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100 years ago


THE go-ahead was given for a new grammar school to be built in Clitheroe. Members of Lancashire County Coun­ cil’s higher education sub-committee approved plans for the school to be built on a convenient site in the town. The technical and secondary school


was expected to accommodate 150 boys and 120 girls. The county architect had been requested to submit plans of the proposed new school and an estimate of the cost of carrying out the plans. The committee had agreed to undertake the financial responsibility of the cur­


rent grammar school from August 1st 1908. ® A well- attended juvenile mission­


ary demonstration was held in the Wes­ leyan Sunday School in Whalley. The story of “Tulsi Ramiya, the Hindu Lassie”, was told with considerable dra­ matic effect by 10 young people who were suitably attired in native costume. Their performance was a distinct suc­ cess and reflected very greatly on Miss


M. Davis who was responsible for their training. • Dense fog caused a Clitheroe


motorist to collide with a horse, and cart. The collision occurred in Limehouse Brow, near Clitheroe. The shafts of the cart were broken and the front of the car, driven by a Mr E. Trappes-Lomax, of Clayton Hail, was badly damaged.


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Go and enjoy the rain! really is quite wonderful


LOVE the rain. Do you find that strange?


Thinking about the amount of time we


Brits spend complaining about the weather, I guess it is. Who doesn’t love to have a good moan about the weather? Of course, I can understand why. Looking out of the office window


reveals a dark, gloomy, miserable looking sky. Who could love that? The problem we have, however, is judg­


ing things too soon. I t ’s the same with most things.


On meeting new people, we immediate­


ly make a judgement about them, with only first impressions to go by. Other peo­ ple’s ideas also affect our views. For example, you are much less likely to go and see a film if you have heard reports that it isn’t very good. I think the same thing applies to the


weather. From when we are children, our parents have wrapped us up in water­ proof coats, Wellington boots, gloves, hats and scarves every time we left the house between October and March. This is a habit we have grown accustomed to. It is almost like we are used to hating rain. We simply don’t give it a chance. How many of you have ever stood out­


side in a torrential downpour, without a raincoat or umbrella? Just enjoyed how fresh the rain feels as it soaks you to the skin?


As I see i t . . . by Beth Ellison Granted, it does sound a little unusu­


al. But in all honesty, there’s nothing I enjoy more than dancing around in heavy rain. In fact, even at night, as soon as I hear


rain lashing against the window. I’ll pull up ray blind and open the tvindow wide. I don’t know what it is that I find so amazing. It simply fascinates me. Each single drop of rain travels miles through the sky, and yet it still lands on our win­ dows in perfect droplets. The idea that each drop falls from the


same cloud, and yet each has a different final destination.


The number of different types of rain


we can get - heavy, icy rain, light, warm rain, rain that falls like a mist so fine you barely notice it until you’re soaked through. And imagine if we could count every single rain drop that ever falls? The number would be breathtaking. I t’s the small things in life that I don’t


think we appreciate. Rain is something so common in our everyday lives, espe­ cially here in the Kibble Valley, that we


John scoops top award


jLITHEROE chartered ,accountant John Green scooped a coveted title at a


recent business awards ceremony. A former pupil of Clitheroe Royal


Grammar School, Mr Green was named Dealmaker of the Year by the North West Society of Chartered Accountants. As managing director of Pierce Corporate Finance Ltd, part of Pierce Group, he is head of one of the region’s leading chartered accountancy and business advisory groups. Mr Green is also the chief execu­


tive of the Pierce group of companies and has worked for the Blackburn- based firm for nearly 15 years, advis­ ing on many high profile business deals. He was described by judges as a “household name” in the area’s business community. Outside work, he is also captain of


the Second XI at Clitheroe Cricket Club and a keen goiter at Clitheroe Golf Club. He said: “To be recognised by your


peers and professional body in this way is very rewarding. I’m delighted


to have had the chance to do these deals xvith our clients because we real­ ly do care about them. I’m also proud to have such a dedicated and com­ mitted team whose support made these awards possible. After leaving Clitheroe Royal


Grammar School, Mr Green studied for a degree in Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University. He then trained and qualified with one of the big four accountancy firms in Liverpool before returning to the town in 1994. He is married xvith two children. Melanie Christie, acting regional director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales North West Region, said: “Every sin­ gle name on the shortlist should be proud to have made it through to the final of these awards, which were the most competitive and difficult to judge in a long time.” Mr Green is pictured (right) receiv­


ing his award from Anthony Cox, president of the North West Society of Chartered Accountants, (s)


Levi follows in a family tradition


don’t ever stop to think about it. The dis­ tance it has travelled just to land on your umbrella.


I think that maybe it is about time we


stopped complaining about our weather and get outside and enjoy it. After all, a little rain never hurt anybody...


