Clltheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) \ — - ■ -g / | — • yw iw w v iM w w ; Great servant of music and religion
A GREATLY talented and unceasingly diligent servant of religion and music since being a small
organist's post in 1950 and also became part- time music teacher at
Charles A. Myers, has died. He was organist a t Clitheroe
child, Mr
Parish Church for 39 years up to retiring in 1989 and was a well- known figure in professional music circles all over the country. In 1961, Mr Myers jointly founded the nationally known
Clitheroe Parish Church Organ Society, and had a part in numer ous other initiatives. He had followed the commit
ment to service set by his forbears and his funeral was on Monday at the Lincolnshire church where sev eral family members, including two former vicars, are buried. A memorial service is to be held
the town's grammar schools. He was already well qualified by train ing and experience for both duties. Over
worked hard to obtain the best results from the musical potential offered by Clitheroe, in church, in the schools, and with groups such as the church choirs' association. He travelled all over the country giving recitals and attracted
the years, Mr Myers
experts right up to the late Sir George Thalben-Ball to play at the organ society’s concerts - in which he himself played at least some part up to very recently. Over the years the society has run a variety of major events. Mr Myers was renowned for his
at Clitheroe Parish Church at a later date. Mr Myers was selected for the
Villager who had a lovely smile dies aged 87
A POPULAR Pendleton villager who was well known for her warm per sonality and lovely smile has died aged 87. Mrs Edie Oddie, who
recently moved into the home of her daughter, Mrs Maureen Geldard, in Pen-
skills in this direction were used at his own church twice, during a major renovation and after the
1979 fire. Mr Myers was the conductor on
two occasions that the popular hymn programme "Sunday Half Hour" was broadcast from the church. However, he was just as expert on lesser-known music, and was
very versatile too. A record Hr Myers made at the parish church 20 years ago showed his love of clas sic compositions and, at the other end of the scale, he once accompa nied a silent film festival on the organ of St George's Hall, Liver
pool, for nearly two hours. An article about Mr Myers in
counsel, given in scores of places over decades, on organ renovation and sound production. He was an adviser on the subject to the church authorities, and his
the Advertiser and Times quoted him as saying that it was very easy to become too serious about music and, while he himself enjoyed all that he saw as the best, he tried to communicate the pleasure music in
general gave to people. Mr Myers started singing as a
boy at Worcester Cathedral, and sometimes saw the great composer Edward Elgar in the city. He had occasional holiday jobs as a cinema accompanist as a boy, and had a sound grounding for his technical knowledge of organ building by spending hours at a famous maker's based in Worcester. Mr Myers studied the organ
under a famous teacher of the day, Dr Herbert Sumsion, at Gloucester Cathedral, and was on the staff of a public school before coming to Clitheroe. He had personal friends and pro
fessional contacts all over the coun try, and they joined family mem bers and local people in mourning his death this week. The date of the memorial service will be announced later.
Talk travels . . . from luxury to the desert
BEGINNING in the luxury of a modern five-star hotel in the holiday centre of Hammamet and ending in the timeless antiquity of the Sahara Desert, Probus member Mr Cliff Astin took his audience on a fascinating journey through Tunisia. Always cleverly balanc
dle Road, Clitheroe, due to failing health, was a true Pendletonian, whose heart lay in the village where she was bom and lived most of
her life. She attended the village
school until the age of 14, when she went to work at Barrow Print Works, along with several of her class mates. Mrs Oddie worked a t various mills in Clitheroe for short periods and at a farm on Wadding- ton Fell before working for the Wood family at Pendle ton Hall. After her marriage to Mr
C o u n t y b a l l i s g l i t t e r i n g s u c c e s s
GLITTERATI from the county gathered at Gisburn's Stirk House Hotel for a black-tie ball to mark the 75th anniversary of the Cancer Research Campaign in the North-
West. Ticket sales, a raffle and auction,
which gave the 250 guests the chance
to bid for hot-air balloon rides and trips to the British Grand Prix, all donated by Lancashire companies, raised more than £7,000. The charity, which funds research
. . • • 1 Proprietors Malcolm and Karen X f n ln ^ l m M « 4 U n M,
Weaving joined the ball's organising committee and are hoping it will now become an annual event. Our picture shows some of those at
at Manchester's Christie Hospital, chose Stirk House Hotel from a short-list of six county venues.
the fund-raising event, which may now become part of the region's social calendar (070398/21/21)
Jack Oddie, the couple took over the running of the "Swan With Two Necks" public house in Pendleton. She spent 15 years there, 10 of those as landlady after her hus band's death in 1946. Mrs Oddie left the pub
Ordered to demolish barn he was turning into house
in 1956 to move back to her childhood home in Rock Terrace, where she stayed until her move to Clitheroe. A keen Scrabble player
A CHIPPING man has been given six months to demolish a barn he was converting into a home and remove the ensuing material from the site. Mr Anthony Ollerton
and member of Pendleton WI, Mrs Oddie was always involved in village and
church life, and she was a members of the All Saints'
Church choir for 45 years. Mrs Oddie's funeral and
interment was held at All Saints' Church on Tuesday. She leaves her only daugh ter, Maureen, and several grandchildren.
