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and the stories themselves that make you want to hear more. The basis for all of them


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ou could listen all day to Alan Dick­ inson. It is both the way he tells stories


is his own life — and you have to pinch yourself sometimes to believe that there could be so many shades and colours to one life. A precis of them would


touch on the fact that he cannot write, but has com­ piled a stack of memoirs; that he has held no less than 50 jobs and lived in almost as many places; o that he spent years devel­


chicken, which he almost sold, then destroyed, rather than become a mil­ lionaire; and tha t he started the first pet ceme­ tery in Britain. Now living with his


ping a revolutionary


wife, Elsie, in Whittle Close, Clitheroe, Mr Dick­ inson (72) salts his recol­ lections with equal mea­ s u r e s of h ome spun philosophy and forthright opinions. His memoirs are the


product of tape record­ ings, which have then been transcribed on to paper, because, although he can read, Mr Dickinson cannot write or spell pro­ perly, having left school at an early age. They begin in the place


lie always comes back to, with the fact that lie was born illegitimate. "Even now, after all these years,


including spells of solitary c o n f i n e m e n t , an appearance at the Old Bai­ ley and service in the Nor­ mandy invasion followed. His pattern of changing jobs continued after being demobbed and getting married. Even when Mr Dickin­


son “settled” into a job finally, he was working as


good,” both because of his illegitimacy and the chain of events this sparked — sta rtin g with running away from home — Mr Dickinson spent his youth working as everything from a bunker boy on a Boston deep sea fishing ship to a Blackpool Plea­ sure Beach driver respon­ sible for emptying slot machines. Stints with the Army,


i have not conic to terms with it. 1 don’t thank anyone for bringing me into this world,” he says. Looked upon as a “no


thinking about what I was going to be worth. It would have disrupted my family life. I would have been destroyed. Money doesn't bring happiness. If we have got love, that is worth all the money in the world,” he said.


his next venture into the realm of innovation. It came about as a result of an accident in which his beloved dog Judy was killed. He buried iter on the farm, but a digging project near the spot made him realise there was a r i s k of h e r b e in g unearthed.


The pet cemetery was


removed her body and finally found a piece of ground that he thought would be a safe resting place.


Horrified, Mr Dickinson


was created, by your God or whatever, the dog has an important message to pass on for those who would wish to see: love, affection, friendship and, above all, loyalty," he said. “That is why the pet cemetery is there, a place where man can atone in some small way to his best friend.”


“However this world


The plot eventually became the Rossendale


a sales representative sell­ ing day-old chicks and travelling all the time. It was the financial success he enjoyed during this period which inspired him to buy some land and begin developing the “ideal” hen. Mr Dickinson managed


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to breed a white leghorn that laid brown eggs. Smaller than a red lien, and thus eating less, but still laying the brown eggs customers wanted, the bird could have saved farmers thousands of pounds in feed bills. “This is what they had


been striving for, using computers and so on to try and produce this bird, but they had missed it and I had got it. Someone asked the Minister of Agricul­ ture at the time, ‘What would the value be of such a bird?’ and the Minister replied ‘Millions!’ After that 1 had visitors from America and invitations from Russia.” But th e r e was a macabre twist to the


story. Someone finally offered him an amount too good to refuse, yet wanted to des troy the bird, because the new breed th re a te n e d y e a rs of research and development into chickens with other special characteristics. As much as that was


the ways the money would affect him and his family. “I couldn't sleep at night


Pet Memorial Gardens and was Filmed several times for te le v is io n p r o - grammes. Since founding the cemetery, Mr Dickin­ son has experienced dra­ matically improved health and believes his good for­ tune is a sign front the heavens , w h i c h also refrained from ever rain­ ing on him while he was burying a pet.


tomers was convinced God had sent him. She had had a dog embalmed and had been waiting 25 years to bury the animal in a pet cemetery. Other unusual clients included someone who came in a hearse with their Alsatian laid in a human coffin.


they came to Clitheroe. It is here, once and for all, that he believes they will stay.


his memories of the ceme­ tery. After selling the business, he and his wife resumed a more nomadic lifestyle, but last year


Mr Dickinson treasures Similarly, one of his cus­


Dickinson and his mates reached their goal. Over the years, memories of what was a happy day in the midst of a sometimes cruel childhood have haunted and enthralled Mr Dickinson.


for lack of enough butties. Eventually, though, Mr


tiful green valley and we could see Clitheroe like a diamond. We looked the other way and we could see Nelson, Colne and Blackburn — the dark satanic mills. But we didn’t cross over.


ing called the ‘Lost Hori­ zon’ and we began to look at Pendle Hill as the mountains and Clitheroe as Shangri-la. I just won­ der sometimes how I ever got here. I wonder if any of our gang got here too. Did they ever find Shan­ gri-la?” Mr Dickinson asked.


