Clltheroe 422324 (Editorial), 01282 426161 (Advertising), Burnley 01282 422331 (Classified) 14 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Office plan is a
load of carbuncle I IMPLOEE your readers to visit the Kibble Valley Borough Council offices and look at the plans for the Bibble Valley Homes proposed offices on the current Police Car Park on land behind Thwaites’ Sta tion Hotel, on Station Koad,
office block (quite literally) imposing itself next to listed buildings and seriously affecting the visual land scape of Station Road. The three-storey carbuncle will
Clitheroe. They will find an ultra modern
obliterate the Castle when viewing from the Platform Gallery. Why three-storey? Maybe the pro
posed three meeting rooms and the board room, apparently so neces sary! And this is public money being
the town when having to cope with this monstrosity. NAME an d ADDRESS SUPPLIED
We must fight to
keep bur hospital I SHARE Dorothy Pearson’s con cern that we could lose Clitheroe Community Hospital. As Well as the 32 beds mentioned,
the new hospital is designed to have 10 consulting rooms and other sup porting facilities, which could save many outpatients, of all ages, a tedious, expensive, time-wasting trip to Blackburn Royal Hospital. I Was also a member of the Public
Engagement Group and represented them on the Project Team. I sent letters seeking further infor-
was available for this new develop ment, was not coming out of E.L.Rc.T. general funds, but from the Local Innovation Finance Trust -LIFT. This is money allocated to P.C.Ts
mation about the suspension of progress at the hospital site, first to the Project Manager and then to the East Lancs. Primary Care Trust Chief Executive. Both letters have been ignored. Why all the secrecy? The money, which we were assured
specifically for creative initiatives. (Internet definition) What has happened to this
money? Why can we not have some open-
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or^ge balls m the sky steadily mov
ing from Whalley direction and heading towards Clitheroe. I am sure that other people would
have seen these UFOs as they were very visible in the night sky. I looked at them thoroughly and they were definitely not a helicopter nor a
Write to: m^E Editor/Clithcroc Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, CUtheroe BB72EW or e-mait:
roy.prcnton@eastlancsncvv^----- Have you any
news on Leslie? I AM a journalist and write for the Universe Catholic Weekly. An old photograph album has
recently come into our possession ^ d l am attempting to discover the identity of the person who has com piled the album in the 1930s, and I would be most grateful if any of your readers might be able to help. The person in question was called
wasted whilst there exist empty properties most suitable in the town. So much for a “Master Plan” for
Leslie and lived at “Lowfield”, Rail way View Rd, Clitheroe, with his family sometime after Dr Gilbert Orme vacated the house, probably around 1925, and before a surgeon by the name of J. Macdonald moved in around 1938. Leslie gained an LLB from Liverpool University in
-1935. The album also contains pic tures of a craise on board the LMS Lancastria in 1932 th a t features Leslie and some of his friends, including a Geoff Dodd, Flora Cockbum, Beverley Wright, Horace S. Ritch, and Kathleen May. Also in the album is a newspaper
article relating to the death of Miss Joan Blakeney, who drowned in Richmond, Surrey, after a car in which she was travelling, and driven by her brother, crashed into the
ness and transparency as recom mended so often by Gordon Brown? The Kibble Valley has lost rural
post offices, pubs and clubs etc. We must fight to keep our Com
munity Hospital. BARBARA PARK
Whalley Road, Langho
Are we going to get
this new hospital? WHEN I received the Clitheroe Advertiser last week and read the letters page I was amazed that there was not one letter regarding the shelving of the new hospital at Clitheroe. ,I would have thought that the local people would have been out
Health Authority and let us fmd out what the future is and let them know that we cannot be swept under the carpet! We need this hospital! JEAN HEWITT, 2 Linden Drive, Clithcroe
There’s no official
action group! WITH reference to information given in last week’s edition under “News from the Villages” Barrow section, as I attended the meeting, I would like to point out that some of the information stated by the article writer was incorrect. As far as I am aware there is ciu-
Thames in November 1933. Any information that your readers
could supply would be most grateful
ly received. Michael Winterbottom, The Universe Catholic Weekly 4th Fir, Landmark House, Cheadic Hulme, Cheshire. SK8 7JH Tel. 016148817G3 E-mail:
michael.winterbottom @total-
catholic.com
raged and asking what is going to happen regarding the new build and where has the money gone ? Are we going to take it on the chin
and do nothing about it and contin ue to travel to Blackburn and Bum- ley, or are we going to lobby our MP and local health authority and who ever else it takes to find out if we are to get the hospital and if not, why not, and where has the money gone? At the moment we have got a field
waiting to be built on and nothing else. The existing hospital is a great facility, but it was down to one ward the last time I visited just a few weeks ago. If the existing hospital goes we will
have nothing. We cannot be compla cent about it. Come on, write to your MP and
rently no official Barrow Action Group with a committee etc., in exis-
t6nc0» In brief, a total of 32 people
attended the meeting, the details, history and purpose of the original Barrow Action Group were given by a founding member and the meeting chairman, also a trustee, gave details of the criteria required for the monies to be handed over to any new, interested group. There was some confusion
expressed about the information stated on the flyer delivered to vil lage residents, which was not issued by the trustees. Various ideas were put forward and volunteers to form a new group were asked for by the chairman, but only two people came forward. A vote was passed (15 for, seven
against) that the’monies should be left invested and a meeting would be called by the trustees in six months’ time. A CONCERNED BARROW resident
What were orange
