■r V"- 16 . Clitheroe Advertiser &TIme8,Thursday,Aprtl12,2012 NEWS FROM THE VILLAGES


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Meet at rear of Low Moor Club at 10 a.m. to drive over Waddington Feu via Newton to riverside car park at Slaid- burn (adjacent to the cafe) 90p charge for four hours.


The route from Slaid- burn goes to Hol- mehead Bridge, Hammerton Hall, Stocks Reservoir dam and the cir­ cular path past Dale Head Chapel, Black House, Ten' Acre Hill, and back to Slaidburn. 5.5 miles.


Bad weather will not lead to c'anceUation, but warm clothing, waterproofs and strong footwear are essential, as is a


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" packed lunch. Dogs are welcome only on a lead because of the lambing season. LMC accepts no re­ sponsibility for acci­ dent or injury.


Snooker The Low Moor Club snooker A team defeated the Con­ servative Qub team to get through to the League final.


On Saturday everyone is welcome to watch the Grand National in the club.


On Saturday night a great group “Man­ hattan” will be entertaining, also there will be Beer Draw and Play Your Cards Right. Again everyone welcome.


Bonus ball Winners were B. Fer­


guson, B. Stirling, M. Brown, D. Cot- tam.


MELLOR


In concert- Mellpr Brook Com­ munity Centre is the venue for a coneert by Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller on Saturday at 8 p.m. Special guest Paul Russell. Tickets are £10. www.mellor- brook.org or phone 07791558554:


PENDLETON


History group Pendleton History


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Club meets in the village hall this evening, at 7-30 p.m. Further arrange­ ments will be made for the exhibition to be staged on June 2nd to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Everyone is welcome.


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Waste paper It’s paper day m Pend­ leton on Tuesday, April 17th. Please leave papers in the' white bags provid-


Diamond jubilee There is tp be a meet- , ing in'Pendleton Village Hall on


Wednesday, April ’ 18th, to make ar­ rangements for the celebration of the Queen’s Dia­ mond Jubilee. At


. the meeting, which starts at 7-30 p.m.' there is to be a discussion on the proposal for a com­ memorative stone. Everyone is wel­ come to attend.


READ


Mothers’ union The meeting o f St


' Joh n ’s Church, Read, Mother’ Un­ ion, included the Lady Day service during-which the Rev. Gill Dwyer, vicar of Whalley, enrolled six new, members into the branch. A warm welcome was given


look forward to their company on many future occa­ sions.


The guest speaker was Mrs Beryl' Thane who gave a very humorous insight into the topic of “Grumpy Old La­ dies” exploring what makes us grumpy. There was much laughter during the


the original bene­ factor along with his wife, and they, saw to, it that the young people in their care were given a Chris-


subjects to fit them for a job on leaving the orphanage. Now the building houses the offices of Child Action North West which supports needy youngsters in the community. Mrs Robert’s de­ scription of the dis­ covery in the cellars, of records, photo­ graphs, artefacts, James Dixon’s dia­ ries, original docu­ ments and much more amazed eve­ ryone.'.All this bur-


by members who Elizabeth Robin- president Mrs


son welcomed new member Mrs May Wyre. Mrs Nina Healey gave an ex­ cellent report on the'LFWI spring council meeting at


yard. The story ajr- peared to end inside St Saviour’s Church with a picture and a


- prayer of Jesus be- mg laid in his tomb.


tian upbringing and Amazingly all the pic- a training m many tures . changed on


ied tresure has now The school, and the been collated into a fascinating record.


rector, are to be congratulated on


that nationally the WI organisation is growing.


discussion and of Walks, co-ordinator


course none would own up to the title of being a grumpy old lady.


The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations committee has in­ vited MU members to organise and run


At the next meeting on April 24th there will


Ground and it was decided to have a cake stall and organ­ ise a competition.


