1 Clithcmc Advertiser & Times, Jan uary 3rd, 191)1


Life dedicated to church and village


AT YOUR The local firms below provide a variety of


essential services — use this guide for an easy reference


CYRIL HOOLEY Ex-Hoovor oervlco engineer


57WOONE LANE, CUTHEROE .22023


yUTKOftlSED HOOVER SERVICE


Reconditioning and Service of


Repairs,, HOOVER APPLIANCES


RAY BLACKBURN' PLUMBING AND HEATING


25 years experience ENGINEERS


G la z in g , G u t te rs , a n d R o o f R o p a l ro .


F U L L B O IL E R


S E R V IC IN G A N D S P A R E S


O i l, G a s a n d S o l id F u e l Clltheroe 26460 Toh


fo r p ro m p t a t to n t lo n m u u u M f i im m u l


FOR JOBS AROUND THE HOUSE OR IN THE GARDEN —


MAKE IT EASY HIRE HIRE


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CLEANED AND GUTTERS


SEALED Phone


Colin Moorhouae


Whalley (0254) 822883 Evenings


S T E P H E N W T U C K E R


B u i ld e r s & E le c t r ic a l C o n t r a c to r s Extensions — Conservatories, Loll Conversions — Kitchens,


House re-wires — Intruder and fire alarm systems Carpentry and Joinery


Tel: 0254 86 379


(Mobile 0860 496468 Members ot the Guild of Muster Craftsmen


Q u a lity Hardwood & Softwood Wind ows


T ilt & T urn, Top Swing, Cnsemont, Box Shash,


Co nse rvato ries, T ilt & S lld o Patlc Doors


TRADE . DIY o r FITTED FERNSIDtTBARN F o rn s id e , T w is to n , C l i th e ro e . B B 7 4 B 2 . T e l : 0 2 0 0 4 4 5 3 4 5


CLOCK REPAIRS Antique and pSiSfi


Long Case specialist


i BARRIE


ASPDEN Clltheroe


23416 §


S A L E S , S E R V IC E A N D R E P A IR S


CHAIR C A N IN G


SERVICE


Telephone Clltheroe 27983


m m m E B ^ D O M iB S f lC S f SALES • SPARES


now author i i #


( g f l dealer


• REPAIRS


Electric Cookers - Vacs - Fridges etc.


Washers - Gas and New and re-conditioned Open 6 days a week 'til late


§ 50 WHALLEY ROAD, CLITHEROE pi Tol: (0200) 29118 or (0772) 628081 after hours


New carpets and vinyls


Repairs and refits


Fitting your own carpels


Competitive prices SEED and


TEMPLEMAN 37 Wellgate,


Clitheroe Tel. 25638, or 28401 (ovenlngs)


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D E R E K L E IG H T V R E N TA L S


4 Shlreburn Avenue, Clltheroe. Telephone 24168.


NO DEPOSIT TV RENTALS Portable, Teletext, Remote


e.g. 20ln TV £7.00 per Cal. Month


New 21 In. FST Remote £10.50 per Cal. Month; Discount for Annual Payment


TV Repairs, ex-Rentals for sale D E R E K


t e Windows and Doors In hardwood, softwood, uPVC.


Joiners and Building Contractors I'M'!


k t J S ! DIY and timber supplies contact: R & P. H A R G R E A V E s f i f f l


THE WORKSHOP, HALL STREET, CLITHEROE Tel: 26929


For a friendly and personal service Installations and Repairs


K E N N E D Y Quality Joinery


Your own materials fitted If required


40 YEARS EXPERIENCE 9 C l l th e ro e


2 7 8 2 2 1


WASHING MACHINES VACUUM CLEANERS


A L L MAKES SUPPLIED


Reconditioned Washers and Vacuum Cleaners


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ROGER PINDER


Tel. Clitheroe 27499


Most types of work undertaken


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C a t L a d d e r .................................................. PRICES INCLUDE VAT


HIRE


SPECIAL WEEKEND RATES FRIDAY P.M. — MONDAY A.M.


* M i * c r .............................................. .......................£ 5 .7 5 . ........... £ 8 .0 0


£ 5 .7 5


............. £1 8 . 4 0 .......... £ 1 1 .5 0 .......£1 3 .8 0 £ 5 .7 5 £ 1 .7 0


£1 3 .8 0 £ 1 .7 0 £ 6 .9 0 £ 2 .8 5


E. & D. (PLANT HIRE) LIMITED


Braving wind and


rain THE Clitheroe Ramblers’ Association Boxing Day walk round Malliam was well attended, despite the poor weather. Led by John Whitehead,


PENDLE TRADING ESTATE, CHATBURN. CUTHEROE 41597


Kirkb.v Malham for lunch and a festive drink in the sheltered beer garden of the Victoria Inn. The shortened walk then con­ tinued through flooded lanes and fields from Han- lith to Malham and passed the surging source of England’s fourth longest river, the Aire, at Aire Head. The group reached Mal-


1(1 members braved the heavy rain and strong winds and set off for Accraplatts and Kirkb.v Malham. The walkers stopped at


just six weeks after her brother George. Mrs Marsiand (nee Cow-


A WOMAN with a great love of Pendleton, whose family has farmed there for generations, Mrs Ruth Marsiand, died on Christmas Eve,


porthwaite) was born in 1920 in Pendleton and lived there all her life, attending the village CE primary school and Ribb- lesdalc Secondary School.


