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A Day at t he races Cheltenham


Gold Gup 2012


Departing Thursday 15 March 2012 2 days, from £ l 49.95pp


Join us fo r the unforgettable spectacle, atmosphere and excitem ent o f the Cheltenham Festival on th is superb tw o day break.


• Admission to the Best Mate Enclosure on - Gold Cup Day. (An upgrade to the Tattersalls Enclosure is offered, subject to availability, at a supplement o f £15 per person)


• O vernight stay at a 3 star Midlands area hotel w ith dinner & full English breakfast


• Return coach travel from Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, ■ Nelson & Padiham


i Grand National 2012 S ^ > y r Saturday 14 April 2012


^ - Day excursion, from £(59.95pp .Don't get pipped at the post' Join us on this great


I value break to the 1 es**! Grand National a t Aintree,


and enjoy th e th rills and excitement o f a celebrated spotting day!


• Admission to the Steeplechase Enclosure on Grand National Day. (An upgrade to the • Tattersalls Enclosure is offered, subject to availability, a t a supplement of £26 per person)


• A brunch-tim e full English breakfast w ith a glass of sparkling wine


• Return coach travel from Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, Nelson & Padiham


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Malvern Spring Gardening Show


Departing Saturday 12 May 2012 I4 i


2 days, from £ l 24.95pp The green shoots o f the gardening year blossom into vibrant, colourful displays at this annual show' set in a designated Area o f Outstanding Natural - Beauty against a backdrop o f the Malvern H ills. •


• Admission to the Malvern Spring Gardening Show


• Overnight stay at a 3 or 4 star Midlands area hotel with dinner & full English breakfast


• A visit to Stratford-upon-Avon I


• Return coach travel from Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, • N elsons Padiham


HONOURED: Joyce Holgate MBE whh Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans outside the Houses of Parliament, (s)


Chelsea Flower Show Departing Friday 25 May 2012 ' - A e


2 days, from £ l 69.95pp Chelsea Flow er Show is the ultimate event in the gardening calendar! Every yearthe grounds of London's Royal Hospital are transformed into the show gardens and displays that make up the w orld's most^mous flow er show loved by everyone.


• Admission to Chelsea FlowerShow


• Overnight stay at a 3 o r4star outer London hotel with dinner & full English breakfast


• A visit to Stratford-upon-Avon


• Return coach travel from Burnley, Clitheroe, Coine, Nelsons Padiham


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For more information or to book, please call- 0152437500 quote ELN


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Joyce Holgate Ribb'e Valley councillor Joyce Holgate was awarded an MBE in Ais year's Queen's Birthday Honours Ust The 80-year-old veteran community worker, who represents Whalley on the borough council, received the honour for services to local government in the Ribble Valley. She has been a Ribble Valley councillor for 16 years and is a mem.ber of the council's Ucensing, Planriing and Development and Health and Housing Committees.-Bom and brought up in Sabden, Councillor Holgate farmed in Billington and Wiswell Moor for 17years, before mnning the Abbey Candy Store in Whalley for 14 years. While a Whalley trader, she launched the Whalley Chamber of Trade and is novv its honoraiy president The mother-of-three was the first Ribble Valley Mayor frorn Whalley in 2002.


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or visit: www.eastlancsnewspapers.reader.travel Favourite holiday


destination? Riding on the Rocty


Mountaineer across Canada - the sceneiy was spe^cular.


Worst fashion disaster? Looking back at photographs, it's definitely the outfits I wore in the early '60s!


the Ribble TTaUey? It has to be my home village, of whalley, but it always a pleasure to visit Sabden as it holds fond memories of my , childhood.


Favourite place in


Best restaurant you’ve ever been to? There are so many nice restaurants in Ribble Valley - -you're always made welcome at Breda Murph/s. The one I've recently enjoyed the most is The Red Pump Inn at Bashall Eaves, where I


took my family to celebrate;. my MBE - the landlady even


made a special cake for me.


One item you can’t livewithout? My Filofax - 1 open it daily to make sure I'm at the right place at the right time.


Last time you cried?


- When niy son died three years- ago.


Favourite shop? My favourite was my own shop, the Abbey Candy Store in Whalley, but it no longer exists. The shop that makes you most welcome - - is'Cosgroves, where you're always offered a coffee, even if you can't find an outfit!


Dream car? Cars don't really interest me, but the one I have fond


memories of was a Morris Traveller - the registration


plate was "HEN" - 1 loved driving that car!


Pet hates? Dialling a number and being put on hold with music playing while waiting for someone to speak to you.


Most embarrassing moment? . Speaking on the wrong item on an agenda at a meeting.


|y Geraldine Searle I PLEASURE no wpman


prgets, once she has


^perienced it." Ladies |whatever couid be on offer? l"You should see what we show you in corsets." Or


erhaps they are not trying ) attract the ladies, but their


Setter halves! I In fact, the advertisement


Bn The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times from Hargreaves Bros, high-class draper, dated September 1911, was offering "the comfort of a good corset",


Ithough the tone is not exactly jflattering! "It is not every woman,


I however, who thinl«:it iworthwhile to buy a good


[corset, and that is why you I see so many women yvith I indifferent figures," it stated Contrast this with the


I advertisement only two ! months later when "we suggest that every lady who desires exquisite furs at prices which are by no means high, should call and inspect the splendid selection which we are now showing." Clearly, in the early 20th


Century it was better to be a lady than just a woman, at least as far; as local papers were concerned. Take Madame Cabra "the


first white woman to cross Africa" in a party of male explorers. "Travelling with men, my one desire was not to be a nuisance," she stated. Her adventures with storms, crocodiles, hippopotami and the natives may have been


I fascinating, but coverage was minimal. Certainly she did not attract


I the column inches devoted to actress "Miss Joan Hadenfeldt, San Francisco's millionaire beauty".


