34 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, November 4th, 2004
WINNERS a t Clitheroe Bridge Club on Monday were: NS Mr Chris Pollard and Mr R. Bailey, Mr W. Wol- stenholme and Mr G. Capstick. EW Mrs Doreen Blake and Mrs K. Hig- son, Mr J. Pawlicki and Mr John Ren ton. On Thursday winners were: NS Mr G. and Mr C. Pollard, Mr A. and Mr W. Norris. EW Mrs I . Park and Mrs K. Higson, Mrs Brenda Wil son and Mr John Renton. WMJ
New Lunchtime
“Coffee and Concert" sen es
iutmlucUig DAVID
playing music by Parry, Bach and Vieme
COWEN SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 6Ul on die magnificent organ at
Qithcroc Parish Church
CofTcc and hlscuits from 1 lam Concert starts at 11.30am
TickvLs: £5 on tlic door (including refreslimcnis)
(accompanied children, and students with valid .student care ntl-fi)
ClitbmK'Parish Church Or^ati Socicl)'
Bridge club Food for thought Film dtib chooses a with this gritty play
Weekendplus
“MAIL ORDER BRIDE”; The Coliseum The atre, Oldham
KEVIN SHAW’S produc tion of James Robson’s play “Mail Order Bride” is grit ty and appropriately bleak for its setting on a Yorkshire farm high on the Wolds. Martin is a lonely farmer liv
ing with his sister, a retired schoolmistress. Their only visitors are farm
worker Joe and his depressed wife, June. Martin joins a video dating
agency and sends for a Filipino girl, Maria, in the hope th a t she will marry him. This proves difficult, as sis
ter Ivy is dead set on ruining Martin’s chances, because she suspects th a t Maria is ju s t a gold-digger after a share of the farm. As the play develops we
watch a number of different relationships being exposed with considerable pain. Russell Dixon, as Martin,
has the plum p a r t and he makes the most of i t with a sympathetic and moving inter pretation of loneliness, baffled
NATIONAL PAUSE
TO REMEMBER Thursday,
November 11th, 2004
You arc invited lo join the Worshipful the Town Mayor, Councillor Joan Kuiglit,
and other Members of the Town Council at the Castle Gates at 11 a.m.
on Thursday the 11th November, 2004 to observe the National Pause to Remember
The Beginning and end of the Silence will b )e mark edked by Flash Maroon Rockets
anguish and savage anger, although he did seem a rather old 50, but perhaps life is hard in “them thar Wolds”. He reveals every nuance of
th e character’s feelings with a crumpled face th a t can twist from misery to rage, well sup ported by Gina Respall as a diminutive and be au tifu l Maria, cleverly h int ing a t deeper feelings in the first act and maMng some shatteringly honest comments in the sec ond. ■ Roberta Kerr is the sister.
Poison Ivy, and while she plays the final scene with a venom shattered by her revelation of a past pain, I could have wished th a t her ch a ra c te r had not been written as so overtly hos tile from the outset. I t gives her l i tt le room to
develop in the way the others do.
Richard Oldham is hard-
drinking, adulterous Joe, deter mined to seduce Maria with no regard for the hurt to his wife (Lorraine Bruce), a subtle per formance th a t explodes into aggression at the end. Quite a thought-provoking
evening. PIPPAMVNRO Lucky lottery winners
THE lucky three main prize winners in the weekly East Lancashire Hospice lot tery draw were as follows: Mrs E. Pickup, Blackburn (£1,000); Mrs G. Pickup, Blackburn (£250) and Ms J. Hoyle, Blackburn (£100). If you would like to join, ring Ann or Judith on 01254 342847.
Clitheroe Concerts Society Registered Charity No. 1006818
Wednesday, lOlh November, 2004 at 7.30pm
The Sixth Form Centre, York Street MUNICff^HALL CONCERT ROYAL CLITHEROE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL Friday, 5th November
THE JIVE ACES Back by popular demand
The UK's top jump live band
Doors 7.45pm Performance 8.30pm Tickets £10 Advance £12.00 Door
Sunday, 7th November
COLNE ORCHESTRA Presents - From the New World
Doors 6.45pm Performance 7.30pm Tickets £6 (Includes post concert wine and savouries)
Friday, 12th November SOUL NIGHT
An evening of classic soul music
8.30pm-1am (no admission after 11pm) Doors 7.45pm Tickets £5.00
Sunday, 21st November CAMERATA AT COLNE
Classical concert with works by Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart.
