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recital was peformed by Fernando Germani. Satur­ day’s concert was given by veteran organist Dr Gor­ don Phillips, of All Hal­ lows by the Tower, Lon­ don, who celebrated his 80th birthday last year. There was no lack of


CLITHEROE Parish Church' Organ Society celebrated the 28th anniversary of its first con­ certs on Saturday. In September 1961 the


vigour in his playing of a very unusual programme of nine items, only three of which were originally written for the organ. The concert opened with


duced to the audience by Michael Pain, the Clith- eroe Parish Church organ­ ist who is to give the next recital.


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a rousing performance of the overture to “Zampa” transcribed for the organ by R. Goss-Custard. Clerambault’s “Basse et


Dessus de Trompette” showed off one of the reed stops to great advantage while Jongen’s “Pensee d’Autome” showed off some of the quieter stops of the instrument. The first part of the con­


fonia to the cantata “Wir danken dir, Gott” tran­ scribed for the organ by Harvey Grace, who was at one time organist of Chi­ chester Cathedral. After the interval Dr


cert ended with a lively performance of Bach’s Sin-


Phillips played “Naila”, a waltz by Delibes which he had arranged for the organ followed by his own “Trumpet tune for John Turner”, written in 1985 in response to a request from one of his friends. Then followed Nevin’s


pin’s “Polonaise Militaire in A” transcribed by the late W. T. Best.


for more, Dr Phillips played “American Patrol” by F. W. Meacham. The soloist was intro­


In response to a demand


THE day war broke out, I was seven years old, liv­ ing in Sale, near Manches­ ter, and my mother gave me strict instructions that if the siren went when I was going to or from school, I was to go to the nearest house and request shelter. For days I had “helped”


(or hindered) my father to dig a large hole m bur back garden, so as to erect the Anderson Shelter that lay on the side path. This was to prove invaluable to us very shortly during the Blitz, when I was put to bed in the shelter every


boards THE location of a tourist information board on Whalley bus station has fuelled an intense debate b e tw e e n v i l l a g e councillors. At the Whalley and Lit­


tle Mitton Parish Council meeting it was suggested that the tourist informa­ tion board should be moved to a new position facing King Street so that the space could be used for the bus timetable board. Coun. Michael Ackroyd


said this was a better arrangement, but Coun. Eric Ronnan disagreed, saying that the present arrangements were quite adequate. Coun. Gordon Wood­


ward suggested that they all meet on the bus station and assess the situation. A proposal tha t the


councillors meet on the site was passed.


“Will o’the Wisp” and “Sleepy Lagoon” by Eric Coates. The final item was Cho­


THE go-ahead for the erection of a new sign at Whalley’s Queen Elizabeth II Playing Fields has been given by the parish coun­ cil. A quotation of £20 has been accepted for the sign.


New sign


night. My parents couldn’t get


black curtain material in those early days, but my father constructed wooden frame screens of brown paper with black backing and covered with a gauze type netting. These, to g e th e r with paper sticky-tape on all our win­ dows, were our air raid precautions. My dad was an air raid


Fires over Manchester


Infants went in the after­ noon, but we had to be home well before dark.


from the school quickly and limning to the air raid shelters which had been built a little way beyond the playground in a field. When the headmaster (Mr Beasant?) rang his hand bell, we ran like mad and our reward was a barley sugar drop. Those practice runs proved invaluable, as the real thing occurred all too soon and too often.


We practised exiting


warden with a white hat with a black diamond on it and we had a stirrup pump — we were very proud of that — and we filled the bath every night. My original school was


closed and prepared as an emergency hospital and I went “half-time” to Wood- heys Primary School.


breaking out, we had. Bofar Shells piled in our front garden — straight from the factory —. and the gun was towed up and down the road firing a pat­ tern ban-age. The search­ light that was installed in the field at the bottom of our estate soon became an attraction for me and other boys and girls.


Within days of the war


the same field and the searchlight was sometimes used as illumination, so that we and many others could “Dig for victory.”


Dad had his allotment in


very early in the war and hit a petrol storage tank.


