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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, October 20th, 2005


Celebrations to remember as library reaches its centenary


by Natalie Cox


an exciting chapter in the life of a historic Clitheroe building will be


played out this weekend. Clitheroe Library - one of the town’s


most prominent public buildings is hosting special events to mark its


100th birthday. Visitors to the town centre building


cannot fail to notice the colouful lengths of “Bunting Bonanza” which are on display inside. Designed by local primary schoolchildren to mark the library’s aimiversary, every flag has


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a f t e r reading about the cente­ nary celebrations, Barrow resident and poet Irene Charlton brought in her written tribute to her grandfa­ ther who used to work there. Three years ago she wrote “A Link with the P a s t” about her maternal grandfather - John Amos Briggs - who was responsible for looking after the clock in Clitheroe Library. Mr Briggs lived and worked from


been entered in a special birthday competition, with the prizes due to be presented tomorrow at a VIP celebra­ tion.


Civic dignitaries and other special


guests, including some of the library’s housebound readers, have been invited along tomorrow for the start of the centenary celebrations. They will be able to view an exhibi­


tion of photographs depicting the building as it would have been in 1905 and tracking its history down the decades to present day. Over the weekend staff will be lead­ ing guided tours around the building.


giving a behind-the-scenes glimpse into life at the library and showing vis­ itors parts of the building not normal­ ly open to the public such as the old


police cells. Competitions aimed at young and


old alike will be running until the end of October. The treasure hunt style quizzes will ensure borrowers visit departments they may not normally


see. In the “Library Lookaround” there


are cryptic clues to solve revealing var­ ious items found in the library, while the character treasure hunt will ensure youngsters are kept busy trying to


Fond memories A link with the past John Amos Briggs was grandad’s


name He cared for all the civic clocks In the historic town of Clitheroe That boasts a castle, built on


rocks.


Winding, cleaning and oiling Making sure good time was kept He was time served, a true crafts­


his home in Whalley Road, Clitheroe, where he used to carry out clock repairs. Right is the poem penned by Mrs Charlton — one of more than 150 she has written over


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YOUR help is needed in identifying the names of people on this photograph of a Clitheroe VJ Day street party taken in


1945. With efforts already made to work out the


names of many of those pictured enjoying the cel­ ebration in Milton Avenue on September 7th, those involved in unravelling the identification mystery - the late Peter Turner, John Cowgill, Margaret Sutcliffe and John Whitehead - need


your help. Anyone who can correct or add to the already


comprehensive list of names should contact Mr Whitehead by telephone on 423881 or by email to johnwhitehead@tiscali.co.uk. Some of the women have been listed by their maiden names and those involved in identifying the party-goers believe they may have got one or two wrong altogether. Pictured are: Sitting, on the left side of the left


table: Two babies, Janet Wilkinson, Mrs Wilkin­ son, Betty Wilkinson, Mrs Taylor, Mrs White- side, Helen Turner, Rosemary Cook, Margaret Taft (now Coun. Sutcliffe), Mrs Bruce, Elizabeth Binder, Elaine Spencer, Peter Turner, Keith Kent, Colin Taft, Anne Silverwood, Janet Hudson,


Anne Becker, Barbara Turner, Jean Wilson, Mrs Brogden, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Royston, Mrs Williams. Right side, left table: Elaine Collins, Julia Westhead, Carol Bishop, Judith, Susan and Carol Johnson, Mary Grant, Margaret Turner, Left side, right table: Guy Leach, Sheila White-


side, Jenny Grant, Anne Grant, Helen Smithson, Jean Houlker, Betty Foulker, Jock Mitchell, Dorothy Williams, Muriel Poole. Right side, right table: Joan Whiteside, Keith


