14 Clitheros Advertiser & Times, Thursday, April 12th, 2007


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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, April 12th, 2007 1S Letters to the Editor L] Write lo: Tlic Kdiier. Clillicrc.e A.l'crli.ser and Times, 3 King Slreel, Clitlicroe liH72E\V Etiilorial e-mail: vivien.mealli@easllancsiieivs.co.uk Give me my local


shops any day! IN response to the question: "Do many people use local shops?" I must respond, “yes I do!” 1 moved to Ciitheroe 10 years ago


after living in France for 11 years. While I loved the convenience of big hypermarkets where I could buy everything under one roof, 1 deeply regretted the deserted town centres with no heart. Some of the many things I cherish


about living in England are thriving small towns, milkmen, window clean­ ers and newspaper boys! When 1 drive home from out of


town I always pass through the centre of town rather than go round because it is always a pleasure to see the lively hustle and bustle, even when the weather is bad. I often drive through other small towns near larger towns with their "superstores" and they are deserted and derelict looking. I must admit that when we first


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moved here it was our habit to travel to very large DIY stores for things we required for our home.


Often we couldn't find what we


needed or they only sold them in packs of 100 when we only needed two. 1 started calling in Dawson's, expecting it to be rather expensive - well surely you must pay over the odds for that personal and experi­ enced service? How wrong I was! Not only did I invariably find what 1 wanted, but the prices were extreme­ ly comparable and often cheaper because you can buy just the one screw you need rather than a packet of 20! Not only that, but if they don't p ll it they will do their best to source it for you. 1 even have friends from out of town who come to shop in Clitheroe specifically for the service they don't get elsewhere. As a value conscious 40-somelhing


with two teenage children, 1 buy just about everything I need in Clitheroe with one e.xception, I would welcome a bit more choice in good value, but stylish clothes shops. But hoy, I don't want to become a recluse, I don't mind peeping my nose out of lovely Clitheroe once in a while just so long as I can come back and find it as com­ fortable and friendly as always.


LISA PISSOCHET, Hawdiorne Place, Cliiheroe


Why not stop and


talk to your voters? LOCAL councillors represent the peo­ ple - that’s the theory. But if council­ lors don’t communicate with their constituents, how can they? Our household contains four poten­


tial votes; therefore I would have thought some verbal communication would take place when canvassing. But no! While delivering election literature


from house to house, our local repre­ sentative had earphones plugged in, didn’t even say “Good morning” nor introduce himself. Pushing a leaflet into the porch while we were standing on the driveway shows rudeness and incivilit.y.


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Road. The plan to install one flat top and 3G round top humps on local roads bisected by Henthom Road is akin to using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It has been demonstrated in other


parts of the country that the presence of speed humps has worsened rather than improved the level of safety, as a result of the drivers spending too much time anticipating the humps and not enough time looking out for other haz­ ards. COc and other exhaust emissions increase as drivers constantly slow down and then speed up again. Vehicle damage and increased noise


are additional undesirable conse­ quences. There is no evidence that roads in the


ii:Sai£ Thanks for bringing a smile to my face


JUST a short note to say a big They bring a smile to my face thank-you to the lady in Pendle every time I pass. Road, in Clitheroe, with the monkey MRS GILES


Aliliol Walk, Clilheroc. My father remained a councillor in


Chesliiro for more than 30 years only by listening and talking to those who voted him into office. These councillors are in the enviable


position of representing the beautiful Kibble Valley and taking high office in the town.


Unfortunately, if I don't exercise my


franchise I may be responsible for someone even less desirable to bo elected. Sadly, it appears to be a choice between “the devil and the deep blue sea”.


