4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, August 17th, 1989


A T Y O U R ^ 9 S E R V IC E


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■Plenty of steam left yet in Tom


AT 57, Gi s b u r n ’s f a m o u s man o f engines, Tom Varley, shows no sign of run­ ning out of steam. I met him as his latest


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across the world — was having her trial run at Tom’s Todber Caravan Park. His entourage of steam enthusiasts, cara­ vanners and grandchildren lpoked on as he issued orders and the great beast gasped its first puff of life for many a long year. “Told you it would


venture — “Tritton,” the steam wagon he brought as a rusty relic halfway


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i l for radio play


COMPOSER Peter Whitfield has been living next door to writer Chris Curry at Railway View, Clitheroe, for seven years but never worked with her — until last week, when he recorded music he had arranged for her BBC Radio play. The play was broadcast


a week last Saturday and repeated the following Monday afternoon. The working link hap-


Chris’s 16-year-old daugh­ ter Jessica to play the ’cello — as well as working full-time as a composer and arranger. Much of his work, he says, “is a matter of luck — of being in the right place at the right time." Peter (31) concentrates


play should have some music, Chris suggested her next-door neighbour, who, she says, “is incredi­ bly talented — a superb musician." The BBC liked the idea and the working r e l a t ionship proved fruitful. Peter teaches music part-time — he teaches


ened through chance. /hen the BBC said the


Recruiting for ‘Blind Date’ show


A C L I T H E R O E health studio is to be the centre for recruit­ ing young romantics for a televised blind


date.


on classical music. He works with Chipping com­ poser Richard Mitchell on film and television music and the pair collaborated for the music to the Don­ ald Campbell documen­ tary, “Across the Lake,” which was screened again last week. But Peter also composes


radio commercials and plays a variety of instru­ men t s . “ The music industry is incredibly dis­ organised and you have to be multi-faceted in order to survive,” he explained. .His versatility has made


proprietor of the Lee Carter Health Studio, Lowergate, Clitheroe, has been approached by officials acting on behalf of Cilia Black to act as a recruit­ ment centre for con­ testants in the popular TV programme “Blind Date.”


Mrs Vicky Lee (34),


their chances on tele­ vision for a blind date, I will be very pleased to hear from them,” said Vicky.


“If anybody fancies


him.very well-known in musical' circles. His wife Josephine is also known locally as a piano and vio­ lin teacher.


For help and advice with your "What’s O n" advertisement


Telephone Rachel Moorhouse “ Clitheroe 22323


take up the challenge of meeting the man or woma n o f t h e i r dreams and have the moment captured on th e sma ll ’ s c re en should ring -.Vicky (Clitheroe 24475).


Those who want to FORMER teacher Mrs included Mrs Bernice Bar- • |


Dinah Hadleigh has taken over as manager of Whalley-Abbey. Mrs Hadleigh knows


, Other people he met


the village well, having lived there since the age of 12. She taught at Whal­


low, Best-Kept Village Competition co-ordinator, and Mr Graham Robbins, advertising manager of the “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times.”


hood, her family lived in Accrington where her father was organist and choirmaster at St P e te r ’s Church. He later took up a similiar position in Whalley. Educated at Accring­


ton Girls’ High School, Mrs Had l e ig h has taught in both second­ ary and primary schools in Lancashire. She says the Chris­


ley CE School and has been a PCC representa­ tive on Whatley and Little Mitton Parish Council. In her early chi ld­


record the weather broad­ cast on his video and invited Fred with his pro­ duction team into his house as they were pass­ ing on their way to the Lower Buck pub.


Graham managed to


members of the local Round Table, who had taken refuge there when their cycle ride had to be abandoned because of bad weather. Fred spent the night in


At the pub, Fred met


Waddington, sleeping in the caravanette which he is using on the tour.


James and Fiona, and is a member of Blackburn Choral Society. Mrs Hadleigh has


succeeded Mr Dennis Moore and his wife, Brenda.


Remember Janet?


CAN you remember an evacuee in Clitheroe dur­ ing the war called Janet Kenney? If so, she would love to hear from you. Janet, now Mrs Smith


. makes her think she must have lived nearby. Anyone with any infor­


and living in Billingshurst, West Sussex, was eva­ cuated to Clitheroe in 1939. She was very small and can only, remember being taken walks near Clitheroe Castle, which


mation can give it to the Tourist Information Desk in the Ribble Valley Coun­ cil Offices, which received the request from Janet this week.


