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MONDAY November 19th is World What does that mean to us living in a '
Toilet Day.
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dessert menu featured plum pudding, bachelor putting, apple and damson tart, custards, creams, jellies or ice pud ding. The celebration followed the re- election of Alderman J. T. Whipp as Mayor of the Borough of Clitheroe. • A new coal pit was being sunk at
Hillock Pit between Higham and Sab- den. Once complete, the pit shaft would be 180 feet deep and would be worked in conjunction with Cheapside Pit. • The anniversary of the village read
ing room and library was celebrated in Downham with a supper and dance at the Greendale Temperance Rooms. More than 70 people attended the event.
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ago, the average number of children born to a working mother in Clitheroe’s mills in 1857 was eight. There was little sanitation or clean
water provision, poor diet, no health care and limited education. How things have changed! It is estimated that we each spend three
whole years of our lives on the loo. So we all need to take toilets seriously! The bare facts are that more than one
third of the world’s population has nowhere safe and clean to go to the toilet. Instead, they have to use fields, streams,
rivers, railway lines, canal banks, any where for a bit of privacy.
A s I s e e i t . . . . b y C h r i s W i l c o c k
Free-range defecation you could call it
and i t ’s difficult for us to imagine the results. Such pollution causes degradation and
disease on an unimaginable scale. Diar- rhoeal diseases kill well over two million people every year in the developing world, mostly children under the age of five. Amazingly, a 10% loss of body fluids can be fatal. Children in developing countries often
carry up to 1,000 parasitic worms as a result of poor sanitation, causing aenemia,
stunted growth and other debilitating conditions. In many countries, women must wait until after dark to go to the toi let and may have to walk long distances to find an isolated spot, running the risk of sexual harrasment and animal attacks. These problems can all be prevented by
having a safe, clean toilet close to home. In many parts of rural Africa aid agencies are now helping families to construct latrines which safely recycle waste, producing high quality free fertiliser which in turn is pro viding important dietary supplements for poor families in the form of fresh fruit and vegetables. What could be more simple! So please spare a thought on Monday
for the millions of people caught up in a problem that we, in Lancashire, were fac ing a mere 150 years ago. For more information, visit: www.wat-
eraid.org
LOOKING BACK - 50 years ago
AT half-past five on a Sunday morning, searching a darkened sky, Mr S. Sains- bury, of Milnthorne Avenue, Clitheroe, spotted the second Russian satellite - Sputnik II. For 15 seconds he watched its progress as, like a bright star mov ing across the heavens, it followed its northward orbit which took it, appar ently, directly above the top of Pendle Hill. • Telephone subscribers in the
Clitheroe district were, from January 1st, able to call any one of 33,000 other phone users within an area of 813 square miles - for 3d. • About 300 people attended the
annual ball, organised by the commit tee of Whalley Conservative Club, in the Assembly Rooms. • The Asian flu epidemic, which was
then at the peak, was said to be blamed for the loss of almost £100 on the Hod- der Valley Agricultural and Horticul tural Show at Slaidburn.
T H O U G H T fo r t h e w e e k
coe. During my few days I
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climbed five Munroes, that is mountains over 3,000ft (what’s that in metres?). This involved some danger
ous and strenuous climbs, but don’t tell my wife. I came across many different piles of stones called “caims”and each one had a specific purpose and was of great help for people like me trying to find their way across a beautiful, but rugged and even dangerous landscape. For centuries it has been the
custom for walkers passing over a summit to place a stone as a marker; as a sign that they had passed this way.
few weeks ago I was on holiday in Scotland and I was staying in Glen
Neil’s aim is to start youngsters singing
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NEW children’s choir is to be formed in the Ribble Valley and singers are now being
recruited. Clitheroe-based music teacher and
choral conductor Neil Shepherd, pic tured, is behind the new venture. To be known as the Ribble Valley Chil dren’s Choir, it will be based at St Nicholas’ Church Hall, in Sabden, and will start rehearsals in the new year. They will run from 4-30 to 5-30
p.m. on Mondays, starting on Janu ary 7th, and will be open to all chil dren in the Year 2 to Year 7 age range,
•without audition. The aim of the choir will be to promote a love of singing, via concerts, informal and charity performances, tours, record ings and music festivals. Once this choir is established, Neil also hopes to
25 years ago
A CLITHEROE teenager took a big step towards fulfilling his ambition to become a professional footballer. Allan Haydock (15), of Woone Lane, signed schoolboy terms with Blackburn Rovers after shining in a recent trial game at Ewood Park. A powerful midfield play er, Allan showed grea t potential throughout his school career. • A 59-year-old Chatburn man was
taken to hospital after collapsing in Clitheroe Magistrates’ Court where he was appearing to answer a rates sum mons. The man had been summoned for non-payment of the first instalment of this year’s rate by Rihble Valley Bor ough Council. He was taken to hospital, but discharged the same day. • A group of local women planned to
hold a silent hour-long vigil at Clitheroe Castle gates as part of a nationwide protest at the planned siting of Ameri can cruise missiles in England. The vigil was to start shortly after lunchtime.
