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100 years ago


TWO-men who had a miraculous escape from death in a gas explosion in Sabden were still in a “precarious condition". The force of the impact had been so severe that the pair had been thrown 30 feet into the air. A week later James Dixon was confined to bed at home with head injuries and severe burns, while Joseph Nightingale was in the Victoria Hospital in Burnley with internal injuries. • In the fashion world the leading


colour combinations were described as peacock blue and brown, shell pink and taupe and nut brown with turquoise. • Recipes of the week included Mari­


nade de Choux-FIeurs - two cauliflowers divided into “neat pieces” , blanched, coated in a good white sauce and then batter before being fried and served with fried parsley. Other dishes to try were economical gingerbread and Russian pie. • At the 11th annual show run in


association with the Blackburn and Dis­ trict Cage Bird Association, Whalley’s Mr J. Barnes won first and second prize in the members’ class for Norwich canaries. • With little “actual enthusiasm”


elections took place to fill four vacancies on the town council. Messrs Hardacre, Garnett, Mitchell and Whiteside were elected leaving the constitution of the council unchanged.


ever indulged in a little schadenfreude? What about the time your friend spilt red wine down that expensive new frock she had been boasting about all evening? Or when your boss gave you a hard time, then bumped his car on the way home? Didn’t you feel the slightest tinge of schadenfreude? And so to my own confession, which


stems from a recent incident in Burnley. Having lately suffered from a bad


back, I have been making regular visits to an osteopath and it was at the end of one such visit that this happened. I was walking, or limping, back to the


car park when I noticed a young woman, perhaps 17 or 18, walking towards me. She had obviously taken time over


her appearance, dressed nearly all in white and gold (must be the new black), very trendy and her open sandals clat­ tering as she came. Between us was a T-junction with one


of those pedestrian crossovers - a slight­ ly raised area, not a zebra crossing, but a pathway designed to make drivers give pedestrians the right of way.


As I see i t . . . by Duncan Smith


This was, after all, on the very edge of


Burnley’s pedestrianised town centre. Unlike me, the young woman was


clearly unhindered by sciatica and trot­ ting along at a fair pace. And, like many her age, she was almost entirely engrossed in the exotic world of her


mobile phone. Head down, she marched on, her


thumbs dancing lightly across the key­ pad as she “ cr8td hr 18tst txt 2 hr m8” . Occasionally she glanced up to make sure the real world held no obstruction- then back to the text. She saw the car halted at the mouth


of the T-junction. She saw the other car halted a short distance behind it. She saw the gap between them and, head down again, marched towards it. She did not see the tow rope linking


the first car to the second. I saw it, and realised what was about


to happen, just a fraction too late to stop it. She hit the tow rope at full canter, still


texting as she went, and suddenly her whole world was turned upside down. The poor girl was toppled like a ten-pin, legs flying in the air, shoes parting com­ pany with feet, and texting abruptly


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


WHEN Miss E.R. Garnett, JP, went to Buckingham Palace to receive her MBE from the Queen, she probably did not know that one of the Guards­ men on duty at the gates was a fellow Clitheronian. He was 18-year-old Malcolm


Choyce, of Mayfield Avenue, who was mounting his first guard outside the Palace. He was a regular soldier. • The battle for possession of one of


the few desirable residences in a small town, encountering difficulty in hous­ ing the staff and workpeople of a new business venture, was fought out real­ istically on the stage of Downham School. The “ battle” was undertaken by


members of the Downham Drama Club, in the autumn production of Wilfrid Massey's comedy, "With Vacant Possession." Members of the cast were John


Gooby, Kenneth Monk, Tom Pringle, Anne Watson, May Marton, Betty Todd and Nina Robinson. • It was certainly not a lack of con­


fidence nor a will to fight which caused the downfall of Clitheroe FC at Old­ ham where, against fast and strong opponents, their unbeaten league record stretching over nine matches, crumbled in the dust of a 7-1 thrash­ ing.


suspended! It was one of those rare moments that seemed to unfold, for me at least, in slow motion. Incredibly, she seemed uninjured as


she scrabbled on the ground, trying - and failing miserably - to regain her composure. One moment the very pic­ ture of teenage cool, the next moment a sprawling mess with a broken mobile phone. Even then the drama was not over, as


the driver of the first car, blissfully unaware of the slapstick scene behind him, attempted to drive off. The driver of the second car stood on his brake, try­ ing not to add injury to insult by run­ ning over the unfortunate girl crawling in the road in front of him. The rope stretched ever tighter as alarmed onlookers rushed to bang on the first car, imploring its startled driver to stop! I collected the woman’s shoes, helping


her up and asking if she was OK? She nodded, but looked like she wanted the ground to open up and swallow her. Adjusting her now dishevelled cloth­


ing and quickly gathering up the scat­ tered contents of her clutch bag, she scuttled away, only her rubber-boned youth saving her from injuring much more than her pride. And here comes the schadenfreude,


because I’m ashamed to admit... it was the funniest thing I have seen in years. If you are that woman, I ’m sorry, I


really am, but had our roles been reversed, how would you feel? If only I’d been walking along with a


video camera to my eye, but then I would have tripped over the rope too.


