Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) 4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, April 24th, 1997 Valley Matters ' a weekly look at local issues, people and places i
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time of their death, or to someone who is recently bereaved, I am sure to quote the words of Canon
I
f I am asked to pass on a helpful message to someone facing the
Henry Scott Holland. He has, himself, now passed
away, but his writing has a vivid reality and his words con
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DOWNHAM is alive with the sound of bees this week, in the evenings at least, as Castle Players
perform their latest production “The Beeple”. . Leading a cast of more than 30 in the village hall are Ashley Williams as Humble and Daryl Dewhurst as John Willie, the, young DIY enthusiast whose new sideboard for his mum turns out to be a rocket.
The sideboard-spaceship whisks him away to a Planet of the Bees, complete with villains, saviours and a number of
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very small bees played by seven-year-old pupils of the Gladys Sutcliffe Theatre School. Director Margaret Smith describes the show as a children’s theatre entertainment, acted by adults for all ages, and promises lots of funny goings on on stage and honey cakes for all in the interval.
which runs until Saturday, evening performances at 7-15 p.m., with a matinee on Saturday beginning at 2-15 p.m. The production is mounted in aid of Bamados. (CAT 8513)
Our photograph shows the assembled cast of “The Beeple _
Lifetime in the Army has proved very rewarding
career spanning 25 years.
Career goes into top gear after contest
A CAREER training soldiers and teaching army
cadets can be very rewarding. A m a n from Bolton-by-Bowland has spent all his life doing just
that and has had a tremendous time in the process. Major John Cobb (61) travelled the world as a member of the Devon
shire and Dorset Regiment — seeing service in the Far East, the Mediterranean, Germany, South America and Northern Ireland —in a
After retiring from the regular Army in 1979, he moved with his family to the Ribble Valley and has since been the commanding officer of the Stony- hurst College Cadet Corp , one of the oldest contingents in the land. To top it all, in the New Year’s Honours List, he was awarded one of the country’s prestigious honours for undertaking what is obviously a driving
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passion.Major Cobb was awarded the MBE for services to the regular Army and to the cadet movement and, last month, he attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace, accompanied by his wife, Ann, and his son and
daughter.
He represented the Army at rugby, cricket, athletics and competition shooting and he brought many of these talents to Stonyhurst, passing
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them on to students at the college. Major Cobb was bom in Dorset and, following national service, entered
the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 1954. Two years later, he was commissioned into the infantry with the Dorset Regiment, which amalga mated with the Devonshire Regiment soon afterwards. The Cobbs have lived in Bolton-by-Bowland for the past 18 years and have been prominent in village life during that time. Major Cobb has served on the village War Memorial Committee and played for the cricket
T H O U G H T f o r t h e w e e k
vey a great comforting mes sage, particularly if they are
read out at a funeral service. “Death is nothing at all. I have only
slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are still you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. “Call me in by my old familiar name, in the easy way you used. Laugh as
household word
that.it always wa Let it be spoken without effect, witi out the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant.i
is the same as it ever was. There absolutely unbroken continuity. What is death, but a neglible acc
we always laughed, at the little jokes we enjoyed together. ■ “Play, smile, think of me and pray for me. Let my name be ever the
dent? Why should I be out of mir because I am out of sight? I am just waiting for you for i
interval, somewhere very near, ju around the comer. All is well.”
, . -Toe Stansfie
success TOP Clitheroe motor vehicle technician Paul Bleasdale has come runner-up in a
major national competition. Hundreds of other young Rover experts from all over the coiintry
entered the marque’s Young Tech nician of the Year heats.
Paul, who has worked a t Primrose Garage, Clitheroe, since leaving school, won the North West regional one, giving him a place in the national final. There he came second out of six after a
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country to make you realise how fortunate you are to be living in the Rib
T
ble Valley. For the first time in seven
years, my wife and I have had a holiday in England, a week in Cornwall. Each day we woke to blazing sunshine, guiltily watching forecasts and compar ing temperatures and weather
prospects with the North-West. The cottage we rented overlooked a magnificent stretch of sands, a small fishing village and the blue Atlantic. It was simply delightful. So why have I decided that the grass is not greener in the far South West? Frankly, it is not because of the
here is nothing like having a look at another part of the
• What made me realise how lucky we are in the Ribble Valley was the advantage of being in the heart oi England, rather than on an extremi ty. Cross the Tamar on one of the two main trunk roads connecting Corn wall with England and you enter an area where there is no motorway- standard highway at all. Quite sub stantial parts of the A30 have been dualled, but unsuspecting motorists from other parts of the country wiU find themselves contending with cyclists and farm tractors, as well as their fellow holiday-makers and the big lorries hauling supermarket sup
Country. plies.,
weather. Spring comes early down there and it is a gardener’s paradise, althought gale force winds mean something else on the Cornish penin sula to what they do in inland Lan cashire. Out of the river valleys, trees crouch against the prevailing south westerlies which can blow for weeks. It would be untrue to say my Lan
cashire preference is to do with the people. Shopkeepers in Cornwall were pleasant and helpful, as they are here. In the favoured areas, south coast estuaries with shelter for gar dens and boating,pubs can be full of large men talking very loudly about tide tables, but bar bores are hardly restricted to yachting or the West
estrictea to yacnuiiu w i me » »«> - iT ** ***% *v
structure available to people travel- ling to the North-West and the ease of getting about the region, Cornwall is heavily disadvantaged. Since the collapse of tin mining and engineer ing industry in the FalmouthCam- bome-Redruth triangle, unemploy ment is high, with many job oppor tunities seasonal and low paid. The cause of some problems can be laid at the door of the people in the area. Whereas the Ribble Valley offers a splendid variety of places to eat, the further West you go in Corn wall, the harder eating out becomes. Near our paradise-for-a-week, the pubs offered menus which you imme diately suspected had more to do with the freezer, microwave and boil-
Compared to the transport infra ' . , ,*.— -------------------- Good reason to make a bee-line to village
As I see it , ,
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in-the-bag than the talent of the chef- The absolute catering nadir was being served frozen fish and reconsti tuted chips in a cafe two hundred yards from fishermen’s boats and sheltered by cliffs topped with potato
fHere in the Ribble Valley, the drive for tourism has the potential of an area of outstanding natural beauty where an influx of visitors is not the only chance of economic survival and where an excellent range of facilities exist for the enjoyment of local peo ple, with visitors a welcome bonus to
trade.
As the recent “SongsofPni^ pro gramme showed, the Ribble Valley is
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still a delightful surprise to many people who come here. Steady devel opment of tourism can ensure that the value of that surprise is main tained, as well as the quality of life of those who live there. For many peo ple in Cornwall, the arrival of,the first tourist is the harbinger of eco nomic survival for another year. For many others, drawn to retire to the area because of its climate and beau ty, it means being besieged for, the summer, behind palisades of no parking” and “restricted entry
signs*
of investment. What the Ribble Val ley enjoys shows a good deal of wise investment in the past.
What Cornwall needs is a wide range . . ; i; T o n y C l i f f
gruelling day of tests covering most areas of motor vehicle work. Only technicians who had completed
. He recently took Apprentice of the Year title when he completed a course of work at Accrington and Rossendale College. Now Paul is looking forward to further
the Rover correspondence’course could enter—there was no difficulty there for Paul, who won a holiday for his high marks when he took it.
studies and practical work to HNC level. “I am very pleased that the training
received at work and at college have helped me to be so successful,” he said.
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