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Day trip is winner for WI visitor


A DAY trip to the Ribble Valley gave a former Clitheroe doctor’s wife the chance to return to an area she loved and the added bonus of a free


holiday.


Mrs Maureen faith- the area, she entcrct a waite now lives in Whit- competition devisee:1 bythe


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day’s outing to the Ribble Valley she was first in the


queue. With her husband, the


late Dr Brian Laithwaite, she


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and still keeps in touch up m Chipping, and took |g*g|| i. r..!.... i.,


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with friends. At the end of her visit to


Bookworm acts as a judge


A YOUNG bookworm from the Ribble Vaiiey has helped to select the winner of a top award for authors. St Augustine’s RC High


School pupil Laura Tat- terall was among several young readers from the county chosen to select this year’s Lancashire Children’s Book of the


Year. Their choice was “Chan­


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£250 damage


VANDALS smashed one upstairs and one down­ stairs window, valued together at £250, in a house in Kemple View, Clitheroe.


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they asked if it would he possible to entertain their friends to a small dinner uirty at the guest house.- Hr Keith Hollin. proprie­


tor, was delighted to oblige and the party ended a memorable return to tile area for his guests. Ironically, WI members


and friends were tins weelc making a return visit to tlie Ribble Volley. The ini­


tial trip by Whitley WI last year made such an impact that word of the area’s beauty lias spread and some of those who visited have arranged a


Group WI outing. Dr Laithwaite was in


practice at Colbourne doctors Fairweather,


House, Wellgatc, with .. - j. ___ m..:,,,,,/.


Royal and Oliver. Sadly, he became ill in 19(53 ant died the following year, but his widow vividly remembers her time in Clitheroe, during which she was a District Com­ missioner for the Guides. “ Our stay was most


en jo y a b le ,” said Mrs Laithwaite, thanking all involved, particularly Mr Hollin at Monkhall Guest House, Whalley


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IF you wear glasses you need not sacrifice style on account o f cost. That is the clear message from a go-a­ head spectacles firm, which b e l ie v e s its prices are as attrac­


tive as its designs. Abbey Eyewear, the Whalley and. Burnley-


i based wholesalers, now sells a' wide range of


, frames direct to the pub­ lic at prices below those normally associated with middle and top range products.


Andrew Booth imports frames from the top French and Italian man­ ufacturers for sale at his own outlets as well as sup­ pling to the retail trade in various parts of Britain and Northern Europe. He visits the manufacturers to make his selection and and also designs his own styles, using an ingenious pick-and-mix system. Dur­


ing his visits to the fac­ tories, he chooses various parts of spectacles to com­


bine in his own designs. A b b e y E y e w e a r


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DISPENSING assistant Mrs Wendy Rigby with-just a section o f the large range o f frames on otter


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vice proved so successful that Mr Booth and his technical director, Mr Stuart Robinson, decided to open the Burnley out­ let three weeks ago. They deal in middle and


top price products for all tastes and needs. The designer labels include Christian Dior, OWP, Rayban, Oakley, Zeiss and Cazal — plus many more. “Whatever your need,


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People requiring special


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in the eyewear trade foi some 30 years and Mi Booth is a former engineer at the Royal Ordnance Factory near Chorley.


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returned to the area for a two-night stay at Whal- ley ’s Monkhall Guest House in May, accompan­ ied by friend Mrs Sarah Snow, who was brought


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Structural problems with


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councils. Parts of the retaining


wall alongside Waddington brook are suffering from structural problems and the parish council believes that the cause is heavy traffic on tlie B6478 road. Ribble Valley Borough


Council’ s engineering manager, Mr Graham Jag- ger, put the matter to the county council after a meeting of the borough's Planning and D ev e l­


opment Committee. A divisional surveyor


for Lancashire has written back saying that he does


| not agree with the com­ mittee's view that all. the


walls are affected by


I vibration from passing vehicles. He says that those at the rear of the memorial do not support the highway and are far enough away to be unaf­ fected by the passing traffic.


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green instead of in the garden of the old school, because building renovation work meant that the traditional site would be unsuitable.


tive and the result was a £500 profit for church funds.


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The green proved an ideal alterna­ ,


“Many hikers who had loft their cars behind in Hurst Green bought from the stalls as they passed across the village green. It turned out to be a very happy


Vicar’s wife Mrs Susan Birbeck said:,


with cakes, home-made produce, plants, books, cassettes, toys and linen and the sun shone throughout the proceedings.


