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A living history book goes back to the presses after 45 years
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"Bolland Forest and the Hodder Val ley" came out in 1955, privately issued in
n HISTORIC book about the Bowland and Hodder Valley area has been republished, adding sig nificantly to local literature.
small numbers. It was written by two enthusiasts from
and for the area - Mrs Margaret Green wood, of Whalley, who died aged 81 in 1969, and Fr Charles Bolton, a Roman Catholic priest who was bom at Leagram
and died in 1970, aged 65. Between them, the authors had access
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itage.The trouble the authors went to is reflected in such passages as: "The attempt to retrace the old boundary line (of the Bowland Forest) and to identify some of the old names has been a fasci nating task. I t has involved many long journeys, many interviews and question ing with the oldest inhabitants and dwellers in remote places. It has involved many false tracks, and many disappoint ments, but it has also provided many
Dobson has given the centre a £300 cheque
to mark these efforts. Subscribers include many local people,
others in Britain and some in places such as Tasmania, Texas and British Columbia. Another of the area's historians, Mr Chris
thrills and many happy discovenes. Now Landy Publishing, of Blackpool,
has issued a facsimile of the book, with photographs, a further reading list, and a research-facilitating index by Mr Crispin Edwards, Project Officer at Slaidburn
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pictures and helped sell nearly a third of the 1,000 copies of the book in advance. Landy Publishing proprietor Mr Bob
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We know what they mean. They are not a superhuman person, high ly qualified by their way of living to wear a halo. Neither is a saint! People often get the wrong idea
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about saints. Christians are people who know
themselves called into the dedicat ed service of Christ. They are the kind of folk St Paul used to describe as saints. The Greek word he used was "hagios , which is translated in the Bible as saints. We don't feel justified in calling
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to both the memories of older people and family records - they chose to use the ancient rather than contemporary word for what has been known as Bowland for
© ® © o © © © © © ® © ® ® Tel: Clitheroe 425552 elderiy person. It could have been taken early last century or Awards the end of the
LOOKING BACK 100 years ago
THE annual dinner of Clitheroe Homing Society was held in the Red Lion Hotel and attended by around 40 members. President Mr T. Badger reported a good sea son with 890 birds raced compared to 386 the previous season. The event ended with a unanimous agreement to urge all fanciers in the country to petition their respective MPs for better protection of birds from
ShSabden was the latest victim of the cotton trade cri sis. Messrs James Stuttard and Sons Wad closed Victo
ria Mill from Friday evening until Wednesday because
nf the shortage of yarn. The spread of foot and mouth disease was creeping
towards the Ribble Valley. The disease, which affected cloven-hoofed animals on farms, had already reached the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Board of Agricul ture had asked everything be done to stop its spread. Four owners of fish and chipped potato establish
| late as 11-20 p.m. and leave with goods. 50 years ago
"FURIOUS" gales which had swept through the North West of the country had brought downpower and tele phone lines and blocked roads m the Ribble Valley. The atrocious weather had hit during the September holi day week and Clitheronians holidaying in Blackpool and Morecambe were facing the full force of it. Many had reported having to cling to railings and lamp stan
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Our absolute vulnerability is there for everyone else to see T
HE recent fuel crisis which put the whole country into a downward spi ral proved just one thing - how vul
nerable we are, not just as individuals, but as a nation.
With the withdrawal of just one commod ,
ity, namely oil, we have advertised to every terrorist organisation throughout the 'v°tla that our refineries are prime targets and that when supply from them is severed, the wheels of industry grind to a halt. We could
be held to ransom at a whim. _ We simply cannot manage in this day and
age without this fossil fuel. Everything depends on its supply from powering vehicles to hauling foodstuffs and goods, to transporting staff to
their place of work. How things have changed in the past century.
Our forefathers would have had no such worry. In those simple days goods were transported in the main by steam trains to depots in towns
and villages with a station. From there commodi ties were either loaded or unloaded and distrib
uted via horse and cart to their destination. Workers did not commute to the cities. They
either worked locally or moved to where they were stationed.
taken us to the moon and back, we have proved to ourselves that when a spanner is thrown into
As life has become faster and technology has . . . the works we collapse. ,
too much for our petrol and diesel. The Govern ment knows that too, but the taxes piled on year upon year generate a goodly sum for the treasury - approximately £lbn. for each 2p at the last cal-
There is no doubt about it, we are paying far . What rubs salt into the wounds is the state of ainby steam trains to depots in towns told there is never enougn — - ---------------------------------- ----------------------:— ” 7 -----------------
our roads at the moment, particularly in the Rib- ble Valley. Many are substandard, in dire need ol resurfacing work being carried out, but we are told there is never enough money to pay for it.
funny old world.
