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A PUPPY is for life. Jesus Before long the Christmas


Christ is for all time.


decorations will be taken down and carefully stored away for next year and in due course, if we’ve not already done so, we’ll devour the remains of the goodies. Be careful not to banish Jesus


to the attic too. Jesus is for all time, the God of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Jesus our Immanuel means God with us in the both the joys and sor­ rows of our daily living.


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like Mary, the miracle of Christ’s birth, which h,^d brought both shepherds nearby and wise men from foreign


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100 years ago


THE principal show at Christmas time 100 years ago, advertised on the front page of the Clitheroe Times, was “Maritana” by the Ciitheroe Catholic Operatic Society. Reserved tickets in the Public Hall, were two shillings, second seats were one shilling and six pence while the back seats were one shilling. • The Parish Church presented an


operetta, “Phyllis”, or “The Farmer’s Daughter”, produced by P.W. Baxter, the principals being Misses M. Satterthwaite and J. Bleasard, Messrs. K. Smithies, P. Townley and R. Higson. Those taking part in a comedietta “Bubbles” were Miss­ es A. Haliwell, N. Cowman and S. Kendal, and Messrs. C.S. Coleman, Edgar Ellis, J.H. Satterthwaite and T. Demain. • Mr J.H. Firth presided at the Water­


loo Wesley Festival when Master G. Dou­ glas played violin solos and recitations were contributed by Annie Brierley, Char­ lotte Nutter, Doris Kershaw, Annie Ing­ ham and Maggie Brierley. • Work at Cobden Mill, Sabden, was


stopped all day Saturday because of a shortage of weft.


OEE than 100 children enjoyed an extra special Christmas morn­ ing thanks to you, our readers.


The response to this year’s Salvation


Army Toy Appeal through the columns of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times has been nothing short of amazing. A phenomenal range of new toys arrived


in our office and the Salvation Army base in town.


This year’s items have ranged froni


stocking fillers to major gifts such as dolls’ houses and garages on which our contrib­ utors have obviously spent many pounds. On behalf of the Salvation Army, staff


at the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times and, I feel sure, the 100-plus parents who were on this year’s in-need list, I must express a huge thank you to you all. The generosity of Ribble Valley people


has also been felt by Clitheroe resident Pauline Altham. In October we told how she was being


forced to rely on the generosity of friends and work colleagues having been refused the drug Cetuximab on the NHS. Pauline


As I se e i t . . . by


Vivien Meath


and her husband have been funding the annual £40,000 bill privately, helped by friends’ fund-raising. Within weeks our readers rallied round and by the end of that month, £10,000 was raised, funding another treatment. Money has continued to come in and, in the New Year, we will be announcing a way in which everyone can help Pauline continue her fight against cancer. Despite the initial wet and windy


December weather, Christmas spirit was in abundance in Clitheroe and the surround­ ing villages. Certainly if you were a pas­ senger on the Low Moor bus you could not have failed to have noticed it, as the vehicle pulled up complete with tinsel and baubles. Little things certainly mean a lot and along with Pendle Road’s “monkey


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


IT was a white Christmas in Ribblesdale and Bowland. After the bitter cold of Christmas Day, the promise of snow was fulfilled on Christmas night. • A one-and-a-half mile long queue of coaches and cars taking Yorkshire people home after a Chrismas holiday at Black- pool,stranded hundreds of travellers for five hours between Gisbum and Horton on Box­ ing Day. Cause of the trouble was the steep Streets Brow which froze over and became impassable to traffic. • “A really wonderful experience,” was how


the Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe (Conn, and Mrs J. W. D. Critchley) d^ribed their Christmas Day tour of hos­


pitals and institutions in Clitheroe and Blackburn. ® Driving to the Hodder Valley Fox Club’s ball, Mr Joe Pye, Dunsop Bridge game-


keeper, saw an overturned car. He found Fox Club president Maj. T. Whitmore, of the Whitewell Hotel, his wife, manageress, and another member of the sM, trapped inside. The party, was on its way to the dance when their car skidded on icy. None was hurt and all continued to the dance.


