Clapham & District Newsletter

Number 74, December, 2011 Parish Council News Welcome to the regular Parish Council column where changes made. All planning applications and listed we plan to report on our activities and keep you up building consents received by the Parish Council are to date with Parish Council matters. listed on the Agenda for the next Council meeting You might have noticed that one or two street and any comments or recommendations that we signs are looking a little steadier on their legs and make are minuted. Residents of the are other small repairs are quietly taking place and this always welcome at meetings to make any comments is down to the appointment of Richard Grayston as that they would like recorded about planning matters. part time Parish Caretaker. He is going to tackle small Parishioner participation is normally taken at the jobs across the civil parish. You can help by being beginning of each meeting, our eyes and letting the Clerk know of any repairs in We arranged a public meeting on 7th November public areas that you see needing attention. to hear from people if they would like to mark the At long last after a delayed start demolition work Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and to hear any is in evidence at the Mercedes garage. The Parish suggestions for the event. Sadly the turnout was Council lobbied District Council for many very low – just seven people – but a few ideas were months to issue an enforcement notice to get the site generated including a Children’s Sports Day, and tidied up and we were finally successful in getting an ecumenical church service and a Thanksgiving the section 215 notice issued in May 2011. We have Picnic on Sunday, 3rd June. We also had a few ideas been assured by an enforcement officer at Craven for more permanent commemoration. We are going District Council that the work to level the site will to hold another public meeting on 23rd January and be completed within a few weeks. hope that many more people will attend. We’ll be Residents who live in the Clapham Station area looking for other ideas and volunteers to take things will be aware that United Utilities plan to return to forward. the site in the New Year to complete the construction Many of you will be aware that in August Peter of the underground pumping chamber to pump waste Leng retired as our Parish Clerk and Nicola Saward to the waste water treatment works on the A65. The has now taken over as non-stipendiary Parish original designs for the pump and its housing required Clerk. complex redesign work. The Parish Council has The Parish Council meets monthly at Clapham worked closely with United Utilities to ensure that Village Hall at 7.30pm on the fourth Tuesday of the site area was cleared, secured and is monitored each month (apart from December which is the third regularly during the interruption to the project. Tuesday). Do come along to a meeting and meet In October we received the planning application your Councillors and see the lowest tier of local and drawings for the construction of a new classroom government in action! The Agenda is published and related facilities at Clapham Primary School. We the week prior to each meeting and posted on the considered the plans very carefully with regard to Clapham, Keasden and Newby notice boards. Matters their suitability for the proposed extension and also that you would like to draw to the Parish Council’s for their sympathy with the vernacular architecture attention can be raised with any of the Councillors within the Clapham Conservation Area and have whose contact details are on each of the notice boards, written back to Planning Services at North or email the Clerk at clapham.pc.clerk@btinternet. County Council fully supporting the application but com or telephone on 015242 51703. asking that some design matters within the proposed Next meeting: Tuesday 20 December development be reconsidered and appropriate Nicola Saward, Non-stipendiary Parish Clerk

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2 St. James’ Church Coffee Morning

St. James’ Church Christmas Coffee Morning held on the blustery morning of November 26th provided an opportunity for villagers, friends and visitors to avail themselves of the excellent products made by the many talented people of Clapham. High quality craft items, delicious cakes, jams, chutney, Clapham honey and photographs and cards to delight the eye were all on sale. A raffle and tombola had some wonderful surprises. The bacon butties, homemade cakes and drinks on sale in the supper room gave the chance of a get together with neighbours which is an important part of any event in Clapham. Many thanks to those who helped in any way and to those who supported the event. £697 was raised to help maintain our parish church, A future event – book the date now – Saturday, 23rd June, all day “Clapham revealed” Further details later – not to be missed!

3 Calendar 2012 Clapham Whist The Whist Group meet at Clapham Village Hall on Friday Nights to play whist, any new members are very welcome. Future Dates: December 9th, 16th and 28th January 6th, 13th and 20th All at 7.30 pm. Proceeds go to local charities. We have recently donated £150 to the Air Ambulance and £150 to the Clapham Cave Rescue.

