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Letters.to the Editor. -J whingeing about poll tax
I AM getting very sick of hearing people whingc about having to pay the poll tax.
We all use what facilities there are, so why ■ should we not all pay for them? In the past we have paid over £1,000 a year in
available facilities than any other family with two : pre-school children. Why should we pay more when we. still only have one “earner” in the
rates, but we cannot possibly use any more of the
household, compared with other households which have two or more? ■ . ■ . .
she should pay less than us. She is complaining very vehemently about paying an extra £400 a • year! She should be thinking on the lines of someone I spoke to recently, who said that she
Happiest days of
I READ with great interest Mrs Bertha Bradshaw’s account of her probationary years in nursing and admire her determination and tenacity in "sticking it out” and completing the course. At the same time, I
working life
I cannot see why Mrs Broome (May 3rd) thinks
considered they had been let off lightly in the past and were now paying some in “back pay.” She. should consider how lucky she was to have had so much for such a small cost to her.
when I wonder why we have to pay more than the Government’s original suggested figure and get so little extra for it, compared with other areas. . What is a pity, though, is that no consideration
I agree entirely with Mrs Broome, however,, ■. . ’
seems to have been given as to'how people are able to pay the poll tax. Would it not be fairer to link it to income tax, so that people paid as they were able? It could also be collected with
income.tax and that would abolish the cost of collecting the poll tax.
ANONYMOUS.
OBSESSED WITH COLOUR BLUE
DEAR Coun. Pickup, may I, through this worthy paper, put a few things straight with regard to your somewhat misleading comments of last week.
can’t help feeling that her choice of hospitals was most unfortunate and in sharp contrast to my own experience. In 1936, too young to
•party colour. You s e em to b e
start general nursing training, I spent a year at a London Municipal Hospital for infectious
the context of the letter, you should have assumed (as did many other people) that the comment “True blue Clitheronians” meant true born Clitheronians, not, as you have sug gested, a wearer of a
First, if you had read
diseases, where condi tions for s ta f f and p a t i e n t s w e r e excellent. I remember writing
home to my parents te l l in g th em th a t “everybody was so nice to me.” At 18V& I entered the
obsessed with the colour blue and you and a few of your friends in council seem to have a hate rela tionship with anyone sporting this colour. This would be a healthy pas time if it did not cloud your judgement of items of importance. F o r y o u r f u t u r e
voluntary hospital sys tem and began a four- year training period at the General Hospital, Birmingham. I count those years as some of the happiest of my working life. Of course, the salary
reference, I have been a member or supporter of all th e colours going — red/blue/orange/green — and in my letter I did not single out any party, but condemned all parties for
not standing up) for the people who elected them to power. If you say that party policies come before the benefit of the local people, then the present- councillors’ days will be short-lived, if I am any , judge of Clitheroe folk.'. My figure was, I said,
my own and was arrived to Clitheroe and its area at by the following method and then put in, I hope, a — poll tax 1.3m. popula- worthy letter to this wor- tion, of which two thirds thy paper, pay £297 = £255m. Rates system — 1.3m. How you come to gather
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population, living on' your facts etc. is another average three people to a matter,
household, paying on average £410 per house, = R. J. M. LOEBELL, £174m., still giving us a 61 Edisford Road, Clitheroe.
46% increase. Unfortunately, when
you are working thousands of miles away, facts and figures to work from are hard to get, but on getting the facts I may write again on the subject; that ! can
MISLEADING STATEMENTS
was ju s t “ p o c k e t money,” there was lit tle off-duty, time and ,j the food was not spec tacular, although there was plenty of it! I can still see the overweight housekeeping s is ter “floating’ down the hospital corridor after boasting that she could feed a nurse on half-a- crown a week! We worked hard and
free time was taken up by studying. We were young and healthy and took all the discipline in our stride. There was a lot of fun and laughter thrown in. The ward sisters and
YOUR Ribble Valley Reader some weeks ago complains that she has not received a reply to her letter. In fact, she has not written to me personally, but simply addressed an open let
ley Reader makes are totally misleading and inaccurate.
