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No foppish toffs - but visit to college raises questions


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hose plebeians like myself who went to mere non-fee-paying gram­


mar schools, or, even worse, to comprehen- sives, must all be struck by th e same u rb ane thought as they make th e i r way up th e len g th y driveway to Stonyhurst College for the first time - "Wow, it's just like 'Brideshead


Revisited'!" Humbled debutant


visitors to the place must expect at every turn to stumble across foppish, blond-haired toffs clutching dog-eared Teddy bears in the one hand and magnums of champagne in the other. As a reporter arriving


there for the college's press day, I felt I should have really entered via the tradesman's entrance, rather than irreverently swanning through the school's courtyard to the reception room, where our affable host and guide for the day, Mr Peter Anwyl, awaited us. The main purpose of the


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BURNLEY'S top judge, who has lived in Glitheroe for almost 30 y ears, has vowed to con tinu e th e figh t ag a in s t crime in th e area, and to bring the


culprits to book. Judge Raymond Ben­


nett, who this week was appointed Honorary Recorder of Burnley, said he would continue to try and see that criminals were justly convicted and pun­ ished and that the innocent


were free. The judge, who became


ABOVE: Stonyhurst "A" level art stu­ dent Toby Clements hard at work on his art project (261098/1/19)


LEFT: Just some of the many treasured artefacts acquired by the college since it was founded in 1593. These beautiful antique snuff boxes are worth thou­ sands of pounds. The one to the front and left of the top shelf was carved from a deer antler and fitted to the top of a walking stick. Its owner, none other than King Charles 11.(261098/1/22)


visit was to get a sneak pre­ view of the £lm. develop­ ment of the school being undertaken, perhaps unusu­ ally for a Catholic public school, to make it fully co­ educational. Evidently, from our tour around it, Stonyhurst is determined to drag itself into the new Mil­ lennium with a modem, for­ ward-looking approach to teaching and school life, while maintaining certain time-honoured Jesuit tradi­ tions and values. The state-of-the-art facil­


ities, the classical interiors and the hordes of art trea- suresTitteririg the corridors of the college are all con­ ducive to creating a fantas­ tically-stimulating atmos­ phere for the pupils and vis­ itor alike. I t is easy to see how such an environment helps to allow young minds and bodies realise their true potential. But I cannot help feel


BELOW: An example of some of the high-quality art work produced by stu­ dents at the college. This self-portrait bust and the impressive canvas were


l produced by Hong Kong student Lau­ rence Wong, who is hoping to read archi­ tecture at Cambridge.(2G1098/l/20)


resident and senior judge at Burnley Crown Court in 1995, has something of a hard act to follow. He is treading in the footsteps of Dame Rose Heilbron, who first held the Honorary Recorder title and went on to become a high court judge. Next came Judge Ian


' Judge Bennett originates from Clayton-le-Moors, where his father was curate at All Saints Parish Church. Law is something of a


Webster, who officially retired in 1995, but still sits at Burnley regularly.


tradition in the family of Judge Bennett and his wife, Elaine. Their son, John, is a solicitor at Forbes and Partners, in Accrington, and the judge's brother, Richard, is a barrister based in Preston. Judge Bennett's daughter, Jane, has taken another direction and is a teacher a t Gig- gleswick. The judge was educated


became a solicitor and lat­ terly; a partner in the firm of Backhouse, Isherwood, Bennett and Scholes, now Forbes and Partners, in Blackburn. Judge Bennett was called


at Glasgow Academy, Bury Grammar School and Man­ chester University. He served articles of clerkship with John Backhouse, solic­ itor, of Blackburn, and then


that around the ivory tow­ ers of the country's public schools is still enmeshed, like so much creeping ivy, the "old-boy" and now, in Stonyhurst's case, the "old- girl" network. Despite the supposedly-new Blairite era of opportunity, it is a sys­ tem which still favours the sons and daughters of the


rich. I threw this old bone of


class contention of mine at Stonyhurst headmaster Mr Adrian Aylward at a sump­ tuous luncheon lavished upon me and my fellow scribes by the school. If we needed any reminder of Stonyhurst's rich inheri­ tance of art treasures built up over the years, it was here in a grand dining room featuring a cabinet of antique snuff-boxes, includ­ ing one of Charles II's, no


less!


in the city, Mr Aylward, a youngster of a headmaster at the age of 41, pointed out that a considerable propor­ tion of places at the school are financially assisted, allowing the not-so-privi- leged entry into Stony­ hurst's corridors of power. He added there are boys and girls there from the whole spectrum of social and ethnic backgrounds. But take a look at the the


A one-time leading light


college magazine's "Where- are-they-now?" section and it reads like a "Who's who" of international industrial and professional top brass. The fees of £13,000 a year for a boarder and £7,000 for a day-pupil, it is claimed, give your child one of the best starts they could have. Surely, though, if every school in the country was like Stonyhurst, Britain would be a world beater once again. Education Minister


David Blunkett says that using children's impover­ ished backgrounds can no longer be an excuse for poor results in schools. I t does not take an education min­ ister to work out that the quality of education in classrooms of 30-plus is going to be poorer than those averaging less than half that number at schools like Stonyhurst. This seems particularly pertinent when one of our readers writes to us pointing out that, while secondary school atten­ dances in the area are grow­ ing, the number of sec­ ondary schools is not. While cash-starved museums hold their begging bowls out for Lottery, hand outs, as do inner-city schools for more funding, can any school jus­ tify such a glut of priceless artefacts dripping from its walls? How many school books or computers, for example, would the sale of those snuff boxes to a pub­


lic museum fetch? Maybe I am just being


jealous. Stonyhurst certain­ ly deserves credit for the way it has weathered the storm of recent troubles at the school without shutting the doors on public scrutiny. It should also be applauded in its efforts to modernise itself within what I still believe is a sometimes elitist education system. I would have to concede


• Stonyhurst did not wholly conform to my stereotyped image of the creaking insti­ tutions on which the Empire was built. Never­ theless, I could still almost hear Jeremy Irons' dreamy narration of Evelyn Waugh's book as we made our way back down that grandiose driveway. • Tell us what you think.


