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FUN D0Y MEMORIES OF WARTIME Hooked for life
L ow M o o r 1943
long months were spent within a strange forbidding place.
Remembered well, that once compelled by circumstance
with strident shouts of sharp command and constant sound of pounding feet.
emerged each day to carry out appointed tasks; straining bodies, calloused hands, forced into place the pre-formed parts
There the sapper learnt his craft; men in disciplined array
of Bailey Bridge and pontoon raft.
and scenes of former torment lay bathed in mellow autumn sun.
1957 On my return, long years had passed, once callow youth had grown to man
No menace now; drab building empty and benign stood silent whiie the rippling waters freely ran. Pausing on the bridge that crossed to “Sorting Shed,” I sensed again
that once-familiar span tremble to the weight of men,
heard the cry “Break step” poor blistered feet obeyed.
Forgotten feelings now revived as memories surged from distant times.
Slowly peace returned; upon a nearby bank a couple made their loving way, without a care or thought for yesterday.
1983
for time has wrought surprising change; now only church and street of tiny houses still remain. All else has disappeared; where stood the dominating mill
Strange to think this peaceful place once witnessed men prepare for war;
now stands a small estate beside the river’s - never-ending flow.
No bugle call or raucous voices of command; just a nappy scene where children play, while neighbours tinker
once more upon the wind, a distant sound of marching men?
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IN reply to your story in the local paper regarding memories of the last war, I recall one during the blackout in 1941. I came on leave from Dorset to Clitheroe, where I lived,
a drink. I left the pub at turning-out time to go home down Henthorn Road, where I lived, and with Having one too many I followed a couple home whom I thought I knew. I kept on walking behind them, thinking they lived near me, when I landed down Low Moor, a mile from where I lived. But the one memory I
will never forget dates from when I spent three- and-a-half years in India and four months in the
for 17 days’ leave. One night I went out for
died in my arms.
MR A. CROMPTON, 8 Thorn Street, Henthorn Road, Clitheroe.
with their cars and talk in the morning sun. Yet, I wonder: if, when night descends, can one sometimes hear
beside a river’s ceaseless flow; where surface turbulence could not compete
Converted mill, “Academy of War”, stood vast and bleak
Last kiss . . . and his cap fell off!
MY husband and I were married in 1939. We had, only been married nine months and were living in Bramley View, Whalley, when he was called up and went away to serve for six years.
when he had been home on leave. I took the baby to see him off at Whalley Station.
I remember the occasion
arrived and my husband climbed in. As he was bending over to give the baby and me a last kiss, his cap fell off and went down on th e t r a c k between the platform and the train.
A long troop tra in
ple looking out of the train windows, including the engine driver, who imme diately put the engine in rev e rs e . The p o r te r jumped down to retrieve it and the engine started forward again, amidst a lot of cheering from the troops.
MRS M. QUINN, 50 Hameldon View, Gt Harwood.
War or no war, it’s
lunchtime
ON the day war broke out, I was eight-and-a- half. We had been to church that morning and on our retu rn we all gathered round the wire less to hear the Prime M in is te r ’s message. There was a long silence after it ended. Suddenly, my grand
difficult moment after that during the war, the cry would go up in our house, “War or no war, I’ve got to get the lunch on!”
R. L. CARTER, 41 Bleasdale Avenue, Clitheroe.
mother’s voice rang out: “War or no war, I’ve got to get the lunch on!” We all burst out laughing and the tension ebbed away. Whenever there was a
There were a lot of peo
THE first taste of your wartime memories, some amusing, some nostal gic, appears here. Keep sending them in. The writer of the best will be wined and dined at wartime prices at Brown’s Bis tro in Clitheroe. Address your entries to: Wartime
Memories, “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times,” King Street, Clitheroe.
