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. '• Stephen Cox, Head Teacher at Bowland : ; High School


Pavotirite holiday destination?


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t, That has to be Northern Italy, within sight. • 1 of the Alps. The Trentino region and the ;: Doiomites have always been favourites, as ; has further west in'Lombardia. This area i ■


j has it all, snow, mountains, lakes, fantastic . architecture and mouth-watering food! ; ;


Worst fashion disaster? ?


; Having been a teenager during the 1980s'- and tending towards the New Romantic , genre. I'm sure there were plenty! •


Favourite place in the BibMe VaUey? Not an easy one! As someone who spends a lot of time on the fells, it has to be


Favourite shop?


.: I'm really not one for shopping! If I had tO' ‘ choose, it would be Ellis Brigham, which ' sells outdoor and climbing gear. I must ' ; also confess to my love of rummaging in ■■ architectural salvage yards..


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somewhere with a stunning view. The top .. of Totridge Fell, looking down the Hodder: ; Valley, takes some beating;


Best restaurant you’ve ever been to? Hipping Hall, near Kirkby Lonsdale, and • ;


‘ LeTalbooth at Dedham on the Suffolk/' : • : Essex border are both fantastic, but I love ‘ interesting interiors, accompanied by - ' wonderful food and D'Vijff Vlieghen (The Five Flies) in Amsterdam definitely ticks • : , both these boxes!


Last time you cried? ' • ■When our little boy was born in 2006. Although I was on the verge of sobbing' recently when I fell off my road bike in ■; a race. I was close to tears, not because -- of any injuty, but because I scratched my : beloved Cervelo bike!


One item you can’t live without? I should really say my IPhone but that's a ;


little predictable, as is my laptop. Although' I don't play it very frequently (or very ; - . well), it has to be my guitar.


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Dre3,m car? A Series One Land Rover,.with a canvas roof.


Fet hates? Asyou might have guessed, I'm nota ■


shopaholic! In fact one of my pet hates is :


' shopping, the idea that therapy can be - ' prefixed by retail is an anathema to me! On a more serious note, I detest litter and those who feel they can degrade the ■. environment. I am also conditioned into hating shirts not being tucked in ! ;;


•• Most embarrassiug moment?


: After a brisk night time mountain biking • circuit around Gisburn Forest, I returned ' . to my vehicle to put away my bike before • I went off running with some fellow


, runners. Unfortunately, while they waited ; - patiently, I tried 'desperately for 10 ■. ’ ■ ; • minutes to open the van and could not ; ; ;


: understand why the key would not work. ' - ■


After trying all the doors and attempting to ease the situation with some colourful ;


: vocabulary, one of my friends said: "Isn't that one over there yours?'' .You can ;; . imagine the topic of conversation for.the. duration of the run! ' , - ’


' ‘ ' theerossword: . . . . • . V V ...............


■ THIS crossword is just for fun - no prizes are given, v >, -The solution will be in next month's issue of The Valley.;


.' ACROSS ' .4 . PlaygirP (7) ■ ' - B. Swindler, that is, becomes a raw recruit (6) 9 Oddly a hornet is not the same (7)


■;.l 0. ...as a cub entangled in'a'counting-frame (6) ' ; ; 11. Arrive so as to get into ball’ (4,2) 12. Submarine endures a buffeting (8) 18. Shy, so giving up work? (8) 20. Go back to surrender again (6) - , ■;:21. Indian leader had gin thrown out (6)


' 2. In direction of hospital sign? (7) ■


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3. It may, of course, be suitable for tots (6) 5. Right in touch to make formal agreement (8) e.'Upsetwith child's toy? (6)'


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■ 7. Show him the door; bishopric impossible! (3,3)/. 13. Pam, or senses in turmoil (8)


;■ 14. This did seem, perhaps; a bad thing to do (7) i - :,15. Opposed once more to secret ends (7) 16. Again couple mend (6) ^ .


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•:22.-Floorshow featuring nude in improper act (7).';; ■, 23. A niche for a holiday? (6); 24. ' Sincere but crude (7) ' •


DOWN ■ ■ '-1; Begin the holiday by going to pieces? (5,2) ' 18 tlie.valley.a'ugust 2011


-17. Remember to pay anothe'r visit (6) 19. Strange game is about idols (6)


SOLUTION TO JULY'S CROSSVVORD- 'Across; 6 Crystal; 7 Amman; 9 Use; 10 Deterrent; 12 ■


... Chiropodist;;15 Domineering; 17 Gentleman; 19 Act;'. - 21 Relax; 22 Bravely. ~


..Down: 1 Crass; 2 Asp; 3 Care;4 Imprudent;5 Earnest;' 8 Temper; 11 Christmas;.13 Reefer; 14 Coveted; 16 Scale; 18 Acre; 20 Eve


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, In. 1910, a motor cycle pulling a mail cart was introduced, but Was never reliable and was finally abandoned when it-■went up in flames on Railway View!


