•I Clillieroe Advertiser & Times, Juli/ .',th, 11)1)1


Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified)


JL JL with Kaye Moon AT YOUR The local firms below provide a variety of


essential services — use this guide for an easy reference


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JOHN G. CRICK (Clltheroe 1978)


PHOTOCOPYING SERVICE


6p PER COPY H i re f ro m J I5 0 .0 0 pc.r clay SI' IX . IA L K A T IvS I 'O K W L L K S IIIKtC


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;m tjo o f o th e r h i r e e q u ip m e n t . - In c lu d in g M in i S K IP S


I ) PLAINT IIIKIS - PCINDLE TKADIING ESTATE, CMATISUKIN T e l: C l i l l ic ro e 4 1 5 9 7


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v |V r .T iWindows and Doors; • | t O l k


■A'J j' ,n hardwood, soltwood, uPVC. j] p i -9 !S DIY and timber supplies contact:


Joiners and Building Contractors


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; Tel: 26929 For, a Iriendly and personal service !


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P E £ 3 E t £ L E B & B - a I ¥


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j1 R & P . H A R G R E A V E S - : THE WORKSHOP. HALL STREET. CLITHEROE


4 Shlreburn Avenue, Clltheroe. Telephone 24168.


D E N I A L S


MO DEPOSIT TV RENTALS Portable, Teletext, Remote


e.g. 20ln TV £7.00 per Cal. Month


New 21ln. FST Remold £10.50 per Cal. Month Discount for Annual Payment


TV Repairs, ex-Rentals for sale now author liod


SALES • SPARES • REPAIRS


Washers - Gas and


Electric Cookers - Vacs - Fridges etc.


New and re-conditioned Open 6 days a week ’til late


50 WHALLEY ROAD, CLITHEROE Tol: (0200) 29116 or (0772) 028031 after hour*


MOTOR VEHICLE


ACCIDENT REPAIRER The latest car bench — jigging facility


No job too large or too small Approved to most leading insurance companies R. F. PARKER


Candlemakers Court, Lowergate, Clitheroe (rear of JobCentre)


Telephone 22838 day; 27041 night


RAY BLACKBURN ENGINEERS


PLUMBING AND HEATING


25 years experience


Glazing, Guttors, and Roof Repairs.


FU L L BOILER


SERVICING AND SP A R E S


OH, Gas and Solid Fuol Tel:


Cllthoroo 26460 for prompt attention


BRIAN


RUTHERFORD PAINTER &


DECORATOR FREE Estimates And Special Rates For OAP’s l_


TEL: WHALLEY (0254)823966


f ROGER PINDER


S? Tel. Clitheroe S


i ELECTRICIAN 27499


B I Most types of work | 5? undertaken


JON SCOIED PfrttdiH HFL


RefNbisber Tel:


rinter ind fmtvt


Clitheroe 29217


W dam ALKER


PRESERVATIONS Penetrating


Rot 0 Cavity W p • W


oodworm • Dry all Ties


With 30 year guarantee and guarantee


indemnity insurance APPROVED BY


LOCAL COUNCILS


Tel: Whalley 824641


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MICHAEL HENSHAW


For all your joinery work


Tel: Clitheroe 26069


CLOCK REPAIRS' Antique and


Long Came apaclallat


BARRIE ASPDEN Clitheroe 23416


EXTERIOR


PAINTING By a Master Tradesman


Houses — Pubs — Shops — Factories — etc


Free Estimates Tel: Clitheroe 442017


N9W carpets and vinyls


Repairs and refits


Fitting your own carpets


Competitive prices SEED and


TEMPLEMAN 37 Wollgate,


Cllthoroo Tol. 25638, or 28401 (ovonlngs) B&H


BUILDERS For extensions,


grant work, damp


proof courses and joinering


Free estimates All work guaranteed


Tel; 0200 26069 or 0200 23874


For details telephone


Blackburn 675384 or 249928


SALES, SERVICE AND REPAIRS


m i WASHING MACHINES VACUUM CLEANERS


ALL MAKES SUPPLIED Reconditioned Washers and Vacuum Cleaners


POLLARD & FOSTER LIMITED For all Your


★ Electrical Rewiring and Repairs •k Plumbing and Central Heating ★ Exterior Painting and Interior Decorating


