey, and Mit- ton Church. She also took :i particular interest in Scotland and loved holi­ daying there, perhaps due to the fact that her par­ ents were Scottish born. Very active until just a


teacher at Whalley Pri­ mary School, she taught for much of her life at Western County School, Great Harwood, la te r becoming assistant head there. Miss McVittie had a life


served afterwards by the Giggleswick branch in the day school and a vote of thanks was proposed by


kinson attended, with other members of the Executive Committee.


From wagons'


television, silver in colour, a green Midland 3,000 CB radio, an aerial and a microphone were taken.


THIEVES took items worth more than £150 from wagons parked at Dugdale’s Feed Mer­ chants, Salthill Industrial Estate, on Sunday night. A five-inch Binatono


Mrs Bowker. Diocesan president Mrs Jane Par­


offered by Mrs N. Met­ calfe, Enrolling Member of Giggleswick, and Mrs G. Uttley, of Otley, gave a powerful address on the subject of Pharisees. R efreshments were


vicar, the Rev. D. Rhodes, with lessons read by Mrs M. Bowker, the Presiding Member, and Mrs M. Barker, the secretary of the Deanery. In te rc e s s io n s were


MEMBERS from all the Mothers’ Union branches in the Bowland Deanery gathered at St Alkelda’s Church, Giggleswick, for the Deanery Festival service. It was conducted by the


tors who designed and installed Castle Cement’s “dry” kiln five years ago. In Gisburn, the Chinese visitors have almost taken


ultra modern kiln on a visit arranged by Danish equipment manufacturers F. L. Smidth, the contrac­


been staying at the Park House Hotel during a week-long visit to Castle Cement in Clitheroe. They have been learning how to operate the firm’s


GISBURN residents say farewell today to 15 Chinese visitors, who were in the Ribble Val­ ley for a training programme. The 13 men and two women interpreters have


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CID as a detective con­ stable. Promotion to his present rank came in 1980. He lives in Clitheroe with his wife, Christine, and their son and daughter.


10 years ago, joining the


Monday, this time to Accrington Division, was Dave Reddin, promoted to sergeant. Based at Padi- ham for th e p a s t 12 months, he previously worked at Clitheroe for 11 years.


Also on the move on


A bike ride for charity


PEDALLING to raise pounds for charity on Sun­ day will be cyclists of all ages taking part in Clith­


£3,000 for tlie Meteor Club and association chairman Mike Haworth is hoping to equal, if not top, that amount at the weekend. Two routes are avail­


eroe and District Mentally Handicapped Association’s annual sponsored bike ride. Last year’s event raised


able, with a journey of 27 miles for the adventurous and 10 miles for those


seeking a more leisurely pace.


Edisford car park at 10-30 a.m. and finish at the Higher Buck in Wadding- to n. Fancy d re s s is optional, but there will be a prize for the best outfit. Sponsor forms are still


The cyclists meet at


available from M. and N. Haworth, 38 King Street, Clitheroe.


dents how to start again with a badly mended repair and disguise it as much as possible, filling in any missing pieces and matching up the paint. One member has con­ structed a handle missing on a dish, another has repaired countless orna­ ments and several have managed to unstick a pre­ vious repair and make a better job of it. If the class is to survive


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£110 at a coffee morning. The proceeds will be used to take the children on an outing to Southport Zoo.


Going to the zoo Read Playgroup raised


Fund raising


event will be on June 4th, .when the ladies hope to do a mile of pennies from one


end of the village to the other and bade, along Whalley Road.


preacher will be Mr Geof­ frey Walker, who led the service 50 years ago at the church’s golden jubilee. A buffet tea will follow, together with an exhibi­ tion of the church’s his­ tory. The 6-30 p.m. service


Church in Read is cele­ brating its centenary this weekend with two special Sunday services. At 2-30 p.m, guest


Centenary The United Reformed


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will be led by Mr John Eastwood.


Read Constitutional Club, prizewinners were: Ladies — Mrs Charnley, Mrs Longbottom. Gents — Mr G. A. Holden, Mrs P. Lar­ kin. The special prize was won by Mrs D. Birch and MC was Mrs Larkin.


Trumps At the whist drive in


heard from Miss E. Cor­ ner, of Burnley, about life 100 years ago, which was of special interest in view of the United Reformed Church’s centenary this week. The building originally cost £1,300 and for most of


In the past Read Friendly Circle


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The Cricket Club ladies committee at Read held a coffee evening which made £62 for club funds. There were tombola and bring- and-buy stalls. The special prize was won by Carol Demaline and guess the teddy’s name (Bongo) by Sarah Rushton. The next fund-raising


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