HUNDREDS of men from Furness served with the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment during the First World War and their story is told at the regiment's archive and collection in the City Museum at Lancaster.

The Museum and its support group, the Friends of Lancaster City Museum, is hosting a series of free lunchtime talks which are usually on Fridays.

They all start at 1pm and are held in the museum's education room, which has its entrance on New Street, Lancaster.

March 10 has a talk called on the making of the Behind the Wall exhibition - which is on show at the City Museum from March 4 to May 1.

It tells the story of the barracks site on Caton Road, Lancaster, which started life as a railway carriage and wagon works.

In the early part of the First World War it was a base for soldiers and then for "enemy aliens" held in internment before many went sent to camps on the Isle of Man.

For more than 90 years it has been home to a fabric printing works.

Dot Boughton is the Lancashire and Cumbria finds liaison officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme which encourages metal detectorists to record finds of historical interest.She will be giving an archaeology talk on May 12.

Wednesday, May 24, has a talk by King's Own curator Peter Donnelly based on the letters and diaries on Pte William Hodgson.

The talk is being held on the exact centenary of his death.

Pte Hodgson, from Lancaster, enlisted in the autumn of 1914 and arrived on the Western Front early in 1917.

The Archives of Abbot and Company, stained glass manufacturers of Lancaster, is the subject of a talk by Vicci McCann, from the County Archives Office, Preston, on June 9.

You can reserve a place at any of the talks by calling 01524 64637.