puzzle tree” which was decorated with sea­ sonal Santas, the Brunkers’ fantastic sea­ sonal display outside and inside their Bol- land Prospect home and the homes in Whalley’s Limefield Avene - those respon­ sible can rest assured that they do make a difference to lives of ordinary people going about their daily business. Shopping out of town before Christmas, I discovered that the mere mention of Clitheroe pre-Christ­ mas gives rise to: “Have you seen that fan­ tastic display of lights a t .......?” Now that we are heading towards a new


year, Clitheroe is on the brink of change and challenge. Our Castle will undoubted­ ly be in the news as work to ensure a viable future draws nearer and when the scaffold­ ing comes down and the workmen leave York Street’s former cinema, the town should have a new and quite revolutionary centre for all, the envy of other communi­ ties of its size nationwide. On behalf of all connected with the


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, can 1 extend our best wishes for a happy, pros­ perous and peaceful 2007.


Mystery about secret passage is partly solved.. .


A


CLITHEROE has a new Honorary Earlier this month a ceremony was


Burgess. held to install Mr Eric Bracewell in the 25 years ago •


A POLICEMAN from the Ribble Valley received a commendation for bravery after he helped to catch a post office raider. Sgt Mark Whittaker, who attended


Clitheroe Grammar School and was an officer in the Cheshire force, chased a man who was believed to be armed. He and two colleagues then arrested the man after a violent struggle. • Whalley man Mr Bob Roberts


scooped £1,350 on TV game show “Name that Tune” after he was secretly entered into the competition by his daughter, Harriet. The show was filmed at Thames Studios


and Mr Roberts and his wife, Judith, enjoyed VIP treatment for the day. • Staff at Ribble Valley Council were


praised for the way they coped with the severe weather conditions that had hit the borough. Maintenance staff worked into the


early hours to carry out urgent repair work on homes after Arctic blizzards in the area.


post. In September, members of Clitheroe Town Council had unanimously resolved th a t the ti t le of Honorary Burgep should be conferred on Mr Bracewell in recognition of his lengthy, varied and valuable services to both the town and borough councils. Particular reference was made to Mr


Bracewell’s contribution to the develop­ ment of the dog warden service, his posi­ tion as chairman and vice-chairman of the borough council’s Personnel Commit­ tee and his service as an officer of Clitheroe Borough Council and the Rib­ ble Valley Borough Council, as well as being a former member of both councils. Born and brought up in Brierfield, Mr Bracewell was called to serve in the


Honorary title for former councillor


Royal Artillery at the age of 18. After the war he moved to Clitheroe to work for the borough council and stayed from 1948 until local government re-organisa­ tion in 1974. He then worked as a legal executive for Ribble Valley Borough Council until he retired in 1982. Within a few months he became a


member of both Clitheroe Town Council and the borough council, representing the ward of Ribblesdale until 1991. He continued working with the Post Office Advisory Committee, Blackburn and District, until 1998 and up to 2003 was involved in “Mayor’s at home” events. An active member of St James’s


Church, he is a member of the Clitheroe Recorded Music Society and has a keen interest in preserving Clitheroe’s history and traditions. Clitheroe Mayor Coun. Allan Knox is


pictured presenting the award to Mr Bracewell. (T051206/6)


appointed as non-executive directors on the board of East Lancashire Primary


PCT post for Valley woman A


BUSINESSWOMAN and moth- er-of-three from the Ribble Valley is among six local residents


Care Trust (PCT). Natasha Hanson, who lives in Brock-


hall Village with her husband and one of their three daughters, will serve on the board until September 30th, 2008, and be paid a remuneration of £7,500 pa. The PCT has responsibility for man­


aging community health provision, in the form of CPs, dentists and other commu­ nity health services, as well as commis­ sioning services from the local hospital


their sheep praising God. The wise men returned to their country by a different route because they were warned by God not to go back to Herod. Mary and Joseph were warned


The shepherds went back to


by God to take the child to Egypt. Christmas is about God com­


ing among us, but also an invi­ tation for us to come close to (3od so that we might bear the


lands to their knees in adora­ tion.


light of Christ where he leads us. “I said to the man who stood


at the gate of the year ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown’, and he replied ‘Go out into the dark­ ness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way’.” (M. L. Haskins)


