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Guide to tradesmen who are... ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE


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No gimmicks, just low prices and caring personal service. COME AND SEE OUR STOCK-NO OBLIGATION Repairs - often while you wait.


T & M Gate, 124 Pimlico Road, Clitheroe Ring for appointment 01200 425552


it* With Over 500 5 Samples of Picture


Frames & Mounts to Choose from you’re bound to find the


solution to all your Framing Problems


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COUNTRY LOGIC


•i 116-118Ba\vdlands,:- - : > Glitheroe .' Tel: 01200 422612


.SERVICES System builds,


repairs, upgrades, installations,


competitive rates


Tel 01200 445863 or mobile 07979 285066


COMPUTER ■ - Personal Service;;■-


Reupholstery o f all types of furniture including:


• 3 piece suites • Antique furniture • Odd chairs • Loose covers


Pickup and delivery service. Contract work welcome


Free estimates wide range of fabrics.


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ALLSAFE LOCK | ;sHop ...„


" The Key editing ~ - 'Centre ' ■


Keys for all makes of


doors, vehicles, bikes, quad bikes, padlocks


and to code number. CHUBB CENTRE 78 Bawdlands,-.


• Clitheroe BB7 2LA Tel: (01200) 426842


'.Outdoor-Services^;


New Stone Paving in Various Colours and Textures - very high quality for internal and external uses.


NATURAL STONE NEW PITCHED FACE WALLING


. From £ 8 .0 0 per sq. yd* + VAT •


Stock Sizes: 50 mm, 65 mm, 75 mm, 100 mm, 140 mm . ‘ .


From £25.00 per sq. yd. Also New and Reclaimed ‘ . . '


Heads, Cills, Jambs, Mullions, Quoins and Copings etc. Brand New 20” x 10” Blue Slates at


SPECIAL OFFER: 5 7 p each


Discounts for large orders.


N O R T H W E S T R E C L A M A T IO N


Delivery Service Tel: 01282 603108


B&M HENDERSON LTD O n e S t o p <


R o o § in $ (Z -en t ’ie


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Tiles •Torch on Felts • Second Hand Slates • Nails • Lead • New Slates • Dry Verge Systems


• Battens • Marley Tiles • Plywood Sheets • Ridge Flat Rooting Materials • Wooden Troughings ■ D elivery S e rvice A va ilab le■ -, >


Telephone: 01282 427898- Mark CUTHBR0E MINI SKIPS


m I* £


COMMERCIAL S DOMESTIC SKIPS | 2 and 4 tonne skips at competitive rates


Tel. 01200 428600


Mobile 0776 1750131 (Open Saturday morning)


A. J. A. Smith Transport, Salthill Industrial Estate, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB71QL


Home Services


WHERE THE CUSTOMER COMES FIRST


For your building matenals ■ Trade and DIY


Crane off load available ,


v GREENGATES YARD WHALLEY ROAD '


. . ACCRINGTON


',"Z. "Dpp Kwik-fit ' Call or ring 01254 872051- < Same day, delivery


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FOR HIRE 01200 441511


SKIPS MINI


Tel: E & D Plant Hire


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• Ribble Valley Upholstery


JAR kinds of Upholstery work^ • undertaken, domestic and * I commeraal.-


Spring repairs, frame.repairs, dining chairs recovered etc..


For a personal service Tel: Mr George Waddington'


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01200 422697? *oor Mobi ebille:


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SERVICE & RUSH SEATING ■ :• Tel: Qltheroe >


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how to reach over 15§,187 people ;


■ on o u s t mm ■ teltphone Chris + VAT


Tel 01282 617286 Mob 07763 061244^ * » . All types of


electrical work including domestic, industrial and commercial undertaken


TOP-NOTCH DECORATORS


Interior & Exterior


Painting & Decorating - plus Tiling & Joinery. Phono


01200 445227 or 077660 44685


BRIAN LEEM 1HC


Time served painter and decorator, v


13 years experience. Domestic and industrial


I Tel: 01254 875443 or 07974 063230


C.C. PARKER PAINTER &


DECORATOR Tel:


Clitheroe 425473 PLUMBING! M.J.C. NO JOB TOO SMALL


NO CALL OUT CHARGE! Tel: 01200 444135


.IRELAND v “ : Joinery & Property Maintenance Services also |


PAUL uPVC windows & doors T


el: 01200 4424961 or mobile: 07946 363514 !


