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I in the Hebrides, her nei earnestly urged her to her cottage. She had pronuciation sounded


| suaded those who shoo’ [ reveal its significance. She found the nearef


revealing obs ervations and summing up a per jsonal strength, rasy.


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Retire head S


has been appointed to th i an internationally-p


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women's group. Retired solicitor Mrs Shs


world. Despite the title, the positi


has been installed as preside] mist International of Great Ireland during a ceremony almost 2,000 women fron


ITTING on top of the world is Rib woman Mrs Hilary


a w-eekly look at local issues, people and places, compiled by Vivien Mason


solicitor appointed to oroptimist International


ilmost half


ble Valley Shaw! She


s top job in restigious


w (pictured) it of Soropti- , Britain and attended by around the


for the next year she will be! organisation with branches i far afield as Thailand, thro Africa and across to the Cari as all around the United I largest regions being York North-West. Mrs Shaw lives with husi


chairman of the Bolton-by- den Club, just outside the road to Wigglesworth. Soroptimists, she explains


business or management wh spare time on practical projc human rights, health, educ environment, both locally a


Former about c


A RETIRED English from Whalley has put of her own lessons "practise what you effect by writing "A B Childhood." Mrs Marjorie Claytor


ries of school, home anc will be shared by man wherever they grew up. 1 keen to speak about her to any appropriate local f A 14-year-old CRGS pu


ca Hammond, has drawn sketches to illustrate po:


book, using her artistic flai: ly adopt the style of a prim child. There are nume tographs and reproductioi tisements of the time. Mrs Clayton was the


11 children, six of whom s she has written the boc


general interest - lessons, everyone about the past. For example: "There


behind family memories generations. But there are plenty of i


order and discipline, rules aries. In spite of unions, b be bosses and workers are


1 leading up an n countries as ugh Asia and bbean, as well lingdom, the ihire and the


m means that


tand Andrew, Bowland Gar- village on the


, are women in 3 work in their


cts to improve ation and the nd around the


world. One example of their work is the set­ ting up and running of Child Contact Cen­ tres, where children can see their "absent parent in a safe and comfortable environ­


ment.Across the world, Soroptimists work in partnership with organisations such as the International Red Cross, Sightsavers and others, establishing sustainable projects to improve living standards, health and edu­ cation. During their last major project in Thailand to give young women a real alter­ native to having to work in the commercial sex industry, their success was obvious. Over a period of four years, the number of girls going from the project villages to Bangkok dropped by 91 per cent. A solicitor for more than 20 years, Mrs


and to celebrate women's achievements. Next year is the International Year of Vol­ unteers, and many organisations would simply cease to function without the many women (and men too) who give up their time to provide such a valuable service. "We shall also be researching and addressing the growing menace of the traf­ ficking of women and girls, which is sadly going on all around us and needs to be


stopped." Although she has only just begun her


Shaw is still a consultant, but retired from legal practice earlier in the year to join her husband in his growing garden design and construction business, Gardenmakers. The couple have opened a retail nursery at Coars Farm, and are opening a shop


next year and a cafe. "It will be an exciting year, full of oppor­


tunities and challenges," commented Mrs Shaw. "My theme for the year is 'You can't beat a woman,' intended both to reflect the intolerability of violence towards women


teacher writes hildhood days


teacher decades


to good preach" ackburn


N. i's memo­


wartime


V people, ow she is


memories ;roup.


ipil, Rebec- numerous


nts in the


r to skilful­ ary school- rous pho- isof adver-


ifjrvive, and k to leave


oungest of for future


eferences of almost, for


is need for and bound-


osses are to to be work-


ers, subservient to authorities and schooled to jump when told to jump. "The authority of parents, police­


men, teachers, is unquestionable and the middle classes, the industrialists, the professionals are the decision­


makers." The Ribble Valley had an impor­


tant leisure role for Blackburn people. Wartime bus services were good enough to allow trips to catch stickle­ backs at Ribchester, stand on the bridge at Whalley, climb the Nab, and sit watching the world go by in Clitheroe Castle grounds. There were even climbs up Pendle


