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A WHALLEY librarian has collected scenes, both historical and pic­ turesque, of the Ribble Valley for a new book that traces the River Ribble from its source to the sea.


Jean Harrison is the author of the just pub­ lished “Vanishing Scenes of the Ilibble Valley,” which contains more than GO old photographs of the region cradling the River Ribble. Miss Harrison, who


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mobile library service travelling round the outly­ ing villages and in tracing her own family tree. “1 had been doing a lot


libraries, to complete her


actually lives in Baxendcn, has also w r i t ten the accompanying text, piec­ ing together historical developments in the com- m u n i t ie s a lo n g th e riverbanks. Her interest in compil­


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of family history research because my family comes from the Slaidburn and Tosside area. The local history librarian asked me to do a slide show for Chipping WI on the Ribble Valley,” Miss Harrison s a id / “ Then 1 asked whether we could turn that into a book.” She ultimately broa­


dened her subject to include the whole of the River Ribble and gathered old photographs, mostly from Whalley and other


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Bolton Hall, demolished in the 1950s, boating parties near Brungerley Bridge, the workforce of the Port­ land Cement Company, near Chatburn, and the old Low Moor post office. Miss Harrison has pre­


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jewellery and paintings from the arms of antiquity into the hands of the high­ est bidder.


have conveyed all manner of old china, furniture,


Whalley, and Mr McKenna (‘13), of Clitheroe, are key players in the miniature “Sotheby’s” of Blackburn — Charles Edwards Auc­


full of the variety and excitement — but it is a world apart from from the screen antics of televi­ sion’s Lovejoy character. Being an auctioneer


tor, is the diamond dab­ bler, having previously worked as a jeweller, while Mr McKenna, an auctioneer and valuer, is the furniture and ar t expert who has lived and breathed the business since childhood. Their working lives are


tioneers and Vainers Ltd. Mr Dickinson, a direc­


Mr Dickinson (42), of The auctioneering pair


EXCITEMENT IS THEIR LOT


ocal men Barry Dickinson a n <


Peter McKenna live in the “umler-the-


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and Mr McKenna each have their own ideas about the way a sale will go. But not being mind readers, the final figure for any piece, however peculiar or attractive, is down to the buyer. Mr Dickinson remem­


any framed chaise he anti­ cipated would be “going, going, gone” for about £800. Unbelievably, the winning bid was 1*2,00(1.


sale was a bronze statue. A London dealer bid £0,000 for the item over the phone, having only seen a photograph.


Another extraordinary


bered a B-registration Jaguar which recently sold for £000. Then there were the 12,000 tins from a Lytham supermarket that was being liquidated. Over the years, Hr


Mr McKenna remem­


McKenna has had many colourful experiences. The son of an auctioneer, lie


grew up helping his father, Roy, with auctions for John F inder ’s, in Longridge. He and his father both


later joined the Clitheroe firm of Hothersall and


bered a Regency mahog­ You ju s t don’t know


Forrest. “Every day is different:


what’s going to happen, you literally don’t ,” lie explained. “Sometimes you just get a box of what appears to be junk, which turns out to be worth thousands of pounds. The sky’s the limit.” Mr McKenna once spent


animal — a talking parrot — but otherwise he has put almost everything imaginable under the ham­ mer. The oldest object he has ever auctioned was a


four days sitting in a vault valuing silver on an Arab stud in the Lake District. He has made inventories for estates as far afield as Cambridge, London and Wales. Only once has he sold an


Spanish Armada chest and the most expensive was a Queen Anne settee for £32,500.


sold plant pots for as little as 50p and recently a leather case containing four clog irons for just £4. And there have been a


Then again, he has also


few intriguing buyers along the way.


tomer who would be hyp­ notised by the rhythm of the auction. I also once sold a lot of stuff to a man and then two fellows in white coats appeared. They had come to take him back to Whittingham,” he explained. “We get all sorts. It’s amazing what people will buy. There’s a market for everything.” Not always glamorous


