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(cctmnopiiM 100 years ago
“WHOLE families moving into Lan cashire” was a headline 100 years ago. Great interest was being centred at the present on Lancashire’s position as a wage-earning county, and the prospect of finding lucrative employment in the cot ton industry. 9 Heavy snowstorms and blizzards
swept the district. Deep drifts interfered with attendance at a meeting of Bowland Education Committee. Only two mem bers and two officials attended. Chipping was isolated. Food ran short.
Even after days of heavy rain, several farms were still isolated. ■ O There was a bad outbreak of influen za. Large numbers of cotton workers and other members of the community, were off work sick and an overlooker at one mill reported that he had only weavers for about halt his portion of looms.
H a weekly look at local issues, people and places
ow are the New Year resolutions going?
Four days in and you’ii either be patting
yourseif on the back for your success so far or beating yourseif up for your pitifui faii- ure to iast even a week. Of course, you might just not bother at
aii, but even that couid count as faiiure - a faiiure to seize the opportunity. If you don’t try, how can you ever succeed? New Year seems the ideai opportunity
to make a fresh start, to tackie some part of your iife that needs changing, something you’ve been putting off for a whiie. Whether it is quitting smoking, iosing a few pounds - or stones! - reining in the spending after Christmas and the sates, or cutting down on the booze, the advent of New Year brings the chaiienge of a new start. Yet making resoiutions is one thing...
keeping them is another. A coupie of years ago, we had an office poi! here at the Advertiser, each stating our
As I see i t , . . by Duncan Smith
New Year resolution. They ranged from quitting smoking to resisting those oh-so- tempting impulse buys. Some lasted days, some weeks, some
even months, but one by one they all fell by the wayside and the following January found many of us having a second stab at
the same targets. Failure to stick to resolutions can be
depressing, but there is always the hope you will succeed, if not this time, maybe next time. And partial success is better than no success at all. Maybe you didn’t lose a stone, but half-a-stone is okay. Perhaps the key is to set realistic goals,
ones you can achieve little by little. Don’t judge success with a "pass” or “fail”, but look at the progress you can
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
A CLITHEROE man’s invention looked all set to help the victims of poliomyelitis. The invention, a new form of artificial respirator had been designed by a med-
. ical student, Mr Peter Grime, son of Mr and Mrs Lindsay Grime, of Chatburn Road. Mr Grime, a senior medical student at
the Royal College of Surgeons and the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, has already tried out his invention on a polio victim at Dublin’s Clondalkin Hospital. O “Saturday Night Out”, the BBC TV
programme, was to be broadcast from Clitheroe on January 12th, in a Eurovi sion link-up. The choice of Clitheroe was in some measure due to Mr Bryan Cowgill", a former editor of this newspa per, who was working with the BBC Tele vision Service in London.
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make over time. My resolution this year is a shared one with my wife, to “de-clutter” our home while we can still get in it. We are both hoarders and the arrival of
two kids over the past tew years hasn’t helped. Neither has my Yorkshire blood, which makes me too tighttisted to throw away anything that “might come in useful one day”. But needs must and we are resolved to
change our ways. Not in one giant leap, but one step at a time, little by little, piece by piece. Clearing our house of clutter in a • single weekend is unrealistic -
it just will
not happen. But we could clear a wardrobe, and
maybe next weekend the understairs cup board? Hopefully, by this time next year, we’ll be in a better state than we are now. We mil never have a minimalist, clutter-
free home and, to be honest, we wouldn’t want it. But if we have made some meas urable progress by next New Year, that will be one resolution achieved.
Pupils put all their talents on show Factor” show. B I- 25 years ago
ABOUT 30 workers at a Clitheroe weav ing firm were to lose their jobs in the sum mer. James Dewhurst and Son was slowly running dojvn its operation at Pendle Mill in the coming months, though it was claimed that a small unit may be retained. The firm was transferring its operation to Altham. A few employees were set to be transferred there froni Clitheroe, but the rest faced a bleak future. 6 The medical records of 30,000 Ribble
Valley people were being put bn a com puter system to be installed at Clitheroe Health Centre. The system, costing £37,000, would give local doctors access to their patien ts’ records and would be linked to the new Clitheroe Community Hospital. While patients’ records would remain as strictly confidential as ever, the efficiency of the service was thought to be considerably improved.
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o u n d l e s s talent went on show when Shane McClelland as Simon Cowell, Jackie pupils at Clitheroe’s Brookside Primary Devine as Sharon Osbourne and Roland Hail- School staged an end-of-term “X-mas wood as Louis Walsh.
They are pictured here with performers who
Just like the TV talent show, a succession of proved they had the X-mas Factor acts performed-for the panel of judges, with
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Father Christmas brings shopping crowds to town
S
EVERAL thousand extra customers flooded into Clitheroe’s shops - courtesy of Father Christmas!
