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Many happy memories of camp school were triggered by this trip to the past
us. This triggered a whole reel of memories of my own. I lived in the White Bungalow at the
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top of Whiteacre Lane and was only a small child when the evacuees were boarded at the camp. My father had battery hens for egg
production and a market garden. My- mother well remembers how the visit ing relatives of the evacuees used to walk up the lane to buy fresh eggs. Butter and such was rationed and
scarce and apparently some of the mothers used to save up some of their butter and lard rations to give to my mother in exchange for eggs. 1 also recall two girl evacuees who
were homed with private families up Clerk Hill, one at a farm and one at the big house of Clerk Hill itself. Their names were Esther and Frances and they came to Wiswell School where wo became great friends. We used to spend many happy hours
WOULD like to thank Audrey Miller for sharing her memories of Whiteacre Camp School with
;i'"As>T'se'eit by Doris:Browri
house playing in the huge old walled garden and summer house at Clerk Hill. . : ;. . I wonder where they are now? . ■
' Audrey Miller mentioned the wire mesh protecting the windows a t ’the ' school. Wo also had similar thick gauze
stuck to all the windows at Wiswell School, which was to prevent shattered glass being scattered in case of a bomb. There were also huge barrage bal
loons up in the sky. I suppose these were to stop the “Jerries” from bomb- , ing over our local industry like the Barrow Printworks and the Cotton Mill at Chatburn. And probably Sam- lesbury Aerodrome where .aeroplane parts were manufactured." • .
, v ■ The headmistress of Wiswell School
was old and well-loved Miss Ashcroft from Barrow. She walked daily up Whiteacre Lane to the school and as she passed our house she would take myself, brother and sister in tow as we plodded through deep winter snows. • Later on after the war when the evacuees were all gone, Whiteacre Camp School became a mixed regular boarding school for children from the big towns and cities to come to for a taste of our fresh country air. I was probably 20 years of age when
Barrow who remember old Dick Rich mond who was the head grounds- man/maintenance man at the Camp 'School.
I worked there as a domestic for a cou ple of years. There are still the old residents of
Top PR couple bring all their expertise to the Ribble Valley
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live m Langho and liead up public relations company PAPR, have moved their business from Black burn to Ribchestcr in the Ribble Valley. The firm, which doubles up as
Agnew, an award-winning sports journalist and author, PAPR has made great strides since it was established in 199'1. Mr Agnew (46), once the chief
The brainchild of'founder Paul.> ■ ,'p
lovely lane chopped up when the A59 bypass was built, then the big detached houses started to go up on the open fields at the lowersido of the bypass bridge. Sadly also the lovely little stone well
Later on still, it was sad to see our
enamel jug at the well to make lemon ade from fresh cut up lemons in the summertime. There were also two large wells in the
which produced continuous sparkling clear spring water was destroyed when the bypass was built. i My mother regularly used to fill an
middle of the village. And incidentally if anyone dared to
call the village Wizell they were very promptly corrected! We always presumed the village was
named Wiswell derived from wishing well because of its wells. So these are my memories of a very
happy childhood and youth. Thankyou Audrey Miller for sharing yours. DORIS BROWN, Moor Field,' Whallcy
-LOOKING BACK n 100 years ago
THE Medical Officer presented his quarterly report to the Town Council, stating that there had been 61 births and 49 deaths in that period. In all 17 deaths were of children under five, which were attributed to whooping cough, which had been very prevalent in the area, scarlet fever, typhoid and diphtheria. He ordered the closure of St James’s Infants
by Julie Wintll
GREATER powers could to the police to curb aleJ anti-social behaviour in Cl Members of Ribble Vail
behaviour, which according ( been on the increase in the v | past couple of years. Ribble Valley borough cound
burn parish councillor Mr Hn said there was a problem, es)| the summer months, ■with youi
Politici enjoy
by Vivien Meath
POLITICS were most ce r tainly off the menu when Whalley Chamber of Trade held its annual dinner and dance. Burning issues of the
day were temporarily replaced by good food, fine wine and lashings of humour as village traders were joined by staff, family and friends at the Mytton Fold Farm Hotel, Langho. All who have attended
the chamber's annual event • previously know that there are no holds barred. And so
it was on Saturday night. Proposing the toast on
School for a month owing to the high level of lung affections. - 9 Mr D. J. Shackleton, MP for Clitheroe, and Mr
the press office for Rovers, also boasts top brewers Thwaitos and coach travel specialists Fraser. ; Eagle among its list .of prestigious clients., _
Tom Garnett were members of a deputation which met Prime Minister Mr A. J. Balfour in Manches ter to urge the Goverment to take what action it could in suppressing gambling in cotton futures, which they said was adversely affecting the indus try in Lancashire. • Regarding the Motor Car Act, the Town Coun
cil resolved that no application be made for a 10 miles per hour speed limit in the borough. 50 years ago
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Judith celebrates her exam success
A TRAINEE accountant from Clitheroe is celebrating; afteivpassing exams to become a chartered accountant a t one of Lancashire’s largest firms. ■ 'Miss Judith I-Iunter.(25) has completed the final'qual
ifying.exams of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), while on a graduate tndning contract at the Preston headquarters of Moore and Smalley. ‘
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at: Speaking about; her achievements Miss Hunter ' said: -‘T am delighted, to have passed the exams enabling me to apply for full membership of the ICAEW. ’
; and Smalley have been excellent employers in
^successful career at the firm.” ' • Adrienne Collinge, personnel manager a t Moore and
s ; A keen hockey player,'Miss Hunter graduated ,with a
B.Sc. in accountancy from Hull University. ■ Moore and Smalley, is a 12-partner firm,' employing
. t • - • ;i. gearing my career-towards this and I look forward to a
Smalley, added: “Ju d i th ’s exam success is richly deserved, allowing her to take a further step in her devel opment as a chartered accountant at'Moore and Small ey.” . '
more than 120 staff in its Preston and Blackpool offices. ; It provides a full range; of accountancy and business advisory services to the North-West business communi ty.