•i«:Bii i&SH


38$


Hill, with its Quaker connections - "they refuse to go to war and become


’conchies'." The emotions of childhood and


family life are neatly supplemented in the book by those of war. How many people remember being asked to take metal things to school, but ask your parents first? The playground becomes a junk yard and when the lorry takes it away, everyone sings "There'll Always Be an England." But eventually it ended - there were even tears from the headmaster


on VE-day. Above all, the book celebrates childhood, with memories relevant to everyone. Walking past the house of a


teacher, for instance: "I wonder what it’s like inside. At the end of the day, does she sit by her fire and drink tea? Does she do all the things everybody else does? Does she have a bath?" Mrs Clayton ends by saying:


r* iff


term of office, her year as president-elect has taken her to Cameroon in West Africa, where she took part in the chartering of the sixth club to open in that country, and to South Africa, where the organisation's annual conference will take place in 2001. "The Soroptimists in Africa are amazing


other crafts and sold, paying both the craftsmen and women and buying the seed - a wonderful practical project which pro­ vides employment and cleans up the envi­


women," she added. "They run shelters for abused women and for street children, adopt hospital wards for TB sufferers, maternity patients and the mentally ill, and day care centres for the elderly and for the very young. One club runs a Seeds for plastic' centre, where locals trade in waste plastic they collect from the roadsides and are given seeds and land to cultivate in exchange. The plastic is cleaned, shredded and turned into beads, bags and hats or


ronment." It promises to be a busy year, but one to


which she is thoroughly looking forward. "On my own, there is no way that I could


begin to make even the smallest impression on the problems facing the world today. Being a Soroptimist gives me the opportu­ nity to make th a t difference and the chance, not only to find fulfilment, but fun


and friendship too!" For more information on the organisa­


tion, telephone 0161 480 7686.


LOOKING BACK i 100 years ago


AS Clitheroe approached winter, the infirmary was hav­ ing problems with its heating system. Cold was not the problem though, instead the medical officer complained it was too hot inside and suggested a new thermometer


to assist the man in charge of the fires. A traction engine owned by Peter Martin, of Black-


burn, had broken down on the turning from Station Road and Parson Lane. The engine had been attending the fair along with hobby horses when its cross axle col­ lapsed on the way home. The road was blocked for the whole of the following day. Housewives could rest assured the Chtheroe Times (as


the paper was then named) would come to their rescue with handy home hints. Some examples of averting domestic disasters included keeping charcoal in the larder to keep meat sweet, cleaning windows with a little paraffin oil instead of water which could make them crack in frosty weather, and the advice always to clean


ivory with sawdust, water and lemon juice. 50 years ago


"Changes are inevitable, changes are painful, changes are necessary and one cannot stay a child for ever, but child­ hood memories remain and Blackburn remains as a living, now cosmopolitan Lancashire town, and for me a living entity of yesterday today and tomor­ row. Can these things ever be separat


ed? I don't think sol" "A Blackburn Childhood" is avail


ing, Blackpool.


Nursing expert elected a Fellow of Florence Nightingale Foundation


A PRESTIGIOL national award h been conferred on Ribble Valley nursi:


personality. Dr Mrs Unmanga Jo


(pictured) has been elec! a Fellow of the Florer


North West Lancashire IS


7g ily ed


Nightingale Foundatit which promotes best pr tice in the nursing prof sion in memory of 1 famous pioneer. The medal and certific


were presented to Dr Jc by foundation presidr Baroness Cumberlege £ ceremony in Church Hot Westminster. Dr Jolly has worked


the managment side nursing for many years is quality assurance standards officer for


m, he


:ate


;>Uynt .t a of


Health Authority. In 1989 the Florence


Nightingale Foundation awarded her a scholarship


to study quality implemen­ tation in the U.S.A. The way Dr Jolly has demon­ strably used this experience to further her work was a factor in the award of the


fellowship. A citation read at the


award ceremony detailed Dr Jolly's contribution to


health care. She herself is very grate­


ind ind the


ful for the support she received from her tea- planter parents at home in Sri-Lanka, and to her hus­ band James, a Whalley man, as well as everyone else who has supported her during her career so far. The Jollys met while on


fo r th e w e e k


i nickname can expressing most


i man went to settle ii;hbours and friends ihange the name of


the custom was for her to remove the brother's sandal, spit in his face and say: "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house and the


If he still refused to marry the widow,


name of his house shall be called 'The house o f


t hought the Gaelic fine, but now per­ il: their heads at it to


| and his two grown-up annoyed their father by


i time on the two-seater he felt they should be


j took his saw and squa | speak, to discourage si I No one ever smiled: | Hebrew to the house o to undertake his fami house of one that had


off.” If a man would not


| the widow could have the elders, who could | to accept his family di r


his dead brother, poss: to ensure that the dea family should live on


native tongue to be square behinds" and 1 most politely. The previous tenar.


