•1 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, J u ly 12th, 1990


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YOU could almost hear the ancient echo of clog-irons on the cobble stones. . . after shoeing four generations of Clitheronians, Richard Turner and Son’s shoe shop in Castle Street recently closed its doors for the last time.


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said John. “My grandfather’s shop was the centre of three little shops which now make up Barry Stevens’s ‘Night and Day’ business. Grandfather gradually took over a sweet shop on one side, and a barber’s on the other.” Richard died in 1958, leaving the shop in the capable hands of his son Richard,


because of ill-health and thereby ended a family tradition which began when his grandfather, Richard, founded the business in 1910. “Those were the days when the farmers and factory workers wore clogs,"


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who was born in 1913 and had worked with his father since 1927. Richard junior extended the shop's repertoire into shoe-selling, and became expert in the art of pinpoint. . . creating beautiful pictures on the soles of shoes by the use of rivets. I’m sure many Clitheronians will remember vividly, as I do, the famous shoes


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which were displayed in the shop window for years, depicting the Rialto Bridge in Venice. The 17,500 rivets in that pair took Richard a year to put in, but they won him the pinpoint championship of the British Isles in 1953, at a time when he was also winning 30 diplomas, three medals and three cups for shoe repair in national championships. In the early ’60s, Dr Felton Ross, who was working at the Oji Leper Colony in


Nigeria, visited the shop to explain his theory that clog soles would help the lepers who suffered from terrible ulcers on their feet. Richard gave his own time to visit the colony to teach the men how to make the soles themselves, and on his return to Clitheroe founded the still active local branch of LEPRA (then called BELRA), which has raised thousands of pounds for the charity. Richard, who was last Mayor of the old borough of Clitheroe, died four


years ago, 17 years after the shop moved to Castle Street. His widow, Edith, who lives in Candlemaker’s Croft, Clitheroe, still played an active role in the business until its closure, as did John's wife, Carol. The happy atmosphere in the shop was evident from the fact that one employee, Alban Snape, of Pendie Road, Clitheroe, stayed with the business for


Guide to castle’s place in history


A NEW guide to Clitheroe Castle by Ribble Valley author and archaeologist David Best is now in the bookshops.


Carnegie Publishing, sets out to take a fresh look at the castle’s origins, put­ ting forward the claim that the castle is 50 years older than the accepted view.


The guide, produced by


| Advertiser and Times” reported earlier in the


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I year, Mr Best claims that the castle has probably


I 800th anniversary cele­ brated in Clitheroe in 1980


I been in existence since 1122 and suggests that the


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even birds.Some of our modern hairstyles will cause consid­ erable mirth in the coming days. Spikes and colours such a green and blue mny mercifully have been abandoned by then. Perhaps, our hairdressers will have ceased to include creations of tangled locks and apparently uncombed hair. Fancy pay­ ing good money to look as if you had not attended to your hair for weeks! Tomorrow's world will be amazed and amused at


the recent fashion of men rolling up the sleeves of their jackets, as if about to unblock a drain, just to be thought “ trendy." Grandad’s collarless shirts are appearing as best wear in front of TV cameras. Ladies wear replicas of men's shirts, complete with full exposure of long laps that some of the men folk would like to hiwc on their own shirts. The lack of Christian teaching and home


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| it as “the guidebook.to one of Lancashire’s most important historical monu­ ments, bringing together the best of recent research and painting the fullest and most accurate picture yet of the castle and its lace in the county’s listory.”


I booklet, “A short' history of Clitheroe,”.was pub-


| lished in 1988, lives at Mellor and obtained a BA h o n o u rs de g ree in


Mr Best, whose earlier


Aussie in search of


family tree AN Australian is making a special trip to Clitheroe next month in the hope of tracing her family tree.


lives in Brisbane, is appealing for information from local people about the Starkies and the Lofth-


Patricia Feeney, who


ouses in her quest to lo c a te her d is ta n t relatives.


“Advertiser and Times,” she says: “1 will be in the Clitheroe area in order to locate and photograph addresses and places which have family signifi­ cance. It would be a mat­ ter of great interest and pleasure if I could estab­ lish contact with any Star­ kies or Lofthouses who are related to me, however distantly.


In a le t te r to the


| archaeology at Durham University. He produced


| the manuscript for his latest publication as part of his work towards the Postgraduate Diploma in


| Practical Archaeology at Birmingham.


I sistencies which led me to I the reappraisal which I appears in this booklet,” | he said.


“I found several ineon-


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I details the earlier history I of the castle, concentrat- I ing particularly on discus- I sing the evidence for the date of the castle’s con-


In the first part he


Lofthouse), my great- g reat-grandmo th er , migrated from Clitheroo in the 1860s with four of her children, leaving behind at least one brother, George. He was v a r io u s ly described as a tailor, draper, publican and ho­ tel-keeper. He was at both the White Lion (1875-76) aiid the Swan Hotel (1S81).


“Mary Starkie (nee


Starkie, died in 1849. It is not known if any Starkie relatives remained behind in Clitheroe.


“Her husband, Thomas


Istruction, and in the second part deals with the


I later history and the build- | ing which survives today.


I £1.2 0 , is illustrated with I pictures and sketches.


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from any Starkie or Lofth­ ouse descendants.”


“ I would love to hear


Mrs Feeney can be con­ tacted at 9S Yallambee


Rd, Jindalee, Brisbane, Q u e e n s la n d 4074, Australia.


