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BARROW Congregational Choir selected Bolton Woods for its annual outing and ended up having to rescue one of its own party from the River Wharfe. What could have been a tragic accident was narrowly averted a t the Strid, which is a narrow gorge into which the River Wharfe con­ tracts itself at a certain point and which, in the past, has proved a death trap to many. As the correspondent of the day explained: “Many foolhardy visitors make it a boast that they have jumped the Strid, which in reality is not at all a hard task. The boast, however, is not worth the risk for once in that seething cauldron below there is little chance of escape.” On this occasion the young woman from Bar- row tried her luck, hut lost her footing falling into the river. © A complaint was made to Bowland


District Council about the number of notices being erected warning people of the privacy of certain footpaths in the Slaidburn district. One bridleway in Slaid- burn was causing the most arguments.


typing Chinese characters into the key­ board. Patience through the unspoken frustra­


tions of old-fashioned courtship was explo­ sively rewarded in the modern setting of the final scenes. In April we found ourselves on home


ground, as parades from Clitheroe and Whalley flickered before our eyes from 1911 onwards.


NE week we were transported to the elegant salons of Paris and a chateau in the countryside as a


As I see it. . . by Karen Hands


So familiar and yet... The past can he


another country. We watched an educational film from


the 1940s, taken in an Accrington cotton mill - so confident, so certain. Where is the industry now? And how could it have changed so fast in so little time? I’m very fortunate to have been awarded


a small grant by Community Champions Lancashire to spend time finding out about the experiences of people from all sorts of backgrounds who find themselves in our country. How they look back at us might well hold some of the wonder that comes from watching these foreign films: characters set in scenes that are mostly identifiable if not familiar; and yet their reactions may not be quite what we expect. The story may not, in fact, reveal what we thought would happen. Any good film should take us “out of


ourselves” in order to entertain us, wher­ ever it lies on the spectrum from blood and


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


ONE of the leading players in the new play, “The Man in Question,” at the Blackpool Grand Theatre this week was John Stratton, of Pimlico Road, Clitheroe. ® A 14-year-old boy dived fully-clothed


into the deep water of the river at Brungerley and rescued a 13-year-old schoolmate, a non-swimmer who had gone under for the second time. The hero of this drama was Roy Bad­


ger, of 19 Siddows Avenue, who attended Ribblesdale Secondary Modern School. • The Conservative fete at Downham


Hall raised more than 400 for divisional funds.


The chief attraction was an exhibition


of veteran and vintage cars, which created a great deal of interest.


© Glorious sunshine greeted the Mayor


and Mayoress of Clitheroe (Coun. and Airs J. W. D. Critchley) as they left the Town Hall on Sunday morning to walk in procession for the civic service at the Con­ gregational Church.


gore to the delicate study of relationships. You can get that from sitting at home in


front of the telly or watching one of the current releases at St Mary’s Centre. All I would say is that the international


programme of films run by Ribble Film Club takes the whole experience to a dif­ ferent level, and one that more people should at least try! Subtitles might take up half the picture


on the telly, but they aren’t nearly so intru­ sive on the full screen and you will very quickly get into both reading and follow­ ing the action as the film absorbs you. Sunday was the last film before the sum­


mer break, “Letters from I wo Jima”, directed by Clint Eastwood. It was a great opportunity to explore


someone else’s perspective on the world: a US film describing Japanese efforts to secure the island from US invasion during the second world war. Hope to see you at future Ribble Film Club screenings! O Ribble Film Club screenings are held


at the St Mary’s Centre, in Church Street, Clitheroe, at 7-30 p.m. on Sundays and are open to club members and non-members alike. For more information about the club, call Bruce Dowleson 01200 426757.


