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Return treasure to Ribble Valley, say councillors
SUGGESTIONS that a world-famous hoard of treasure should be transferred from London to Clitheroe Castle Museum are to be investi gated by the Ribble Valley Council.
At a meeting of the council’s Recreation and Leisure Committee, Coun. John Richardson (Ribches- ter) queried why the 7,000 coins and silver jewellery, known as the. Cuerdale Hoard, is kept at the Brit-
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CHARTER DINNER
SOME 90 members and guests attended Clith eroe Lions’ seventh annual charter dinner at the Spread Eagle Hotel,
Sawley.The guests included the Ribble Valley Mayor and Mayoress, Coun. and Mrs John Cliff, and the Clitheroe Mayor and Mayoress, Coun. and Mrs Patrick Shepherd. The presid en ts of
BRIDGE CLUB
i WINNERS at Clitheroe Bridge Club on Wednesday night were: NS Mrs Holden and Mr Web ster, Mrs Millington and Mr Spencer; EW Mr Hall and Mr Hounslow. Mrs Batchelor and
Mrs Huddleston. On the following board, most
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Ribblesdale and Clith eroe Rotary Clubs, the vice-chairman of Clith eroe Round Table and their wives were also
EW pairs were content to play in three no-trumps, makingll tricks, but at one table the bid ding was:
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present.Lions’ president Mr Peter Scholes proposed a toast to Lions Club International and Mr Ian Joyce proposed a toast to the ladies and guests. Coun. S h e p h e rd
West’s four clubs was a Gerber convention and although his partner’s reply showed only one ace, west went on to ask for kings. When east replied with five spades, south unwisely took the opportunity to double, thereby inviting his partner to lead a spade. North dutifully led a spade
ish Museum instead of Clitheroe, nearer to where it was found on the banks of the River Ribble out side Preston. , The hoard is thought to
•ever discovered except for a find in the Soviet Union. The move comes as part
date from around AD 900 and is the largest collec tion of Viking treasure
of wider calls for impor tant finds to be returned to areas where they came from instead of keeping them locked away in dis tant museums. Coun. .Ron Pickup
SELBY- EDWARDS
A honeymoon in Morocco followed the wedding of Miss Helen Edwards and Dr Ian Selby at St James’s Church, Clitheroe. The bride, a teacher, is
(Clitheroe) said the sug gestion should be taken up with a view to a one-off or permanent display. The treasure is the
The bridegroom is the younger son of Mr Selby, of Dorset and the late Mrs
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the second daughter of Mr and Mrs R. M. Edwards, of West Bradford Road, Waddington.
second find that might come Clitheroe’s way Recently an important dis covery of Roman coins was lassed on to the British Museum for identification
D. Selby. The bride, given away
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and there is a chance that these might be returned to Clitheroe for permanent display.
dummy and south played small. West now has a chance of mak ing his slam contract. After drawing trumps, he can cross to dummy with a Heart and take a ruffing finesse by leading the queen of spades. If south covers with the king,
expressed thanks to the Lions on behalf of the guests.
Worked on many road projects
THE funeral service and cremation took place at Accrington lastWednesday of a former roadman for Lancashire County Coun cil, Mr Edward McGowan
FIRST-YEAR pupils at St A u gu s t in e ’s RC School, Billington, pulled out all the stops to make sure a group of disabled children spent Easter at Lourdes.
aged 76. Mr McGowan, of Billing-
ton Gardens, Billington, worked from the council depot at Whalley and helped complete many road projects in East Lan- c a sh i re ,
motorways. He leaves a wife, Emily.
in c lu d in g N o t injured
DRIVERS and passen gers escaped injury when a car travelling from the Barrow link road to the A59 Clitheroe bypass was involved in a collision with a caravan being towed by a car driving along the bypass in the direction of Preston on Saturday. The drivers were from
the North Allerton and Macclesfield areas.
almost £600 to sponsor a Handicapped Chil dren’s Pilgrimage Trust group f r om Ea s t Lancashire.
The pupils raised
by a variety of events, including baking cakes a n d
The money was raised
the school, Mrs Berna dette Ki lgal lon and Miss Imclda Higginson, went to Lourdes with the group, whi ch included 10 young peo ple'from the: Burnley, Blackburn, Great Har wood and Accrington areas.
competitions. Two teachers from
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sented to the group’s chaplain, Fr Michael Cleary.
The cheque was pre
teachers with some of the fund-raisers.
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had lived in | parties town 50 years
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FORMER nursing sister Mrs Laurina Gaze, of Rossendale Rest Home, York Street, Clith- eroe, has died in Blackbui*n Royal Infirmary
aged 87.