4t translation in her 'The house of the hat was putting it


outside toilet when working. One day he i red the circles, so to i|ich long stays, the name given in me who had failed obligations, "The


ts had been a man sons who had often ■


spending too much


disaster in business yet had just been able to pay of his creditors was cheered by the words of his pastor. He congratulated him on the way his family had stood by him, revealing great love and understanding. "It seems to me," said the minister "that you haven't lost the things that matter after all. You have kept your good name and enjoy the love and the confidence of your loved


him that had his sandal pulled off.'" A man who had experienced financial


Pupils and stuff At Tbrennand's Endowed School llt's all about youl' ones."


;i bly as a second wife,- d brother's name and i any possible child, him brought before


liad his sandal pulled marry the widow of


ijseek to persuade him ty.


of Solomon, is to be chosen rather than great riches. Shakespeare caused Juliet to ask "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." However, in his play Othello, we find words expressing a recognised truth: "Who steals my purse steals trash, but he that robs me of my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me


A good name, according to the Proverbs , _ ,


poor indeed." We who seek to follow the teaching of


Jesus bear a very good name indeed. The name Christian conveys both honour and great responsiblities. To bear such a name is quite a challenge, but it is also a wonder­


ful privilege. JoeSlansfield F


holiday in Russia. Dr Jolly's Ph D is from the University of Durham, and she previ­ ously earned a B. Ed degree after being one of only six people in the country to be awarded a special scholar­


T ii i


ship.The last time Dr Jolly was featured in the Adver­ tiser and Times was for a book on cats, "The Three of Us." Our critic said that, reading it, one might have thought she was a feline psychiatrist. Holders of the Florence


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able from shops, price £5. It is pub­ lished by Landy Publishing, of Stain


PRIZE money totalling £155 had been handed out to Chatburn pigeon fanciers. The occasion was the annual dinner of the Championship Club, held at the Calf's


Head, Worston.


job vacancies, but no people to fill them, it seemed that people from the town were more inclined to travel to other areas to work rather than take what was on their own doorstep. Half the jobs w e r e for women either domestic placements or in the cotton industry-. Work for the men included the cement industry, building, engi­ neering and chemicals. I t was said by the Clitheroe Employment Exchange that the only unemployed men were either disabled or in the upper age group.


In Clitheroe and surrounding district there were 300 ■" 25 years ago


officially opened, complete with 10 GPs, a treatment room and dispensary. A dental suite and opthalmicclin-


CLITHEROE'S new £250,000 health centre had been


1 ic were still being finished and it was hoped would be m use soon.


1 production. He and his brother, Albert, were successful in their younger days in training greyhounds.


tinsmith, was retiring after 40 years in his workshop off North Street car park. Tommy Smith, could make any­ thing out of metal and shrugged off the new era of mass-


One of the town's favourite characters, Tommy the , , ,.


i out success at the show. Her exhibits had earned hw* no fewer than four first prizes, five seconds and one third.


claimed success at the Ribble Valley Poultry Society's annual show. He took the Douglas Mason Cup for the best children's exhibit with a male bantam which also took first prize in its class. His mum, too, was not with-


Paythorne youngster 12-year-old Simon Palmer had


Nightingale Fellowship are rarer than feline authors - only a few have ever been awarded. Holders receive a special invitation to the annual Florence Nightin­ gale Commemoration Ser­ vice in Westminster Abbey.


MEMBERS of the Ribble Valley branch of the Licensed Victuallers' Association will gather at the Moorcock Inn, Waddington, for the annual dinner dance on November 15th. At the event Mrs Marie Shaw, the landlady of the De Lacy Arms, Whalley, will step down as chairman and hand over to Mr Peter Hopkinson, landlord of the The Dog Music and Sports Bar in Clitheroe.


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