4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, A p r i l 5th,-1990


Clitheroe 22324. . . . . . . . . . . Round and About ItheRibble Valley with Kaye Moon


AT YOUR SERVICE .


The local firms below provide a variety of essential


A family lihk with the past fires Jim s fascinating hobby


WHEN Clitheroe man Jim Col em anS t James’s Street, bought half =s shares in an old locomotive three years ago, he was preserving a §3 fascinating family link with the past which goes back to the days of j== his grandfather.


grandfather and name­ sake, Jim McCarthy, who died in the 1970s, was an engine driver in the days of th e old Raj in In ­ d ia . . . and fired nis family with an enthusiasm for engines which lingers to this day. The similarity does not


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(off Whalley Road) CLITHEROE


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garden am) drive area a spring clean


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Contact:


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CLITHEROE 41597 e PROPANE AND BUTANE STOCKISTS • FOR HIRE i


WET VACUUMS • PRESSURE WASHERS • FLOOR


SCRUBBERS and POLISHERS • CARPET CLEANERS


ALAN RICHARDS (INDUSTRIAL FLOOR


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WATERLOO ROAD, CLITHEROE Telephone: 22161


HOOLEY service engineer


CYRIL Ex-Hoover


57WOONE LANE, CLITHEROE Tel. 22023


AUTHORISED HOOVER SERVICE',


Repairs,


Reconditioning and Service of


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Antique and long case specialist


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CLITHEROE 23116 f MOVE IT


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• Single Items • Full removals • Storage • House clearances


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For the best service In town ring:


MEL EDMONDSON CLITHEROE 24908


Weddings — Birthdays^ — Parties


Any Special Occasion


HIRE A VIDEO CAMERA


Competitive rales — dally, weekend, weekly. All


prices Include Insurance . and blank tape.


PHOTO CORNER 4 Moor Lane,


Clitheroe. TEL: 29338


ELECTRICIAN


Graham Whiteoak ALL TYPES OF


ELECTRICAL WORK UNDERTAKEN


Tel. Whalley (0254) 823555


SOME of us_ give our age away by' the words we phone, wireless and uri- endeavouring to edu-


PRINTING


* Invoice Books/Sets * Business Cards * Compliment Slips


* Letterheads * L G c l f ls ts IN FACT: FOR ALL YOUR QUALITY PRINTING REQUIREMENTS—


and PERSONAL SERVICE PHONE: WHALLEY 824668


Abbey Studios. Abbey Works, Back King St, Whalley.


CLITHEROE DOMESTICS SALES 6 SERVICE O REPAIRS • SPARES


Cookers - Freezers - Fridge Freezers FREE Collection — Delivery


Prompt quick service — competitive Open 6 Days a week 9-5.30


50 WHALLEY ROAD CLITHEROE


Tel: (0200) 29116 or (0772) 628061 after hours


radio, record player and gentlemen’s convenience. • It is possible to disclose our origins as soon as we


stage where I shall say guest house, O w V


open our mouths. The county accent comes out like four old-type Lancashire looms with quite a few of us, including yours truly. I was once regarded as a great novelty in Army days, when I was posted to the plans department of African Forces Headquarters to join a group of southerners. They considered my accent hilarious and nicknamed me “Enoch,” after a mem­ ber of a well-known comedy group, “Enoch, Rams- bottom and Me.” .


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. Actually — and I was once told, by the way, that • how a chap pronounced the word “actually” greatly affected his prospects for OCTU (Officer Cadet Training Unit) — tneir pronunciation was worse than mine, with their long a’s as in bath (barth), land (laynd) and castle (carstle).


Fo r detai I s of d i s p I ay advertising in this newspaper


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: and fiver.” No! I am still convinced that our north­ ern accent is nearer to the Queen’s English, even if Her Majesty does say “carstle” like the rest of the folks in the south of England.


vices “We plough the fields and scarter the good seed on the laynd, but it is fed and watered by God’s almightly-haynd.” Also, “Prize Him for His grice


: asking for some paper caps. The shopman had to admit that he was out of stock, as normally he only had call for them for Christmas parties. “Oh, no!” exclaimed the woman. “Not those kind of


the time for repartee. I told them about the southern lady who came into one of our comer shops up north,


- - Almost to a man, my companions were school teachers in that special section, using such words as “recalcitrant” about me. The majority of them were eventually funnelled into officer training. Me? I never even made lance-corporal with that lot!;: a ,: '


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JOE STANSFIELD. '


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. how badly they > were mispronouncing their words. This made me about as popular as: a canary among a lot of Cockney sparrows. . ■


- - They glowered at me, so I proceeded to point out by means of shorthand vowels and the dictionary


V l l f llUi CAVIOU1ICU U1C VYVUUUI. • I lU b t caps. I want paper caps to bake bans in.”


