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A QUARREL arose between the Vicar of Down- ham and his parishioners. He said: “The people in these little places are very clannish and they look upon me as an outsider.” He added that stories of a scandalous nature were the cause of the trouble, but that there was nothing in them. However, the dames of Downham continued to


gossip, the bell-ringers, choristers and and war­ dens refused to continue in office, and most of the congregation travelled to services in Chatburn Church. D The Inebriates Reformatory was formally


opened by Sir John Hibbert, KCB, chairman of the Lancashire Inebriates’ Board. B The coming of age of Lieutenant Lewis


Aspinall, third son of Col. and Mrs Aspinall of Standen Hall, was celebrated at the hall. In the evening a servants and friends’ party was held and dancing was indulged in until midnight, when an excellent supper was provided, after which dancing was kept up until 3 a.m.


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


NO project, however large, which improved Riversmead School, Grindleton, was too much trouble for the pupils. Boys of the woodwork class were constructing a portable stage from timber which the school supplied, while the girls were making the curtains with their needlework tutor. B Camp secretary Miss I. Arstall and general


secretary Miss E. Milne, of the Training Centre for Girl Guide Officers a t Waddow Hall, were preparing to depart for the Yukon to take up mis­ sionary work.


B Local Conservatives opened their municipal


election campaign by advocating the sale of coun­ cil houses as a measure urgently needed to help achieve rate reductions.


B Headmaster of Eshton Grange School, Gar-


grave, spoke to Clitheroe Rotarians. He said that many parents from abroad sent their children to England to be educated because Britain was still a great force in the world and her name and fame still stood high among the nations.


T H O U G H T fo r t h e w e e k


DID it change anything? I mean the life and death of Jesus and the stories of his resurrection? I have just spent another Holy Week


and Easter with Christian people in Clitheroe from all the churches. It has been good to be with the faithful and reflect upon the meaning of the Cross. What does it tell me about the success of Christianity over the world to date? Firstly that people have not changed much and are still tempted to use reli­ gion to inflict their opinions and prej­


udices on innocent lives. Secondly political leaders often still seem to make decisions to save their own skin regardless as to whether it might be the right one. Thirdly there is still plenty of apathy and cynicism around about belonging to a religious or a political group - note the lack of enthusiasm for belonging openly to a church can be compared with the low interest in elec­ tions either local or national. So I end up having to decide whether or not Christianity down the ages has done


enough good and therefore is it worth me believing in Jesus today!


On the first Easter Day, Mary of


Magdala must have wondered the same: had it been worth believing in Jesus? Had she wasted her time putting her faith in Him? When she came into the garden where the body of Jesus had been buried, i t WAS STILL DARK in more ways than one. An empty tomb just made her even more hysterical. A figure standing behind her is not immediately recog­


nised to be Jesus either. But Jesus waits to be recognised amid the dark­ ness of her emotions and thinking. In so many ways, anybody can find


themselves in a dark place. Well, Jesus must have been raised from the dead in the dark. Mary of Magdala came to the garden while it was dark and felt overwhelmed by the dark. Into our dark, Jesus comes and waits to be recognised.


Canon Philip Dearden, Vicar of St • Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe


tially disastrous for our region. Three warning lights shine most brightly: cost, power, democracy. COST


J The estimated cost of setting up


this new politicians’ palace is £30 million with yearly running costs of £25 million. But can we trust these figures? The one irrefutable fa c t learnt from devolution in Scotland, Wales and London is th a t costs exceed estimates. The most glaring example of this is


the Holyrood Parliament where cost promises have been made and broken repeatedly. Holyrood's costs now stand a t £431m against its original estimate of £40m. Worryingly the Assembly's run­


ning costs will be met by increases in council tax. We believe council tax bills will face fresh hikes when run­ ning costs outstrip estimates. This is happening in London where council tax bills have more than quadrupled because the London Assembly's run­ ning costs have gone over budget - costs include having 50 per cent more staff than estimated. There are simi­ lar bureaucracy booms in Scotland and Wales. In Scotland there are now 201 MPs and MSPs serving 72 con­ stituencies costing £10m. and nearly


OHN PRESCOTT’S plans for a North West Assembly are fun­ damentally flawed and poten­


1,000 extra bureaucrats costing an extra £20 million. In Wales there are more than 1,000 more civil servants. Families in Lancashire will be hit


with a double whammy. Firstly their council tax bills will rise to pay the Assembly's running costs. Secondly there is the cost of scrapping their county council to make way for the Assembly. The leader of Cheshire, Paul Findlow, has estimated th a t Band D households could pay an extra £110 and £173-a-year - if the authority is replaced by three unitary authorities. Lancashire could be sim­ ilarly affected.


