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Clitlieroe 422324 (Editorial); 422323 (AdVertisiWg), Burnley 422331 (Classified), www.eastlancashireonlinexo.uk +M **•*» Bogus meter


reader sought A BOGUS meter reader in a makeshift "uniform" received short shrift from a Clitheroe pensioner. The man knocked on the


ays of ;e court f police officers when they deal


tniles. ny young would-be inveterate


I hooligans and thieves, all too leir first appearance before a law may be the first time many |will have been spoken to in a 1 way. For many of them, the Jm is a pleasant place for them i in fact it has been known that 1 them turn up at court even iy are not before the Beaks, just Iheir friends! ■ mind' the penalties, or the


If being locked up, the court- ®erience could be made a much imorable and forbidding experi- xhe young criminals.' I the next time they are wander- uessly around Chatburn and


I to smash up a Wendy House Iht just remember that a court- Tnot a pleasant place to be and p temptation.


,00KINg1i BACK>\J 100 years ago


9 solicitor for the defence asked I leniency. His grounds were


IEN three mischievous school- 3 were summoned for the dan- bus practice of throwing stones trains from a railway bridge,


| t the parents had 35 children en them; two families of 12 i and one of eleven.


I Mr Shackleton, the member


[the Clitheroe Division, gave a ch saying he should represent


Iconstituency as a Labour Can­ ute, but be free to give his vote ording to'his convictions on


} question which came before Jliament. He said: "No party ] a right to claim that a man ild vote one.way or another, 1 subjects. The brains of the vidual ought to come in some-


les and the member, should not i automaton to be pulled by


Irhip here and there." . 't


Sthe Sunday Strand. The eldest lughter of the late Vicar,of jiddington, she had spent her rly life in the village and her jjtures had become famous. She d: "London's all very well and


[lbtless the hub of the universe, ; give me the lingering-gloam-


f and the glories of the Ribble Hey. Give me, too, the philoso-


|ers of the fields and hills who predated my work."


50 years ago IE Campaign for the Protec-


In of Rural England advocated ; planting of trees to screen


jiatbum quarries from view. A port said that work must be


|ne to prevent the area around Be Clitheroe-Chatburn road [>m becoming a scene of com- pte desolation.


I Messages of congratulation


fere received from all over the prld as Waddow Hall celebrated 125th anniversary as a Guiders' aining centre. 1,234 visiting ddes from 262 patrols gathered • the event.


25 years ago


(VWLEY residents expressed pong oppositon to an outline l for a small factory in the vil- be for the manufacture and sale [agriculturalmachinery.. . ,


ID A questionnaire was printed 1 the Advertiser and Times to [id readers' views on a proposed bmimunity Centre in Clitheroe, I a working group was being set > to investigate the feasibility of |ch a project.


"


Jo The Mayor of Clitheroe atoned to resign from the bor-


[lgh council over additions to nding Order 21, which would npower the chairman to use


Srce to remove an obstreperous lember from a meeting. ] He said: "The basic right of emocracy is the right of free


j>eech and I served during the r to defend that right, but now


|e are going back to the Nazi Jermany of 1939, when at the scrimination of a chairman, a


feuncillor can be told to sit down • a policeman may be called to Ive the member into charge."


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A GROUP of Cub Scouts from the Ribble-Valley on holiday in London found - themselves having an impromptu chat with Mrs . Cherie Blair in Downing Street. The 30 youngsters were


gathered for a photograph outside number 10, when the police constable on.


.duty asked them to move across the road as some­ one was due to arrive. The Prime Minister's wife was driven up in a car, then walked-across to speak to them. Assistant District Com-,


missioner Mr Dale High- am said: "She was very nice. She asked the Cubs .where they were from and when she heard they were . from Clitheroe, said that i she was bom in Bury." The boys told Mrs Blair


about their holiday and she asked them about


, .their Cub Scout badges. The. group travelled to London by train, with .eight leaders and were I .based for a week at Gilwell


woman's door in Henthorn Road,.Clitheroe, on Friday and said he had come to read the meter, although it was 6-30 p. m.


.■ i He tried to walk into the


house, but the woman shut the door in his face. - She told police that the man


was wearing a trilby hat and a white trench coat.. He is thought to be of average height and build and appeared to be inhis50s.


i Police again warn everyone


to be alert and ask that inci­ dents of any kind are reported immediately.


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, October 3rd; 2002 5


GasWorks could be the place to be if scheme gets go-ahead


COULD "The GasWorks" become the place to go in the Ribble Valley? Everyone involved with redeveloping the


Kirkmoor Road site certainly hopes so. And, if plans go ahead, it will mean that a


site will shortly be available to house Clitheroe's new cinema, as well as the arts centre project. - .


.. ... :■ ......-■: Members of the Chance of a Lifetime arts


centre support group heard that the borough council's Policy and Finance Committee had agreed in principle to sell the old council depot sate on Kirkmoor Road to Trinity for the purpose of developing the centre on it. As the primary function of the develop­


possibly from a lack of knowledge of the aims of the centre, could lead to a slackening of the current momentum which is keeping the'projectalive. As a result, members are planning fund-


- raising events to help keep plans muving and ensure details of the projected facilities are known to all. - ■ . • .'. ■ They want anyone interested in the


scheme to find out what is going on and join in.


Group chairman Melanie Kilmister said: t


ment will be a new cinema, the first part of; work on the site would be the provision of a temporary.facility to be opened next year. •: . Members also discussed ways to raise


awareness.Along with a cinema, a theatre and practice areas for the performing arts will be located in the new centre. ■. The group fears that alack of support,


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day trips into the city and visited HMS Belfast, the Natural History Museum and the Cabinet War Rooms. They also rode the London Eye and saw al l . the famous sights,


Park camp in Chingford.. They.had a. variety of"'..