ELIZABETH S. BOWNESS, Kenilworlh Drive, Clidieroe


My alarm bells are


starting to ring I FIND it alarming that the Christ­ ian foundation. Oasis, is to move into the life of our town without being carefully examined as to its motives. You quote its founder, Steve Chalke,


in last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times (April 5th), saying; “We will respect the beliefs of our clients and will not seek to impose our own beliefs”. This must not be taken at face


value when spoken by the leader of an organisation whose chief aim I believe is to make disciples of all nations, and for whom all regions and all belief sys­ tems other than (Evangelical) Chris­ tianity are false or, at best, half- truths. Further, “we will respect the beliefs


of our clients” has to be set against Oasis’ plan to work with young people (clients with beliefs?) when The Grand “will also develop a much wider range of education... pro­ grammes” (David Wilkinson quoted in the same issue).


ALAN BAILEY, Woonc Lime, Cliiheroe


Two fastest roads


excluded from plan THE recent decision by Lancashire County Council to proceed with the plan to install road humps on the majority of local roads on either side of


Henthorn Road flies in the face of com­ mon sense. The desire to enforce a general reduc­


tion in vehicle spwds is sound, but the moans by which this will be done within the specific area are open to question. The roads which currently experience a higher speed than is acceptable are Henthorn Road and Edisford Road, yet the proposed traffic calming scheme specifically e.xcludes these two roads. Henthom Road is the feeder route for


the built-up areas on either side and is currently subject to a 30 m.p.h. limit. This however is regularly exceeded by many types of vehicle, including LOG and sub-contractor vehicles en-route to the Henthorn municipal recycling site. There have been a number of accidents on this road, including one witnessed by myself, where speed has been a contrib­ utory factor. Being long and straight the road becomes a speed track for inconsiderate drivers, despite the regu­ lar presence of children and others. The presence of red Tarmac at road junc­ tions does not seem to have significant­ ly reduced the average speed. Likewise Edisford Road experiences


higher than desirable speeds at many times of the day. A degree of self-calm- ing takes place near Edisford school when parents are parked as they drop off or collect their children, but vehicles which exceed the speed limit create haz­ ards at T-junctions along its length, particularly at the junction with Lan­ caster Drive.


A truly worthwhile traffic calming


scheme for the Henthorn area should incorporate physical means of control­ ling speeds in Henthom Road (not nec­ essarily speed humps) and a greater level of speed monitoring on Edisford


residential zones in question are dan­ gerous. Throughout the 40 years I have lived on Fairfield Drive (a relatively busy road in relation to many others in the area) I do not recall a single acci­ dent involving a pedestrian. That record is sadly not true for Henthorn Road or Edisford Road. I contend therefore that the con­


struction of the many speed humps will impose a high financial and social cost far in e.xcess of the need to restrain traf­ fic speeds which are generally not dan­ gerously liigh. The creation of 20 m.p.h. zones without speed humps for the local roads should be sufficient. Although apparently not permitted by the Department for Transport, the prece­ dent has already be created in the Peel Park area of Clitheroe where there is a 20 mph zone without humps. There are numerous villages up and down the country which are subject to a hump- free 20 mph speed limit. To achieve genuine road safety


improvement it is essential that practi­ cal measures be introduced to reduce the widespread speeding (often well in excess of 30 m.p.h.) on Henthorn Road and Edisford Road. The large amount of money saved on not constructing the 37 humps could more sensibly used to tackle this far more serious problem. The county council has obviously


disregarded the considered opinion of the its local councillor, Coun Stephen Sutcliffe, who has described the present plan as “potty”. It will permit LCC to ‘tick the boxes’ to satisfy government dictat, but locally it will be an expen­ sive and rather pointless exercise.


DAVID J. BUTTERWORTH, Fairfield Drive,


Clilherue Lovely memories


are still relived REGARDING the recent article: "Television cameras focus on Down- ham."


I loved your story, “A perfect place” in March 22nd issue, but unfortunate­


ly we were away for the television show­ ing. I too was a Second World War evac­


uee from London and stayed with a kind family (Mr and Mrs W. Coates) at 58 Woone Lane, Clitheroe for about two years.