The Advertiser and Times


I published her story the day before April 1st with the term "windup" used to describe her latest escapade, and she had just become engaged for


I the 27th time to a handsome, I witty, young blacksmith and j theatrical proriucer called I George H. Aspden. But did she qualify as a


I lady? That became irrelevant, t because it emerged th a t, I her fiance believed himself to be the long-lost Duke of


J Lancashire, taken as a child I to America by his father - but j witfi an ancestral home near I Wgan! And who needs to be a lady


I when you can be a duchess! Not that women were


j neglected by the Advertiser and Times, with a variety of ■ columns like "Health and


Household" arid "Fashion and Things Feminine" dedicated to them. However, it was noticeable that when space was short "Poultry for All" always survived, whilst feminine matters were dropped’ for a week! Yet the benefits of using


tomato juice to remove ink stains, adding cold tea to • boot blacking for extra shine, cleaning knobs and knockers with cardboard, taking an afternoon nap and countless others were clearly considered key elements of a woman's duty. "Rough, hobbled work is a


disgrace that no neat woman is willing to incur," it was stated. And for those "neat" women


content to devote their lives to serving others, the revyard was regular fashion news. "Many a Parisienne with


leisure takes a delight in . making up her own underwear, and it is interesting to see how deftly the good worker will unite an embroidered edging, to a line of building," they . were told. The Empire model of outer


knickers in stockinette, sateen or even spun silk, may have been placketless, elasticated at waist and knees, then


decorated in little bows or rosettes in satin ribbon - but was it relevant to working class women in the Ribble Valley? Certainly the physical and


emotional demands imposed on women in the new century were considered. "Look at the mother and


housewife as she goes about her tasks, and observe how often she utters an impatient exclamation, how often she sighs over her servant's shortcomings...," it was said. Servant problems - not quite


the working class woman then! And who would worry about


these servants in a period when the majority lived in conditions of hardship, poverty and squalor? The answer lies in the


struggle for women's suffrage, in which Clitheroe played a significant role during the 50 years between the formation of regional suffrage societies and the end of the First World War, when women over 30 finally won the vote. In November, 2011, the


Advertiser and Times reviewed a meeting, organised by the National Council of the Women's Suffrage Society, in Clitheroe's Public Hall, supporting the Conciliation Bill.


This was first introduced into


Parliament by Mr Shackleton, Clitheroe's Labour MP, whose success in the 1902 by-election, in what was considered a safe Liberal seat, was due mainly to his promise of support for women's suffrage. Though attendance at the


meeting was only "moderate", there was unanimous conviction that women deserved a better deal. As Alderman Smith stated: "Many of them had homes to maintain, children to bring up and rates and taxes to pay, yet they were denied the right to vote at Parliamentary elections. It did not matter how good a woman might be, a model citizen, model housekeeper, and model mother - in fact, a citizen of which any town might be proud - she could not have a Parliamentary vote." One such woman and. indeed


the organiser of this meeting, was radical suffragist, Selina Cooper, who with the full support of husband Robert and daughter Maty devoted much of her life to ensuring that the Clithefoe branch of ' the National Union of Suffrage Societies was instrumental in getting women of the vote.


. A woman like Selina had little time for the upper and middle-class militants like the Pankhursts, because her background was the Lancashire cotton unions, with membership of 96,000 women and only 69,000 men so that the significant majority were disenfranchised. Only too aware of the


extreme hardship of working class life for women, she fought for their right to increased wage levels, improved working conditions, better education and believed the vote to be an ^ential step towards . achieving them "Every woman in England


is longing for her political freedom in order to make the lot of the worker pleasanter and'to bring about reforms which are wanted. We do not want it as a mere plaything!," she said. When a deputation of 16


cotton workers took a petition to Westminster in 190'i - disparagingly headlined by the Advertiser and Times as "Lancashire lasses want the franchise'! - Selina was among them. When the Pageant of


Women's Trades and professions marched on


London in 1909, Selina was one of the leaders. When the Clitheroe Women's


Suffrage Society joined the Coronation Procession in 1911, the whole Cooper family led the journey again to London. And in 1913 when an


80,000 signature petition was presented to Parliament, Selina joined the massive pilgrimage for the final stages. At national level, it was


middle class women who tended to run most of the 300 branches of the movement because they had the spare - time, but it is a tribute to the energy, dedication and public speaking skills of women like Selina Cooper that their voices could still carry considerable weight Finally, the NUWSS provided


pradical help to allow her to continue working for them - a small salary and a housekeeper to look after her daughter when she was"flying around the country" - but it was no less than her ceaseless efforts for women's suffrage deserved. "Woman's Weekl/'is


currently celebrating its 100th birthday - 1 do hope that dedicated, tireless pioneers like Clitheroe's Selina Cooper are qiven a mention! ..


STANDING


TOGETHER: Clitheroe Women's Suffrage Society


members at Nelson


station, July 1911. (s)


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