Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified)
between fact and fiction
IT might be appropriate, at a time when “Crom well’s Bridge” over the river Hodder is a contender for the distinction of the centre of Britain location, to separate what is fact from possible fiction regarding the bridge. Some historians believe that the title “Cromwell’s
. And Sr Ryehard Shyrburn Knyght Rye Shyrburn of bayley Edmund Shyrburn John Holden gent and James Shuttylworth of thother Pte.” The contract goes on to say that “the said Roger
'ture maid the XXXI day of decembre in the ffourrt yere of the BEING of our Sovraing laydy Eliz abeth By the Grace of god Quene of England ffrance And Ireland deffender of the ffath BETWENE Roger Crosely in the Countie of lane freemason of thor.e Pte
Bridge” is a misnomer, the reason for this being the existence at that time, 1048, of a bridge, long since gone below the present Higher Bridge and which, in those days, would have been the more likely route for Cromwell’s army. However, be that as it may, the contract for the building of the bridge began as follows: “This inden-
Crosely shall make or cause to be maid, one suf- fycient and abyle bryge of Stone. Substancial and
surely wrought in all points over the water of Hother.” Regarding cost, the contract says the five men
CYNICAL DISREGARD FOR THE WISHES OF GISBURN VILLAGERS
YOU report (December 5th) that Gisburn Parish Council members have expressed reservations thafthe proposal by Gisburn Farm Estates to build a tea-room and shop selling local ice-cream and farm produce, employing local people and providing its own car parking, I’might attract traffic to the village.”
report the concern felt by Gisburn villagers that some members of the same parish council have repeatedly avoided requests for even discussion of the Sunday markets which enable traders unconnected with the village to create traffic chaos and misery for local people, while selling goods which once would have merited prosecution.
On another page, you
named “shall paye or cause to be payed unto the said Roger Crosely ffor and in consydrasn of the buyl- dyng of the said bryge three score and tennepounds oi'gud and lawful! Englyshe money." The contract continues with the method of pay
ment of the three score and ten pounds, to be paid on various feast days in instalments of ten pounds. There is reference to materials required “to fynde and make redy suffyeient lyme and sande in conven- yent lyme.” That the old bridge has withstood the ravages of
time and the water of “Hother” for some 480 years is surely a tribute to the skill of the builders of those days. They did indeed build a “suffyeient and abyle
bryge.”
BERNARD IiAWCUFFE, Springwood House, Lower Hodder.
households in the area blighted by the'markets expressed a desire that they should cease, whereas only a single household was in favour of them.
More than half of all
THE parish council is the oldest form of local government in Europe. In England it has been in use since the eighth century. My own native parish can trace its history back to that time.
that those who support these Sunday and Bank Holiday outrages, while trying to stifle a local enterprise which is far more in keeping with village life, have close and long-standing connections with the auction mart, which is paid rental for the markets?
Can it be coincidence
Is it coincidence also that councillors who
favour the continuance of the markets do not live in the parts of the village affected by the markets? Our councillors should adopt the principle of greater good, instead of cynically disregarding the wishes of the people whom they supposedly represent.
SARAH E. BIRKIN, Soay, Bcnllca Road, Gisburn.
Farcical but they are trading laws
I WRITE with regard to the debate on Sunday trading and would say that while I am a believer in free enterprise and healthy compe
tition, it has to be said that although the laws on Sunday trading are more than farcical,
laws we like or don’t like and act accordingly. It would, in this case, surely
Factual criticism always welcomed
I AM grateful to the principal of Accrington and Rossendale College, Mr G. M. Austin, for replying to the points of criticism raised by Miss Zoe Wilson in an earlier letter.
Help on hand for bereaved
VERY soon Christmas will be with us again, a time of joy, a time to spend with your loved ones, a time to spend together. Yet for some. Christmas
can become a time of pain ful memories, loneliness and despair. These are some of the 1.5m suffering major bereavement from an annual death rate that averages (>00,000 in this country. It is no kindness to the
environment in which grief can be expressed and sor row shared, in which the mourner feels it is safe and acceptable to sob, to be angry, to cling or to reject, to curse or to pray, to rattle on with reminis cences or sit in depressive silence. Cruse also runs social
Mondays, between (>-80 and 9-80 p.m. (207999). Also a “drop in centre” operated by the Bereave ment Support Group is available, where any bereaved person will find a welcome and confidential listening ear.
bereaved to help them to escape or avoid their grief. It must not be avoided, though mercifully it can be shared. Cruse Bereavement
Care now operates in the Itibble Valley, Blackburn, Danvcn and Hyndburn areas. They can offer
trained counsellors, who will help to create an
support groups in Black- fa u rn , Da r wen an d Accrington. Their aims are to provide a bridge back into community/social life. They provide a safe, wel coming environment in which people can begin to regain their confidence. It will allow social contact with people who under stand their grief, in a way that an old friend may not. Anyone wanting more
information or some help and guidance should tele phone the helpline on
CoThey can be found at the
on Richmond Terrace, Blackburn, any Friday, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
organisation and is totally funded by outside contri butions. Anyone wishing to help Cruse in its work can make a donation to Cruse do Mr Fred Gre gory, 63 Walmesley Avenue, Rishton.