“Later we saw a paint­


his boyhood games of cow­ boys and Indians on the Nelson side of Pendle Hill and failed attempts to con­ quer the imposing summit


The notion goes back to


this place. I didn’t plan it. As far as I’m concerned, this is Shangri-la. It’s as near as you will ever get in this life. Maybe some day th e re might be someone in Clitheroe who remembers that climb over Pendle Hill.”


“Fate brought me to


Turrfect’ home for stray cat roaming Pendle


A STRAY cat has found a “pun-feet” home, following an article in the


led the bedraggled black Persian back to Mrs Eliza­ beth Sutheran, the Sabden woman who appealed for the owner of the female cat to come forward. She explained: “Many


LIBRARY T CORNER


“Advertiser and Times” appealing for its owner to come forward, writes Matthew Evans. A catalogue of events


people thought the cat was up for two weeks. She hatl wild and should be put a bad case of worms, down. But it used to go “ I phoned Mrs Suth- regularly to the Well- eran, who came to visit springs to be fed.”


shut down, I went up to away,” she added, feed it for a few days at Following a session with the Ski Club.


“When the Wellsprings the cat a home straight


described in a new book at Clitheroe Library. The book — “ Fortune Tell­


Cornwell. The second novel about Nathaniel Starbuck, a North American who fights for the south in the American Civil War. The survival of the Con­ federacy depends not only on d e feat ing the n o r th ’s huge army, but also on out-foxing Allen Pinkerton, the north’s spymas ter, whose shadowy agents have reached into the heart of the southern army. “Seventh Sunrise” — Judy


disturbing, the father of five was tormented about


Cornwell. In 11120’s England, three women are forced to live a lie. It is left to a young Austra­ lian girl to draw together the strands of a story which snans th re e generat ions and four continents. "T h e la te s t co u n try g a r ­


in g ," by Chris Morgan — introduces the main methods of prediction in the West today. Other additions: “Copperhead" — Bernard


HE art of fortune telling is


club phoned the RSPCA to name “Smudge” by Mrs come for the haggard Sutheran’s daughter Faye, feline but, in the mean- is enjoying her recupera- tu n e , Mrs S u th e ran tion in the warmth of her received a phone call from new home on Clitheroe Preston cat expert Helen Road, Sabden. Slinger, who had been to The saga also had a pro­ save the animal during her ductive ending for Helen lunch break from work. Slinger, the caring eat ha Apparently someone saver who works with


A member at the ski been given the temporary


d read the article to her Preston Action For Cats to ™ \a n d sfV v(Tt HP As a result of her actions, “I found the cat in a p ro v id e a combined


her lunch hour.


the Nick o Pendle in she has teamed up with Burnley Cat Rescue to


very poor state,” she said, service. “She was so hungry and If anyone has any prob- cold that she went into the lems with their pet pussy cat trap straight away. I cat, Helen can be con- took her home and fed her tacted on 0772 721290.


Woodturnings on display


dens”— George Plumbtre. The history of the British garden since HM5, showing the achieve­ m en ts which followed th e destruction of the second world war.


A WOODTURNER from Warrington, who uses only British timber or wood from a sustainable source, is exhibiting his work at Clitheroe Library. MMr Donald Watmough’s work is on show until


his mam interest is in artistic and decorative work, natural-edged bowls and hollow and green turning.


arch 2Gth. A woodturner for 30 years, Mr Watmough said


the vet, the cat, which has her and she kindly offered “We could see this beau­


A MAN was once so annoyed with someone that he found it difficult to find a name bad enough to call him. After a pause for thought, he said: “You . . . you insignificant speck of unimportant humanity!”


began to wonder if this was not a perfect description of ourselves.


We, who hoard this' smiled and then some of us


sevelt used often to get out of his chair and go out to look at the stars with his good friend, the famous naturalist William Beebe. The latter name may mean nothing to you, but they wore both greatly honoured in their own field of service to humanity.


lower left-hand corner of the great square of Pegasus. As part of their ritual, one of them would recite these words: “This is the spiral galaxy of Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is 750,000 light years away. It consists of 100 billion suns, each larger


Gazing up into the night sky, they would find the After an evening’s conversation, Franklin D. Roo­


than our sun.’ They would then pause and Roosevelt would say, at last: ‘ Now I think we feel small enough, let us go to bed.”


:


remind you that even if, like me, you know yourself to be a smalt, insignificant speck of unimportant humanity, we matter as individuals to God. He cares for us as if there was no other for whom to care. I learned this first from a prayer of St Augustine’s and have been grateful to him ever since. You and I really matter to God. BUT DOES GOD


Why ever did I bring this up? I just wanted to


MATTER TO US? I can only answer for myself. You must give your own answer. Are you in meaningful touch with the infinite God of the universe? Do you feel to know Him through the revelations of Jesus and your own prayer life? On the other hand, are you an insignificant speck of unimportant humanity who long ago came to the conclusion that you, of all peo­ ple, mattered most in creation?


JOE STANSFIELD


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