Whiteside, Elizabeth Hartell, Margaret Hartell, Pat Haydock, Gerald Bishop, John Smithson, Marie Isherwood, Margaret Wilson, John Spens-


ley, Albert Poole, Roy Poole, Mrs Oliver. Stand­ ing, from the left: Dick Hartley (in drag). Miss Fletcher, Miss Smith, Mrs Cook, Alf Stephenson, Mrs Stephenson, Miss Cornwell, Mrs Turner, Mrs Taft, Mrs Finder, Mrs Higson, Jean Wallace, Fred Whiteside, Tom Taylor, John Cowgill, John Whitehead, Ian Wrigley, Tom Taft, Mr Hudson, Mrs Hudson, Mrs Frances Whiteside, Mrs Spencer, Mrs Whiteside, Josephine Turner, Mar­ garet Turner, Betty Cook, Mrs Jackson, Edith Marshall, Ian Dickson, Gay Dickson, Mr Cook, Mrs Westhead, Elsie Jones, Mrs Poole, Fred Poole, Mrs Isherwood and Mrs Wilson, (s)


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AFTER almost 150 years of repose, the much-travelled remains of a Roman, saint were on the move again at Stony- hurst College. The remains of St Gordianus have


rested in the Sodality Chapel a t the College since 1859 but the planned restoration of the chapel meant that they had to be found a new, temporary home. With due reverence, and under the


watchful eye of Curator Jan Graffius, a group of A Level religious studies pupils carefully carried the handsome gilt reli­ quary and casket in a solemn procession from the Sodality Chapel to the Boys’ Chapel where prayers were said. To add to the experience Mrs Graf­


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fius explained the background of St Gordianus and how his remains came to be at Stonyhurst. In the third century Gordianus was in


Rome when he was so moved by the sanctity and sufferings of the saintly priest Januarius th a t he embraced Christianity with many of his house­ hold. As a result he was cruelly tortured


and finally beheaded. The Christians laid his body in a crypt on the Latin Way beside the body of St Epimachus, who had been recently interred there. Some time later his remains were


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moved to the Cyriaca cemetery and there they lay until the 17th Century when Brother Ambrose of the Order of St Augustin removed them and gave


them to Christopher Anderson, a Jesuit


priest in the 1670s. The Father Provincial of the Jesuits


agreed that the body should be given to the Lancashire District of the Society of Jesus because of the depth of the Catholic faith in the county at the


time. However, because of the Elizabethan


repression, it was taken to the Jesuit College in St Om.er, northern France, which was to become the modern-day Stonyhurst, and placed in the Sodality Chapel there. When the College was forced to


move, the body went with the Jesuits and their students to Bruges. On the suppression of the Jesuits the relics were given to the English Augustinian nuns in Bruges for safe-keeping. In 1794, due to the French revolu­


tion, the nuns moved to Hengrave Hall in Suffolk and took the body with them. Eight years later they returned to France but delivered the remains of St Gordianus to the newly restored Jesuits in Stonyhurst before they moved. The reliquary containing the remains


was placed in the Sodality Chapel at Stonyhurst when it was opened in 1859 and there the body lay in peace. Once the restoration of the chapel is complet­ ed it is planned that St Gordianus will be returned to his former resting place on his feast day, February 19th. Pictured are pupils carrying in relics and reliquary from Sodality chapel.


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spot famous faces from children’s liter­ ature in their hiding places throughout


the building. To coincide with the birthday mile­


stone library staff have ensured that windowsill displays reflect literature down the decades. In the lending library every sill pays homage to a dif­ ferent decade and included material published in that era. In the 1910s and 20s books by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle and Kipling appear and as time trav­ els on novels by Graham Greene, Thomas Harris and more recently John Grisham feature. In the children’s library young bor­


rowers can see the type of characters who would have featured in children’s literature in 1905 - with authors such as Beatrix P o tter and E. N esb i tt among the authors - the comparison between then and now is quite reveal­ ing as colourful characters such as the Gruf falo, Elmer and of course boy wiz­ ard Harry Potter are among present day childhood heroes and heroines. The official library celebration takes


place at 11 a.m. tomorrow, with guided tours due at 2 and 3-30 p.m. and again a t 10 a.m., 11-30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday. All the displays will continue throughout October.


He passed away, when I was three.


One clock is in the library Where silence is maintained. Housed inside a big glass case With its innards all contained.


A very special time to visit Is at twelve noon, dinner time When, preceded by the whirrings The great clock begins to chime.


I stand there, and I listen My chest just swells with pride. When the magical moment is


shared With grandchildren, by my side.


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A FASCINATING illustrated lecture entitled “Highway to Hungary” will be given at Whailey Library on Monday at


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7-30 p.m. Speaker Arnold Grime wiil take his


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