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1 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 16th, 1991 XX AT YOUR The local firms below provide a variety of


essentia! services — use this guide for an easy reference


For Painting and


Decorating c at


Interior/ exterior.


ompetitive rates,


New carpets and vinyls


Repairs and refits


Fitting your own carpets


TEMPLEMAN 37 Wellgata,


Competitive prices SEED and


Clttharo* 28401 (evening*) Tel. 25638, or Mxudi VleStS. ELEC TR IC A L CONTRAC TORS


Industrial, Domestic and Agricultural Installations


Full or Part Rewires, Showers, Extra Sockets, Securlty/Flood Lighting etc.


C.C. PARKER PAINTERand


CLITHKROK 2S473


'Tel: Clitheroe28088 24hranswering service 41472 home


.DECORATOR T«l.


NCtGSfl ostlmate*. S


Ring Jonn Prosser for free


Clitheroe 27072


BESPOKE


TAILOR offers


HOME/OFFICE VISITS


Traditional quality made to mea­ sure menswoar, also alterations and repairs to all mens and iadieswear including Leathers, Waterproofs etc.


24 hr service if required.


0706 — 215443 Trade enquines welcome.


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tnterior/Exterior FREE


ESTIMATES PROMPT


ATTENTION


3 Clitheroe Road, Sabdcn


■o O Z 8 2 7 1 5 8 $


SELF DRIVE MINI EXCAVATORS 1 Va TON a n d 3 TON


Get a quote from u» before you decide


MOVE IT


9 Single Items • Full removals


• 9 Storage House clearances DISTANCE NO OBJECT


For tho best service In town ring:


MEL EDMONDSON CLITHEROE 24908


Hire from S.50.00 per day


Full range of other hire equipment - Including MINI SKIPS E & D PLANT HIRE - PENDLE TRADING ESTATE, CHATBURN T e l: C l i th e ro e 4 1 5 9 7


SPECIAL RATES FOR WEEKS HIRE _ _ _______________


POLLARD & FOSTER LIMITED ‘ For all Your


At Electrical Rewiring and Repairs ir Plumbing and Central Heating ★ Exterior Painting and Interior Decorating


All at competitive rates RING WHALLEY 823106/822052


Estimates FREE and without any obligation


CHAIR CANING SERVICE


Telephone Clitheroe 27983


L.A. PROPERTY ENTERPRISES


For property renovation and damp proof courses


Sovereign Approved Contractors


For details telephone:


Blackburn 675384 or 249928


CLITHEROE DOMESTICS now m/thcrkod


SALES • SPARES REPAIRS


Electric Cookers - Vacs - Fridges etc.


Washers - Gas and New and re-conditioned Open 6 days a week ill lata


50 WHALLEY ROAD, CLITHEROE T*hJ0200^fl118o^0772^8280fl1 after hours__


WET VACUUMS • PRESSURE WASHERS • FLOOR


FOR HIRE


SCRUBBERS and POLISHERS . • CARPET CLEANERS


ALAN RICHARDS (INDUSTRIAL FLOOR CLEANING EQUIPMENT)


WATERLOO ROAD, CLITHEROE Telephone: 22161


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DEREK LEIGH TV RENTALS


4 Shlreburn Avenue, Clitheroe. Telephone 24168.


NO DEPOSIT TV RENTALS Portable, Teletext, Remote


e.g. 20ln TV £7.00 per Cal. Month


New 21 In. FST Remote E10.50 per Cal. Month Discount for Annual Payment


TV Repairs, ex-Rentals for sale


CLEANEDAND SEALED Phone


GUTTERS Colin Moorhouse


Whalley (0254) 822883 Evenings


2 FRANKLIN STREET, CLITHEROE Tel. 22979


NOEL KING & CO.


SALES, SERVICE AND REPAIRS


WASHING MACHINES VACUUM CLEANERS


ALL MAKES SUPPLIED Reconditioned Washers and Vacuum Cleaners


eLdCKTtEPSIl Antique end Long Came epeelallet


BARRIE ASPDEN


Clitheroe 23416


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RUTHERFORD PAINTER & DECORATOR


BRIAN


Special Rales For OAP's TEL: WHALLEY (0254) 823966


FREE Estimates And


Rewarding I effective | training


RIBBLE VALLEY busi­ nesses are being urged to take part in the pres­ tigious National Training Awards. Under the patronage of


HRH The Prince of Wales, the aim of the national training awards is to reward effective training which has led to improve­ ments in performance. Since the launch of the


