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career break while her children are small. But she is not finished with learning yet. She is following a keen interest in aro­ matherapy and due to attend a short course on it soon. In the long term she plans to return as a staff nurse in intensive


Plans to take back seat in I classic event


(including the one above, featur­ ing the cross of Paulinus in Whalley churchyard), but illu­ minating text as well. Early on it makes the point that, although textiles was important for the area, the mills were at Billington and Barrow, so Whalley itself "is free from the sound of whirring spindles or noisy looms." i


It is remarkable how many of in the book have c h p g ed very


lo . expected in the case ol tne maicnm “ L T e ' i r j V S r ' o f t K


MANY months of hard work lie ahead of Clltheroe's Mr Mark Leadbeater before he Is commissioned as a Church Army officer


a weekly look at local issues, people and places, compiled by Tim Procter L


O u r M P g o i n g t o o T S T n h i s ^ k e e p K ib b l e V R lI e v G r e en ^ c a m p a i g n [^As l .s e e it;.,..,'. |


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ast week borough coun­ cillors discussed how to get the man, woman


and child in the street'more actively interested in their


work. The occasion was a meeting of


the Policy and Finance CommittM of Kibble Valley Borough Council, at which members of the public can turn up and, by prior notification, sound off about any relevant issue. Not one person did and there


was only one occupant of the numerous seats in the public


gallery. The meeting voted through suggBstions for attracting more


public interest during Local Gov­ ernment Week in September. So, although we know for a fact


that many Clitheroe Advertiser and Times readers carefully scan the council news we carry, this col-


umn is keen to air matters of active public interest, so it is now turning its attention away from local gov­ ernment.As it does so, it offers no apology for again suggesting that local MP Mr Nigel Evans is going too far m


ing, as I do: "Yes, there is danger, but we must keep it in proportion. The leaflet says tha t" ... all that


his "keep the Kibble Valley Green campaign — and that he is ^fanning flames of fear unnecessarily with tactics which can rebound. It is a classic example of crying wolf! The MP's latest leaflet shouts:


is necessary for our greenfields to be lost for eternity is for local peo­ ple to do nothing." I t points out that Mr Evans is working with the council "to ensure all planning applications are vigorously scruti­ nised" - which may suggest to the uninformed that this does not hap­ pen otherwise. But it does, as appli­ cants whose case is borderline are


"Our natural beautiful countryside is not ours to destroy" - well, no one is destroying it, although inevitably building does go on. The trouble with protesting too much is that people see you are wrong and so turn off completely, instead of say­


well aware.


to the successful campaign to stop part of the grammar school p la ^ g fields being sold for housing. The writer says that he found np fault with planning officials; they knew


A reader’s letter this week refers , .


R a r e s o u v e n i r o f v i l l a g e l i f e i n W h a l l e y


FEW copies of a Coronation souvenir, "Whalley in 1902", are likely to have survived the century. The village's Coun. Mrs Joyce Holgate has just received one which will certain­ ly be carefully kept for poster!-


ty.


book collector point of ■view, the by no means slim volume (per­ haps expense, or more likely oversight, means the pages are not numbered) has its main interest at the very end. The last page outlines the festivities planned for Coronation Day, June 26th, 1902, but an erratum- style slip is pasted on the back flyleaf saying: "Owing to the


■From a strictly technical,


numerous reli­ gious ones, it also applies to the assembly rooms, now a night club-with a less decorated roof, and the police station, now a house. The ill-fated Barrow Print­ works boasts a handsome four­ faced clock. The most interesting part


seriouis illness of the King, the programme of festivities was not carried out," Perhaps it was later, as the King was eventually crowned and lived a further eight


years. The book has many pictures


of the book is "Whalley - Its Institutions." Pride of place goes to the nursing association, as was only right due to it being the beneficiary of profits made by the publication. A community with a fund-rais­ ing nursing association was able to offer people, effectively, a dis­ trict nurse and unsurprisingly there was a fulsome tribute to Whalley's Nurse Hilda Keece. She made 1,679 visits to 103 dif­ ferent cases in the year before the book's publication and "by ready skill and kindly tact, soothed the suffering and assuaged the pain at many a sickbed". Does she have descendants in the village? Plenty of detail is given of


^ ^


In the 1860s, the ground hosted many important county match­


es.


and the like, were a key feature of many work and leisure pur­ suits. The Abbey Masonic Lodge, the St John Ambulance Corps, Cronkshaw Chair Lodge Friendly Society,Whalley Mech­ anics' Club, police and postal staff and of course clergy were all photographed in a range of


Uniforms, or at least sashes


impressive outfits. The preface to the book says


numerous other organisations _ r f__1.__r


that the playing of than now?


facets of life life then better in many ways noggs c r ick e t Our thanks go to Coun. Mrs ..... .............. —


that the editors now place their work in the hands of that infalli­ ble judge, public opinion. Just 97 years later, the verdict must be - very interesting indeed. But was


H o lg . . . .o , .h . . .» n .n h ,b o o k .


