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T was a beautiful little church - open, spotless­ ly clean - and empty.


Owned and preserved by


the Churches Conservation Trust, it was frequently vis­ ited, as we observed in our brief stay, but for worship - unused! I t spoke of the era when


landed gentry built their grand houses, and their own conveniently situated pri­ vate church, to which the local peasantry would be allowed and probably


• expected to come each Sun­ day.


- ■ Vast memorials in the /sanctuary dwarfed anything ; that might have happened ia t the altar - at least the '.manor family, past and pres- • ent, would be felt to be gath- ' .ered at the Lord’s Supper. ■ /: Their effigies could almost : have reached out and helped


; themselves to the holy food. Movingly, one life-sized


figure of a woman nursed a tiny baby. ; . She died in childbirth.


, In its simplicity and 18th


Century beauty, this church invited prayer, but the only book to be seen (and I searched every nook and cranny) was a large King James Bible on the lectern. I t was open at a'rather


tedious piece by St Paul, so for the next reader I changed it to his familiar “Now abideth faith, hope and


. charity, but the greatest of these is charity”.


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’ As the Beatles famously sang “Love is all”. My search revealed not a


single Prayer Book, not even an appropriate edition of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, still desperately


"clung to by many who can­ not believe that God under­ stands the universal and contemporary languages in


■ which the world’s believers articulate their faiths. Practitioners of the cur­


rent post-modern search for spirituality will say that you don’t need a book to pray. But as those who have


learned to meditate know all too well, if you just sit and


try to “think” a prayer, the mind locks on to all-the usual distractions, from last night’s soccer fiasco to plans for tomorrow’s dinner. . Experienced meditators


will know th a t this quiet church is an ideal spot to set­ tle with a “mantra” - -visual,. audio or verbal, for exainple a mental picture of the sea with quiet waves, or a softly repeated “I am with you always” or “God is love”. But many visitors to this


sacred and compelling spot will be unfamiliar with the skills of spirituality, and as we watched people came and went with little appreciation of what they were mining. A few cards with suitable


prayers would have.been an asset, and had they been stolen they would have been a blessing to those who felt the need to take them. ; Absurdly, the Church of


England has so dramatically diversified its modern prayer book “Common Worship” th a t there are very few prayers which are heard reg­


ularly on occasions of public


worship.- Each church has its own


pet performance. The result is that our men­


tal computers (even those of ■ regular church-goers) hold. .


few prayers “saved” and ready to be downloaded at such serendipitious momeiits as the discovery of a quiet . .


church.Pityi Should you find yoursell


in the peace of Croombe Park-Church (just off the M5 near Pershore) or any of


the hundreds of similar sanc­ tuaries that dot our country,


‘ try at least to remember and use this gem from the


revised English Liturgy. “Eternal God and Father,,


you create us by your power


and redeem us by your love, “ Guide and strengthen us


: by your Spirit, that we may give ourselves in love anfl


service, to one another, an , to you.”


IAN ROBBINS, Anglican Priest


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THE annual May Fair for cattle, sheep and horses was held in the streets of Clitheroe. The weather was ideal, but the attendance of buyers was only mod­ erate and complaints of bad trade were


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ik e you, I have started receiving leaflets from the various political parties about the county council


elections on June 4th and, sad person that I am, it turns out that I know all the candidates personally. So here is a brief introduction to the


men behind the party labels. The youngest of the three is Tomas


Thurogood-liyde, who is standing in the Labour interest. He is only a year or so out of the grammar school, but he can write a


very erudite leaflet. If he did not get a starred A in Eng­


lish, he certainly deserved one and he' can always find an elegant argument to prove beyond doubt that Gordon Brown’s latest position is wise and won­


derful. These days, that takes exceptional


skill. He is a veritable mental gymnast. Allan Knox is standing for the Liber­


als and is in his 30s. Oddly, he does not seeiii to have a job, but he keeps himself busy sitting as a Clitheroe town coun­ cillor and Kibble Valley borough coun­ cillor as well as playing golf at Mytton


Fold. If he could add a seat on the county council to his collection, that should


As I See I t . . . by Contrarian


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keep him going nicely until the General Election, when he intends to get elect­ ed to Parliament and give up all three councillorships. The oldest of the three is John Hill, a


wily local government lawyer in his 50s. I call him wily because I cannot


imagine any other quality he has that could have attracted his delectable wife,


Phillipa. Having been Conservative leader of


Kibble Valley Borough Council for years, he has just done a stint as Mayor and now has his eye on the £700m. a year the county spends. He has the idea that, if county goes


Conservative, it will, at last, s ta r t spending the money in Conservative boroughs like Kibble Valley, rather than


keeping it for Labour ones. Apparently, a 4% swing is all that is needed to bring the money home. Those are the three candidates and 1


hope I .will not be accused of favouritism if I mention another Liber­ al, Stephen Sutcliffe. Stephen now sports a grey beard and


■ has retired after serving as Clitheroe’s county councillor since 1997. In the Liberals’ latest leaflet, he com­


plains that, though he has worked very hard on our behalf for the past 12 years, county has a “cabinet” system of gov­ ernment and individuaj councillors can­ not make any real difference. I really do feel for him after 12 years


of unremitting and fruitless slog. The Liberals only have four seats on


the county council - out of 84 - so they can never get into the cabinet and actF' ally do anything at all, except draw their expenses and allowances. It is odd that Stephen should men­ tion it in a Liberal election leaflet, but


it is the truth. If you want Clitheroe’s councillor to


achieve anything on the county council, he has to be Labour or Conservative.


email:thecontrarian@hotmail.co.uk A dent.


A new Chieftain The Rev. Sandy Mailer took over the post when


local Caledonian Society after holding the post for the past nine years. His successor is Mr Mike Pilk-


ington. Having served the Clitheroe and District Cale­


donian Society committee for a total of 16 ye^s, Mr Mailer, who is a past president of the organisa­ tion, says he will continue to be involved locally ^ his wife, Mary, is the society’s current ■vice-presi­


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, next to the farm buildings. People whose businesses


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-“The cria arrived in the pouring rain, -which must have been a bit of a rude awakening. “But as they originate


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FORMEK Clitheroe and District Caledon­ ian Society secretary has been installed as Chieftain of a joint-county federation.


the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of Scot­ tish Societies held its conference in Fleetwood - he is already the federation’s honorary chaplain. Mr Mailer recently retired as secretary of the


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Looking Back 50 years ago


about 800 people watched the crown­ ing ceremony at the annual Rosary pro­ cession and crowning held at English Martyrs' Church, Whalley. Led by the Whalley Queen, Louis Yates, of Barrow, and her retinue, the procession of May Queens and their attendants from nine Roman Catholic churches in East Lan-


. cashire walked round the grounds before the crowning ceremony. • Great sadness was felt throughout


the Clitheroe Parliamentary Division at the tragic death, in a car accident near Oxford, of Mr Richard Fort, MP for Clitheroe since 1950. He was 51. .


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