Rev. Norma Johnson, Minister of The Unilcd


Reformed Church in Clithcroe, Barrow and New(on-in- Bowland


trust. Mrs Hanson, pictured, runs her own


company, HR Hanson, offering HR con­ sultancy services. Her career background is in textiles, construction, telecoms, IT, retail/call centres and aerospace. She was born in Catterick, North


Yorkshire, to an Army family, and as such moved to various locations through­ out the country and in Europe before set­ tling back in UK. Her particular inter­ ests are in improved health education and preventative medicine, as well as care and support in the community. In her spare time she enjoys gardening and


cycling. She has no declared political activity in the past five years and holds no other Ministerial appointment. The other five appointees are: • David Joyce, who lives in


Oswaldtwistle • John Wilkinson, who lives in Burn­


ley • Bob Huntbach, who lives in the


Rossendale Valley • Ian Clements, who lives in Pendle 0 Mary Thomas,who lives in Colne.


MYSTERY about a secret passage discovered a t a derelict joinery works has been partly solved.


Financial adviser John Turner and his


wife, Sam, are converting buildings behind Moor Lane, Clitheroe, into “incubator units” for fellow entrepreneurs. I t was as work to transform what was


once J. H. Fern Joiners into 10 offices, that the secret passage was revealed. As a result, the Turners were keen to


find out more about the site’s history. Having read our article about the devel­


opment, keen local historian Mr John Lambert who had already done some research about the site contacted the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. He told us that the strip of land between


Lowergate and the Castle Rock was known as Kiln Garth Croft and was part of the Rose and Crown estate. After Moor Lane was opened up, Mr


Lambert can date the Turners’ building back to around 1842 when it was a stone yard belonging to Henry Briggs who had leased the land from the corporation. Mr Lambert said the arched tunnel that


was exposed during recent renovations had probably been a domestic kiln to enable lime to be used for a number of domestic purposes, either for fertiliser or paint - a type of ancient recycling. The Advertiser was also contacted by


Mr Norman and Mrs Jean Brown, who are related to Mr Fern, of the joinery busi­ ness. To them he was Uncle Harry and his wife is Auntie Barbara. After Mr Fern’s death in the summer,


Mr and Mrs Brown have made regular trips to the Ribble Valley to visit Mrs Fern and it was during one of these visits that they read our article about the new busi­ ness accommodation. Said Mr Brown: “Uncle Harrv moved to Clitheroe in the 1950s or 60s and set up his own business. Originally from Chester­ field, he met his wife in Derby and was given the opportunity to come to Lan­ cashire to work as a quantity surveyor. Then he decided to set up his own business so he would be known by a lot of people in the area. “He also worked with Ken Brass, and


they were partners for a number of years before Ken took over the business.” On learning more about the history of


their building, Mr and Mrs Turner said: “With all this wonderful history going back to the mid 1800s we want to conserve as much of the building’s heritage as possi­


ble. “While the interior of the offices them­


selves will be very clean cut, efficient and modern, we have decided to name each office suite drawing on the rich past and are very grateful to the Browns and Mr Lambert for their help. If anyone has more information, please pop in and see us at Fern Court.” They are now well on the way to trans­


forming the site thanks to the funding they received from the Rural Lancashire Development Grant and Lancashire County Developments Ltd which has helped cover the conversion costs of the old workshop and associated garages. A small grant from Lancashire Leader


will help the Turners market the develop­ ment.


Following in footsteps of


Wain-wright A FORMER Clitheroe man is returning to his rural Ribble Valley roots to commemo­ rate the life of famous fell walker Alfred Wainwright. An ex-pupil of


Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Mr Peter Burgess, who now lives in London, will lead a walk up Pendle Hill on Saturday, Janu­ ary 20th, to mark the centenary of the legendary author’s birth. Bom in Black-


bum in 1907, Alfred Wainwright sold more than two mil­ lion copies of his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, for which he was awarded an MBE. And during the war years he formed the “Pendle Club” (a group of friends who went walking up the hill). He died after suf­


fering a heart attack in 1991. The walk has


been organised by Mr Burgess, who is a member of the Wainwright Soci­ ety. It will start from


Four Lane Ends in Clitheroe, between 9 and 9-30 a.m. and the lesser known route will take walkers to Little Mearley Hall, Pen­ dle Moor and Big End. Anyone requiring


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