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Bird song and vistas of Bow- land are in a free exhibition for the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natu ral Beauty’s 50 years, at the Museum of Lancashire, Pres ton, until July 26 th. Designed with families in mind, activities include a camouflaged bird hide with binoculars, a wildlife spot ter game and the chance to build a mini “dry stone" wall. There is photo wall, a
memory tree where visitors can leave stories and com ments, equipment from the museum’s farming collec tion, and artist Olivia Keith’s “Bowland year” in sketches. The exhibition also features pictures and excerpts from the Bowland Scrapbook - a specially commissioned an niversary publication cap turing rural life in Bowland over the past five decades. In a special Bank Holiday
Monday event, artist and maker Cath Ford encour aged visitors of all ages to make their own explorers’
journal in a free, family- friendly, drop-in workshop, fromipmto4pm. Museum manager Charlotte Steels said: “We hope the exhibitionwill encourage visitors to explore the treas ures of the museum and the beautiful Forest of Bowland itself.”
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The Walker family, from Brennand Farm, in Dun- sop Bridge, continued their domination of the store cattle show arena at Skipton Auc tion Mart when presenting yet another champion. JeffWalker ledoutthetitle
winner at the annual Spring store cattle with show po tential fixture, the first prize British Blue heifer, a pure home-bred by the Walkers’ main stock bull Cromwell
Prime cattle sale prices
Take a walk on the wild side, flower Brought to you by + A The Clitheroe H P dvertiser and 1imes
Horticulturalist Sue Jeffries is inviting people find out more about the wildflowers in hedgerows, woodland and meadows on a stroll around Wh alley. Her “Guided Wildflower Walk”, cost £10, starts at the car park at Whalley Old Grammar School Commu nity Centre, Station Road, at 10am this Saturday (May 30th), returning by i2-3opm.
Sue runs gardening courses and workshops for adults, children and those with learning disabilities across Lancashire. She will demon strate some basic plant iden tification techniques and
talkabout the properties of the different plants you
see, together with any folk- lore and myths about them. There will be handouts to take home.
The route of the walk in cludes some stiles, steepish gradients and boggy areas, so walkers are advised to suitable walking shoes or boots. It will take place re gardless of the weather, so wet weather gear may be neededontheday. Places are limited, so book ing is essential, online at
www.3jgardenadvice.c0.uk or call 07443 459818.
George Cropper Butchers, Accrington, purchased the champion prime cattle at Gisburn Auction Marts May show and sale on May 16th. The champion shown
byHayleyBaines,Trawden, weighed 456kgs, sold for 375op/kg or £1,710. The reserve champi
on, another British Blue heifer shown by Richard Critchley, Hutton, weighed S56kgs and sold for 3i2p/kg or £1.735 to Townson and Son Quality Butchers, Bri-. erfield. Averages: Premium
Heifers 268p/kgs; Premi um Bulls 2o6p/kgs. Auctioneers: Richard
Turner and Son. .
Fendt. The same sire was al so responsible for the reserve champion on Craven Champi ons Day at Skipton in Febru ary, when the Walkers won all but one of the main champi onship classes, including su preme honours. Their latest victor also se
cured top price in show when selling for £1,580 to David Hall, of Rillington, Malton. Showjudge Paul Baines, of Trawden, remained in the
same class for his reserve champion, the second prize British Blue-cross heifer from father and son Keith and Si mon Wilkinson,ofNorthdene Farm, Out Rawcliffe, Preston, whowereshowingheifersfor' the first time ever at Skipton. The runner-up, by one of
the Wilkinson family’s stock bulls, out of a Limousin- cross-Blue cow, was knocked down for £1,390, second top price, to regular Kirklees
buyer Stephen Eastwood, of Emley.
The show, sponsored by
Armstrong Watson Account ants and Financial Advisers, formed part of Sklpton’s fort nightly cattle sale, which at tracted an entry of 476 head. Trade was said to be every bit as good as the previous sale, with grazing cattle finding a keen enquiry and yearling bullocks once again in very strong demand.