Since my retirement I have done an


enormous amount of research into my going there and the family I stayed with and for the last six years my wife and I have made an annual pilgrimage back. Some years ago, when visiting and attending Sunday morning service


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at St James' Church, Clitheroe, I made contact with three nieces of the same Coates family and have since struck up a wonderful relationship with them and their families. Alas the Coates’s weren't blessed wdth children and both died between 1974-75. With the man'ellous assistance of Clitheroe Cemeteries Offi­ cer, Judith Paliga, I managed to trace where they are buried even though theirs is an unmarked plot in Clitheroe Cemetery - 1 have since had permission to place an engraved Ashes Stone where they share the husband's parents grave.


I am, however, most interested in


your article (I try to read your paper online most weeks) and like Mrs Doreen Allen, of Hyde, I too still find Clitheroe and its surroundings most fascinating and in “a time warp” - marvellous in this day and age! But 1 would very much like to communicate with Mrs Allen through yourself if need be, in case she may have reached Clitheroe (Downham) a t the same time and mode as I did. I have researched (through Preston Records Office and the Families’ Records Office in London) approx, when/how I arrived and returning home in 1945 - regret­ tably I never made contact with the Coates family again. The first year I returned to (Jlitheroe everything was exactly as I remembered it 58 years on, except for the town centre being so hillyl Also it had taken me five years to trace a particular misericord which I remember Mrs Coates showing me - 1 eventually found it in Whalley Parish


• Church, choir seat no. 12, North side, carved 14301


My wife and I will be revisiting Clitheroe yet again in August, staying as previously, at Wolfden Mill, Chip­ ping.


JAMES (NICK) GODLONTON, 3 Firs Walk, Woodford Green, Essex, IG80TD


(Tel. 020 8505 7083)


® BBC North West “Inside Out” contacted us regarding Mrs Allen, of Hyde, and the screening of the pro­ gramme. Perhaps other evacuees would like to contact Mr Godlonton, at the above address - Editor


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Claire in the (Irc.ss


loaned hv Orchid’ Designs


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FUN with a touch of slapstick comedy vide an eight-minute speech of their a family name, the winner, Stephen was the winning formula at the Clitheroe choice, with marks out of 100 for presen- Clarke, talked on the subject of one-size Speakers’ Club annual contest.


A little bit of slapstick proves a hit with speakers tation, content and impression, and items that now abound in our shops.


With Marlene Birtwell and Pamela Jel- deductions for exceeding the allotted Anyone interested in finding out more ley, from the Burnley Ladies Speakers’ time.


about the Clitheroe Speakers Club, please


Club, as the independant judges for the With subjects varying from a possible contac t Mr Dennis Ogden on 01200 evening, the five contestants had to pro- holiday romance to beginning research of 427870.


AN aspiring actress, who was loaned a ballgown by a local bridal designers and dressmak­ ers to wear during a recent beauty contest, has expressed thanks for all the support she has been given. Claire Greenhalgh (22), of


Clitheroe, made it through to the finals of the Miss Bolton contest earlier this month, which required competitors to model ballgowns. In an article in the Clitheroe


Advertiser and Times,, she appealed for help to find a suit­ able dress, with Liz Metcalfe, the owner of Orchid Designs, King Street, Clitheroe, coming forward with a gown. “We’ve been here 23 years


and wanted to support her as she’s a local girl,” commented Liz.


Claire says a big thank-you A runner-up in the East Lan­


cashire Newspapers “Face of 2005” competition, Claire, a former pupil of Bowland High School, Grindleton, missed out on winning the crown at the Miss Bolton contest. “ It was an experience


though,” Claire commented, “and I would like to thank Orchid Designs for the loan of the gown.” Claire, who is a theatre grad­


uate, plans to continue carving out an acting career, while sup­ plementing her income with some commercial modelling and promotions work. She was originally persuaded


to enter Miss Bolton by her model agency, not least because it supports a good cause, the Lucie Blackman Trust, a char­ ity promoting personal safety.


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