The first bomb came Mrs Norgrove in 1942 He saw service in Greece


Italian army was beaten, and then I was in Egypt with the 89 Heavy Ack- Ack. It had lost men and wc were joined to bring it back up to strength. It went to Greece and was in action


I SERVED in Crete and Greece with the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry Regiment, which in the war became the 106 Light Ack-Ack. It started out in Libya, where the


Malcme airfield and then evacuated to Egypt, where those who were left served with Montgomery. I was transferred to horse transport. Unit reunions are now no longer


left.


all the time. We were evacuated to Crete and took part in the retaking of


G. H. CLIFFE, 19 Salthill Road, Clitheroe.


held annually, owing to there being an insufficient number of survivors


The ignited fuel ran into the Bridgewater Canal at Broadheath, a mile away. It must have looked like a flarepath from above, heading straight into the heart of Manchester. The painters were busy camou­ flaging the tanks at the time, but didn’t get the job completed.


year later and that caused our move to the rural pas­ tures of Lancashire. The accountants office where my father worked was flattened and he had therefore “no job.” The roof of our house was damaged by a “short” aimed for Trafford Park and we had to go and live


The Blitz came about a


with my aunt near Ring­ way Airport. My memories of “being


rescued” out of our shelter and emerging into a sky as light as day from the fires in Manchester are still vivid in my memory, as are the gardens covered with rubber tyres from Dunlops, blown by the blast some two miles or more. • Those are some of my


memories — I’m glad my children or my grandchil­ dren will not be able to write similar words in 50 years, but the Bible reminds us about “war and rumours of war.” Let’s stick to the rumours.'


COUN. JOHN CLIFF, Ribble Valley Mayor.-


Saved from severe


reprimand


DURING my ATS service in the “Special Platoon,” which was a recruiting campaign, we travelled all over the country demon­ strating. While in Glasgow we were billeted in the Argyle Hotel. Having been'told that


home AFTER being stopped by a policeman for not dis­


playing an excise licence, William Stopforth then failed to produce his docu­ ments within the regula­ tion seven days. ' Mr Mike Cunningham, rosecuting, said that


jtopforth (24), of Central Avenue, Clitheroe, had not had time to tax his car and then failed to produce his documents. Mr Geoffrey Isherwood,


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Sonia is a real


beauty


SUCCESS was. just., around the corner when 17-year-old Sonia Jack- son entered her first beauty contest. The daughter of Mr


and Mrs B. Hodgson, of Woone Lane, Clitheroe, Sonia won the t i t je “Miss Silver Lady” in the competition at the Flookburgh Lakeland


HRH Princess Royal was coming to inspect the pla­ toon, we all had to spruce up our uniforms. While I was in the bathroom, my friend, with whom I was sharing a room, decided to press her uniform on a highly polished dressing tame with disastrous results. We all had a whip


Caravan Park. Waiting to go into the


Queen Alexandra Royal Nursing Corps, Sonia a former pupil of Bow- land Secondary School, is currently gaining experience at the Roe- field Nursing Home and also works part-time at th e Hodder Bridge Hotel. She was presented


round, found a French polisher, dressed her up in an ATS uniform and smuggled her into the hotel bedroom, where she did a marvellous job and saved us from a severe reprimand — probably dis­ missal from the service. How many today would


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give a service like that for £3 and a bag of fish and chips?


MRS L IL Y MAY NORGROVE, 8 Queensway, Waddington.


A night of sharing as bomber crashed


THE date was January 2nd, 1945. My husband and I were then living at Burn House, Newton-in- Bowland, a remote farm more than two miles from Newton. Burn Fell rose immediately behind the house and was covered in low cloud on that day. My husband had gone to


representing the defen­ dant, said that Stopforth had been working in Lon­ don and came back to Clitheroe to spend the weekend with his wife. A lot of his personal papers were in Liverpool with his mother. He was due to return to


London on the Sunday evening and on the way asked his-mother to send th e d o c um e n ts to Clitheroe. On the sixth day, Stop-


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forth’s wife went to Clith­ eroe police station, but it was locked. She - returned the next day and was told that Stopforth himself had to produce the documents. He was in London so. could not produce them. The court also heard


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that through working in London, Stopforth had not found the time to get the car MOT tested or taxed. He was fined £100 for


using the car with no excise licence, £5 for fail­ ing to produce a driving, £5 for failing to produce an insurance certificate and £30 for using a car with no test certificate. He was also ordered to


pay £66-60 back duty. Stopforth admitted all the offences.


with a trophy and cer­ tificate for her success in the competiton spon­ sored by Goldwell and won a week’s holiday forthe end of the holi­ day season when she will be taking part in the final.