One can take just so much ridicule and then comes I could hear them singing on church parade ser­ T O u : ' | | p C. C, PARKER


PAINTERand DECORATOR,


f tel.


f CLITHEROE . 25473


DEREK LEIGHH TV RENTALS


4 Shireburn Avenue, Clltheroe. Telephone 24168.


NO DEPOSIT TV RENTALS Portable, Teletext, Remote


e.g. 20in TV £7.00 per Cal. Month


New 21in. FST Remote £10.50 per Cal. Month' Discount for Annual Payment


TV Repairs, ex-Rentals for sale ERIC DUGDALE


New carpets and ' I vinyls


Repairs and refits


Fitting your own carpets


TEMPLEMAN Tel. 25638, or


Competitive prices SEED and


37 Wellgate, Clitheroe


28401 (evenings)


have been shrunk on to the wheels and four new brasses have been cast — at a cost o f £120 each before the added cost of machining them — fo r ' each of the four axles. “We have spent thou­


end there . . . for grandfa­ ther Jim returned to St James’s Street in 1945, to live next door to the family’s present home. And he worked as a painter at Castle Cement, formerly Ribblesdale Ce­ ment . . . exactly the same job his grandson does today. “My grandfather drove


sands — maybe £12,000 including buying the engine — and that takes no account of our time,” said Jim. The men have done most of the work themselves, aided some­ times by friends at Cam- forth, including enthusi­ asts who travel over from Clitheroe. When the loco is fin­


on the old Great Indian Peninsular Railway and in his time carried famous passengers including roy­ alty,” said Jim, who was born in Clitheroe and attended SS Michael and Jo h n ’s School and St Augustine’s School, Bil- lington. He has lived and breathed steam since he used to spot trains as a y o u n g s te r from th e family's former home in Wilson Street, Clitheroe. But it was three years


2 NOEL KING & CO. SALES, SERVICE


Vj) | AND REPAIRS Wi WASHING MACHINES VACUUM CLEANERS


ALL MAKES SUPPLIED Reconditioned Washers and Vacuum Cleaners


FRANKLIN STREET, CU.THEROE Tel. 22979


when we see our ’ renovated loco


steaming down the tracks.”


lot of satisfaction through doing th e work o u r ­ selves . '. . and we will ,v: feel a real sense of achievement in eight years’ time


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Gourse to meet the needs of


horse industry


ished in its original Peck- ett olive green, with the original black and straw- coloured lines, it will be the realisation of a dream for Jim, who had always hoped one day to drive his own engine. “We would have liked to buy a class-5 mainline


SEPTEMBER sees the start of a one- year National Certificate in Horse Management course at Lancashire Col­ lege of Agriculture and Horticulture.


locomotive, but nowadays you are talking of between £60,000 and £70,000 for one in working order,” he said. “We have gained a


to have th e machine, already in full working order and with nearly as much pulling power as a mainline locomotive, com­ pletely renovated by its 50th birthday in 1998. The loco was taken out


sent


ter. There, Jim and Mike bought it for its scrap


. Erice, all i ts beautiful


h a v in g lo n g s in c e disappeared. They transferred the


rass and copper work


giant — 12ft. high and 26ft. long — by low-loader to its present home at Steam Town, Camforth, a steam museum with a mile of track . . . and renova­ tion began in earnest. The men, who are both


F.P. CHERRY Building and Electrical Work


Fast and with a . minimum of fuss.


Call us now on Chipping


(0995)61668 ,


From a simple porch or- extension to a newt home.


ago that Jim, with friend Mike Thompson, of Aber­ deen, made their dream a reality and bought an 040 Peckett 1948 locomotive. The huge industrial 41-ton loco was built for Cour- taulds at Flint and used for moving heavy loads on its four massive wheels. Jim and Mike’s hope is


Jim Coleman and, in the background, the engine he and friend Mike Thompson are renovating


More light on history of old rectory


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TWO tragic deaths and a disastrous fire have been written into the history of the old Slaidbum Rectory we fea­ tured in a story last week.


