Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 15th, 1997 Clltheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified)


Former civic leaders on the move Dennis and Christel are off to make a


FORMER Clitheroe Mayor and Mayor es s D en is M cW ill iam and h is wife, Christel, have left the area for a new life in Germany. But they delayed their depar­


Denis McWilliam and his wife, Christel


new life near relatives in Germany The couple, who travelled to Ger­


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ture until after the Ribble Val­ ley mayormaking on Tuesday, when Mr McWilliam, a retired vicar, also resigned as a borough


councillor. The couple, of Standen Hall


Farmhouse, Clitheroe, have both suffered from ill-health during the past year and have moved to the Bremen area to be near relatives. “We have been very happy living in


many yesterday, arrived in the Rib­ ble Valley in 1980 when Scots-bom Mr McWilliam became vicar of Sab- den and Pendleton. A former nurse and teacher, Mrs McWilliam made her stay in Sabden particularly mem­ orable with her menagerie of farm animals and a massage business she


ran from the vicarage dining room. Mr McWilliam retired in 1989 and


the Ribble Valley,” said German-bom Mrs McWilliam. “But we have both been in and out of hospital recently and feel the time has come to be near


relatives.” Their son, Martin, who is married


with three children, works as a potter and artist in a village near Bremen.


soon afterwards entered local politics as a Liberal Democrat councillor, both on Clitheroe Town Council and Ribble Valley Council. Mr and Mrs McWilliam were Mayor and May­ oress of Clitheroe in 1992/3. Before falling ill, Mr McWilliam led


before training for ordination at Cud- desdon. He was ordained at Oxford in 1951 and married in 1953. The cou-


pie spent 11 years in South Africa, where Mr McWilliam had a variety of posts, including Precentor of St George’s Cathedral and Chaplain at the University of Cape Town. Later he had a teaching post in Switzer­


land. Mrs McWilliam was born in


Pyrzyce, about 40 miles north east of


Berlin, which was then in East Ger­ many but is now in Poland. She left her native village, then known as Pyritz, as a teenager, after the Second World War to escape the Red Army and trained as a nurse in the west. She met her husband when he was a student at Gottigen University, Ger­ many.


a cycling campaign in a bid to encourage drivers to leave their cars at home and ease congestion on


Clitheroe streets. Bom in 1924, he graduated in theol­


ogy from Clare College, Cambridge,


children: Katrine who is a missionary in Tonga, Jeremy who lives in Wales and Anna Louise, whose home is in Provence in France. There are six other grandchildren.


They also have three other married .


Courageous teenager is given plenty of reason to smile


Iain’s soccer idols decide to pay him a visit to cheer him up in hospital


A BIG smile on this Clitheroe lad’s face hides years of courage which puts him in a league with the champi­ ons. Iain McLeod (15),


whose life has been lit­ tered with illness and surgery, has a right to


smile. Yesterday evening, he


was due to meet two of his footballing heroes, who visited the hospital where he underwent his latest operation.


the heels of their fourth Premiership success in five years, sent England full­ back Gary.Neville and Scottfs'lir-fcjrvrriational


Manchester United, hot on


Brian McClare to Hope Hospital, in Salford, to meet a group of the teenagers who have recent­ ly had major stomach


surgery. Iain, of Conway Avenue,


who is still recovering from the operation carried out at the hospital, was invited


by Max Gardner


along to the ceremony to meet the stars. The Clitheroe lad actually


enjoys motor cycle sport more than football, but he says the Red Devils of Manchester are his favourite soccer team. At the beginning of the week he was excited a t the


prospect of meeting two of footballs’ hottest proper­


ties. Three weeks ago, Iain


underwent surgery to build a pouch in his stomach to connect his intestine with his small bowel. It complet­ ed the operation which had first been started in Janu­


diagnosed with ulcerated colitis and underwent tests and courses of drugs. Fur­ ther bad news followed when, at eight, he was found to have diabetes and, at 11, HepatitusA.


ary. As a six-year-old, Iain was


He was admitted to Booth Hall Hospital, when he was 12, for his first operation and he has had his large intestine removed as well as undergoing liver biopsies.


