+ Clitheroe Advertiser &Times,Thursday, April 26,2012


A CLITHEROE player won the £1,000 first prize in last Friday’s weekly draw for the East Lancashire Hospice Lottery.


Clitheroe winner scoops £1,000 prize It was won by Mrs Miles,


with the £100 third prize going to Mrs Strickland, of Blackburn. The rollover second prize was not won.


and rises by £250 to £1,500 for the next draw. A further 15 players each won £10. To join the lottery, just call 01254 733416.


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pianos” in established venues, • Anthony will also perform at remote. locations with his own piano on a pop-up stage on the back of a van - the BeethoVAN; - .The repertoire for the tour has been chosen to convey a sense of.journey, energy, movement,- dynamism. and-;excitementv reflecting Anthony’s challenge. . • ■ - The concerts will include works


1,200 miles in 21 days - from Laird’s End to John O’Groats - with piano “in tow”, giving recitals across Britain to raise funds for UK music and children’s charities , Dubbed the Olympianist, he will cover up to 100 iniles a day, giving 27 concerts en route, including a performance hosted by Clitheroe Concerts Society, taking place at The Grand on May 18th. ■


As welL as playing :“resident 0 ^


: Brahms. A new commission by v Stephen Goss, aptly named Piano Cycle, will be premiered at the ■ Swaledale Festival on May 19th. Anthony will raise money for


by Beethoven, Janacek, Schubert,. Chopin, Rachmaninov and


charities including the Mayor of London’s Fund For Musicians,


“Olympianist” .^th o n y Hewitt will be pressing on both kinds during a unique two-wheeled tour of Britain, which includes an eagerly-awaited stop in Clitheroe. Next rhonth, Anthony will cycle


WHAT does a bicycle have in common with a grand piano? Pedals is the answer, arid


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their creative energies to work ™P°*7ant purpose.


weekly at Whalley Library, made a display of pink objects to raise awareness of breast cancer in older women.


co-ordinator at Age UK Lancashire, said: “We were mllong to the group about the


Kath Mitchell, services WELL-LOVED: Mabel Cunllffe, who d ie d _______ PEDAL PUSHER: The Olympianist, Anthony Hewitt


Musequality, CLIC Sargent; Get Kids Going! and Classic FM Foundation. He said: “I am excited about this


Herculean task. It embodies the spirit of the ancient games, which incorporated musical competitions into sporting events for citizens.”


on May 18th cost £10 and can be obtained from The Grand (tel. 01200 421599), or from Clitheroe Concerts Society secretary Ken Geddes (tel. 01200 4123474 or e-mail ken.geddes@lineone.net) or the Grand. ■


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'.weekend’s planting- and sowing' ,riay could go ahead as planned. ’ ■ “We are extremely grateful to the Longridge Fire and Rescue,” said Bloom chairman Barry


' However, a cdl to.Lancashire ■Fire arid Rescue Service received a quick response. Firefighters from Longridge coupled their hoses up to the nearest fire hydrant, on Longridge Road, and filled the pond in 10 minutes. ■ Their effprts meant the next


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filled with water, so the liner could be trimmed to size,' planting and sowing could not go ahead.


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FIRE CREWS TO THE R ESCUE : Lancashire Fire Brigade use a training night to come to the rescue of Chipping in Bloom by filling their wildflower meadow pond, (s) Inset, from left, Irena Preston, Peter Coles,' Regina Coles and Sue Harrison check out the seedlings to be planted, (s)


Durham.' “If they had not come to our aid, the project could have been put back for weeks, which would have affected our efforts to go for gold in Britain in Bloom. We can’t thank them enough.”


. The result was that the dozens of people who turned up on the


next weekend were able to plant lots of seedUngs and sow hundreds of seeds, which had been donated by G Plants of Preston.


open day at St Mary’s Community Hall for people to see how the project was progresring and learn about the best butterfly and


Chipping in Bloom also held an


Harrison and Liz Whatham, were on hand to give advice and guidance, and a film. Saving the Bumblebee, was shown.


bumblebee-friendly plants to plant in their own gardens. The group’s own experts. Sue


Chipping iii' Bloom -when they undertook the most recent phase of their Wildflower and Wildlife


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A WELL-RESPECTED fo rme r matron of the


Mabel Cunliffe, formerly of


Park Avenue, Clitheroe. Bom in Helmsley in North


a semce at Rievauk Abbey, a good walk for Mabel and her


of cream when she passed through the dairy. Her next post was with the


London, taking her with them. But wherever Mabel moved to for the rest of her life, she


family of a Methodist minister who eventually moved to


London she met a trainee nurse who suggested Mabel should apply too. She trained at St Andrew’s Hospital in East London, and


always found a. church and settled in. Tlrcough the church in


companion for a farmer’s wife and she enjoyed the perks that CMe with it, including a scoop


the uniform or the train fares, so she stayed on locally until the age of 14, when she could enter domestic service. Her first placement was as a


into the local grammar school, u * *ne family could not afford


mother there and back. She passed the test for entry


- the beginning of a lifetime’s churchgomg. Once a year, the parish held


Mabel attended Sunday School ^‘ .ner local parish church


r oricshire, on April 25th, 1910 Ernest and Alice Barker,’


gathered at Ribchester Parish Church last Friday (April 20th) I , funeral service for Mrs


m Clitheroe has died — at the grand old age of 101. Loved ones and friends


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Mabel dies at theaee of 101


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her training through nursing and midwifery.


got a job at a maternity home in Leigh, Lancashire.


husband, Oswald Cunliffe a policeman, and the couple married on July 27th, 1940 Their son, Colin, was bom a


yew later, but he saw h'ttle of his


Clitheroe, where she worked until retirement.


_ She j-oined Clitheroe Parish Church, and her other main actmties included membership of the Townswomen’.ss OniiH Guild where she became treasurer, Chtheroe Gardening Club and, later. The Pendle Club.


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^ lo c n e s te r and became involved with the church and village life, especially Ribchester Field Day.


she^celebrated her 100th birthday and was delighted to receive a card from Her Majesty, The Queen.


i_ Later she moved to Belmont n Longridge, where last year


social life and also kept fit by walking four miles from Chtheroe to Waddington and then to West Bradford. th en moved to


She enjoyed an active and


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to take up a post of Matron at Bright Street Day Nursery,


Cohn had joined the Army and Jater the lire sendee. Mabel moved to Clitheroe


and was posted to the Far East. In 1966, Oswald died, while


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which aims to raise awareness of breast cancer in older women and they were shocked to hear one in three women who get


Cancer campaign The group, which meets


.Qiiovd*ncashire’s Whalley Skilln rhev wanted tn Hn Share and Craft Grorip put


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breast cancer are aged over 70. They wanted to do something


and of the continued need for to check their breasts.


°''er 70. of this,


would be eye-catching to other hbraiy users, so got crafting.”


the Whalley Skill Share and J-ratt Group, or on Age UK


^ncashire’s work in the Ribble Valley, call 0300 303,1234 or


I'xli* Clitheroe office at 1 Moor Lane.


campaign, go to www.nhs.uk} breastcancer70.


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