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W r a p s a r e t a k e n o f f - n e w v i l l a g e h a l l


WHAT many peo- reality,


p ie in W h a l le y For tomorrow night thought was only a sees the official launch pipe-dream is all ?f the “Whalley Vil-


s e t to b e com e a


Cash need to keep festive spirit


SIIOPKKKI’KKS arc ask­ ing Kibble Valley Council to shed a little light over Clitheroe ami Whalley this Christmas. With II weeks to go


preparations are under way to brighten up the town centres and Clith­ eroe and District Chamber of Trade is hoping fur gesture of goodwill from the local authority. In a letter to the coun­


cil. members point out that each year they erect lighting in Clitheroe and Whalley as a gesture to the community. The labour costs are met


entirely hv the Chamber and this year's material costs are expected to he L'l .olid, for bulbs, plant hire, cable and electricity. Kverv year the organi


IT. non. Said press officer Mr


sat ion adds to its lighting display and, for I99() members hope to augment it with two addition;! items at a cost id' ovei


Harry Stevens: "Our reserves are low due to expenditure in I he town. Karlior in the year we bought new hunting at a cost of several hundred pounds and we are now asking the council to con­ sider making a grant and assist witli the capital expenditure of the new displays.” rrhe matter is to be dis­


cussed by the council's Recreation and Leisure Committee later this month.


lage Hall” project w h e n p l a n s a r e unveiled at a special


open meeting. The architect’s drawings


and artist’s impressions will be on show and the general outline o f the scheme will be revealed to members of the public at Whalley CE Primary School.


The newly-formed 15-


strong Village Hall Com­ mittee is se ek ing to involve the whole of Whal­ ley in the project. It has publicised the meeting through official letters to local councillors and the distribution of leaflets to every household in the area.


“We want as many peo­


ple as possible to attend," said Mr Erie Ronnan, chairman of the commit­ tee. “We want to hear what the Whalley public have to say and listen to their ideas.” When plans to convert


Whalley’s disused tele­ phone exchange on Back King Street were thrown out by Ribble Valley Council’ s Development Sub-committee earlier this year, the village seemed destined to remain without its own community centre. An exhaustive search


for a suitable site had proved fruitless but, out of the blue, an anonymous benefactor stepped in with the offer of a large ware­ house adjacent to the Whalley Arms car park. Although the council’s


Planning and D e v e l ­ opment Committee had been recommended to eject the plans on the grounds of access, council­ ors voted in favour of the


scheme subject to submis­ sion of detailed plans. A firm of consultants


has drawn up detailed plans and will be on hand omorrow evening to


MURRAY WALKER REPORTS


answer any queries that may arise. Solicitors representing


the benefactor, Lancashire County Council and the Village Hall Committee have drawn up a binding and watertight 30-year lease agreement which


should guarantee the long­ term future of the project. This, together with a


written con st itut ion, should pave the way for grant applications to such organisations as the Lan­ cashire Community Coun­ cil, The Sports Council and


the Rural Development Commission.


The committee needs to


meet a minimum of 25% of the to ta l co s t o f the project before it can begin and' this figure will be revealed at tomorrow’s meeting, which takes place at the Church Lane school, beginning at 7-30 p.m.


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Chamber seeking views on centre plan


AN opportunity for the public of Clitheroe to air their views on shopping facilities within tne new town centre development has been offered by the Chamber of


MANY thought it was just a dream, hut here it is . . . an artist’s impression of how the new village hall at Whalley will look when it is complete


Trade. A questionnaire will


shortly be on the counters of shops throughout the town.


Said press officer Mr Louise is a star turn


It’s just what the doctor ordered as brave girl meets hero Russ Abbott


C LITHE RO E ’S “ little walking miracle” Louise King (7) laughed and joked with her hero, comedian Russ Abbott, on Thursday — only months after doctors said her chances o f survival could be slim. Amazing Louise, of Commons House, Back


just before Christmas. It was at the age of four that Louise first saw the


Commons, has carried out a brave fight against leukaemia since the age of four, an illness complicated by the effects of a stroke


famous comedian visiting another patient in the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital at Pendlebury, though she was too sick at the time to talk to him. Ever since it has been her greatest ambition to meet him again, and she has become an avid fan of his television shows. That’s where the “Advertiser and Times” stepped in and arranged a meeting with Russ, through our


“Worston Wish Bonanza,” at Bradford’s Alhambra * Theatre, where he is appearing in “The Russ Abbott Mad House.” Said Lousie’s mother, Mrs Catherine King: “ It


was a dream come true for Louise. Russ chatted with her for 10 minutes before the show, and Louise gave


© Story: Murray Walker


© Photo: John Barry him a model of a Pendle witch, made by herself at Brownies.”


Then it was out into the stalls for Louise,


Catherine and her husband, David, and Louise’s sister, Sarah (10), to watch the show. Said Mrs King: "Louise was enthralled all the way


through. In fact, she enjoyed the show so much that she cried when it finished.” Meanwhile, it was back to hospital yesterday for


Louise, who will come home today after a regular overnight chemotherapy treatment. At home, she has a tutor, but also goes to SS Michael and John’s


■RC School, Lowergate, to socialise with the other children.


Mrs King said: “Louise is bright and has the


Louise tripped on her arrival in Bradford, cut her knee and marked her favourite white sailor dress. “We did a hasty dash into C and A, before the show started, to buy another frock,” said Mrs King.


chance of complete recovery from her stroke. At Christmas, the doctors were telling us that her heart was so enlarged it could stop at any minute — and now they think she is a little walking miracle.” The only disappointment on Thursday was that


MAGIC moment RAIDERS STRIP AN


ANCIENT CHURCH Villagers weep at the news


TH IE V E S have stripped a 13th century Ribble Valley church o f valuable antiques, including a 400-year-old Jaco­ bean high altar.