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maximum: fat burning


WANT To lose some fat? Start moving ' ■. heavy things!


:: Last month I explained that doing- interval training (short high intensity i s bursts followed by a short recovery ^ . • v period) rather than performing cardio exercise at a constant slower pace/ -; ' burns far more fat. This month we take ■ it one big step further. Resistance training isn't just for body •


-builders. By doing resistance training (this can be just body weight or ; ■ exercising with weights) you are getting ■ your muscles to perform a task. If you


■ get them to perform it hard enough . : due to the weight used/amount done, : then the muscles adapt to allow you to : • more easily perform the same task in . the future. In order to adapt, the muscles; ; : ;


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require energy during and after the' ■ exercise. This energy has to come ’ .


: from somewhere, so it will come from ' what you have in your stores at the


:time and also from your reserves and - your future calorie intake. This energy , : requirement means you will burn fat . ■ and also reduce the amount of fat your - body stores (assuming your intake,; . type and quantity stays the same). In.' -


- addition your muscles will grow larger : and they then require even more fuel ; • to support them, which, under, the ;■ same assumption as above, leads to ; •


: less fat being stored. Now, before you; - start getting.worried about looking ' •;


‘ like the Incredible Hulk, it takes a lot " V of hard work and lots' of calories to get, ; ■


big muscles (and a lot more of both if " '


•you're female due to the lower amount ' • of testosterone). Doing resistance : -


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training whilst keeping your calorie intake at an average level will give . , you more definition and slightly larger muscles. The key is to undertake resistance


training AND cardio interval training : -you then have a recipe for maximum fat burning. You will be using far more


. energy whilst exercising and you will promote an afterburn effect which will continue your fat burning long after., you have finished training. ■ A simple example would be one..


minute of fast running, then one , minute of press-ups; followed by a two-minute rest. This is repeated with


; a different resistance exercise in place . reach time, for as long asyou can : manage. Around 20 to 45 minutes will do the trick.


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; Compared to straightforward cardio, your body now has to work so much • harder to allow you to perform all the tasks. Keeping your rests as short . -as possible forces your body to work


: harder still. This training is harder than . regular cardio, but you quickly get . : '


, used to it and the results speak for - themselves. Next month I will address some :


: exercise myths and show you the best; ■ way to get a "six pack".


geraldsearle


' Takes a look at the history of the postal service in Ribble Valley.


. 'THE chatty, the catty, the boring, the ■ adoring, the cold and official and the heart's outpouring, clever, stupid, short, long, the typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong."


• It certainly has a ring to it but what are being described? It is actually an extract from the ,


commentary on a 1936 documentary film, better remembered as one of the nation's ; favourite poems, ."Night Mail", by W.H.


: : Auden, and the subject is, of course, letters. I often wonder how I survived without


e-mails, although that is probably just a sign of someone too old-fashioned to have caught up with mobile phones and texting! However, I do know from experience that you can always find a parking space outside ; Chatburn post office - naturally other post . : : offices are available, though nowhere near


' as many as there used to be! Though posting a letter or parcel is not straightfonvard with the current vast array


: of prices for different shapes and sizes, generally the whole communication system is now something that we simply take for . granted - at least until it breah down! .


messenger transferring mail was introduced by the Romans and extended by the ■


' Normans, so it has a fairly solid background! 0!iver Cromwe!! may have done significant


;: damage locally, but at least he established; i the General Post Office in 1657 for the few who could read and write, whilst the beginning of uniform penny postage in 1840 made sending mail affordable to all for the first time. : Once the Post Office took control of the


' telegraph system in 1870 and the telephone: : • system in 1912, it became a massive and • ■


presumably highly sophisticated hub of communications, but at local level the set-;


' up was rather basic. ■ One of the main innovations in the speedy


; delivery of mail came with the extension of : the railway system and coaches that housed


'Travelling Post Offices", in which mail was


' sorted in transit The current post office in . . Glitheroe's King Street may be a striking,. historic building, but it is just the latest in . -


. a range of postal premises, which almost , / qualifies Clitheroe as a "travelling post .- . office"! - - ' -


: !n his book "Clitheroe in its Railway Days",


.1; Stephen Clarke recalls how in the second / •; . half of the 19th century it moved from York


. ; ' Street to the top of Wellgate, to Castle Street . then Castle Gate, before finally settling in King Street in the hotel now predictably; .


.-. called 'The Old Post House'V erected in 1879 for use as a post office./ Before 1850 Clitheroe was merely a sub- .


