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HERE’S another fascinating' old photo 'sent in by former Ribblc Valley resident Ruth Coliinson, who now lives in West Yorkshire.


1 It shows members of the “Girls’ Friend­ ly Society” outside Bolton-by-Bowland


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yillage school around 1920. Riith, who formerly lived at Bellman Farm, Clithe­ roe, and Pepper Hill, at Wiswell, writes: l“My Auntie Bessie Wolfenden is on the back row.at the far right.”._____________


_ing a few readers may recognise their par-. _ about what or who the photo, shows.___


photo, showing Morris Dancers in Clithe- roc around 1925. In response to that, read­ er Brian Stott, writes; “My grandmother is Eva Parkinson pictured seventh from the right of the Gisburn Morris Dancers pic­ ture. By a bizarre coincidence 1 brought' the same photograph to the Clitheroe of­ fice for the old photograph slot probably the week after Ruth sent hers.' I was hop-


Ruth also sent in last week’s nostalgia


ent of grandparent in’the picture and put names to faces. It would be good to have a record of who the dancers were.” •


graphs suitable for this slot (as little as 20 years old) please e-mail them to duncan. smith@eastlancsncws.co.uk or send them to The Clithcroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2EW. Re­ member to include any details you have


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use the toilet. While little Jimmy is having his comfort break the shopkeeper worries about the rest of the brood who are wiping sticky fingers over the merchandise. A few doors away there are plenty of


No, it’s just another family wanting to . . ■ . ■


ICTURE the scene, it is a wet Tuesday; a shopkeeper looks hopeful when the door opens wondering if this customer is going


AiSiSeelt by Kevin Wallace


Branch Secretary, Kibble Valley UKIP


windows stating that public toilet facilities are no longer available?


customers in a hurry to be served — but a lady butts in to tell the now humiliated as­ sistant that she has just used the loo and it is in a filthy state. This is a food shop where office workers with limited time buy their lunch. Yesterday, a shopkeeper wondered


whether the dubious looking men who tramped through into the rear of the premises and mistakenly thought the toilet was upstairs might just be casing the joint. She is already tired of explaining that the toilet is unsuitable for disabled people. How long before a sign appears in the


your uncle - or in this case your wise coun­ cillor Robert Thompson - our town will be a place tourists want to avoid, not even worth a toilet stop. We promote tourism but will have removed the most essential requirement visitor’s need. In the para­ noid world we live in today nobody can enter a school unless vetted by the police, even when the full complement of staff are present. Yet potentially, temporarily unaccompanied children could be found in the lavatories of public houses and that will be okay. No disrespect to the drinkers of our area, but the situation is ludicrous.


The scheme will fail and as sure as Bob s _ ^ 100 years ago


FASHION notes this week reported: “Never has the girl skater been provided with prettier or more suitable garments, which appeared as if by magic simultane­ ously with the recent spell of frost and snow. The smartest and cosiest suit that , could be imagined for the purpose is the knitted coat and skirt, with its becoming little cap to match - the coat sometimes reaching the hem of the skirt, in which case a tweed skirt is worn with it, or it comes only to the knees.


• The health topic this week was vari­


cose veiiis: “Do not rush madly at the knife and expect it to do what is impos­ sible. First try and elastic stocking, leave off your tight garters and rest on your back whenever possible.” ^


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NEW champions of Clitheoe and District Snooker League, Pendleton, received the championship trophy from league presi­ dent Mr J. Y. Lofthouse. The team were G. Lambert, R. Thistlethwaite, H. Nutter, "W. Whitwell, A. Owen, K. Eccles and L.


Whittaker. • After taking a course in neuro-sur­


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gery in Edinburgh, 24-year-old nurse Rosemary Dugdale, of Waddington, sailed from Southampton for Southern Rhodesia to continue her nursing career. ■ • Competing in their first champion­ ship show Mr and Mrs Raymond Morris, of Wilson Street, Clitheroe, gained sec­ ond, third and very highly commended at Crufts with Tcrdale Airs and Craces, a 14- month-old bitch.


toilets will be open but generally the pub­ lic are lazy and will avoid walking across town if they can use a shops facilities. How will visitors know of the arrange­


Of course much of the time the main


ment for toilets - will there be notices on lampposts? How much time will store


staff have to spend checking and cleaning toilets? Fine in a supermarket perh^s but •


not in shops without adequate staff. Will the insurance cover need to be revised? . If anyone feels embarrassed entering a


shop just to use the loo then the more spa­ cious less conspicuous surroundings of the Ribble Valley Council offices might be a better choice. I trust it is included in the


scheme?


toilets but how, like with the housing situ­ ation, the big picture councillors look at always seems at odds to the one viewed by the majority of citizens. What a shame they didn’t announce


The issue here is not really to do with . . .