Widening
THE owner of a Whalley garage has been given per mission to demolish part of his buildings frontage. Ribble Valley Borough
Council's Planning and Development Committee approved Whalley Motor Services' application to widen the garage doorway, in Accrington Road. Councillors agreed that
structure, at Pale Farm, off Moss Lane, Chipping, than authorised. The notice was issued in
July last year, and Mr Ollerton was subsequently given two months to restore the land to a level state. The original conversion
lost his appeal against an enforcement notice issued
by Ribble Valley Borough Council stating tha t he
was in breach of planning control, having demolished and rebuilt a greater part of the original fabric of the
scheme was approved in March, 1995, but planning inspector Mr Francis Farri- mond said that he believed that subsequent planning permission for further addi tions to the development allowed substantial rebuild ing, alteration and exten
• development revealed that three of the original walls had been demolished, breaching planning condi tions. In addition, Mr Ollerton had failed to sub mit a schedule of works prior to the additional work, as requested. Mr Farrimond said it was also his opinion that
sion to the approved scheme, but clearly indicat ed that parts of all four existing walls of the barn be retained. His inspection of the
Petition on dangerous gritting cuts set to fail
A PETITION about gritting cuts from Bolton-by-Bowland school is unlikely to
have any effect.We highlighted the fears of staff, par ents, and other members of the Friends of the Bolton-by-Bowland CE Primary School when harsh weather made roads dangerous for everyone at the beginning of December. There were fears that life was at risk, and there were accidents in several
parts of the area. At the time, there was firm determina
signs must be put in place before work begins and that an area at the front of the premises must be kept clear of materials or vehicles while
work is being carried out. tion to protest strongly about the cuts,
and a petition was sent in. But yesterday's meeting of the county
Highway and Transportation Committee was recommended merely to reply to the petition in similar terms to the comments
made by officials at the time. A report said that Audit Commission
guidelines for the amount of of precau tionary gritting were being exceeded in the county and so cuts had been made. But even the new routes covered more miles than the commission suggested, reflecting a high service level, and the degree of importance placed on road safety. "There is no specific reference in the
Code of Practice to precautionary salting of school bus routes, the inclusion of which would significantly increase the present costs of winter maintenance," said the
report. Minor roads would be treated in pro
longed periods of ice and snow.
the development would harm the rural character and appearance of the sur rounding Forest of Bow- land, an Area of Outstand ing Natural Beauty. Mr Ollerton was given
six months to demolish the bam and remove the result ing materials from the site. The inspector agreed to vary the notice by remov ing the requirement to level the site, and said that the council had conceded that restoration of the land to a level state would go beyond what was necessary to rem edy an injury to visual amenity. An application for costs
was dismissed.
ing the attractions of the old world with the new, Mr Astin's commentary was supplemented by magnifi cent photography. The dominant blue and white colour scheme in most of the buildings emphasised the moorish architecture, while the beauty of the mosaics, which were described as "the Persian carpets of the Islamic world", seemed to add a dignity and a coolness to the intentions of even the most common buildings. Mr Astin humorously
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flood warning for a
A FLOOD alert left mem bers of Clitheroe Moun taineering Club wondering whether or not they should set out on a climbing week end in Snowdonia. The club had booked a
weekend in Snowdonia The weather was windy,
hut in Llanberis, but a poor forecast threatened to put
a dampener on their plans, until 18 members decided
to make the trip regardless of the weatherl Saturday dawned windy
showery and cloudy on the summits, but everyone enjoyed their day. In the evening, a small
group visited the National Mountaineering Centre, Plas-y-Brenin, Capel Curig, to listen to a talk on
"big wall" climbing in Nor way and America by Andy
tackle Snowdon directly from the hut. Another tar geted Y Gam, Foel Goch and Elider Fawr, while those remaining also made their way to Elider Fawr to explore the old slate work _ings.
and overcast. As members regrouped, two runners from the club set off from Nant Peris to cover the 3,000 ft. summits from Y Gam to the Glyders, and then to Snowdon via Pen- y-Pass, before returning to the hut. A large group set out to
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meeting is a week today at Clitheroe Cricket Club, when guest speaker Alistair Lee will give an illustrated talk on climbing in New Zealand.
suggested tha t the old army adage, "If it moves, salute it; if it is stationary, whitewash it", had been adapted by the ancient Tunisians as: "If it is above ground, cover it in mosaic
tiling"! Outstanding memories
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