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Inspiration behind famous family store now retires after 44 years


Maureen Cookson intended working a decade by Natalie Cox


. store she opened in 1970. It was in 1956 that the mother-of-three


SUCCESS overtook one Whalley businesswoman's intention to stop


working after a decade. "At one stage I said I would work for 10


years, but then, because things were going well, I decided to keep on for a little bit longer and I have now done 44 years," said Mrs Maureen Cookson. Down the decades, the name Maureen


took her first steps in the retail world when she opened a little shop in King Street. "It was the only way I could think of to have a job at home with two small children and earn some money," she said. As business flourished, the shop expand­


Cookson has become well known through­ out the country, as it is the name of her award-winning family firm, which has been based in George Street, Whalley, for the past 30 years. On March 28th, 2000, 44 years to the


ed and the family moved out to make way for stock. On one particular day Mrs Cook­ son recalls that the family firm literally brought Whalley to a standstill. "We want­ ed to turn the staircase round," she explained. "The police stopped the traffic one Sunday morning so that the builders could carry the staircase out, turn it round and bring it back in again." ‘ Once she had made more space, Mrs


day since she first set up shop in the Rib- ble Valley village she calls home, Mrs Cookson (pictured) decided the time was right for her to take a back seat from the business and retire. "I have loved it too much to pack up any sooner," said Mrs Cookson, speaking from the ladies' fashion


oughfare, Mrs Cookson's husband, Alan, was diagnosed with cancer at the same time as she was expecting her third child. The news prompted the appointment of Cookson’s first shop assistant. "Fortunate­ ly, he got better, but that was really the beginning of the expansion of the shop,” said Mrs Cookson. From King Street she moved the busi­


Cookson stayed at the King Street shop for a total of 14 years, making her first foray into the fashion world from there following the closure of Whalley's only ladies’ wear outlet. Four years after Maureen Cookson's ini­ tially opened on the village's main thor­


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were of a high standard and the eventual winner from 25 entries was Mr Steven Ashworth's "United Colours of Italy". Mr Ray­ mond Greenwood was in second place with "Rest­ ing”, and Mr Mike Bartle third with "The Mafia”. Portraiture resulted in Mr Bartle being placed first and third with "Kids" and "Watching Punch and Judy", split with "Tim" by Mr Ken Geddes. Mr Bartle was a worthy winner in open black and white, although ho was the only entrant. Record prints brought


success for Mr Steven Robinson with "Blue


with "Blackburn Cathe­ dral" and Mr Ashworth, "Letter Forms, Mitton Church". Mr Robinson, a recently


ness to George Street and set up shop in the former Co-op building. "No one except my husband thought I was doing the right thing in coming off the main road into a cul-de-sac. No one believed in it, but it seemed the right thing to do. I had no idea then that it would take off as it has done," said Mrs Cookson, who cites the seizing of arising opportunities as the secret to her success. Now, confident in the knowledge that


den bench and travel vouchers which bore a message saying "the world is your oyster". Mrs Cookson now plans to turn that


she is leaving her flourishing business in the capable hands of her daughter and son-in- law, Mr Henry and Mrs Hilary Shepherd, she plans to enjoy her retirement. To mark the occasion, she was presented with a gar­


oyster into a pearl of a future, and says she has "all sorts of things in my mind" to keep her busy. One thing she intends to do is spend time with her family, including daughter Ann, a textile embroideress, son Peter, a consultant for office relocation for major firms, and her five grandchildren. Her husband, Alan, a former director of the firm, died in 1990. Photograph by Jeremy Makinson,


Blackburn.


joined member, was very successful overall and won the James Abbott Trophy for three nominated prints. Next week, the renowned


FRPS, from Gloucester, presents "Landscape, the Great Divide". Although this meeting is strictly members only due to the high demand, any non­ member who would like to hear this talk may be able to get a last-minute ticket by ringing 01200 423474.


photographic expert and author Leigh Preston,


Stole £500 worth of lotion from store A MAN took £500 worth of lotions from Boots Chemist, Clitheroe, on the afternoon of Wednes­


day of last week and left without paying for them. He is described as being about 30 years old, of medium


to large build and wearing jeans and a black jacket. Piz Buin sun lotions and Ambre Solaire kids' milk was taken and police are investigating.


‘Beanie bears’ cash help for Christie’s


STAFF and supporters of Clitheroe-based Allcare have raised £500 for cancer research. Some of the money for the Christie's Against Cancer


appeal has come from selling "beanie bears" to people over a wide area. The care company's team has also run coffee mornings


Christie's. At the moment a revolutionary double-dough­ nut design scanner is being planned, at a cost of £1.5m. Mrs Margaret Seed from co-ordination team East Lan­


and sponsored swims and slims to help with the work of Harrison, of Allcare, and some of the children who helped.


cashire Crusaders visited the company's Clitheroe office to receive the money. Mrs Seed is pictured with Susan Adcroft and Claire


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