All at competitive rates RING WHALLEY 823106/822052


Estimates FREE and without any obligation


12 Lowergate, Clitheroe


Tel. 24253 MOWED OUT WITH WORK


So ..Rj^fu^j^rned ingenious mind to a motor car c o n v e rs io n


IT was the unkindest cut of all when proud inventor Rufus Carr wheeled the Ribble Valley’s first motorised farm mower out of his Rimington garage in 1936 . . . and passing farmer Kayley Bulcock and his farm man shouted; “That’ll nivver do the wark two 'osses can!” “1 just shunted — You’ll see,” said Unfits, now S-l


and one of the most innovative mechanical minds in the Ribhle Valley in his day. Those were the days when fanners rose at 4 a.m. to mow to keep their horses cool, stopping at <


the killing work which took its toll on even the strongest animal.


nothing to learn the trade, puzzled over the mowing problem and came up with the idea of gearing down


Rufus, who had worked in an engineer's shop for


the back axle of a cut-down car and attaching a mower.


the field to test it,” said Rufus. "It worked like a dream. After mowing once .


round, I stopped and ipiietly told George to look over in the corner of tile field . . . there were Kayley Rulcock and his farm man peeping round a cornel- with their mouths wide open!” 11 was tile start of a


career that was to span decades. Rufus, whose fat her Tommy had taken


Stoops Farm, Rimington, in 192(1, had decided to have his own garage when his employer at a welding shop refused him a rise on his weekly wage of 12s. (id!


earth are you building a garage for, here in the


firm of Spencers built the garage, with his help, for the princely sum of £GG in 1!)2.S — when the village boasted 2(5 motor bikes and not one car. “I’eople said — What on


The RimingUm joinery


Putting visitors in the picture for reunion


wilds?” Rufus recalled. But the new invention changed all that and soon the garage was converting about eight cars a year, doing about 100 in all for £17 apiece for farmers all over the area before the outbreak of war in 1030. "The war changed


everything,” said Rufus. “ Farmers were told to plough for the war effort and so they had to have something stronger and


THIS is an exclus ive f i r s t view (below) of the commemorative picture for this year's 50th anni­


versary celebrations of the wartime training use o f C l i t h e r o e ’s Low Mo o r Mi l l by th e Ro y a l


Design, King Lane, Clilheroc, commissioned the painting from local artist Mr.lint Hurley (right), of Whalley Road, Clilheroc, who researched and com­ pleted it in three days. Now it will be offered for sale to the thousands


Engineers. Mr 1‘eter Favell, proprietor of Favell’s Art and


tractors started to appear on the scene. I was selling them in a radius of about 2f> miles, converting their steel wheels, which were designed for arable farms down south, to rubber tyres, so farmers could take them on the road.” Rufus started selling


cars too, taking the Standard dealership at first and getting the Ford agency he still has in about Hint), before buying his Clitheroe garage nine years later. Life has dealt him three


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Embroiders pictures of old houses


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dery at Wliallev Library this month is the artis’t who has twice won the kibble Valley Library Art Competition.


EXHIBITING some of »ot exhibiting, her work; her paintings and embroi­


can be seen in the King,. , Street Gallery in Whalley.


End. Whalley, is setting up her exhibition this week and her work will be on display from Saturday until July 27th during nor­


Jean Sharpies, of Bridge


mal library hours. Although not formally


ject at teacher training college, when she specia­ lised in ceramics.


work and family life, she was not able to pursue her spare time interest in art until she joined a creative embroidery class two years ago. Since then she has specialised in painting and embroidering pictures of old houses.


of old soldiers invited to attend the weekend of celebrations in September to commemorate the day they look over the mill. Said Mr Favell: “There is very little visual record


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of the mill left and 1 am very grateful to Clilheroe Library staff for their assistance in our search for details. Because the picture is to he offered to many elderly people, we wanted an affordable price and have come up with a framed print mea­ suring Klins. by Sins." The print can he ordered from Mr Favcll's shop.


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first in the library art competition and first again last year. She accepts commissions and, when


In 1990, she was joint


TMK latest additions to stock at Clithoroe Library include:


Anthea Cohen, 'flu* latest crime novel featuring Sister Carmichael.


