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ONCE again there was a surfeit of good food and fellowship when the Rotary Club of Clitheroe held its 5(ith eh a r te r anniversary dinner. Over 70 members and
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proposed hy the presi dent, Rtn Robert Berry, followed by the reading of “ the o b je c ts of Rotary” hy Rtn John Spcdding. IUn David L a n c a s t e r a s k e d everyone to raise their glasses to “ Rotary International,” with the response being made hy Rtn Jimmie James, the d is t r ic t governor of Rotary Dis trict 119. The charter was read
Rtn Geoff Jackson, after which the gath ering enjoyed an excel lent five-course meal. The Loyal Toast was
guests attended the event, at StirU House Hotel, Gisburn. Grace was said by
shows district governor Jimmie James (centre), with Rtn Berry on his left.
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tors” was proposed by Rtn Howard Spensley and Rtn John Rushton responded on th e ir behalf. The toast to the Rotary Club of Clith eroe was proposed by Rtn Terry Darbyshire, president of the Rotary Club of Blackburn, and the response came from Rtn Berry, who also proposed the closing toast. O u r p li o t o g r a p h
I) y R tn Barrie Lancaster. “Our guests and visi
Memories of wartime
from Cairo to Athens. One morning, I was
IN the summer of 1945, I was in the RAF and was posted
rather elderly lady who asked if we were British; our uniforms were rather similar to those of the
walking down one of the main streets in the city with a friend of mine from the same unit. We were stopped by a
Unusual meeting in streets of Athens
and, when she asked where in England we came from, I told her from a
Greek Air Force. I replied that we were
Did you meet soldier on
dance floor?
Rooms, Whalley, with my husband and little girl.
Assembly Rooms, which consisted of a large ball room, cafe and cloakroom, early in 1938 and my hus band was the proprietor there for over 21 years. Dances were held every Wednesday and Saturday night.
We moved to th e
over one of our bedrooms and fdled it with blankets, mattresses and our wed ding equipment as war clouds were looming. A member of the WVS said to me: “It will be a sad day if any of these things are needed. Please God they won’t be." Three days after the declaration of
In 1938, the WVS took
AT 11 a.m. on Sunday, September 3rd, 1939, when Neville Chamberlain, then Prime Minis ter, announced to the nation “We are at war with Germany,” I was living at the Assembly
see c h i ld re n , some separated from their par ents, arriving frightened, wondering what was going
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began to arrive. There was the Devonshire Regi ment and the Royal Engineers. The troops were stationed at Moreton Hall (now demolished),
Barrow Print Works and at Low Moor. The captain of the Royal
Engineers came to see us to enquire what form of
.entertainment was avail able for the troops in their off-duty periods. They hired the ballroom and cafe for .a public dance every Monday night, while we continued with our usual Wednesday and Saturday night dances, which were very orderly, with no trouble. As the popular song says “There’s something about a sol dier.” The girls enjoyed these dances. Calderstones Hospital
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happy and some sober, may not be tragic or spec tacular, nevertheless they are ; memories to be recalled and not forgotten. Many older residents in Whalley may look back and say “Yes! I-met my husband at the Assembly Rooms in Whalley.”
MRS A. M. COGGINS} 15 Abbots Croft; Whalley.
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dropped in a field at Wh'al- - ley with little, damage. The ta rg e t was' “Whalley Arches,” a vital railway link between Blackburn and Hellifield. ■ These memories, some
national events were held to raise money for the war effort — events like “War Weapons Week” and “Wings for Victory Week.” Whalley's contri bution to this was to organise whist drives and dances; the Nursing Asso ciation and the Red Cross all held these events. Everything was given and all proceeds went to the war effort. At one time there were over 100 tables for whist in the ballroom,’ followed by a dance. Sun day concerts were organ ised and as the Royal Engineers had an excel lent dance band they played for these events. Three bombs were
was taken over as a mili tary hospital. It was a regular sight to see the “Boys in Blue” — so-called because they wore blue trousers — being wheeled into the village or walking on crutches. As the years drew on,
to happen. They had cords with identity discs round their necks. Within 24 hours, homes had been found for these unfortu nate people. Then the troops (Army)
evacuees started to arrive from coastal towns as far away as Folkestone and Canterbury. The bedroom was opened up and mat t re s s e s and bedding arranged in the bathroom, which was filled to capac ity by sleeping evacuees. It was a pitiful sight to
Wednesday night dance the ballroom was taken over for the distribution of gas masks. That same week the
war, instead of the usual
amazed, because I remem bered my great aunt tell ing me about a French marquis who used to live in the village. This was the same fellow.
you are wrong, because I used to be at Waddington Old Hall many years ago as a governess to a French family who lived there at the time,” was her reply. Well, I was absolutely
small place she would not have heard of, a little town called Clitheroe in the North of England. “Well, that’s just where
and arranged to call round the following Sunday after she gave us the address of the family. The family’s name was Dimitriades and the mother of the house had been called Papas- tratis before marriage. Her family were cigarette manufacturers and I have seen this name crop up in tourist books for a brand of cigarette.