., ■ Meanwhile, church workers are con­


tinuing their improvement scheme,at the old school. A small meeting, room - has already taken shape in part of the. former toilet block and work is now in progress on modernising and enlarging the kitchen. The final stage will involve improvements to the main hall. : The money raised at the garden


.


party, however, will go into general church funds, while other funds have been set aside for ^.he improvement- . project. .


occasion.” Church workers staffed stalls laden


Rev. John Birbeck (second left), with parishioners. - 1


Our picture shows the vicar,- the ■


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Calderstpnes inquiry "set to last four days


MEMBERS o f Ribble Valley Council s Plan ning and Development Committee were tow


that the impending appeal - ■ .


The borough’s; chief groundwork on the inquiry Hanning o f f ic e r , Mr. was the best option. . Stewart Bailey, said he Coun. ,D?


for the Calderstones Hospital site will take four days.


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ily represented and that ject.°f-the Caldeistones : .


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expected that the, appli- sau he had, at tendeda cants would be quite heav- public meeting on 1


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the inquiry would be very inquiry in Whalley. I here complex.


was a great deal o f con- . Mr Bailey said there cern, so serious that the


were four alternatives for o rg an ise r s p rop o sed handling the borough’s employing a planning con-


legal representation at the sultant. He had told the inquiry.


The council’s own legal should be in joint an ay : . • Whalley,meeting.that.they


staff could do it, but it was with Ribble; Valley Coun- feit they would not bo able cil. He believed that.. the to handle the extra work National Health Service


involved in the inquiry would use a powerful bar- with their present heavy rister and it would be a workload; the' borough shame if the council cud could employ a barrister, not take the opportunity! with Mr Paul Timson act- to work with the Whalley a


could use a solicitor from Mr, Bailey said that the private sector, chosen there could not be joint either-by going to tender.- representation. The coun-


ing as solicitor; the council .group..-: .. . .*. • ... •


or by using the cheapest of cil could be asked for its the three firms who ten- reaction to changes in derod for the public proposals and had to be inquiry; or he himself able to speak for itself, could appear at the j Coun. Arthur Pearson inquiry; acting as both said he-thought it .was witness and advocate.


,


THE great-grandson 'o f a First World War hero has


proved himself a celebrity , of a different kind. - ‘ John Matthew Nolan .


(22), a former pupil of St .


Augustine’s RC High v School,' Billington,. was


among the top achievers at ■ Bristol University’s (grad­ uation ceremony. ■ He gained a first-class


Master’s Degree in elec­ tronic and communication


I engineering.last week and this week started a. career


in research and; devel­ opment .with-Pioneer, a


multi-national electronics company near Bristol.


Matthew,' whose par­ .


ents, Eric and Margaret Nolan, live at: Bryers Croft, Wilpshire, has long con n e ct ion s . with the Clitheroe area. ^


His great-grandfather, m


Clithcroe-born Jimmy Dunn, was a Coldstream Guardsman during the First World War and was awarded the Albert Medal


■ Coun. Stephen Holt felt, should be represented by a that the option of using barrister.


, -important, that the council, . . , "■


the solicitor who had I t , was d e c id e d to already worked for the employ the solicitor used borough and had done the at the previous inquiry


Garden party on green


for gallantry,-after rescu­ ing comrades' frouV'a'n " exploding railway-truck .in .


France, in June, 1918. Matthew’s grandmother,


Elsie Nolan, also lived in Clitheroe during her youn-,-


gerdays. , Matthew, whose new


job will be involved in the latest digital technology and for television and audio, played the drums. , with several local groups ', during his schooldays and is still a keen drummer. He is now building up his: own recording and mixing- equipment.


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After leaving St Augus­ tine’ s, he'attended .St


Mary’s Sixth Form'Col­ lege, Blackburn, where among other prizes he was a w a r d c d ■ Scholarship.


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House gets;the go-ahead


MEMBERS of Ribble Val-


I ley Council’s Planning and I Development Committee | have approved-plans for a replacement house at Stonehouse! Nook,:'Hollo- / whead Lane, Wilpshire. -Consent-was refused


earlier in the year on the grounds that the proposed building -was considerably larger than the existing dilapidated cottage it was designed to replace. Since that time, the proposed . size has been reduced twice from an original 365 square metres to 237. This was still larger than guide­ lines suggested, but the council officer’s report stated that other aspects of the scheme made it one he felt he could support.


John is top un iv e rs ity


a chiever.


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