“I used to have a cus­


but certainly never boring, the experiences of these two auctioneers are cer­ tainly “ fu rn itu re for thought.”


requires a high level of commitment, especially because Mr McKenna and Mr Dickinson are involved


work long hours and are on call around the clock. Mr Dickinson recalled a recent occasion when he received a telephone call at 3 p.m. about an asset seizure and, along with Mr McKenna, had to work straight through until 2 a.m., conducting an inven­ tory and valuations. The auction room is


where things get the most exciting. After hours of planning and preparing a catalogue, Mr Dickinson


not only in the antiques business, but the realm of property liquidations, e s ta te disposals and pawnbroking. Tlie result is that they


ANTIQUES duo Mr Dickinson (left) and Mr McKenna Jean captures area’s u q i s m n ^ s c ^ n e s


WRVS team helps spread


the word


AMONG the Ribble Valley residents cele­ br ati ng Na tional Library Week were the 35 housebound readers who borrow items through a spe­ cial books-on-wheels service. Thanks to Women’s


Royal Voluntary Ser­ vice volunteers, these Clitheroe readers are visited every fortnight wi th a selection of books. District librarian


Miss Barbara Snell called the facility one of the “most valuable facets of the library service.” To qualify for the


service, someone must be housebound, not living with an ablc-bo- di e d pe rs o n a n d unable to make satis­ factory arrangements f o r b ook s t o be changed by relatives or friends.


LIBRARY CORNER


RKCKNT additions to the stock at Clitlutrne Library include: “ Mayday” — J o n a t h a n


with w r i te r ’s block. After answering an ad in a local |ui|>er.. lie is catapulted into a world of corruption and violence. It is d e s c r i b e d as funny and profound. “Spellbound” — Hilary Nor­


Lynn. Kniest Mayday is an Kn^lish novelist in Hollywood


viously written another book, entitled “Round About R aw ten s ta ll ,” which was the product of her work as a librarian there. “Vanishing Scenes of


the Ribble Valley” is on sale for £4.95 at Clitheroe and Whalley libraries, as well as local bookshops.


T H O U G H T f o r th e w e e k


“CURIOSITY,” Plato said, “is the beginning


of knowledge.” 1 was full of questions as a youngster and often


under parental supervision, I got an answer that satisfied me. I could see our fashionable bedroom pic­ tures on the wall. One depicted a little girl on a cliff edge reaching to pick a lovely flower and restrained from overbalancing by the arm of a guard­ ian angel. The other showed a little lad in a similar plight, also restrained, stretching after a blittterfly. All! That was it! Our guardian angels were the ones who heard our prayers and also reported to HQ


One night, peeping through my fingers as I prayed


frustrated when folks could not answer me. I wanted to know how God could possibly know what I was saying to Him, when so many others were trying to talk to Him at the same time.


■ask what happened to us in the after-life. In school we had learned a poem called “In After


anything I had done wrong. This was tile first time I was conscious of receiving an answer through prayer. As the service seemed to be working, I ventured to


Days,” which stated that we should lie there mute in tlie grave, and this did not satisfy me. Continuing my train of thought, I settled in my own mind the unemployment problem in heaven. After the initial period of this enlightenment, we would all be given the task of being someone’s guardian angel. My curiosity granted enlightenment, I eventually


man. The story of an intri^ruin^; man. a talented woman, a ureal love and a haunting and destruc­ tive obsession. “Circles of hell” — Uric Morris. A critical account of the


campaign in Italy between liUo and 111-15. when the reputation of the ordinary soldier survived better than that of the generals. “ Nanny knows best** —


Nanny Smith. A book to accom­ pany the BBC television series, sharing the experiences of Nanny Smith over her GO years working with young children.


came to accept that a thing was not impossible simply because I was not able to understand it. Having received my ideas through prayer to help


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solve my problems, I have come to agree with Plato that “Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge.” JOE STANSFIELD


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