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4 CHURCH NEWS Church Notices Christmas Services The Vicar writes . . . Sunday, 11th December Luke 1, v 66 ‘What then will this child be’ 7.00 pm Carols and Lessons at Newby These words were spoken immediately after the birth Sunday, 18th December of John the Baptist – what then will he become? I’m 11.00 am Christingle at Clapham sure all parents have similar feelings for the future of 6.45 pm Carols and Lessons at Keasden their own children – ‘what then will this child be’. Christmas Eve Have you ever noticed what we do when we hold 5.00 pm Crib Service a small child? We all do it! Christmas Day Our eyes. We look straight into the child’s face, and 11.00 am Family Communion silently speak the wonder, awe, love that can’t be 10.00 am Holy Communion at Keasden put into words. Our lips. We use our lips a lot when holding a baby. Sunday, New Years Day We purse them, make sounds that aren’t words, and 10.30 am at Austwick. we kiss the child from a distance. Carol Services Our arms. If ever arms expressed holding something Saturday, 3rd December precious, they do it when cradling a tiny baby. We Carols and Mulled Wine at Lawkland Hall gently sway from side to side, turn in half circles, 6.30 – 8.30 pm. lean forward and back. Sunday, 17th December Have you ever stopped to think that you were once Walk and Carols in Ingleborough Cave – meet held that way? Anyone who ever held you as a tiny at Clapham Church 10.45 am. child held you that way. Have you ever stopped to think that God holds Tuesday, 13th December you that way? Not just when you were a tiny child, at Newby 6.30 pm but now. Even if things aren’t going well – especially Wednesday, 14th December if things aren’t going well. at Clapham 6.30 pm What child is this? Emmanuel – God with us. Thursday, 15th December What child is this? It’s me. In God’s arms. at Keasden 6.30 pm A very happy and blessed Christmas to you all. Your friend and Vicar, Ian St. Matthews Church, Keasden Christmas Coffee Morning Vicar’s ‘Sea of Galilee’ Marathon on Saturday, 10th December On Thursday, 12th January Ian runs his latest from 10.30 to 12.30. Marathon in this unique and special place for all Christians: around (not across) the Sea of Galilee. Listen to carols being played on the organ This is the lowest Marathon in the world – 200 metres whilst you enjoy your coffee. below sea level. Sponsorship forms are at the back of Raffle • Hamper • Cake Stall Church if you would like to sponsor his efforts. Christmas Door Wreaths Demonstration & Workshop at Austwick Parish Hall on Monday, 12th December at 2.00pm. Don’t miss the chance to make your very own door wreath! Cost £7.50 (includes tea & biscuits and all materials) Please bring secateurs or scissors For booking a place or further details ring Melanie Greenhalgh 51313 before 11th December – limited places

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6 Welcome to Caleb . . . and Jessica

Jo and Sam are pleased to announce the arrival of Caleb Joseph on Friday, 4th November at Lancaster Royal Infirmary, weighing in at 7lb 1oz. Joanne, formally of Sawmill Cottage now lives in John and Katrina Greenbank of Wenning Bank are Lancaster. pleased to announce the arrival of Jessica Mavis a sister to Annabelle. She was born on Saturday, 15th October at Lancaster General Infirmary, she weighed in at 7lb 9oz.

. . . and Daisy Elizabeth Lisa and Don Smith of Eastview, Newby are pleased to announce the birth of baby Daisy Elizabeth on 3rd October, 2011 at Airedale general hospital. Our sincerest thanks go to everyone who has sent gifts and congratulations.