Dearer taxis
SOME hackney carriage fares in the Ribble Valley
are to rise. The cost for one mile
will remain the same at £1.20, but for each subse quent 352 yards, or fifth- of-a-mile, the price will increase from 12p to 15p. Costs for each article of
eroe since the second world war, and will be remembered for the way she often offered help to people at times of illness. Born in Padiham, she
She had lived in Clith
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RIBCHESTER thespians are hurriedly brush ing up their manners, watching their P’s and r up Lneu
Q’s, picking up their aitches and generally hemse ’lves before they go on public
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Cries way to third place
CLITIIEROE’S Town Crier started his summer season in winning form by coming third in the first town criers’ championship of the
year. Roland Hailwood
made his annual pil grimage to Alccster for the Heart of England Championships on Easter Saturday to find a strong field of past and present champions. But he was in fine voice,
beaten only to the first and second places by the town criers of Norwich and Shrewsbury. He will be
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Theatrical Society (RATS) is nearing the first perfor mance of the opening play in the “Norman Con quests” trilogy by popular playwright Alan Ayck bourn.
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hilarious study into family relationships at a hastily convened and mostly in co n v en ien t family meeting.
‘Table Manners” is an
the current RATS season, which has again been very successful. Its last produc tion was a smash hit pan tomime in a newly refur bished and refurnished Parochial Hall, in which members worked very
This is the last play in
hard and .closely with the p c c
raise enough money to purchase new curtains for
The RATS are hoping to
the stage to complete the entirely “new look” in. Ribchester. Performances of ‘‘Table
competing against the
7ft 2in tall Martyn Wood, of Shrewsbury again, on April 28th, at Shrewsbury’s first town criers’ • competition, and may be competing against him a third time at Clithcroc’s own contest, on May 28th, which has already attracted entries from 30 town criers from all over the country. ,Mr Hailwood is to
be in the news on at least one other . occasion this year — the pre-recorded “Busman’s Holiday” programme, which • features him and two fellow, town criers, ^ 'will be screened on?. June 20th. . .
Manners” begin tonight and run until Saturday. A strong cast of regulars, featuring Julia Brookman, Jane Flynn, Susan Cron- shaw, John Holgate, Keith Flood and Robin Simmons, are also looking forward to April 28th, when they have been invited to open the Ribble Valley Drama Festival,at the Civic Hall,
luggage conveyed outside the passenger compart ment of the carriage increases from 8p to lOp, as does the cost of each person in excess of one. The increases were
approved by the Ribble 'alley Council’s Finance and General Purposes
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Committee. Mr Paul Tipison, legal
and administration officer, stressed that these did not affect charges by private hire companies.
Handed over
land handed over and the remaining two are in the final stages of construction [and should be ready for occupation at any time. Councillors at the April
THE major improvements and construction work being carried out at Bil lington Gardens are almost complete. Of the 19 dwellings, 17 have now been finished
nursed at Manchester’s Withington Hospital for over 30 years as a ward sister and theatre sister. It was during the blitz in 1940 that she and her late husband, Mr Joseph Harold Gaze, decided to move from Manchester to Clitheroe. The couple bought a
attack on
ACID house revellers are planning to use several venues in the Ribble Val ley for illegal parties this summer.
two sites have been ear marked,” legal and admin istration officer Mr Paul Timson told the Ribble Valley Council’s Finance and General Purposes Committee.
“We know that one or
nate that, after suffering the first event in the North West, we have escaped the rest, but that is not to say that we have had near misses.”
‘We have been fortu
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i a losing club on the established jack of spades. If south does not cover the queen of spades, west discards a club. Without the double, north
west ruffs, enters dummy with the other high heart and throws
PLANNING permission has been given for 10 starter homes and five detached dwellings at Read’s Victoria Mill site. Members of Ribble Val
would probably lead a heart, which would prevent this line of play by immediately removing one of the necessary entries to dummy.
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Monday’s winners were: NS Mrs Patterson and Mr Webster, Mrs Pedder and Mrs Russell; EW Mr Lavelle and Mr Y.oud, Mrs Dewhurst and Mr McGrath. On Thursday; winners were:
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by her father, wore a tra ditional gown of ivory silk with a train and embroi-' dered bodice. Her floor- length veil was edged with antique lace. She carried a bouquet of roses, carna t io n s , f r e e s ia and gypsophila. Briaesmaids were Miss
Jane Edwards, the bride’s sister, Miss Karen David and Miss Natasha Adley, the bridegroom’s niece. They wore traditional
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style dresses of muted blues and pinks, and head dresses of ivory, blue and pink silk flowers. ' Best man was Dr John
ley Council’s Development Control Sub-committee heard that the proposal, submitted by Fernlea Homes Ltd, would create a terrace effect along the Whalley Road frontage which would be traditional to the locality.
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Todd and ushers were Dr A. Robertson and Dr G.