'grown and grown, with organisations and com­


competition in 1987, the stature of the awards has


panies of all types and sizes taking part. Winning an award is a


tremendous boost for both the company and the staff and, with a whole host of successful businesses in the Ribble Valley, there is a real chance that this year one could walk away with an award. The closing date for


Time stands still for Billy but town catches up with him


Grants for conservation


schemes GRANTS worth up to £200 are now available . from Lancashire County- Council to encourage : projects aimed at improv- , ing the environment. With this financial back­


ing. groups in the Ribble Valley are being urged to put on their thinking caps ' and come up with some ■ schemes which would help conservation. W h e th e r i t is the removal of graffiti or the creation of a nature gar­ den, there is a chance that • they could qualify for a environment grant. Ribble Valley Council is '


actively involved in the ’ environment and currently encourages and assists ; local organisations in anti­ litter campaigns. Organisations who want


further details should con­ tact G. A. Johnson (0772 263536).


en tr ie s is May 31st. Anyone requiring further information should contact the enterprise devel­ opment officer at ELTEC, Mrs Chris Rawlinson (0254 261471).


Special day for drivers


| SKID-PAN driving and expert car control are just two of the attractions planned for the Blackburn Area Road Safety Associa-


[ tion Open Day. The day, being held to celebrate the association’s


| all over the Ribble Valley. Starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, the event is being held at the Lancashire County Council Road Safety Centre at Ewood, in Blackburn, and will include safe driving tui­ tion, car control and a fire brigade stand geared


25th anniversary, looks set to attract a whole host of motoring enthusiasts from


BILLY ECCLES’ false teeth are just begin­ ning to wear out . . . this I can confirm, because Billy (81) took them out to show me where a hole is beginning to wear through the


gum! But seeing that Billy has had about 60 years’ wear


out of them — and during that time seen the SON of his dentist retire — we both agreed that maybe he had about had his money’s worth! Billy, of Goosebutts Farm, is one of a rapidly dying


nearby where he keeps his ageing donkey and a heifer. “There’s only the Collinge family has managed to


Pupil power


keep a farm going round here,” said Billy. “Parkers used to farm at Littlemoor and Kendals near the rugby field, but they’ve all gone.” Billy stopped retailing milk at the age of 52, but


is far from disconsolate with his lot. He never married: “I’d enough wark and worry, b’owt women,” he confessed.


breed . . . the old farmers of Clitheroe who farmed with horses, milked by hand and harvested their hay loose. He has never been further “upbank” than Appleby to the races, or further south than Oswestry to watch Clitheroe FC play when Clifford Chatbum was man­ ager, and to Llangollen for a day out 50 years ago! He lives in the council-tenanted farmhouse which


tenants. The bedroom floor still bellies down into the room below, where his mother once told a council official she wanted it putting right. “He said — Mrs Eccles, this is a farm, not a gentle­


And he must be one of the council's most unusual


man’s residence,” recalled Billy with a smile. It might have been the same official who ordered some repairs


towards safety. Anyone interested in


his German grandfather Johnny took on when he came over to England to escape the Prussian War, where he and his father Fred came in to his mother Marion’s home-cured meats and baking after milking by hand in the nearby shippon and taking any excess milk to


either joining the organi­ sation or visiting the open day will be welcome.


to the outside of the house. “A council worker came and said 'e’d ’ave to oppen


meet the milk train to Liverpool. But Clitheroe has caught up with Billy. The council


An artist prepares to immortalise air-raid


CHATBURN’s wartime air-raid could be immortalised on canvas by an amateur artist who still remembers the incident “as if it were


I record the event is former Whalley re s id en t Mr Robert Greenwood, who was a Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil playing football at the time the lone German bomber | passed overhead.


yesterday.” The artist who wants to


and I could clearly see th : the bomb-aimer’s


“The plane cannot have high


| who now lives in Bristol. In the raid, on October


recalled Mr Greenwood, fa c e ,”


130th, 1940, two bombs were dropped, killing two people and severely injur­ ing another two. Mr Greenwood remem-


Ibers seeing one of the bombs being dropped and the incident has haunted


him ever since — so much so th a t he s t a r t e d researching into it with a view to accurately por­ t r a y i n g th e p la n e concerned. He remembers the air­


ble, meet any of the sur­ viving crew,” he told the “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times.”


craft as a Heinkel 111, but his researches indicate tha t the only German bomber to have gone miss­ ing on an English raid that day was a Heinkel 118. Mr Greenwood is now


the sales and marketing manager for Portals, which makes British cur­ rency and other security paper, and his work some- tim e s ta k e s him to Germany. “I’d like to find out what


THOUGHT for the week


THOSE who first listened gladly to the words of Jesus were, we read, ordinary folks who would not have been considered “Brain of Israel” types. The words of our Lord, so welcomed and appreciated by the masses, were often startling and thought-provok­ ing, but, they were easy to grasp, as their meaning was so clear. The essence of the Christian message is


quite simple.