“ Pennine vintage*' — Kay S tep h en s . The saga of the


bright family aft they struggle to make their fortune in the


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disastrous blows since that time — the deaths of his wife Ann and daughter Bertha and a ruinous fire at his Clitheroe garage in


11)73, which cost him £100,001) against an


insurance repayment of £30,000. On the plus side,


And as Low Moor’s big anniversary approaches


have also been a hobby and in 1077 and 1078 lie


“Lively Lady” for many years and he is still the proud owner of a 1023 Wallis-Steevens steam roller, as well as a fascinating collection of old tractors. Vintage motor bikes


with steam led to him owning the traction engine


though, lie is close to his four daughters, Margaret, Mary, Janet and Barbara, and a proud grandfather. His lifetime fascination


favourite memories are still of the early days, like the time he delivered one of his converted car-mowers to a fanner at Sabden Fold Farm. "I took the car once


rode an Indian and a Sparkbrook motor bike owned by a friend in the IOM Vintage TT. But perhaps his


Help required to solve a wartime mystery


in the course of preparing for September’s Royal Engineers E xh ib itio n was a packet of papers and photographs which pose something of a mystery. The papers and photographs are


ONE of the surprises unearthed


of the Clitheroe Advertiser,” Gunner Harry Proctor had a sense of


Territorial Army in Augiist, 1939, and a newspaper cutting which reveals he


highlights of Gunner Harry Procter’s wartime service, which have been given to Lancashire County Museum Services by a relative, Clitheronian Mrs Doris Jackson. The papers include his call-up for the


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round the field to show him how it worked and then told him to try,” said Rufus. “He’d never driven before and set off like the clappers, with his foot fiat to the boards and me running after him! When he finally stopped 1 shouted — That machine’ll never last THIS haytime if you drive like that!”


drama complex, closes on Friday afternoon. It will be open to tho public today and tomorrow, between 9- 30 a.m. and 3-30 p.m.


ANYONE wishing to see the entries in the recent Young Inventor of the Year Competition has just two days left. The exhibition, in Ribb- lesdale High School’s


Just time


was the son of Mr and the late Mrs Proctor, and was an old boy of Clith­ eroe Royal Grammar School. The cut­ ting also mentions that he was a mem­ ber of the office staff at Chatburn Mill. But the mystery, said peripatetic


humour, to judge by his letter to HM Collector of Taxes:


Super Tax, Tobacco Tax, Purchase Tax, Beer Tax, Spirit Tax, Motor Tax, and every society, association and club that the inventive mind of man can conceive to extract what I may or may


and sand-bagged, walked upon, sat upon, helped up, held down, flattened out and squeezed by Income Tax,


curator Maggy Simms, is that a photo­ graph taken of him towards the end of the war shows him at liberty — yet he was known to have been taken pris­ oner-of-war in Crete. We would be glad to hear from


Simms carried only the barest detail of his trip from England to Suez. It records that he set sail on August Gth, less than a week before his 30th birth­ day, on what began as a rough journey: "A number of the lads seasick. I wasn’t affected.” They arrived at Cape Town on


anyone who can fill in the picture, so to speak. The diary referred to by Maggy


August 28th: “Lovely sight on entering bay, with Table Mountain in the back­ ground.” Next came Durban, on Sep­


tember 1st, Suez on September lGth — when he had a chance to see the Pyra­


mids and the Sphinx — and he reached Crete on November Gth. A month later he received his first letter from home,


business until I do not know who owns it.


not have in my possession for the Red Cross, Black Cross, Charing Cross, Double Cross and every cross and society in town and country. “The Government has governed my


mined, informed, required and com­ manded, so that I do not know who I am, where I am, or why I am here all.


“I am suspected, inspected, exa­


posed to have of money hope of the


c u l l c u , “All that I know is that 1 am sup


money to give away, I am cursed, boy­ cotted,


will not go out and beg, talked to,


about, held up, rung up, robbed and near ruined.


iume.1 i u , talked about, lum n uuui., ueu lied


at all is to see what is going to hap­ pen next." His le t te r was signed “ M. T.