Tears shed as we sailed into the unknown
DURING my RAF service from 1941 to 1946, I was posted abroad and stationed in North
occasion when we were sailing from Liverpool to a destination which, for security reasons, was unknown. When we were sent to
Africa, Sicily, Italy, Greece and Egypt. I recall so vividly the recall the occasion with joy
sticks with me was the Sunday evening when all the troops were assembled on the deck of the troop carrier for evening ser vice. As far as we could see to the horizon there were ships all round in convoy, full of troops sail ing to the unknown. Each turn of the ship’s
propellers took us further from England and our loved ones. None of us knew where we were
service with the prayers and the troops stood there with bowed heads. The prayers brought them down to earth and the seriousness of the world situation.
the deck started to play and the troops sang so sin cerely. Many a tear was Bhed, I can assure you. It seemed to give us all
A small harmonium on
the courage to face the future and to this day I
awaited us. The padre started the
were put on the wrong boat, which saved our lives, as the ship on which we should have travelled was blown up and lives lost. Maybe the Almighty had me in mind for local amateur theatricals and Gang shows! The memory which
Liverpool, our unit was called A.M.E.S. 8041 and so the 30-todd of us gave this number to the officer in charge of the troops embarking. Later on, it seems, we
EDMOND CAMBIEN, 45 Bolland Prospect, Clitheroe.
Speakee pidgin
English?
IN 1943, when the Aus tralian Imperial Forces
was slowly pushing the Japanese back across the Owen Stanley Range, in New Guinea, wounded sol diers were regularly car ried back on stretchers to hospitals several miles in the rear.
paths often overlooked precipitous slopes. Each stretcher was carried by a team of five natives, who could only communicate with us in pidgin English.
The narrow mountain going or what events every hour and in the hot,
always greeted us cheer fully and asked: “You all bagrap finis?”
The stretcher-bearers
were tired and this was one of the few pidgin expressions I learned.
G. B. EDON, 29 Park Avenue, Clitheroe.
They were asking if we
other direction generally took a 10-minute break
Soldiers going in the
sticky climate were glad to get it.
and gratitude for God’s protection in troubled times.
as fighting raged
off days was a far different place than that of today; Europe was ravaged by war, Britain stood alone in its fight against Hitler’s Nazi Germany, our brave- men and women were fighting for freedom in many places throughout the world, my lovely home county of Kent was bombed and strafed day and n ig h t. My most familiar sights in those far-off days were overhead dog fights between Nazi and British fighters, para chutists floating earth wards — this during the
summer of 1941. The world in those far-
the darkness, their fingers of light searching out Ger man bombers on their night raids on London.
S ht hours; at night,
of soldiers were to be seen everywhere, either on exercise, operating Ack- Ack guns, searchlights and smokescreens, or, in many cases, aboard tanks, armoured cars and lorries on the way to a battle some place in Europe, the Middle or Far East. This was one of my pictures of life as a four-year-old, but, thankfully, another pic ture existed.
The khaki-clad figures
from my home was Bakers Meadow and even today I can see that lovely six-acre meadow with its butter cups and daisies. On two sides it was bordered by oak and elm trees, the bottom was bounded by a deep narrow stream that flowed very slowly and on the other side of the meadow was a country lane leading to the Ack Ack guns and searchlights on Lodge Hill.
Only a short distance
summer my mum and aunty used to take us down to Bakers Meadow for a picnic and every time my attention and body were drawn directly to the banks of this oasis of peace and solitude set in the heart of the bombed and bullet-strafed garden of England; a stream that, to the best of my knowledge, only contained, stickle
Many times during the lights were piercing
AFTER 47 years of an] world, I can still remem
igling in many different waters throughout the iber that very first day’s fishing way back in the
backs, a small fish with a spiny dorsel fin,but all my time was spent in trying to catch these fish with a home-made net fixed to a garden cane handle. When caught, they were placed into a two-pound jam jar where I would spend countless hours watching these tiny fish until they died; then fresh supplies were captured. During the spring I would capture countless tadpoles, but all the time I wanted to go out and catch proper fish using a rod, line and hook.