PETE HASLAMI P a in te r a n d


: • D e c o ra to r Est. 1979


Tel: Glitheroe 425595


ROBERTS


& SON PAINTERS and ‘^DECORATORS


Tel. 0 1 2 5 4 610057. Mob. 07968234871 ; ■ . Free estimates ,


♦Bathrooms i ♦Heating ♦Plumbing v r t o | ‘Electrics


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10 1 2 0 0 4 4 3 3 4 0 ; S ales • S ervice • S pares • R epairs No CALL OUT CHARGE


q Tun L argest E lectrical ' R etailers in.C eittieroe


No. I - 3 King Lane, Clitheroe (50 y a rd s f rom Y o r k s h ire Bfanlt in c e n t r e o f tow n ) '


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KfilNE a RfiWSON


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179 Lowergate, Clitheroe, Lancs BB7 IflG


IIk c a l d e r I fr The local professionals


Tel 01200 423444 MICROWAVE


! Strrkti (Lancashire) Limited • COLCARE 01200 427973


FRENCH POLISHER


Furniture Refurbisher | John Schofield


Tel: Clitheroe 429217 Mobile: 07970 154917 I


, pictured above, is the son ' bf Mr and Mrs Warren Starbuck,,. who;; haye recently moved.to, Chat-, bum, althougfr the, fami­ ly home was,in Stony- hurst for many years;' Former Sheffield Uni­


A DOCTOR from the Ribble Valley is to become a psychiatrist. . Dr Daniel Starbuck,


Girls on a mission of mercy in the N orth E ast


I A. ' QUARTET ;; from; Clitheroe's Lee .Carter-^ Health Studio'is to pound'* the streets of Tyneside for a very special little girl. The four, from left above,


fitness instructor Aimie Hamer, receptionist Jayne Eamshaw, fitness instructor Denys Forth and beauty


Doc with his future in mind


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Leakage checks • Past free estimates • Low Rates • No call-out charge


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therapy manager Gail Bai­ ley, are in training for Octo­ ber 6th's Great North Run. They are hoping their half mSrathon effort will raise


thousands of pounds for research into cystic fibrosis. It is a cause especially close


to heart for Gail. Her 16- month-old niece, Amelia


DJckinson,;.of .Great Har- wood, h ^ th e condition. Gail; who last September


raised more than £6,000for. the Cystic Fibrosis Trust when she organised a 10km run through. Clitheroe, which attracted a 68-strong field of athletes said: "Amelia is doing well, although she has to have physiotherapy twice


a day and is taking a lot of medication: We therefore want to use the Great North Run to do our. bit.for._the Trust, which is researching new treatments." Anyone wanting to spon­


sor the team should tele­ phone 01200 424475. (cr260602/6)


New post in village for a Michelin man


WHEbf the tyres stopped rolling off the production line at the Micheliri facto­ ry, in Burnley, redundant worker Mr Andrew Hart­ ley veered off in a whole new direction. He has become a Ribble


Valley Village sub-post­ inaster and-loves every minute of it. Mr Hartley (51) and his


wife, Jennifer, have taken over at Sabden village post- office and are enjoying, their


new life so much that Mrs Hartley has just given up. her district nursing job to •join him.-’


10 'The 'couple were shocked when Michelin announced.


