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WORK to u n co v e r th e foundations of the original St James’ Church in Gisbum Forest has begun again following a winter break - and the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural


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Beauty (AONB) is encouraging volunteers to go along and join in


the excavation. The village of Stocks-in-


Bowland was flooded early in the 20th century following the construction of Stocks Reservoir, and many families had to move


away from the area. Memories of the community


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and when work on the popular School Lane car park offered the chance to excavate the original village church, local people got


stuckin.Funded by United Utilities, with a contribution from the AONB, work is being overseen by professionals from'Oxford Archaeology North, with valuable input from Slaidburn Archive. This-second phase will see


a group of keen volunteers surveying, digging, trowelling and


bntshing their way through several weekends to reveal the footprint of St James’ Church, which was originally built in the 1850s before being demolished and relocated in its present position at Dalehead. Excavatron work will carry on


into mid-May, by which time it is hoped that the final part of the church - the chancel - will have been uncovered. Anyone interested in taking


part in the dig can contact Sandra Silk at the AONB office on 01200 448000, or e-mai:l sandra.silk® lancashire.gov.uk for further information.


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A NEW and very successful venture for Bolland Gardening Club was to invite a celebrity sp e ak e r , in th e form of TV personality Christine


Walkden. Tickets were made available for


non-members and the event, at Bolton-by-Bowland Village Hall,


was a sell-out. In his introduction, club


chairman Henry Rowntree told those present something of Christine’s background. Originally from Rishton, she


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has been a horticulturist since the age of 10 when she obtained an allotment and started growing vegetables and flowers, which she sold to her schoolteachers and local residents. On leaving school her first


job was with Clitheroe parks department, before going to Lancashire College of Agriculture. A major change followed when she decided to go freelance, working as a plantswoman and horticulturist, later lecturing nationally and internationally. She is a past presenter on


SELL-OUT: Celebrity guest speaker Christine Walkden (third from left) with Bolland Gardening Club committee members (from the left) Lynda Holt, Siisan Farmer, Margaret Middleton, Henry Rowntree and Jim Tippetts.


BBC’s Gardeners World and presenter of two of her own BBC2 series Christine’s Garden. She also broadcasts on local


and national radio, is a past winner of the Garden Writers’ Guild Radio Broadcasting Award and a BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time panellist. The topic of C h r is t in e ’s


illustrated talk was Herbaceous Borders and their Plants. She explained that the first


herbaceous borders were always mirrored, backed by a wall or


gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson and, more recently, the Bloom family, shrubs and roses have been Included and some of these borders are now actually island beds. Christine then went on to


hedge and contained nothing but herbaceous plants. Under th e influence of


her talk, before a vote of thanks was given by former chairman Mrs M a rg a re t Middleton, followed by a raffle for a copy of Ch r is tin e’s la tes t book “N o -n o n s en se V eg e tab le Gardening”, which was generously donated by her. It was won by Mrs Betty Barker,


explain the necessity of taking into account shape, form and colour in order to produce a herbaceous border with a long period of interest, giving advice on the sorts of plants to include. ' This led to a very lively question and answer session at the end of


of Clitheroe. R a th e r th a n the usual


refreshments at the end of the meeting, those attending were


, given a glass of wine, or soft drink, when they arrived. The next meeting will be on


May 9th, when Judy Popley will give a talk entitled “A Prospect of Arley”.


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TONGUE IN CHEEK: The procession banner of the “Low Moor bacon eat­ ers”.


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AUGUST will sec the revival of a long- held Clitheroe tradition, when the town stages its first Torchlight procession for a decade. A packed weekend of activities is planned, and in the months leading up to it we are looking back at the long history of the Chtheroe Torchlight. Here is the latest article from community heritaRe manager SUE HOLDEN:


■ nation of King Edward VII in 1902. The mock corporations were all represented - Worston, Cheshire and Wilkin. The lat­


features of the torchlight pro­ cessions is that reading them can give an in­


- rumour has it that she is com­ ing again this year! One of the


light Procession for each and every one. 'rae first one of these was for the Coro-


THE 20th century saw the Corona­ tion festivities of four monarchs in England and Clitheroe held a Torch-


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that: “We’ve got a new bridge with a me­ morial stone, but the date to put on it is not yet known. This will be settled by the Corporation, when the work is finished - maybe next Coronation.”


over the Dutch in the Boer War in South Africa. A whisper from V/ilkin laments the fact


early as 1883 a new bridge for Wilkin had been proposed, but the council was argu­ ing over who should pay for it. Although the stone is inscribed 1901, it must have


This was a reference to the fact that as


sight of what was happening in the Eng­ land of the time. Boers and Britons are fraternising in the “Cheshire” entiy, a ref­ erence to the then recent British victory


ALL ABOARD: The 1953 Torchlight featuring Britannia herself.


been later than 1902 when the bridge was finally completed.


■ Pig appears - he is just “a pig on wheels” at this time.


VI and Queen Elizabeth was held in May of that year. The usual suspects appear; the morris dancers, whose verse begins “Twinckley, Twinckley, little feet”, a play on the name of the gentleman who had begun and trained the dancers for many years, Mr Bernard Winckley. Among the many references to local events within the rhymes is a plaintive one


tion of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953 is from the Borough of Clitheroe and the


the end of the procession closes the pro­ gramme. Finally the programme for the Corona­


from Newton and Slaidbum (or Light and Shade), a reference to the fact that New­ ton had been connected to the National Grid inT936, but Slaidburn still relied on oil lamps until 1942. A long list of the names of all the fireworks in the display at


Eve cigars - “when you’ve had ‘em, you heave!” The 1937 Coronation of King George


from Cheshire this year and has Adam and Eve in Wilkin Gardens, where the fa­ mous tobacco is grown for the Adam and


The Borough of Wilkin had separated


King George V. The Royal Borough of Parson Lane had appeared, and it had its own ceremonial arch to mark the terri­ tory. The first mention of the Low Moor


fact that every household in Low Moor was reputed to keep a pig in a sty at the bottom of the garden. The next Coronation was in 1911 for


of the “Low Moor bacon eaters”, but no mention yet of the pig. However, the ban-' ner has appeared, and we know that this was painted by a well known Low Moor resident, Elijah Bolton. Elijah was an ac­ complished artist and apparently took photographs of his subjects in summer, so that he could paint them in the winter when the weather was too bad to paint outdoors. The reference to bacon stems from the


This programme has the first mention float from local business Thornbers,


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