Tnitex for four years. On the death of her mother, she took care of her father, her brother and sisters and ran the family home, Schofield Farm. In 1974 she married ami moved to Bracken-Dean in the village.


She later worked at


hobby was village history and she was also a very accomplished dressmaker.


Mrs Mainland’s main


Pendleton PCC, she was dedicated to the work of All Saints’ Church and to the village community at large and also had a great iove of her family.


A former member of


involved with the National Children's Home, the Royal Lifeboat Institution and Royal British Legion poppy appeals.


In addition, she was


husband, Bill, and sisters Emma and Edna. Her eldest sister, Mary, (lied in 197(1 and her brother in November.


She is survived by her


All Saints’ Church was fol­ lowed by interment in the churchyard.


The funeral service at Taken from cars


liam much earlier than planned and, as the rain had eased, some members completed an extra walk to Janet’s Foss waterfall, where the river was in full spate. The group continued to


spate. The first walk of 1991


NEARLY £1,000 of cash and property was stolen from two vehicles left in the car park of the Hodder Bridge Hotel, Chaigley.


Gordale Scar and once again saw the spectacular sight of the river in full


will be on Saturday, through “Constable coun­ try” and members are asked to meet at Waterloo car park at 10 a.m.


ELECTRICIAN .


Dinky goes


home Graham W hiteoak ALL TYPES OF


ELECTRICAL WORK UNDERTAKEN


Tel. Whalley (0254) 823555


tic bag and rescued by two children in Low Moor turned out to be 10-ycar- old “Dinky.” As soon as Mrs Gladys


tic bag, we will never know,” said Miss Nora


Raines saw the picture i the cat on the front page of last week’s paper, she knew it was hers. Dinky had disappeared from its new hoine in Mi11on Avenue two weeks ago. “How it got into a plas­


days before Christmas by Rebecca Watt and Jenny Lakin. They took her to the home of Mrs Jean Riding, who in turn passed her to Miss Briggs. “She escaped under the


garage door,” said a relieved Mrs Baines, lidding: “All she wants now is food.”


B rig gs , of Fur and Feather, who took care of the cat over Christmas. Dinky was discovered


back with its owners, thanks to the “Advertiser and Times.” The cat found in a plas­


A VERY contented cat is


handbag, purse and a vari­ ety of credit cards were taken from a red Vauxhal! Astra.


A sum of £280 in cash, a


camera with telescopic lens, a blue leather brief­ case and a Philips electric shaver were stolen from a silver Renault saloon.


An Olympus 35mm


Clitheroe 22321, (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified)


SIX Clitheroe Brownies will never forget the day they enrolled. For instead of the toad­


stool around which Brown­ ies usually group for the ceremony, members of the 2nd Cliiheroe St Mary’s Brownies gathered around Clitheroe’s Castle crib. Despite the rain, the six repeated their promises watched by their young colleagues and Brown Owl Mrs Pat Houldsworth. Pictured at the enrol­


Closed as mark of respect


ment ceremony are, from the left: Amy Gaskcll, Louisa Gorst, Claire Tay­ lor and Amy Carr (front), with Micheile Hinder and Ruth Nutter behind them.


Fast talker T is filmed


THE Stirk House Hotel at Gisburn was closed on Thursday last week as a mark of respect for the hotel’s owner, Mr Dennis Neil Haworth, who died suddenly on the premises on December 20th. He was 7-1.


film a lot of fast talk­ ing . . . Clitheroe Auction Mart proved the perfect setting for a children’s television programme about farming characters. The crew filmed fast-


O market, to market, to


majority of the present employees, were among the 200 who attended the funeral and cremation at Carleton, not far from the Skipton home where Mr Haworth and his wife Eve had lived for the past 20 years. Mr Haworth was born and bred in the Kossen-


Past staff, as well as the


a 13-part series, is being screened at 3-50 p.m. on January 7th, on BBC-1, and centres round a farm in the Bolton area. It features Robin Addy­


man in action when the farmer visits the auction mart. The series “stars” real life and animated characters.


talking auctioneer Robin Addyman for a p ro­ gramme entitled “Forget- me-not Farm,” which is for pre-school children. The programme, one of


wife, son Andrew and daughter Denise and four grandchildren.


day-to-day running of the hotel to his management team, Mr Haworth had his say in the management and was always there dur­ ing the day in the normal working week, said his son, Andrew. Air Haworth leaves his


dale Valley and married there 50 years ago. He worked in insurance originally, but la te r became chairman of two food companies, Liverpool Central Oil and Oriel Foods Ltd, which he ran for many years before buying Stirk House Hotel in 1072. He also owned the Anchor Inn at Gargrave. Although he left the


