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SINGAPORE, at the beginning of the second world war, may not be the most placid place to have spent your childhood, but that was where radio presenter Judith Roberts found herself at the time of the Japa­ nese invasion. C Her father, Wing Commander K y C a t h p r in P N p p d h a m


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AT fit) years of age, Muriel was the unmarried daugh­ ter left behind to care for her father. The selfish old man lapped up her constant care and made it clear that he did not want her to marry. Several men had paused for a time, hut were soon


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warned off. Muriel not only saw to her father’s every need, but collected the rents for the 17 houses and


six brick garages lie owned. There came a day when Mr Right (for Muriel) came


along and she decided that she must take her chance of a happy union. This greatly annoyed her father, who told her that if she married she would no longer be regarded as his daughter and would he disin­ herited. Muriel went on with her wedding plans, leaving home and letting her father collect his own rents.


‘ Eventually, on her father's death, it was found that he had carried out his threat and left all his money to various charities. This was unfortunate, as shortly afterwards the law was passed that she could have a claim on the money. For over 20 years Muriel and her husband have


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lived in a rented fiat that was pari of a large old-fa­ shioned house. A few months ago they were given notice to quit by the owner, whose 20-year-old daugh­ ter wanted it for her own place. In great distress they went to see a solicitor, who


has gained them some respite by writing letters to the owner. When they paid his bill, he told them to report to him if they heard from the owner on this matter again. Unhappily, they realise that the daughter still


wants their" fiat and the angry owner is seeking a loop-hole to get them out through claiming personal


need. In their 70s, they feel to be living on a time bomb


and constantly watch incoming mail with fear. Thai owner attends a Gospel Hall Mission and, at


times, will speak from the pulpit. I hasten to add that the lady's name is not Muriel, nor do they live in this area. It makes me wonder i f that man ever considers the


words of our Lord: “ In as niuc-h as you did it unto the least of these mv brethren, vou did it unto me.” JOE STANSFIELI)


THE new president of Ribble Valley Rotaract holies to raise awareness about the service organi­ sation and increase its membership. Mr Geolf Whalley, of


Hoping to gain new members


Albemarle Street, Clith­ eroe, replaced retiring president Mrs Maggy Howells during a hand­ over dinner at the Moor­ cock Inn, Waddington. During his year in


office, he plans to spread the word about the group, which is designed for peo­ ple aged 18 to 30 and sponsored by Clitheroe and Ribblesdale Rotary Clubs. In ad d ition to his


Rotaract duties, Mr Whal­ ley, a project engineer at Presspart, Blackburn, is learning to speak Italian, since his wife, Stella, is from Pescara in Central Ita ly . He is pictured (above) wearing his new- chain of office. '


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1937, when she was only three years old, and she was sent to hoard at a convent school in the mountains of Malaya. Mrs Roberts, of Sawley Road, Chatburn, remembers: “The discipline at the


convent was very strict. When my mother came to visit she was shocked at how polite I ’d become — I was curtseying and calling her ‘ma’am.’ My memories of the convent are a bit vague, but it did give me a lifelong hatred of bread and butter witli raspberry jam!” Mrs Roberts was travelling back to Singapore for the Christmas holidays at


the lime of the invasion by Japan. “Ours was the last train to get through from Malaya before the Japanese attack. We arrived in Singapore in the early hours of the morning and my father called me out on the balcony to sec what he called the “Hying onions.” These were the tracer bullets that lit up the sky as Singapore harbour was bombed and they really did look like flying onions! “My father used up the family savings to buy tickets for my mother and


me on a ship to Australia before the mass evacuation of Singapore began.” Travelling through the fraught Southern Pacific, Judith and her mother arrived


in Perth and took a train across the Australian desert to a town called Bendigo, once the heartland of Australian gold mining. She has distinct and very happy memories of her time in Australia. "Wo


lived on a farm with some friends of my mother’s and I went to school in Ben­ digo. I made a lot of good friends over there. “ Blit my father Hew the last plane out of Singapore before the Japanese occu­


pation and was shot down over Java. For six months we heard absolutely noth­ ing about him — we didn’t know if he was alive or dead. Then at last we heard lie was coming to Australia on a hospital ship.”


fOpensfirst restaurant


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A NEW restaurant serving English cuisine has opened in the space formerly occupied by the Happiness Inn, Barrow.