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versity graduate Dr Star- buck has been working and studying a t the' famous Maudsley Hospi­ tal m London and now plans to specialise in psychotherapy. - .; A former pupil at


its closure'last year because Mr Hartley had worked therefor 22 years. "It was a real bombshell, devastating, for the whole town.,I looked around for something else to do and then saw an advert: for a post office in the Ribble Valley. We wanted a nice


Whalley CE Primary School andiGRGS, Dr Starbuck decided to become a doctor: after obtaining an MA degree in physiology at Oxford. Pianist Dr Starbuck is


Sign here, please


I WORKING with 10 trainees with a variety of learning difficulties poses certain particular problems' for project manager Adele


| lems has been made a lot easier.


College. ■' ■


She studied at; Burnley ‘ • ■


:


I lessons I felt like giving up,, but it is a bit like driving a.


"After the first, couple of


• car - once you get used to it,, it becomes second natjire.'L; she said.


c f o r t h e w e e k


HE Commonwealth Gam- ■ es begin very soon; Ath-


-L letes have been training,


planning and preparing for a long; time in order to compete. • The main desire is to win their,-


particular event. • • Those who have not trained are i not likely to win anything.


- . But even those who have trained: cannot-all win - only, one.wins the


v gold medal. The concentration;of the work? Or is life a drudge that doesn’t ‘


; competitors is all aimed atxrpssing the line first or throwing the farthest


’ or gaining the most.points. The feel­ ing of exhilaration at that moment when they realise they.: have won is


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- powerful and makes all the hard work of training worthwhile.1 '


: • Are we working for something that will satisfy when we have put in a lot of hard


: But what are the rest of us aiming at? Do we have a goal that is worthwhile?


. seem to be going anywhere? , - ■ • -The Bible tells us that we should


run in such a way as to gain the prize.


But it also tells us that those who com­ pete in the Commonwealth Games do, . it for a crown that will not last - it all


■ happens again in four yearsl ■ : But we can aim for a crown that will


• last for ever. When we realise the truth that faces all of us - that God has a call, on our lives to serve Him - and when


we put our effort into responding to that call, then we are aiming for a


: prize that will last for ever. The feeling of exhilaration we get.when.we know


■ we have won that eternal prize will be unequalled by anything else;


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(If you want to check out what the Bible says, it is in the first letter to the :


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■ Corinthians chapter nine from .verse twenty four)


' - Brian Clark, •:;■*■■ : j Clithcroe Community Church,. i Opim Monday/ Locj Ojiito. websijf t.


i place to live and a job with ^something to think about and we've found it. The peo-


now planning to travel abroad, possibly to Aus­ tralia, to gain experience.


^ple here have been excellent, [everyone's "been very wel­ coming. It's so different, a complete change of d irec­ tion, and like any new job, it takes time to adjust, but it's good so far," he said. Mr Hartley is an ex pupil


of the old Burnley Grammar School and worked at Dex­ ter's Paints then the path lab at Burnley General Hospital


■ before joining Skippers. He spent several years as a mechanic and then work­ shop administrator at the


Scott. But after 12_ months hard?


| Adele, manager of the Jig- | saw Pantry in Moor Lane, Clitheroe, has passed her


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EURONIC CENTRE,


I (or ADSL) enables information to . be passed around 40 times more quickly down normal telephone- lines and allows Internet access to . the full range of multimedia ser­ vices now. available. . According to BT, Broadband is now available to two thirds of the


B


UK population. •• ■ f 'J This does not include,'the:Ribbleiy


may prove difficult to attract new businesses, particularly hi-tech busi- ’ ness, even house prices and education


In a future without Broadband it- .


Valley, and the continuingTacliaof^ Broadband leaves the area at a signifi-’ cant disadvantage. ‘


journe; = a!weekly look at local issues, people and places compiled by John Turner ■


imCSY I The neUgain wduldjfae speed following wide action taken dri Broadband front


r o a d b a n d has now. been with us for some time. Very, simply, Broadband


sufficient number to make BT sit up


‘/'As'I see i t . 'Vby Nick Hayes, proprietor of Dot.Com, Glitheroe


could suffer in the long.term as more< |lnstant Messaging (the next BIG and more organisations^exploit the??; thing in communication technology) is opportunities afforded’by this new” lalso'possible. I t will also reduce my


technology to which the Ribble Valley operating costs, does not have access.,,,.,


community already claim the lack of Broadband access is holding them back.


