A book with an inscription from the Lakeland author and illustrator Beatrix Potter could make up to £800 next week.

Around 1918 she signed a copy of her book The Tale of Pigling Bland and it is expected to make £600 to £800 (LOT 32) in the sale by Forum Auctions, of London, which ends next Thursday.

There is another Beatrix Potter collectable book in the sale on September 6 by Catherine Southon Auctioneers at Selsdon, Surrey.

It is a 1903 first trade edition of The Tailor of Gloucester, which should make £300 to £400.

Tomorrow's sale at Carlisle by Laidlaw Auctioneers and Valuers includes (LOT 244) a box of Millom Hematite load cards which would have been placed on the side of railway wagons to record freight movements to places such the David Caird foundry in Barrow.

They should make £10 to £20.

The same sale has a group of four lamps, including an iron miner's carbide lamp and a spout lamp from the John Mills store which used to face into Millom Market Square and is now a pub.

They should make a combined price of £30 to £50.

A sale on Wednesday to Friday by Hannam's Auctioneers at Selborne in Hampshire hopes for £60 to £80 for a Victorian silver pocket watch by W. Hird of Barrow.

The August 31 sale by C & T Auctioneers, of Kenardington, Kent (Lot 310) expects £40 to £60 for a Second World war Royal Navy embroidered cap tally from HMS Medway Cap Tally.

HMS Medway was the first purpose-built submarine depot ship constructed for the Royal Navy and was a product of the Vickers Armstrong yard at Barrow in the late 1920s.

The ship served on the China Station before the war and was transferred to Egypt in early 1940.

Medway was ordered to help evacuate Alexandria in the face of the German advance after the Battle of Gazala in May 1942.

The Barrow ship sailed for Lebanon at the end of June, escorted by a light cruiser and seven destroyers.

This strong escort could not protect Medway and on June 30 in 1942 the German U-Boat U-372 torpedoed and sank the ship.

In the same August 31 sale a bid of £20 to £30 (LOT 308) might secure a cap tally from HMS Resource.

This fleet repair ship was built by Vickers and launched at Barrow on November 27 in 1928.

Resource was armed with four guns with a four inch barrel diameter and displaced 12,300 tons.

The served in the Mediterranean and the Far East during the Second World War and was scrapped at Inverkeithing in February 1954.