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A for the week


s I note the antics of my five- year old grandson, I have before me all the evidence for


standing on his head rather than sit­ ting on a chair and has a remarkable talent for being naughty. However, I can recall my parents’


description of me at his age; I was a real imp of mischief. I evidently had a lot to learn and must have respond­ ed to tender, loving care, plus a few quick smacks. He will have to be helped, as I was, through the “ I want” phase, so he can realise that others have needs. He will also have to learn to be a better loser. The bot­ tom lip comes out if we do not let him win at snap. Young children are quick to tell us


about things not being fair if it affects them. We have to try to per­ suade them that they, in turn, must seek fair play for others as well as themselves. Since the earliest times, the days of


the Ten Commandments, we have developed a strong realisation of right and wrong. Our conscience has


accepting original sin. He prefers


been described as the voice of God within us. Did that come as a sur­ prise to you, after thinking that God had never spoken to you? Of course, God speaks to us, but we are often so rude that we do not bother to stop to listen to what He has to say to us. Often we think prayer is what we say to God. T h a t is only the half of prayer. We miss so much by not wait­ ing to hear in our hearts and minds what God has to say to us.


ents would suggest that, after we said “God bless mummy, daddy, gran and grandad,” we should also say “and make me a good boy”.


When we were youngsters our par­


that we never considered the needs others. I t is tragic when folks do r grow out of such immaturity. 0 selfishness can separate us from G and take away even the desire to pi and co-operate with Him. In ti way, by living a prayerless life, we; Tailing to make any move towai communion with the One who ms us with this end in view. This woi


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. ure to achieve the potent


touched by God's magic wand. He does touch our lives and it makes a great deal of difference, but we need to meet Him half way with a bit of co-operation. For prayers to have any hope of being effective, there has to be a great deal of wholehearted desire behind them, a genuine will on our part to make things possible. Before we can expect to receive and have our wants supplied, we ought to be pre-


I t was as if we expected to be


books on the subject, good thou they may be. Stumbling with c own words, we must talk with t


nsen Lord abo ut being our b( friend, for that is what He is Children are adaptable and, as y


are really just a large child, you: not too old to allow your imaginati to assist your faith. Let your th


walk and talk with Him as you into a new kind of tomorrow.


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Hannah is our top junior reader


THERE was a double cele­ bration in store for our Junior Reader of the Month. Hannah Wells, of Bal­


moral Avenue, Clitheroe, was told of her winning review of Sheila Lavelle’s “Trouble with the Fiend” on her 11th birthday. She returned home from St Michael and St John’s


RC Primary School, expecting a Karaoke evening — which was her special birthday present from her parents — and discovered th a t she had gained the reader prize as well. Hannah, aged 11, said


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correct. We asked shopkeepers in Castle


unny how people get an idea in their heads which simply will not go away, no matter how often they are told it is not


Street what they thought about the roadworks th a t are going on


there. Many of them thought, until the


work was well underway, th a t the road was going to be closed to all but essential traffic, emergency ser­ vices and delivery vehicles. Imagine sunny summer days in that


handsome street, with its view of the Castle one way and the Carnegie library the other. The young and the elderly could


stroll in safety among tubs of flowers or rest on benches and watch the world go by while the nose-to-tail traffic, belching fumes and frustra­ tion, would be diverted to move smoothly through and away, or park and enjoy the pleasure of the town. Think of such a place at Christmas,


with the shop window displays, the lights and the castle floodlit, carol singers and a brass band in Swan Courtyard. Of course the people with this vision were wrong.


like th a t a t the beginning of the decade, as our picture shows, but it was scotched.