POWER Despite its enormous cost the


Assembly will have nothing like the powers of the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly. Yes supporters point out how the Scots Parliament scrapped up-front tuition fees and the Welsh Assembly voted to freeze prescription charges. But a North West Assembly would be powerless to do this. I t would have no power over public services. I t would be unable to provide a single extra nurse, doctor, teacher or police officer. The Assembly would have control


over less than one per cent of Gov­ ernment expenditure in the region. This is the humble, meagre reality. I ts area of influence would be restricted to local government areas


As I see i t . . . by Sir David Trippier,


chairman of the North-West Says No Campaign


like planning. But this lack of power is killing support. As CBI director John Cridland said: "There is little business support for this. There is no evidence assemblies will have any impact on economic development." LOCAL DEMOCRACY


One of the Yes Campaign’s great


fantasies is that the Assembly will improve local democracy. There will be about 35 Assembly


members. Each will be responsible for an utterly unmanageable 230,000 people. How can that improve local democracy when our MPs represent around 89,000 people and our coun­ cillors around 4,500 people? Assem­ bly members will be remote and anonymous to constituents. Lancashire is likely to have just


two of the 35 Assembly members and faces losing its voice and being frozen out of the Assembly. The Assembly will be dominated by Merseyside and Greater Manchester who will have


the vast majority of Assembly mem­ bers.


The Assembly will be ruled by an


Executive of six Assembly members chosen by it not the public. These six people will effectively make all the decisions - again damaging demo­ cratic accountability. Moreover if the Assembly is in Wigan or Manchester how is that improving local democra­ cy for Clitheroe and the Ribble Val­ ley? A North West Assembly will set


counties, towns and cities against each other, competing for profile and money. This is happening in Wales. Earlier this month the Welsh Daily Post ran a poll showing that 70 per cent of North Wales people felt the Welsh Assembly is biased towards South Wales. The North West only exists on a


map in Whitehall not the hearts and minds of people in the region.


Breathing life into the Ribble Valley’s beautiful surroundings L


OCAL art is t Mrs Jean Holt loves nothing more than bring­ ing to life the beautiful scenes


and sights of the Ribble Valley. For a number of years Jean, who


lives in Whalley, has been displaying her work in the village teashop, but now she has aspired to an art studio of her own, based at Hanson's Gar­ den Centre, Whalley Road, Barrow. Jean started painting as a hobby,


but this has grown into a passion to learn more and more about the sub­ ject. This is not surprising as paint­ ing is a family tradition. Both her parents painted and her sister, Mar­ garet, still takes out her paint brush­ es and canvas. Jean produces work in a wide vari­


ety of styles from conventional land­ scapes in watercolour, cartoons, sports paintings to the “definitely something weird” in oils. Depending on the subject, she likes to paint in both oils and watercolour as well as pastels, and every commission is a challenge to her natural skill. Each painting she displays in her


ARTIST Jean Holt in her studio within (he Hanson's Garden Centre grounds. (C040104/6)


25 years ago


THE Labour Government was condemned by Clitheroe Division MP Mr David Waddington. He said they had caused the seedy decline of the country and aft.er five years of maladministration had made the British the paupers of Europe. He added th a t unemployment and prices had dou­ bled, the £ of 1974 was only worth 48p and that a Conservative Government following the General Election in May would restore the economy. B Two marksmen from Slaidbum were among


the 350 top clay pigeon shooters bidding for a place in the £500,000 Eley Super Series Finals, held in Cheshire. B The long-awaited apearance of the sun


brought the warmest April weather for 30 years and an Easter invasion of the villages by hikers and motorists. Record-breaking Easter tempera­ tures meant a hot and hectic long weekend for Ribble Valley pubs, restaurants and cafes, which were swamped by visitors taking advantage of the sunshine.