Clapham W I Beckside Yarns The members meet on the second Wednesday of the month in the Village Hall at & Needlecrafts 7.00pm. New members are A Gallery full of fabulous yarns by Norro, always welcome. The first Colinette, Debbie Bliss, Rowan, meeting in 2012 will be on Brigantia, Lang, Louisa Harding, February 15th when we will RYC, Gedifra and many more have a talk about The Quaker Tapestry. We have a wide Help and advice always on hand variety of topics through the Call 015242 51122 year. Further information from Eileen on 015242 51486. The Women’s Institute have again Beckside Gallery given a donation towards www.becksideyarns.com Church Avenue, Clapham the senior citizens Christmas [email protected] North Yorkshire LA2 8EA Dinner at Ingleborough Hall.

7 A promise of more . . . Mike Barron We’re saying it – not with flowers, but with the Kitchen and Cabinet Maker promise of more fruit . . . A warm ‘thank-you’ from Bespoke and hand-crafted furniture all of us in the Clapham Community Orchard group made to your specification. to all of you who have come to our Fruit-Share stall in the past months. You have been generous, not just Tel. 015242 62284 or 07799 067 315 with your surplus fruit and veg for us to hand out, e-mail: [email protected] but also with your interest in the whole Sustainability Old Schoolhouse, Robin Lane, Project, and with your donations to our Orchard Pot. High Bentham LA2 7AB With them we’ve so far bought two apple trees and some strawberry plants to jazz up next Summer’s Some chainsaw work also undertaken! eating. Saturday, 7th July, 2012 is when we plan to set up the stall again. We look forward, hopefully, to even more produce and more people to share it with. Even if our GDP can’t grow much at present, Clapham food richard Grayston sharing can! General Handyman – any small job (PS: We want you, rather than the birds, to have k Gardening the strawberries; if anyone has spare fine-mesh k Wood Cutting string netting, we’d love to have it! Contact Wendy k hedge Trimming Jennings: 51455). k Painting and Decorating While we’re on the subject of fruit . . . . –– Logs by the Load –– A word from Ken Pearce, (51816) who has 17 bullace saplings on offer. (For those, like me, who would Manor House Cottage, Newby Cote miss a bullace in an identity parade, they are a kind of Tel. 015242 51784 • Mobile: 07584 221259 plum: probably crossed with either damson or sloe.) Ken says they can be planted any time from now until March, preferably in rich, well-drained soil. They are Christmas is on its way! hardy and self-fertile; crop heavily every 4–5 years, Why not hold your Christmas celebration producing fruit that is sharp and good for cooking at your local, traditional, licenced and jam-making. The saplings currently range from Reading Room Café/Bar? 450mm to 1100mm and will grow to 3 or 4 metres We can offer you a home-cooked meal to start when mature.Any interest welcomed. your festivities in a log-fired warm atmosphere. Whether it be for a family or business group we  can cater for up to 25 people in both rooms. Our set menu: BIO DIESEL PROJECT Soup or Pâté We are pleased to announce that the Bio Diesel  Turkey or Beef Project is continuing to thrive. With the higher prices with potatoes and vegetables of fuel our revenue has increased through the sale of or . . . Salmon in Dill Sauce Bio Diesel, we thank all our members and participants with potatoes and vegetables in the project. Once again we are in a position to offer or . . . Chestnut and Parsnip Savoury financial support to local community groups and Crumble  courses considered by the group to be of value. Mince Pies and Coffee We welcome anyone involved in a local group  requiring funds to apply (up to a maximum of Children catered for £200.00) or if you are hoping to arrange an upcoming £15 per person event please contact either Jim Fox on 51063 or David We will get you into the spirit of Christmas Kingsley on 51240 or [email protected] at the Reading Room. for further details. Book now to avoid disappointment 015242 51837 evenings 015242 51144 daytime Awards will be decided by the committee at or email [email protected]. the next Bio Diesel Project meeting in January or possibly earlier if the event is likely to be before that We are open until 6.00 pm Christmas Eve time. Jim & David