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future. Kim Coverdale, of Herbal Heritage,


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visited the Manor House to record resi­ dents’ experience about using plants and other natural wildlife. She had been invited along by comple­


mentary medicine lecturer Elaine Jones, who is herself a regular visitor to the Chatburn home. Said Elaine: “I arranged for Kim to


ORDS of wisdom were record­ ed in Chatburn to preserve knowledge from the past for the


come along because she was looking to talk to people who have knowledge of how to use plants and why they are so important. She came along to talk to res­ idents and record the interviews which will be kept at the Sound Archive in Clitheroe.” The recordings were carried out as part


of a social history project being support­ ed by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Our photograph shows Kim Coverdale


with residents Edith Davies and Gordon Ashton (B270407/2b)


with final preparations for the performances of “Hedda Gabler” at Stonyhurst College. Mr Wooldridge, a former Stonyhurst pupil,


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devised and directed “The Night of 1,000 Voices”, at the Royal Albert Hall, London. He also makes time to direct a production every year at a drama school in the UK or Den­ mark. Johanna Egar, head of drama at the college,


said: “We were enormously grateful for Hugh’s support and enthusiasm.” Mr Wooldridge is pictured with Johanna Egar, head of drama at Stonyhurst (s)


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ton was regarded as a joke, one of the vil­ lage’s Ribble Valley councillors had claimed. Coun. Mrs Olga Leach told the borough council’s Housing Committee: “i t ’s so laughable that people put their names down when they marry in the hope that there might be a vacancy when they are older.” @ A sailor from Waddington was


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churchgoers or not, because we’ve heard it sung a t Cup Finals every May since the 1920s. I t’s a hymn which forever will


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be associated with that event every spring. This year the singing, led by Lesley Garrett and Sarah Brightman at the new Wembly, had a tremendous ring to it. It was written by an Anglican


cleric, Henry Francis Lyte, who was born in 1793 and died in 1847. He wrote it just after delivering his last service in the fishing village, as it was then, of Lower Brixham, in Devon. In that parish he had helped to educate Lord Salisbury, who became British Prime Minister on no less than three occasions. After his last service he left to sail to Nice, where he died of tuberculosis just weeks later, at the age of 54. Sometimes we get to know


particular hymns so well that we don’t really seriously look at the words that we’re actually singing. The original version of


’M sure we all know the hymn “Abide with me”, whether we’re regular


the hymn is a lot longer than the one we sing today and when I was asked to write a piece for the paper this month, which will probably be the last that I shall write before leaving the area, words from one particular verse of the hymn came to my mind: “Change and decay in all


around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me.” Not that I see a great deal of


decay around Clitheroe and its villages, none whatsoever in fact, but I do see change and I do believe that we in the Christ­ ian church have got to change and move forward. We have to be open to the movement of the Holy Spirit in all that we seek to do. Sometimes we are fright­ ened and scared by change because it removes something that is familiar. The past 10 years in Whalley


have gone exceedingly quickly. It is the longest that I have lived in the same house and so no doubt there’s lots of turning out and altering and things to be done to clear up before we go. My last Sunday in Whalley will be July 29th this year, before


moving to be Superintendent of the South Fylde Circuit, based in St Annes-on-Sea, where I will have three other ministerial col­ leagues, two full-time lay work­ ers and a full-time Youth and Community Worker. When I was in sector min­


istry running a homelessness project in Burnley, I used to come to Whalley quite often to preach during the eight years of that project. So Whalley is a place that we have become very attached to as a family. This is also the case because when we were in Circuit in Burnley from the mid ’80s, Whalley was a place we came out to for a walk and a cup of tea at one of the cafes and a wander round the village from time to time. So change. Change is some­


thing we all have to embrace and address whether it be in the life of our church building and alterations th a t are needed there, or whether it be change in our own personal circumstances that affects how we feel we’re being led by God to serve him. Change occurs in different


ways and at different times in different people’s lives. But in all


things, the one thing we hold on to is the fact that, as Francis Lyte put it in the hymn: “0 Thou who changest not, abide with me”. Whatever may change


around us, we can be assured th a t God, in Christ, never changes. One of the lovely vers­ es in the original text states: “Not a brief glance I beg, a


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everything, our Lord is with us, and Lie’s patient and He’s free and He’s open to all that we are about. And, as another verse states: “I need Thy presence every passing hour”. How much we do to be assured that Christ is sustaining us and guiding us.


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