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Teenager’s bicycle ride turned into


journey of 60 years by. John Turner


ollowing nd front


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r 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 th a t so far as the


A LONG-LASTING friendship and true love was the outcome when two teenage neighbours decided to go riding their bicy­


cles together. , - . That first bicycle ride was m 1939.


Today, Mr Ron and Mrs Edna Baron are celebrating 60 years of happy mar- ried life. The couple, now living at Lilac


- • I t was through the Advertiser, and Times that they managed to achieve their dream of living in Clitheroe;-. - Mr Baron placed an advertisement—


live in Clitheroe and Mr Baron obtained a job with Clitheroe builders Pickles and Speak.


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to find a house for rent. The same day as the paper came out, they found a. -


house in Low Moor. In the 1970s Mr Baron became.self-


Grove, Clitheroe, were keen cyclists and living in neighbouring streets m Blackburn when they first caught each


other's eye. - Mrs Baron, who, like her husband,


is now 80, remembers well when romance first blossomed. "We had been on a ride to Roch­


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They moved into No 10 themselves - after the work was finished.


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moved back to Blackburn to look afterdj Mrs Baron's mother and sister, both’of | whom became seriously ill.. I t was only three years ago that


After 20 years, Mr and Mrs Baroiri j . .


i But the couple married on July 18th, 1942, and Mr Baron was called up to serve in the RAF Regiment in August.. He was posted to Padgate Camp,


ester. When we got back to Blackburn, Ron said 'Would you mind if I kiss you?' When I said 'No', the voice of my Dad came from the house: 'Come on Edna, come on in', and that was that," she said.


they managed to achieve a return to the town they both love. , . "It was like coming home" said Mrs


Baron. The couple have two children,-Mr


Dennis Baron, who teaches saxophone, and flute in Clitheroe, and.Mr Stephen Baron, who designs shops and offices in Devizes, Wiltshire. There are two grandchildren. The couple have both led extremely


Warrington, and Mrs Baron passed the war as an inspector at the Bristol


Aircraft engine factory at Clayton-le- Moors. Mr Baron came out of the forces in


repairing the bomb damage in Liver­ pool. The couple had always wanted to


, His post-war work was mainly '


India in 1946 and returned to his for­ mer job as a joiner for a Blackburn company.


busy lives, Mrs Baron's hobby being painting and for many years her hus­ band was a drummer in a dance band. • . . . -.


Mr Baron played with the Trad both having played in tournament- Dads, a dance band much sought after


. . .


for functions all over the North West. ~ Mrs Baron was a member of the . aigue.'ty . . He retired only two years ago. ; .


tea™?; . . "It got heavy going lugging a: drum --stOTBrsf. •;»>; * v ^ ;. .


The couple also enjoyed the sport of. that they began as friends and are still;- oawiey. bowls together at Roe Lee, Blackburn, friends. . ,


' mamage,-they both agree, is the fact . ; , 1 •»', ' •—.-.r-jrp •• ,


. Mrs Baron said: "Ron can talk to I midland I can talk; to him. We never |


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kit all over - and most ballrooms,^, .3Tie.reason for th«r long and happy ^ ^ ;,jf£ af t i e Spread Eagle at seemed to be upstairs!" he said.


(T15070Z/5) _ „ - . Ex-CRGS brings Joanne top award


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.


| 14, out of the workhouse. I t was stated that the home was suitable and the application was granted, by the Board of Guardians. ■


Mr Cornthwaite, farmer, of Worston, to take a boy, Fred Stirk,


□ An application was made by 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


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


a t .the school, sold Christmas trees and fer- - rili-ser, or to be more pre- ■


Young Enterprise pupils at Bowland High School. The company, s e tup,


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


rcise,-manure;;making a - profit in excess of £700. Mrs Brindle (pic­


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


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.


• D 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.


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


At around 4 p.m:-an elder broth­ ' '• □ The keysTor 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 materials.


25 years ago


THE Mayor asked the people of Clitlieroe to back him in 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


f—/ ■ — —y L . k,®.


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missed the story of the Rembrandt, saying: "The hall's contents are only important in the context of the hall. Taken away to dealers they are mere pieces of broken fur­ niture and copies of well-known masters. History, yes;, a fortune, no."


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A FORMER Clith­ eroe Royal Grammar School pupil, who beat meningitis sever­ al weeks ago) has been killed in a tragic road accident in


(21); the son of- a Burnley magistrate’,!, had” only ‘


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Monitoring machine vandals


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A TOP official has slammed .vandals who set fire to the Chatburn air quality monitoring station. As reported a t the


time, the station was deliberately fired and the equipment broken. In a report to Ribble


Valley Borough Council Community Committee, Chief Executive Mr David Morris says that the unit should be back in use again by the end of August. "It is obviously very


disappointing and frus­ trating that five months of monitoring and asso­ ciated data will have been lost as a result of this pointless and reck­ less act of vandalism," says Mr Morns. He suggests that any


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