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More awards for area’s
top hotel
Catering Excellence’s American, Mr Beetlestone annual competition in runs a training kitchen for June, the Chipping estab- young chefs and college lishment was named Hotel students and • has taught of the Year. Now the Gib- himself to make a range of bon Bridge has reiterated fine cheeses, four of them its success by achieving Lancashire varieties, and the same title in the “Lan- twice running has won the cashire Life” magazine Best Cheese Board of County Cuisine Awards. Great Britain award. Janet’s was not the only E a ch w in n e r ha s
IT has certainly been a year to remember for Janet Simpson, the owner of the Gibbon Bridge Hotel, Chipping. In the Association for A v e ry a n g lic ised
Ribble Valley establish- received a certificate and a ment celebrating, for Sab- magnum of champagne,
Canoe club paddles in with help
A H E LP IN G oar has been held o u t to a canoe club
which is floundering in its attempt to find water.
C lith e ro e Canoe Club, has responded to a plea to help Clith eroe Scout and Guide Canoe Club find a new site.
Mr Jem Lees, the chairman of by Max Gardner
and Guide Canoe Club use of his club’s purpose-built facilities opposite the Moorcock Inn. on Waddington Kell.
wrote a letter in last week’s edition of the Advertiser and Times. She said that ever since Barrow Lodge was ear marked for commercial use, the Scout and Guide club had been actively seek ing a new stretch of water for its mem bers to enjoy their hobby.
Miss Laura Astridge, of Billington,
friends when she said of her club’s latest attempt to secure its future — “I was very disappointed to read that Kibble Valley Borough Council had decided to turn down an application to build a new lodge in West Bradford.”
She voiced the opinions of all her
with the council’s refusal to allow the Scouts and Guides to turn a defunct brickworks site, in Waddington Road, into a lodge. He has offered the Scout
Mr Lees was just as disappointed
Areas to be opened to the public
THREE areas of the Ribble Valley are to be opened by the county council to the public.
land, access agreements for Clougha and Fairsnape have been completed, including an extension of the Tarnbrook strip to Wolfhole Crag. Access to the Trough of Bowland near Tower Lodge has also been improved by a new access area across White Moor to Brennand Great
In the Forest of Bow-
signed and waymarked footpath will offer exten sive views across the Rib ble and Hodder valleys.
Hill. On Longridgc Fell, a
tion work and the planting of new hedges.and trees will take place in 19 hect ares of land fronting the River Rihble near the Dinckley Suspension
In Dinekley, conserva
Bridge. The land has been put into Countryside s tew a rd s h ip by th e
tenant. THE village of Iliminglon delved into its past SUMMER SALE N O W O N UPTO 5 0% OFF SELECTED BEDS
to open up a bright sporting future. Mr Ronnie Clayton, the former Blackburn Rovers
and England football captain and the first-ever coach of Rimington FC, opened the Rimington Recreation Association’s all-weather multi-sports Playdeck. The new sports area, which is probably the best
Times, he says: “Laura and her friends will be most welcome to use these faci lities with us,” and states that the Scout and Guide club could still main tain its distinct identity.
In a letter to the Advertiser and
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, was delighted with the kind offer. She said: “I think it is a great idea, but for us to take it up it would have to go through the executive.”
Laura, who is a sixth-former at
tion’s Assistant District Commissioner (water activities), Mr Gordon Wood ward, who recently resigned his posi tion because of the disappointing progress in finding a suitable site for the club, stressed his pleasure at Laura’s initiative.
The former Scout and Guide associa
Unusual ‘golden wedding’ event
TWENTY-ONE grandchildren of a Hurst Green cou ple celebrated their forebears’ 100th wedding anni versary recently. The centenary of the wedding of the late John
and Anne Wilkinson fell on September 24th. Apart from the grandchildren who gathered with
their partners at the Shireburn Arms, Hurst Green, there are ten more grandchildren, 85 great-grandchil dren and 29 great-great-grandchildren descended directly from John and Anne. Mrs Wilkinson died in 1958 and her husband four years later. The occasion was arranged by Mrs Christine Wylie,
den resident Geoffrey Hundreds of entries Beetlestone has been cho- were received for the sen as Newcomer of the annual awards and the Year for Beetlestone’s judging panel included English Restaurant, in master chef Tom Bridge, Blackburn.