balls of light? ON our way back (to Mellor) from Clitheroe bonfire on Saturday (November 7th) between 8-20 and 8- 30 p.m., travelling on the A59 towards Preston, we both saw two
plane. They looked like an oranee baU of light. NATASHA WILSON, Mellor
Student requests
help with studies I AM a history student at the Lon don School of Economics (originally
from Preston) currently doing my dissertation on the attitude of work
ing-class Catholics involved in the Labour movement to the Spanish Civil War with a particualr focus on the North West of England. I am addressing the theme of
divided loyalties and the impact of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) on working class Catholics. This can include issues such as
involvement in the International Brigades, reactions over the burning of churches in Spain or controversies over money being sent to the Span ish Republic - purely three exam ples. I am particularly keen to get the stories or even memories people have of their parents or grandpar ents talking about the Spanish Civil War, or the impressions they gained through the chinch. No thoughts are too trivial! Any information, anecdotes, sto
ries, contacts or suggestions on this theme, or similar, from readers of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times would be much appreciated. Could anyone with any information please e-mail me at:
s.e.cooch@
lse.ac.uk ESTELLE COOCH Brunswick Mansions, Handel Street, London
• A LETTER in last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser headed “Office plan would be catastrophic” referred to a plan by Ribble Valley Homes to build a three-storey office block on land currently used as a police sta tion car park at the rear of Clitheroe Police Station in King Street. The opening paragraph of the letter referred to a previous failed bid to buy the land, but, due to a line being omitted, did not make clear that the failed bid was by Ribble Valley Bor ough Council. We apologise for the
omission. get big cash boost
A TRIO of local community groups will receive grants totalling £1,845 from the Lancashire Local Ribble Val ley. The first grant of £750 has
been given to The Ribble Valley Visually Impaired Group. It will help meet the costs of two trips per month to places of interest for approximately 15 blind and partially sighted people. The excursions are arranged by
the group's 15 volunteers and enable members to lead a more active and fulfilling life and expe rience places that they would not normally be able to visit. The second grant of £240 has
been awarded to Braille IT, another local group that works with visually impaired people. The funding will help towards the costs of running Braille and
basic Information Technology (IT) classes at Clitheroe Library. The money will help cover the costs of transcribing notes and other printed documents into alternative formats such as Braille and large print. The third grant of £855 has
been awarded to the Chatburn Village Committee as a contribu tion towards the refurbishment of the village hall to provide a community facility. The committee aims to sup
port and improve opportunities for social and recreational events and preserve facilities for the wellbeing of villagers. The long term vision of the Village Com mittee is to create a facility that can be used by all age groups in Chatburn and create a venue for sporting activities. Chairman of the Lancashire Local Ribble Valley - a joint
committee comprising local county and borough coimcillors - is County Councillor Chris Holtom. Welcoming news of the grants, he said: “These projects are all worthy recipients of fund ing from the Local Gateway Grants. Both the Ribble Valley Visually Impaired Group and Braille IT'make vital contribu tions to blind and partially sight ed people which enable them to participate in activities that might otherwise be difficult for them to get involved in. “The work of the Chatburn
Village Committee is also impor tant for local people. I recognise that the £855 we've been able to award them won't meet all of the costs of the refurbishment of the village hall, however. I'm hoping we'll be able to help them to explore other possible sources of funding.”
Christmas choir
SINGERS from across the area are coming together again under the banner of the Ribble Valley Choir to celebrate Christmas in song. The “occasional choir” is formed for special
events then disbanded until the next occasion. It last performed at Clitheroe’s “Last Night of the Proms” concert in August. Now the Ribble Valley Choir is forming up
again in preparation for the United Advent Ser vice for churches in Clitheroe and district, taking place this year at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, Clitheroe, on Sunday, December 6th, at 6-30 pm. The choir will perform an exciting Christmas
Cantata from South America by Ariel Ramirez called “Our Nativity”, with pulsating Latin rhythms and memorable tunes. One item has been arranged for participation by the congrega- tio and there will also be appropriate readings and congregational hymns and carols looking for ward to the message and celebration of Christ mas.
Girls raise cash
for cancer charity TWO resolute schoolgirls from Brookside Primary School, in Clitheroe, sacrificed their playtimes for a week to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Friends Faye Curtis (six) and Bethany
Rose (eight) enticed their schoolmates to buy assorted breast cancer pin badges to adorn their uniforms. They used all the salesmanship skills th a t they could muster to sell more than 280 badges to their friends, as well as teachers. The fund-raising had added poignancy for the two girls, as both of their mothers have suffered from breast cancer. Their extraordinary efforts meant they
were able to present Pat Kenyon, of the • Cancer Research UK shop, in Castle Street, with £280 to support the work of the charity. So impressed was Pat that she in turn presented Faye and Bethany with a certificate to take back to school. In addition, the Friends of Brookside Parent Teacher Association raised a fur ther £120 from the sale of badges at their recent Pink Ball to supplement the money raised by Faye and Bethany. Our picture shows Pat Kenyon present
ing Faye (left) and Bethany with their certificate outside Clitheroe’s Cancer
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