ConductorlPiano MARTIN ROSCOE
Doors 6pm Performance 7.30pm Tickets £15 Concessions £12.50
Friday, 26th November M IK E REID
Different from anything he has done before
Doors open 7.15pm Performance 8pm Tickets £13.50
New Year's Eve Friday 31st December THE MIKE JAMES SOUND
Playing todays music with memories ofyesterday
Doors 7.30pm Starts 8.00pm Ends 1.00am Tickets £17.50
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Bolton by Bowland Drama Group Don’t be alarmed if you here the phrase.....
‘Stand and Deliver’
Clitheroe & District Chamber of Trade and Commerce
"We've thrown away the Agenda"
for an Informal Meeting with buffet included, on
Tuesday, 9th November at 5.45pm Held at
The Swan & Royal Hotel, Clitheroe
Existing members / New members - input required Please telephone Julie on 07860 506019 to conflrm your attendance.
Jane Austen Musical England laipstc An evening of musicfrom the English Drawing Room
based on Janes extensive collection of hand written and printed music, and contemporary sources.
Tickets: Aduts £12; Full Time Students £3 Available from: Ribble Valley Tourist Office, Market Place; Ciithcroe Music. 9 Moor Lane; and at the door on the evening of Uic concert Free parking in the school yard
HOTELIER and eminent epicure Craig Bancroft has beaten com petitors from hotels and restau rants nationwide to win the top prize in the “French Wines Match 2004” competition. At the London final, Mr Ban
croft, managing director of the Northcote Manor, at Langho, bat tled i t out against the country’s elite to become this year’s “King of the Gourmands”. Proving his prowess as a food and
wine expert, he selected three French wines from a choice of 30, chosen to represent the diversity of France’s wine producing regions. Each was selected and matched to the starter, main course and dessert of a complex menu prepared by Richard Corrigan, of London’s award-winning Lindsay House restaurant.
Marrying a refreshing white
Gaillac wine with cream of chick pea and steamed langoustine for the f irs t course, Mr B ancroft’s knowledgeable and creative wine choices were awarded the highest marks by the judging panel, which included experts from the commer cial wine world as well as promi nent journalists. Passionate about his wines, Mr
Bancroft enthused to the judging panel: “When looking to match food and wine, the sheer breadth and depth of French wines is where they sing. “Thanks to an impressive new
wave of affordable French wines, they are now really accessible to one and all and if you are looking for a real treat, you can’t go wrong with one of the great French clas-
Mr Bancroft won either a week
in a French wine-producing region of his choice or the latest restau rant or kitchen equipment to the value of £2,000. Chef and member of the judging
panel Mr Corrigan commented: “I was delighted by the exceptionally high standard of this year’s com petitors and it was a tough one to judge! “The competition aims to high
light the wide choice and quality of French wines and gives sommeliers and chefs an o p p o r tu n ity to demonstrate their enthusiasm for French wines. I t was an excellent day and Northcote Manor should feel proud to have beaten such stiff competition”. Mr Bancroft is pictured, second
from right, receiving his award from the judges, (s)
Lectures address club members’ queries
TWO short lectures comprised an enlightening meeting for members of Ribblesdale Camera Club. The first, by club chairman Jeff
Cowling, focused on colour correc tion in both digital photographs and scans of film-based pho tographs. Jeff first showed how, using com
puter software, the colour composi tion of an image can be selectively improved. As an example he showed a pic
ture of his daughter sitting near a waterfall, in which the actual falls were b u rn t out and showing no detail in the water. The final picture was given a considerable "lift" in brightness and contrast, b u t the falls were darkened to bring out the colour of the water and detail of the currents. This made a very nice pic ture into something very special.
