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Gift of a children’s charity


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an evening op ened piip exclusively;for menibers


t 'o f ; Ribblo^a^^ {§ Roseiadies^ t°. do. a Sfcbit: of: late Sight shopping


|fdn the rim up fo C fe f More|t lian ?! £ 1,0 00^ ' was


________________________________________ A-'.raised for the club’s cause -


, PICTURED are Judith and Mandy Dawson p r c - . ; . t funding research into the scnting White Rose secretary Karen Weaving and . causes and treatment of child- :■>.. ? treasurer Dorothy Cosgrove with a cheque r - ' (B280109/2)


hood cancers - on a raffle and , ticket sales for the event.


Insight into a soap ^ ■A SCRIPT editor for' ITV soap opera


-.“Emmerdale’-’vwas'guest speaker a t the latest meeting'.of>the East Lancs; Writers’ group. .Tony; Hammond.gave members an insight into the process of writing for


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'TV,- plus, writing advice, tips on how . scripts are edited and how the process works from script to screen. He also fielde'd: questions from the floor, although'he.reserved the right-to refuse any question-that might give. away a plot line from Emmerdale! ; i ".The group, which draws many of its


members from the Ribble Valley,- meets on the last Wednesday of each:


rmonth. For.more information, tele­ phone Lee:Duckworth on 07812 669304 or.-by'e-mail a t : iee.duck-'; worthl6@ntlworld.com’ -


Aged over 50?


Home contents insurance ' from as little as


: f ? <K . £36.75* a year k 4\ For a free quote, .visit us at: / n


' Age Concern Lancashire Clitheroe Office . 18a Castlegate, Clitheroe ‘


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■ A VALLEY village luncheon club


t could close after 21 years’ serving' meals to local people'.


“ V: Unless someone steps forward- to help organise Rimington Lun--


- cheon Club, its last two-course: ■ meal will be dished up at .the end. of March. ■ , ' , For the ;past 21 years Mrs Edna Jackson: has ordered the


- lunches and overseen the organi­ sation, but now at-the age of 80


. she has decided it is'time to hand over the reins. Said Mrs Jackson: “Thie lunch club provides companionship for:


s people th a t are on their own. - Anyone who is over the age of 50 is welcome to come and join us. It


i-only costs £6 per month and is excellent.”


, On the- last Wednesday - of every month around 20 diners meet at Rimington- Memorial,


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In s t i tu te to enjoy a hot two- course meal;' - - Anyone who can help organise


the club is asked to contact Mrs Jackson on 01200 445430. • Thanks to a grant from Help


The Aged, members of Riming­ ton Luncheon Club enjoyed a belated Christmas lunch. ; Our photograph shows lunch­


eon club members. (A2801009/6)


Kind readers rally round Church’s silver celebration - .THANKS have been expressed to readers of (he :


■ Clitheroe Advertiser and Times for their generosi- ' ty.‘


•‘■r,-Towards the end of last year, we appealed for ; :


■ your help in making life for children in Eldoret, ' Kenya, a little better. The sum of £885 was sent in which has'gone - •' ? . towards the cost of buying school uniforms for the


.. children, ensuring that they will have the chance of a vital education and a start in life.' One uniform costs just £35, but gives a child : ? : hope for the future. Via Open Arms International, --


, Linda Richardson, who visited the area with Rose­ mary Lancaster, told us that the charity had pur- chased the uniforms.


- .-.^-This now means that some of. the many children :; who have been living on a rubbish dump m the ■; • •


• area will have'!the opportunity to attend school.'^-;’ ■


•; '. .Some 1,000 children are living on the dump in? : ■:


■ .The village which was the scene of some of the*;V-: .iworst fighting in the pbst-^clcctioh violence which'' ?:: .rocked Kenya last year.; 7


A CHURCH in Clitheroe will celebrate its silver ? jubilee this weekend.'; - • -. ?