Southport outlin- n ■ , ing the business bpring Clean and guest speakers. A potent party of vol- The good news is unteers turned out. in response to Alan


Mrs Barbara Spen­ cer described last month’s ramble which, on a dry, warm day, took them to a little hid­ den wildlife pond in the fields around Dudlands.


a stall on June 4th Following the meet- at Read Cricket


keen to sample the chocolate and cof­ fee goodies on the Fairtrade stall which was run by Mrs Les­ ley Marklew.


j“8> members were


be a demonstration Roberts judged and Body Shop par-'


ty and on May 2nd the Deanery Festi­ val will be held at St Paul’s Church, Low Moor, Clitheroe. ■


The waste paper col- Members were re- AGM Waste paper


and Simonstone will take place on Monday. Please leave saeks or car­ rier bags out early in the morning at the edge of your prop­ erty where it can be clearljr seen by the collection crew.


RIMINGTON


Orphanage “Remember Black­ burn Orphanage?” Was the question put to members of Rimington WI and answered by Mrs Harriet Roberts in a


for a ehild-themed flower arrangement choosing those of Mrs Anne-Knowles- Foster, Mrs Marga­ ret Silverwood and MrsMarklew. '


competition mpi


buy stall at the May 1st meeting when a fun and games evening is in store.


ROCHESTER


ed, and the talents that were displayed. The pictures were on show in people’s windows until last Saturday.'


Saturday.in ration for Easter Day. The new ones all showed the story of the Resurrection on that first Easter Sunday. The story followed the same route as the original paintings did, but this time the story started at St Sav­ iour’s and returned to St Wilfrid’ s, Church and culmi­ nated in the story of Pentecost with the descent of the Holy Spirit.


at meetings and to take minutes. Re­ signing committee members can be re­ elected..


Normally the com­ mittee meets once every quarter, un­ less circumstances make an additional meeting essential. While there is val­ ued support from some villagers on work evenings to maintain the qual-


. ityoftheCoulthurst Memorial Field


nancially (for which the committee offer their sincere thanks) it is essential to have a strong, lively and viable committee. Please consider of­ fering to serve your village in this way.


portunkfthalt°h'is C|ub wlnnefs project represent- Winners of the Rim­


ington Recreation Association 100 Club for March are: Brian Cummings (£50), Louise Bir- chall (£20), John Bannister (£10).


SLAIDBURN


before the Easter visitors arrived. The combination of many hands and a lovely Spring morn­ ing transformed the village’s streets and open spaces within a couple of hours. Also the base of the carved memo-. rial column that had been split by the


' severe frosts two years ago has been beautifully repaired. Whoever has done


Ormond’s chai- Young farmers enge, to give the vU- MembeTs of Slaidbum age a sprmg^clean y


Farmers’


sary of the feast of Malkin Tower and the Lancashire Witch trials. Own­ ers Keith and Chris­ tine Turner, who have researched the great assembly and least of Malkin Tower that took place on April 10th, 1612, invited peo­ ple in to taste their special Malkin pie which they have cre­ ated to mark the an­ niversary and is on sale at the shop.


and while villagers X a c h P n r rn generously support


the associatiOT fi- A second bus has been booked to


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30 p.m. SABDEN


Club are reminded that next week meet­ ings will resume af­ ter the lambing time break. On Monday night, the meeting is a joint regional meeting kindly hosted by Pendle Young Farmers at Barley Village Hall. ServICGS This will start at 7- xhe weather stayed


King George’s Hall in Blackburn next Thursday for the premier of a new comedy film called “Tash Force”. The film follows three days in the life of politically incor­ rect police officer Tash McDermott, played by Sabden man Mark Wood­ ward, and includes a number of Sabden- ers as extras. Tick­ ets are £8.50 from King George’s Hall box office on 0844 847 1664, or from Ticketmaster, or pay at the box office on the night and all proceeds will go to charity. The film will then be screened at independent cin­ emas and released on DVD on April 23rd. Contact An­ nie Woodward at 3 Whalley Road, if you wish to book a place on the bus.