Cruse is a voluntary
CRUSE — BEREAVE MENT CARE, RISHTON.
mmunity Health offices
vice welcomes factual and constructive criticism, without which it wotdd not have achieved the present
rise each year.
ments and those antici pated are all within a con trolled budget operated by the deputy director of adult studies, who con tinues to provide the ser vice for Ribble Valley from th e c e n t r e at Whalley.
The present achieve Suggestions for improv
ing the service are always welcome and can be made to course tutors, college staff and members of the advisory committee, all of whom are dedicated to providing a service of par ticular relevance to the Ribble Valley.
Chairman, Adult Education Advi sory Committee, Primrose Street, Clitheroe.
ERIC BRACEWELL, “WHAT about Bob?” — Cinema
that’s the question posed, in the title of the film showing at the Civic Hall Cinema, Clitheroe, from tomorrow until Thursday,
at 7-30 p.m. Starring Bill Murray
and Richard Dreyfuss, the story centres on Bob,the “special kind of friend who drives you crazy.”
A GREAT success — that was the opinion of mem bers of Gisburn WI at their Christmas fair on Saturday.
nificent sum of £950 was raised to be shared between St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, and WI funds.
Brisk trade at the WI Christmas fair
The event was very well attended and the mag
Kathleen Woodruff, of Waddington, who spoke about the work of St Mary’s Hospital and of the research being done by staff in connection with brittle bone disease. She then declared the fair open.
President Mrs Jenny Gornall welcomed Mrs
Susan Gravcston and Richard and Alistair Bow man presented Mrs Woodruff with a basket of flowers.
A vote of thanks was given by secretary Mrs
proved very popular. Father Christmas was also in great demand as the children revealed their secrets to him.
All the stalls did a brisk trade and afternoon teas
Our picture shows Mrs Woodruff (centre) sur rounded by helpers.
Well matched when it comes to bluffing
matched when it conies to brains —- as was roved when the final of a mind-bending “Call ly Bluff” competition went to three
tie-breaks! It was all the idea of
Si LADIES in the Ribble Valley are fairly well
Mrs Catherine Hooper, president of the Clitheroe Soroptimists, who thought it would be a good way of getting different ladies’ organisations together. In the end, a team from Ribble Valley’s Business
Moot Hall in the Clitheroe Library building, against a team from Clitneroe Community Church, with each team taking 11 points until the tie-breakers.
The final was held at the
and Professional Women Mrs Jacqui Hesketh, Mrs scraped through to take Elizabeth Baldwin and first place in a contest Mrs Maureen Mick- which included seven lewright were presented groups from all over the with medallions, while the area in a knock-out which losers — Mrs Audrey started on May 23rd. Each team thought up their own explanations for a variety of words and the others
had to guess which one ended with tea and mince was genuine.
pies, The winning team of The adult education ser
they are nevertheless the law. We cannot choose which
be better to reform the laws as soon as possible. I know that there is also
a debate about the shop workers’ rights as to whether they should have to work on Sunday, but in my opinion there will be people willing and able to
work.Finally, I wonder if the stores could afford to open over a long period and also how many of the anti-Sun day trading lobby have themselves purchased “illegal goods” on a Sun day; I would imagine a considerable number.
wide variety of courses and the corresponding W h a t r e a l l y IS increase in student enrol ments which continue to
IAN BROWN, 91 Chatburn Road, Clitheroe.
d if fe re n c e ?
I CANNOT but draw peo ple’s attention to the hypo critical signing of the boy
cott petition on Sunday trading by Coun. Mrs
ence between shops and stores or stalls in streets selling goods on our ■Sundays.
JOHN BARROW, Lingmcll, 1 Eightacre Avenue, Sabden.