Memories of the


of use in 1966 and stored ' r e c tp r y by Courtaulds, until it was recalled after Newton


to a scrapyard a t ; villager Miss Annie Saultney Ferry, near .Ches- Rushton came into the


“Clitheroe and Adver­ tiser and Times” office with a poster relating to the foundation stone laying ceremony in 1863.


to hear from anyone else who had a similar poster.


Now, Slaidburn land-


members of the national A4 Locomotive Society, stripped down the engine, which they hope to have rewheeled in a couple of months. New steel tyres


kinson has come forward w i t h s om e e x t r a information.


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already know, the building was destroyed by fire in 1963 — 100 years after it was built — although it


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Perth, where a local GP investigates the mysterious death of a baby. “Star shot” — Douglas Terman. Hi-tech international thriller


duit. Thirty-six short walks around historical sites. . “South west France” — Andrew Sanger. Illustrated travel guide to Aquitaine, Gascony and the Pyrenees.


LATEST additions to the stock at Clitheroe Library include: "The Lumsden baby” — C. F. Roe. A crime novel set in


in which a Vietnam veteran stumbles across a plot to sabotage the US space programme. “Heritage trails in north west England" — Brian Con­


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had ceased to be a rectory 10 years earlier. I t had been rented on lease to a family, who lost a ,four- year-old child in the blaze. Earlier in its history,


Bertwistle, of Blackburn, also designed Dunnow


T . u-;,_that he has the original


the man who laid the foun­ dation stone died tragi­ cally at the age of 49, only a year after his marriage. He was Leonard Wilkin­ son, of Dunnow, patron of the P a r ish Church of Slaidburn, who laid the stone on May 2nd, 1863, and died in 1870. Mr King-Wilkinson says


’similar inscription to that of the poster.


was used for the cere- !?■


.


He also points out that Leonard was the brother


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poster retotlnglofteSn, mony, plus several copies, and the silver trowel that


of his great-grandfather. The architect, Thomas


later became King-Wilkin- son, has never lived at the hall, although it is still part of their Slaidburn estate. Leonard Wilkin­ son, who had a town house in Richmond Ter race,


/altered. ’ Leonard and his youn-


Blackburn, died when the hall was being extensively


established the Blackburn solicitors L. and W. Wil­ kinson, now known as Wil­ kinsons Solicitors. Our picture shows Mr


King-Wilkinson with the commemorative trowel.


framed building pre­ viously used to house beef cattle will become an equestrian centre and calves will leave th e s ta b le s to be replaced by horses.


A la r g e p o r ta l ­


lished for the course, which includes equitation and schooling, stud farm practice, equine science and horse health with options in child care and business studies.


will have the opportunity to take British Horse Society examinations and RSA in typewriting if they wish.


In addition, students


scough Hall, Bilsborrow, has a lre ad y received several applications. Farms director Mr Joe


The college at Myer- Hall. The family, which g er b ro th e r ; William,' golf course.


prise include the erection of a purpose-built eques­ trian centre, with stabling facilities for 25 horses on a green field site near to its current sports and leisure facilities, which include a


leisure industry is set to g row an d i t sh o u ld respond by providing edu­ cation and training to meet the needs of the horse industry.


The college believes the Singing ‘Messiah’ i


IF you are in good voice and need an opportunity to exercise those vocal cords, Blackburn Cathedral’s social committee has the answer.


Sing Messiah,” in aid of the cathedral’s restoration appeal and for the plea­ sure of singers throughout Lancashire. Proceeds will be donated to the Cathe­ dral Restoration Trust and tickets cost £2 each. Soloists include soprano Bronwen Thomas, contralto Annie Littlewood,


On April 21st, the committee is extending an invitation to “Come and


tenor Derek Crompton and bass Martin Bussey. . A rehearsal will take place in the afternoon, with one performance at 6-30


p.m. Singers are asked to take their own music.


Bifkby points out that the new course does not mean the demise of the college’s beef enterprise, as this is to be allocated to two of the other college farms. Plans for the new enter­


A need has been estab­


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