this or who has paid , , , . for it, must be con- Winners gratulated for an The April monthly excellent piece of draw winners at


work. RIMINGTON


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lection for Read minded that there RimingtonRecreation will be a bring-and- •


fascinating talk out-' The pictures were dis-


lining the origins of played in the win- the historic building in Wilpshire, which over many years gave shelter and care to homeless and disadvantaged children o f ' the Blackburn area. She said philanthropist James Dixon was


.dows of houses in the village. The trail started at St Wil­ frid’s Church, pro­ gressed up Church Street and then along Greenside, turning up Stydd Lahe to St Peter and St Paul’s Church-


Picture trail Pupils of St Wilfrid’s CE Primary School painted a trail of pictures through Ribchester for Holy Week. The pictures told the story of Je- The sus’journey to Jeru­ salem that led up to . the amazing events of Easter nearly 2,000 years ago.


morial Institute on Sunday, April 22nd at 7 p.m. and all vil­ lagers are welcomed to attend. The con­ stitution of the asso­ ciation makes every villager a member by default so it can truly be said it’s your association and it needs your support on Sunday.- Constitution


Association will be holding it’s AGM in C la S S lC CarS the Rimington Me- There will be a gath- enng of classic cars


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,,ing hearing makes in Whalley Road, it difficult for him on Tuesday to mark to hear what is said the 400th anniver-


the Secretary David Malkin pie King will be joining There was a great tum- him. His deteriorat- out at San-Wifches,


requires that the three longest serv­ ing members of the committee resign each year. This year the chairman Aidan Grimshaw gave no­ tice at last year’s AGM that he would be stepping down as Chairman and , ,


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outside the Caul­ dron Caf6 in Watt Street, Sabden, on Sunday, April 29th, when the North- West Daimler and Lanchester Owners’ Club meets there at 11 a.m. The club is for enthusiasts and owners of Daim­ ler, Lanchester and BSA vehicles and was set up in 1964 for those interested in promoting and preserving these cars. I f anyone would like to know any more informa­ tion they can ring Sheila at the cafe on 07543613582.


S abd en B ow l­ ing Club are: J . Whitwell (£30), A. Howarth (£20 Oldham (£15 Sutcliffe (£10 Beesley (£10^


fine for the outdoor Good Friday service at the cross at the junction of Padiham Road and St Nicho­ las’s Avenue. There was an Easter Sun­ day service in St Nicholas’s Church Hall, followed by an Easter egg hunt. St Mary’s RC Church was packed, with standing room only in the porch, for the Easter Sunday Mass. Afterwards Fr John Corcoran handed out Easter eggs to the children. This Sunday Canon Peter Shepherd will take the 9-30 a.m. service at St Ni-


- cholas’s, with Steve Hanna being the guest preaeher at the Baptist Church at 10 a.m. Mass at St Mary’s RC is at 11 a.m. Nearby residents who have begun parking on St Mary’s Church car park are asked to remove their cars on Sunday mornings so there is room for the congregation to park.


Diary Forthcoming events in the village inelude a coffee morning on Saturday, April 28th, from/10 a.m. to noon, at 17 Pend- leside Close, cour­ tesy of Bernard and


Marion Parfitt in, in aid of St Nicho­ las’s Church repair fund. Also in aid of the fund is a talk in the church hall by former rally car driver Mike Wood on Friday, May 11th, about the Lon­ don to Sydney rally. A concert by the Blackburn People’s Choir is to take place in St Mary’s Community Hall on Saturday May 5th and Sabden will mark Christian Aid Week with a coffee morning on Satur­ day May 12th, from 10 a.m. to noon, in St Mary’s Cqrn- munity Hall. This is instead of the usual house to house col­ lection so any do­ nations of items to sell or money for the fund will be wel­ come.


