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MEMORIES of a wartime marriage which stood the test of Jong separations have come flooding back for a popular Downham c ) .1 > William and Elsie Barker, who celebrate their golden weddn g


milk delivery girl for a Barker. “About a year Chatburn farm and Mr later he was shipped off to


Saturday. Mrs Barker (69) was a m a r r i e d , ” said Mrs


Barker (73) was a trans- Hong Hong and 1 didn t see him again for 18


port driver in the RAF when they decided to tie the knot. “They kept cancelling


months.” T h e c o u p le k e p t


Billy’s leave, so when he eventually got the chance to come home we were


romance alive by writing every day and Mrs Barker still has‘the 1,000 letters her husband sent her dur-


ing the war.Mr and Mrs Barker, of The White House, who were married at Chatburn Methodist Church, first met as pupils at Ribbles- dale School, Glitheroe. They are one of the best known couples in the Chatburn and Downham


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into a farming family at Twiston. Her father, Harry Clark, was also an estate worker for the present Lord Clitheroe’s grandfather, and Mrs Barker delivered milk for the farmer at Boldcroft Farm, Chatburn, which has since been demolished. Mr Barker was born in Chatburn, but moved to


Festive fun in the


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CHRISTMAS came early to Holton-by- Bowland Village Hall when more than 5(1 chil­ dren gathered for a fes­ tive afternoon of carol singing, dancing and


games. Members of the vil­


lage Children’s Com­ mittee organised the annual Yulelide party on Saturday. There was tea served by the com­ mittee and carols were sung round the Christ­ mas tree , with Mrs C h r i s t in e T a y lo r


conducting. The disco was run by


Daniel Ingham, assisted by Ben F ergus and Robert Darlington. Various games were


tovs.


l Downham as a small child. His mother, who was widowed with a young family to support, ran a small shop in Downham for many years. Before the war, Mi-


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Barker worked as a trans­ port driver for Holgate’s Haulage, of Chatburn, and returned to his job after the conflict, later working in a similar capacity for Castle Cement.


ran the Greendale Restau­ rant, between Chatburn and Downham, for Hi years and the couple have lived in Downham for the past 18 years.


Meanwhile, Mrs Barker


of Downham Village Hall C om m ittee and Mrs Barker has been a member of the village’s WI for 40 years. They are both meals-on-wheels volun­


Mr Barker is secretary


teers. “I’m meeting the same people I used to see on my milk delivery rounds all those years ago,” said Mrs Barker.


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brate their big day with a party for 70 guests at Downham Village Hall. They have two surviving children — Mrs Brenda Vickery, of Great Har­ wood, and son Billy, of Moorland Avenue, Clith eroe. Their elder son, Robin, died two-and-a-half years ago. There are 10 g ran d c h i ld ren and a great-grandchild.


The couple will cele­


marriage is for a couple to have plenty to do. If you keep yourself busy, you don’t get the chance to fall out,” said Mrs Barker.


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I FOUR alloy wheels and tyres, valued at £600 were stolen from a Vaux hall Corsa car in Manor Fields, Whalley, between 6-30 p.m. on Monday of last week and 8 a.m. the following day.


A CHARGING system is to be introduced for groups using the Ribble Valley Council civic suite. The Finance and Gen


agreed to start charging alter receiving a report on charging systems in other authorities and current usage of the civic suite. Recommendations inc­


charged £50 for the day, compared to £90 for com­ mercial groups.


tluded dividing groups into


hree different categories and charging them accord­ ingly, in an effort to recover some of the energy and other costs associated with opening


the facility. The report suggested


tha t those considered internal bodies should not be charged, while external


suggested tha t groups holding coffee mornings should be asked for a donation of £10. Coun. Frank Dyson


In addition, the report


(Clitheroe) and Coun. Howel Jones (Clitheroe) criticised the fact that political parties had been placed in the external non­ commercial section of the


introduced a successful motion to differentiate between types of non profit-making functions and to only charge groups th a t were reg is te red charities £25, rather than


Coun. Bill Fleming . £50, a day.


decided not to request donations for coffee morn­


The committee also . .


report. “I think it’s an insult to


non-profit making and commercial groups should be charged appropriately. The re p o r t recom­ mended, for example, that a non profit-making organ­ isation using the council ch am b e r sh o u ld be


Justices’ licences


THE following publicans were granted the full transfer of a justices’ licence during a brewster session at Clitberoe Magistrates’ Court: Marilvu Jeaniue Brooks,


I’he White Bull Motel, Church Street, Ribches- ter; Diane Elizabeth Har­ greaves, 28 Nelson Street, Low Moor; Ian John Hit- chen, The Swan and Royal Hotel, Castle S tre et, Clitheroe: Lorraine Kis- soek. The Old Post House Hotel, King S t re e t ,


Clitheroe. John Derek Magee, The


Ribchester Arms, Black­ burn Road, Ribchester; Graham Smith, The Hark to Bounty Inn, Main Street, Slaidburn: Thomas Brendan Woods,The Copy Nook Hotel, Bolton-by- Bowlaml.


ings and to start charging on April 1st, rather than December 1st, as recom­ mended. In addition, a


have a council group meet- ing for council work referred to as an external body. We exist only by being members of this authority,” Coun. Dyson


said. Coun. Jo n e s com­


mented: “If meetings of parties are not considered to be concerned with the work of this council, then th e r e is som e th in g seriously wrong. In other districts, groups have secretarial facilities.


their own. I don’t ask for this, but to suggest that as groups we should pay for meeting prior to a council meeting seems quite wrong,” he added.


“They have rooms of


Coun. Jones, who also recommended that Unison be transferred from the external to the internal category, further argued that charities holding cof­ fee mornings should not be asked for donations. Shar­


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