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y resolution for 2008? - No
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I ’m fed up with trying to be helpful,
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mas my central heating boiler is starting to smell, the flames on the burner are too orange and I think some of the exhaust gases are escaping back into the kitchen, where it is housed. I t ’s not too bad if I leave the kitchen window open, but this is December. So I phone the man I normally use,
someone who has had my business for many years and who I have recommend ed to others. He’s good a t his job, no question of that... i t ’s just a case of get ting him there. I explain the situation and that, with two young children in the house. I ’m worried about these fumes. He thinks he knows what the problem is and th a t he can deal with it... but it won’t be uiitil after Christmas. Now what I should have done at this
point was hang up and get on the phone to someone else. But no, being a “nice guy” (or just a mug), I stay loyal. I ’m quietly annoyed that he didn’t offer to pop round and have a look at the ailing boiler, particularly as he only lives five minutes down the road, but I convince myself it will limp through Christmas with the kitchen window open until he can get round to it. Because I ’m a nice ^ y (or just an idiot).
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100 years ago
A PORTER a t Clitheroe Station nar rowly escaped death on New Year’s Eve. Mr William Walton had been pushing a truck over the level crossing when he saw a train heading towards him. He managed to escape injury by jumping clear. ® PC Entwistle, of Sabden, was
awarded a badge of merit for the part he played in rescuing a man from a burning house. O Clitheroe PC won the Blackburn
Charity Shield a f te r beating Moss Bridge in the final. ® Well-known local musician Mr
Richard Hartley, who was leader of the Orpheus Band, died at the age of 39. The deaths of the Rev. James Jackson, the Rev. S. T. Taylor-Taswell and John Bleazard were also reported. Mr Jackson had been pastor a t
Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Church for three years from 1891 to 1894. Mr Taylor-Taswell had been at
Whalley for six years before moving to Bracewell and Mr Bleazard, a contrac tor from Slaidburn, had moved to Clitheroe in 1870 and set up a business with Mr K. Jackson. ® A two manual organ was installed
at Low Moor United Methodist Church to replace an old harmonium. ® A man was hurt in an accident at Whalley Abbey Printworks - Mr Harry
Scott was scalded on his head and shoul ders.
As I see i t . . by Duncan Smith
Then on Sunday, the day before
Christmas Eve, my wife and I get up to find the kitchen covered in black soot. It’s on the ceiling, worst around the boil er, and on the walls, actually running down the tiled walls in streaks due to the condensation, and i t’s on everything in the kitchen, including the new UPVC door. Incidentally, we had the door put in because of the draught from the old wooden one - and now we have the win dow open. The kitchen actually looks like we’ve
had a small fire. I turn the boiler off and wait until after 9 to ring the boiler guy (wouldn’t want to disturb him too early on a Sunday, because I’m nice). When I do speak to him, it is painfully obvious from the outset that he has downed tools until the New Year and isn’t coming. If he had come the first time, even just to look and advise, I wouldn’t be in the mess I am now. All he can suggest is ring the Gas Board, but he thinks they will just turn the boiler off and leave it, which is where I’m at now... looking at Christmas with no heating and no hot water. What really annoys me is that when I worked as a reporter for another paper,
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
FLOODED roads and fields, with rain still falling heavily. That was the picture as 1958 came in. Several hours later the rain had changed to snow and sleet and New Year revellers woke-up on New Year's Day to a Christmas card scene. The last day of 1957 was the wettest
day of the year. O The conclusion of distinguished
careers by two members of a well-known and respected .Clitheroe family were marked by awards in the New Year’s Honours List.
Major-General Alfred Henry Musson
CBE, president of the Ordanance Board, became a Companion of the Bath (Military). Mr Francis William Musson, CMC, AFC, Under-Secretary at the War Office, his brother, became a Companion of the Bath (Civil). They were the sons of the late Dr and Mrs A.W. Musson, of Clitheroe. ® Out with the Pendle Forest Hunt
near Gisburn was Sheila Wilcox, the famous three-day event rider. ® An additional teacher was needed
a t St James's CE School, Clitheroe, because of the increasing number of children. This month there were 330 pupils at the school. The staff consisted- of a headmaster and eight teachers. ® Still on the winning path, Clitheroe
EC achieved their first double of the season on Saturday when they beat St Helen's Town 4-0. The Town went down
3-1 when they visited Shaw Bridge in August.
this same man was the secretary of a local organisation and would often ring me up, usually a t the last minute, want ing publicity for an imminent event, or asking for a photographer. That’s ac^al- ly how I got to know him, and I bent over backwards to help, because Pm nice. I no longer work there. He doesn’t need me. I rang my parents for the number of
another heating engineer, who had done work for them. So I rang this stranger on a Sunday morning two days before Christmas and explained my predica ment. Ten minutes later he was at my door and an hour later the boiler was fixed. Basically-it had become choked, probably by heavy dust from some build ing work we had done recently. This meant the gas/air mixture was wrong, resulting in th e orange flame and a steady build-up of soot inside which had finally hit breaking point. I thanked my saviour warmly and paid
him a bit more than the very small sum he asked for. The rest of Sunday was spent scrubbing the kitchen, up to our necks in soot and sugar soap, and being grateful there was someone else out there nice enough, helpful enough to rescue our family from a cold Christmas. Maybe I will be Mr Nice Guy in 2008... but only to those who deserve it. Now the boiler’s fine, although it is eld
erly and will need replacing soon with a different type that draws air from out side. Guess who’s not getting the job.