Write to Letters to the Editor, Clitheroc Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroc BB7 2EW.


I MPs seem to have had the wind p u t up them by a S t Albans company's proposals to put up a clutch of the big blades in the shadow of Pendle Hill, writes Ben Carlish. "They are a complete blot on


I find wind farms rather pleasing T


here seems to be a lot of h o t a ir being ta lk ed about wind farms. Local


they so bad? Personally, I think they are


rather striking; rhythmically rotat­ ing, they look to me like giant mobile modernist sculptures majes­ tically surveying the terrain. And what joy for many children to see, just a stone's throw away, replicas of the giant windmill tuned into by


the "Teletubbies"! OK, they may not be everybody's


the landscape," spluttered Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans. But are


cup of tea, but those who get worked up about "blots" on the landscape, I


again, writing to Letters to the Editor. f o r t h e w e e k


I tha t has no remission in eterni­ ty, b u t these are the reported words of Jesus, according to I Mark 3 v. 28-30.


I Our first consideration in this ,


m a tte r should be the circum­ stances in which the words are


in matters of religion, found it impos­ sible to ignore the fact that Jesus was healing people and casting out reput­ ed devils from them. Falling back on the easy way of abuse, they declared that He drew His power from the chief : of devils, Satan. Having wit­ nessed the incarnate love of God at I work, they had tried to explain it


spoken. The doctors of the law, learned men


t is a terrible thing to even th in k th a t someone can commit an unforgivable sin


away by saying that it was Satanic


power. This revealed a great spiritual


blindness. Those men could not recog­ nise good when they saw it, and actu­ ally called it evil, thus slandering the


Holy Spirit. . If we lived in the darkness long


enough, we should lose the faculty of sight for sheer lack of use. Fish from the dark depths of the ocean have been found to be blind. We should lose the use of our legs if we stayed in bed long enough. If we persistently refuse the guidance of the Holy Spirit, this, neglect will result in our being ren­ dered incapable of recognising good, when we see it. As one gradually grows incapable of recognising good, it is then indistinguishable from evil. We may even choose evil and think it.


to be good. By constantly ignoring the


promptings of the Holy Spirit, and heeding the voice of the tempter, it is possible for people to get themselves into such a state that they can see nothing of the loveliness of Jesus. Knowledge of the presence of Jesus:


does not give them any sense of sin­ fulness. Because they have no sense of sin, they cannot feel penitence which is the one condition for forgiveness, so they cannot be forgiven. Jesus never ceases to seek in one


way or another to save such people from themselves, that they might turn away from such wickedness and live. Allowed full freedom of choice and


to the bar in 1972 and prac­ tised from-chambers in Manchester until 1989, spe­ cialising in criminal and personal injury work. He was appointed circuit judge


in 1989. The judge was officially


made Honorary Recorder at a ceremony at Burnley Town Hall where, he recalled, he last went 40 years ago looking for a job as a clerk. Of his new appointment, he said: "I will be following in famous footsteps. I hope I shall be worthy of the position."


‘Docathlon’ for charity


A GROUP of Ribble Valley doctors and medical staff are hoping to turn their work-outs into wads of cash, with a special "docathlon" event to raise money for the Clitheroe Heart Fund. The fund-raisers, who are


am sure, are the same who would vociferously object to poisonous fumes belched out by fuel-based power stations into the country air. Wind farms may only be a small step forward, but they are a genuine attempt to develop alternative sources of energy. A small price to pay for a slight detraction from the beauty of an idyllised country scene. You


cannot have it both ways. 6 Do you agree? Let us know - by,


hoping to raise more than £1,000, will be put through their paces on November 7th with a swimming activi­ ty at Ribblesdale Pool, 10- pin bowling in Burnley, and cycling, running, rowing, tennis and table tennis tasks at Roefield Leisure Centre. The highlight of the day will be an endurance test. Pool and darts match­ es will also take place Points will be allocated


for each activity, with the winner receiving a trophy. All the participants are


keen to get as many people as possible to sponsor the event and forms are avail­ able from most local doc­


tors' surgeries and Lord's shoe shop, Clitheroe.


Position of note


A PIANIST is urgently needed to accompany per­ formers of Whalley Village Hall Players in their next production. Whallcy's drama group


made its debut in June with a show and members are now working towards their second production, entitled "A Christmas Hamper", which will be full of season­ al goodies. . Rehearsals for the variety


will, each one of us can determine our own destiny. Responsibility for this is ours alone. "Love only waits to forgive and forget. v. home, weary wanderer, home. . . before it is too late." Joe Stansfieid


: should contact Mrs Grace Gemmell, tel. 01254 823402.


show, which will include various musical items, take place in tho village hall each Monday evening at 7-30 and the one-night-only perr formance will be held on December 12th. Anyone who can help-/


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