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CLITHEROE’S old public library closed its doors for the last time, with the new one opening several days later. The new library was open for public inspection and many locals took the opportunity to visit it. The workings of the Whipp memorial clock fas cinated many people. • “Are the clothes too fashionable?” -
that was a comment which provoked laughter a t the Clitheroe Board of Guardians meeting, when it was reported that a vagrant at the workhouse had destroyed workhouse clothing. He was sen tenced to a month’s imprisonment with
hard labour. • Chatburn FC sustained their first
defeat of the season, losing 6-2 to Crossbills after leading 2-0 at half-time. • Three dances were held around
Clitheroe and the surrounding area, with Mr. W. Fletcher as the pianist. One was specially for aspiring dancers, with dance teachers on hand to provide tips for the dancers. • Dr Williams’ Pink Pills, something of
a new craze, reached Clitheroe. They were renowned for being able to cure anything from rheumatism to indigestion.
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pace, dragging you with it, wouldn’t it be great to push the pause button and put the whole word in freeze frame, except for you? The first thing I would do is sleep - and
Life should have a pause button! Do you ever wish life had a “pause”
button, like the one on your video? When life is flashing by at a frantic
As I see i t . . . by Duncan Smith
soundly, in the knowledge that I would not be woken in the early hours by a five-year- old singing “Rupert the Bear”, then asking for a drink... then needing the toilet... then wanting the light on... I would sleep for a week, then I would sleep some more. At last refreshed, and
with the world around me still “on hold”, I would set about all those jobs that I never quite get around to. I would tidy the house, get rid of the
clutter, paint that forgotten door, sort out the shed and the wardrobe too. Then there are those videos, used to record stuff from the TV, but left carelessly unlabelled and sitting in the pile miarked “mystery”.
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
WADDINGTON Drama Group displayed examples of the cultural heritage of other countries by participating in International Theatre Month, performing short plays from around the world. The cast was praised for showing “unbelievable talent” , ■ especially M. Whittan, who played Mari
ana. • Clitheroe R o p l Grammar School
brought its total wins up to seven, in the county under-18s cross country event. The star of the show was Thomas Wood who broke another record and finished first, giving him a fifth win out of seven races. • A three-year-old scooped no less than
18 prizes at the Clitheroe Poultry Society Show. They included five cups. • Clitheroe FC put on a superb display
thrashing Wigan Reserves 2-0. I t was a hard fought match and although Wigan were unable to even force a save from the Clitheroe keeper they were well organised and posed Clitheroe difficulties. • Some of the first technicolor films
arrived in the Ribble Valley. They included “Prisoner of War”, “The Dark Avenger” and “To Paris With Love” and were shown at King Lane and The Grand.
button? ■ 25 years ago
IMPROVEMENT work in the Bawd lands area of Clitheroe was halted by angry Ribble Valley councillors who were concerned at the rising cost of the project. The £130,000 facelift was suspended after the Housing Committee was told about a similar scheme in Longridge in which costs
had risen by almost 50%. • Conservative MPs Mr David
Waddington and Mr John Watson joined the campaign to save the two Ribble Val ley primary schools threatened with clo sure. The politicians, who represented Clitheroe and Skipton, pledged their sup port at a public meeting in Bashall Eaves. 0 York Street, Clitheroe, was being
advertised as the perfect place for Christ mas shopping. Described as an “estab lished and quality” shopping area, it included Pye’s of Clitheroe, Ethos Gallery, Ribble Valley Music and Patricia Bailey. 0 Two of the Clitheroe Soroptimist
Club’s founder members had been given the highest accolade-in the club. Miss Dorothy Rushton, of Waddington Road, Clitheroe and Mrs Phyllis Todd, of Whal- ley Road, Pendleton, both received hon orary membership.
THOUGHT Start of tho rush! for th e w e e k
I SIT in my study on a dull November morning writing for the Advertiser and Times this article, which will appear on December 1st at the beginning of Advent and the start of everyone opening little doors in advent calendars. Already the hype has begun, and the
marketing forces are getting ready to pro mote Christmas as a commercial festival, once again. We have a period of four weeks of prepa
ration during Advent which we, as Non- Conformists, do not very often adhere to very seriously, and that, I find, is a great shame. Advent is a challenge and a time to pre
pare for Christmas in the right way. I have just heard recently that there is one Lon don borough this year that is going to have "Winter Lights" instead of Christmas Lights, in case it offends anybody. I find that quite amazing. The Christ
mas festival, the birth of Jesus, is a celebra tion for the whole world, and it is an oppor tunity for us to speak out the Christmas message, to challenge people with the Gospel and to have new ways of presenting
the story. During Advent, I have placed a chal
lenge to all the congregation at one of my
churches - the one in Whalley - to make a special effort to come and share in New Day. It is an opportunity for conversation, for reading the Bible, for praying together - at seven in the morning - for 45 minutes. This group has been meeting each week
day now for nearly two years. It is a won derful way to start the day. It focuses the mind, it helps us remember and share our thoughts about events around the world and within our local community and about local people. If you are not one of the 20 or so people
within the life of Whalley Methodist Church who have been to New Day, then why not make a commitment during Advent to attend your church or come and join us to start the day in a different way. So, I place that challenge before you. We
will have programmes of events and activi ties during Advent which will encourage people in all the churches to reflect again on that Christmas story. The story of Christ coming into the
world, bom in a lowly stable in Bethlehem under the fear and the threat of so many people challenging what the future would hold. The days of a brutal king, the days when there would be the cutting down of all the young children bom at that time.
