A CLASSIC motorbike from the 1960s which spent most of its life in Ulverston could sell for up £5,000 in a Yorkshire sale.

The BSA Super Rocket is being sold on March 4 by Driffield-based Dee, Atkinson and Harrison.

It is an A10R model which was launched in 1957 and has a 650cc engine.

This machine left the BSA factory on November 19 in 1962 and went to dealer Ernest Cross of Rotherham where it was first registered in April 1963 with the plate 600 AET.

It was sold to an Ulverston man who kept it for almost 50 years.

The current owner has had the Super Rocket since 2012 and had it restored and modified to a café racer style.

A spokesman for the auctioneers said: “This machine would be relatively easy to return to the original specification.”

The March 1 London sale by Dix Noonan Webb expects £120 to £160 for a pair of military belt clasps which would have been worn by Victorian officers.

One is for the Ulverston-based 10th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers and the other for 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Lancaster Regiment.

Today’s sale by David Duggleby at Scarborough includes an oil painting of the Barrow-built HMS Vanguard.

The battleship was built in 1909 and was destroyed by an internal explosion while at anchor in Scapa Flow, Scotland, in July 1917 with the death of 843 crew members.

A needlework on silk showing the ruins of Furness Abbey in the 19th century is being sold by Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers at Castlecomer in County Kilkenny, Ireland, on March 7.

It has a pre-sale estimate of £150 to £185.

An oil on canvas painting called “Near Ambleside” should sell for £100 to £200 on the March 2 sale by Peter Wilson at Nantwich, Cheshire.

It is the work of Albert Dunington, who lived from 1860 to 1928, and is signed and dated 1900.

The Monday, February 27, sale by London Auctions at Chiswick has a pencil sketch of a seated woman which has been attributed to Dalton portrait painter George Romney, who lived from £200 to £300. It has a pre-sale estimate of £200 to £300.

Bids soared to £2,300 last week for a large oak carved plaque by Thomas Henry Kendall, who lived from 1837 to 1919.

This example was 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.”