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Clltheroe Advertiser & Times, June 10th, 1999 Clitneroe ^taitonai), -------- ^ ■


World race yachtsman returns home with salty tales to tell


Brian hand-picked to sail in a top-flight schooner ----- --------- „ .


A SAILOR who took to the Indian Ocean for two legs of an around-the- world yacht race is back on terra firma in his Clitheroe home. As the Clitheroe Advertis­


er and Times reported last year, Mr Brian Davies (52), a retired British Telecom man­ ager from Clitheroe, was hand-picked to be a member of the Aeriel schooner crew, which is still competing in the Clipper '98 Round the World


Yacht race. Big outdoors man Mr


Davies (52), before meeting up


D.,i=,alo„,,wUhh»10Wlo» crew members had completed r g the next section of t^eir o d y ^


in follow deck in order to give the boat the between the crew members win ^


knots ^ SpinnakerLil. Another °‘w lS S " “ 'S o „ = , .ha Although


race left, it looks like the Aeriel crew are on course to claim the honours for the overall race which reaches its end in August. For sea-faring Mr Davies, who


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a-plenty, with tuna being readily caught, the only other food for the crew was tinned or grated carrots and cabbage, making for


Altnougn uiere wao nco.,


Davies (pictured) first embarked on a backpacking holiday with his%vife, Mrs Jean wheel can oe a nmj^.


take them to the Seychelles via up after Sincauore


has a charter boat at Falmouth and has taken part in sailing trips to the Scilly Isles, France and Southern Ireland, it was a trip of a lifetime, but at the same time, very, very demanding. • "It was physically very hard work. This is a young man's game, you have to be very strong because at times just holding the wheel can be a major effort and rotating in four-hour watch


with the crew in Hong Kong shifts means you f ^ for the fourth leg which would sleep indeed. You can be


miles of clear ocean later, Mr voyage was spent sleeping on Thirty-three days and 5,000 Due to the


Blacksmith with a real zest for life dies aged 81


a n award-winning Ribble Valley bl^acksmith whose skill and zest for life captured the adinira- tion of many people around the world has died


aged 81. Mr Ron Carter, who


founded Trapp Forge, Simonstone, 40 years


ago, died in Bury Gener-


• al Hospital, on Monday, two weeks after collaps­ ing-from a heart attack


at home. Born in a four-roomed


house in Ashton-under-


Lyne, he went on to become one of the most prodigious and respected blacksmiths in the country


and during recent years was the only living mem­ ber of Worshipful Compa­ ny of. Blacksmiths to hold the movement's gold medal for professional achieve­


ment..


rate public buildings, churches, cathedrals and


a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Blacksiniths. Mr Carter's kindly,


enthusiastic and cheerful personality also impressed wherever he went and he continued working in the


forge until the day of his


heart attack. "He was a big man in


big gap “ a dependable fpme with a unique personality,' said his wife, Sheila, who provided many of the designs for her husband s


every way and will leave a


- Mr Carter (pictured) was keep-fit


creations. a


Keep-i cni.iiuox^..v enthusiast


crafted creations now deco- jobs on a farm, a carpenters crai Ltu cj


even royal homes. He made a national bea­


con for a ceremony in Lon­ don in 1993, when the then Prime Minister, John Major, ignited a flame to symbolise the European Union, and his forge also produce the impressive entrance gates for the Hon­ ourable Artillery Compa­ ny's barracks in City Road,


London. Some of his most presti­ gious commissions have


been fire grates for


Prince of Wales and the Queen. His


the


crowned in 1990 when he received the Freedom of the City of London from the Lo■d


career was as


Many of his beautifully- throughout his life and ^ter .......... workshop and a cotton mill


as a textile technician, he joined the Royal Marines in 1939 and became a physical training instructor. After the Second World


knives, fire irons, brackets,


War he met his future wife, who was then a design stu­ dent at the Royal College of Art. He began working with metal when a Padiham cot­ ton mill, where he had been general manager for 20 years, closed. He arrived home from his last day at the mill with an anvil - and


an idea. "I had made a tew things


out of metal by then, can­ dlesticks and the like, and thought I had a feel tor it," he said during a


rd Mayor for his work as making other stuff, paper


interview. "So, I started Stul l ,


recent


anything" As the number of com­


missions grew, the Carters honed their individual skills. Mrs Carter would draw what the customers wanted and Mr Carter would craft it. After turning out small items, they moved on to staircases, gates and signs and extend­ ed their knowledge by visit­ ing museums and studying historic ironwork. Appren­ tices and blacksmiths came from overseas to study the Carters' technique and, in recent years, Mr Carter lec­ tured and demonstrated his


