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AST Sunday was the f irs t Sunday of the Christian season of


Advent. The word “Advent” comes


from the L atin word for “coming” and this season is normally seen as a time when Christians prepare them­ selves to celebrate the anniversary of Christ’s birth at Christmas. Though i t could be said


that nowadays we spend the season of Advent actually cel­


Time to prepare


ebrating Christmas rather than preparing for it! However, in the Catholic


Church, this season is in two parts - and in the first part (which lasts until December 16th) we are looking forward not to Christ’s coming at Christmas, but to his Second Coming a t the end of the world. The early Christians were


expecting the end to come in their lifetimes - you can see this in some of St Paul’s Let­


ters - and it was no doubt a great crisis for the Christian community when it didn’t come about. Today we tend to expect


our world to last forever, but will it? It is possible that as a result of global warming that it could end much sooner than we think. And Christ warns us that it will end when we least expect it. If we are believing Chris­


tians we need to take the Advent season more seriously.


Besides all the material


preparations we have to make for Christmas, we must also find time for spiritual reflec­ tion, asking ourselves what the Scripture Readings at the Advent services mean for us


today. What do I need to change


in my life before celebrating Christmas?


FR JOE DUGGAN


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Clitheroe


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100 years ago


HANDEL’S “Judas Maccabaeus” was due to be performed at the Public Hall in Clitheroe. Conductor was Mr F. W.


Baxter. • In Whalley the young ladies con­


nected with the Wesleyan Sunday School held a tea and concert. Proceeds


of £10 were raised. • The oldest taper in the county, 73-


year-old Mr Richard Hartley and his wife, of Newton Street, celebrated their


golden wedding. The Clitheroe Times reported the


couple’s “remarkable record” of having had 10 children and 25 grandchildren “among whom not a single death has


yet taken place”. • Due to a depression in the cotton


trade, part of the Salford Bridge Mill - run by the Borough Manufacturing Company and containing more than 700 looms - closed for a week. • After beating the YMCA one-nil,


Chatburn made it through to the semi final of the Blackburn and District Charity Shield Competition.


Let me give you an example — our


OMETIMES women’s brains work in mysterious ways - according to men that is!


address book. Centrally located in the kitchen is a


book containing all the contact details of our family, friends and other associ­ ated individuals and organisations we have had the good fortune to come into contact with over the years. Now in our home this l it tle ring


bound book has become something of a standing joke, with Mr C frequently complaining that he cannot make either head or ta i l of my “bizarre” filing arrangements. What could be more simple than find­


ing the financial adviser’s telephone number under “F ” rather than the more


I have to say more often than not he


As I see i t . . . by Natalie Cox


obvious “B" for his surname or even “C” for his Christian name?


Nothing you would think. However, he (the other half that is)


has tried and failed on numerous occa­ sions to follow a similar system when trying to locate the hairdresser (under “S” for Sharon, rather than “H” for hair) and he’s given up even trying to pinpoint the details for the decorator - not under the obvious “D” you see in this case, but “S” for Steve the decora­


tor.


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


AN intensive combined operation in which radio-equipped patrol cars manned by Lancashire and West Riding police officers were co-operating with gamekeepers on estates throughout Lancashire and Bowland, resulted in a series of prosecutions against poachers a t Bowland Magistrates' Court, Grindleton. In a crowded courtoom, near the wit­


ness box, there were a number of guns, a box containing dead pheasants and a bag containing another pheasant and a


hare. • A man who had been saying "Fares


please!" for more than 30 years, Mr Edmund Lord, of Pendle Road, Clitheroe, retired after 31 years as a con­ ductor with Ribble Motor Services. Throughout that time, he was late for


duty only seven times. O Playing the type of football one


expects from joint league leaders, a con­ fident Clitheroe side well and truly earned both points at Padiham, whom they trounced 6-0.


has come unstuck, yet every time I come to his immediate rescue, remem­ bering exactly where the said individual has been filed. For even greater ease of use I have


even gone to the trouble of putting some numbers in more than once. For example, number one son’s foot­


ball club numbers are obviously filed under “F” (for football), but also under “C” for Celtic, but not the “B” for Bar- rowford Celtic as my other half thought he had cleverly worked out. I could go on, but I won’t as I am sure


by now you get the picture. Mr C has now decided to give up


entirely on the system and has adopted the much easier male approach of ask­ ing me to find the numbers instead!