■


; Clitheroe Community-. Church began meeting in". Chtheroe Cricket Club at


which was hosted by Dawson’s ■ matriarch Ju d i th Dawson;


' daughter Mandy and sons <


! Simon and Stephen. ; . .o The evening, which is now


set to become an annual event; offered a generous in-


■ store discount,: welcome ' refreshments, demonstrations


■; and the option of a two-course ' supper in the store’s adjoining Maxwell’s Cafe and Wine Bar. All shoppers were also pre-'


sented with a ; take-home goody bag, which- included a set of Denby serving dishes.


:. _ Said Mandy Dawson: “I t was the first time we had ever;


...opened up^exclusively for a : group in this way, but it went


c so.well and we received so much positive feedback that we have already set a date aside on the calendar to do it


r again this year.” ■ In -- a d d i t io n ' to raising money for Cancer Research UK through the Ribble Valley


V-White'Rose Ladies’ Club, - Dawson’s also raised more ??than £300 for Marie Curie , Cancer. Care by taking dona- ..tions from shoppers visiting


- it's Santa’s'grotto on the two V ■


December Saturdays Father ’Christmas visited the store.


■ Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 01282 426161 (Advertising), Burnley 01282 422331 (Classified) .www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk-;!:; Clitheroe Advertiser 8i Times, Thursday, February 5th, 2009 13


Well-known builder with a lifelong taste for music


by Marcia Morris


FORMER plasterer and slater Mr Rowland M. Ford will be remembered by many people in Clitheroe, both for his building


•work and for his musical talents playing at venues in the Ribble Valley. Mr Ford, aged 86, who died m late January, was the grandson of John


- Ford, builders, slaterers and plaster­ ers, a business which was started by his great-grandfather in the town in


■ 1882.'After attending school first at St . James's CE School and later Ribbles- . dale School; which he left at the age of ■ 14, Mr Ford, pictured, joined the fam-- ily business, as a'slaterer and plasterer.


■ Asa teenager he helped with the roof­ ing and plastering on the Henthorn


Estate and worked in many houses and building premises across the Rib^ ble Valley and East Lancashire. ' - In 1942, age 20, he was called-up •


■ into the army and served his time in Africa and Italy as an RASC driver, . sometimes only a short way behind the lines delivering ammunition to battle zones. As a boy he had learned music from his father who was a; church organist, and while in the army he^ was the only pianist in the whole of his company so was in great - demand to play at birthday parties. After Rowland and his brothers


came out of the forces they went back to work in the family business in Woone Lane. Before being called up


■ the three brothers had started a dance band which they revived again and


• this was how he met his wife, Eveline, when they played at her 21st birthday.


; party in Gisburn Parish Hall. The . couple were married a t Moor Lane Chapel on April 2nd, 1949, and his father played the organ for the cere­ mony.


Rowland played piano for m'any ; years at dances in the area and then in


;--the late 1960s he bought an electronic '..:organ and slowly made the change .'i from piano to organ playing, the first job he had playing the organ for din-


K'ner,dances was at the Craven Heifer, f ' Ghsjgley, he also played for a while at i' Church and Oswaldtwistle Conserva-; tive Club followed by many years playing at Brick House, Restaurant, Chipping, and in latter years at 'Whit- tingham Hospital Social Club. He also played for Christmas concerts at St James's School when his grandchil- ..-dren were pupils there.-- ;


: : v ; Rowland and his brother, Geoff, -


bought some land in 'Whalley Road, Pendleton, near. Clitheroe Golf , Club, ■


i around 1950 and built two bungalows • into which they moved. • Rowland and E-veline li'ved there all


An;operatic surprise af chamber dinner


THERE was a surprise in store for Whalley traders who gathered at the Mytton Fold Ho^Hot the annual Chamber of Trade dinner and dance. . ■ - . Two relatively new chamber members, opera singers “Dar­ ren and Caroline’! entertained prior to the'traditional after- dinner speeches. ,


-: During the evening, tributes were paid to Ribble 'Valley Borough Council’s chief execu­ tive David Morris, , who is due to retire in May.