Ribble Valley Rail completed another successful
season of its Santa Services, which have been running into Clitheroe most Christmases since the early 1990s. This year, in conjunction tvith train operating com
pany Northern, four well-filled trains were spread over two Saturdays, carrying between them an estimated several thousand passengers. Northern made avail able an extra carriage on all the trains, so, this year, almost everyone managed to find a seat, although lots of people carried their excited children on their knees! All in all. Father Christmas distributed around 500
“goody-bags” filled with gifts from local Clitheroe businesses and Northern itself, and lost count of the number of times he had to pose for photos! Neverthe less, he managed to make his way right through the train and meet every single youngster on the journey between Blackburn and Clitheroe, with a little help from his elves, and with a little help from the train driver, who perhaps did not pedal as hard as usual! The RVR team of volunteers, under the watchful eye of “Fat Controller” for the day Mr Ted Buckley, man aged to supply everyone with a mince pie or a biscuit, together with a choice of sherry or a soft drink, all at no extra charge over and above the normal rail fare. RVR chairman Peter Moore said: “It was great to
see so many folk travelling into our town. Let’s hope they liked what they saw, and will come back to visit us again soon. I ’d like to thank our main sponsors Booths Supermarket and D. Byrne and Co. Wine Shop for their magnificent contributions, together with Dawson’s Department Store and all the other businesses who gave prizes tor our annual raffle.” Elf-in-Chief Simon Clarke, who also works as
Northern’s Station Manager, Lancashire and Cumbria Area, said: “Thanks to all the hard work put in by our own staff and all the volunteers at RVR, the Santa Services were again a great success. Our trains were full to capacity, and we hope that many of the passen gers who were perhaps experiencing the train journey for the first time, will be impressed with their experi ence and will ride with us again.” And the last word must surely go to Santa himself:
“What a great time I had meeting all those youngsters and riding in a nice warm train ”
WO Ribble Valley businesses are cele brating after employees received awards for their services to tourism.
Roseann Hollis, who works at Weezo’s @
The Old Toll House, Clitheroe, and kitchen porter Steven Allman from the Spread Eagle, at Sawley, enjoyed success at the Lancashire Excellence in Tourism Skills Awards (LETS), held at the Macdonald Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors. Roseann, who prefers to be called Rosie,
came top in the “Excellence in Customer Ser vice” category, which was sponsored by Wel come to Excellence. Steven was highly commended in the
Unsung Hero section. He commented: “The award was a complete surprise. The bosses entered me and kept it a secret. I thought I was driving my boss to the ceremony!” Rosie is the assistant front-of-house man
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STEVEN ALLMAN receives his award from Ranvir Singh (s)
ager at Weezo’s Restaurant, in Parson Lane, and was thrilled to bits with her award. Own ers of the restaurant Kathy Smith and Stosie Madi were delighted with Rosie’s success say- ing she is the smiling face customers see when
PICTURED are Rosie Hollis and Ranvir (s)
they first enter the restaurant and she puts in lots of effort to make sure they are well
looked after. The awards were presented by B B C TV
North West reporter Rahvir Singh at the event, organised by Lancashire and Black pool Tourist Board.
Christmas joy comes wrapped up in a shoebox
a shoeboxes with presents for children in P
war-torn areas of Europe. This was a lovely project as it was
children helping other children in order that they might enjoy their Christmas
too. (s) 9 And more than 350 shoeboxes
packed with a variety of seasonal goodies and useful items have been sent to needy children in the Ukraine, thanks to the hard work and generosity of Whalley Christian Action Group. The Operation Christmas Child
appeal sends out a message of hope during the festive season to children in desperate situations around the world. Group members would like to thank
everyone th a t came forward and donated generously for this worthwhile
cause.
ICTURED are some of the chil dren of St Maryjs RC Primary School in Sabden who filled 60
Santa’s reindeer have a taste of organic carrots! O
RGANIC carrots from Clapham helped feed Santa’s reindeer this Christmas.
Chris Hart and Neil Marshall, of
Growing with Grace, were in Clitheroe in the run up to Christmas handing out seasonal organic vegeta bles to local children to ensure there was enough food for Rudolph, Dash er, Dancer et al. The pair were also in town to pro
mote Growing with Grace. From its base between Settle and Ingleton, the co-operative supplies organic food, vegetables, fruit and groceries and delivers produce to homes across the Ribble Valley. For more information visit the company’s website
www.growing-
withgrace.co.uk. Our photograph shows Reece and. Darcy Hutchinson being given organ-
■ ic carrots by Chris Hart and Neil Marshall from Growing with Grace. (B201206/2)
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