used to do was go with my g ran d fa th e r down to
One type of fishing I
Strood Pier, where I used to fish for crabs using a piece of string and snails as the bait. Sometimes, if I was very lucky, I would catch three crabs at one tim e. Occasionally, someone would be fishing with a rod and reel, catch ing flounders and eels, and on these days I would not fish for the crabs, but talk to and watch this proper angler; sometimes they would let me turn the han dle of the reel as they held the rod, as I was too small to hold rod and reel. When this happened I was terri bly excited.
turned up with my Uncle Len, who was home on leave from the Royal West Kent Regiment, and for three or four days I pes tered him to take me fish ing, but each day it was the same answer: “We can’t go fishing, you ha ven’t any tackle,” until my mum said: ‘Take this ball of wool and buy a hook from the ironmonger’s, then you can go fishing.” I laughed, but grabbed the ball of wool,
One day, my aunty
Len said: “Let’s find some worms and go fishing.” The worms were quickly dug, I found some nuts in the shed (nuts as used on bolts) and off we went to catch the tra in from Strood Station to Higham Station, buying two one- penny hooks on the way. I can still see those hooks, thick in wire, turned-down
One afternoon, Uncle
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which was behind me and, to my h o r ro r , a Jap stopped four yards from me. Thank God it was dark, otherwise I would not be here now. But this story has a sad ending for that same night my mate
Burmese jungle. One night, my mate and I were on guard duty when, at 7 o’clock, we were attacked by the Japs. I dived under a bush
hand should be s t r a ig h t forward. East should open one no trump, and south must dou ble. West can not bid, and north, with six points, knowing that nis partner nas at least 15 is happy to pass. Without a five card suit, east also must pass. However, at over half the tables either the one no trump was not doubled, or north played in two spades. Amazingly, one no trump by
Mrs Phillips and Mrs Burt, Mrs Ainsworth and Mrs J. Wilson. The bidding on the following
east managed to make on two occasions!
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a loft conversion and dormer window at 9 Thorn S tre et (0667).
sion to dwelling of redundant farm building adjacent to Ribble View, Dockber Lane, Sawley (0655).
residential caravan for six- month period at Mill Farm, Fell Road (0656).
Waddington: Temporary
use of rear of premises at 23 Moor Lane to form hot-food shop (0662). Change of use of basement area at 21
Moor.Lane
to extend existing retail area (0666). Whalley: Consent'to display an advertisement at 97 King
upper floors of buildings to office, with access from rear of roperty via passage at 10/12 lastle Street (0661). Change of
Clitheroe: Change of use of
PLANS for the conversion of a chip shop with residential accommodation into a proposed licensed restaurant and guest house at 6 Whalley Road, Sab- den, are among the latest lodged with the Ribble Valley Council's Planning Department (0658). Also from Sabden is a plan for
Bolton-by-Bowland: Conver
A COFFEE morning and bring-and-buy stall for the Ribble Valley Talking Newspaper, held in the Clitheroe Mayor’s Parlour on Saturday, raised £133 for funds.
tors were the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe, Coun. and Mrs Barrie Parker, and the Ribble Valley Mayor and Mayoress, Coun. and Mrs John Cliff.
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. . - ' R.K.A. Prayer study
A SERIES of house study groups for members of Clitheroe Parish Church begin in the first week of October.
weeks and will be looking at the subject of prayer. < People interested \in attending these group ses sions are asked to contact the organiser, the Rev. Paul Hartley, at the parish office.
weekly over, a period of six- Back to work These groups will meet
A FREE class for women wanting to return to work is offered by Whalley Adult Education Centre. The class covers basic
keyboarding ,skills and English and runs
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eels hooks, they were called and sold as. Arriving at Higham
Station, we got off the train and headed for Cliffe Marshes, walking along side the old Higham Canal, which is those days contained rudd, tench and eels, so my uncle told me. I was so excited it was like a big adventure and I was going out to try and catch a real fish with a hook.
hours of walking and riding on my uncle’s shoul ders, we arrived at a clay pit. The sun was shining overhead every now and again and there would be Hurricanes and Spitfires doing battle with the Nazis — I remember very vividly a parachute tum bling earthwards. We found a gap in the reed- lined clay pit, the ball of wool was unwound, I tied on the nut as weight, then tied on the hook, which was baited with a worm, and the lot was thrown out into the dark green water.