Hayward, the governess, was in Athens when the Germans invaded Greece
It seems tha t Miss
and she was put in prison for being British. Her boss went to the officer in charge of the prison camp
was now a governess in Athens with a Greek family and she asked if we would like to call round, and talk about Clitheroe and the surrounding area. Well, we both said “yes”
She told me that she
the family and from then on made so welcome, being invited for meals and taken out on trips, etc, and we in turn did our best to entertain them with ENSA shows and films and shared our choc olate rations.
Dimitriades what business he was in and, when cigarettes were men tioned, the officer said Miss Hayward could be set free from the prison, although she would have to stay indoors with the family, if Mr Dimitriades would give them so many thousand cigarettes each month in exchange. This was arranged and dear Miss Hayward was freed, although she was “house bound” until the British got control of the country and Athens, enabling her to wander about again and so meet me. We were introduced to
and asked if she could be released. The officer asked Mr
tinued, with their son coming to Oxford, where I went to meet him during his college days. His sister grew up and, when she married, Aristotle Onassis was at the wedding. Miss Hayward wrote to
This friendship has con
me for years, but died some time ago.
instead of going into the cigarette business, took up
The son in question,
Athens, Norman Clarke, still keeps in touch. It was through him I started my interest in the theatre, as his brother, Mr Cecil Clarke, became head of special drama at ATV and produced the well-known television series, “The Gr e a t Wa l t z ’’ and “Edward VII.” Before this, he was the executive producer for the Old Vic Theatre Company and was one of the producers for. the Stratford Theatre in Ontario, Canada, with Tyrone Guthrie and Alec Guinness. He died suddenly in
letter from him saying how he looked back on the happy days of 1945 and 194(5 when he went about with us and shared so ma n y w o n d e r f u l experiences with mysell and other RAF pals. The friend with me in
1985 outside the office of Mr Bryan Cowgill, our local man who was, of course, managing director of Thames Television. It is rather strange that
hotel management and trained in-Hamburg after, his college days and now has a big hotel in the centre of Athens. Only this week, I got a
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a casual meeting in the streets of Athens in 1945 should involve me with so many people and give me so many memories to look back on in my old age. My last letter from the
Dimitriades family this week said “Hopefully we shall meet you in Clitheroe some time . ’’ A nice thought. . . we will have to wait and see.
EDMOND CAMBIEN, Holland Prospect, • Clitheroe.
An Aegean toast to Allied solidarity
IN the Aegean Campaign of 1943, the Germans had massive air superiority and by October the invasion of. Leros, our main
base, seemed imminent. As a kind of outpost line, some long
range Desert Group patrols were sent to islands in the western Aegean to watch the main shipping lanes and give advance warning of enemy convoys. One convoy had already been reported and annihilated with the loss of over 1,000 men. I was one of the eight men sent to the German-occupied island of Naxos with the same objective. ■ Unfortunately no shipping came our
way and the only action was an attack by two Mitchells and two Beaufighters on a small port a few miles away. Otherwise there was just the distant tinkling.of sheep-bells, the smell of wild thyme, the occasional sight of enemy aircraft and the odd burst of machine- gun fire as the nearest Germans tested and zeroed their Mg 34s and 42s. We did not mind the tedium too
message to Jack, from which we learned that one. of the Beaufighters involved in the recent attack had ditched. The crew of two were being sheltered by the Greeks and the mes
in vain. A Greek then brought a written
, and strafing on Leros. When off watch, we made tne most of our snug stone- built sheep-fold on a hill.
our way and the shepherd boy stum bled on us. Despite our rough appearance,'he identified us instantly and ran off to spread the glad tidings. In no time the peace was shattered, as Greeks streamed to our hill bearing food and wine. They had a party, sang patriotic songs and wandered about the skyline and we expected the 2,000 local Germans to join us at any moment.
, After about a week, the sheep moved
knew they had little to spare. For us it was not the time and place for a booze-up either, but we took a sip of wine as a token of Allied solidarity. Qur efforts to Instil decorum stood no ■ chance.
The food we tactfully refused, for we
. One thoughtful Greek had noted all 'the German troop dispositions, down to the site and calibre of every gun. Jack Aitken, the skipper, and I sorted • all this out with him in a do-it-yourself Esperanto of schoolboy French, sign
much, as we were all short of sleep after three weeks of incessant bombing
return to Leros. We could not afford to assume that there was not a single Greek traitor or blabber on Naxos and it needed only one to scupper our chances. Moreover, the sergeant navi gator of the Beaufighter had suffered damage to his jaw in the ditching and needed medical attention, although our medical orderly, Len Dean, could give some immediate help.
country to the rendezvous with the RAF men, my radio collided with a rock face. Luckily only one valve was broken and a pick-up on the following night was soon arranged. But for vari ous reasons the Navy did not come, either then or on the following night. We had to spend three days holed up behind a big tooth of rock above a boul der-strewn ravine a few hundred yards from the sea and we thought the Navy must be losing its touch.
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A COFFEE morning at the-Ribble. Valley Mayor's Parlour on Saturday was a huge success,- raising £870 for the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute Women’s Trust Fund. - -
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