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and he received a donkey that sneezed money out of his nose. He took it home and put it in his garden. That same day the innkeeper came and told him to get some straw, so off he went. Whilst he was gone the innkeep er took this sneezing donkey and replaced it with a normal donkey. When Dick came back he noticed, so told his father. A few days later Harry went to
work for this cruel innkeeper and one year and a half later he was rewarded with a beating bag “and all you have to do,” said the innkeeper, is say ‘go stick go’. So off Harry went, he went home and thought that he would not leave the bag on the table, but replace it with a different one. The innkeeper came and tried to take the bag, and Harry said ‘go stick go’ and off it went, beating up the innkeeper so the family got to keep the bag after all.”
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Beads of sweat create an all-action attraction
admired by all who see it
A H O B B Y w h ich o n c e o c cu p ied squaws around the wigwams bf the North American Indian tribes is now engrossing a large team of ladies from the Ribble Valley and other parts of the north west. There are now 26 members of the
bead group operating from Mrs Tessa Halfpenny’s coffee shop and needlework centre in Parson Lane. And they have secured a place among
the top bead groups in Britain. They won a first prize in a National
Society of Bead Groups competition at Daventry recently for a large bead-covered
carousel which is being put on show in the Clitheroe shop. The bead group members, whose Clitheroe and Ribble Valley members are
RELATIVES of a Clitheroe soldier who died in Belgium in 1918 are being sought. Mr Marc Glorieux has
contacted Clitheroe Town Council in a bid to find the family of Pte James Howarth Birtwell, the only British soldier to be buried in the communal cemetery at Marke (Courtrai). In his letter to the town
council, Mr Glorieux says he has already carried out some research through the
augmented by some living in Accrington, Burnley, Blackburn and Preston, operated on a metal carousel skeleton made by the husband of one of the members. They demonstrated their skills by cover
ing it in beads. The rules stipulated they had to submit an entry depicting “going round in circles”. They ended up with a competition entry which goes round and round, up and down, has music and flash ing lights. The bead group’s origins go back a few
years to Mrs Halfpenny looking for a suit able hobby. She became proficient enough • to start classes and the bead group was formed. “It is a very engrossing and satisfying hobby” said Mrs Halfpenny, pho
tographed above, left, with Mrs Val Trim- by.
Who remembers this Fusilier?
Lancashire Fusiliers’ Muse um in Bury which revealed that Pte Birtwell was the son of T. H. Birtwell and lived at 33 St Mary’s Street. He enlisted in Preston
some time in January, 1915, with the 17th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, which was also known as the 1st South- East Lancashire Battalion, and he was awarded a D CM. Mr Glorieux is endeav
ouring to find out Pte Birtwell’s date of birth, his
Fisherman’s tail remembered THE POWER of the Press has
answered a poser set for staff at Clitheroe Library. A picture of a massive fish and a
little boy was discovered during a clear-out of an old house and library staff intend to archive the image.
They had no information about the
picture - so turned to the Advertiser and Times for help. . It was quite a shock for readers Mr
Derrick Hutchinson and his wife - Dorothy, of St Mary’s Street, - Clitheroe, to find the picture of v Phillip, one of their two sons, then :■
aged two, staring out at them from -, last week’s paper. Mr Hutchinson said it was 1967
when fishmonger Mr Jack Hall ^ acquired the huge halibut and hung it outside his shop.
’ “We lived nearby at the time,” said
Mr Hutchinson, “and the photogra pher wanted a small boy to stand by : the fish for a photograph.” Phillip, now aged 38, is married with two ■ daughters, lives in Pimlico Road, and works
for.the North Lancs Training Group at Accrington. : ■ Mr John Waggett, of Whalley,
. was working for the fishmonger at the ; time and remembers Mr Hall buying ;• the creature for £36 from Fleetwood,:
where it was landed after being net ted in Icelandic waters. They had to take the windows out-
of the shop because the fish was too large to go through the door. The - backbone and fins were so tough they had to use saws to prepare the fish for sale to many of the hotels in the Rib- . ble Valley at four shillings a pound.
profession and the maiden name of his mother, as well as trying to trace any rela tives who may still be living in Clitheroe. He says any information received will be used in an article to be sub mitted for the Western Front Association in Bel gium and for the “In Flan ders Fields Museum” mag azine. Anyone with information can contact Clitheroe Town
Clerk Mr John Wells on 424722.