“The only reason I am dinging to life Pockets.”


hymn if you like. The hymn book is full of lovely ^ g°0tl t0 be a.ble t0 Put y°ur


^ " t,on- Pray .any I think she got the message and I sincerely hope’*’)",! '


unable to meet your demand note for income tax. “1 have been bombed, blasted, burnt


“For the following reasons I am ift fJlUUiUl n i i im i U J l Xl-lJ.I XiiJ I I I ! B


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for the week


1 WAS .slopped in the street the other day by * someone who wanted to talk to me about prayer.' ' “I just can’t find words to pray,” she said, and then *


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added: “beyond the Lord's Prayer and childhood ! verses." Here was an obvious cry for help, so I told


her about an elderly friend of mine who had spoken of J her joyful prayers to me so recently that the memory * of her words came to my mind tit once.


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said, “I lie there in bed, counting my blessings. I am , so glad to be alive and have no more pain after my hip !! operation. I’m so glad to he able to walk again. I’m so < very thankful to be able to go across and help mv r :


"Every day, in the morning before I get up,” she * a


day, he received more mail — including m “100 cigs from mill” and “seven copies


dated September 20th, and sent one by return. On December Sth, his father’s birth- ,,,,, u;..............,


speak for Him and run a few of His errands, so to speak. Hark at me talking of running! You know what I mean. 1 thank Him every day for trusting me


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sought my counsel. “Oh yes he has!” I exclaimed. “It is possible that you did not recognise His voice. He speaks to us in our innermost being, through thoughts and possibly the written word, as well as the spoken one. For instance, He often uses my voice and my pen to communicate with people. “With regard to your prayers, you can find words


with thankfulness, joy, peace and love for others. Listening to God every morning, she received her orders for the day, she told me. “Jesus has never spoken to me,” said the one who


. . . : S _ thl? stra,n- w,th a.hFart overflowing


neighbour again. I’m very happy to know I have so many good friends. “I'm glad the Lord is using me to do His work,


“ R e co rd in g a n g e l s ” — With the pressures of


trained in a rt . she has always enjoyed painting and drawing, taking art and craft as her main sub­


from Whalley to Clitheroe / Library for "a month-long^ |- showing beginning on,. : August 5th.


The exhibition moves.—., •


this month is an exhibition » by Rochdale artists. ►


At Clitberoe Library? “. !


Top billing ? for band


A CLITHEROE rhythm ' and blues band had top J billing for the start of a ► new club catering for fans J from all over the North' w West.


Street, Hlackburn — has £ been opened by Clitheroe - couple Mick and Carol £ Martin, licensees of the Cross Keys, Lowergate. * The first night at true- »


The club — Mojo’s £ Nightspot in Canterbury *


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tion at Mojo’s, previously * known as Flames and The l Last Resort, was Clith- • oroe’s Immediate Lines, a J versatile four-piece band, 9 which is playing there*-* again a week tomorrow.


LIBRARY CORNER


Yorkshire winc tr Portugal,


cloth industry and thu-.',*- ide of S pain aiuL/*


— Louis Proto. Covers a varivC* ety of meditative practices, from h


“Meditation for everybody'**^


simple breathing exercises to • more advanced techniques.


Don Mosey. New biography of J Fred Trueman.


“ Fred: Then and now” — b > % S a.m. to let them rest after m " 'V c z - ~ ; V “ V ‘ - ___


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to speak to me as a friend. Jesus is the best friend you can ever have. He wants to be your personal -


friend. He already knows all about you. even the .! things no one else knows about; things of which you may be ashamed.


you to talk to Him, not to hurriedly recite a few gabbled phrases. He is always available for your con- • Vj faiences and, if you wall be quiet and allow Him to »>i talk to you in thought form. He will answer your questions and help ypu to face up to every situation in M your life.


“Even so, He understands and loves you and wants i {i


“Use your imagination to help your faith in realis- L*| mg His moment by moment presence. No polished I '


phrases are required, nor Elizabethan English. He »! i i n r l p r s t ’n n r l s rtnt* ln n n l e n n n o k .................... o ; ___ _______ i_ *_*■'*


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always piesent. I often have to say a quick ‘God help m 1 >,rayel' a11') He always does.”


,.-°U® o lnto wm . ■ as J’ou 4° in general con- ► as you realise Jesus is


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words08 mg °f that tlmc wiU 1,elP a" who rea<’ these JOE STANSFIELD 3 1


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