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H I The Old Post House, in King Street - •


outlying villages like Downham and Twiston. Newton and Slaidburn were served by one-;. armed John Jackson, of Waddington, and ■ - his donkey, Neddy, which did not always . : enjoy the climb over the fell, on some days requiring the muscle and encouragement of


' two or three men to set it on its way! : !n these ear!y days post was ddivered .


■ around town by John Wi!son; a cordwainer,; who combined his job of soling shoes with wearing out his own on his daily round! ■ He in turn was succeeded by the town's


: bellman, John Furness, who may have been veiy poorly paid but was given t h e • consolation of a uniform of a bright scarlet • coat and tall silk hat with gold braid! , ■ .


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: The rapid increase in correspondence : : ; required more deliveries, so more postmen would set off with mailcarts to cover all the ;


. main villages, although it was 1897, year, '/ ' of the Queen's jubilee, before all addresses ■ were covered, including telegrams.. -


'• Parcel post was instituted in 1883 and . .'


: the veiy first parcel sent from Clitheroe was. . a pair of clogs for a little girl in London! ,■ 'By 1899, though there were only 58 local . .- ,


■ telephone subscribers, 39,580 postal items -. . ■ per week had to be processed, requiring 14 . ■ postmen, three messengers and five clerks, .. ..- covering five sub-offices in town and 14 in •:. the villages.


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- ' Perhaps the most notable P o s tm a s t e r / ■ was Mr S. N. Whalley, whose house had 'v. --.;; . a connecting door into the post office. He; .. was known as a stickler for discipline and.


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•. ; ; office of Blackburn, and mail was transferred ' overnight by horse mail.- However, the ; ; opening of the railway to Clitheroe also . ■ heralded a delivery service to many of the .


• his junior" staff were quite used to a cli p.; : . - round the ear for slacking, although they .; . i had the courage to roast potatoes regularly /in a secret compartment in the office stove


- until the smell finally betrayed them! . The rura! postmen had a much tougher


: life,-often working a 15-hour day, seven days : per week. The Chaigley round, for example,: was two deliveries per day, almost 30 miles: ; in all, for a weekly wage of only 16 shillings,; though there was also the bonus of an annua! one guinea boot allowance. 1- ■ Christmas and Valentine Days were


naturally the heaviest times, though the days when patent medicine companies mailed sample packs to every house were no doubt; rather strenuous! Nor was it just the post-the rural staff •/•.


often also bought and transported goods : • like Sunday dinners to outlying homes,; ; .


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: though for the route to Dunsop Bridge and Slaidburn a horse and trap was used, or :. even a horse and sleigh when the snow was drifting. ■In 1910, a motorcycle pulling a mail cart : was introduced, but was never reliable and


: was finally abandoned when it went up in flames on Railway View!


‘ However, the current premises in King : ; Street, "in Tudor style and built in Buller '


.. delph stone with Westmorland green; v -. - slates", completed in only 13 months with:: ; the foundations carefully laid in anbid ' . quariy, were officially opened at 3-30 p.m.. < '


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.. on December 7th, 1927, by Alderman W.;. ■ :) Standring jP, when postal business was transferred from across the street.


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- He purchased the first'stamp from the new automatic machines in the outside wall, to affix to a letter to the Postmaster-General. : :; . This was duly posted by the Mayoress before • he cancelled the stamp, made up a mail : ; bag and dispatched it to the station for :s;r


: deliveiy. He even had the honour of making . the first call from the new telephone boxes .. in the office, whilst Postmaster Ogden was transmitting the first telegram on the new Morse sounder. Compared to the previous premises


this was considered a model building, with electricity, central heating and even a rest room and individual lockers for all - • - the staff. 'The upper storey was designed :


' as a telephone exchange for when it was transferred from Castle Gate in 1928, so that


- for the first time Clitheroe could have all its facilities under one roof and in a building : which was not merely rented! -


: Ce!ebrations continued late into the night,'


at the dinner, concert and dance at The ' Swan and Royal. Official speeches were '


: predictably interminable, especially to the - ladies present, according to Town Clerk, ' : Mr Self Weeks..He "fancied that ladies most


: liked talking about costumes and doubted' not that in the Carden of Eden, Eve's mind was exercised as to how she should arrange the fig-leaves!" ■ In more modern times I think he would. ■ have received a few letters - and e-mails and texts and tweets - about that comrhent! . - : At last the foundations were now very ;


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: firmly laid for the postal services that we ; ; : now enjoy in the Ribble Valley, but in -:;' : v spite of the many new channels of instant ' communication that some of us may : ' ; ; : never understand, there is still much to be.


i cherished in "snailmail". : ; As Auden concluded: ."And none shall hear, ■the postman's knock without a quickening of the heart, for who can bear to feel himself forgotten?" ~ ■


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