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IN February, 19S5, a North American species, the ring-neckedduck, was discovered at Stocks Reser­ voir. Since then, what is presumably the same male bird lias reappeared at Stocks each autumn and moved over to Foulridge ill the spring;, sometimes visiting; other East Lancashire waters inbetween. It lias never been seen in the summer, but since it alwavs kegit eoingiany with gioehard, a related sgieeies, it is giossible that it migrated to and from Eurogie


with them. Desgiite careful searching it was not found at


Stocks in the autumn of 1990, but did reagigiear at Koulridge in the early winter. It was at Dean Clough on Christmas Day, but as I write these notes it is oil I’rimrose Lodge, in Clitheroe itself. I’eriiagis this change in its giattern of tile girevious five years is due to a change in tile eomgiany that it is keegiing; it is now with tufted duck, an even closer relative than


duck, its flanks are grey, rather than white and it jacks a crest. A high crown, a girominent white band round the bill and a vertical white strigie at the front of the flanks are other distinctive features. Tile English name is not very apt, the full collar being almost imgiossible to see unless the bird is in tile


gxichard. Although similar in agigiearanee to a male tufted


species are fortunate in that a female is also present in tlie county at the moment, on the flooded gravel pits at Carnforth. There is always a chance that birds such as these are eseagiees from a waterfowl collec­ tion, but since neither is ringed nor seems giarticu- larly tame, genuine trans-Atlantic vagrancy is likely in both eases. If only eaeli knew the other was there! Vagrant birds from the east are likely in the next


hand. Those who wish to get to gp-igis with this foreign


two or three months if there should lie severe weather on the Continent. Seekers of rarities from this source have had a gmor time of it in recent years, because of the run of mild winters, but, like many birders, I continue to bogie, if not exgieet, that 1991 will bring some goodies along. May I wish yon all a very liagigiy New Year and


express the hogie that von will continue to enjoy the rich wildlife with whieli we are endowed in the Kibble Valiev district.


TONY COOI’EIt


Finding out what public feel on mart site plans


THE Liberal Democrats are using their news­ letter, Focus, to launch a public survey into local attitudes towards the development of


newsletter has been distri­ buted throughout Clith­ eroe and parts of the Rib- ble Valley, following the pre-Christmas decision by Ribble Valley Borough Council to invite a plan­ ning application from the developers.


date Mr Michael Carr said: “Everyone who lives in


Liberal Democrat candi­


and around Clitheroe should have the chance to know what is planned — and to have a say — before the council makes a decision to go ahead.


out the facts and all the arguments we have heard,


"We have therefore set


Clitheroe’s auction mart site. A special issue of the for and against. It is not ' * ’


•• • good enough to say that loci! ‘


sensible decision because they don’t know the facts — they must be given the facts and that is what we are doing. “As Liberal Democrats


al people cannot make a


and reported to the coun­ cil, said Mr Carr. “It is time that politi­


we believe in consulting people and finding out what they think — before decisions are made, not afterwards, when it is too late.” Replies will be collated


cians, local and national, started to listen to what ordinary people think,” he added.


Cricket enthusiast who gave loyal service


THE press and public relations officer of the Whitbread Rtbblesdale Cricket League, Mr Alan Musgrove, died on Christmas Day at the age


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cricket, which he played, in the main, with Ribbles- dale Wanderers. He was an enthusiast through and through and had a very wide knowledge of the game and its participants. He often played with


and affection for Ribbles- dale Wanderers was never in doubt and he served the club in many capacities for well over 30 years.


However, his loyalty


a wicketkeeper, a position he occupied with distinc­ tion in Ribblesdale’s strong sides of the 1950s and 1960s and there was no batsman more difficult to remove, particularly when his side was battling against the odds.


His stature was ideal for


Musgrove, of Bollund Prospect, had a variety of outdoor interests. He was a keen pot-holer and served as treasurer of the Cave Rescue Organisa­ tion, assisting in many rescue operations in the Inglcton area. His f i r s t love was


of 58. In his younger days, Mr


teacher, he became a league official in 197S on being elected fixtures secretary, a position he filled with distinction until the 1983 season.


with life membership, in recognition of a lifetime’s service to the club. A mathematician and


the Lancashire Casuals in friendly matches and used to guest with the Gisburn team.


refers to an occasion when the late Bill Holt bowled six underarms to Mr Mus­ grove in the last over of a tense game at Whalley in 1955, y e t th e two remained firm friends and did much together to fur­ ther the league’s reputa­ tion in the 19S0s. Mr Musgrove, a bache­


The league handbook


lor, served as club captain at Ribblesdale but, apart from his contribution on the field of play, he was secretary, treasurer, com­ mittee member and selec­ tor at various times. Two years ago he was honoured


successful press and public relations officer, much respected by local journal­ ists and radio reporters, and it was no accident that his period in office coin­ cided with the league’s successful arrangements for sponsorship and its enhanced reputation in the cricket world.


He then became a highly


Musgrove gave invaluable service as a youth selector and, while he was able, would travel to all giarts of the league to watch young players in action. Despite his continuing


In recent years, Mr


illness and the fact that he was largely unable to attend either matches or meetings for the last two years, his commitment to the league never faltered. The funeral took place


yesterday at Accrington Crematorium.


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