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1/3 THE ARCADE. KING LANE, CLITHEROE school caretaker to T
provide for his wife and four children in his s e m i - d e t a c h e d
Clitheroe home. I t is a far cry from life as
"Angel Faced Bibby", a wrestler who featured on
the same bill as Kendo Nagasaki ("The Mysteri ous Masked Man") and "The British Bulldog." For Mr Bob Bibby (48),
oday he is a family man working as a
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the planned return of pro fessional wrestling to Clitheroe will bring back many memories. The only traces of his career are kept securely at
his home. When the door opens,
there is a glint of shiny metal, for, in times gone by, Bob has relied on his car pentry and metalwork skills to help support his family, making gates and toys, like tractors, castles and rocking horses. On closer examination,
i t is not ju s t tools and machinery you see. There is gym equipment and racks of weights, as Bob still works out today. As a wrestler, he was
| Mr Colin Bibby, who knew the owner of the famous Riley's gym in Leeds. Bob trained a t the gym because wrestling talent spotters scouted there. "If they liked what they
slim and agile, but now he has a large, toned physique. He is certainly no ordinary 48-year-old. He entered this amazing career through his father,
BOB BIBBY recalls his Wrestling days (270498/32/13)— ' u:
saw, they hired you and one day they liked me," reminisced Bob. During his career he had
two main ambitions. He fulfilled the first, to wrestle on TV, and he came within minutes of the second. "Angel Face" always
wanted to wrestle at King George's Hall, his home territory, and one night he came agonizingly close. He was watching a match at the hall when Cat Stevens failed to show up. Bob was asked to replace him, so he dashed home to get his boots, but, by the time he returned, Cat had arrived. Bob recalls many trou
blesome times which wrestling has got him into, including one where a bouncer thought it would be clever to beat a wrestler. The muscular, middle-aged man approached Bob, rav ing th a t all the matches were fixed and that anyone could beat a wrestler. How
by Roxanne Bibby, a Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil who has written about her
father as part of her A-level coursework
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ever, he soon changed his' mind, after Bob managed to throw him into a table and broke his nose. Bob is not proud of what he did in the heat of the moment and, needless to say, he did not visit th a t particular public house again! Before life as a wrestler,
Bob was one of the lads, going out, drinking too much and living, by his own admission, a "bad
lifestyle". Wrestling straightened
him out, put him on the right track and encouraged him to exercise. He has not drunk since, does not
smoke and is generally
healthy. When wrestling was
more popular in Britain, it was a way for working class people to relieve their aggression. He remembers how,
when he was once disquali fied, the whole crowd rushed into the aisle. Everyone hated the bad guy and Bob dashed out of the ring, but not before an elderly woman walloped him with her handbag. So dazed was he that he had to hide under the ring! Bob believes today's American World Wrestling
Federation action is chore ographed too much; he describes i t as fantasy designed only to entertain. More and more British
wrestlers are moving to America to earn more money and large amounts are on offer. Bob's wife, Linda,
thought it was amazing to be dating a wrestler, but recalls hating some bouts, including the matches agains t "The L it tle Prince,” most of which her husband-to-be lost. Bob's wife had to watch while "The Prince" kept picking
him up and throwing him down - over and over
again! Why "Angel Face"? I t
was partly due to Bob's young and innocent fea tures, although it was the brother of "Big Daddy" who chose the name. Wrestling has had quite
■ name his first child after his favourite wrestler, Adri- '
an influence on his family, including the names of his children. Determined to
an Street, he and his wife ‘ had to do some quick re naming when "he" turned out to be a “she”. The cou ple chose Street's daugh ter 's name, Amanda, instead. Their second child, a son, became Adri an and the third was called Robert, with myself, Rox anne, completing the fami
ly-
Does my father regret giving up his career? "No,
my family means every thing to me. They're worth it," he proudly states.
