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C1il>M..Ujn4iirr.(i67<IIX Clitheroe 2232b (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified) YOUR WARTIME MEMORIE
WE had ju s t two years of happiness, working on and plan ning for the house we had built in Princess Avenue. There had been no thought of
ters were being made and where I was working we started to weave balloon fabric. The work meant we would save lives, we were told. Children were being issued with gas masks and trained how to use them. I received a form from
the ministry, telling me that “railings had to come
war or parting. But soon air raid shel
morning, Mr Taylor, who was then the chief, called me over and pressed the bells to summon all the firemen. In five minutes all were assembled and he said: “Lads, we are at war.” As I looked at all their
down round the house for melting down.” This' proved good for me as it gave me full access into the fire station for tea making. One sunny Sunday
and volunteers, but they quickly came for training. Officers and trained
firemen were brought in from larger towns. I had two billeted with me. Along with other Lanca shire firemen, my hus band, a section leader, moved away in prepara tion for the invasion. This was not fiction. All
faces, including my hus band’s, I thought how soon could they mobilize them selves to aerial warfare? All were part-time men
was an unshakable man with a strong voice, who inspired in us all the spirit to crush Hitlerism. -He told us we would
realised this was a real drama. For ail citizens in the country, including chil dren, old people and hospital patients, the com mand was “Prepare your selves for imminent Blitz." Churchill was quickly put into the Admiralty. He
I READ with avid interest your article on the “Clitheroe Terriers” who went to war; many of them were good friends, school pals; some, as you. recall, never came back.
‘Ain’t I glad I came from Clitheroe’
King and country and many were unsung heroes. But there were others too, who, months before, received letters marked OHMS; first line reserv ists who quietly packed, left their loved ones and families and rejoined their regular units. There were also a num
They did a fine job for
ju s t a few Brewster Buffaloes. Singapore surrendered.
the Malacca Straits when the captain announced over the tannoy that we were at war with Ger many. There was wild cheering and singing, but 12 hours later we were rudely awakened by huge explosions. Two destroy ers were racing about and dropping depth charges, which shook the ship from stem to stem. We never knew whether it was for real or not, but it had sobering effects on all us.
ing with the RAF. I was on leave in July, when a telegram came, ordering me back to my unit. Within two days I was at Southampton and had embarked on the troop ship “Dunera” bound for the Far East. We were sailing down
I had two years, then, of active service, flying obso
ber of soldiers, sailors and airmen who were already away from home as “regu lars” serving with their units. I was one of these serv-.
lescent torpedo bomber aircraft. Then came the Japanese war. We did our best, but were fighting overwhelming odds with no real modern weapons, no Spitfires or Hurricanes,
1945, arriving home before Christmas. I will never forget the welcome home. The train did not arrive until nearly midnight, but all the way back from the station to Whipp Avenue, where my parents lived, people were popping out of their homes, wishing me well, pressing small gifts of tinned food on to my mother, saying: “Feed him
us to repair airfields as slave labour, we were moved back to Singapore, to the Changi jail camp, then to Nagasaki to work in the Mitsubishi ship yards/ I was repatriated in
February,
I married a local gir m an(j was 1946, Mary
girl i
My squadron managed to get across to Sumatra with what we had left, six of the old torpedo bombers, the remains of two squad rons of 36 aircraft. Then it was down to Java, until we had no more aircraft left to fight with, and the inevitable happened — I was a POW. After the Japs had used
Boothman, from Wadding- ton, and went back to resume my career in the RAF, to live in married quarters, to raise three good children, one son and two daughters — but always when we said home we meant Clitheroe. Even now that 52 years have passed for me since I left, I still think of it as home. Now in the twilight of
my life, a widower, for my wife died suddenly in 1987, I still come home and still get a kick when I spot the Castle keep. I always remember a comic song my older brothers used to sing, the first line of the chorus being “Ain’t I glad I came from Clitheroe.”
MRE. GELDARD, 91 North Street, Shotton, Deeside, Clwyd.
face “ toil, te ars and sweat.” There were many long, sad days and nights. I remember one evening our lads went to the Man chester Blitz. We had casualties. Fireman Taylor was killed and many other men were injured — the faces I had seen go through so much training were never to be the same again. Meanwhile, I was called
heard a BBC news broad cast outlining Churchill’s visits to the troops. The announcer said he had drunk beer with some of the lads and also had a big slice of cake — nearly as large as his cigar. The recipe was given out later and I jotted it down. Every year I still make
south to visit a hospital. My husband had been injured, but I was not alone. The trains were full of other hospital visitors. D e s t ru c t io n , d e a th , fear. . . what did it mean to us all? It gave US' courage, the
the same cake and my memory goes back to that night. Something good came out of something bad and as I look on my pic tures of the old and the new fire station, I know full well that every pass ing day still brings change, which we all must face. We will grow old and
Orchestra provides treat for local music lovers
THE applause was tumultuous as Ribble Val ley music lovers showed their appreciation at the end of the Northern Chamber Orchestra’s first concert in Clitheroe.