^ you thought David Dimbleby and his Question Time audience was a daunting prospect, the session which Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans faced at Oakhill College was equally challenging. Following a communication with David


8 English, expressed pride in the pupils’ conduct and their ability to represent the views of young people with such clarity and


the session was conducted in a professional and congenial manner and Mr Evans was impressed with the earnest approach of the pupils to matters of such national concern. Mrs Thornton-Gray, who teaches Year


there would be less eating and drinking at our expense or a reduction in those silly nonsense five-a-day, equality, save planet Earth jobs.'


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him for a question and answer session and raised various issues including rising petrol prices, increasing youth unemployment, racism in football, the Scottish bid for inde­ pendence and their concern over litter and pollution issues. Like its bigger brother Question Time,


Cameron’s office, the Whalley-based col­ lege and its inquisitive Year 8 English group hosted a working lunch with Mr Evans. The pupils were delighted to welcome


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wsit Mr Evans in The Houses of Parliament Dexter Douglas, Fareeah Iqbal and Thomas Hughes with Ribble Valley MP later in the year.


maturity. It is hoped they might be able to ANY QUESTIONS: Oakhill College pupils Emily Pulleyn, James Gardner, Nigel Evans.


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25 years ago


CLITHEROE mimicry ace Simon En- twistle gave a sample of his strange gift to more than a million viewers on day­ time BBC 1. For Simon, the town’s most famous council park attendant, was a guest on the Tom O’Connor Show and gave demonstrations of several noise effects including sketches featuring a German U-boat, a cricket match and the public address system at Preston railway station! Simon, of Waddington Road, described his 25th TV appearance as


“great fun”. • Houses new to the market this week


included “a delightful fully modernised cottage property, retaining much of its original charm and character” on Hall Street, for sale at £17,950.


at Clitheroe Golf Club on Friday Febru­ ary 24th. Coun. Hind added; “We welcome all


who wjsh to come and hear Edwina, a North West-born politician, writer, broad-


of the association, commented: “'We are delighted that following Strictly Come Dancing Tour, Edwina is coming to the • Ribble Valley to speak. We have resisted any egg dishes on the menu or asking her to dance!” The annual evenftakes place this year


ED'WINA Currie, former high profile MP, author and Strictly Come Danc­ ing contestant, is the guest speaker at the forthcoming Ribble Valley Conserva­ tive Association Dinner. Coun. Ken Hind, senior vice-chairman


SPECIAL GUEST: Edwina Currie


phy, Politics and Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford University, and gained an


caster, and outspoken character with strong views.” Bom in Liverpool, she studied Philoso­


available from the Ribble Valley Conserv­ ative office on 01200 425939.


Thought For The Week


husband bought jt for me for my birthday. He has his own agenda; Boota on Kindle are cheaper, and he’s hoping that over the next few months or so, the number of real books littering the vicarage will diminish. Ha! Ha!


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cover to the book. No colour to draw your attention to a new book or author, noth­ ing to spark the imagination. It’s also dif­ ficult to write notes on. This is a bad habit I have, underlining, highlighting, notes. I


What I miss on the Kindle is there is no


sands of books, at your fingertips wher­ ever you are! (at a price of course!). It fits neatly into the hand, is light to hold, and you can read umpteen books at once. I say I bought it. But truth be told, my


It’s a great piece of technology. Thou­


RECENTLY bought a Kindle, you know one of those electronic books.


■ call it personalisation. Others call it van­ dalism.


I'went to, who ran the Sunday School. She was rather prim. Wore black during Lent. A bit prissy. Well so I thought! Over a couple of years I came to dis­


cover a wicked sense of humour; prim? no that was me. You see she had been Matron of Guy’s Hospital in London! She knew more about human nature and bod­ ies than I’ll ever know.'


rather she was tallung about people. It’s something I learned early on in the min­ istry. You might "quickly sum someone up when you meet them, and mostly you’d be wrong. There was a little old lady in one parish


used to use frequently - “You can’t judge a book by its cover”. She wasn’t really talking about books,


It reminded me of a-saying my Mother


dearly, and was privileged to be with her when she died. Shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover.


Nothing shocked her. I came to love her Talk to us in branch


• Jesus was sharp on judging. He didn’t like it either. “Judge not that ye be not


people,- get to the heart of the matter, find out what made them tick. Disliked opinionated people who always had the answer.


judged”.' Scripture tells us he liked to get to know


judge! And certainly not by the cover. It masks a lot of things. People simply aren’t what they seem.


- Priest-inrcharge, 'Whalley Parish Church


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MA in economic history from the London School of Economics. She was first elected as a Conservative Par^ MP in 1983 and' was a Junior Health Minister for two years before resigning in 1988 over the contro­ versy over salmonella in eggs. By the time Edwina Currie lost her parliamentary seat in 1997 she had already begun a new ca­ reer as a novelist and broadcaster. Ms Currie has also appeared in a string


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