Year class, the award British Airways catering went to a Lythain estab- chef Tony Tymon and Life lishment, hut Clitheroe’s Magazines wine and food Auctioneer Restaurant editor Brian Hargreaves. o f Uv o
In the Brasserie of the critic Robert Cockcroft, “Yorkshire Post” food
w a s o n e short-listed. The Auctioneer’s owner,
who lives in Sussex. She is the daughter of the only one of John and Anne Wilkinson’s children surviving, Mrs Alice Gudgeon, who is 88 and lives in Whalley. John Wilkinson married Anne Leeming, of Morton
House Farm, Kemple End, at St Peter’s Church, Stonyhurst. The couple began married life at Plan tation Farm, Old Clitheroe Road, Dutton, moving to Fellside Farm, Kemple End, as their family grew. They moved to Foxfield Farm, Hurst Green, the farm that is associated with the family, in 1909, in a farm swap with Anne’s parents, who were finding
it too large for them. John farmed at Foxfield Farm until his youngest son, Harry, took it over in 1945. Harry died, aged 79,
last year and his son, Henry John, now farms there. Tl’ie photograph, taken on the occasion of the cou
previously.
missioner, Mr Len Dickinson, said: “If Clitheroe Canoe Club want to make an approach to the Scout Executive Com mittee, the offer will be discussed.”
The Scout and Guides’ Distinct Com
TWO Ribble Valley youngsters have proved they are the cat’s whiskers when it comes to getting top marks in quizzes about felines. But, unfortunately, sis
ters Georgia and Danielle Burke have not come forward to claim the prizes they recently won after
entering a quiz during a visit to a cat museum. Georgia (eight) and
Mr Hunk van Heuman was pleased with his restau rant’s placing. He said: “We are now celebrating our seventh year in Miche- lin’s Good Food Guide and this further recognition makes all the hard work worthwhile. Janet Simpson opened
Plea as plum job is set to start
JT is the jam-making sea son again and local charity workers Doris and Joseph
ples’ golden wedding anniversary in 194(5, shows many faces that people in Hurst Green will recog nise. Only Mr and Mrs Wilkinson’s eldest son, Jimmy, was unable to attend.He had died two years
the Gibbon Bridge in 1982 and attributed the hotel’s success to “a positive attitude.”Geoffrey Beetlestone opened his restaurant two years ago and says that a lot of people said he could not make a success of it, because there was not the scope for food of the type and quality he was serv ing. “I have proved them ail wrong, it does not mat ter where you are — qual ity pays,” he adds.
SISTERS ARE CAT’S WHISKERS
Danielle (11) visited Kip per’s Cats, Ramsbottom, during the summer holi days, but the museum owner has been unable to track them down. They are believed to come from the Clitheroe
area.Museum owner Mr John Taylor said the sisters had got all the questions cor rect in an observation quiz at the museum and won soft toys for their efforts. He added that the girls
could still claim their prizes by telephoning the museum on 01706 822133.
‘Secrets of trade’ told to camera enthusiasts
jects and, in particu lar, the production of photographic illustra tions for books and magazines was the subject of last week’s peaker at Ribblesdale
wrote a book and several articles which had to be illustrated by other peo ple. He then bought a sim ple and l'ugged camera and started taking his own pic tures. His first camera was eaten by a grizzly bear, the second by a
lamera Club. Dr Malcolm Greenhalgh
crocodile. Having retired early,
Dr Greenhalgh has been able to devote more time
to his main hobby of fish ing and frequent articles in magazines have allowed him to v i s i t e x o tic locations.
and most comprehensive all-round sports facility in the district, kicked-off its use on a day of torrential rain.
girls, aged five to 12, Gisburn Young Farmers gave a netball demonstration with members of a Rimington select XI and residents of Rimington and Nelson
Five-a-side football was played between boys and
tried out the bowling facility. Through a massive £33,730 National Lottery dona
grants from the Sports Council Lottery Fund, the Sports Foundation and Ribble Valley Borough Coun cil, the old tennis courts at Coulthurst Jubilee Field have been transformed into an area which can pro vide a multitude of games as varied as football, tennis and bowls. The physical and financial efforts of the associa
tion, which was secured earlier in the year, and
members many “secrets of the trade”, such as getting the fisherman to wear a bright hat to give a splash of colour and lead the eye to the main subject in a fishing scene, tying stone to the line to give the impression of a catch if the fish refuse to oblige, and replacing modern black ro d s w ith old fashioned cane versions to improve their visibility.
Dr Greenhalgh gave
You’ll be amazed how much you
tion is to move to the Rib ble Valley when his wife
Dr Greenhaigh’s ambi
retires so members of the camera club can expect to see more of him.
Dennis Parker, from Nel son, will be presenting the
At next week’s meeting
‘Tom Duerden Slide Selection”.
tion’s members and the residents of Rimington and district also helped produce a sporting facility of which the whole district can be proud and from which it can gain benefit. Mr Clayton is pictured with some of the young sters and* Rimington residents, who helped add * splash to the opening ceremony. (CAT 2723)
*
A FIGURINE of two tramps seated on a bench, valued at £100, was stolen from a bungalow in Thorn Street, Clitheroe, at 9-15 p.m. last Wednesday.
£100 theft
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Mr Colin Silcock, Time
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