ICK. 'ten ?v .the Cybercafe, . u I know - .........


Internet access to my customers,'bet- just one person has registered an mter- ter quality video conferencing and . est in obtaining Broadband, hardly a


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...... ------------ Many people in Clitheroe’s business update the Clitheroe telephone i Pressure must now be put on Hi to


'• our MP, Nigel Evans,-who I.kriow has,,.! the servicein rural areas. 'already approached’B,T'on?thisjmat-'/,( .The telecom giant has asked people


There is considerable support from ?it is commercially viable to introduce OUU p eu p ic LU OiAUW 1UVVIWO WWW. ~


exchange. BT says it needs between 200 and 500 people to show an interest before


and take note! Registering an interest costs nothing


and does not put you under any obliga­ tion to BT, but it could make all the difference when BT bosses decide the Clitheroe and the Ribble Valley should be connected to Broadband. If you are interested in seeing


Broadband technology introduced to this area simply register on-line using the form on the front of Dot.Com's website: www.eclitheroe.co.uk, or call in to the Advertiser and Times office, 3 King Street, Clitheroe or Dot.Com Cybercafe, of Parson Lane, to com­ plete the forms there. We will then pass on all the respons­


es to BT and to an Internet Service Provider (Easynet) who will also put pressure on BT to enable the exchange.


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LOOKING BACK


100 years ago


PLEASANTNESS was the charac­ teristic of a garden party held on the Waddington Road Tennis court by the Girls' Friendly Society. About 50 members were present, the time being spent in little tete a tetes and games of tennis and cro­ quet.


□ Mr Cottam spoke at a meeting


of the Clitheroe Weavers' Associa­ tion. He said that with the increase of machinery in different parts of the world and no extension of the cotton fields, bidding by bold groups of American speculators played upon the textile trade of this


country. ' He added tha t so far as the


growth of cotton was concerned, Lancashire was in the hands of the Americans. Lancashire would have to fight for its existence as the world's great cotton centre, or go under, particularly as orders from India had almost ceased.


□ An application was made by


Mr Cornthwaite, farmer, of Worston, to take a boy, Fred Stirk, 14, out of 'the workhouse. I t was stated that the home was suitable . and the application was granted.by; the Board of Guardians.


50 years ago


A CLITHEROE couple who left the town in 1899 returned from Canada to visit family. The Wilkin­ sons had built a log farmhouse on the plains of Saskatchewan and broke the prairie with an ox-drawn


plough to grow wheat. The nearest railway was 50 miles


distant and only an old Indian trail crossed their land, but despite set­ backs and storms, one of which moved the bam 10ft and killed four horses, they expanded their farm from 160 to 350 acres.


□ Children from Bright Street


Day Nursery were pictured enjoy­ ing a paddle in the cooling waters of a stream at Up Brooks. As most of the mothers worked at local cotton mills, the nursery began its day at 7 a.m.


former Caldervale and East­ ern Avenue garages before beginning his long career with Michelin, where he was 3 fjpw; controller. ’MrslHartley. had-,been a


d is t r ic ts nurse : ‘a t .. St Nicholas's Health Centre in Burnley town centre for the past five years before decid­ ing td join her husband. - A native of Church, she


ago. She had worked for the


NHS for 26 years, initially in clerical and administration at the old Victoria Hospital before going into nursing at the age of 38. She spent


seven years on Watson Ward at Burnley General before becoming a district nurse. And she says there are


er or sister, or perhaps mother her­ self, came along to take home the child..


has lived in Burnley.since the couple married 32 years


many similarities between the jobs, because they are both about meeting and helping people and serving the community and she has already administered first aid to a lady who felt faint in the shop. The couple, who lived in


At around 4 p.m:-an elder broth­ , - □ The keys'for the 300th house


built by the Corporation since.the war were handed over to the new, occupants. Coun. J. Entwistle said that the 1950 allocation was not complete owing to a shortage of labour and matenals.