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waiting for a pull, as I had been told by Uncle Len. After waiting for what seemed hours, I felt a fish pulling. I pulled back and pulled in the line as quick as I could, then there it was . . . the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, my first ever fish. I was so excited on that summer afternoon back in 1941, when I caught seven small
I sat holding the line,
rudd: I was an angler, hooked for life. I shall never ever forget
that wonderful afternoon of peace and tranquillity with my favourite uncle on Cliffe Marshes, when all around the world men were killing each other. A few weeks later, that fish ing uncle had perished in the sands at El-Alamein, but his spirit and love of fishing has lived on in me.
MARTIN JAMES, Peel Street, Clitheroe.
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A ROW has broken out ov felled in a Whalley beauty
conservationists, Ribble Valley councillors have decided to take the land- owner to court if there has been unauthorised felling ninj in Archbishop’s Wood.
claim that felling has been and 1 taking place regularly on men the site, despite tree pres- dismi ervation orders.
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A honeymoon in Torquay followed the wedding of Mr Stuart Parkinson and Miss Diane Barrow at St Helen's Church, Wadd ington. The bridegroom, a farm
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worker, is the youngest son of Mrs D. Parkinson and the late Mr G. Parkin son, of St Paul’s Street,
clerk, is the fourth daugh ter of Mr and Mrs J. Bar- row, of Fields House Farm, Waddington. The bride, given away
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by her father, wore an ivory silk gown trimmed with satin roses and antique lace. She carried a sheaf of stargazer lilies, roses, bridal gladioli and gypsophila, tied with ivory
ribbon. Matrons of honour were
her sister, Mrs Julie Drin- kall, and the bridegroom’s sister-in-law, Mrs Gillian
Parkinson. They wore rose pink satin dresses with matching headdresses and canned roses, alstromeria and spray carnations. Pageboys were the
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groom’s brother, Mr Ian Parkinson, and ushers were Mr John Dean and Mr Ian Percy. The ceremony was per
formed by Canon C. F. Goodchild and organist was Mr D. Hartley. A reception followed at the Craven Heifer, Chaigley. The couple are to live in
WHITEHEAD — CARTER
A honeymoon touring the coast of Cornwall followed the wedding of Clitheroe bride Miss Stacey Meryl Carter to Mr Alan Mark Whitehead at Trinity Methodist Church. The bride, a sulzer
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■Woodworth wore a sleeve less dress of peach striped satin with a drop waist and a sash. She had wrist- length lace gloves and car ried a bouquet to match the bride’s. Best man was Mr Colin
by her uncle, Mr Michael Coles, wore a 1920-style ivory coloured gown covered in lace, with matching elbow-length lace gloves and a head dress with beads and pearls braided into the back. She carried a 1920- style bouquet of ivory coloured silk flowers with trailing fern. • Bridesmaid Miss Julie
joiner/cabinet maker, is the son of Mr and Mrs David Whitehead, of Waidshouse Road, Nelson. The bride, given away
formed by the Rev. J. Needham and followed by a reception at the Green- dale Restaurant, Down- ham. The couple are to live in Clitheroe. Photograph: Paul Ennis.
Wilde and usher was Mr Andrew Lias. The ceremony was per
weaver with Smith and Nephew Ltd, Chatbum, is the d au g h te r of Mrs Hilary Carter, of Siddows Avenue, Clitheroe. The bridegroom, a
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