Jesus came to tell us and show us what God is like. Generations of people had been so wrong about Him in their thinking, assuming that He was for ever on


the watch to punish the sinner. Lots of people think so today. The truth is that sinners have always brought their inevitable punishment on themselves by choosing to go their own blindly selfish way and then reaping the consequences of their actions.


the parable of the prodigal son, was told by Jesus to illustrate the forgiving love of our Heavenly Father, who grieves at seeing us make such a mess of our lives. Bearing always the hardest part, God sees His guidance ignored so often and has to watch us making mistakes leading to disasters He would have saved us from.


The parable of the loving father, better known as ’


ally over the years, but one way or another it comes, affecting our lives for evil rather than good. We often blame God for the inevitable consequences of our sins, committed in blatant disregard of His guidance.


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dent and his plans to paint it were rekindled after Graham Harrison, the son of Mr Cyril Harrison, of Carlton Avenue, Simon- stone, took up a job at Portals — and found he was working with a former Ribble Valiev resident!


His interest in the inci­


t’winder,” said Billy. “Mother t’owd ’im it ’ed a nail put through it 30 years afore to stop burglars and ’e ne’er would oppen it!” That nail is still there. Football has been Billy’s overriding passion all his


has gradually taken parcels of farmland, creeping with houses ever nearer to his home, until he is left with a small plot outside the house and a couple of fields


TWO pupils of Bowland High School proved that’ t h e y ’ v e g o t th e power . . . when they, scooped fourth prize in the Granada Power Game Technology Competition, at the Royal Ordnance Factory, near Chorlev. Third years Mark Ver- .


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


ity. of Whitewell. and Chris Pollitt, of Padiham, made a lightweight vehicle1 for their entry, which was ’ against stiff competition from all Lanc ashire ' schools, and won a £100. cheque for Bowland.


Winning streak


CLITHEROE photogra-' pher David Simmons has collected a prestigious award for his creative work. He won the prize, an


life and Clitheroe FC can have no truer supporter. I was shown photographs of old teams with Billy still able to name names and recall past glories and suc­ cesses. Now he is confined to listening to football on his old valve radio and making a weekly trip down to the market by mini-bus, instead of the old “sit up and beg” bike he rode until recently. The trouble is that most of Billy’s former associates


order of merit award of ’ wedding photography, in a nationwide competition' organised by the Guild of . Wedding Photographers


UK. It has proved to be a .


have all died, “and I’ve getten too ’owd,” he told me. Treasured old photographs include one of Billy and


lucky year for Mr Sim­ mons, who has now col­ lected a total of four awards in just six months.


his horse (“that one were a jibber!”) bringing the last load of hay out of a meadow, taken by late Clitheroe photographer Ben Tyrer. Another old snap shows Billy as a boy on an old cart horse, with Joe Balshaw who became an auctioneer, Bernard Sharpies who became a borough councillor, Edward Eccles who became a driver, his cousin Tommy Hargreaves, of Salthill Road, and Walter Hargreaves — all of them long gone. Also long gone are Billy’s fighting goat — "that


LIBRARY ’ CORNER


goo’ert'd fet every fresh cow we got” — and the Belted Earl cow with the white band of hair round its middle, that a passer-by once stopped to enquire about, saying: “What’s up wi’ that sick cow wi’t sheet round its middle?” Thankfully, though, Billy’s sense of humour remains, although one joke did get away on me. “Go on. . . it's a bit rude, but I’ll tell you a funny


THE latest additions to the stock at Clitheroe Library include:**Our family” — Victor Pern* berton. A familv saga set in north London in tne first half of the 20th century. “Fairlyden** — Gwen Kirk­


wood. The story of Mattie Cameron anil Sandra Logan as’ they do battle against the’ inheritance laws and struggle to • make a living from their Scot­ tish farm. ••Living with dreams** —


thing about a cow walloper at th’auction called Billy Waterhouse. ’E went int’ auction cafe for dinner and t’woman gev him some beef wi’ a load of gristle on and ’e said to ’e r . . . ” Billy coloured up slightly. “No, I wayn’t tell yer,” he said!


Roderick Peters. An examina- . tion of dreams and their rela­ tionship to our everyday lives. **The independent guide to


real holidays abroad** — Frank Barrett. Comprehensive guide to foreign holidays for the inde­ pendent traveller.______


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