B ow lin g Sabden Bowling Club will hold its first competitions of the season on Sunday, April 22nd, with the men’s and ladies’ singles. The doubles competition will be held on Sunday, May 6th, and the Peter Lambert open charity doubles will be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 19th and 20th. If an­ yone wants to enter the Peter Lambert Memorial competi­ tion, or the floodlit event at the end of the season, will they contact Bob Wright on 07713862870 or John Robinson on 07808 170968. Sub­ scriptions, £26 for full members, £24 seniors, under-18s £8 and social mem­ bers £5, are now due and any new mem­ bers will be made very welcome.


Tribute The April meeting of Sabden Parish Council opened with a minute’s si­ lence in tribute to former villager Gla­ dys Walmsley Who had died the previ­ ous week aged 95. Mrs Walmsley had been a regular at- tender at meetings and took a keen in­ terest in village life. The meeting was chaired by Coun. Michael Calvert and attended by Tricia and Ricky Newmark, John Shorter, Michael Hodds, Dean Lind­ say, Marion Procter and Tony Haworth and four members of the public. Apol­ ogies were received frm Coun. Bernard Parfitt. Matters dis- eussed - members had a long discus­ sion before decid­ ing not to make a contribution to the Little Green Bus Company which had requested a donation of £150. Members had beeii told by a repre­ sentative of the


company at the pre­ vious month’s meet­ ing that 12 villagers currently used the service whieh took people who could not use other public transport into town to shop and on long­ er trips. A resident pointed out that there was a good


^ free service bus for the over-60s serving Sabden, but people had to pay to use the Little Green Bus. Councillors agreed that their standing orders did not allow them to make do­ nations to outside organisations and they always turned down these type of requests. There was a lot of support for the scheme but a proposal not to do­ nate was won on a vote.


Questioniiaires are to be sent out to villag­ ers later in the year to get their views on whether to go ahead with putting togeth­ er a Sabden 'Village Plan to see how the village can develop in the future.


Action plan The chairman gave an update on the Sabden Action Plan which is into its second year and is looking at several is­ sues, an area at the Whalley Road end of Gardeners Row which is being land­ scaped, litter picking around the village with each councillor concentrating on their own areas, the grounds and signs of St Nicholas’s and St Mary’s Churches which councillors feel are not look­ ing at their best, and dog fouling which is currently being addressed by the police and dog warden. Sabden is to enter the Best Kept Village com­ petition again and asks householders to keep their prop­ erty looking tidy. The notieeboards in the village need some a t ten t ion and a clean-up day will be held next month. A planter is to be placed on Whalley Road near the phone box and Couns Shorter and Haworth and Mrs Fran Haworth had cleaned up an area of the brook dur­ ing the recent good weather. Some spring cleaning work was needed on the play area and would be done soon by the lengthsman.


Youth Young people in the village are ask­ ing Sabden Parish Couneil for support to provide them with some facilities. Following a recent meeting with young people, the police and parish council chainnan, teenagers Louise Cunningham


and Ben Wain were chosen to represent


young people in the village and give a


presentation to the parish council. At the April meeting they asked council­ lors to support their '


call for the return of


a youth club and for the roof to be put baek on the youth and community


shelter on the Lnw- er Holme so they could have some­ where to meet with


their friends. Louise said they appreci­ ated there had been problems with the shelter in the past and the roof had been damaged caus­ ing the council to re-


. move it completely. But she pointed out that they were a new generation of teen­ agers and wanted to use it positively and look after it. She said they would also like to have a profes­ sional mural painted • on the inside wall to deter people from wanting to write graffiti or damage it. Ben added that the young people wanted to take own­ ership of the shelter and look after it and they said they had fund-raising ideas and the young peo­ ple were prepared to raise money or do whatever was needed to help the project. A petition with 150 signatures from adults and young people had been presented to the council chair­ man asking for fa­ cilities for young people in Sabden. Councillors thanked Louise and Ben for their proactive and adult approach and said they were very impressed with the


