16 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Career advice
from a high flier SUMMER holidays may be over, but young pupils at Pendle Primary School, Clitheroe, met a real-life airline pilot this week! Anthony Lawrenson, the father of two of
the school’s pupils, Albert and Iris, talked to the whole school about how he came to become an airline pilot for British Airways, helping the children to understand that ideas for careers can begin in primary school. Mr Lawrenson is one of several parents
who have offered to visit the school to dis cuss career development and help children to understand more about the world of jobs and employment. Mr Lawrenson is pictured showing Oliver
Taylor from Year 2 how to pilot an aero plane and how to see in the dark with his night-time vision glasses, (s)
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Be seen and safe on the road is message
CHILDREN are being advised to “be safe be seen” this autumn as the mornings and
nights get darker. As well as giving their top safety
tips, Lancashire County Council’s Road Safety Group are also offer ing youngsters the chance to win a goodie bag including high-visibility jackets and "tickets to Camelot theme park. Clare Farrer, deputy group man
ager, said: “At this time of year, it’s important to make sure your child
can be seen when out on the roads. Both mornings and nights will be much darker as the clocks change. “Being prepared for the change
will help to keep you and your chil dren safe. Getting into good habits now, by making sure your child wears fluorescent or reflective clothing, will help them be seen by other road users. “Although bright or fluorescent
clothes can be seen easily in the day, especially when i t ’s dull or misty, it is important to remember
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th a t they do not show up after dark. Reflective materials however work well at night and show up in car headlights. “If your child is cycling, it is
important to remember that it is against the law to cycle at night without a white front light, a red back light and red reflector at the back, so make sure they are clean and working.” • To be in with a chance of win ning the goodie bag, simply answer
All you need to know
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ple do each year. While there are many obvious things
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does not contain a valuation of the prop erty and so buyers will still need to have , one carried out, along with a structural ■
survey should they wish to know more about the state of the “bricks and mor tar” they're purchasing. Although a HIP is currently only
required if you're selling a property with three or more bedrooms, the Government proposal is that by the end of the year all homes will need a pack before they can be marketed - regardless of size. The benefit of the new scheme is two
fold: firstly, by the seller preparing some of the information a buyer needs in advance, the time taken in carrying out searches and gathering reports has been saved, speeding up the process and hope fully bringing the moving date nearer. Secondly, the expectation is that sellers will feel that making their home as ener gy-efficient as possible can be a real sell ing point and any changes they carry out will go some way to helping the environ ment. So how does a house seller go about
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skipton.co.uk. Although the packs can range in price,
Skipton's standard HIP costs only £349 including VAT and this fee will be reim bursed for anyone taking the HIP before December 31st who subsequently takes out a mortgage directly with the society within 12 months of the date of the report. And once you've supplied your details to get the ball rolling, there's nothing else to do as the HIP is sent elec
tronically direct to you and your estate agent. So although it seems unlikely tha t
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the following question: When the clocks change at the end of this month, the nights become: a) darker b) brighter c) lighter. Send your answer
along with your name, address and telephone number to Camelot compe tition, Lancashire County Council Road Safety Group, Guild House, Cross S treet, Preston, PR1 8RD or e-mail
roadsafety@env.lan
cscc.gov.uk The closing date
for entries is next Monday.
Barn blaze
A BARN housing tractors, hay and timber fencing has been destroyed by fire. Five fire engines
had to tackle the blaze at Read Hall Farm, off Whalley Road, Read. The fire, believed
to have started acci dentally at 8-30 p.m., was not under control until mid
night. Two appliances
from Padiham had to be supported by two from Burnley and one from Accrington as water had to be supplied by relay from the bottom of the road. Lighting equipment also had to be used because of the remote location. Crew manager
Mark Geraghty, of Padiham Fire and Rescue, said: “The open bam was made from metal and asbestos cement
sheeting. “It contained sev
eral tractors, around 10 tons of hays and timber fencing. ’“We had to use
three breathing apparatus and sup por t from other pumps because of |. the. barn’s location.”
FROM the left, back row: Janet Hargreaves, Susan Weathcrley, Barbara Clayton, (Dmnc Hutchcon - not at reunion), Susan Jones, Joan Elms, (Anne Calverlcy - not a reunion), Christme Fryer, Penny Daw son, Pamela Bond, Brenda Ball, Judith Allibone.Centre row: (Valer.e Gnmshaw - no at reumon) Patrr- niI„,...... /Rathrvn Greenwood and Christine Adamson neither at reunion), Audrey Cherry, Carol
Bradshaw Sandra Davies (Judith Callow - not at reunion) Carol Greenwood, Susan Fell, Penny Aspden. Pmnf row: C a p r in e S S a n c y Eatough, Christine Duckworth, Elaine Barnes, Miss Cooper, Zyipha
FORMER pupils of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Upper Five Alpha travelled from all over the UK, plus one from Texas, USA, to the first reunion since the girls left school 42
yearsago. Thirty former pupils attended the
event at Moorcock Inn, Waddington,
organised by Mrs Penny Winterbum (nee Dawson), Mrs Judi Marsden (nee Allibone) and Mrs Sian Walker (nee Davies), whose detective work in trac ing everyone paid off in grand style although they admitted the Internet and local newspapers had been very helpful in trackinh people down. • - '■ •
THE new photograph shows Judith Allibonc, Penny Dawson, Sandra Davies, Mary Armilstead, Penny Aspden, Pamela Bond, Brenda Ball, Margaret Bury, Christine Fryer, Carol Bradshaw, Freda Bradshaw, Catherine Barnes, Elaine Barnes, Barbara Clayton, Patricia Dugdale, Christine Duckworth, Nancy Eatough, Joan Elms, Susan Fell, Carol Greenwood, Zyipha Grange, Susan Jones, Janet Hargreaves, Anne Hales, Audrey Cherry, Susan Wallis, Susan Wcatherley, Anne Ridehalgh, Elizabeth Sayle and Diane Gardener. (A260907/5)
Mrs Susan Slater (nee Jones), made
the trip over from Texas for the reunion, with many others saying it was a huge success and requesting they all meet again from time to time. The affair started with morning cof
fee followed by a buffet lunch, at which Mrs Marsden gave an introduction
and welcomed people to the event. Zyipha Thompson (nee Grange)
gave an amusing talk about her mem ories of her schooldays. Mrs Susan Forrest (nee Fell) also gave a little talk, having written a song about CRGS schooldays, which everyone joined in.
