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VALLEY ENTERTAINMENT Clemmie’s ceilidh They’re growing old disgracefully!


The Godmothers of a little girl with a rare and undiag­ nosed genetic condition will hold a night o f traditional Irish ceilidh and fun to raise money to help support her. Clemmie Jarre tt-McHugh


(4) needs an overnight nurse to care for her, suction her as necessary and monitor her


oxygen levels. The ceilidh will be held at


the St Michael and St John’s Social Centre this Saturday, March 14th from 7 pm. Mu­ sic is by The Ship Band and a traditional caller will call the dances. Tickets (£15) include a pie and pea supper. Call Amanda on 07931819591.


STAGE TWO DOWNHAM presents


Neil Simon's Comedy


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March 2015 7:30 pm


£ £ Downham Village Hall I ... Ticket Hotline 07833 203495


Tickets available from Tourist Information 01200 425566 or book a meal deal at the Assheton Arms. Meal plus ticket £20


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Review: “Forever Young” at the Coliseum Theatre, Old­ ham, until March 21st. Box office: 0161624 2829. Web: www.coliseum.org.uk


Forever Young at the Coliseum theatre in Oldham is not at all what I expected. I think, because the pre-


performance publicity de­ scribed it as funny look at a group of retired panto actors in a home,-I expected some­ thing similar to “Quartet”. This is nothing like that, ex­ cept that it does look wryly at the plight of older people. Given that we have an in­


creasingly aging population, it has relevance. Forever Young


is an adaptation by Giles Croft and Stefan Bednarczyk of a musical drama by Swiss- German writer Eric Gedeon, although it has been convinc­ ingly translated and trans­ posed in a British setting. There is no plot to speak of.


Set in 2050, the action follows an evening in an old peoples’ home run by the rather ruth­ less Sister George (Georgina Whitel.We watch six charac­ ters totter onto the stage one by one. Stefan Bednarczyk falls from his zimmer frame onto the piano stool. He is


joined by Ms Darcy (Claire Darcy), Mr Elkington (John Elkington), Mr Frater (Tim Frater), Ms Little (Rebecca


CLITHER0E CONCERTS SOCIETY presenis


ALEXANDRA DARIESCU (piano)


at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School 6th Form Centre, York St, Clitheroe


Wednesday 18th March 2015 7.30 pm Admission-£14


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Get the old grey cells


puzzles a try... see . page 58


One ofthecomedicscenes from ’ForeverYoung’.


Little) and Mr Superville (Dale Superville). What follows is, in essence,


aseriesofcomicsketches and some wonderful musical ren­ ditions by this very talented cast. Stefan Bednarczykis the


Burnley Mechanics THE OUT BARN : ‘3‘JCH80nCK8iSRilU‘ VtS


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WEDDING OPEN DAY - SUNDAY 29™ MARCH 2015,12 - 4PM


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Clough Bottom, Bashall Eaves, Nr Clitheroe. BB7 3JH Tickets: £18.50 Sat 18th April


G4 - 10TII Anniversary Tour: The band perform a


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selection of songs performed on th e ir .


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Rhapsody, Nessun • i . '. Dorma, Circle of Ufe and f! more. Tickets: £ 2 5 .0 0 /. jVIP tickets £75.00


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Joe McEldcrry. The Evolution Tour with lull live : . band; Joe returns'with a brand new show foliowing the sell-out


success of his 2014 nationwide tour. .


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Five Faces T our With original front man PaulL Jones, the Manfreds will. | perform many of their hits,


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Tickets: £19.00 Fri 27th March


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Wed 25th .March Emily Barker BAFTA Award Winning w riter


and Gill Sandcll Alongside some of the old favourite’s, Emily will


•showcasesomenevy songs for the first time, ,.


/accompanied by Gill Sandell. Tickets: £ 1 2 .0 0 /£ 10 .0 0 '


Mon 13th April


Lee Nelson Lee Nelson is back with his hilarious new show,; see him live on his highly


anticipated nationwide tout Tickets: £20.00


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Musical Director and accom­ panies the singers.