OUR picture shows Guy receiving the Investors in People Award from Isla Owen, (s)


Ginger Pumpkin invests in its people


agency has been re-accredited with the Investors in People award it first achieved four years ago. The company, which is this year


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celebrating the 10th anniversary of its foundation and has just invest­ ed in some major new studio equipment, not only passed its re­ assessment for the accolade against an updated version of award criteria, it also received news that it had retained the awarding body as a client! The Centre for Assessment and


Recognition Ltd, which is based in Wigan, is the North West’s Investors in People centre and Ginger Pumpkin, which has its office in New Market Street, is employed as its appointed print and design consultant. Says the centre’s marketing


manager Isla Owen: “We have been working with managing director Guy Purves and the team at Ginger Pumpkin for a number


Smart solution to a tricky problem


Clitheroe’s parking problems! The driver of this


H 25 years ago


THE honeymoon period was over for motorists parking in Clitheroe. Ribble Valley Borough Council was clamping down on people who abused the two-in- any-three-hour restriction on three town centre car parks. A new enforcement officer had been appointed to make reg­ ular checks and drivers who outstayed their welcome faced fines of up to £20 in the magistrates’ court. • A big fund-raising drive was to take


place in Clitheroe in the coming months as the first step towards building a £220,000 sports hall at the Roefield recreation area. The effort would be spearheaded by a co-ordinating commit­ tee and an appeal had been made to local organisations to think of ideas to help raise £55,000. • Shopkeepers in the Ribble Valley


were warned to be on their guard against a well-mannered stranger who had been passing forged £20 notes. He had been active in other parts of the county, but Sgt Jim Oldcorn, head of Clitheroe CID, said that he could well move into the area. • A man who joined Clitheroe Morris


Men less than 12 months ago was voted “Man of the Year” by his team mates. He was Robin Cassey who, in the words of a fellow Morris man, “ represented more than anyone the sense of fun and joy that Morris dancing is all about.”


tiny two-seater car employed lateral thinking when looking for a parking place in busy King Street, right outside the Clitheroe Advertiser office. But however short your car, don’t leave it too long or Clitheroe’s precisely punctual parking attendants will pounce!


OW’S this for the Smart solution to


LITHEROE’S award-win­ ning Ginger Pumpkin design and advertising


of years now and enjoy a very good and understanding working partnership. “Everything Ginger Pumpkin


has produced for us has been to the highest standard. Being the con­ tact with Ginger Pumpkin, I have interacted with all the staff in its office in Clitheroe. They are a very friendly and approachable team and really deserve their Investors in People status - I wish them all the success for the future and keep up the great work.” The Investors in People award


scheme is a framework for business improvement, designed to advance an organisation's performance through its people. Adds Guy Purves: “Any busi­


ness is only as good as the people it employs and at Ginger Pumpkin, we’re fortunate to have an expand­ ing, talented and dedicated team. “Our re-accreditation with the


Investors in People award and retaining the awarding body as a client is to its credit.”


US author tackles witches’ story


A


N American author is researching a book about the Pendle Witches.


Mary Sharratt, formerly of Minnesota and now


of Great Harwood, writes historical novels and was guest speaker at Clitheroe Rotary Club’s recent meeting. She told members about her new novel, titled “A


Light Far-Shining: A Novel of the Pendle Witch­ es” and said she hopes it will reveal the dramatic life of Elizabeth Southerns, aka Old Demdike, the most notorious of the Lancashire Witches of 1612. She added that the novel has already sold to


Houghton Mifflin in New York and she hopes to find a UK publisher as well. • Now Mary would like to hear from any Ribble


Valley residents who can claim descent from the Pendle Witches or have other local information. For more details visit www.marysharratt.com.


Stand together


heckle at our political leaders. Twenty-five years ago I


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can recall that there were many people saying to each other that we should abolish Remembrance Sunday. Some would say that there


were not many people left who were directly involved in the two world wars of the 20th Century. Others were saying that all it did was to give glory to war. I was not one who shared


either of those views, because every one of us had been affected in some way or another by those wars and if


o v e m b e r nth is


not a day to give glory to war or to


we were now living in relative peace, it was because of those sacrifices. How life has changed! First


of all there was the Falklands War and all that against the sacrifices in Northern Ire­ land. Secondly, we are living today with the tragedy of what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan as we read. Every one of us is involved


in these two conflicts. Most of you will have an opinion about what is happening. Whether or not politically you agree or disagree with. our armed forces being deployed as they are at the moment, we have a common need to stand together:


• Alongside the families and friends of those who have


died. • Alongside the families


and friends of those who are wounded for the rest of their


lives. • Alongside everyone who desperately craves for an end


to violence. As soldiers, sailors and air­


crew do their duty, to Queen and Country, we have a duty to stand by them and their families, be they still serving or sadly fallen, killed or wounded. This year Armistice Day is


actually on a Sunday. Sunday, is the day when Christians remember week


after week the sacrificial love of Christ to make Himself ONE with the horrors and mistakes of this life, both per­ sonal and global. More than that, we cele­


brate the belief that His sac­ rificial love is capable of bringing us all through to a Day of Resurrection, partly in this life, but fully beyond the grave. We have been taught to


pray: “Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven” .


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