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on the Lawsonstead site in Whalley. Yes... 300.


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Roy Dewhurst Jeweller & Bullion Dealer


Middle of Burnley Market Hall


Tel: 01282 830794 10 Keirby Walk,


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We also buy period jewellery, silverware, gold & silver coins even


pre 1960s costume jewellery Roy always pays higher prices REMEMBER


Up to £22.50 a gram for hallmarked gold High prices for silver inc. bullion or broken chains etc


100 years ago


. to 14 days’ imprisonment for sleeping in a brick kiln at the Whalley Asylum works the previous evening. Asked by the po­ lice what he was doing there, the prisoner replied “I am Iiaving a rest”. P.S Cliiney said this place was used almost as a lodg­ ing house by tramps, and on Saturday night five men were found there. As they had the appearances of genuine working men, they were allowed to stay. • Recipes included Stewed Rabbit and


A MAN of no fixed abode was sentenced f T c T U R E


. roll in flour and fry in boiling fat. Drain on paper, sprinkle with salt, pile into a pyramid and serve hot with gravy.”


a more unusual dish “Cabbage Balls”. “Mince some cold cabbage finely, mix with an equal part of bread crumbs, sea­ son with pepper and salt and bind with a beaten egg. Form into large sized balls,


50 years ago


wedding of Miss Gwenda Cherry, a mem­ ber of Clitheroe Amateur Operatic Soci- ety and bridegroom Mr Brian Richie.


Robert Baines, of New Cottages, Dunsop Bridge, when he was presented with the Royal Victorian Order at Buckingham Palace. Mr Baines,by then retired, was a forrester on the Dunsop Bridge Estate now owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. • .C’^'^rry pink was the theme for the


It was a proud moment for Mr James


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or love. Ox they can simply inspire. On a recent trip to London I visited the


& Acc&i>iafueA.


u il d in g s can inspire fear (the Ministry of Love in Orwell’s 1984) , hatred (the Bastille dur­ ing the last days of the ancien regime)


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War Rooms Churchill Museum. The di­ ary of one of Vre officers stationed below the streets of Whitehall brought home to me the real fear of a German invasion and defeat. The building itself, with its labyrin­ thine tunnels and tiny, windowless rooms reminded me of the bunker in which Hit­ ler committed suicide. For a moment Fwondered what if his­


underground complex below a bombed out and occupied London, forced to take his own life?


If the War Rooms evoked fear, other


tory had^taken a.different turn? What if it was Churchill, cornered in this


THE first four of the 16 girls to compete for the titje of Show Queen at Clitheroe and District Agricultural Society’s show in August were chosen at a dance in Pendleton. AH from Clitheroe, they were Ann Berry (16), of Lower Standen Farm, Mavis Smith (20), of Littlemoor View, Helen Murray (19), of Fort Street and Ann Thompson (19), of De Lacy Street. •


25 years ago


The advert read “See us soon and go one better.”


that potential customers could “Go one better. Drive in for a Maestro and drive out with a Montego”, with both models being offered at the same price. “You can come in for a Maestro City X 1.3 and get a Montego 1.3 in its place - or a Maestro 1.3L and get a Montego 1.6.”


joining undeveloped barn and scope for a functions room or bedrooms. A four lo five bedroom farmhouse was intluded and parking for 100 cars plus.” • Primrose Garage were advertising


BUSINESSES for sale included a “fully licensed country restaurant and farm­ house within the lower reaches of the Ribble Valley. Seven miles from the mo­ torway at Samlesbury, the restaurant of­ fers 60 covers, plus large bar lounge, ad­


BIG-HEARTED ladies who work out at Clitheroe’s Sitting Pretty gym have raised more than :G,700 for th^e British Heart Foundation (BHF). The vital funds raised will help the BHF in its light against


Ed Murrow filed a report that St Pauls had been destroyed in the Blitz and the


dome surrounded by smoke and flames shows why Murrow made his mistake St


1 auls was a national icon of defiance and hope amidst conflict. But the St Pimls of the blitz was itself