Barrow Lodge, in


Cockerill Terrace, is the first restaurant venture for Mrs Ann Eastham, of Clitheroe, who worked previously as a chef at the Black Bull, Rimington. She was granted the res­ taurant licence and permission for a change of name by magistrates at Clitheroe Transfer Sessions.


Employees dine out


FOUR Castle Cement employees were treated to a meal at the Call’s Head Hotel,' Worston, after achieving first, second and third places on courses at Training 2000. William Whitwell, of


Pendleton, and Russell Finder, of Hill House Farm, Newton, both work in the maintenance depart­ ment, while A la s la ir Howard, of Fat Mill Farm, Bolton-by-Bowland, and Richard l lindle, of l lodder Grove, Clitheroe, are apprentices.


Deadline time


ORGANISERS of the Torchlight Procession arc- appealing to entrants to return their entry forms as soon ns possible. The deadline, which is


tomorrow, is for entries to both the magazine and the procession on September lilth. Entry forms can be


obtained either from tile “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times” office or from the Ribble Valley tourism office.


__________ Neither she nor her mother had any idea what state Mr Lewis would be in when he arrived in Australia. "We had arranged to meet at an hotel — and my mother prepared me for the worst, in case my father was very badly wounded. But when we finally met him, he just had his arm in a sling.” Tile family stayed in Australia while Mr Lewis was


being treated in hospital and when he recovered he served on loan to the Royal Australian Air Force. “His skills in photographic reconnaissance were very useful to the Australians and he was involved in the New Guinea campaign.” At the end of 1944, the family returned to England on board a troop ship. The journey came at the height


of the German U-boat campaign and the combination of bed-bugs, her mother’s pregnancy and constant fear of attack made the journey rather fraught. “We losl two of the ships in the convoy through


U-boat attacks and I suppose really it was a horren­ dous journey. Blit, as a child, I only have happy memories. I even won the fancy dress — in a cowboy outfit that my mother made out of old sugar sacks! “We arrived in the Bristol Channel on New Year’s


Eve, 1944, in thick fog. We lost two more ships due to collisions — one of them carrying a supply of butter to


ease shortages.” They returned to Plymouth, a town devastated by


the Blitz. “My mother burst into tears when she saw the centre of Plymouth. It was almost unrecognisable. “We settled in England after that and my father


was transferred to the RAF base at Farnborough, where lie commanded the RAF School of Photography. Normally we struggled to find somewhere to live, but someone offered my father the Air Officer Com­ mander’s empty quarters. So we lived for three years in an 11-bedroom mansion, set in four-and-a-half acres of woodland, with an assortment of servants. “Our next move was a bit of a contrast. We were


stationed at North Luffenham, from where my father helped to co-ordinate the Berlin airlift, and we had to live in two Nissen huts joined together — rather a come-down after living in a mansion! "I got my first taste of sailing when we moved


back to Plymouth and I sailed with my father in the Service 14-ft dinghy races. The RAF used to beat the Navy soundly every time.” Having finished her education, Mrs Roberts took a


course in business studies and got a job working under Conservative Prospective Parliamentary candidate Randolph Churchill, before eventually following her father into the RAF. “ I spent an idyllic summer stationed in Bercham Newton, Norfolk, training in


professional administration. It was one of those sum­ mers where the sun seemed to shine every day.” “Once commissioned, I was posted to RAF Neth-


erhaven, near Salisbury, and worked as an adminis­ tration officer. It was there that 1 met my hus­ band — he was an RAF officer who hud just come­ back from Kenya, where he’d been fighting the Mao Mao. “ It wasn’t easy in those days for two RAF officers


to get married; they had a habit of stationing you in completely different places. So I resigned my commis­ sion and became an RAF wife.” Mr and Mrs Roberts were stationed in North Ger­


many and later in Cyprus, where she first became interested in broadcasting with the British Forces Broadcasting Services. “ I worked as an announcer and presenter; the station compiled music programmes for distribution.throughout all Middle East.stations.