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St Paul’s Church, Low Mqor, was taken. Those who s tayed at home missed a treat! The orchestra’s excel
Vivien Meath Sadly, not every seat in
weary and sometimes we will be happy and some times sad. But beyond the reach of time is the memory of our firemen.
will to win, a helping hand and, above all, a smile. Churchill’s voice was for ever a boost for England. One evening I was in the fire station when I
LILIAN COULTER, Flat 27, Well Court, Well Terrace, Clitheroe.
War brought a happy reunion in Egypt
I HAVE a war memory which could be quite different from what you have received, but to me and my family it was very special.
on board a destroyer, HMS Griffin, most of the time in the Mediterranean. One day I received a letter
I never forget young nurses lost at sea
of up, lass.” I'knew then that IN 1939, I was in the third year of my nursing I was home.
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beds were mattresses on the floor of the basement, listening to the dive-bomb ing of the German planes and the noise of anti-air craft guns, hoping we would not receive a direct hit. If we were caught in a
was asked if I would accompany three patients, stretcher cases, on a flight back to England.- The flight from' Algiers to
and patriotism took'over in 1943 and I joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service. Within weeks I was on my way, sailing in convoy to an “unknown destination,” which turned out to be Algierp. The following months were raid free but busy, the routine, broken only by a hazardous jour ney over the lonely moun tains of North Africa in a rickety ambulance to a military hospital at Bone. .. In November, 1943, I
complete, I moved to a hospital in Essex and often watched London burning from a distance. If in Lon don during a raid, we scurried into the nearest underground station like rabbits into a burrow. The. spirit of adventure
small bridge in the village had been demolished. Could it have been that the pilot was a poor marksman or that he had deliberately avoided hit ting the cottages? I shall always be grateful to him for missing us. In 1941, my training
morning after our arrival, we'were awakened by an enormous thud and the drone of a low flying plane directly over the cottage. Rushing to the back win dow, we were in time to see a German bomber offload a bomb in the wheat field about 50 yards from us. We later learned that a
all” on our yearly holiday, a nursing friend and I were loaned a cottage, one of three, in Upton-on- Severn, Worcestershire, where we looked, forward to a peaceful “break” away from the bombings. At four o’clock, the first
raid on an evening out, it was not a case of diving into the nearest shelter, but racing back through the city, deserted except for fire brigades and ARP wardens, with fires blaz ing on all sides. “Getting away from it
became a nightly occur rence, we were on the receiving end, attending to the appalling injuries of raid victims, often work ing under difficult circum stances, such as the night the mains water system was bombed, leaving little water in which to sterilize instruments and for scrub bing up, etc. When not on duty, our
In 1940, when air raids
was posted "to the military hospital in Belfast. Cross ing from Belfast to Liver pool on leave, I was
ones to come through the war unscathed, but I .often think, with sadness, of the lovely young nurses, some of whom were my col leagues in training, who did not come bacK, but were simply “lost at sea.”
MRS ELSIE LAWSON, 35 Waddow Grove, . Waddington; .
duty in charge of the Ger man prisoners-of-war at the military hospital at Dryman, Scotland, I thought of the senseless futility of war — there we were in a situation of enmity and y e t , by instinct, treating the Ger mans with the same kind ness and nursing skill with which we tended our own troops. I was one of the lucky
ney, we arrived at Liver pool. Before leaving the boat, I was told by an officer that we had been “tracked” by a U-Boat (submarine) all night. When I asked him why we hadn’t been attacked, his reply was “They wouldn’t want to give their position away by attacking a small c ra f t .” A comforting thought! In 1944, when on night
appointed duty officer for the night, looking after female service personnel. The crossing was as stormy and rough as it could be in the Irish Sea and ev e ry b o d y w seasick. After a miserable jour
took off, complete with Noel Coward carrying a large bunch of bananas. Only a week before, Leslie Howard, the film actor, had been shot down over Portugal, so I hoped that Noel Coward’s presence would not be unlucky for the rest of us! Travelling overnight to England in complete dark ness, with the possibility of being blown to bits by a marauding German plane was, to say the least, frightening and when we landed at dawn in the south there was relief all round and I could have kissed the ground! A few months later, I
the patients were safely installed in the naval hospital and I in the Sis ters’ Mess. On the follow ing two consecutive nights, we were all taken to the airport for take-off, only to be returned to the hospital because there were “too many German planes about.” On the third night, we
Gibraltar was uneventful, apart from my discovery that Noel Coward was one of the four civilian passen gers travelling to England with us. On arrival at Gibraltar,
family and was brought up at 13 St Mary’s Street and I am still very interested in Clitheroe and receive the “A d v er tise r and Times” every week. During the war I served
I am from a Glitheroe from my dear mother, in which she reported that my brother Robbie was in Egypt and asked if I could find him. Robbie emigrated to
New Zealand in 1928 and landed on his 19th birth day, May 7th. My mother sent me his address, which was ju s t a series of numbers. Our base was Alexan
soldier who not only told me where he was, but gave me a telephone num ber so that I could phone him. My ship was in har bour undergoing repairs and I got 48 hours leave to visit my brother on the outskirts of Cairo. It was wonderful to see him and we had a wonderful 48 hours. Robbie had volunteered
mother and father were delighted to know that I had been able to meet him. Later in 1941, when the New Zealand soldiers were being evacuated from Crete, my mother wrote again, saying how worried she was about the evacuation and could I find out about Robbie.