Mark to boconiG Church Arme ey ofdeficer ments he is being given.


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next summer. Friends at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, Clitheroe, to which the family belongs, have been


interested to hear of the versatile training place­ lp frixroTi Thpis?f» inincclulude heloing at


the British Forces Post Office in north London, running a radio station from St Alban s Abbey and taking part in a Church Youth Fellowships Association canal cruise, based in Coventry. The placements are in addition to testing acade­


mic work at the Church Army College in Sheffield. m i mu :


the score, were committed to the Valley and the battle against the move was won. Well, that is not, as the writer seems to be saying, a point against me - indeed, it rem-


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vant laws could do with strengthen­ ing, even the present ones enabled this encroachment on literal green fields to be stoppedl There have been other, less emotive cases. When writing material you hope


Although I dare say that the rele-


the public will trouble to read, it is legitimate to encourage attention i)y making your brush strokes large and bold. I do believe Mr Evans' are excessive on both counts regard­ ing this issue, and now rest my But anyone who does not believe me can ring the planning depart­ ment, on 01200 425111, and check. I expect it would provide a speaker for any organisation which asked.


Tim Procter


HEADS turned across the Kibble Valley throughout Saturday as dozens of classic cars travelled through the area on the annual Lan­ cashire Automobile Club coast-to-coast tour. There were only two local


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I ily follow what He was talking about. To make them listen, He would often begin to tell a


T


I story that would gain their interest. It was necessary to


1 attract the attention of I passers-by in the open air and in His parables He provided word pictures for his listeners


to hang their thoughts upon. The virtue of this was the way in which folk were made to think and


I make their own personal decisions as the great truths filtered into


j their consciousness. A statement announcing the same abstract fact


S,


[ would never have registered, but J


f o r t h e w e e k


he ordinary people heard Jesus gladly because they could eas-


He made the truth live for them by putting flesh and life into His


words.Truth has a double impact when we discover it for ourselves. Jesus helped people to think things out for themselves. His parables not only gained their interest, but com­ pelled them to think about the truth they taught. A really great teacher, He would start for the "here and now" to arrive at the


"there and then." The stories He told have become


immortal, yet they were not the result of careful preparation in a quiet place, but were delivered extempore, unrehearsed, on the spur of the moment, to deal with the situation in hand. The details of His parables were


drawn from everday life. As Jesus spoke, He wm able to point to the


sower on the nearby hillside, scat­ tering his seed. He described what could happen to that seed and his hearers were able to think out the truth behind His stories for- them­ selves. If the listeners were to learn from those stories, it was neccesary for them to use hearing ears to gain really worthwhile insight from


to listen in the first place if they had not been interesting. When a preacher attracts his hearers' inter- . est and attention, he can make a bit


them. They would hardly have stopped


of progress. Some folks are so restless they


will not give themselves time to lis­ ten and learn. Argumentative peo­ ple are often unwilling to pause awhile to hear a new point of view, as they are impatient to air their


only be half-baked notions that have never been fully considered. Have you ever wondered why the


synagogues of Israel gradually became "no-go"_ areas for Jesus? Sometimes the truth hurts and He was apt to reveal facts that made the religious leaders feeLvery uncomfortable. They did not like to be told that they had got a wrong sense of values, tithing mint and cummin meticulously, yet ignoring justice and mercy which really mattered. We_can understand their discomfort if we consider the reve­ lation of things in our own lives


■ that we hide for shame. They were the teachers and guides, yet Jesus revealed their apparent spiritual blindness.


own views and opinions, which may I


I course was again Mr Andrew Proctor, of Sabden, who has put in many hours tor several years. He now


says this was his last and he hopes to hand over to some­ one else for next year. Mr Proctor is a director of his family's Burnley-based


engineering business and travels all over the world arranging export sales. How­ ever, he spends what time he can on motor sport and


hopes to take part in the tom-


next year. The cars travelled through


the Kibble Valley on their way from Blackpool to Scar­


borough. Mr Proctor is pic­ tured with Nigel and Cather­ ine Bentley at the checkpoint outside the Parkers Arms, Newton. (080899/7/15)


Joe Slansfield


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