43 years until its closure. However, the fourth


generation of Turners are all in very different professions. John and Carol’s son, Andrew


(20), is studying for a music/physics degree at Keele University, daughter Susan (22) has just got her first teaching post at St John’s RC School, Padiham, and eldest daughter Wendy (24), who married Kevin McGeough last month and is living in Otley, works for Lloyds Bank. Now, John finds that


BUSY TIME FOR CIVIC PAIR


THE Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheore, Coun. Patrick Shepherd and his wife, Mary, are now well into their second year of office and their services are as much in demand as ever.


have averaged three engagements a week, bringing the number at the end of the first week in July to 24.


So far this year they


time on his hands gives him the chance to concentrate on his lifelong, favourite hobby — the theatre, and this year sees his first move into production, making his debut with • “Oklahoma" for Clitheroe Parish Church Operatic and Dramatic Society, which will be staged from February 16th to 23rd next year. A lifelong member of the society, he has performed in many of its principal roles, his favourite being Fagin in “Oliver.” It is a long way from


retailing shoes, which was John’s major interest in the family business, which he did for a grand total of 33 years. “However, I have no


for emulating last year’s grand total of 153.


They are now on course Law degree


FO RM E R C lith e ro e RoyalGrammar School pupil Miss Susan Kilmister (25) has just been awarded a BA Hons, in Law at the University of Kent. Susan, the daughter of


Mr Ron Kilmister of Hall S t r e e t , C l i th e r o e , attended Edisford P r i­ mary School before obtian- ing a place at the grammar school, and took A-levels at Blackburn Technical College. Susan, who was a mem­


ber of the gymnastic team at the grammar school, now hopes to continue her studies in law abroad.


regrets about my time in the shop,” he said. “Someone once said to me that the best education you can get in life is behind a shop counter . . . and I’m sure he was right!”


Sarah wins £100 for school


A CLITHEROE girl aged four has won £100 for her


school by coming second in a c o u n ty c o l la g e competition. Like all the other 260


entrants, Sarah Wiggin, of SS Michael and John’s RC Primary School, Clitheroe, had to use clean litter — such as empty yoghurt pots and wrapping paper — to create a collage on the theme “A beautiful Lancashire.” Her collage won second


prize in the individual entries’ section for the four to six age group. Her prize was a £15 book token plus £100 for her school. Lancashire County


Mayoress who takes on the principal role at public engagements. Recently she crowned the rose queen at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, and last week she and the Mayor wel­ comed Clitheroe Royal Grammar School’s Ameri­ can visitors to the town and showed them the regalia of office.


Sometimes it is the


eight grown-up children, worked as an assistant in the science laboratories at Stonyhurst College for 11 years and before ner mar­ riage was an insurance


Mrs Shepherd, who has LIBRARY CORNER


suspense set in a Devon village dominated by a giant megalith. “Some can whistle” — Larry McMurtry. The story of Danny


RECENT additions to stock at Clitheroe Library include: “The plague stone” — Gill White. A novel of menace and


Deck, a successful middle-aged Texan writer, whose quiet life is suddenly disturbed by an unexpected telephone call from the daughter he has never seen. “Talcs of the loch” — Bruce Sandison. A collection of fishing


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Council staff will be mak­ ing a formal presentation o f the prizes in the autumn, when the winning entries will be on show.


Dripping in Chipping!


CUBS from four local packs spent a wet week­ end on their first ever camp in the Chipping area.


Mary’s, Clitheroe, St Paul’s, Low-Moor, Bow- land and Trinity Tigers


The 35 boys, from the St fiacks, camped on the vil-


influence arc showing startling results. Old people are being pestered and even terrorised by groups of thoughtless children who have no respect for their


elders or for any authority. Vandalism on private and public property is rife.


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Crime is on the increase and our prisons arc over­ flowing to the point of inmates complaining about the lack of home comforts! Where is all this lead­ ing up to? Where are we going as n people? I’ll tell you where the vast majority nre not going. . . to church and Sunday school, and it certainly shows! Isn’t it time for a change, spiritually? JOE STANSFIELD


' ing them in to the village hall during Saturday. The camp was organised


age showfield, with the worst of the weather forc-


by Clitheroe District Cub Scout Leader Mr Dale Higham and the Cub Scout ADC for Clitheroe, Mrs Irena Preston. The boys went on a hike round the village towards Parlick Pike and in the better weather, on Sunday, man­ aged to cook their own lunches by camp-fire.


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tales first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. “A quiet courage” — Linnc Jones. The story of the 38 women SOE agents sent into Nazi-occupied France.


clerk. The Mayoress and her


husband, a retired Stony­ hurst master, have lived in the area for 24 years. Their youngest child. Geralyn (19), still lives at home.


Planning a reunion


A F T E R emigrating to Canada 25 years ago, Elsie Farwell has lost touch with many of her old schoolfriends.


Now Mrs Farwell (nee


Barber) is returning to the Ribble Valley for a special reunion with Ribblesdale School’s class of 1950.


Mrs Sylvia Roberts (nee Rimmer), is holding a get- together at Waddinglon Social Club, where stew­ ardess Mrs Lilian Taylor (nee Walsh) just happens to be another schoolfrieml.


Next month,her old pal.


on August 3rd and tickets are £2.50, including sup­ per. For further informa­ tion, contact either Mrs Roberts (Clitheroe 22796) or Mrs Tavlor (Clitheroe 22262).


The reunion takes place


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