Outdated excise licence


Brook Street, Clitheroe, admitted keeping a motor cycle with no excise licence. PC Robert Brown said


THE owner of a motor cycle, who left his machine parked in a street with an outdated excise licence, was fined £40 by Clitheroe Magistrates and ordered to pay £33.33 back duty. David Shaw (40), of


Biker did ‘wheelie’ through


town centre A pOURT heard how a


'motor cyclist did a “whee­ lie” for 15 yards along a main street. Stephen James Burgess


weave his machine in between the other two bikes when the area was busy with pedestrians. He,was fined £100'and


he saw the motor cycle in York Street and noticed that the excise licence had expired at the end of Jan­ uary this year. Shaw said he owned the bike and would get the tax sorted out. He had riot realised it was overdue.


when a very low flying bomber came up the valley and passed over the house. Within two minutes there was a huge bang and I ran outside to see if the horse had taken fright. One of the Italians said


Clitheroe with, some lambs, I was baking.and two Italian prisoners-of- war (who lived with us) were working in the farm­ yard with the horse and cart. It was early afternoon


Successful sisters


men on the plane and they all had to be carried down in the dark on improvised stretchers. Before the night was over, 54 people were in my house, includ­ ing the soldiers who were casualties, laid out on the floor. My week’s rations had all been consumed. Three soldiers were


Liberator. Bomber that had done over 100 sorties over Germany and shot down 57 enemy aircraft: this was all marked on the side of the plane. After that night I had


could go for a doctor?” I then sent one of the Ital­ ians to Slaidbum to get Dr Bleasdale and any help he could find. Soon news got round of the terrible acci­ dent and people came to our house to see what could be done to help. By then my husband had returned and it was begin­ ning to go dark. There were 19 young


to me: “If that aeroplane didn’t get any higher, it will have run into the fell.” Five minutes later an American soldier came running down the field, very distressed. He-said he was the navigator and would be blamed. “Had I anyone who


Joanna’s elder sister, Mrs Shirley Coop (27), of Blackburn, a former Ribb- lesdale School pupil, was declared the overall win­ ner in the Osbaldeston Horse Trials, run by the British Horse Society, on Sunday.


former Bowland High School pupil, won the Young Rider Competition at the same venue and is now being tipped for the next Olympics. . Not to be outdone,


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killed and they were brought down the follow­ ing day. What a tragic end to a


“AIDS” was given by Sis­ ter Eileen, a social worker with the Catholic Chil­ dren’s Rescue Society in Rochdale. Sister Eileen visited


America last year year where she studied the causes and effects of AIDS, in particular its devastating effects upon children orphaned as a result of the disease. The club meets in the


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seven soldiers billeted with me to guard the plane, as it was loaded with ammunition. What a night to remember! There will still be a few


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son (19), of “The Royds,” continued her winning streak in the dressage world by corning sixth in the National Dressage Final, at Goodwood, Sus­ sex, on Saturday. Last month, Joanna, a


TALENTED Chatburn horsewoman Joanna Jack-


(18), of Fairfield Drive, Clitheroe, kept the front wheel of his machine in the air as he rode with two other motor cyclists through Market Place and into Wellgate, the town’s magistrates were told. Burgess then began to


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banned for three months when he admitted driving without due care and attention. Burgess told the court it


was not his intention to do a “wheelie” but his clutch was slipping at the time. Presiding magistrate Mr


' wool over our eyes. We have been involved in motor bikes a lot longer than you. We can’t have people doing ‘wheelies’ in the main street of Clith-' eroe. It is fortunate no-one was injured.”


Norman Lund told. Bur­ gess:- “You can’t pull the


Lifetime spent in farming


A CLITHEROE pen­ sioner who moved to Cast- leford Home for the Elderly in the town a few months ago, following ill health, has died in hospi­ tal, aged 82. . Mr Albert Robinson, formerly of Pendle Court, Hayhurst Street, Clith­ eroe, was bom in Bolton- by-Bowland, where his family farmed. The family moved to Grindleton, where Mr Robinson met and married his wife Ivy, who died 14 years ago. Mr Robinson worked as


a farm labourer through­ out the area and as far away as Blackpool, until the age of 50, when he worked at Clitheroe’s sew­ age treatment plant. His favourite hobbies


were g ardening and watching snooker on television. He is survived by his


three daughters and four sons, of whom Mr John Robinson lives in Sabden and Mrs Edna Birtwell' and Mrs Leonora Frank- land live in Clitheroe. Cremation took place at


Accrington on Wednes­ day.


Soprano wins top award


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evenings on the first and third Mondays in the month and invites many speakers to talk on a vari­ ety of light-hearted and serious subjects, with members also going on outside visits andholding social events. Visitors to the club'


where there are i nearly 30 members are welcome and more information can be obtained by telephoning the President, Mrs Jean P arker on (Clitheroe 27041) or Mrs Christine Snape (Clitheroe 22361).


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Sydney Avenue, won the Michael O’Callaghan Tro­


of Whalley Parish Church Choir and is the enrolling member for the Mothers’ Union.. She is a pupil of Mrs Christine Ross, of Billington.


phy for any voice aged over-18/' Mrs Smith is a member


A WHALLEY soprano has carried off a pres­ tigious award from the Fleetwood Music Festival. Mrs Flora Smith, of


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