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Iain is recovering extreme­ ly well from his most recent operation and he is looking forward to a final year of schooling, at Blackburn College, free from hospital­


isation. As a patient in Booth Hall


Hospital, the courageous youngster was invited to


meet some Manchester City players and he still has a drinks bottle given him by the city centre half Michel Vonk. However, yesterday his


Many pay tribute to a lady who battled long


THERE have been many tributes to a lifelong servant of the Salvation Army, Mrs Isabella


Hogg. Few people locally have served its fight so long or so


mightily as Mrs Hogg, whose service spanned the


best part of eight decades. Mrs Hogg was originally a commissioned officer, work­


ing in the County Durham area, and continuing her


service locally after marry­ ing Mr Kenneth Hogg. Although the Salvation Army was not active in


Clitheroe from 1955 to 1969, Mrs Hogg ran a Sun­ day School in Duck Street,


and built up a thriving women’s group. In 1969 Mrs Hogg was


appointed Envoy in Clitheroe, and she was active until about two years ago. Tributes were paid to her when the corps


Tell us why your dad is the


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WE suspected that there were a lot of extra special fathers in the Ribble Valley — and now we know for


sure. Entries are coming in for


the Ribble Valley Dad of the Year competition and with remarks such as, “he always has a smile on his face,” “he’s my best friend,” “all his spare money most­ ly goes on me and my sis­ ter,” “he would do anything for us,” and “he’s one in a million,” the proof is really flooding in. If your father is the tops,


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Mrs Hogg leaves a daugh ter, Margaret, a son, Bill, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.


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mind was back on a return to Hope, but this time for something much more pleasurable . . . a date with Messrs Neville and McClare.


Trio for bravery in


fierce village fire


THE best traditions of Eng­ lish village community spirit came instantly to urgent life when a doyen Gisburn figure was trapped in her blazing


But irinnest hears that efforts were in vain «r T_1___ »_


across to Mrs Jackson’s home in Main Street, Gisburn, when the alarm was raised, determined to do all they could. “It was one of those situations that just hap­ pen — somebody was in there known to


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home. But the efforts of rescuers who got


Mrs Annie Jackson (86) away from the choking smoke and flames were in vain — she died from bronchial pneumonia six weeks later.


At last week’s inquest, businessman and Ribblesdale Arms licensee Mr Stuart Redman, of Howgill Farm, Rimington, and villagers Mr Isaac Lancaster and Mr Keith Bradley were officially com­ mended for their efforts during the Sun­ day teatime drama in February. As we reported, Mr Redman’s bravery in


everyone in the village.” Mr Redman described how the other two men had held on to his feet ready to pull him to safety as he crawled into the smoke belching from Mrs Jackson’s kitchen. He


had a shirt round his face. “It was just luck that I found her foot,


and was able to drag her out,” said Mr Redman. He said he and the other men carried Mrs Jackson into his pub. She was


conscious, but concerned for her dog, until firemen brought it to her unhurt. Miss Sandra Jackson said she had visited


crawling into the billowing smoke and intense heat was widely acclaimed by local people and the fire brigade at the time. Recording a verdict of accidental death on Mrs Jackson, East Lancashire coroner Mr David Smith told Mr Redman: “I would like to commend your bravery and the bravery of the people who were with you, in doing such a tremendous job when it was so hot, and going into the house with­ out any proper fire-fighting equipment. “The way the other people got hold of you


was rather ingenious — we all offer you and your friends our congratulations on the way you acted. “I t is such a pity that, having got Mrs Jackson out safely, she should die later as a


result." Mr Redman said that residents rushed


her mother only a few minutes before the fire. There was no one else in the house, and everything was all right. There was some clothing on the pulley rack, but it was well above the stove. When the alarm was raised, Miss Jackson went into the smoke, but was pulled out by someone; she did not know who. The inquest heard that PC George Korol asked Mrs Jackson about the cause of the fire when she was in the ambulance, but she could offer no explanation. Station Officer Raymond Bowker, of Barnoldswick, suggested that it could have been due to radiated heat from the solid fuel stove setting light to clothing. There w.as severe fire damage in the


kitchen. The coroner said he wondered if some­


thing could have fallen off a rack above on to the stove, but pointed out: “It is all sur-


mise.”He expressed his sympathy to the family.


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