Book takes look at some Life membership as remarkable characters
SHIPPED to Australia as an orphan in 1940, a former Whalley man has returned to his roots to put into print the stories of other local folk who have also been dealt remarkable fates. Aged just four, Tony Bell lost his air
craft engineer father, who was killed testing Lancaster bombers in Iceland, and mother, who died in a homeward
bound plane crash. But on the other side of the world,
Tony thrived and, after university, began a globe-trotting career as a jour nalist for Reuters, which led him to spend three years as a war correspon dent in Vietnam, and then as a news researcher for broadcast companies, including the BBC and America's NBC. After retiring, he followed a fellow
"Australian" originally from the Ribble Valley over to the UK to help him trace
his family tree. Both are st il l here, as Tony
explained: "Coming back to this area made me realise what a wealth of colourful characters call it home, and what a great opportunity they present
to a writer such as myself. "I decided to settle back in East Lan
cashire and make some of their stories
into a book." A father and grandfather, Tony
began writing his book, "Other Lives - People of East Lancashire", just over a year ago from his Barrowford home. I t profiles 14 local characters, includ
ing Ribble Valley Vintage Club's trac tor steward Mr John Sunter and Clitheroe-bom Labour party agent Mrs Carole Galbraith. To publish the book, which is on sale
at Kaydee, Clitheroe, as well as other nearby book stores, Tony founded his own Burnley-based publishing compa ny, after he decided his project had to be completed with extra urgency. Added Tony: "I was enjoying a pint
with some friends and book subjects in my local when I overheard some young sters refer to us as has-beens. While we might be getting older, at least wo have beenl All the people in the book are nor mal people who have achieved some thing extraordinary with their lives." Other characters include an artist,
cricketer, airman, entrepreneur and a Burnley version of Robinson Crusoe who was marooned alone on a tropical island for almost a year.
T ’i S O U C r f l ' F for the week
o make a beginning, a clean sheet of paper is
_ _ essential for any
writer, though it may appear daunting at first with its
bareness. Soon, however, the new page is
covered with hieroglyphics, alter ations and revisions of phrases.. Few of us are able to write perfect ly "off the cuff". It is usually nec essary to prepare a first draft and then revise this to ensure the best presentation. The old phrase, "turning over a new leaf", comes to mind in this connection. Should we consider a book of
the activities of our life, full of the records of failures, mistakes, half- finished though well-meant endeavours and careless living, Jesus can help us begin a new page that is not just a continuation, but
a new volume. This will be a com pletely fresh start, with the past failures and indiscretions obliterat ed and forgotten in the mercy of true forgiveness. How many of us have thought,
"If only I could live my life over again, knowing what I know now!" . I t is an impossible dream, but we can learn form the experience of past failures and mistakes, if we
are wise enough. In re-writing a fair copy for pub
lication, the writer notes the laboured corrections on the first
draft and it is only when he or she is determined to benefit from the extra consideration of errors or omissions, and not repeat them, that there comes an assurance of being able to produce acceptable
: work. The clean new sheet of life pro vided by Jesus for our future use
meets the need of the occasion for an opportunity of spiritual renew al and a confident new beginning. Writers profit from knowledge
gained by experience and careful research, but, in addition to inspi ration, need a certain flair for words, plus basic grammatical and : spelling skill. Christians also need knowledge gained through reading the scriptures and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, plus common sense, to cope with life's experi ences. Even providedwith the chance to re-write the book of his or her life, the Christian can still make mistakes and find confession of them to be good for the soul. As Jesus asks us to forgive others,. Jesus is ever ready to forgive us and supply new pages to record; now beginnings as the necd ariscs. Life is a series of now beginnings
for most of us who too often slip T
up despite our good intentions. Time and again, an understanding Jesus shows to us the truth behind the words of the hymn. . . "For the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind, and the heart of the Eternal is most won derfully kind." We feel sometimes th a t had th e boot been on the other foot, so to speak, we should not have been so ready to forgive. God is not so small-minded as
we often are, praise His namcl His grace is always sufficient for the repentant sinner. All right! I'll remind you again , . . God’s grace is His loving forgiving favour
'towards sinners who do not deserve it. Thank God for clean sheets provided in love. i Joe Stansfield
UNISON has paid tribute to a long-serving trade unionist from Mitton by awarding him an honorary life membership. Mr John Wilkinson has an
tribute to John
impressive pedigree in the trade union movement. He has been a member of several unions and helped set up many branches. In 1961, he was pivotal in
setting up the Grindleton Branch of the National Union of Employees, while working as a lengthsman for Bowland Rural D is tr ic t Council. He soon became a shop steward, then a health and safety officer, before final ly being appointed a branch
secretary. In 1974, with the shake- up
in local government, he over saw the amalgamation of the
area's four NUPE branches. He served as the branch
secretary of the Ribble Valley local government branch until 1992, the year NUPE, NALGO and COHSE joined to form Unison. He was also
the president of the Ribble Valley Trades council between 1974 and 1978. As a parish councillor, part-
time bell ringer and a member of the parochial church coun cil, he received Maundy Money from the Queen, recognising his service to the Christian community. And now he has received
another accolade, in recogni tion of his service to the Labour movement. Even now, retired from his
outdoor work years ago, a t the age of 88 and partially sighted, he is still an active member of Unison and a member of Ribblesdale Cam era Club. In fact, one of his pictures appeared recently on the front cover of this news paper’s "Style" magazine. He said: "If a member of
Unison is capable and wants to, why not let him carry on his involvement? I am not one to just play golf all day long."
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