'maternity,and paediatrics. 3. The District does not have a choice between
tutors were models of efficiency and profes sionalism and were most g e n e ro u s in imparting their know ledge and skills to us young nurses. I experienced the
persuade the Regional Health Authority to give us £299,000 per year extra finances to be spent on strengthening midwifery services for the benefit of all mothers. . 2. The closure of Bramley Meade was unanimously supported by all consultant doctors involved in
follows: 1. The District Health Authority has managed to
keeping Bramley Meade open or having the extra facilities of the temporary unit at Queen’s Park, because pressure on services at Queen’s Park is so great that we must have the temporary unit. 4. Even with the closure of Bramley Meade, moth
ers will still have an opportunity for admission to GP units either in the Bull Hill Unit at Queen’s Park, or in the GP. beds at Accrington. 5. Every effort has been made to encourage GPs to
same conditions in mid wifery training at the E a s t e r n G e n e ra l Hospital, Edinburgh, under the National Health Service and at the Queen’s District N u r s e s ’ T ra in in g School, Edinburgh, in the ’50s. I am, th e re fo re ,
use the beds, but every year over the last six years numbers of GP births have declined from approxi mately 600 to approximately 300 and the numbers are continuing to decline. ■ In fact, the numbers are now so low that only 75
Ribble Valley mothers per year — far less than two a week — have their babies in the 20-bedded unit at Bramley Meade. Clearly, we can accommodate those births without difficulty elsewhere and in fact the majority of Ribble Valley mothers already have their babies at Queen’s Park. In conclusion, I would add tha t the Health
amazed that appalling conditions such as those endured by Mrs Bradshaw existed even in the ’30s. They could be considered almost Dickensian.
M R S E L S I E
LAWSON, 35 Waddow Grove, Waddington.
Reunion
THE Ribblesdale year of ’77 will be meeting up again on Saturday nignt. Former pupils of the
school who left in 1977 are invited to a reunion at the Swan and Royal Hotel, Clitheroe, starting at 8
p.m. Further information is
available from Mrs Jackie Devine (nee Wilkinson) on Clitheroe 28276.
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ject is always based not on my personal opinion, but based on the policy of the Authority approved in public meeting. The Authority would prefer to keep Bramley
Authority Consultation Document regarding the clo sure of Bramley Meade is a document approved by the whole Authority and anything I say on the sub
Meade open on amenity grounds, but we do not have the funds to enable that to be done. Our first priority must be to address the essential needs of the service and to spend the money we have on those essential needs. We have appealed to the Regional Health
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Authority to provide extra money so that Bramley Meade may be kept open on amenity grounds. But the Regional Health Authority has explained that it has a large number of essential schemes awaiting funding and that it does not have money available to keep Bramley Meade open purely for its amenity. ■I can assure all Ribble Valley people that the
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Health Authority wishes to provide the very best maternity service for all mothers and babies through out the District.
W. IAN WOOLLEY, Chairman, Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Authority, District Offices, Queen’s Park Hospital, - Blackburn.
An excellent entry for the anniversary sale
THERE was an excellent entry of 122 calving cattle and 185 store cattle when Clitheroe Auction Mart held its anniver sary sale on Friday.
ve throughout .the sale. Cows ry
£960 (£760.83).
Waddinj son,
Trade for in-calf starters was good and imp ro v ed
peako'd a t £960 (a v e rag e £712.36) and heifers reached
of Horton-in-Cravcn, took tho Barclays Bank championship- prize and the'T. W. Pickard Memorial Trophy for a July calving cow, realising £930.
Vaddington, and Mr C. Wilkin* n, of Bacup, were faced with a unting task. Mr U. Lancaster,
Judges Mr R. Drinkall, of , -■ Reserve - champion, an early .
cow — R. Lancaster (£930), E. •A! Booth (£960), E. Aj Crook;
(£920). Early heifer— J. AVado • s.” . . , ,
(£840), R. Ellison & Son (£870- £345). ,, , and£690).. ....
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culver from E .A . Booth and- Son, Lothersdale, made £960. . Class winners: Early calving,
heifer — J. Finder (£870 and £790), J: P. Holton (£820). Best beast shown by a YFC
, & Sons, of Catlow and -Sykes, but in spite of stem opposition, they won their own trophy with a Belgian blue bull which sold for £552.
J. Newhouse, of Settle, also had a tough job in most, classes. A new championship trophy had been donated by T. Robinson
member — J. Stott (£960). In the store section, judge Mr
Robinson St Sons (£662), T. W. Pickard & Son (£530), T. Robin-, son & Sons (£650). Native bull — Dr D. Pickard.