some interest'. Inciden tally, my oldest brother Jim served his apprentice ship as a linotype operator on the "Clitheroe Adver tiser and Times.”
KENNETH felBBY, 16 Valkyrie Avenue, Whitstable, Kent.
that Robbie was at the army headquarters, tick ing off the soldiers names as they arrived back, while I was on my ship doing the evacuation and being regularly attacked by German aircraft. I hope this may be of
I was able to inform her ’
to join the NZ army, hop ing he would be sent to the UK, but Egypt was where he was sent and I am the only member of my family who has seen him since 1928. Needless to say, my
dria and every time I went ashore I asked New Zea land soldiers if they knew my brother and showed them the address my mother had sent me. Eventually I found a
lence is beyond question and the evening’s success was a tribute to the Ribble Valley Council, Clitheroe Concerts Society, St Paul’s PCC and all the other organisations which worked together to ensure funding for the NCO’s visit. Sunday evening’s con
cert was the first of six divided equally between Clitheroe and Skipton. The programme began
Warlock’s dance melodies, from the “Capriol Suite” brought the first half to a rousing close. The second half was
e n t i re ly devoted to Vivaldi’s “The Four Sea sons.” The orchestra radiated enthusiasm for the music throughout its performance, and director and solo violinist Nicholas Ward gave an exemplary rendition. There will undoubtedly
on a happy note with C. P. E. Bach’s Symphony in G Major, followed in a quieter vein by Grieg’s “Two Elegiac Melodies.” In complete contrast
Fine month with rain in middle
SEPTEMBER, much like August, was fine at the beginning and end, with a little rain in the middle. Temperatures were
quite low for the first half of the month, but picked up on the 10th. Maximum temperature was 75 deg.F on the 21st and most daily temperatures were in the 60s. It was also another very
able for the concert which features music by Men delssohn, Mozart and Bach and includes the cele brated “Adagio” by Albin oni, which has apparently become one of the 10 most popular pieces of music of all time.
Funny people
RIBBLESDALE Camera Club members were treated to a very enter taining talk, “People are funny,” by newspaper photographer Brian Duff, of Burnley. I t was based on 20
be a warm welcome await ing the NC0 when it returns in November. Tickets are now avail
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Climbing weekend
years’ experiences of working with national n ew sp a p e rs and he showed examples of his work, many of which were well-known to members. On Tuesday, club mem
ber Ken’Geddes will give an illustrated talk on China.
climbing on the cliffs of Dinas Mot, Carreg Wastad and Clogwyn y Grochan in the Llaberis Pass and also enjoyed mountain walks in the Glyder, Moel Hebog and Harleck Dome areas. The next outdoor meet
THIRTEEN members of Clitheroe Mountaineering Club travelled to North Wales at the weekend to stay at the Caer Fran climbing hut in Llanberis. They took part in rock
will be on October 22nd at Kettlewell. On October 19th, Nick Taylor will give an illustrated lecture at Clitheroe Cricket Club about climbs in the Swiss Alps. Non-members are welcome.
Councillor makes own street survey
A SURVEY of 18 streets in Clitheroe suggests that the majority of people will lose under the Government’s community charge scheme
which comes into operation in April. It was conducted by Labour councillor Barrie Parker
and revealed to the.Ribble Valley Council at its meet ing. He researched into the households of 10 semi-de tached, two detached, three council and three terraced streets. The Department of the Environment has estimated
that the community charge will cost each person over 18 in the Ribble Valley £237. “The statistics are a very random sample,” said
Coun. Parker, “but I hope they indicate how the charge will affect different people.” The figures make interesting reading. For example,
rebates on offer, but even a person on full rebate has to pay 20% of the charge. Leaflets and advice on the charge are available
from the Ribble Valley Council and Coun, Parker has also offered to help anyone with queries.
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