, port the reinstating ofthe roof in princi­ ple and would look into the matter and call a further meet­ ing with the young people to take the matter forward.


presentation they had made. After a discussion council­ lors agreed to sup-


Report Borough Coun. Ricky


Newmark said that work on new homes at the wetlands off Whalley Road would start later this year. A lot of rubbish had been dumped on the site and this was now th e re sp o n s ib i l­


ity o f nibble Valley Homes who were to


build “social hous­ ing” there. The de­ velopment planned for Victoria Mill


nearby was still up in the air, but he said demolition


work was due to


start in the next two to three months. He,


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instead o f fort­ nightly was wrong


and it was to remain as it was. The bulky


household waste collection, however, was no longer going to be a free service and householders -would have to pay £12.60 for large


items to be taken away.


Satnavs The issue of satnavs sending HGVs through Sabden was a problem in other areas of the Ribble Valley and was being looked at, it was reported. People and parish couneils needed to tell Ribble Valley Council about par­ ticular problems they experienced,


,• to build up a better case for action to be taken.


Housing An open day is to be held on 'Wednes­ day, May 2nd, by Calieo Homes to show people their plans for the Cob- den Mill develop­ ment of to-rent, shared ownership and homes for sale. Construction work has begun and the company is look­ ing to employ an apprentice joiner, bricklayer and gen­ eral builder from Sabden to work on the site. Applica­ tions must by made by next Monday, April 16th, to Nici Milner at nicola. milner@cskills.org or call her on 07711


munity Hall from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. when


there will be com­


puterised images of how the homes will look and staff available to answer any questions. The council said there was confusion over who to apply to regarding the new houses and people are advised to go


along to the open day.


WHALLEY


Service On Sunday at Whalley Methodist Church, there is an early contemplative time at 9 a.m. to which all are invited. Start


the day with a quiet and peaceful com­


munion, led by the minister, the Rev. Katy Thomas.


At 10-30 a.m. the wor­ ship will be led by Steve Burnham and Norman Pedley.


Open the box “What’s in the box” was the title of a talk given to mem­ bers of Whalley with Mitton WI by Mr John Higgin- son, of Pilling, who is a member of the Fylde Country Life Preservation and Museum Soeiety. He entertained with a selection of boxes containing varied objects and tools, past and present, whieh members had to guess the use


204400. The open day will be held in St Mary’s Com­


NEWS FROM THE VILLAGES


"n iE death of one of the most likeable and popular charac­ ters in Sabden has been felt all over the community. Mrs Gladys Walmsley touched


so many people’s lives in her long and active life that she will be very greatly missed. Mrs Walmsley was 95 and


proud to be Sabden’s oldest resident when she organised her o ra birthday party at The White Hart pub last year. Born and brought up in Sab­


den she never had any desire to leave the village—her one regret being that her parents could not afford to let her go to grammar school when she passed the en­ trance exam, and instead of her dream of becoming a teacher


she had to go into the mill as a weaver. But later she did attend


Burnley College to take a mil- lineiy course and became an ac­ complished hat and dressmaker, a skill that she used right up to the end, along with knitting car­ digans for terminally ill AIDS victims in South Africa and for the “Hats For Sailors” project. Along with her needlework she was a keen WI member first­


to which they were put.


The evening was full of fun and laughter as members tried to score the high­ est points for their varied and amusing identifications.