- Birds by John Turner NOTICEBOARD 'a weekly look at local issues, people and places compiled by John Turner
b e en h eap ed on th e Clitheroe Interchange and the services which ply from it. A lo t of money,
[Learning a damp lesson that two sets A
w a r d s and p ra ise b y th e v o lum e have
Dalesrail Special at Clitheroe Station to spend a day at Appleby Horse Fair, an hour and a half away up the line. At only £8 return each
thought and hard work have been put into pro v id in g an in teg ra ted transport system which he lps people move around th e N o r th West. So it was with great
delight that I, my wife and our little dog climbed aboard one of the four carriages of a morning
- and the dog travelled free (he didn’t even need a Rover ticket) - it was a snip.
The staff at Clitheroe
Station were a delight and totally helpful. The station itself was
bright as a new pin and parking in the car park nearby was free for those availing themselves of the rail service. And there was a pleasantly large crowd of fellow travellers,
Book to be sneezed at
THE relay reader baton has passed to keen keyboard player Kathryn Murphy.
A pupil at Chatburn CE Pri
mary School, the 11-year-old (pictured) won our award for her review, reprinted here, of Val Biro’s novel “The Donkey that Sneezed”: “There were three boys called
Tom, Dick and Harry who lived with their dad and one day their dad said they would have to earn their food so they went out and worked for one year and a half. Tom swept up and tidied up and
a happy mix of those going to the fair and those wishing to undertake walks amid the glory of The Dales. The outward journey
itself was superb, with its unrivalled views of some spectacular countryside. There were two trains
returning, one at around 4 p.m., the other at around 6 p.m. Our thoughts were that
4 p.m. would give us ample time to witness the
extravagances of the giant horse fair.
I see i t . . . by John Turner A fellow traveller was
able to inform us that the 4 p.m. train would consist of only two carriages. The later train would
be the four-carriage unit on which we made the outward journey. No problems, we
thought. Perhaps those going to the fair would get aboard the earlier train and the walkers, maybe needing more time in their pursuits, would return on the later train. Wrong.
It seemed that every
one who went north on the four-coach train decided to return south on the two-coach train. And during the half hour before i t was due to depart the heavens opened. There was nowhere
open to provide shelter from the elements on the southbound platform, so a large host of weary travellers received a good soaking. And then, for good
measure, a goodly num ber of people were left behind and dozens of pas sengers had to stand in
OUR feathered friends are becoming big business in Bowland and the Ribble Valley. More than 250 people
spent the weekend in the area hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the birds of Bowland. The Royal Society for the
the little train during the whole of the return jour ney. Our journey was “a
game of two halves” - as one television sports com mentator might have put it.
There has been a huge
input, both in terms of manpower and money, made on behalf of travel in this area in recent years. It is just a shame that
the ingredient of good old-fashioned common sense seems to have been missing on this particular occasion.
LOOKING BACK
100 years ago
THE council sat to consider Mr Carnegie’s offer of £3,000 towards the building of a Free Library for the town, on the condition that the Town Council adopt the Free Libraries Act, the provision of a site without any charge upon the penny rate and the spending of the full penny rate on the maintenance of the library. Although not very stringent condi tions, the committee thought that
even with Mr Carnegie’s munificence, they were not out of the financial mire.
□ The General Purposes Commit
tee mused again on the advantages to be gained on the adoption of a metric system of weights and measures in the country. Coun. Garnett asserted that it was best for all practical purposes, though it was generally felt that it would be introduced by a process of evolution rather than sudden change.
□ Peter Hislop, cattle dealer, was
fined £20 for wilful neglect of 110 sheep impounded by him in Clitheroe Castle pin-fold. While acting on his right to impound animals which strayed on to his land, he did not then feed them, which was his responsibili ty once he had exercised that right.