Mrs Thompson thanked the staff at
the Moorcock Inn and also the three ladies who had organised everything. Our photographer went along to the
Moorcock to take a photograph in which the ladies are in almost the same position as in the original photograph taken in 1963.
WORK experience student KATE WOOLLEY stands up in defence of the Ribble Valley, somewhat maligned on a website devoted to
fans of the popular TV series “Lost”. Kate, who lives with her fami ly at Stonyhurst, is in her final year at Bristol University where she is studying Classics and considering a career in journalism
CHARACTERS Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Hurley and Charlie are just some of the names that will immediately spark off conversa tion between a cool 15 million viewers of the baffling TV series “Lost”, me being one of them. However, while visiting a fans’ web
site, I came across a hurtful observa tion by the site owner, “Greg”, who wrote: “incidentally, ‘Drive Shaft’ were on their way to Clitheroe, a town in Lancashire in western England, when they first heard their one hit on the radio.” Greg observes from this th a t:
“Clitheroe has a website that looks like it hasn’t changed since 1998. No wonder Charlie (one of the ‘Lost’ characters) calls it ‘the arse end of nowhere’. Clitheroe must be the Tal lahassee of England.” Yet I wonder what Greg or the
American writers of “Lost” would think if they knew that the “arse end of nowhere” was, in fact, the muse for the multi-million pound epic movie trilogy “Lord Of The Rings”, which
continues to inspire artwork, music, films and television, video games, and subsequent literature? The impact of Tolkein’s works have
also secured him “Tolkeinian” and “Tolkeinesque” in the Oxford English Dictionary. Stonyhurst College, located in the
small village on the outskirts of Clitheroe, is where Tolkein frequently visited his son, John, while he was a pupil. Evidence of Tolkein’s many stays in the area can be proven by the numerous times his name appears in Stonyhurst College’s visitors’ book. Tolkein’s love of the area was inher
ited by his family and his other son, Michael, later taught Classics at the college. So the “arse end of nowhere” con
tains the school and guesthouse where one of the most inspiring authors spent a good chunk of his later life writing, and if you were to stand above Clitheroe, where the keep of the Norman Castle lies, the whole of Tolkien’s “Shire” appears visible. The prestigious college also schooled the literary legend Sir Aurthur Conan
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Yank who needs out a lot more!
“the arse end of nowhere” to him. This part of the world must be espe
cially meaningful to the Hollywood actor, since it was in Burnley, Darwen, Blackburn and Bolton that he filmed his first-ever television role, playing Hetty Wainthropp’s young sidekick, Geoffrey Shawcross, in “Hetty Wainthropp Investigates”. Not only has Clitheroe and its sur
Doyle, creator of “Sherlock Holmes”, the world’s greatest detective and a character who spawned countless film and televison adaptations. Ironically, the view of ‘“Charlie”,
the “Lost” character, is perhaps con trasting to the thoughts of the actor who plays him, Dominic Monaghan. The star, pictured above left, rock
eted to fame after appearing as a Hob bit in the “Lord of the Rings” movie; that is, by starring in a film in part inspired by Clitheroe and the sur rounding Ribble Valley - certainly not
rounding area reared two of the world’s fathers of literature, but it continues to attract some of the most cultured and respected Brits of this generation. For her 80th birthday cel ebrations, HM the Queen visited Blackburn and the Ribble Valley and Royal biographer Sarah Bradford revealed in her book, “Elizabeth”, that the Queen would “love to retire to the Ribble Valley”, the favourite location being Whitewell, where the Royal family own much of the land. The Inn at Whitewell dates back to
the early 1300s and has eight kilome tres of fishing rights along the Hodder, where guests may fish for salmon, trout, grayling and sea trout. Members of the Royal family have
stayed at the Inn at Whitewell before and have delighted in the Lancashire countryside. Prince Charles has previously rid
den with the Pendle Forest and Craven hunt and was last in the region as recently as January 2003. The Duke of York visited Clitheroe
in July 2004 and the Countess of Wes sex last September. Clitheroe makes a noted contribu
tion to religious prestige, too. In 1652, while atop Pendle Hill, overlooking Clitheroe, George Fox, founder of Quakerism, claimed to have received a visitation from God. Having been inspired by the view, Fox began to lay down the foundations of the Society of Friends, or Quakers. Royal, literary and religious inspi
rations have all developed from this town. Maybe if Greg and the other American bigwigs bothered to explore a few other web pages, they would realise that actually Clitheroe is much more than an unheard-of wasteland. If you ask me, the poorly-informed
Greg may have the likes of Britney Spears swanning about his city, but how many people in 50 years time will be talking about the inspiration behind “Hit Me Baby One More Time” ? Whereas more than half-a-century
la te r and the debate over where Tolkein took inspiration for his time less trilogy is still a current literary talking point. The young Yank should learn a bit
more geography and culture. He’d discover that firstly, Dunsop
Bridge, near Clitheroe, is the exact geographic centre of the United King dom, and lastly that he’s the only one who appears well and truly Lost!
42 years on and the CRGS girls from this 1963 photo meet up
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