8 Recovering well! Looking Well News – Bentham Vesta and Owen would like to thank their friends Thank you to all who attended the Lantern Workshops and neighbours for all their kindness and good and walked in the procession. Special thanks to wishes after their recent accident. They are gradually James and Thomas Lea, June Hewitt, Viv Peto, improving and getting around again. Tony Stephenson, Rose Hirons and Class 4 of High Bentham CP School for their hard work helping Audrey Dewhirst would also like to thank her to make the lantern procession happen and Iain friends and neighbours for their cards, flowers and Henshaw, Collette and Rod for lighting the large good wishes received during her recent illness. She lanterns. We would also like to take this opportunity hopes to be out and about again soon. to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We have had a busy year and our thanks go to everyone who has visited, joined in, helped and supported us – we hope you have enjoyed it as much CLAPHAM VILLAGE HALL as we have. See you in the New Year and, as always, new faces always welcome. We have special rates for charities and for Christmas and New Year Closure – Looking fundraisers at only £21 per session (5 hours) Well Studios will be closed from Wednesday, 21st for the whole hall, and December. The office will re-open on Tuesday, 3rd £40 for Private Functions, Parties etc. January, 2012 and regular activities and groups begin • • • • on Friday, 6th January. Julie Vass Please consider us when planning an event.  This vital village resource SHELTER of LANCASTER would be grateful ‘NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT’ again for gifts of warm winter clothing, bedding • • • • etc. and food of a non-perishable nature. Collection Contact KATHY HALL for bookings on 015242 51232 boxes are at the back of the church until Sunday, 18th December. Thank you. Elemental of Ingleton Your local Fair Trade shop Now stocking fabulous women’s, babies’ and children’s clothing! All Fair Trade and CLAPHAM SCHOOL PTA using organic cotton where possible. Christmas Fair at Clapham School We are renowned for our ever on Saturday, changing range of beautiful and 3rd December unusual Fair Trade and recycled from 10 till 12 noon gifts from around the world. Admission £1 for adults children free In addition we stock a wide range of natural skin and body care products, all parabens & SLES free, organic and including where possible mince pie and a drink. • Craft Stalls A very different shopping experience! • Tombola • Home Baking Find us at: 8 Main Street, Ingleton • Raffle Just off the A65 in the village centre • Holly Wreaths Open 10.00 – 5.00 six days a week – Closed Mondays • Games Tel: 015242 42626 [email protected] • Santa’s Grotto

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10 Going up . . . . From 1st January, 2012 fees for hiring the Village Hall will increase to: • £16 for supper room and regular bookings. • £25 for full hall – charities, fund-raisers etc. • £45 for full hall – large private parties. This is unavoidable due to increases in our costs, especially the fuel prices. . . . . and up Commencing in January the price of advertising in the Newsletter is going up to £3.50 per issue for a 1 small advert ( /8th of a page) or £18 for the year.  Theatre Dance Quiz A huge thankyou to everyone who supported the Helen Howard School of Theatre Dance quiz held at Ingleton Middle School on November 26th. Teams from Clapham boosted the ranks of quiz goers and the school hall was filled to capacity. Once again Clapham’s own quiz maestro, Stuart Marshall, devised an entertaining and intriguing quiz, and the evening raised over £700 for the dance school. The The old oak tree funds will be used to purchase CATS costumes for Following the detachment of a hollow limb from the the dance school’s appearance at the Royal Albert large oak tree at the corner of Church Bridge, opposite Hall next April where they will be performing The Beeches, it has become clear that the tree has “Jellicle Cats”. Over 100 children are involved and passed its fell-by-date. The tree’s life was extended rehearsing hard for the show. The children are very by works done about 30 years ago, including some lucky to have the chance to dance at the Royal Albert bracing – the remains of which can still be seen. Hall and are trained to a very high level of expertise After consultations with the National Park Tree by Helen Howard. Officer it has been agreed that, in the interest of Special thanks go to Clapham villagers who public safety, it will be reduced to a single stem about generously gave donations to support the event and 15 feet high, which will be left for colonisation by to all the staff at Ingleton Middle School for allowing birds and insects. us to use their school hall and classrooms! Thank you A young oak will be planted to replace it. The to everyone. work will be commenced as soon as practicable.  Fundraising Knitters Over the past 12 months the Clapham Knit & Knatter Group have raised £2190, which has all been donated to Derian House Children’s Hospice. They would like to thank the local businesses that have displayed and sold there various knitted items.  Coffee Morning The Macmillan coffee morning was a great success with lovely homemade produce and many gifts donated for the raffle. Our thanks to all those who contributed helped and supported this very worthy cause. The final sum raised was £433.00. These logs indicate the diseased state of the tree Jackie, Liz, David & helpers