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work around Europe and also demonstrated his craft to visitors at the forge. His famous ram's head


paper knives are now owned by people around the world and he has larger pieces in Europe, Saudi Arabia and in New York. Despite a hearing impediment, caused during his war ser­ vice, he held his audiences fascinated for hours. He could demonstrate the forg­ ing of red-hot iron, trans­ forming a piece of lifeless metal into a vibrant work of art while keeping up an entertaining explanation


about his craft. The funeral service and


interment take place tomor­ row at St John's Church,


Read. As well as his wife, he


leaves a daughter, Mrs Vicky Lee, who runs the Lee Carter Health Studio in Clitheroe, and four sons: Robert, a scientist with Siemens at Congleton; John, a former blacksuiith now studying at university; Bill, a blacksmith at the forge; and Nick, a biologist with the Marie Curie Research organisation. There are also six grand­ children.


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Ramblers to appeal to the High Court over inspector’s decision


_..................................... ..................Dockber and Gisburn Cotes. ™ s will give


a n appeal is being made to the High Court by the Ramblers' Association in London against the contro­ versial decision to close a section of the Ribble Way


at Sawley. The association's central


office has decided to appeal against the decision of the Planning Inspectorate to close two-and-a-half miles of river­


side footpath, between Sawley and Gisburn, on the grounds that it was incorrectly record­ ed as a right of way in 1952. I t is not expected th a t the


High Court will consider the case in less than six months


time. The path, Sawley Bridleway 8,


is now closed pending the appeal and the Ribble Way long-dis­ tance trail, which used the path, has been re-routed through


Dockber and Gisburn Cotes. Lancashire County Council has


posted notices and way marks along the route, as the current Ord­ nance Survey maps and numerous books show the path on the original


line, prior to its closure. Further downstream on the Rib­


ble Way at Hurst Green, Lan­ cashire County Council has grant­ ed planning permission for the con­ struction of two new footbridges across the Ribble and Calder, at the site of the former Hacking Ferry.


a basic ship's diet. There were also some hairy


moments for Mr Davies, such as when a sail ripped in two in the middle of a squawk "It was a panic situation and it felt as if anything could hap­ pen, but thankfully everyone kept cool and we managed to deal with it, although it took 12 hours


together again," he recalled. "Living


an hour if a sail needs onanpng. wo Living on tho boat inevitably


to sew the sail back the b


vitably


between the crew members who came from a wide range of back­ grounds, including each male member of the crew shaving their heads "to the bone to be a


little bit different" Finally, when the boat arnved


at its Seychelles destination, it was an emotional time for Mr


Davies. "It was too late to go ashore,


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so we dropped anchor in the bay and I offered to do the watch. I just sat there looking at the lights on the bay and I knew Jean was there waiting for me. I wanted to collect my thoughts, because there were a few things I wanted to say to my fellow crew members before I left them. J^d the next day, when we waved the boat off for the next leg, there was a big lump in my throat." Mr Davies, along with the other crew members, was hand-


crew Piokod by Sir Rohm K n o ^ J ^ other crew meiiiue..,,


m^bers, particularly because ston, who was ^


keeping in sail single-handed non P


'®®?s°hinging " touched with loved ones was via around the world. Mr ^ ultimately a had to undertake a three weex


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embarking on the trip. He and his wife have lived in Clitheroe for the past 13 years and have two children, Neil (28) and


Joanne (30). "Retiring is the best thing I ve ,


ever done. For me it really has been a case of life begins at 50. My wife encouraged me to do | this to cure my wanderlust, but .


I am afraid it has done the oppo­ site," he admitted this week.


Driving ban after pleading guilty to drink driving


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I CLITHEROE man Steven Howard U rq u ^ t was fined . £300 and disqualified from driving for 18 months by Blackburn magistrates after pleading guilty to dnving


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^ U r q S t i sO M ^ Bawdlands Farm House, Edisford, I cave a reading of 94 against the legal limit of 35. r Mr Daniel King (defending) said Urquhart


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POLICE have released details of an f glary at a house in Whalley ^o^d, Langho. -They ^ Len investigating since it occurred on the afternoon of


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