25 years ago


A CLITHEROE farmer who returned from a seven-month exchange visit to Canada described it as “a home from home.” Andrew Parkinson (21), who worked alongside his father, Robert, at Shuttleworth Farm, Henthorn, found that farming methods in Canada were similar to those used in England. • After 30 years of frying up, Whal­


ley fish and chip shop owners Mr Edmund Bush and his wife, Greta, retired from their King Street shop. The couple were to spend their retirement living in Brownlow Street, Clitheroe. • Chipping farmer Morland Cowell


was chosen as Agricultural Training Board’s top English Farm Apprentice of the Year. Morland (19), of Hall Trees Farm, Chipping, won £500. • Hi-ho echoed round the parish hall


in Low Moor when seven of the oddest looking dwarfs took to the stage. Com­ plete with spades and wellies, they went down a treat, led by the vicar, the Rev. Brian Stevenson, a t the climax of “Christmas Crackers.”


memories for a reader, who has recently moved back to her Ribble Valley roots. The picture, reproduced above, shows


pupils past and present of Sawley School in 1975, who gathered together on the rather sad occasion of its closure. Jill Burgess, of Waddington Road,


Clitheroe, writes: “All of my family is in the picture. My dad used to do petrol, repairs, and breakdown recovery. He had a converted army vehicle (a Scammell) which was the only vehicle for miles around that was strong enough to recov­ er larger vehicles such as coaches. “We often looked after people whose


vehicles had broken down, by giving them drinks and food. I believe we once had the Scottish football team in our front room for some hours, eating a steady stream of Lancashire cheese on


Thanks for the memories O


NE of our Memory Lane photo­ graphs published on November 22nd certainly sparked happy


toast, while they waited for a replace­ ment coach to arrive! I remember many of the people in the picture, though at th a t time I was 16 and just about to leave Riversmead School (now Bowland High School) and go to college. “My eldest sister was 18 and just


about to go to university in Norwich (where she still lives). My youngest sis­ ter was nine years old and transferred to Chatburn School before going to second­ ary school. The next sister, who was 11 at the time, would be going to Riversmead that September. “It really brings back some memories.


One of those rare occasions when we are all in a picture together (six of us) - mainly due to the fact that none of us is the one taking the picture. We then lived in a flat above Sawley Garage, which my dad owned, and had built over the shell of an old wooden garage. In the picture on the back row, fourth


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my mum, Faye, are also pictured togeth­ er with Stuart and Susan Giles, Mrs Giles and Wendy Scott who are some of those I remember." "When the school closed, they sold off


the school furniture - my mum still has a child’s little wooden chair th a t she bought at that sale. For my own part, I now have a family


with two children and moved away from the area 16 years ago. I have just moved back to Lancashire, to live in Clitheroe - there are lots of things that have brought back good memories for me. My children are loving exploring a place where one of us has a past - meeting people who knew me when I was younger and others to whom we are related. “Thanks again for the picture.”


X-Factor heart-throb is college’s surprise guest


hurst College to meet pupil Bethany Austin and her class­


X


mates. Fourteen-year-old Bethany


got the star treatment through entering a competition. She won the chance to have Ray visit her school by vowing to go without her much-wanted hair straighteners this Christ­ mas, donating the money to the charity School Aid instead. Bethany and her 40 girl


classmates in Year 10 were called to a meeting expecting to get a pep talk about their school uniform, and were amazed when the heart-throb Liverpool singer walked into the room! Ray, who was runner up in


-FACTOR finalist Ray Quinn made a surprise visit to Stony-


last year’s X-Factor final, has just completed his first UK solo tour. He sang for the girls and then told the pupils about the valuable work that School Aid was doing to help improve the lives of thousands of less fortunate children in develop­ ing countries. An ecstatic Bethany said: “I


just could not believe it when he walked in. I am his biggest fan.” In her entry Bethany wrote


about the voluntary work she does, including helping at a local special school each week where she does wheelchair dancing with disabled chil­ dren. School Aid aims to raise


£500,000 for children in proj­ ects across Kenya, India, Cambodia, Laos and Sudan.


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