For the second lecture, club
member Dean Weaver gave a very well prepared talk demystifying the problem that digital photographers have in deciding how to store their photographs. He compared various storage formats, showing how to compress the digital information th a t forms the image and retain quality. He summarised by saying that the JPEG format may be use ful for digital snapshots, but the TIFF format is the better choice for serious photographers. At the club’s Thursday meeting,
club secretary Ken Geddes led the monthly workshop on print mount ing, followed by the use of Power Point software for producing graph ics and title slides for either digital slideshows directly or printed out for use in photograph albums or to create transparencies.
The club's annual exhibition in
Clitheroe Library opened on Mon day. Due to less space than previ ously and more members wishing to contribute, the exhibition will run in two sections. The first set of pic tures will be displayed for the first two weeks of November, then the exhibition will change a second batch of photographs displayed. Members of the public will be
invited to vote for th e ir three favourite prints on show. No mark ing or comments needed, just the three most interesting or striking images. Next week’s meeting on, Novem
ber 9th will be a talk by Peter Sharp on "The Magic of Malhamdale". For more information about the
club and its activities, contact Mr Geddes on 01200 423474.
“GOODBYE LENIN” is the latest film to be shown by the
Ribble Film Club. I t will screen th e widely
acclaimed “comedy of Commu nism” a t its new home, the Ribble Valley Borough Council Chamber, a t 7 p.m. on Sunday. The film is set in the former com
munist East Germany and tells the story of Alex and his continuing
attempts not to shock his mother, who has woken up from a coma. Prior to her coma. East Germany was a communist state; during her coma the Berlin Wall collapsed. Alex must prevent his devoutly
socialist mother from finding out the truth about the collapse of the Eastern Bloc system. Everyone is welcome a t the screening - you do not have to be a
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member of the club, although the cost of each film is slightly cheaper for members. For information about admission
and/or membership, contact Ian Turner on 01200 425876. In addi tion to its monthly screenings a t the council chamber, on Church Street, the club meets on the sec ond Monday of the month a t the New Inn, Clitheroe, at 7-30 p.m.
Top prize for Northcote Manor boss
HUNTING is high on the news agenda, but accord ing to those involved in the rural pursuit, many people have l i t t le idea what hunting is all about. Now the Pendle Forest
and Craven Hunt, which hunts around the Ribble Valley, Pendle and th e Skipton area, has issued an open invitation to the public to come and see for themselves what hunting today is all about. The open invite is part
of a “National Newcom ers” initiative and more th an 5,000 newcomers across the country have already taken p a r t in a recent "N atio n al New comers' Week". The Pendle Forest and
Craven Hunt is inviting members of the public to come and enjoy a day's hunting absolutely free of charge a t Pot Haw Farm, Conistone Cold, on Satur day. 'The h u n t is providing
experienced “guides” to look after and assist new followers, both mounted and on foot, and has relaxed th e tra d i t io n a l dress code. Commenting on th e
special newcomers' initia tive, Louise Bowman, a member of the hunt, said: "Hunts up and down the co u n try are enjoying increased support. 59% of the public now say 'keep h u n tin g ' and w ith th e high-profile p o li tic a l d ebate and increasing media coverage we are finding th a t more and more people would like the opportunity to come and try hunting for them selves. "We are making it easi
er for people to find out more and by welcoming newcomers we hope to improve understanding of our activities. "Anyone coming along
on Saturday, on foot, horse or bike, can dress as they like - but warmly! “We look forward to
meeting people who would like to see for them selves w h a t h u n tin g is really all about." For further information
and directions, or if you are b r inging a horse or pony, please call th e organisers on 01756 752882.
Bouncy find in a garden
A CHILDREN'S bouncy castle has been found in a re s id en t's garden, of Calders tone P a rk , a t Whalley. The in f la ted , toddler
size castle, appeared last week a f te r th e heavy storms. Anyone missing an item
of th is d e sc r ip tio n , is asked to call Sue Baldwin on 01254 824926.
