A REMINDER of nights at the movies in Barrow is included in a huge group of postcards being sold in West Sussex next week.

The former Ritz cinema on the corner of Abbey Road and Holker Street is one of more than 950 postcard views being sold in one group by Toovey’s of Washington on Tuesday, February 21 for an expected £150 to £250.

The Ritz, later the Apollo, was demolished to make way for the Emlyn Hughes office block and the statue of the Barrow-born England and Liverpool soccer captain.

The same sale expects £20 to £30 for an album packed with almost 350 postcards of the Lake District, including views of rock climbers on Nape’s Needle, Kern Knotts Buttress and Great Gable.

Images of St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton, feature in a collection of 13 architectural drawings by Lancaster firm Paley and Austin around 1880.

They are being sold today by the Winter Antiques Sale at Wooler, Northumberland and are expected to sell for £50 to £80.

Also being sold today is a large oak carved plaque by Thomas Henry Kendall, who lived from 1837 to 1919.

This example is dated 1903 and is thought to have been part of the collection at a country mansion near Millom.

Auctioneers Trevanion and Dean, of Whitchurch, Shropshire, said: “By repute from Duddon Hall, Cumbria.

“Thomas Henry Kendall provided the 22 carved oak panels of fish, fowl and fruit in the Members Dining Room of the Houses of Parliament.”

The former Duddon Hall panel is expected to sell for £2,000 to £3,000.

The sale on March 1 to 2 by London auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb has an officer’s helmet plate dating to the period 1881 to 1884 for the Carlisle-based Border Regiment.

It is expected to sell for £400 to £500.

The sale on Saturday, February 25, by Nottingham-based International Autograph Auctions has several letters with South Cumbrian links.

A letter by Dora Wordsworth, daughter of the Lakeland poet William, is expected to sell for £150 to £200.

It was sent to Edward Archer at the Lowwood Inn and notes: “I grieve to say dear aunt Wordsworth is very, very poorly and has been so for four months past.”

There is also a signature of Florence Nightingale, the pioneer of British nursing who lived from 1820 to 1910. It should make £100 to £150.

It is attached to a section of envelope addressed to Fox How, Ambleside – the home of poet Matthew Arnold, who lived from 1822 to 1888.

The same sale also has a letter written by John Ruskin, the celebrated author, artist and literary critic who lived for much of his life at Brantwood overlooking Coniston Water.

The letter is mainly about financial matters and was sent from Lake Brienz, Switzerland, in July 1870. It should sell for £200 to £300.