18 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, October 4th, 2007


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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Wartime memories are ________ by Vivien Meath


OUR request for information about nurs­ es working at Calderstones at the time of the evacuation of Dunkirk has produced


a number of responses. Author Hugh Sebag-Montefiore in his book


“Dunkirk - Fight to the Last Man” inter­ viewed former local nurse Nancy Harker whose memories of meeting the Dunkirk hos­ pital train a t Whalley station revealed what the author described as “a long, drawn out nightmare”. The article brought back memories for Mrs


Christine Whitham, of Beverley Drive, Clitheroe. Her mother, the late Mrs Mary Alice Boyle, also nursed soldiers a t Calder­ stones. She told us th a t her mother, pictured, had


initially been employed in a rubber factory in Burnley making contraceptives.


Times were very different and, said Mrs


Whitham, given that her mother’s upbringing had been very strict, she was unaware of what she was actually making. She was told by her fa th e r th a t he had


acquired her a job a t Calderstones, then a psychiatric institution converted into a hospi-


tal. “She had never been o u t of Burnley,


recalled her daughter. The family was poor and she had to live-in. She was homesick and lonely, but worked long hours including many


nights. Mrs Whitham remembers her saying how


she had ventured into one large room where arms and legs were piled in the middle of the


floor. “Soldiers came all the way north because we


were expecting to be invaded and hospitals in „


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the south had been closed. Mum walked into Whalley one day and went into Scotts Cosy Cafe. I t was one of the Tudor-style black and white fronted premises. “She became friendly with the lady and her


son there and during her limited time off work used to help out. “She eventually married the son, and the


cafe owners became my grandparents. My dad was working a t the proven mill at the time and didn’t get called up. I remember Mum saying th a t when they dropped the bomb on Chatbum, she was a t the windows a t Calderstones which shook. She was an exceptional nurse; very good a t her job.” Mrs Whitham says she wished she had


talked to her mother more about her days at C a lde rstones , b u t ha s re cen tly begun researching information about some of those who nursed and were patients at the time.


A London lad who who started married life in Clitheroe


MORE memories have come flooding back for another of our readers. . Mrs Sheila Metcalfe, was


just a young girl growing up in'Clitheroe during the war, when badly injured soldiers were sent to recover and recu­ perate at Calderstones. Sadly some never did, but


one who did recover Was Lon­ doner Tom Giuhan, who became a good friend of Sheila’s parents. Tom came to Calderstones'


to recover from having his left leg amputated and to learn how to use an artificial limb. He first met Sheila’s par­


ents, Mr and Mrs Price, when he called a t their home in Brook Street to see if they knew of any “digs” to rent in the area. He also found a job, work­ ing a t Rolls-Royce’s Clitheroe


factory, and became good f r ien d s with M r an d Mrs Price and young Sheila. In 1941 he went to Bath to


marry his sweetheart, Kath­ leen, and th e newlyweds returned to Clitheroe to set uphome. Their daughter, Maureen,


was born here in 1942 and la te r they had an o th e r daughter, Theresa. Towards the end of the war


they moved back to London and a lth o u g h th ey cor re ­ sponded with Mr and Mrs Price for many years, they eventually lost touch. Many years later, Sheila


discovered their address from a mutual friend and got in touch, only to learn that Tom had died. She continued to correspond with his widow, Kathleen, for many years until her death.


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A FARCE in three acts called "See How They Run", by Philip King, is being performed by Clitheroe Operatic and Dra­ matic Society. The performance starts next


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OUR pictures, loaned by Mrs Metcalfe, show Tom (far left) and other wounded soldiers at Calderstones, and right Tom with his wife and their daughters, Maureen and Theresa, in 1945. (s)


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