11 Village people . . .

If you have seen this headline and thought you would children. His father was a PT instructor in the Fleet read the article to find out about some unknown Air Arm and his mum worked in a factory. He had a scandal in the village you will be disappointed hard, regimented upbringing in which each child had because it is all about Pete and Brenda Everson two sets of clothes, one to wear and one in the wash who have been married just once, although no-one and all of them were responsible for looking after was there to see it and I only have their word that it their own, as well as ensuring that their shoes were actually took place!. lined up on the fireplace each night, fully polished. Brenda was born in Warrington, the daughter of School came as a welcome break and Pete loved his a bus driver and a cotton mill worker and she had life there, especially art and sport. His school was one older brother. She had a really happy childhood a single sex establishment but just down the road and liked school where she was head girl and a star there was a girls’ school where he met, at the age of runner. In fact she liked it so much that it inspired her thirteen, a young lady who would later become his to be a teacher. She came from a passionate rugby girlfriend and, a few years later, his wife. He left when family and Brenda who is not quite big enough to be he was fifteen to become an apprentice plumber, a six a second row forward opted instead for the role of year training which involved attendance at college. orange girl. Those readers who know nothing about Unfortunately Pete could not afford the time to go to rugby may assume that she was a sort of latter day lectures because he was busy earning money to make Nell Gwynne but the truth is that it was Brenda who ends meet. Matters came to a head when his employer took out the half-time oranges. She went to do her saw his attendance record but Pete was saved by his teacher training in Bangor but life was very difficult performance in the end of year exams when he won because she had no grant and no money so she had to the Apprentice of the Year award. There is nothing work long hours behind a bar to survive. She lived in better than practical experience in a job like that. rooms during term time but for the rest of her time she During their time together in the caravan they was living with Pete in the only accommodation they discovered that if they got married they would receive could afford, a caravan which was so cold in winter a tax rebate so, aged 18 and 19 respectively, they that on some occasions they put on breakfast TV and decided to do just that. Brenda brought three Irish saw pieces of ice fall off the telly as it warmed up. college friends back to the caravan in Frodsham Pete was working as an apprentice plumber all day to share the happy event which was to take place and spending the rest of his time doing maintenance in Northwich. Brenda’s brother hired a bus to take work on the caravan site. When Brenda qualified she relatives from Warrington and he was to pick up the taught in a school for physically handicapped children three friends at a pre arranged spot in the Cheshire which later became a school for pupils with special countryside. The only snag was that her brother had needs and she taught, at different times, the full age got it into his head that the wedding was in Runcorn range, specialising in dyslexia. so the bus duly went to the registry office there and it Pete was born in 1956, also in Warrington. He failed to pick up the three friends. The trio then hired was third in line of succession in a family of eight a taxi but could not remember the name of the town