Top award for sales manager,,^
MONTHS of hard work paid off for a man ager at a local firm, who scooped the top award in a national competition. Mr David Hallam, sales manager at Per
rys car distributors, in Waterloo Road, Clitheroe, smashed targets to earn himself first place in the “Peugeot Sales Campaign for 2003”. Out of 360 entrants, Mr Hallam, along
with his colleague, Mr Paul Sagar, from the Blackburn branch, successfully achieved 180% of sales over a four-month period, when the initial target was only 110%. Peugeot district sales manager Mr Phil
'THE MP for Darwen visited Green Brothers’ Abbey Mill at Billington and met 77-year-old Mrs Elizabeth Gilbert a weaver who had worked there since she was 10. A total of 70% of the mill’s output went to Burma (which took many coloured cloths including organdie), South Africa and Australia., 0 Spritely 85-year-old Mrs Pethaney Jackson
brought the house down during the broadcasting of Clitheroe’s "Have A Go" show, enhancing the famous programme’s reputation for homely fun. When Wilfred Pickles asked for her recipe for
good health she described a concoction of Epsom salts and Glauber’s salts mixed with warm water and drunk before breakfast. • 9 “Nothing that has gone before can compare
with this!”. The King Lane cinema advertised the 3 Dimension horror film "House of Wax", starring Vincent Price and Phyllis Kirk, shown on the most up-to-date Western Electric equipment and met allised wide screen.
25 years ago
THE side effects of the lorry drivers’ strike bit deep into school canteen stocks and Ribble Valley parents were asked to provide emergency school meals for their children. They were also preparing for an impending water
crisis owing to industrial action by North West Water Authority workers. Burst mains were not repaired and the authority
Walker said: “I’m delighted that two sales managers in the North-West region have first and second place in a UK-wide Peugeot sales manager competition. “Both Mr Hallam and Mr Sagar smashed
sales targets sot for the campaign with their excellent customer service skills and exten sive knowledge of the fantastic Peugeot range. “By combining these two skills with their
enthusiasm, the two managers were able to convert customer leads into sales.” Mr Hallam who has been working at the
Clitheroe branch for over two years now, won an all- expenses paid holiday to Barbados.
Facing the sell-by date
i r ~ r "THEN you have to \ l \ l keep a cheap pair of V V reading glasses in
the bathroom-to avoid an amputation as you cut your toe nails - you know th a t time is passing onl Many of us arc happy to
ing, late at night, to die with out illness just inside his own frontdoor.; Disease (which is often,
give God the credit when life begins, but what is He up to : when life looks like stopping? Having recently stayed for ;
several days in the nursing home where my 94-year-oldi aunt is seriously ill, I have had a dross rehearsal for my own degeneration and demise. And it is not funny! > ; Just what is God up to in ,
this alarming increase in pain and illness, the decrease in povyers of, mind and body, and theloss of quality of life?
caused'by dis-ease; think, about it) is one of the myster ies of our life, and it is one of the cruelties of this world that the wonderful provisions of the medical profession and the National Health Service may sometimes keep us alive when any purpose, usefulness and quality of life has gone. I would certainly not be
; . Okay, some of us believe that there is life in unbeliev able richness on the other side', of death, hut why this agony in getting there? ■ Maybe ‘in-'God's perfect >
-design, we-are meant to die as my grandfather did - going at the age of 82 to a Ghamber of Gommerce dinner and return--
,mbnt statin.g'.that -I do not wish to be’a rtificially kept alive when there is no longer any possibility of a meaningful
existence.
