♦ ♦ 30 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, July 24th, 2008 www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial). 01282 478111 (Advertising), 01282 422331 (Classified) g B clitheroe 422324 (Editorial). 01282 478111 (Advertising), 01282 422331 (Classified) www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, July 24th, 2008 31 ■VallBV 7 ‘ -rV ''.1 MADE FOR WALKING.


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J 1. The essayist viras a gentle creature (4) ' 3. How old is that frock? Ask the horse! (8) , 9.* Short and rude letter in the play at the very end (7)' ; 10. Mountains show in its pages? (5) 11. Apparently making an approach in low spirits and [goingunde(2,3,3,4)


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j’,13. Removes clothes on excursion in ship? (6) ; 15. Suit for diggers? (6) \


. 17. Initiaj crept out with two spare copies (2,10) 20. In the trial I bid to have a let-out (5) -• [^21 He's dear, and clings (7)'


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that really gets my goat, even though it may be free. • I say" may be free" because a


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recent trip out to Deepdale Retail Park, Preston, with its hundreds of free parking spaces, taught me a valuable lesson, for which i very unwiliingiy paid £85 to some face­ less firm in Birmingham! Trying to find a vacant parking bay


in any big retail outlet on a Sunday during sale time, you wonder how we survived in the days before Sun­ day trading became legal. You crawl endlessly up and down,


looking for what appears to be a sat­ isfied shopper on his way to his car. Then you suddeniy home in like an Exocet missile, without the slightest scruple about the patient, well-man­ nered soul who has been similarly , poised, feet on pedals, for the past lOminutes. ■ ' ’ . Inexplicably, no pedestrians seem


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to get mown down in the frenzy, because they recognise the dangers of walking in front of cars. However, drive into the local supermarket car park and you find that roles are curi­ ously reversed. : Irritated by peopie wandering up


the middle of the road as if they were in a traffic-free zone, you curse their stupidity. Then magically, having found a parking space, youwander ■ blindly up the middle of the "road"! ■ However, this is what we now call - "the shopping experience'.' In the-


- real world no two people have the.. same shopping experience because


T is not that I have anything against shopping per se, as iong as it is not me that is doing it. it is the parking


it depends largeiy on what we first [i’ v remember about where we shopped ■ as children. • - , . ■ .


' Living in a smali viilage, I was f o r - *


tunate when I was sent to the shop • - to have no more than a haif-miie /’c ■ walk. On a good day I had to vvalk only half that distance to the post . ; office - in those distant days when ■’ vil&ges had post offices! Otherwise,;- in those post-war years, it was dowri to the CoK3p, with its reassuringly r i thick, spotiess wooden counter with ; the screw-top jars of sweets and the double line of square tins of biscuits ■, in a hoider, their glass lids angled ;,. ' irresistibly towards'you;; ■ s-


Not that there was ever so much


to buy, with rationing still in opera­ tion. Although luxuries like soap, canned and dried fruit, chocoiate bis­ cuits, treacle, syrup, jellies and mincemeat ceased to be rationed in 1950, tea rationing ended oniy in 1952, sweets and sugar in 1953, and


itwasaslateas1954beforefood was finally free Of restrictions.-• Thank goodness then for the allot­


ment, which not only provided all the fresh faiit, vegetables and eggs that we needed, but also was home to ' my friends, the hens, geese and ducks, although they may not have rated this friendship too highly at. Christmas when their numbers were severely reduced!; ; ^ Whatever I was sent to buy, it - . ■,


aiways conciuded with: "And don't . forget the divi!" This must have been food for aduits oniy, as i never tasted iti Indeed its full significance in out: . rich Lancashire heritage struck me ■ only recently when I came across. , the name of George Jacob


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- Holyoake, the last man in Britain to - be imprisoned for atheism and aiso


rthe chroniclerofthe Rochdale Pio- peers. - . - At 31 Toad Larie, Rochdale, on , ,


:: December 21st, 1844, the best' , ; : . ' known Co-operative society in t h e - world, the Rochdale Equitable Pio-. ,. - neers Society, opened its first store.;.


. Ai'though certainly not the innovators ' of co-operative enterprise, the - : . ■ Rochdale Pioneers are generally con­ sidered the reai founders of the Co­ operative movement.. i . ; .


‘'7 a result of the Rochdale flannel ; weavers' strike of 1844, about 30 ‘


. 'men invested their money and efforts into a self-help project,' which from a starting capitai of oniy £28, was to revoiutionise retailing. ■ Holyoake describes them as sim-


pie, downtrodden, working ciass heroes: "A few poor weavers out of employ, and nearly o'ut of food and quite out of heart with the social state, met together to discover what they couid do to better their industri­ al condition." - . .


... . However, with determined, experi­


enced leaders like William Cooper, ; .. Charles Howarth and James - . . Smithies, the Pioneers were unde- .: terred by ali the hardship and.draw-


' backs resulting from their rebellion, against the established order. They not only stocked and ran their own independent store, but also estab- ■ . lished the set of principles that


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framed every Co<iperative move- , ment in the world. .These included democratic con­


trol, with one member one vote, . ■ open membership with all being educated about the society's ideals, ■ political and religious neutrality, the; sale of only pure, unadulterated


'- goods, lirnited return on capital and


-the disfribution of surplus proportion-; r ate to the member's contribution to the society. .


i .• Two others particulariy caught my attention. Shareholders, namely cus­ tomers, received a share of the prof-


. its and this took the form of divi- . . dends on purchases, in other word the famous "divi'.' Secondiy, it was strictiy cash saies only, whereas if we move on to the 1950s in Clitheroe, apart from Woolyvorth's, the nearest thing to a supermarket: was probably the Coop, which •


; offered generous hire purchase - : terms to customers without the ■ . readies for "strictly cash sales'.' Those were the days of pantries


rather than fridges, so that items iike bread had to be bought very regular­ ly and Jack Hall's fish shop was par­ ticularly busy on a Friday.


At the bottom of Parsons Lane, C.


R. Hargreaves prided themselves on being ."Italian Warehousemen','with


■ such exotica as Californian paines . ■ and a deiivery boy, pedalling around on his traditional bike with its wicker . basket.... .


. ' • ■ Records in Webster's, with Its indi-;: ■


vidual listening booths, were starting to slow down from 78 to 45 r.p.m. and Whittaker's Ironmongers boast-- ed a floor-to-ceiling ladder fixed to the wall, with wheels top and bot­ tom. Favoured children were even ; allowed to ride up and down on it .;. Different times indeed, perhaps even wiser, but I will leave the last : word to the aforesaid atheist, G. J. ■ Holyoake:-"Folly is a contagious dis-


- ease, but there is difficulty in catch-. : ing wisdom I"


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is.Jmaginative painter needed in the theatre (4-2,6) - ' • |T2. Rated idiot who mixed seeds (8)


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fT4.Telephoning round, perhaps (7) ■ ' f 16. Injuryto limb right in the country (6) , ’ 18. Quiver inside (5)


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