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12 a tale of two weddings

friends to Clapham, was completely seduced by its charms (and without doubt its charming inhabitants) and saw a house for sale down The Green. He knocked on the door, liked what he saw and told Brenda when he returned home that he had bought a house. When I asked Brenda if she was shocked and horrified she said that she was used to impulsive decisions and as if to prove the point she rented a shop in Bentham on a whim without having any idea what she was going to sell. Before that she had worked here as a home carer and as a member of staff at Ingleborough Hall. Pete manages a work force of twenty for a commercial plumber in Lancaster. He has always been involved with sport and has had various exciting jobs (at least they are exciting to someone like me who likes sport). He worked as a sprint coach with the British Athletics Association and then in a similar capacity with Warrington Rugby League Club, Macclesfield Town, Northwich Victoria, Morecambe FC and even for a short while with Northern Ireland. Brenda’s latest enterprise which you must visit if you have not already been is The Reading Room Cafe which she opened in April 2011. She has worked her that was supposed to be their destination because they socks off to ensure its success and is rightly proud did not know the area. They told the driver that it was of the fact that so many of the things that are on sale something to do with a witch so he kindly took them such as the cakes have been made in Clapham. She to Nantwich. Meanwhile Pete and Brenda who did thoroughly enjoys running it and spoke with real know where they should be, were alone at the registry enthusiasm about the lovely people who have worked office and had to capture two innocent bystanders to with her on this venture. Rosie, Christine and Ray act as witnesses. were mentioned along with her colleagues who serve After the wedding Pete resumed his training as there. a commercial plumber and later worked in the field The Eversons’ time in Clapham has been eventful of solar heating. When Brenda started teaching they in several ways. On the day they arrived they could suddenly became comparatively wealthy so they not get into the house and I can picture the scene bought their first house near the canal in Weaverham. when we took them tea on the back lawn as they The house needed renovating and they were able to waited like lost souls in the summer sunshine. One use their practical talents to do it up and later sell it, day they had a fire which caused a lot of damage and a tactic they used several more times to move up the later Brenda survived a flood at the shop. Locusts property ladder. can be expected in the skies shortly. The saddest Some years later their daughter, Katie, was born. event was that Pete’s dad died in their house in 2007. Brenda stopped teaching after 20 years when she had They particularly asked me to mention the wonderful a heart problem and looked for a new challenge. Pete care and support they received from local services, also changed direction and worked in a Ford factory especially the district nurses. in a managerial role, involving responsibility for the On a happier note they are looking forward to their fabric of the building. Their next venture was the daughter’s wedding next summer and are absolutely purchase of a pub in Rossendale which was in such determined that she will have what they did not. a wretched state that they could only serve bottled I do hope they will put the right address on the beer at first. They worked really hard, succeeded invitations to the blessing in Clapham Church. It in making it profitable and then sold it after three would be sad if the bus took everyone to Clapham years. Junction in London. It was at this point that Pete came with some Stuart Marshall 13 Christmas Greetings The following readers send Christmas Greetings to their friends in Clapham and District Christine & Martin Martin & Renee Yew Tree Cottages The New Inn Richard & Justina Fall View Chester, Brock & Tabs Richard, Jayne, Rachel & The Green Rory-Joe, Gildersbank Ian & the Girls Jaques Farm Rosie & Ray John & Ann Park View Bechfield House Sue & Marilyn Wyvern, Newby Gus & Ann Janet Eggshell Lane Clapdale Way Chris & Chrissie Gildersbank Margaret & Tom Barbara & Nigel The Green and family, Riverside John & Annie, John & Jane Brenda & Ken Valerie Hall Garth Stonegarth Bridge Cottage Esther & Hector Liz & Eric Vesta & Owen The Green Clareson West Avon Barbara & Stuart Susan & Norman Anne Bramall Limefold Park House Terry & Sonya Win Graveson Sam, Sue, Tom & Barney Village Store Cross Haw Lane Low Lea James & Sue Gildersbank Alan & Jo & family Glenys & Mavis Gilgen Brookhouse John & Ann Beckfield House David & Lesley Ron & Denise Gildersbank The Station House The above greetings as well as being environmentally friendly also cover the cost of one issue of the Newsletter. We would also like to thank all our advertisers for their support over the past year.