President Mrs Mar­


Tributes as Sabden’s oldest resident dies, 95


ly joining at Higham, then Sab­ den and when both those clubs closed she joined Pendleton WI, making many new friends. She was a member of Sabden


Methodist Church until its clo­ sure a few years ago, when she moved to Hapton Methodist Church, but she supported all the village churches and organi­ sations and loved to attend the numerous events in the village that she loved dearly. For many years she was a


stalwart of the weekly whist and domino drives in St Mary’s Hall and was very sad when falling numbers forced it to close. She loved the annual horticultural society show every August where she would enter her handicrafts, flower arrangements and baking T being a great believer in keep­ ing village shows going. She also attended meetings of Sabden Parish Council to keep abreast of village events and a few years ago fought a long battle to have a bus shelter placed in Whalley


She was a beautiful hand-


writer and regularly wrote long letters to her son Winston, who . lives in Dorset, and when she was younger entered handwrit—


jorie Mitchell gave the business news and Mrs Kathleen Hanson read a re­ port of the spring council meeting.


Future events were discussed and there were two competi­ tion winners.


Mrs Dorothy Hollins


was congratulated on her spring bop- net and Freda Hay­ es was thanked for the basket of spring


__ daffodils. The next meeting will be a social evening on May 2nd in


ing competitions. Mrs Walmsley was born in


Grimshaw Terrace, which later became Badger Well Terrace, and attended Sabden County Primary School. When she mar­ ried her late husband Herbert they moved to Gardeners Row, later moving to Padiham Road


where she spent the next 60 years. During the last war when her


husband was serving in Burma she took in a schoolboy evacuee from London. Her life revolved around her family and the com­ munity and she leaves her son, two daughters - Janet Troilett of Whalley and Heather Storey of Billington - five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Her daughter Janet said: “My


mum led a long and veiy active life, she loved to be involved in everything and stayed really ac­ tive until just recently, despite her age.


‘She had lots of friends and so


many interests, she really was a wonderful woman.”


A funeral service took place at Hapton Methodist Church be­


fore cremation at Burnley Cre­ matorium.


Whalley Abbey at 7 p.m. A warm wel­ come to new mem­ bers.


Bells invite W h a l ley P a r ish Church has a new team of handbell ringers practising in


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the church and are looking for more participants.


They would like “any­ one who can count up to four” and who wants to try something a bit dif­ ferent to join them on Thursday after­


noons at 2 p.m.


The present team comprises Cather­ ine and Jeff Duck­ worth, John and Shirley Pilkington, Sylvia Ireland and Sarah West.


Anyone interested can contact any of them in church or just turn up on Thursdays.


Midweek Holy Com- munion at the church is at 10 a.m. Tomorrow there will be Holy Com­ munion at 9-15 a.m. in the Abbey Chapel followed by meditation in the Abbey Library at 10-30 a.m.


A Prayer Book Holy Communion serv­ ice will be at 8-30 a.m.on Sunday with Parish Commun­ ion at 10 a.m. and a


Cursillo service at 3 p.m.


The House Group will meet at Whit- tam Road on Tues­ day at 10 a.m. and the Ladies’ Prayer Group at the vicar­ age at 2-15 p.m.


Table blooms There are still selling


tables available for Whalley Village Hall’s table top sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 29th. The sale will have a range of good quality house­ hold goods and col­ lectables.


A feature will be dis­


plays by Whalley in Bloom to publicise this year’s cam­ paign.


Tables can be booked from Grace Gem-


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College visit Members of the con­ gregation at Eng­ lish Martyrs’ RC Church, 'Whalley, will have a visit to Stonyhurst today and they have ex­ tended an invita­ tion to parishioners of whalley Parish Church, where services were held while the church in The Sands was be­ ing renovated.


The visitors will de­ part at 2-15 p.m. for Mass in the So­ dality Chapel, tea and biscuits and a tour of the college libraries.


There will be no Mass at English Martyrs’ Church today.


The collection for Ca- fod Lent Fast Day brought in £407. The Government this year is match­ ing the figure pound for pound.


A meat and potato pie Sunday lunch followed by a bee­ tle drive is being planned for April 22nd and will be held in Whalley CE Primary School. Tickets are £6.50 for adults and £3.50 for children.


Lunch money The series of Lent lunches organised by Whalley Chris­ tian Action Group made a profit of £725 which will be divided between Cafod and Chris­ tian Aid.


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