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


MP RICHARD FORT and his wife, Jean, had a baby. Their daughter was born in Twyford. The couple already had four sons and it w'as understood


that their newest arrival would be called Elizabeth. ® Vandals caused damage estimated


at £200 in the grounds of Clitheroe Cas­ tle grounds. The worst damage was to the children’s swings in the park, new lit­ ter bins had been thrown over and flower beds trampled on.


® A jumble sale held at Waterloo


Methodist Church raised £7. The money was used to help send the Sun- day School toachers to a conferencG, ® The ninth annual invalids’ party


w^ held at the Parish Church School. Ihe Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe, Coun. and Mrs J. W. D. Critchley atteiided to greet the 120 guests and fiends. A concert was given by Mrs D. Houlker’s girls’ choir and artists. • Lady Clitheroe presided over the


annual meeting of the Downham WI and was re-elected to the post of presi­ dent of the association. The society half hour - on a WI meeting in old times -


was presented by the grannies and a grandad. • A Waddington resident was making sure her goldfish were not affected by


the Axtartic weather conditions by top­ ping their bowl with warm water!


Force. RAF Aircraftman Levi Rim-


mer, pictured, has graduated from Recruit Training Squadron, RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire, fol­ lowing nine weeks of intensive basic training. Levi left Moorland School in


A 25 years ago


THE question of where to build Clitheroe’s hew fire station had caused controversy between officials at the Rib- ble Valley Council and county council. County had backed the idea of using land at Princess Avenue - even though it had been earmarked for housing - after rejecting five other suggested sites in the town. The decision was expected to cause further annoyance among Kib­ ble Valley councillors, who had strongly criticised the county’s disregard for the Clitheroe District Plan, which spot­ lighted the land’s housing potential. 6 Waddington Fell Quarries’ contro­


versial plan to extend its workings had been dealt a double blow by the county council. An application to tap 750,000 tons of shale reserves had been reiecte^fe. while anextension of the present sanJ*^ stone workings was “watered down”. # Three Ribble Valley council staff


took the plunge to help promote tourism in the borough. Mrs Kathleen Law, Mrs Liz Lambert and Mr Bruce Dowles swopped their working clothes for the decorous bathing costumes of Victorian England to help launch the council’s 1983 drive for a slice of the national hol­ iday cake. They braved stares and chuckles from the public in the foyer of the council offices while they promoted


the latest Ribble Valley tourist informa­ tion


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THOUGHT f o r t h e w e e k


Q


uakers have a little book of “Advices and Queries”, which many around.


^P ls literally what it says - a


set of questions and series of suggestions, well-worn in the Quaker tradition, for leading a more authentic life. From time to time, one is


read out at the start of our worship before we settle into silence. At other times, they are used for personal devotion or for group discussion. Cur­ rently we are using an old favourite as a basis for our young people’s work over the next months.


It begins: “Live adventur­


ously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community? Let your life speak.” These are inspiring words,


but in preparing for the ses­ sions with the young people, and from watching my own three-year-old grow up, it has struck me how young people are far better at living this advice out than many of us do


as adults. The idea that God may call


us to places of discomfort as well as comfort is nothing new - we can think of Moses


Clitheroe last July following GCSEs and joined the RAF, aged 16, in October as a personnel administrator. He turned 17 while at Halton,


but made up for missing his birth­ day by enjoying two weeks’ leave at home for Christmas. He said, “I enjoyed the weapons firing phase of the course the


FORMER Moorland School pupil has embarked on a career in the Royal Air


most, it was less stressful than learning to iron my shirts and trousers for 7 a.m. inspections! Homesickness was a bit of a prob­ lem for some of the younger recruits, but spending five years as a boarder at Moorland definitely helped me to cope with that.” Levi’s proud parents, Sandra


and Lee, also serving in the RAF at Leeming in North Yorkshire, watched the graduation parade, along with younger brother Jack who is also a boarder at Moorland. Levi will now undertake trade


training at Southwick Park, Portsmouth, for the next four months before undertaking his first posting in the summer on promotion to Leading Aircraft- man. (s)


Let’s try harder


protesting in various ways at God’s instructions - but the well-known phrase “Please God, send somebody else” also comes readily to mind. How much easier it is when


our sense of being in a right relationship with our spiritual •


_ life coincides with all our other preferences. Yes, God wants me to buy the car, to take that holiday. The challenge of “comfort” however, as the Quaker advice suggests, is that faithfulness can be taken over by inertia, simply staying where we are because it is what we know and like. Looking back on my life, I can see most of the major life


moves, say with work, have happened to me, rather than because I felt driven or called to act. Indeed, often I have simply reacted. It may be that a faithful life


is about responding faithfully, but I feel we sometimes need to be active in our faith. To fol­ low the example of children and young people and experi­ ment, take the plunge for God, be the fool for God even, to lend not just our hearts but our hands to God, even if it disturbs our well-worn rou­ tines. I hope to try harder this year!


BEN DANDELION, Sawley Quakers


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