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14 That photograph In the October Newsletter (no.73) there was a photograph showing a large group of soldiers or airmen. This photograph came from the old Snooker Room in what is now the Reading Room Café. How it came to be there and what it had to do with Clapham seemed to be a mystery. Very kindly four people contacted me with information. They all recognised the soldier shown tenth from the left on the third row up. He was Teddie Harrison, son and grandson of coachmen at Ingleborough Hall. Teddie was born about 1915 and worked in Knowles’s shop, now Clapham Stores and post office. He was a regular member of the Reading Room Snooker Club and in later life was a member of a winning Clapham team. He seems to have been Teddie Harrison 1915–1987 popular, with an ever-ready smile. He joined up in the Teddie died in 1987 at the age of 72. His years early days of World War II and served in the Royal behind the bar seem to have allowed him to be “a Sussex Light Infantry, possibly as a driver. It may regular tippler” but apparently he could always take be that the photograph, signed “Teddie”, was sent his drink and was never unpleasant in any way. He has to members of the Club from his Army base before been described as “a bit of a lad” but “a nice bloke”. leaving to fight in North Africa. From there he used His ready smile is a constant theme in memories of to send boxes of stuffed dates to friends and relatives him. back in Clapham. He once claimed that he survived Many thanks to those who recalled this likeable the war by hiding “in a bully beef tin”. Was that his Clapham character for me. jokey term for a tank or an armoured car? Ken Pearce Back in Clapham he returned to work in Knowles’s shop, where one of his jobs was to collect and deliver grocery orders to the door round local villages. He went on to work as barman at the New Inn but developed TB. He had a lung removed and spent Dental Practice periods recuperating in sanatoria at Grassington and Ilkley before returning to the New Inn. Mark Jonathan White BMSc (hons), BDS (hons) A warm welcome awaits you from our trained and friendly When the licensee Harry Williamson retired staff. Call in for more information. Teddie moved to Skipton, where he became a barman Family Dentistry, Orthodontics, Replacement of missing at the Devonshire Hotel. The hotel had been taken teeth, Dental implants, Cosmetic dentistry, Tooth over by friends of Teddie who had moved from the whitening, orthopaedic jaw and bite problems. Hart’s Head in Settle. At the Devonshire Teddie Opening Hours: was responsible for the ‘spit and sawdust’ end of Mon, Tue, Wed: 9.00am – 12.30pm, 1.30pm – 5.00pm the business. He later moved to Shipley to work for Thurs : 1.00pm – 5.00pm, 6.00pm – 9.00pm Shipley Paints. 66 Main Street, High Bentham Tel. 015242 64813 Above & Below A local company providing outdoor Kitchens for Life . . . . activities in the area – rock climbing, Kitchen Installations North West Ltd. caving, hill walking, gorge scrambling, German Kitchens by Schuller. abseiling and mountain bike guiding. Groups, families, individuals and A local family firm with over 15 years training courses catered for – complete experience and our reputation built upon novices to advanced skills. recommendations. DUNCAN MORRISON Make an appointment to visit our showroom. Greenstead, Newby, Clapham LA2 8HR Mark Butler L.C.G.I. Tel. 01524 51011 Unit 3, Low Mills, Mill Lane, email: [email protected] Low Bentham LA2 7DA Web: www. aboveandbelow.org.uk Tel. 63388 or 07831 151839 Member of AALA • ACI • AMI email: [email protected] www.kinw.co.uk

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16 Deadly statistics Reclining peacefully in many a village church 1812. The total number was over 300, averaging are records which go back many years before the about 40 per year, of these, 63 were children under introduction of our more up-to-date registration five years of age, amounting to 20% of all the statistics. deaths! Below are listed the causes of deaths in the These statistics are reproduced from a paper by Clapham-cum-Newby area between the years 1804– Dr. John Farrer in 1957 and printed in The Lancet.