50 years ago
The full-length feature film “A Queen is Crowned” was shown at the Grand, one of Clitheroe’s three cinemas, for an extended period of two weeks. The 90- minute film was described as “sheer pictorial splendour which no Holly wood epic could match” and was nar rated by Sir Laurence Olivier, with music by Sir Malcolm Sargent.
□ Villagers throughout the Valley
continued their Coronation celebra tions. Bolton-by-Bowland was deco rated in the fashion of a village in Queen Elizabeth l s t ’s reign, West Bradford and Grindleton held fancy dress parades, and in Slaidburn pro cessions were rounded of with a com memorative tree-planting ceremony.
O Conducted tours of Browsholme
Hall by Colonel R. G. Parker were a feature of the garden fete held in the grounds of the hall. Proceeds were added to the Bashall Eaves school building fund.
25 years ago
LOCAL traders condemned the Rib ble Valley Council’s handling of pub lic participation in plans for the new Town Hall. Their anger was aimed at the decision by the Chief Executive and Chief Architect and Planning Officer not to attend an open meeting to discuss the plan. Mr John Cowgill said: “Unfortu
nately in the Ribble Valley we have almost a one-party state and that party seems to be able to do what it wants with little or no opposition and scant regard for the views of the inhabitants.”
□ A mysterious, multi-sided dice,
pictured in the newspaper and thought to be a gambling device, was identified. A reader wrote in to say that his mother' had-one like it and used it for fortune telling by noting the order in which symbols and numbers came up when it was rolled.
O Citing an increase in food poison
ing outbreaks, the borough council called for a clampdown on what it described as “dirty, disease-ridden food shops, cafes, canteens and pubs in the area”.
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Protection of Birds - Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity - organised a weekend of events which was fully booked within weeks of one advertisement appearing in the organisation's magazine. The society claims that its wildlife events in the Forest of How land this year could see visitors spending up to £10,000 in local communities. Speaking a t the launch of
the Bowland Festival in Dun- sop Bridge Village Hall on Fri day, RSPB regional director Laurence Rose said: "Birds and other wildlife bring big benefits to local businesses and services. Conservation and tourism can work hand in hand to keep rural people in the countryside and benefit community life by injecting much-needed cash into local areas. "Wildlife such as the wonder
ful birds of Bowland attracts visitors who spend money on local goods and services, pro viding income and employ ment.
right can bring a win-win out come, with benefits both to conservation and local economies. Recognising the
"Getting sustainable tourism
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RDINARY people heard Jesus gladly because they could easily follow what He
o f ten begin to te l l a s to r y which would gain their interest. Jesus provided word pictures for his
listeners to hang their thoughts upon. The virtue of this was the way in
which folk were made to think and make their own personal decisions as the great truth, illustrated by the para
bles, filtered through to their conscious ness. Truth has a double impact when we discover it for ourselves!
The stories Jesus told have become
immortal, yet they were not the result of careful preparation in a quiet place but were delivered unrehearsed, on the spur of the moment, to deal with the situation in hand. The raw material for His parables
were drawn from everyday life. As Jesus spoke, He was able to point to the sower on the nearby hillside, scattering his seed.
He described what could happen to that seed and His hearers were able to
think out the truth behind the stories for themselves. If the listeners were to learn from the stories, it was necessary for them to use
hearing ears to gain really worthwhile insight from them. They would hardly have stopped to listen in the first place if the stories had not been intereresting. When a preacher attracts his hearers’
interest and attention, he can make a bit of progress.
Sone folks are so restless they will not
give themselves time to lis ten and learn. Argumentative people are often unwilling to pause awhile to hear a new point of view. They are impatient to air their own '
views and opinions, which may only be half-baked and have never been fully considered. Have you ever wondered why the
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synagogues of Isreal gradually became no go ’ areas for Jesus? Sometimes the
truth hurts and He was apt to reveal facts that made the religious leaders feel very uncomfortable. They did not like to be told that they
had a wrong sense of values, taking tithes off the people, yet ignoring jus tice and mercy, which really mattered. We can understand their discomfort
jf we consider the revelation of things in our own lives that we hide for shame. They were the teachers and guides,
Jesus revealed their apparent spiritual blindness.
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