St Psul s were used. Wren noticed that one ot the stones was marked with the Latin inscription “resurgam”, “I shall rise •


1666. When stone was laid for the centre Cf n


building, stones from the Old


the work of Sir Christopher Wren follow- the Great Fire of


of the mist. It reminded me again of the American journalist


buildings evoked hope. On a murky Lon- don afternoon we saw the dome of St f u ^


from the river, rising out


blpw this would deal to British morale at ’ this crucial time. The iconic photo of that night, with the


money that will need to be spent to re­ store the spire of Clitheroe Parish Church I was horrified and then depressed. Now we still, despite the generous help of Eng­ lish Heritage, need to raise thousands of pounds.


known who have so generously given to preserve it and the past generations who have worshipped beneath it. And I felt 1 was coming home.' Buildings can simply inspire.


the spire and saw it as a symbol of resur­ rection, hope and eternity. I was reminded of all those who 1 have


REV. ANDY PROUD, Clitheroe Parish Church


But on returning home this week I saw


again”. He had the word inscribed on the pediment of the south door, beneath a carved phoenix. When I first discovered the amount of


has been raised by those who participated in the challenge at the ladies only gym during the past two years. This figure includes £885.70, which was raised during November 2010’s .challenge.


manager with the BHF, Bar­ bara Dunn, said: “We’d like lo thank Sitting Pretty for get­ ting involved in such a fantas­ tic event and for presenting us with such a generous donation. The BHF can only continue its life-saving and life-changing work thanks to money raised from events like this. We ur­ gently need more companies and people to support us. Keep working with us and together we will, beat heart disease, for good.” In total, more than £1,700


heart and circulatoty disease, the nation’s biggest killer. Fund-raising volunteers


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GYM FUND-RAISERS: Kathleen Ridgway and Bernadette Parkinson, who partici­ pated in the challange, are pictured hoiding the cheque with Zoe Pickard, heaithy lifestyle co-ordinator, and Barbara Dunn, BHF fund-raising manager, at the back.


Chatbum’s ‘bra spa’ fund-raiser couege Lenten Talks


Chatburn Primary School from 7-30 p.m. Businesswoman and bra-deisgner Sue Mc­ Donald will talk about designing bras and of­ fer women advice on choosing the right bra, whatever their size, shape or age. Tickets are £5, with £1 being donated to Cancer Research UK. which is the larcest


FINAL adjustments are being made to an uplifting event being held by Friends of Chatburn School tomorrow (March 4th). Its “Bra Spa” fund-raiser takes place at


from Roy Porter’s Butchers in Cliatburn, or by calling 01200 440272. Refreshments, wine and raffle tickets, including a chance to win a selection of beauty products, will be on sale. Everyone is invited and no-one will have


to get undressed, as it is purely a talk where advice is offered.


single funder of breast cancer research in the UK. Other proceeds will go towards new reading books for Chatburn Primary School. Tickets are available from the school, or


A SERIES of Lenten Talks will be hosted by Stonyhurst College throughout March. Influential speakers include the


Archbishop of Liverpool, the Mas­ ter of Campion Hall, Oxford; and the Dean of Blackburn Cathedral. The talks take place on Tuesdays


at 7-30 p.m. and further details can be found on the Stonyhurst website: www.stonvhurst.ac.uk.


Clitheroe, 4 New Market Street. Tel 0 1200 442255 Accrington, 6 Church Street. Tel 01254 398942 Rawtenstall, 70 Bank Street. Tel 01706 221132


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just been built on that plot. Why? Because there is no money available to. build new schools and even if there was, who will pay the teachers, wages? • Lancashire County Council hold the


education purse strings and we have all seen recently that they are making £179m. in cuts. Are we seriously to believe they


looking!