25 years ago


Proctor Close, Brierfield, before moving to Sabden, have a daughter, Sarah. They are both keen Burnley FC supporters with Mr Hartley being a season tick­ et holder. He also enjoys playing golf. (J090702/1)


The Lions share comes out at £6,000


studying, one’ofitheJprob-~ .--y •_


| exams in British Sign Lan- I guage.


'has launched a. ■


NEW C l i th e ro e Lions president Mr Raymond Bennett


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another year of fund-raising and social events. He took over from


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i held at Clitheroe Golf ?Club.'' V.7


Mr Gordon Smith at the annual meeting,


’Some^6,000, near-


fly all donated to good xaus_es‘)locally, has *b’eenYaised-during


■ Mr Brian Cushing, welfare officer,Mr Tony Smith, social secretary Mr David


Smith thanked secre­ tary Mr Peter Haworth, treasurer Mr Roger Williams, activities chairman


. Hepworth and all -members. Welfare is now To


the:: past year. -Mr ;,ght.L


-be looked after by Mr Barry Barnes and social duties by Mr Arthur Micklewri '(s)


THE Mayor asked the people ,of Clitheroe to back him m a cam­ paign to provide the town with a community centre adequate for local organisations and social events such as dances.


□ The new craze of skateboard­


ing hit the Valley from the USA. Three local youngsters were finding their feet on their homemade board: constructed from a piece of plywood and an old pair of roller skates.


□ Thieves who raided Brow


■sholme Hall expecting to find antiques and a Rembrandt were disturbed by a routine police check and one, who was,armed, was arrested. Mr Christopher Parker dis­ missed the story of the Rembrandt,


I-kE kers UPPERS- y£


•saying: "The hall's contents are only important in thexontext of


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■•the- hall.'- Taken away to dealers ;they-are mere pieces of broken fur- Jniture and copies of well-known masters, .History, yes;, a: fortune, no."


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A LONG-LASTING fri| and true love was the of when two teenage neig decided to go riding the


cles together. That first bicycle ride wa


Today, Mr Ron and Mrs Edi are celebrating 60 years of hag ried life.


Grove, Clitheroe, were keen and living in neighbouring .j Blackburn when they first ca# other’s eye.


The couple, now living | |


is now 80, remembers wl romance first blossomed. I "We had been on a ride t |


Mrs Baron, who, like her I |


ester. When we got back to B| Ron said 'Would you mind! you?' When I said 'No', the vcj Dad came from the house: 1 Edna, come on in', and that tg she said. But the couple married


18th, 1942, and Mr Baron v up to serve in the RAF Red August.


Warrington, and Mrs Barn the war as an inspector at tg Aircraft engine factory at Cg Moors.


He was posted to Padgai !


India in 1946 and returned [ mer job as a joiner for a . company. His post-war work wag repairing the bomb damagf]


Mr Baron came out of th | E


pool. The couple had always '


bring!


PASSING on her busi­ ness skills to pupils at her old school has won Joanne Brindle a sec­ ond award, this time from the Institute of Chartered Accoun­ tants. Mrs Brindle (26),


from Brockhall Village, recently won the North West Business Adviser Award for her work with Young Enterprise piipils


at Bowland High School. •The company, set up


tured), runs a vehicle leasing company with her husband, Ben, and helped the young entre­ preneurs to compile a business plan and mar­ keting strategy. "Because we were a lit­


a t the school, sold Christmas trees and fer- tiliser.' or to be more pre- cise. manure, making a profit in excess of £700. Mrs Brindle (pic­


tle bit late starting, it would not have been pos­ sible to manufacture anything, so we decided to concentrate on natur-


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