Lowe is one of the organ isers of the Sunday street market that was held in Sabden a short while ago. This brought many traders into our village streets. I also don’t recall any writ ten objections from any of our churches. I fail to see any differ
Eileen Lowe. If I am correct, Mrs
affairs, both civil and ecclesiastical, had been one and the same, admin istered from the church vestry by the incumbent, the churchwardens and a select few laymen. An Act of Parliament in 1894 irrevocably separated the two functions. Church affairs were only to be the
Up to 1894, parish Council or the local com- ------
— ' munity; the same applies
business of the new paro chial church councils. Civic
business was entrusted to a democratically elected body with the title of “par
ish council.” Since its inception, like
many other parish councils throughout the land, Bil- lington Parish Council has innovated amenities that are now taken for granted. The first piped water, the sewerage system, gas and electricity, street lighting, recreation grounds, way- side seats. In its very early days an overseer was employed to see that minor roads, bridleways and directional signs were kept in good repair, reme dial work being contracted out locally and the county council looking after main highways and turnpikes. Seventy years ago it operated the refuse collec tion and disposal service, contracting the work to two local farmers. Local needs were met by a very local council. Grouped to g e th e r with o th e r parishes, such as Mellor, Wilpshire, Ramsgreave and Clayton-le-Dale, in the old Blackburn RDC, they built several housing estates to house the young families growing up in their native parishes. Ribble Valley Borough
to a lesser degree in Lon- gridge. Those costs are charged to all of us. The civic halls in both these bigger p a r ish e s are charged to us all, but if vour parish has a village nail, tnat’s your affair and you pay for it. Even your burial ground is your con cern, but in Clitheroe the cemetery is charged to all of us. The bowling greens in Clitheroe are charged to us all, parish greens are the responsibility of that particular community. Parishes struggling to renew u n sa fe p 1 a y - grounds, if they are lucky, can expect a magnificent 50% grant from RVBC towards the cost", but those owned by the bor ough, again mainly in Clitheroe and Longridge, will be fully restored and charged to us all. A village working hard to build a village hall can expect a maximum grant of £25,000 from the RVBC, but a similar project in Clitheroe has already been given £300,000 and will undoubt edly get more. The saga of the auction mart site is being met by all of us; lit tle or no thought is heard in the Press of the cost to the parishes, only what we want in Clitheroe. To most parishes the
long before the RVBC existed. Recreation should fund itself, for it does not need an officer to tell it how to run things. Our main services, including gas, water and electricity, are now sup plied by private com panies. Education, police, fire, ambulance, welfare and social services, high ways and footpaths etc. are' the responsibility of the Lancashire County Council. The only real benefit the majority of parishes get as members of the Borough of Ribble Valley is a reliable refuse collection service, but any parish council worthy of the name could organise that for itself. In these days of opting
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Council is unique in the whole of the country except, perhaps, one other borough, in that it is wholly made up of some 42 or 44 parish councils or parish meetings and was formed in 1974. All, we are told, are of equal sta tus, all paying the same rates, or as it is now com munity tax. But some are more equal than others. If your own parish owns
an officer for tourism, a dog warden and an officer for sport; £20,000 a year for a dog warden. No dog warden ever stopped a dog fouling a pavement, nor did a warden ever clean up the mess if it did. In Bil- lington we never had a dog problem; we had a prob lem of dirty footpaths, but we employ a street cleaner and our paths are swept every week. An officer for tourism —
RVBC is little more than a tax collection agency and it distributes its share of the tax in a very unfair manner. It squanders money on
a bit of grass that needs cutting, the RVBC will charge your parish council the going rate to cut it, notwithstanding that the tax you have paid helped buy the machine that cuts
countless thousands of our money are spent promot ing tourist industry, while small businesses and local industry are in dire dis tress. Tourism in the Rib
it and also helps pay the Whalley catered for them wages of the men who 600 years ago. operate it. Yet in Clith- A sports officer, football eroe there must be 60 or clubs, cricket clubs, rug- 70 acres of grassland and by clubs, golf clubs and parks beautifully mown numerous other sporting and kept, but at no extra organisations supported cost to Clitheroe Parish and organised themselves
WHO IS IN CONTROL?
I AM sure your readers do understand my remarks on the issue of how the Information Centre will operate and I stand by the joint statement and the agreement signed by the Ribble Valley Borough Council. I take real exception to an officer
importantly, I AM ELECTED to pro tect the interest of local people, par ticularly against paid officials like Mr Keith Taylor, who is allowed to over step the mark on policy matters. Do the elected representatives on
publicly declaring that only the RVBC had the task of protecting the welfare of the hardworking staff and the interest of local people. The bureaucracy of both the county
the RVBC have full control of this council’s activities? It would appear not.
council and RVBC are paid handso mely to do that very job and, more
Lingfield Avenue, Clitncroe.
RON PICKUP, Clitheroe County Councillor,
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seems to have missed that.
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