M o h a i r s ty le ■ w o r r ie s h e re !


DESPATCH manager Miss Anne Clark will not


have to worry about autumn's blustery winds


spoiling her hairstyle! .This afternoon, Miss


Clark, , who‘ works, at Clitheroe's Flexible Rein­ forcements, is having her head shaved to raise money for the annual Jeans for. Genes Appeal. Her radical new look will


be created by Mandy from the town's Eclipse salon. Colleagues, who have each paid £1 to wear their jeans to work for a day, will wit­ ness the transformation. The countrywide Jeans


for Genes Appeal supports eight charities undertaking genetic research into a range of medical disorders. Among ' them are the Haemophilia Society and laboratory staff at Lon­ don's Great Ormond Street Hospital,


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Lottery luck for, village


A FIVE-figure sum award­ ed to.a Ribble Valley, vil­ lage will enable its play area to be refurbished.- There was Lotto luck this week when the. num-


- bers came up for the resi­ dents of Dunsop Bridge and the Community Fund in the North-West award­ ed'its Jubilee Play Area a grant of £46,628.


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- ■ The cash will be used to refurbish-the site and help with the installat ion of new equipment.


.including Buckingham ■ Palace,-^Trafalgar! Square: > theyiiwere involved in a - >


and the Tower of London. They also had a tour of


Parliament, arranged by Ribble Valley MP Mr Nigel Evans and climbed to the top of the Clock Tower of Big Ben. ■ ■ W h ile a t ' t h e camp


manysporting activities. An Olympic Games


Tournament was orag- nised and the boys tried canoeing, archery, air-rifle shooting and go-cart rac­


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Hundreds gather in village to mourn devoted wife and mother


by Vivien Meath


HUNDREDS of mourners turned out to pay their last respects to a stalwart mem­ ber of the Women's Insti­ tute who was held in great esteem by the area's farm­ ing fraternity. Mrs Susan Graveston


(60) died in hospital after a relatively short illness. On Saturday morning, Gisbum Parish Church was packed as the Rev. Eric Kyte con­ ducted her funeral. Mrs Graveston (pic­


tured), who lived with her retired farmer husband, Bill, in Wheelwright Close, Gisbum, had touched many


lives throughout the Ribble Valley and her native York­


shire Dales. She was a familiar face at


the! Clitheroe WI Market, with customers travelling many miles to sample her baking. Whatever she


.turned her hand to, she demonstrated quiet profi­ ciency and her patience and expertise resulted in praise and prizes galore. ■Despite her skills and


involvement in many; aspects of rural community life, Mrs Graveston always put family first. She was first and foremost a wife, mother and grandmother, and her family-was her pride and joy. .. "She was always there for


us and when we grew up she decided to start learning new skills and really came


into her own," said her daughter, Carol. "Most of all she was a mother and a friend and always had time too for the village children." Born at Fold Farm, in


the hamlet of Drebley, near Burnsall, she attended school at Burnsall, then Beamsley, followed by Keighley and Upper Wharfedale. She worked alongside her father on the farm, gathering sheep from - the moorsl A member of Wharfedale Young Farm­ ers, she met her husband- to-be at a Young Farmers' dance in Grassington, and the couple were married at Bolton Abbey in 1965. For six months, they,


lived in Grindleton, then moved to the Graveston's family home, Park House Farm, Gisbum. It was their home for 35 years, but three years ago the couple decid­ ed it was time for their son,


David, to take the helm, and they exchanged homes with David and his wife, Sue. Foot and mouth hit the


family hard and, in June last year, Mr Graveston sen. decided it was time to retire and hand the busi­ ness over to his son. For Mrs Graveston, i t was simply a case of swopping kitchens. Her baking skills, which have led t o ' cakes in particular being mailed worldwide, contin­ ued apace. Earlier this year, Gisbum's jubilee cel-, ebrations were marked by


Playing whist was


another love, aiid Gis- burn, Bolton-by-Bow- land, Tosside and Bradley were among her haunts. She joined the WI at


the age of 14 at Barden, was a lifelong member of Gisbtirn WI and former president, vice-president


. and programme secretary. Always keenly interest­


‘a special cake complete1 with map of the country and Union flag. A member of the Sug-


arcraft Guild, she was renowned for her icing skills and was always anx-


. ious to learn new tech­ niques. Many families have kept the exquisite flowers created by her as a centrepiece for her cakes.


. .Monday was baking day and on Tuesday much of


' it would be on display at Clitheroe's Lower Parish Hall market. Decoupage was anoth­


er of her talents and one which she taught at Nel­ son and Colne College. Needlework, particularly patchwork, was another skill.


:■ Mrs Graveston loved to dance and, with her hus­ band and friends, enjoyed village dances in the Val­ ley and the Dales. ...


ed in the Young Farmers' movement, her children had been members and she became a club leader at Gisburn. Never out­ faced, she would organise trips, and many former members recall her enthu­ siasm for pantomime and drama. - Encouraging others to


share her fondness of the countryside, she contin­ ued to organise outings via the Farm Women's group atSkipton and had been on one on the day she was taken ill.


- Gardening was another


joy,-and Mrs Graveston was active in Rimington and District Gardening Club. Her death will leave a


■ void in many of the organisations with which she was connected. Mrs Graveston leaves her,husband,-son and


-daughter, daughter-in-law' and grandchildren Catherine and Robert, brother Robert and sister- in-law Wendy. ■


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"If the project does not receive local support, then the town could lose its cinema: We need more people helping us to push the ideas along. ■ Mr Geoff Jackson, of Trinity, said: "What


is planned is a vibrant, inclusive, living cen­ tre, for everyone." The next meeting will be held in Clitheroe


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