Age group 0–5 5–10 10–20 20–30 30–40 40–50 50–60 60–70 70–80 80–90

Stone, gravel – – – – – – 1 – 2 – – Consumption, asthma 2 1 16 13 13 8 5 7 1 – – Infirmity 1 – – – – – – 17 38 36 9 Sudden death – – 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 – – Chincough 4 – – – – – – – – – – Dropsy – – – – 1 2 3 4 3 – – Convulsions 20 – – – – – 1 – – – – Fever in brain – – 1 – 1 – – – – – – Accidental death 1 2 1 – 1 2 1 – 1 – – Weakness 28 – 1 – – – – 1 – – – Fever 2 2 4 4 2 2 – – – – – Inflammation of bowels and cramp in stomach 1 2 – 1 1 3 1 – 1 – – Childbirth – – – 1 – 1 – – – – – Smallpox 2 5 4 – – – – – – – – Palsy – – – – – 1 – – 1 – – Pleurisy – – – – – – – – 1 – – Cancer – – – – – 2 – – – – – Rheumatism – – – – – – 3 – – – – Inflammation of throat 2 – – – – – – – 1 – – Joint disease – – 1 1 1 – – – – – – Epiliptic fit – – 1 – – – – – – – – Ague – – – 1 – – – – – – – St. Anthony’s fire – – – – 1 – – – – – – Broken leg – – – – – – – – 1 – – Gangriene – – – – – – – – – 1 –

Note: St. Anthony’s Fire was later named Scarlet Fever and Chincough was a form of whooping cough

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18 Wildlife at Clapham In the last newsletter I mentioned that there had been very few butterflies seen during the summer, well, I wrote that paragraph too soon. At the end of September and the beginning of October we had a mini heatwave and there were lots of butterflies seen around the local area, these were mainly Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral and Peacock, also seen were a couple of Commas and Speckled Woods, a single Large White and the only Painted lady of the year. With the mild weather continuing into November, one Red Admiral was seen flying around Ingleborough Hall on the 17th November. During the warm and mild weather a lot of moths were still flying later than their normal flight period, it also A hovering Kestrel brought out an early and confused Dotted Border regularly flying over the Nature Trail and Ingleborough on 18th November, this moth usually emerges in Hall throughout October and November. February and flies until about April, I think the mild The Dipper was seen on 11th November on the weather has confused it and it has appeared nearly River Wenning at Clapham Station with a silver ring three months early. on one leg and coloured rings on the other leg, I have As the summer migrants were leaving the local written to the BTO and they are finding out where it area, the winter migrants started arriving, the last was ringed. three Swallows flew south over Ingleborough Hall At the end of September a Kingfisher was seen at on the 13th October and the last two House Martins Maffakin bridge by Jess Hart, it then flew up the beck were seen in Clapham on the 4th October. towards the village. The first Redwing was seen on the 10th October Tim Hutchinson, Smithy Cottage and the first Fieldfare was seen at Ingleborough Hall on the 12th October and a day later as the Swallows  flew south a large flock of Fieldfares also flew over the Hall, it is not often that Swallows and Fieldfare Quiz Night can be seen on the same day. Clapham Primary School PTA are holding a Quiz Another winter migrant that arrived in October Night in the Village Hall on Friday, 27th January at was the Brambling, ten were seen at Ingleborough 7.30pm. Tickets will be available after Christmas. Hall on the 14th October, another was seen at the Flying Horseshoe on the 16th and also at the Hall This Free Newsletter aims to keep everyone in 25th October and 15th November. Clapham, Keasden and Newby in touch with what Two flocks of Whooper Swans, one of ten and one is happening in our community. It does, however, cost a not insignificant amount to produce, and of nine flew low in a westerly direction over Clapham advertising is a very necessary aid to the finances. and Newby on the 21st October.. An advert costs as little as £3 per issue. A flock of Pink-footed Geese flew west over For Advertising your products and services, please Ingleborough Hall on 10th October and were seen contact Elga Balmford on 015242 51324 also over the Flying Horseshoe and Hardacre Moss Articles, News and Ideas please for the next issue by 28th January, 2012 to the Village Shop, on the 16th. Lesley Crutchley: [email protected], Just outside the local area a flock of 26 adult and Chrissie Bell: [email protected], juvenile European White Fronted Geese were seen Mike Cornwell: mike–[email protected] or feeding in a field next to the River Ribble at Helwith Ray Hull: [email protected]. Bridge on 20th November. Articles submitted but not included in the present publication will be printed in future issues. A flock of about 15 Crossbills have been seen

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