Where does all the money go? The Min uter says it supports the National H g th Ser vice and education, but why should it. Chi d less people with private medical cover could argue that they are contributing to others ben-
6f We have been told that money generated from the vehicle excise licence duty ismeantto pay for the roads. Last year I understand armind £36bn. was collected in this way, and yet in real terms only around £6bn. was spent where it was originally intended (statistics gleaned from a heated political television debate earlier this year). Still, politics is a
have got the message across and made people realise how they are controlled. Perhaps they will now think twice before taking unnecessary journeys and stop taking their daily bread
The protests against the high price of fuel quite so much for granted. Book sale reveals mystery of old photographs © © © © © © © © o © © ® @ ° . . , . f * i
ments in the area had been ordered to court for trading after permitted hours. Officers had reported watching all the premises and seen people entenng the shops as
dards in order to remain upright. In the Valley, farmers were reporting reduced milk yields. A shortage of timber was holding up building work
in Clitheroe's Hayhurst Street. Thirty five houses had already been built but the remaining 30, at a total cost of £38,325, were still be to erected. . Approval was being sought from Lancashire Lounty
Council for the construction of a 210ft. steel suspension footbridge over the River Ribble at Dinkley. The cost would be £2,000. Up to a few months earlier the only way of crossing the river at the beauty spot was a boat ferry operated by a local farmer. The other crossings were either at Ribchester bridge or Hacking Ferry, both
two miles up and down stream 25 years ago
Spencer, has written an introduction to the book, and calls it an inspiration to them all. He became engrossed with the contents
BELLMAN QUARRY had been swarming over the weekend with more than 6,000 spectators to a Citroen 2CV rally. It had been jointly organised by Lancashire Automobile Association and Clitheroe and District Motor Club. The event marked only the second appear ance of 2CV racing in Britain. It was so successful it was earmarked for a return the following year. Adding to the Advertiser and Times interest was the fact that one of its reporters, Tony Nutter, had been given the opportunity to get behind the wheel of one of the cars
when he first saw a copy, and the authors love for the area comes across vividly. The book was on sale at the Hodder Val
and complete eight circuits of the course. The gentle art of angling was the topic of a talk given
ley Show, and can be obtained from the Slaidbum Heritage Centre and1 the Clitheroe Tourist Information Centre. Copies can be obtained, price £15 post free, from Landy Publishing, 3 Staining Rise, Staining, Black
pool, FY3 OBU, tel. 01253 895678.
to Clitheroe Probus Club by a teacher at Ribblesdale High School, Mr Jack Winnard. Mr Winnard had been a devotee of the sport since boyhood and had experi enced every type of fishing both at home and abroad. Tenants of the six post-war council houses in Bright's
Close, Newton, were to have their unsurfaced street finally made up by the council at a cost of £2,360.
for th e w e e k
ANY people will say most earnestly: "Of course, I don't claim to be a saint."
I understand hagios to describe a
thing or a person which has been' devoted to the possession and ser vice of God. This implies some thing or someone separated, differ ent from other things and persons because he, she or it has been set apart from the ordinary run of things or persons in order to spe
cially belong to God. The persons so separated are not
to be marked by their withdrawal from ordinary life and activity, but
ourselves saints, because the word itself suggests a very holy person, and we know ourselves to be sin
by their actions and re-actions in life's situations being of such quali ty and character as to distinguish them as being the people of God. Stained glass window saints are
St Peter, for example, would be i
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the first to disclaim the representa tions of him in many such win dows. If he came and sat behind you in church, you would possibly note a distinct smell of fish, and looking into his face you would not associate it with the features depicted in stained glass windows. When a little lad was asked to
describe what a saint was, his thoughts went to the ones he had seen in his church's window, so he answered more truly than he realised: "A saint is someone who lets the light shine through." Our Lord depends on His pre
apt to give us the wrong impres sion.
sent-day saints to let His light shine through their lives. When we decide to invite Jesus to come into our everyday lives it is
a consecration of our lives into His service. We consciously set our selves apart. We know that our Lord sacrificed himself for us, and this in a very wonderful way makes us belong to God. This knowledge of being special people of God helps us to realise how much our dedica tion must result in service to God. We are different from others who
have no such special allegiance because we have a different motiva tion. They seek to go their own way, and live only for their own pleasure, we seek to follow God's guidance and to serve Him as best we are able. Jesus says: "So let your light shine before men that they, seeing
your good works, will glorify God." Joe Stansfield
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