'Outstanding trade’ at Gisburn anniversary
‘ Despite a recent drop in new and old season lamb prices, there was a strong demand for sheep with lambs at foot at Gisburn Auction Mart’s an-, niversary show and sale on May 2nd. The sale leader - a Beltex
cross shearling ewe with sin gle lamb at foot, from Antho ny Thompson,Foulridge-was knocked down after a flurry of bids at £410 to pre-sale judges Mark Harryman and Sarah Warriner, Pickering, North Yorkshire. A packed ringside saw Mr
Thompson achieve an out standing trade for his annual consignment of 80 top qual ity sheep, with buyers from . Yorkshire, Cheshire and Lan cashire taking them home. Continental hoggs with
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Richard Fitton with the champion and reserve champion stirks which soldfor£1,130and£1,040to Brook Bull Hire.
Richard’s champ
and reserve double Just over 80 stirks were for ward at Gisburn Auction Mart’s May show and sale of stirk on May 14th, ranging from suckler bred young stores to dairy black and whites. Topping the sale was Ri
chard Fitton, Worsley, with his first prize Limousin heif er, just eight months old, which sold at £1,130 to Brook
-Bull Hire, Pilling. The same purchaser
went on to pick up the re serve champion, again from
Mr Fitton, this time a Lim ousin bull, eight months old, which sold for £1,040. Chris Dean, Clapham,
topped the black and white sectionwithsteerwhichsold at £572 and £570. Auctioneer Rachel Cap- .
stick, ofRichard Turner and Son, said:
“With the grass now
growing, trade was strong throughout (he sale with the majority of cattle being snapped up by Yorkshire and North East buyers.”
John tops market at sheep sale
John Stapleton, Skipton, topped the market with his champion pen ofTexel hoggs sucklingsingleBeltexlambs, at Gisburn Auction Marts breeding and store sale on May 16th, selling to 95-year- old Albert Pye, Goosnargh, for £240 a family. Darrell Shimwell, Mat-
lock, judged the pre-sale show of hoggs with lambs and awarded first prize ro sette in the continental class to John Stapleton, who later inthedaywentontowinthe overall championship. Mr Shimwell awarded
the first prize rosette in Mule hoggs with lambs at
Anthony Thompsonwith his partnerEmmaDalbyanddaughterlsabelle with his prize winning shearlings ewes with lambs, alongside pre-sale
showjudgesSarahWarrinerandMarkHarryman(left).
lambs at foot attracted fantas tic prices, with regular vendor John Stapleton, Skipton, sell ing his first prize pen of con tinental hoggs with lambs at foot which went on the win the reserve championship award in the pre-sale show at £272 to David Jackson, Northwich,
Cheshire. Gisburn Auction Mart’s next sale of sheep and lambs will be on Saturday 16 May, with the renowned hoggs with lambs at foot extravagan za show and empty gimmer hogg show and sale. Auctioneers: Richard
Turner and Son
foot to father and son team Raymond and Robert John son, Harrogate, which later sold for £198 T. and J. Moran, Nappa. . ot far behind was David
Capstick, Hellifield, with his second prize pen of flashy headed hoggs with smart Texel lambs the first ' prize, which sold at £180 to Mr Shimwell Auctioneer Rachel Cap-
stick, ofRichard Turner and Son, said: “Despite very little improvement in the prime lamb prices and a change in the weather, affecting grass growth, buyers were only slightly more cautious.”
Strong trade for pigs ®
Gisburn Auction Marts May show of breeding and store
pigs resulted in triumph for Andrew Leach, Saltburn by Sea, Cleveland. His pen ofseven Pietrain
cross gilts won the best pen of store pigs class and sold .
for £70 ahead to Cock of the North Poultry Ltd, Mexbor- ough.
Trade for prime pigs was
strong with David Pawson, Blackburn, achieving £122 for his Pietrain gilts, sold to G. Dawson, Otley.
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