and ray next-of-kin from diffi cult decisions, and the health service from wasting'any more precious resources on mo. . - ; But what is my God, who
'Phis at least saves doctors , ^
alive today if it were not for the care of many doctors, the health service and the medica-' tion upon which 1 depend. ■ i But. I have signed a docu-
is He up to, as I become less active, and perhaps angry and faithless as my powers of mind and body diminish? ■ and impor
tant lesson which we have to learn in the very processes of growing old. Namely that we are not the independent self- made self-managing people that we like to think we are. ■ • Of course, independence and
initiative is praiseworthy in adult life. To reach the freedom of
. raise a family is to find life in all its fullness. But if there is a God, then
maturity, earn a living, serve our community, and perhaps
all that we are and all that we have is His gifti We began life dependent on others, and in old age we become increasing ly dependent on others - loved ones and professionals -
:• because in the end we are all utterly dependent on the Cre ator to whom,we owe every- -
r thing. "Yours Lord'!,- we often say in our church services -„
was surely there at my begin ning, and has so'often been present in my active life -what
; ,"Yours Lord is the greatness,, the power, the glory, the splen-. dour, and the majesty; for.
everything in heaven and earth is yours. All things come from you, and of your own do we give you." I t is not easy to acknowl
edge our dependence on oth- ersl Not easy to accept with gracious courtesy the service which relatives and friends, medics and carers will lavish upon us as we grow older and weaker. • . This is life's last and hardest
lesson - the acceptance of our need of others, and in the end our need of God. That is why Our Lord Jesus
used a "parental" model - the image of a F a th e r ,- as the symbol for God's relationship with us. When the chips are: down, however old and experi-. enced we may be, however sue-, cessful and well qualified we may have become - before God we are symbolically "his chil dren"! . ." When you pray," said Jesus, "say Our Father
' f ronts us as we grow older. ■; Of course there are those
therein is the acknowledge ment of our ultimate depen dence, which steadily con-
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advised householders to boil water for at least a minute before consumption and appealed for neigh bours to look after the needs of elderly folk in their areas. . 9 A buyer was being sought for the steam engine
which had powered Green Brothers’ Abbey Mill at Billington. A director of the company, which was due to close
that March, said the machine was a prime specimen of the golden age of cotton in Lancashire and was well worth preserving. 9 Ribble Valley councillors were asked to turn
down a 40% “pay rise” to help beat inflation. The chairman of the Finance and General Pur
poses Gommittee said: “My allowances hardly cover my phone bills, but we are not in it for the money and I feel we ought to be giving a hand at this time.’
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who are determined to prolong life whatever its quality, and even those crazy cryogenics (mostly in the USA) who arrange to be deep frozen at death, in the expectation that medical progress will eventual ly lead to cures for their termi nal illness.
, ; , But who wants to be put
• what He is up to. I like to end each day with ;
, : Death is to be accepted, even welcomed, since every thing in this space-time uni verse has its sell-by date, and th a t includes our material bodies and brains. But God has something else in store for the real you and mo - and the process of growing old is His firm call to us to acknowledge our dependence on Him and to ; ■renew our trust that He knows
into a microwave to "defrost," only to find this old world as bad as ever - or perhaps worse?
the ancient prayer: "May the Lord almighty grant us a quiet night and a perfect end." And- that says it all.' .
The Rev. Ian D. H. Robins, Anglican priest'
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behalf of the guests, MP Nigel Evans had been told "not to talk shop". He made a valiant
attempt, but failed at the final hurdle.'Having paid tribute to the chamber for its tremendously successful Pickwick Night last month and complimented shop keepers for efforts put in throughout the last year,
Council’s Policy and FinancT were due to decide this weq make an order, which would s powers to confiscate alcohol drinking in public. The aim of the order is to i
the playing fields, acting like “la mitting criminal damage offoni
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making part'icuiar mention ■. ot the Christmas trees which decorated 'Whalley, he had a momentary lapse - back into politics. "We change our leader every, two years," he told assem bled guests. "By 2030, I will be the leader of the Conservative Party." He added that when that time came, borough councillor, the Rev. Chris Sterry could look forward to becoming a
Inquest tol following
A VERDICT of death by I misadventure was recorded at
the inquest of a Clitheroe |
man. The inquest heard that Mr I
Kenneth Page (72), of Fox Street, Clitheroe, suffered a perforated oesophagus when | doctors performed an opera tion in September last year | involving a Sangstaken tube. Coroner Mr Michael Sin- I
gleton said it was the second similar case he had heard in a week and asked the hospital’s consultant if a review of the | procedure was needed. Mr Page, whose sister and i
partner attended the inquest, i died on September 25th.
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