Youth club programme


TRINITY Youth and Communi ty C e n tre ’s senior youth club has revealed an entertaining autumn programme of events and activities. ; ■ Meeting on Tuesdays, from 7-30 until 10 p.m., th e club is- open to teenagers.'


dale, Waves and an Indian restaurant are featured, interspersed with discus­ sions on relationships, fami ly planning and racism, wi th visiting- speakers.-


Outings to-Ski Rossen- ■ Sport is well catered


for, as are a variety of other, interests; and early ,next month members are invited to. cook a cake and eat it. .


are available every week and - evenings end with a disco for the last hour.


Table-tennis and pool


tian faith has always been important’ to her and she is particularly attracted to the abbey because of its Christian character as a diocesan, retreat and conference house. She has two children,


Driving test soon for Wendy


DISABLED Whal ley teenager Wendy Hollin is set to take her driving test in Blackburn on Septem­ ber 6th.


recently started a new job as a management trainee with the Royal Bank of Scotland, Accrington.


Br ave Wendy has


sons in a specially adapted car provided from a public fund spearheaded by Whalley Lions earlier this year.


sands of other students up and dowh the country, she is also anxiously awaiting the outcome of the A-level examinations she took in sociology and British Government.


LIBRARY CORNER


L A T E S T additions to the stock at Clitheroo Library include: “ Cl in ic al ju d gem e n t s” — Claire Kayner. The story of one month in a hospital and the problems faced by its staff. “Painting the darkness” —


Robert Goddard. A story of family secrets set in the late


. 19th century. "T h e cowardly lioness" —


Jean Rook. Autobiography of the outspoken Fleet Street journalist. "E n g l is h ' field names” — -John Field. Dictionary tracing


. the meaning and linguistic deri- -vation of field names. - ■


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Road, has had a lot of practice in taking her family shopping in Black­ burn to obtain experience of driving in the test centre area. In common with thou­


Wendy (18), of Whittam She has had driving les­ •Q lfa


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Australia, which he visited several years ago looking for the decaying remains he so lovingly restores to life (Tritton is his 27th.) It h a d h a d a r o u g h life. . . rescued, from aban­ donment at the bottom of q u a r r y by Matey


McWhirter, a very distant relative of the famous Guin nes s Book of


Round and Abouf the Ribble Valley with Kaye Moon


William Tritton, who started a successful wall- designed tanks in the first mg business employing 14 world war and later went men.


Records” twins. It is named after Sir


Valley’s genuinely self- made men. He started work as a farm man, mov­ ing into this area in 1953 and marrying his wife Susannah. The couple have three children, David, Terence and Catherine. While farming, Tom


into steam wagon produc­ tion, “Tritton’r being one of his prototypes. Many of our older readers will recall the Tritton tank which was kept after the war in Brungerley Park, Clitheroe. Tom is one of the Ribble


Todber Farm and opened his caravan site just over 20 years ago. The site now caters for 250 caravans


He eventually bought


and attracts visitors from all over Britain and abroad, who come to see Tom’s Museum of Steam. The years and the


t it le Dry Stone Wall tlay longer and gets the


Champion of Britain, and postmen a bit cross, but' i t ’c Ufftl'tll if ,f k o cmilA/1


it’s worth it,” he smiled. Like his engines, Tom'is


learned the skill of wall­ ing, which won him the


boundary change have rather unkindly moved this born and bred York- shireman into the red rose county. However, Tom only admits to Lancashire as his home on one of his engines and frequently gives Yorkshire as his postal address. “It might take the post a


patiently in a heap of rust in the corner of the museum.


built to last. A brain tumour slowed him momentarily five, years ago, but he was soon back on the scene, puffing his pipe. The great love of his l ife wi l l always be steam . . . but little did he think as a five-year-old watching misty-eyed when the fairground came to Wetherby that he would one day have his own full- size train set several times over. His.next task waits


team providing haulage from the mines in Aust­ ralia. I bought it off a man . who said he was Ned Kelly’s great nephew,” said Tom with a wink. You get the feeling it


"It replaced a 50-bullock


could not have made tracks to a better home.


On the spot weather report


GRANADA Repor t s weatherman Mr Fred Tal­ bot has visited Wadding- ton and met many of the villagers as part of his North West tour.'


weather report from the Coronation Gardens and later met local children and residents.


meet Fred was Mr Eric Edmondson, chairman of the Parish Council, who said: “He is a very amiable chap and very good to talk to;”


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