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SABDEN’S Miss Elizabeth Brit­ cliffe looked back fondly on a life­ time spent in her native village and says she has never wished to live anywhere else. Miss Britcliffe, who has just cele-


brated her 90th birthday, was bom into a world so different from that of today, when villagers had to walk everywhere while only the more affluent travelled by horse and carriage.-


her childhood and the memory of the first car coming to Sabden. It belonged to the local doctor who lived opposite and his chauffeur gave her and her young chums a ride as he motored up the main road to turn round to get the vehi­ cle into the garage; the days when almost everyone wore clogs and worked in the cotton mills on which the village thrived for decades; and when it had about 30 shops where you could buy shoes, draperies and hardware, as well as the numerous grocers, butchers and bakers. It even had its own Co-op department store.


She remembers the excitement of


TV when villagers listened to the radio in the evenings or made their own entertainment by organising dances and shows at the church halls each Saturday night. On other evenings' the young people went out walking, often over the hills to the cinema in Clitheroe, Padiham or Whalley. Times were hard but good she


She remembers the days before


Whalley Road where her father was watchman, she was the youngest of five children and she and her parents and four older brothers moved to her present home in Whalley Road in the cen-' tre of the village, when she was a baby. She has spent the past 89 years there and never wanted to leave. “Why would anyone want to live


anywhere else when I oipen my front door each morning and see Pendle Hill,” she said.


' V Miss Britcliffe has outlived all


her brothers who she joined at the old Sabden Council School until she was 14 and went to work at Union Mill, now Pendle Antiques Centre, learning to be a weaver. But she never like weaving and


wanted-to join the Land Army dur­ ing the Second World War. Her mother did not approve and instead found her a job as a maid with the village doctor. She worked for him for about 40 years, and stayed on to look after his wife when he died. For a time she was also an office cleaner at Calderstones Hospital. During the war she remembers


the soldiers from Calderstones, when it was a military hospital, coming up to Sabden for a day out. She has been a member of


says, and tme to village life she has been inundated with cards, flowers, gifts and messages from friends and neighbours at her Whalley Road home as she has celebrated her milestone. Born at the long-since demol­


ished Toll Bar, one of two cottages opposite the old printworks in


numerous village organisations such as the former Baptist Dra­ matic Society, and is still a regular attender at the Baptist Chapel, the old badminton club at the chapel, the WI, the Rambling Group, and is now a member of the Age Con­ cern group. Born in 1913 just before the


onset of the First World‘War she has lived through two world wars, and seen the village and the world change dramatically but she still has her love of life, is always gen­ uinely pleased to welcome friends into her home and always has a smile on her face.


DOUBLE celebrations were in order after Ribble Valley Youth Theatre received a cash injec­ tion of £7,000, and staged their Christmas production. Sleeping Beauty - the story of a


princess destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on a spin­ ning wheel and sleep for a hundred years - was thoroughly enjoyed by total audience of around 240 peo­ ple over the weekend. As well as the joy of the successful


performances by youngsters at Clitheroe Parish Church Hall, mem­ bers were thrilled to receive a cash boost from the National Lottery. Commenting on the donation, Mr


Bruce Houlker, from Ribble Valley Youth Theatre, explained: “We are very pleased to have received the money, which Trinity Community Partnership applied for on our behalf. “We have already spent £2,500 towards sound equipment, which we


MRS ELPETHA VALINAKIS, and Mr Mel Diack from Trinity Community Partnership, along with three performers at the cheque presentation.(T18I003/l)


previously have had to borrow from can use it more often. In the future, Lancashire County Council.


Could you represent the Ribble Valley in a USA adventure?


A YOUNG person is being sought to represent the Ribble Valley in the USA. ; Lancashire,Youth and Community.


Service is looking' for a young man aged between 17 and 19 to be selected for the Daniel Thwaites Travel


Scholarship 2004. Every year a group of 10 young


people are selected from Lancashire to attend the scholarship visit, which next year is provisionally planned between July 27th 2004 and August 10th 2004. The group will be based in New


Orleans, the first time the USA has been the scholarship destination since 1969.


The group will be acccommodated


with US families and it is stressed tha t this is not a holiday, as a demanding working programme will be followed by all members of the group. All applicants will be considered


and the person chosen may be inter­ viewed early in 2004 by the Mayor of the Ribble Valley, councilor Alan


Yearing. Applicants can be employed, in


training, attending college or youth centre, and must demonstrate: ♦that they are a Ribble Valley resi­


dent. ♦that they have made a positive contribution to their local communi­


..opportunity.


ty and have a reference from someone of standing in that community. ♦that they will benefit from this ,


♦that they are fit, healthy and have


a positive and mature outlook. A letter of application of no more


than two sides of A4, font size 14, must be sent to: Lancashire County Council Youth and Community Ser­ vice in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire


House, The Sidings, Whalley, BB7 9SE.


following


katrina.moore@ed.lancscc.gov.org. For more information about the scholarship telephone 01254 824544.


Alternatively, it can be sent to the e-mail address:


we hope to spend part of the money “Now that we have our own, we on a digital camcorder and a camera.”


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Our pic- • tures show the cast of “Sleeping Beauty”.


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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, December 4th, 2003 17 Fair trade to fight poverty


CHAIRMAN at the meet­ ing of Trinity Ladies' After­ noon Fellowship was Mrs Dixon. She introduced guest


speaker Mrs Saberton who gave a talk about “Traid- craft”. She explained that


Traidcraft was established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty and is the leading fair trade organisation in the world. I t helps thousands of


people and families around the world work their way


■ out of poverty. A fair trade . goods stall did a brisk trade selling coffee, tea, sweets and dried fruit and Mrs Dixon thanked Mrs Saber- ton for her informative talk. Refreshments were


served by Mrs McGowan, Mrs Taylor and MissHet- herington. Pianist was Mrs Cowperthwaite. Flowers were presented to Mrs Milne. The next meeting will be


■ the Christmas party and meetings will resume on January 21st.


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