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Letters to the Editor - Write to: The Editor, Clithcroe Advertiser a nd Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe BB72EW Editorial e-mail: vivien.mealh@easllancsnew.s.co.uk Refreshing when


people listen! HOW refreshing to know that local peo­ ple have been listened to vvith regard to the proposed panopticon and that Kem- ple End has been rejected as the desig­ nated site. However, the search goes on. Should


not the local people have been consult­ ed initially to find out whether they wanted a panopticon anywhere in the Kibble Valley? There seems to be a determination by


the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network to site one here, whatever the local opinion. At the public meeting in Hurst Green,


the audience was shown a tedious pre­ sentation of existing monoliths situated around the country. Completely ignored was the fact that


most of our area was designated an area of outstanding natural beauty, by the countryside agency in 1963/4 to enhance and conserve NATURAL beauty. I cannot understand why Ribble Val­


ley Borough Council is supporting this panopticon idea when I would be expecting them to be guardians of the area and the District Wide Local Plan (which certainly does not include panopticons). Reporter Tracy Johnson, at least,


showed by her report in the Clitheroe Advertiser (March 17th edition) that she understood the mood of the meeting when she says that “the impression she gathered from the meeting was that the people present did not want anyone to interfere with Kemple End or any other part of (our) countryside.” The organisers of the Hurst Green


meeting interpreted as “positive” the response to the neoSCOPE. I suggest that this is groundless opti­


mism and that most people regarded this design as the least offensive.


RAY HALFPENNY, Hodder Court, Slonyhursl, Clithcroc


Highway Code is


really quite clear IN response to Mr Ratcliffe's reply to my letter about the dangerous design of the Pendle Road / A59 junction, I would draw attention to that part of the High­ way Code dealing with junctions. Rule 148: "The approach to a junc­


tion may have a 'Give Way' sign or tri­ angle marked on the road. You MUST give way to traffic on the main road when emerging from a junction with broken white lines across the road". Quite clearly traffic leaving Pendle


Road, which does have such markings, should give way to traffic on the A59, the main road. Traffic in the central reservation waiting to turn right into Pendle Road was on the main road. Rule 149: "Dual Carriageways.


When crossing or turning right, first assess whether the central reservation is deep enough to protect the full length of your vehicle. If it is, then you should treat each half of the carriageway as a separate road. Wait in the central reser­ vation until there is a safe gap in the traffic on the second half of the road". The rule does not add "and until traffic has emerged from the right". The fact that some people were able to interpret the road markings as imply­


ing that traffic joining the main road had priority over traffic leaving the main road simply emphasises the first of my original points, that the junction was badly designed and remains so, despite banning right turns into Pendle Road. There are two possible solutions to


this continuing problem; the provision of a roundabout or, the installation of traffic lights. I would prefer the first. The response I was hoping for from


the second part of my original letter was a recognition by the Highways Agency that being responsible for the original design, it had a responsibility both morally and financially to put matters right, even though the detrunking of the A59 "passed the buck" to Lancashire County Council.


ANTHONY A. COOPER, Peel Park Avenue, Clitheroe


Foolish action that


helps no one I DROVE down Pendle Road, Clitheroe, this morning to see the liow familiar Lancashire Partnership for Safety police speed camera. Wonderful! The police are doing a very worthwhile job in slowing down the “speeders”, who make Pendle Road and otherwise “safe” roads very unsafe even to a pedestrian walking along. Driving just behind me at a not-so-


safe distance was a 4x4 with a lady tak­ ing her children to Ribblesdale school, and you would think that being a mum she would appreciate the job done to slow “potential killers of children”, but no she had to give the “double flash warning” to vehicles driving up the road. How misguided. Does she and others who give this very irresponsible flash not realise it is not us and them (the police), but we all should be work­ ing together to make our roads safer. How would she feel if when she dropped her children off at the bottom of Peel Park near the school and a speeding motorist collided with one of them while crossing the road to school? Only last week we sadly had a death


on the junction with the bypass and Monday saw another what looked like a very serious collision at the junction of the old Mearley road. We call it locally “the top road”, again cars going far too fast to be able to read the road and take evasive action if a car pulls out, so come on motorists, let’s work together and drop our speed. If we get up 10 minutes earlier and set off sooner you can arrive at work less stressed and we all do our bit for the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety. Together we can make a difference to the safety of all.


MRS P. KENT, Croasdalc Drive, Clithcroc


Let police find car


park spaces like us THERE is a proposal to create exclu­ sive parking for police vehicles in New Market Street, Clitheroe, adjacent to the Police Station. This seems both unfair and unjustifiable. It is unfair because the residents


around that part of King Street already have precious few parking spaces to try to find for unrestricted parking. That difficulty increased with the opening of Maxwell’s. It is likely to increase even


more if the Station Hotel has its appli­ cation approved to build a beer garden. It is unjustifiable because the police


already have a sizeable car park at the end of New Market Street. A lot of the time this is not full - and at times when it is full, it is not full with operational vehicles. The majority of the cars in there are privately owned. The police may have an understandable need for exclusive parking bays for operational vehicles, but why should these not be within the police car park? Then the drivers of the private cars parked in the police car park can take their chances finding parking spaces just like all other workers and residents in Clitheroe.


