Memories
Hunt for clues on local rugby union teams
Published 21 August 2008
THIS group of pictures all show rugby union teams from the Furness area in the period from 1939 to the 1970s.
Just £1 a week to keep the British skies safe
Published 20 August 2008
DURING the Second World War airfields at Walney, Millom and Cark were providing training for air crews.
Ulverston folk in the picture
Published 19 August 2008
SCHOOL DAYS: This set of pictures was kindly loaned by Ulverston’s Sharon Turnbull and they all show people from the town in the 1920s and 1930s. The main picture is believed to show pupils at Dale Street School around 1932. We have the names of some of them (the number denotes position from left). On the back row is (2) Edith Porter, (5) Mabel Ireland, (7) Gladys Croasdale, (8) Jenny Miller, (9) Mary Tate and (10) Hetty Low. The next to back row is (3) Edith Molyneux, (4) Ada Pearce, (7) Dorothy Pickthall, (9) Irene Parsons and (12) Edna Wilkinson. The next to front row is (1) Betty Mounsey, (2) Muriel Wilson, (6) Milly Ley, (7) Muriel Askew and (8) Muriel Winder. On the front row is (4) Dylis Jones and (6) Doris High. Can you name any of the others and confirm the identity of the school?
Plenty to see at the model rail show
Published 19 August 2008
MILLOM Network Centre is more accustomed to computer keyboards and high-powered business meetings, but next month – for two days only – model railways will be taking over.
Millom’s all steamed up
Published 19 August 2008
THE theme for this page is Millom locomotives – both full size and miniature.
Queen is named
Published 19 August 2008
By Bill MyersRON Kendall, of Stackwood Avenue, Barrow, got in touch to identify our Barrow Carnival Queen picture (Memories Page, August 1) as Audrey Leach, who used to live in Greengate Street, next to the Greengate Club, Barrow.
Conservative Club whist champions
Published 19 August 2008
THIS is not the best quality picture, but it does include a lot of people who will be well known to Millom readers.
Barrow off to Wembley
Published 19 August 2008
By Bill MyersTHIS programme, which turned up in a recent sale at Furness Auctions in Barrow, will bring back memories for rugby league fans.
Plenty to see in heritage festival HQ
Published 18 August 2008
ST GEORGE’S Hall in Lapstone Road acts as headquarters during the four-day Millom and District Heritage Open Days Festival.
Sorting through all Barrow’s post
Published 18 August 2008
THIS unusual set of postcard images show Barrow’s main post office around 100 years ago.
Oldest buildings ready to put on a good show
Published 18 August 2008
CHURCHES and chapels are among our oldest and most venerated buildings and they are opening in force next month for the Millom and District Heritage Open Days Festival.
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Published 16 August 2008
NOSTALGIA for the golden days of childhood helped push up prices when shop fittings from the Bon Bon came up for sale at Furness Auctions on Saturday.
The day Emlyn made it a full set of trophies
Published 16 August 2008
MEL Turner, of Urswick Road, Ulverston, writes: “The appearance of Emlyn Hughes on the Memories Page (last Saturday) in his Wolves strip came as a delightful surprise to this lifelong Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter in happy exile on the Furness peninsula.
Buy her some real sparkle for £3,250
Published 16 August 2008
THERE aren’t many chances each year to see top class antiques for sale in a classic Cumbrian setting.
Millom leads the way as free festival grows
Published 15 August 2008
A NEW guide has been published showing dozens of events and places you can visit for free next month.
Providing something for everyone
Published 15 August 2008
IF there’s a building in the Millom area which you’ve never been in, the chances are it will be open in September during the Heritage Open Days Festival.
Millom Heritage Open Days Festival free talks
Published 15 August 2008
THE Millom and District Heritage Open Days Festival from Thursday to Sunday, September 11 to 14, has probably the best range of talks available anywhere in the country .
History for Schools
Published 15 August 2008
THIS year will see the biggest involvement of schools seen so far in the Millom and District Heritage Open Days Festival.
Join the M&S reunion crowd
Published 14 August 2008
IT’S the time of year when former workers at Marks and Spencer get together to talk about old times.
Tannery team were Cup champions of 1949
Published 14 August 2008
WE had three people get in touch to name players in the West Coast Tannery cricket XI which featured on the Memories Page (August 12).
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