Round up the flock for this year’s fest


THEY’RE baaaaaa-ack! Organisers of Ribble Valley’s second


SheepFest have how completed details of the competition and are urging everyone to join in the fun. The idea is to fill shops, houses, gardens


schools and workplaces with homemade sheep, any of which can be entered in the


competition. The four prize categories are: 1. Sheep created by children up to the


age of 12. 2. Sheep created by families. 3. The largest flock. 4. Commercial/retail entry.


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> Entry forms are now available from the Tourist Information Centre, Market Place,


: Clitheroe, and the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times office, King Street, Clitheroe. Once completed they can be handed in to


those offices, or posted to SheepFest Com­ petitions, 56 Fairfield Drive, Clitheroe,


BB72PE. Forms must be completed and returned


: Co-organiser Mr Charles Pearce said: by May 29th.


“Don’t get bored over the school holidays, or by the usual routine a t work; get cre­ ative, make a sheep and enter the competi­


tion.” Entries will be judged on June 2nd, 3rd,


and 4th, prior to SheepFest itself, which will take place in conjunction with the Great Days Festival on June 5th and 6th. Winners’ names will be posted a t,th e


Great Days Festival desk a t the Parish Hall by 11 a.m., Saturday June 5th.


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days, weddings and anniversaries, or to remember a treasured pet or a painting of your home. Along with two other artists, Jean


helps to run a Life Drawing Group in Station House, Whalley, for experi­ enced artists each Wednesday. She is a member of th e Society for All Artists, Pendle Artists and Black­ burn Artists' Society. Most of all she enjoys painting


outdoors, particularly old and unusu­ al buildings and dramatic scenes in and around the Ribble Valley, together with a variety of "wacky" subjects. “I certainly don’t like chocolate


box painting,” she said. The future looks rosy for Jean with


this new venture at Hanson's. “I t is an ideal venue, and I am hop­


ing for many visitors especially in the summer months when I can take my easel and sit outside the studio, talk­ ing to would-be artists about paint­ ings and perhaps encourage any bud­ ding Picasso,” she said. At the moment, Jean spends about


25 hours a week painting and is a t the studio every afternoon in the week and all day at weekends.


Alistair is elected to top national accountants’ post


A FORMER Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil has been elected as the national chairman of th e In s t i tu te of Chartered Accountants. Alistair Smith (pictured), who is


also a former pupil of Pendle Pri­ mary School in Clitheroe, current­ ly works for WBS Chartered Accountants in Leeds. But having beat tough competi­


tion, the high point of his career so far is to take on the new role as chairman until March next year. “I am absolutely over the moon


to have been elected,” said Alistair. “Altogether there were three can­ didates standing for the position, so I am very pleased to have been chosen. “The position will enable me to


discuss c e r ta in issues facing accountancy students, the events that they want to attend and how to organise them successfully.


“I also hope to ensure that the


students are involved closely with the wider activities of the insti­ tute’s student council” Keen football player Alistair


(26), is the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Tony and Suzanne Smith, of Edisford Bridge, Clitheroe. After leaving school, he attend­


ed Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Sixth-Form centre and undertook four A-levels in Busi­ ness Studies, Politics, Computing and General Studies. Two years later he went to the


University of Northumbria and successfully completed a three- year course in Business Studies. From there he landed himself a


job in Leeds and has been working there since. Alistair is also on the board of


executives of the institute’s Leeds and District branch and is looking


forward to taking on the new chal­ lenge. “Obviously as part of the task I


will have to travel to London every three months, but I am looking forward to that and meeting new people,” added Alistair.


Hospitals launch a linen amnesty!


IS everything in your linen basket or on your washing


line yours? T h a t is the question h ealth


care bosses are asking Ribble Valley residents as they appeal to them to check out their laun­ dry baskets. E a s t L an c a sh ire H o sp ita ls T ru s t h a s lau n ch ed a "linen


amnesty" in a bid to recover lost property taken from hospitals in Clitheroe, Blackburn, Burnley, A c c r in g to n , Pendle and Rossendale. Last year an estimated 24,000


items of linen went missing. This includes 4,000 blankets,


6,000 sheets and 1,000 n ig h t­ dresses.


The tru s t is now appealing for


patients to return items which they may have taken home by mistake. Linen bins will be made avail­


able in the general offices a t hos­ pitals, including Clitheroe. Items can also be returned to


th e la u n d ry a t Queen's P a rk Hospital* Blackburn.


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