I took my daughter (the one


who said “if it’s Hamlet l’mnot going”). Shelookedatitfroma


different viewpoint: “It’svery funny but a bit weird”. It is extremely funny and


we loved the clever use of con­ temporary songs performed


by such accomplished actors, who portray all the physical frailties of old age with such


skillandhumour.Youwillrec- ognise many of the hit tunes, but 1 must give credit to Dale Superville for Otis Redding's


Respect” and the cast for “I’m a Barbie doll".


. Bothwillgiveyouhysterics,


as will the superbly choreo­ graphed exchange between Mr Frater and Mr Elkington which is a terrific pasticheof circusclowns/LaurelandHar- dy. Ultimately the message is positive and the endingisup- lifting. This production willmake


you laugh, but also give you moments of pathos. Thereare someraunchyscenesandlan- guage, but all appropriatelyin context. TheaudiencelovediL PippaMunroHebden


VALLEY BOOK REVIEW


Salacious scandal and sabres drawn ! John’s new book tells of a wife abducted, poll rioters put to the sword, and all in sleepy Clitheroe


by Eric Beardsworth eric.beardsworth@jpress.co.uk Twitter: ©clithadvertiser


As the General Election approaches and politicians square up for the fight, a new book from a Clitheroe author tells how19th century elec­ tions were rife with corruption and


intimidation. In one incident, soldiers drew their sabres and attacked a rioting Clit­ heroe crowd in a disturbing echo of Manchester’s Peterloo Massacre. Historical author and former RAF


education officer Mr John Theak- stone, of Croasdale Drive, Clitheroe, relates the story of election mayhem, along with a family-connected tale of an abduction and a house siege, in his new book “A Wife’s Abduction and Electoral Malpractice at Clitheroe.” The abduction happened in


March 1891 when a carriage pulled up outside St Mary Magdalen’s Par­ ish Church, Clitheroe, and well-off Mrs Emily Jackson was grabbed and' pulled inside by her own husband, Edmund Haughton Jackson.


y . t t ! The carriage sped off to Jackson’s


house in Blackburn and he refused to let her leave. As family members, lawyers and police descended on the house, the door stayed locked and crowds of locals gathered. It was the culmination of a dispute over Jackson’s failed business ven­


tures in New Zealand and Mrs Jack­ son’s refusal to give him money from her considerable inherited fortune. She had been living apart from him at her home in Shawbridge Street. A tangled legal battle ensued be­


fore Mrs Jackson was freed and able to return home more than two weeks later, only to bejeeredbycrowdswho agreed with her husband’s demands for “conjugal rights”. Many years before the dramatic


abduction, Mrs Jackson’s father, the lawyer Henry Hall, had been a promi­ nent figure in the hurly-burly of Clit- heroe’s politics. Hewasonce arrested by police and placed in the lock-up on the orders of the Mayor for refusing to promise to be quiet during a town council meeting. Hall was involved in the 1852'


election, which was declared void following allegations of bribery and intimidation to get people to vote for parliamentary candidate John As- pinall. He also had a long-running dis­


pute with Aspinall overnon-payment of fees for acting as his election agent. In an earlier election, 1832, can-


Pictu red to th eleft is the front cover of ‘A Wife's Abductionand Electoral Malpractice at Clitheroe', and above, taken froifl the book, a line drawing of Edmund Jackson and his unfortunate wife Emily.


didate John Irving faced hostility as a reputed slave-owner in the West In­ dies and called in troops to protect him and his supporters from angry crowds in Clitheroe. The troops wad­ ed in with sabres. The author comments: “The inci­


dent was claimed to be the most une- qualled in atrocity since the Peterloo Massacre”. • “A Wife’s Abduction and Elec­


toral Malpractice at Clitheroe”, by John Theakstone, is available at Clit­ heroe Bookshop, in Moor Lane.


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