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- 4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, October 2nd, 1997 Valley Matters = = = = = = = = = = a weekly look at local issues, people and places =
Fascinating dip into county of yesteryear
by Vivien Meath
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you. You are your own worst enemy.
It happens so easily does it not? Everything hangs on what you
want. The will is the thing that mat ters. The best story or illustration that
comes to mind to help you in your present state of spiritual ill-health is what is commonly known as the parable of the prodigal son, which I call the parable of the loving, heaven ly father. You know the story Jesus told, but
look it up in St Luke’s gospel, chap ter 15, and read it with yourself in mind. And when the young man came to
his senses, he realised how much bet ter off he would be in his father’s
O you are a back slider? I have a mes sage for you. God
house, even as a servant. The father gave him a warm, lovely
welcome and in love received him back as a son who had made a mis take.
Why do you think Jesus told this story?
YES, for someone like you, who has been away from the Father and who
missed him a great deal and longed for his return. What have you to do? Only believe that God is like all you have learned
of Jesus, always seeking to find the lost ones. Jesus used to say: “I am come to
seek and to save that which was lost.” That is why he had so much concern
Our Church of England friends admit this, using similar words in
their general confession prayer every week. Our Roman Catholic fraternity have
long appreciated the value of confes sion and sharing in the grace of our Lord’s loving understanding and for giveness.
We are called to forgive those who have wronged us in any way, and are assured that, in as much as we are able to forgive, so we can expect for giveness ourselves.
Do not let your pride prevent your
and time for people whom the reli gious people of His day regarded as great sinners. He told his critics that he went where he was needed. He was not calling the righteous but
return to the Christian Church. True, there are very many good liv ing people who never enter a church yet if they did they could enrich the fellowship, and the Church is poorer
the sinners to repentance. We have all done things we ought
not to have done and left undone that which we ought to have done.
because of their absence; so are they and so are you. Jesus has a special word for
you...“Come”! Joe Stansfield Aloah spirit flows
A FORMER resident of Painter Wood who has trained in the ancient teachings of Hawaiian Huna brought a bit of aloah
spirit to Blackburn recently. Mr Bryan Lowe, who now lives in
Exeter, held a workshop a t the Mount Pleasant Resource Centre educating those present in the secrets of Huna, which means ‘that which is hidden’. The teachings were guarded by Kahunas of which there are only a handful left in Hawaii. A former Clitheroe Royal Gram mar School pupil, Mr Lowe is one
of only two Europeans to complete the long and intensive training in London and the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. He said: “Huna is about develop
ing and mastering physical, mental and life energy producing perfect harmony. The body and mind have amazing abilities and when the capacity of the body is enhanced with the power of our imagination anything is possible. Everything lit erally depends on your attitude to life.” As the workshop was so successful, Mr Lowe is now planning to run more.
Crafts on view at Salmesbury Hall
CRAFTY work by Whalley duo Chris Holgate and Margaret Naylor has led to the pair being invited to demonstrate their skills at Samles- buryHall. This week, the hall has been playing
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title of the 224-page volume compiled by members of the Lancashire Federation of
“Lancashire Within Living Memory” is the
GEM of a book compiled by women whose talents know no bounds was launched this week.
Women’s Institutes. In recent years, the WI has been trying to leave
its “jam and Jerusalem” image behind and attract a younger membership. On this occasion, i t is those who are effectively the
backbone of the organisation who have proved their worth in compiling a book bound to become not only a local best-seller, but also a valuable history book. “Looking back over the 20th Century, so much has
changed in town and country within living memory — these are just a few snapshots of life in Lancashire as it was,” says the foreword to the first chapter: “Some Towns and Villages Remembered.” Recollections of Sabden, submitted by Eileen Harrop,
LANCASHIRE WITHIN LIVING M EM O R Y
include a magnificent picture of the village in the days of cotton, with three mills producing cloth which was taken away by horse and cart, prior to the mills’ own lorries, to the station at either Simonstone or Whalley, before being
sold on the cotton market. By the early ’50s, up to three buses took workers to the mills, mainly from Padiham — the village having grown as mill owners built houses for their workers.
Another picture submitted by the same writer shows the ladies of the village on Walking Day in the 1900s. ■
Stopper Lane Sunday School, Rimington, is described by Boltonby-Bowland member Marion Howard, who vividly remembers that the afternoon Sunday school was a good. excuse not to help with the washing up after Sunday
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lunch! In the 1950s, the social life of young people often revolved
bobbin mill at the time when wooden bobbins were pro duced and sent to nearby towns for the production of cloth. She recalls how carrying the logs to the drying house produced many a bruise and cut, and blisters on hands and arms were common. “One of the worst aspects was walking home through the
around church and chapel, anniversaries meant extra ser vices and new sandals for summer, as well as a new dress and cardigan. The Sunday school trip by coach to More- cambe, Blackpool or Southport was one of the summer holiday highlights. Jan Hardy, of Hurst Green WI, worked at the village
village, still in our overalls with shavings in our hair, pa s t. all the old men sitting on ‘The Monkey Rack,’ a park bench, enjoying the afternoon air,” concludes the writer. , In the chapter entitled “.War and Peace,” Joan Fenlon of
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LANCASHIRE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES
Little Mitton WI recalls life in the air raid shelters of south Manchester, while planes droned overhead and bombs whistled all around, with the shelter mhabitants guessing how near “that one” was. Her 21st birthday was spent in the cellar and she vividly remembers the big blitz just before Christmas in 1940, after which she ventured into daylight to be met by debris everywhere, houses tot tering dangerously and “weary people, smoke begrimed and filthy, scrabbling amongst the remains of their homes trying to salvage what they could of their possessions, or
even searching for loved ones.” “Others were pushing their pathetic loads in prams or on _
handcarts to the temporary soup kitchens hastily set up in school halls or anything still standing,” she writes, adding'that the rights were seen along her route to work — despite the events of the long night, no-one thought of
taking a day off 1
The book was launched during the Lancashire Federation of Women’s Institutes’ Autumn Council Meeting at Vic toria Hall, Bolton, on Tuesday, and follows the successful “Lancashire Village Book.” Priced at £8.95, it is available from local booksellers and published by Countryside Books.
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