. Proposing the toast to the chamber, Mr Morris, who was present with his vrife. Nan, told business representatives they were doing a “brilliant job’^■ •;. “The Chamber of Trade


continues to enhance the repu­ tation of Whalley and stories I


-have been hearing are slightly reassuring re. the recession”, he added.


* ■ Thanking Coun. Joyce Hol-


gate, life president, he said that her passion for the chamber


over-50s group to youth


; groups and a toddler group. :■, Celebrations this week­


.the end of January, 1984.- When the congregation " outgrew those premises in ■ 1991, tlyey \yere invited to -


: use Ribblesdale School’s ; - Drama Complex. In 1993 :


.the church moved to their •; ; own building - The King’s :.: .Centre, in .Milthorne Avenue - to which-was ?-


added a second building in.' i 1999... /


; , Today the church runs


:;vari6us activities; from : Sunday worship to chil-


drill’s clubs and from an ‘


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end will include an open day on Saturday from 2 to 4p.m. when there will be


; display^- games, activities, face painting and presen­ tations of children’s dance, puppets and gospel magic,, along with tea, coffee and cake. ■ On Sunday there will be a morning celebration and


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. thanks^ving, followed by ■ lunch for. invited guests. The guest-preacher ivill be Brad Thureton, from Ger-, many, who has helped the church throughout its first 25 years. ^ -


. was legendary, and congratu­ lated members of the Pickwick


' Comittee for their hard work. . Responding-to the toast,


chairman John Atherton said that membership of the organ­ isation had grown to more than 100, but appealed for. “a


» .


bit more activity” and more attendance at meetings. ■ ■ He told those present that ■


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attempts were being made to: establish a fanners’ market in the village once a month and ' notice boards were due to be erected with funding from the • borough council. Mr Atherton paid tribute to member Stuart ;


; Kerr for. his passion for the organisation. ' MP Nigel Evans proposed a


toast to Mr and Mrs Morris, -. expressing his thanks and best


wishes to them in retirement. . Vicerchairman Gillian Dar- -; byshire presented a cheque for


£730 from the organisation to


"the Pickwick Night Commit-: • tee for its charities.-Neil Mar­ tin, Pickwick ■ Committee; chairman, told those present that £500 had been spent on


; electric points in the -village, supplemented by the parish council and a grant from the ■boroughauthority. ■ ■


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■ The sum of £230 had gone: towards the evening’s enter-


,tainment,: which had included . stilt walkers and fire eaters. ' Ribble Valley Mayor Coun.


■ John Hill expressed his thanks :• to the chamber, adding that h e ; I -was sure the future would b e ,


bright for the.Ribble Valley and 'Whalley. . Paying tribute to Mr Mor­


ris, he said he had worked closely with him during his own time as leader of the coun­ cil and it was a difficult job.


. ■ Pickwick Night prizes were presented to Oasis.Flower Design for the best dressed window; Simply the Best for


■ the best costume and Gary and Louise Clough of. the Swan Hotel for the Spirit of Pickwick.


. - The evening’s toastmaster


■ was Roland Hailwood. = (T010209/5)


ilf- hew life m m


I their married life, bringing up their • three children. Around 1 9 ^ Rowland and Eveline took over the running of the fish and chip cafe on: Clitheroe " Market until 19^; latterly-Rowland" was head fish and chip fryer 'on a Sat-' urday. He retired two' days after his 65th birthday in-1987,-and his'son,


. Im , took over the building b u s in g ■ 'The couple were well-known figures


at social venues such as St Peter's Club, Hurst Green, the Brick House Bowling Club, Hurst Green Bowling Club and 'Waddington Bowland Club. , ■ Mr Ford, leave his wife, daughters ; Caroline and Sandra and‘son:Ian, ■ sons-in-law Allan and- Heber, aind daughter-m-law Rebecca.' He also


"leaves three grandchildren'.Daniel, Heberand Sarah and great-grand- :


; children Bethany, Dominic and - Noah. •


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