And when we step back from the tradi
tional story, and reflect upon it, and we look across the globe in our world at this time, over 2,000 years later, we still see -vio lence and lirutality, people aiming to destroy life, not always with a clear motive. We see governments who are prep^ed to
let their people starve while they live in lux ury. We see situations where people are abused both in this country and elsewhere, by people who have a perverted mind and people who cannot see goodness in any sit
uation. Christmas should be a time of hope. Let
us make it a time of hope and opportunity within our local community, within the life
of our churches this year. And let us, when we come closer to that
day of December 25th, when all the hustle and bustle is complete, just come and focus on the Christ child in the manger at Beth lehem, the hope and the light for the world to lead us forward into a new year in 2006. So worship with us, pray with us, share
with us, but in everything, focus on the real meaning of Christmas.
Chris Chceseman,
Deputy Chairman of North Lancashire Methodist District,
Superintendent Clitheroe Circuit i 3 I would sleep some more, that deep and
undisturbed sleep, then, having done the things that need doing, I would do the things that I long to do, but never have the time to. I would listen to music, learn to play the guitar and read all those books that sit on the shelves gathering dust. Oh... I would dust, too! But life has no pause button. I t is
December already and I have not written a single Christmas card. If only I’d started
a month ago. Do you ever wish life had a “rewind”
Mum Amanda flies high as a new legal eagle
A C L ITH ERO E woman, who left school with no formal qualifications, has achieved her lifetime ambition by becoming a fully-fledged solici tor.
not only her boss, but her stepfather when he married her mother, Christine. In 1994 she was given
Mrs Amanda Mead
ows (33), of Queensway, Waddington, has taken a major step up the legal ladder by following in her stepfather’s footsteps and qualifying as the new solicitor with Houldsworths, • of
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Clitheroe. At the age of 16, the
former pupil of Bowland High School began work as an office junior at the local solicitors office in Duck Street. She had worked at the
office for seven years when Mr
Houldsworth became John
the task of obtaining the prestigious Investors in People Award. The award made her realise that with hard work and dedication she was capa ble of achievement and spurred her on to be'one of the first women in Lancashire to achieve an NVQ level 4 in manage ment. “This was the first
qualification I had ever obtained. The only thing I was good at at school was clowning around!,”
she said. The qualification
encouraged her to enrol at Blackburn College on a four-year legal execu tive course. Amanda added: “The
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A NEW book about how local people contributed to the Sec ond World War effort has been penned by Ribble Valley author
Ron Freethy. With the memory of this
summer’s VE Day and VJ Day celebrations still fresh in people’s minds, Mr Freethy has written a book, which recognises local residents’ enormous contribu tion to the general war effort. Entitled Lancashire 1939 -
1945 The Secret War, it concen trates on the work that was going on in secret across the county, with several references made to the-war effort in the
Ribble Valley. Mr Freethy explains how, in
early 1940, there was a danger th a t Hitler’s invasion force might lise the area’s beaches.
ports and rivers to launch an attack on mainland Britain. The local workforce was soon involved in the war effort, work ing in converted cotton mills and purpose-built factories.
Apprentice Mark goes into firm’s history book
A CLITHEROE apprentice is celebrating after becoming the first at his firm to receive an
award. Mr Mark Taylor, of Billin^on,
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was presented with Machinist of the Year, from Training 2000, for his work performance a t the Primrose Road company, Lode-
matic. The 23-year-old, who has b ^n
working a t the manufacturing
firm.for the past five years, said
he was thrilled with the award. I am over the moon, especially as it is the first time in the’ company that anyone has won an award, so that is an extra bonus,” he said. The machinist (pictured), who
also won second place for Apprentice of the Year, was selected by the Blackbum-baMd learning providers after being continually assessed and moni tored during his apprenticeship. (B141105/3)
M r Freethy explains in detail
how the Ribble Valley area and its people were instrumental in the development of the jet engine with work beginning at Waterloo Mill in Clitheroe.
four years passed very quickly. I met so many new friends that I decid ed to continue with my studies to see whether I could make it to become a solicitor.” During her time at
college, she claims she was the only person in the country to obtain a distinction in her crimi nal law exam - an achievement of which she is immensely proud. While at university, she returned to Blackburn College to lecture first year legal executive stu dents in conveyancing. Nine years after first
enrolling at college, Amanda was finally admitted as a solicitor by the Law Society earli er this month after grad uating from Manchester Metropolitan 'University with a commendation.
Commenting on her
success she said: “I am obviously delighted with my achievement, but could not have done it without the full support of my family and espe cially my boss and stepfa ther, John Houldsworth, who I would like to thank for his support and encouragement.”
_________ Amanda is married to
Craig, and has a son, Matthew. ■While studying at col
lege and university, she has remained in full-time employment with Houldsworths. Our picture shows Amanda with Mr
Houldsworth. (B231105/2)
Secret history of Valley’s war effort against Nazis LANCASHIRE
■ TT ____ L.___(.1, — 1909-1945 • He goes on to recount the
importance of the area’s lime stone supplies in the production of concrete,, and how the Royal Engineers trained troops at
• Brungerley Bridge, later billet ed in the Low Moor area of
Clitheroe. - . Other traumatic events such as the bombing of Chatbum are
also recalled. Mr Freethy said: “There is no
reason why events that were secret 60 years ago, should still be secrets today. I have tried to unravel some information, which the censor kept secret at the time, and discover which inventions were developed in Lancashire. ” Published by Countryside
Books, it is available from local booksellers priced £9-99.
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