Warnes. ^ The ceremony was per
formed by the Rev. D. Woodhouse and a recep tion was held at Ellel Grange. The couple are to live in
Horwich. Higher insurance cover
THE Ribble Valley Council is to treble its insurance against the risk of dishonesty by officers whose duties involve the custody and control of money. The sum guaranteed by the insurers in respect of
any one person was £250,000. However, as the coun cil now carries out transactions in excess of that figure, the Finance and General Purposes Committee has increased the cover to £750,000 in respect of five
NS Mr Gamer and Mr Capstick, Mr and Mrs Webster; EW Mr Lavelle and Mr Youd, Mr Turner and Mrs Baron. ^ ^
house in Pimlico Road, where they lived for many years and where Mr Gaze ran a philately business. Mr Gaze died in 1986, the same year that his wife went into the York Street •e’st home. Mrs Gaze helped to look
the council was taking action on three fronts — through the criminal and civil courts and by seeking a change in legislation. “We don’t want to be
Mr Timson added that
WI pair go for double
seen as killjoys, but we are out to protect life,” said Coun. Bill Bowker. Coun. Bill Fleming said:
after several of her hus band’s relatives, who moved in Clitheroe at vari ous times. She was a mem ber of Clitheroe Parish Church and her favourite hobbies were sewing, knitting and cooking. Cremation took place at
Accrington.
“It is a pity that we can’t take a positive lead and organise some suitable events ourselves.”
P en d le Club
AT Clitheroe Pendle Club’s bridge session, win ners were: Mrs F. Porter and Mr J. Lynch, Miss R. Holland and partner.
meeting of Ribble Valley Council’s Housing Com mittee heard that the work was two weeks behind schedule, due to the poor weather.
CLITHEROE winners of the March W. H. Smith contest in ‘Outlook’ magazine were: Mrs Shirley Driver, of Fort Street, Clith eroe, who wins “Chronicle of the Year, 1989”; Mrs
M.Marsden, of Cowper Avenue, Clitheroe (Cat’s Eye); Robert Cowgi l l , Lodge Cottage, Bashall Eaves (Sleeping Beauty); Mrs
J.Moorby, 5 Radclyffe Street,
‘Outlook’ winners Clitheroe (Blackadder).
eroe Advertiser and Times” office, bringing proof of identity.
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A RIMINGTON WI duo are preparing for their second a t tem p t at a national table tennis championship. For the second suc
cessive year, Mrs Freda Simpson, a grandmother- of-four, of Carr Croft, Rimington, and Mrs Dorothy Heaton, of Bar- noldswick, have won their way to the national finals of the table tennis tourna ment organised >by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. Both are back in train
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ing to represent Lanca shire in the London finals next month — which means th a t Clitheroe Round Table’s press officer, Mr Keith Rudd, past holder of the South African national table ten nis championships title, has been busy again giving the p a ir some ex tra coaching. The two budding cham
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pions should have lots of support this year, as fel low members are hoping to organise a coach to travel to the capital for the event.
Elderly raise cash for young unfit to travel
Ewe was
| AN animal health inspec tor on duty at Gisburn Auction Mart noticed that
I a Dales’ bred ewe was | lame in both hind feet. Clitheroe magistrates
| had foot rot. The owner, Thomas
were told that it was exa mined by a veterinary officer from the Ministry of A g r ic u l tu re and Fisheries who agreed it
Clitheroe. •This will be only their
; So, if you miss them next week, see how their manners have improved at Clitheroe;—; they will be delighted to see you.
.selves well among nation wide competition. ,,
second appearance at the festival and they are view ing it with, a mixture of nerves and hope. Producer Robin' Simmons, who has had to'step into the cast halfway through; rehears als, is confident. that the players will acquit them-
| destroyed. ' > In mitigation, Mr Barry Dcaring said that the ani-
William Fawcett (52), of Mearbeck Farm, Lon Preston, was contacte_ and asked to either pick up th e ewe or have i t
WHEN ladies of Manor House Home for the Elderly in Chatburn cast off at the end of a busy fund-raising knitting session they had notched up £160 for the National Children’s Homes.
Mrs Joan Wriglcy, chairman of the local NCH branch. . The ladies had taken orders for knitted Easter chicks and other handi
The home proprietor,-Mrs Janet Harrison (left), presented the cheque to . crafts and extra funds had been raised by a I5-prizc raffle.
Trees Garden Sheltered Accomodation, of Chatburn. Refreshments were served by the Manor House Home staff. '
Entertainment was provided by Philip and Marion Wilkinson, of Darkwood Crescent, Chatburn, who sang old time songs.
Also present were ladies from the Ribblesdale Ovcr-60s Club and Crow, .... > V j
excellent entries made it impossible for the judges to choose a winner .cach lady was given an Easter egg as a prize. ■
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mitting unnecessary suf fering to the animal and allowing it to travel when unfit. He was fined £25 on each count and ordered to pay £75 costs.
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