TONYHALLIWELL, King Street, Clithcroc


Additional help, not


a replacement ALLOW me to pick up on some com­ ments made in your letters column last week. A p e s o is not a replacement for a


police officer. They are part of the wider police family and are a uniformed pres­ ence on the street, being an access point for the public and an extra set of eyes and ears for the police. Jason, who was specifically men­


tioned, does a sight more than this. Just ask virtually any resident young or old. Next, the juveniles in the village will


be dealt with appropriately to their behaviour. If they commit offences, they will be liable to the same treatment as anyone else. To move them on for no reason would


be self defeating. I know where they are and, if dispersed they would more than likely end up in a more residential area, which in all likelihood would result in calls about juvenile nuisance. As for doing something for them, per­


haps the correspondent doesn't read as well as he writes. How many times has this newspaper run articles about the attempts to get a drop-in centre up and running? We have asked for volunteers and checking my records I don't find his name on the list! The comments about the weakest


link were possibly humorous to some, but we are all in a chain - its called com­ munity - the options we have are to help make the chain stronger or criticise and weaken it. You will find we do have a police offi­


cer in the villages. Speak to me. I won't bite. I'm the one in bright yellow with the pointy hat.


GEOFF PENNAL, Community Beal Manager, Whalley, Billinglon and Barrow


Come to the Castle


if you’re brave . . . SURPRISE! Do readers of the Clitheroe Advertis­


er and Times enjoy a surprise? Visiting the interior of the Castle


Keep this Easter weekend will certainly provide one - the biggest change inside the Keep for 100 years!


THE GHOST Patching up is just


not the answer THANK YOU to all the people who sent me their good wishes and helpful


advice following my letter published in the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times of


March 10th Yes, maybe it would be easier perhaps


to let the insurance companies sort out the matter. But would that be a solu­ tion, or would it perhaps be like putting a plaster on a festering wound? Strangely enough I have not heard


anything from the powers-that-be. Maybe they are just too busy doing other things or maybe they think this is too much of a hot potato? I don’t wish to make this a them and


us situation. Because it is not. It is an us and us situation for anyone who cares about Clitheroe. I don’t want this property to get con­


tinually bashed about until the powers that be pull it down. And I am no longer prepared to put


up and shut up, patch up and move on until the next time. So if this property is thought to be in


the way of progress then pull it down, make the opening to Back York Street bigger and, as parking seems to be becoming an issue, perhaps this space could become parking spaces because if we get that new centre across the road we shall certainly need more parking spaces. If that is not what you think would be


best maybe someone out there has enough vision to see that this property is an ideal place for a conservation and renovation project, which could also become a conservation advice centre which not only would be good for Lan­ cashire, but if handled properly could well bring lots of prestige, interest and income into Clitheroe (of course it would also protect this 170-year-old property too). If you agree with either of my sugges­


tions or have one of your own please write or speak to someone in authority. They do need to be told before they can act on what we want. Could we have a bit more people power please and as someone said last week: do you want to use it or lose it? Patching it up is not the answer.


JACQUI NUTTER, York Street, Clitheroe


So, what is Tesco


doing for farmers? I USE Tesco for the bulk of provisions I purchase.


1. Coming from Chatburn Road into


the town, it is “geographically” the most immediately convenient. 2. It has a conveniently comprehen­


sive range of goods at economical prices. 3. I appreciate when needed the


extremely obliging helpfulness of the personnel.


try? Front page headlines of the last three


editions of the national Farmers Guardian:


sector plates.” Good. 3. Now the last edition, March 18th,


price rise”. Good! 2. “Bid to put British food on public


1. “Movement at last in bid for milk


“Beefy and Lamby hit for six by Tesco snub . Tesco, the UK’s biggest super­ market, has snubbed the £18m. cam­ paign to promote the quality English beef and lamb fronted by former cricket


stars Ian Botham and Allan Lamb ” And so on. We the British public promote the


What does Tesco do for us? The coun­


profits (nearly £25m., the last count) of Tesco. I ask again, what does Tesco do for the British? And our farming com­ munity?


ROBIN PARKER, St Chads Avenue, Chatburn


A delight and an


inspiration to us all IT was with some pleasure and a happy revival of schoolboy memories that I read of Margot Downer-Bottomley’s 90th birthday celebrations in last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. What the article didn’t mention was


that as well as teaching at St Augus­ tine’s, she had also taught at Ribbles­ dale, circa 1950. I was a pupil at Ribblesdale from


1948-1952 and had the good fortune to be in her music class. Music lessons in those days were very different to what they are today. Basically they were singing lessons - the piano being the only instrument in the room and not for our use. Persuading 13-year-old boys to sing is


a daunting task, but Miss Bottomley’s choice of songs, coupled with her rip- rousing style of accompaniment soon banished any inhibitions. It was like being taught by Mrs Mills or Winifred Atwell (over-50s will remember them). “Soppy” songs never featured in Mar­


got’s lessons. She knew that if boys were to be coerced into song, those songs needed to be chosen carefully and at this she excelled. Numbers from “Carmen”, “Desert Song’ and “White Horse Inn” had us all singing like miniature Pavarottis. As if to compensate for missing out on


a public school education we sang, among others, the Harrow School song “Forty years On” and the “Eton Boat­ ing Song”. How many people know the English translation of “La donna 'e mobile,” from Rigoletto? I do, thanks to Miss Bottomley (no requests please). I remember one year she formed a


boy’s country and western group where we sang such favourites as “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain” and “I ’m an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande”. I recall telling my hard- pressed mother that I needed a checked shirt and trilby hat, if I was to look the part. The teaching of music in schools has


changed beyond recognition, to that of 55 years ago, but these memories were created by one remarkably gifted teach­ er who, with her empathy, enthusiasm and piano, left me a good deal richer in voice and verse. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that


the Manor House is rehearsing a “Spring Serenade”! Thank you Margot - education needs people like you.


DAVID BOWKER, Park Avenue, Clitheroe


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