At Calderstones Park the developers said they would donate land for the building of a new school. More new houses have


one else to build a school. A fact con­ firmed to me by the developer’s spokes­ man Mr Steve McBurney at the recent CEG presentation. Where have we heard this old chestnut..


on the grounds of inadequate infrastruc­ ture, how do CEG expect an application for 300 to be passed? Wait, CEG include the building of a new school in their plans. No they, don’t! They will leave land available for some­


Now -fi an 80-House application failed


our local Ribble Valley councillors on theplanning committee. This time CEG want to build 300 houses


'ET another new housihg devel­ opment application has been subrnitted to test the resolve of


J A w e e k ly look at lo c a l i s s u e s , p e o p l e a n d d Iri^.pq valleyr New residents from outside the area will by Steve Rush


East Lancashire chairman o f the UK Independence Party


ago I moved to a new estate and on a seven-house cul-de-sac there were eight children of primary school age. These ex­ perts are asking me to believe the next 24 houses were child free. They weren’t.


states that one in three houses will have a child of primary school age whilst one in four houses will have a child requiring sec­ ondary education. That is utter nonsense. Some 16 years


lors who bucked the trend and opposed Chairman Sherras and his officers on the previous Whalley and Billington applica­ tions. The officers had recommended the acceptance of both schemes, mainly be­ cause of so-called “expert report’s”. One of these concerns education and


will suddenly fall over a treasure chest of money to facilitate a new school in Whal­ ley? We should congratulate the 10 council­


be attracted to CEG-type developments for the quality of our schools in the Rib­ ble Valley. These are already bursting at the seams and are not capable of accom­ modating hundreds of new pupils. Neither are the roads capable of holding hundreds of extra cars. Has anyone seen the state of Ribble Valley roads? More holes than a colander.


houses when the Ribble Valley’s own Housing Waiting List in November 2010 showed 155 people wanted houses in the area. That is 155 people, not 155 houses. With all the new development down the road in Barrow and houses built on land left for a school at Calderstones, surely that need has been met. So I ask the question again... who are these new houses really for?


only interested in one thing - profits. Once they have left an area severely over­ crowded they are not interested in the problems they leave behind. If this hair­ brained scheme ever sees the light of day, it should be with a proviso that CEG build a new school and agree full teacher staff­ ing levels with LCC before they build any of the 300 houses. But why does Whalley need 300 new


CEG, and developers like them, are


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SLEEK AND STYLISH: The new reception and relaxation area at Roefield Leisure Centre.


velop a new reception, com­ plete with relaxation area, as part of the £lm. build and re­ fit programme at Roefield. Sharon Snape, Director at


Clitheroe, recently unveiled its newly installed reception and lounge area, designed and fitted by Clitheroe-based Alti­ tude Studio. It was commissioned to de­


A RIBBLE Valley leisure centre has transformed its reception area with a little help from a local design studio. Roefield Leisure Centre, in


Altitude Studio, explained: “I was briefed to help design the reception area along with a bespoke counter and a lounge area suitable for the serving of snacks and refreshments. “Projects that involve devel­


oping a multifunctional space provide a challenge as it is im­ portant to make sure the func­ tionality element is considered as well as the design appeal.” Altitude had to ensure the


installation was in keeping with the existing barn conversion, but was contemporary enough to match the new feature glass


Manager, said: IfSharon under­ stood exactly what we wanted to achieve. We remained open throughout the refurbishment, which was testament to Alti­ tude’s professionalism and co­ operation.” Sharon added: “The leisure


wall in the new build. Tony Rodia, Leisure Centre


centre is very modern and so the features that were intro­ duced to the design included contemporary flooring and colour scheme, a bespoke dark veneer wood counter, and functional work area. People


expect a welcoming and relax­ ing environment and this is what I developed. “It has been great to work


on a local project. The benefits from the refurbished leisure centre are going to profit the whole Clitheroe community of which I am a part of.” Altitude Studio is a de­


sign led company deliver­ ing schemes for all interiors, whether it’s business expan­ sion, relocation, or refurbish­ ment. For more information call 01200 426189 or visit: www.aItitudestudio.co.uk


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