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and estate agents has announced the appointment of a new director. Edward Snowden (27), cur
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rently lives in Whalley, but relo cated from Fence some years ago and was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School and then Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. He gained an honours degree
Fresh look for old building A
TOTAL transforma tion has taken place at a Clitheroe bank.
The Yorkshire Bank a t
the top of King Lane has been given a make-over - and has a new manager. Taking charge of the Val ley branch is Ann Cougill
Rosebud finance. Grindleton Brewery, based a t
A 2o years ago
A MIXED bag of fortune awaited Rib- ble Valley businessmen in the approach ing months. Some companies were rel ishing the prospect of more orders - and even expansion - in 1983. But for others, it was more a case of “cautious opti mism” with fingers crossed in the hope that orders would materialise and inter est rates stay down. During the past 12 months, a number of firms in Clitheroe and the surrounding villages had enjoyed something of a boom, but oth ers had struggled as the recession lin gered on, with short-time and redun dancies still plaguing the area’s industri al scene. ® West Bradford character Mr
Campbell Barker was determined to take the traditional New Year’s Day plunge at Edisford - even though he couldn’t swim! So, appropriately kitted out in a kilt and sporran - not forget^^|^ the lifejacket and umbrella - he unceremoniously towed across the Rib- ble. Such a sacrifice typified the spirit of the 20 swimmers who, undaunted by a swollen river, completed the chilly dip and hoped to raise £500 for the Bob Ainsworth Memorial Fund. ® There was only one New Year’s
Day baby at Bramley Meade, Whalley. Jenna Marie Clancy arrived weighing in at a healthy 61b. 13oz. Her parents, Rib- ble Valley businessman Peter Clancy and wife, Linda, who have another daughter, Katie, were over the moon with their new arrival.
Link 59 Business Park, Clitheroe, has seen its range of beers gain popularity among pubs in the area. Brews including Gradely Bitter,
Ribble Rouser and Lancashire Pale Alehave gained a reputation for their tas te and use of local ingredients. Orders and return cus tom are both increasing thanks to Rosebud finance, which enabled owners Ian Lait, David Brown and David Schofield to start the busi ness in a barn before moving to their current Clitheroe address. Ian said: “We met in 2006 and
and to celebrate its new look, a customer with a lengthy connection with the bank, Mr Barry Lancaster, was imdted along to perform the official re-opening. Mr Lancaster is pictured
at the opening ceremony. {B301107/3)
n e w brewery is pumping up success with its locally brewed beers thanks to
in business studies a t the Uni versity of Teeside and has been working for Mortimers for the past SLX years. He continued dis tance learning while working with the firm and obtained a Masters Degree in Real Estate and Property Management. A recent recipient of the Stu
dent of the Year Award, Edward was presented with his title by TV personality Natasha Kaplinsky in London. Edward has been a senior valuer at the firm’s Clitheroe and Whalley
Brewing up a hit with Rosebud
realised we had a passion, as most men do, for beer. “We decided to combine out tal
ents and set up in a bam provided by David. “Thanks to Rosebud we were
able to move to bigger premises and invest in brewing equipment and this has helped us to provide more of our beer to local cus tomers.” County Coun. Niki Penney, pic
tured, is chairman of Lancashire County Council’s economic department Lancashire County Developments Ltd, which funds the Rosebud project. She said: “I would encourage everyone to try one of these beers they are absolutely delicious.”
T H O U G H T for the week
F
o r m e r Prime Minis te r Tony Blair’s deci sion to convert to the Roman Catholic Church is
g ^H n ew s , because it con- fimS that a personal Christ ian faith was always central to him. The Archbishop of Canter
bury, Rowan Williams, acknowledged th a t Tony Blair’s journey of faith had led him to this point. That a world figure is on a
journey of faith is surely most heartening. One suspects that some public figures in the past may have been “officially” Christian dr Church of Eng land, without perhaps having
A new direction
a living, personal faith in Jesus Christ for themselves. By contrast John Major,
Tony’s Blair’s political oppo nent, fully accepted that his adversary was a deeply reli gious man and refused to sanction a Conservative Party election broadcast in 1997 which showed Tony Blair supping with the Devil. There is no political gain in
Tony Blair’s becoming a Roman Catholic. His motive can only be spiritual. In these days of friendship between the churches, we are mature enough not to see it as failure when a church member leaves our particular section of the
Church for another. Tony Blair’s faith journey has led him in one direction. Another man or woman of faith might travel in ano th er spiritual direction. It doesn’t matter. We look
forward to that ultimate day when churches as we know them have passed away and Christ’s kingdom has come in
its fullness and glory. This Sunday, Epiphany, we
mark the journey of the wise men following th e s ta r to Jesus. They give an example of faith not being fixed and static, but of being prepared to change, think new things and travel in fresh directions.
One final point. I t would
have been good if Tony Blair had been more open about his faith when in office. He proba bly wanted to avoid the American style of “wearing religion on one’s sleeve” - though there is value in that - but surely he was sufficiently strong and secure to have made a more unashamed stand for Jesus Christ in the corridors of power which he inhabited. But i t ’s always easy to criticise.
CANON RODNEY NICHOLSON,
Vicar of St Paul’s at Low
Moor and priest-in-charge of Chatburn and Downham.
branches working alongside practice director Mr Ian Lloyd. Edward is married to Annie who he met at university and they have a five-month-old son, Freddie Edward. A keen sportsman, Edward
plays football for Waddington PC in the Craven Premier League, plays cricket for Pendle Forest Sports Club and enjoys running and swimming in his spare time, (s)
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