Travelling on... Over time the pile has grown
higher and higher and some can be seen from miles away. Some cairns are literally a “pile of stones” while some are beautiful in their construction and are literally a labour of love. Many people today will
build a cairn in some high, remote spot in tribute to a per son whom they have loved and lost. They do it out of love as a
lasting memorial to a person who has had a huge impact on their lives. A mate of mine, Alan, built
a cairn in tribute to his father- in-law, Frank Buck, a fantastic bloke who loved walking on the mountains. The cairn though is not some selfish act of self-indul
gence. Not only does it act as a beacon guiding those travel ling on, it also can provide shelter from the worst of the elements for both humans and animals. The cairn is also a powerful reminder that all of us are travellers on a journey and that most of us have lost companions who have helped us and enriched our path through life. I personally have never built
gions view life as a journey. I am tremendously grateful for those who have accompanied me on my journey thus far. I intend to add many more stones as I travel on and per haps one day a stone will be placed in memory of me. I am determined to help people wherever I can as they journey through life. I hope you too can leave a
a cairn, but I have deposited hundreds of stones on numer ous cairns scattered around the British Isles. Each stone has been a symbol of my ongo ing love and gratitude for a person whose journey was shorter than mine. • Jesus said: “I am the way”
and I believe that to be true and many of the world’s reli
stone here and there in loving memory of someone who has touched and enriched your life. I also hope that your life will
be so memorable and enriching for others that others will leave a stone behind in memory of you.
TIM THORPE,
Methodist Minister, Clithcroe Circuit
Chinese adventure for ex-CRGS students
life, two former sixth-form pupils are enjoying a Chinese adventure. Ex-pupils of Clitheroe
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Royal Grammar School, Olivia Grimshaw and Jak Spedding (both 18), have swopped the Ribble Valley for Shanghai. The pair flew out to China
earlier this month and for the next eight months will experi ence life as teaching assistants at Xiwai International School, in Shanghai. The move has been made
possible following the gram mar school’s exchange link with the Shanghai school, which was set up earlier this year. Olivia, who lives in Langho, believes the cultural and lin
HILE most 18-year- olds are getting a taste of university
guistic experience during her gap year will be of great bene fit.
Speaking to the Clitheroe
Advertiser and Times before she left, she said: “I ’m very excited as it is a memorable experience of learning about the Chinese way of life. “We have been told that we
will be working as teaching assistants, helping children to improve their English speak ing and writing skills.” Jak, who lives in Chatburn,
added: “I’m looking forward to the challenge of living and working in a different country, however I am a little appre hensive as I don’t know what to expect.” Our picture shows Jak and
Olivia before they flew out to China to enjoy an experience- of-a-lifetime. (A151007/4a)
An actor with healing hands A
N East Lancashire actor - the only actor to have appeared in Coronation
Street, Eastenders and Emmerdale - is taking on a new role as a complementary thera
pist. Damian Christian (41), of
Grindleton, is to divide his time between treading the boards and busting stress thanks to his new business, Ribble Valley Thera pies, which is based at the Maree Leisure Club, Stirk House Hotel,
Gisburn. Damian, pictured, and busi
ness partner Sheelagh Fleming, the club’s swimming instructor,
Times change
pies, including reflexology, Swedish massage, Indian head massage, aromatherapy and
reiki. Damian became interested in
alternative healthcare, particu larly massage, after suffering back problems. “My back froze a few years
ago, and I underwent massage as part of my aftercare and was so impressed with the results that I decided to learn it myself!” Interestingly, Damian, has
played a doctor in Emmerdale and was th e paramedic who tended Coronation Street’s Fred Elliot when he broke his leg on a
birthday. A quick glance a t our
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Clitheroe Advertiser and Times’ files revealed that, in November 1900 as Mrs Brown was bom your week ly shop would cost • A 21b. loaf cost Id • 1 pint milk cost 'Ad • Vi lb. butter cost 3d • Vi lb. cheese cost 2d • Vi lb. bacon cost 1 Vid • '/ilb. tea cost 1 Vid • Vilb. coffee cost 3 Vid • 21b. sugar cost 1 Vid • 21b. potatoes Id • Vilb. margarine cost 3d
AST week we report ed celebrations of Emma Brown’s 107th
form an adult choir and a youth choir for thel2 to 19 age group. A new website has been set up a
with details of the choir and can be found on the following: www.ribble-
valleychoir.co.uk Any parents with children who are
interested in joining should contact Neil or Kate Shepherd on 07950 585787 or by e-mail on: neilshep-
herd@hotmail.co.uk A former music teacher a t Moor
land School, in Clitheroe, and Heath- land School, in Accrington, Neil has recently returned to the North after 11 years in the South West. Until his move down south he ran the former Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Youth Choir. He hopes the new choir will soon become an established part of the music scene in the Ribble Valley.
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