S v e u n k e d u i -


“My husband was injured m a helicopter accident and we moved hack to England, until finally he left the


RAF altogether.” Mrs Roberts and her husband then moved to Lanca­


shire and she worked at Calderstoncs Hospital as a recreational therapist until BBC Radio Blackburn


opened in January, 1971. “ I worked there — at Radio Lancashire, as it became


— until March, 19S9, when I became a freelance broad­ caster and journalist. I still broadcast the Radio Lan­ cashire gardening programme on a Sunday afternoon.” For a lady who attended 13 different schools and


who has lived all over the world, it is perhaps sur­ prising that she has spent the last 25 years in Lanca­ shire. Mrs Roberts explains: “ I still have a soft spot for my native south west, hut I love Lancashire. Tile peo­ ple are nosey, but it’s a curious, interested nosiness.' Whatever you give to them, you get back a hundredfold."


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LIBRARY CORNER


THE latest additions to the stock at Clitheroe


Library include: “ The Double T en lh “ —


(•eorge Brown. An Min silent investigates a series of mysteri­ ous deaths in the Far East. “ Between Friends” — Kath­ leen Rowntree. A novel of t*on-


leinnornry village life. “ D own ’ s S yn d rom e ” —


Brian Stratford. A guide for anyone wanting to ijain a better understanding of this handicap. “ Walking Roman Ronds in


Howland” — Philip (Iraystone. ' A walking guide which combines route directions with historical, information on the Romans.


An NHS stalwart retires


A SABDEN man has retired from his post as director of purchasing for the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Authority after 45 years with the National Health Service.


Mr Frank Goss began


his career as a junior clerk at Maelor General Hospi­ tal, Wrexham, in 1947. Since being transferred to the new NHS the follow­ ing year, he has helped administer hospitals in Wrexham, Liverpool and Blackburn and been involved in the reorgan­ isation of the health service.


H ig h l ig h t s h a v e


included a contract as commissioning officer for the West Cumbria Hospi­ tal at Whitehaven — the


first district hospital to open after the war. For his National Ser­


vice, Mr Goss served in the Royal Air Force from 1950 to 1952. While sta­


tioned in Khartoum, lie saw the Comet, the first commercial service jet airplane.


Now, Mr'Goss wants to


avoid a “pipe and slippers” retirement by getting involved in local groups and possibly helping Age Concern on a part-time basis. He and his wife, Karin, who also works for the health authority, only moved to their home in W h a 11 e y R o a d i n


■ November. While his wife is the


keen fell runner in the -


family, Mr Goss is an aviiF. inker. Both are active inj St Nicholas’s Church,’’ where Mr Goss also takes) time to tend the grounds.


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A D U LT FREE entry to one of Clitheroe’s often unsung attractions is this


week’s excellent offer. The “Advertiser and Times” has linked up with Clitheroe Castle


Museum, one of the most interesting museums in the area, to offer free entry on Saturday and Sunday to each adult with one of our tokens. If'you are on the Castle field on Saturday or Sunday, at the Telethon


event, then make your way up to the museum. The token will save you the Sop entrance fee and all accompanied children have free admission anyway. What a great opportunity to see just what Clitheroe’s


museum has to offer! Displays include a fascinating exhibition of Lancashire from 1939-15,


with an incredible range of wartime artefacts. There’s a great chance to learn about the history of the town from exhibitions on local schools


and sports clubs. Authentic re-creations of a turn-of-the-century kitchen, a printing


office and a clogmaking workshop, with voice-overs to give you a fla­ vour of tlie past, are also highlights. The first floor has been devoted to a marvellous exhibition of geolo­


gical history, with galleries on the roadside geology of the area and the Salthill geological trail and a vast array of fascinating minerals. When you have explored all that the museum can offer, you can- wander round the shop and pick up a few of the inexpensive gifts on


offer. It’s an opportunity not to be missed, so cut out your coupon now and


visit Clitheroe’s premier attraction free of charge.


TO CLAIM YOUR Free Admission simply cut out the token and take to CLITHEROE CASTLE MUSEUM,


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