Parishioners were


left shocked and in tears when they heard that the antiques


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THE ornate 17th century,Jacobean high altar table in dark oak


Girl hit by tram at


Blackpool ‘stable’


CLITHEROE Royal Grammar S ch o o l pupil Jenny Spurrett (12) was “ stable” in Blackpool Victoria Hospital this week after being injured in an accident with a tram on the seafront promenade at Bis- pham, on Saturday night.


Jenny, the daugh­


ter of Alan and Shir­ ley Spurrett, of Rod Hill House, Grindle- ton, was paying a one-day visit to the town to see a friend celebrating her birth­ day. She was walking with her friend and the friend’s mother, near the Norbreck Castle Hotel, when the accident occurred.


This week, Alan,


an optician in Well- gate, Clitheroe, and Shirley were at then- daughter’s bedside, while other members of the family stayed at their home to look after their younger daughter Sally (G), a p u p i l a t W e s t - holme School.


Worth thousands of pounds had been taken from St Wilfrid’s Par­ ish Church, Roches­ ter. To make matters worse, the raid was carried out during the


Queen is to get ^unique peep into .the past


W H EN the Queen visits Clitheroe Royal Grammar School she will be able to admire a unique collection o f rare photographs o f former pupils taken in the 1860s.


h o w m a n y o th e r schools in the country can boast of such a collection. Though each photograph mea­ sures only two inches across, each is printed in superb detail on glass and is carefully mounted on an ornate metal frame.


Masters w.onder The eager expressions


of what are thought to bo newly-arrived hoarders are caught for ever by the steady hand of the photog­ rapher using a collodion positive printing process.


Personal details of each


pupil are inscribed on the back of each portrait in what is thought to he the hand of headmaster Mr Edward Boden who was in charge from 1852-8G. The building which


housed the boarders was demolished before the. First World War. During


until found more than 70 years later by former Deputy Head Mr Roy Adams and a colleague. Now the school is busy


a time of major alterations the collection was hur­ riedly stored in a biscuit tin and placed in a cellar. There it was forgotten


dec iding how best to arrange the exhibition of p h o to g ra p h s fo r the Queen.


“ We hope to answer


some questions surround­ ing the photographs in our display. It was an incredi­ ble find which is of great value to the historian and local people interested in the school,” said master Mr Dudley Green (pic­ tured right).


Among pupils depicted


is Peter Ditchfield, who became a well-known countryside author, while another shows a member of the prominent Clitheroe Garnett family.


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vicar’s final weekend in the parish. It is believed it was pro­


fessionally planned and the antiques, several of which were in s c r ib ed , may already be out of the coun­ try. They include a brass eagle lectern.


The R e c to r , Canon


Frank Levick, was pre­ paring for his final fare­


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well service when the raiders struck. He raised the alarm on Saturday morning, after discovering the loss when he opened the church to prepare for Sunday’s harvest festival.


“ I know there is a ready


market in America for brass le c t e rn s ,” said Canon Levick. “ I would say everything was taken


THE brass and oak lec­ tern which could now be h e a d in g fo r the American market


to order and could now he out of the country. It must have been deliberately planned. Some thieves go round looking for this sort of thing.” Entry to the church was


forced through a side win­ dow during darkness, after which the thieves unlocked the main doors to load their haul.


The Elizabethan dark


oak altar dates hack to the 17th century and was pre­ sented to the church by the father of Ribble Valley magistrate Mr Tom Dug dale, in the 1920s. Measur ing six feet in length, it is three feet wide and more than three feet high.


The brass and oak lec­


tern dates back to 188-1 and is inscribed with Roman lettering. In the form of an eagle, with out­ stretched wings which su p p o r t the wooden bookrest with a brass ledge, the eagle’s claws sit on a brass semi-sphere. Other antiques taken


include a lGth century Jacobean chest with two iron strap hinges and three locks; a 10-branch French-style candelabrum decorated with leaves and ears of corn; a rectangular credence table made by Langshaw and Sons, Whalley, and a hand-made bamboo flute in a glass case. With the flute in the ease is a faded sepia photo­ graph of an old man, Mr Joseph Molyneux.who made and played the flute for services before the p r e s e n t o r g a n was erected, and an inscribed card.


A Longrid ge police


spokesman described, the theft as unusual, adding: “We have known things to be taken from churches, but never the altar.”


He appealed to people


who might have seen any­ thing suspicious to contact the police in Longridge or Clitheroe.


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Louise as she meets Russ Abbott — thanks to the “Advertiser and Times”


‘A disgrace’


ANNOYANCE that Rib- hle Valley Council no longer had representation on the Blackburn, Hyrnl- hurn and Ribble Valley District Health Authority management team was expressed by Clitheroe councillor Barrie Parker. Speaking to colleagues


at the Ribble Valley Coun­ cil meeting, he described the new structure as “an absolute disgrace,” adding that members of the body were receiving £5,000 pet- year for 21 meetings,


which worked out at over £200 a meeting.


Barry Stevens: “Some time ago we had a meeting with Mr Gerald Allison, of consultants Debenhain Tewson and Chinnocks. He suggested the chamber should make a positive response to the site and inform the council what kind of shops we would like to see on it. We feel we are not the right people to do that. “We have prepared a


questionnaire to give the people of the Ribble Valley an opportunity to say what type of retail .shops they would like on the site,” explained Mr Stevens. Adding that those who


did not wish to see further development on the former auction mart site could enter “none,” Mr Stevens said that 250 questionnaires would be going out and members hoped they would be returned by the end of the month.


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