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Whalley book is set to be Christmas No 1
AN easy to read book packed with intriguing anecdotes about life in Whal ley is set to-be a local Christmas number one. "Whalley Through Many Eyes" has been
compiled by Donnie Wallis and June Weaver, with numerous additions from local resi dents. The book has been funded by parish coun
cillor Eric Ronnan and all profits are to go to Whalley Village Hall's Arts to the Villages scheme. With colour pictures scattered throughout
the 108 pages, the book gives an insight into life many years ago, the organisations which make up the village, the growth and devel opment of Calderstones Hospital, the village primary school, characters, twinning, shops and religious changes. Easy to read, it contains some surprising
contributions, one of which details how a local couple discovered coins dating back to the reign of Edward 1 ,1272 -1307, while dig ging a pond in their garden. Whalley's postal service, police presence
and even doctors have n o t escaped the authors' quest for content ivith a difference. Lots of questions are answered. Why did
The Marjorie acquire its name? Apparently it dates back to 1829 when a
John Taylor built his "Calendar House" - 365 windows, 52 rooms, 12 chimneys, seven bath rooms etc. In 1884 the property, called Calder Cot
tage was extended and renamed "The Mar jorie." There are historical tit-bits in plenty, all
embellishing a book which, due to the dec- sion to use italic script throughout, is easy to
read - even for those with sight problems. Priced at £7, the book is available from
Mr Ronnan, 4 Sydney Avenue, Whalley, BB7 9TF, and various outlets in Whalley, including the village hall, Whalley Warm and Dry, the primary school and the library. Our photograph shows Eric Ronnan,
June Weaver and Donnie Wallis with the book, pictured right, (s)
IT was quite an elemen ta ry weekend for young children from all over the country who sampled life as a boarder a t a Ribble Valley school. Prospective pupils soon
put on their thinking caps - or deerstalkers - when they arrived at St. Mary's Hall for th e boarding weekend and got on the trail of former pupil. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, cre ator of super sleuth Sher lock Holmes. They hunted for clues
th a t linked th e author and his popular stories with the writer’s .school days of 130 years ago and the history of
Stonyhiir.st College. The boarding weekend
at the preparatory .school for th e college was free and open to boys and girls aged seven to 13 yc;irs. There was a banquet on
the Saturday evening and a detective trail around- S to n y h u r s t College on the Sunday after Mass. The “boarders” had a
booklet of clues and had to locate such items as Cromwell's table, the por t r a i t of the person who donated Sto n y h u rs t to
the
Jesuits.The trail cul m in a ted in finding Doyle's own signature (on his desk, of course!).
Jonathan Hewat, Admis sions an d M a rk e tin g Manager for Stonyhurst College, said: "The board
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Enthusiastic camera talk
MEMBERS of the Ribble Valley Camcorder Club were entertained by enthu siastic amateur Carl Stred- der, who specialises in wed ding videos. Carl loves covering wed
dings, but has shied away from doing i t full-time since he believes that eco nomic pressures would reduce quality and sup press flair. Club members discov
ered th a t weddings are very difficult to film since you only have one chance to capture the event and good preparation and vigi lance are essential. To make sure that noth
ing is missed and a variety of shots can be shown, two cameras are required to run the whole time.- The videographer also
has to be very discreet and has to discuss the prospec tive format with everyone so that he is always a t the correct place to take the im p o rtan t shots. Carl stressed that the completed film should not be more than one hour, othenvise it becomes very tedious and the film should convey a romantic atmosphere by use of appropriate music and creative editing with use of fading, misty shots and slow motion. He emphasised th a t to
make good videos you must take every opportuni ty to learn and a good place to start is by watch ing television programmes such as Coronation Street. When you watch such
programmes you can anal yse how the storyline devel ops and what each shot is trying to achieve. Every individual shot is
pre-planned, the lighting, position and angle of the camera and the length of each shot. When doing a wedding
you have to pre-plan where you will obtain the best shot and make sure th a t you can be there without obstructing the wedding procedure. The rest is down to good
editing. I t is important to include some "throw-away shots" of the church, bride's house, reception hotel frontage, moonlight, etc, to create breaks in the film. An external microphone
should also be used to enable good sound quality without the interference of other conversations and children. All the new members
were very impressed by the techniques used by Carl and the extent of his understanding of wedding moviemaking. A vote of thanks was
given by chairman Ken Brass. The club is currently
ing weekend was a huge the prospective boarders success with great inter- as characters from a clas- est from all over the coun- sic Sherlock Holmes mys- try." Pictured are some of tery.
organising a Christmas event to be held at the Rib blesdale Rugby Club early in December, where short snippets of the best videos produced Mil be shown. Richard Dugdalc
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