There was a proposal for something


for three years and have been dis­ cussed and reported from council meetings a t borough and county level. A survey was carried out with hun­


The present plans have been public


A SKETCH of what could have been, if Castle Street had been pedestrianised


dreds of questionnaires filled in and analysed, but still people, including your reporter, dreamed of what might be. We were indulging in wishful think­ ing. We had, years ago, been given a pic­


ture of a delightful possibility and we had hung on to it, in spite of all the information, because it was attrac­ tive, it suggested that it was possible to take a fact of modern life, traffic,


trade suffered on Castle Street it would have been a disappointment for those who dreamed of a more attractive town but a disaster for the shopkeepers who suffered actual loss.


as it might have been is an example of the gap between hope and caution which local government has to bridge. If the dream had been tried and


and do something positive with it. Perhaps the picture of Castle Street


But now it should be easy to conduct '


a trial. Why doesn't Clitheroe try what one


of the shopkeepers on Castle Street suggested and block off the street on some Tuesdays and Saturdays this summer? Why don’t we t ry the dream and see if we can make more of this lovely place th a t history has. given us?


T.C. Oil painting joins


family from across the world


the other side of the world. There has now been a joyful meeting


A


PORTRAIT from the past has united a Clitheroe family with a long-lost cousin from


she was really thrilled. Hannah likes singing —


Times was read by relatives in Clitheroe, Mrs Scholes, of Claremont Avenue, stepped forward to fill in the missing pieces. As it turned out, the portrait was not of Mrs Humpage’s great-grandmoth­ er, but of her great-great-grandmother, Sarah Stout, who was born 24 years earli­ er. Mrs Scholes, a nursery nurse at Chatbum


if nobody is listening! — and she thought the book was very funny indeed. She wrote: “The funni­


est story was when Angela taped a message on to her tape recorder and said that it was the radio, which said there were free burgers at the local McDougles.” Of course there were no


free burgers, but it tickled Hannah pink to think that one of the characters, Charlie, thought there was. Hannah likes reading,


tap dancing, horse riding and shopping for clothes.


village school, and her sister, Mrs Cather­ ine Lancaster, of Henthorn Place, Clitheroe, arranged a meeting with their relative from Down Under and a viewing of the portrait. Said Mrs Scholes: “We didn’t even know


we had a distant cousin in New Zealand, but when my sister saw the letter she felt sure that the portrait in question was the same family heirloom of which I am the custodian. I t is a portrait of our great- great-grandmother, Sarah Stout, nee Hoyle, who was born in 1813 and died in 1888. “My sister and I contacted Mrs


between New Zealander Mrs Barbara Humpage and Clitheronian Mrs Eliza­ beth Scholes and their relatives, follow­ ing a search for an oil painting high­ lighted on our letters page last month. Mrs Humpage, of Para Para Uma Beach, Wellington, told us she was searching for an oil painting of her great-grandmother, Martha Ann Jepson (nee Stout), who was bom at Littlemoor, Clitheroe, in 1837. When the letter to the Advertiser and


^ We didn’t even know we had a distant . cousin in New


Zealand, but when my sister saw the letter


she felt sure that the portrait in question was the same family. \ heirloom ®


in the last year and I have been having it restored, so I only collected it myself from ' the art dealer last Wednesday.”


Humpage, along with her husband, Ray- ' mond, her cousin, Mrs Mary Burgess, of ' Mellor, and 90-year-old mother, who lives at Hest Bank. They were delighted to see the portrait and took photos of it and were also delighted to meet everyone.


A meeting was arranged with Mrs


family tree which she has been working on for years,” added Mrs Scholes. “I t goes I back to Sarah Stout’s grandparents, who ' were born in 1715 and who lived a t Hor- j rocksford Old Hall, where Sarah herself I was brought up.”


“Mrs Humpage showed us a copy of the i |


year ago and is now working on her second I volume.


j


Humpage and she was thrilled to discover we had the painting and that we all shared the same great great-grandmother! “The painting has only come into my care


Mrs Humpage and her husband, who I have now returned to New Zealand, stayed :


at Mrs Humpage’s mother’s home at Hest j Bank during their visit to England.


Scholes, who writes poetry, has discovered : that her great-great grandfather—Sarah | Stout’s husband — was also a poet. Mrs i Scholes published a book of 100 poems a ’


From Mrs Humpage’s family tree, Mrs j


have looked. . . As I see it . . .


^ How things might


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