Best Continental bull — T. 1
found a very good trade, but S bulls tended to fetch
caIvos sold from £10 to £700 (£583), Continental bulls from £275 to £565 (£463), Friesian bulls from £170 to £450 (£308), Hereford bulls from £222 to £285 (£259), Continental steers from £260 to £426 (£311), Friesian heifers from £345 to £480 (£416), Hereford heifers from £182 to £437 (£346).
y less money. Cows and
S. Knowles (£405), N. W. Hay- hurst (£375 and £320). Native. steer or heifer — N. Robinson. (£487 and £437), D. B. Har greaves (£320). Best Friesian ) icifer —■ J. R. Procter (£350 and.
Continental steer or'heifer — • . Champion — T. Robinson &
(£840): G. & N. Clogg (£760), R. Pickard & Son (£530). Collinge & Sons (£670). Late Store cattle, for outgrazlng
■ Late cow — R. Collinge Sons (£552). Reserve — T. W.
- there was an average price £204. .
working sheep dogs on the showground, Chipping, on Sun day, attracted an entry of 58. Top price was £600 for a two- and-a-half-year-old dog and
The annual spring sale of
day cut back numbers consider ably in the cattle section, it did not affect the-sheep as much. There were 62 cattle forward and 506 sheep. Cattle found better than anticipated trade, although classes of cattle includ ing c ow b monoy.
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promise.' By the way, Coun.
Pickup, just a thought for you for future letters. I gather all my facts and information
from.the peo-, pie in the streets, I listen to their comments and suggestions on what they would like to . see happen
. lie buried in the numerous cemeteries on the Gallipoli peninsular, especially at the “Lancashire' Landing’ graveyard above W beacn, but have never, been able to make the long journey to see the graves of their loved ones.
I ■ KNOW •' ’that .hun dreds; perhaps thousands, of local people have par ents or grandparents who
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years’ association with the Lancashire Fusiliers, I had the great honour of attending the national ceremony and laying the r e g im e n t a l w r e a th i n s c r i b e d ‘ ‘ N o t Forgotten.”
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the many relatives' who could not attend that the' Gallipoli graves are neatly, beautifully and .reverently m a in t a in e d by th e Imper ia l War Graves Commission.
I should like to reassure
Division and the 42nd (East Lancashire Territo rial) Division sustained heavy casualties in and near Cape Hellas and the Lancashire Landing ceme tery is especially calm and beautiful.
Both the 29th (Regular)
PETER EVANS, (Lt Col. Lancashire Fusiliers, retired), 76 Knowsley Road, . Wilpshire.
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THE scene was a Lan cashire mi l l in the 1830s, when children — some as young as five — worked 50 or 60 hours a week in
appalling conditions. Trinity Theatre Work
shop’s first musical pro duction of “The Factory Children” made almost unbearably real. the hor rors of child labour-in the mills.
This was entertainment
for all ages. Bubbling with \ the Lancashire County youth and v ita lity , i t Council, this was also an exercise, in community theatre, with a special afternoon performance for senior citizens from local rest homes and Clitheroe Hospital, for whom it b ro u g h t b a c k , many
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appealed to the “oldies” with long memories of “the good old days.” Hard work was put in
by all the young people, ranging in age from seven to 15, who had the chance
Trip back to horrors of yesteryear
. and cultural grant from'
to try out all aspects of putting on a show, includ ing set design and con struction, research and p u b l ic i ty , as well as performing. Funded by an artistic
memories of the mill that used to stand on the river side near Edisford Bridge. Harriet Roberts and her
co-director Kristina Lofth- ouse (both 21) brought a professional polish to a
separate speaking parts, the show demanded great versatility from the 16 members of the cast, some
show, which used the talents of ordinary chil dren and young people to make local history come alive. Written for up to 40
of whom had up to six roles each.
makes the history of the industrial revolution in Lancashire an unforgetta ble experience. It deserves to be seen
This is a musical which
oy a wider audience — certainly every school child in the county should have the opportunity to s e e “ T h e F a c t o r y Children.” In the cast were: Claire
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Green. Clare Watson, Abigail F le tch e r , James Rob e rts , Suzanne Willey, J e n n i fe r Cheng, Paul Wooff, Katie Ro be rts , Andrew Pearce, Deborah Burke, Fiona Stewart, Anna Roberts, Jason Chadwick, Joanne Woolf, Darryl Chad wick, Lisa Dobson. Mark Leadbeater was the
pianist/musical director. Ruth Brulthwaite.
AFTER pleading guilty to He was alleged to have being drunk and disor- made an obscene gesture derly, Neil Kay (23), of Whalley Road, Clitheroe, was fined £100 by the town’s magistrates.
Fined £100
to police officers and shouted abuse. Kay told the court he had had too much to drink.
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