Saturday, 04 February 2012

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Unique rolling bridge gets new listed status

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A UNIQUE 19th century industrial bridge across Ulverston Canal has just been granted special legal protection.

Yard trainees made own tools

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PLENTY of you were quick to suggest uses for the mystery tool which featured on Monday’s Memories Page.

Researchers raising a glass to beer history

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THE history of beer and brewing comes under the spotlight in three Cumbrian events in the next few weeks.

Two terraces receive their own royal visit

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A BATTLESHIP and a new technical school stole the headlines but a pair of Hindpool streets may have made a bigger impression on a visiting princess.

What might this be for?

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WE are hoping that readers may be able to suggest the correct use for this curious vintage tool.

The Sky’s the limit

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NOT many 21-year-olds get the chance to fly all over the world and take a leading role in a major NATO exercise, but that was just part of life for RAF navigator Ernie Diamond.

Sub’s top secret tasks to help win the war

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FEW Barrow submarines were given so many prominent wartime tasks as HMS Seraph – including a star role in a successful project to mislead the Germans with the use of a dead body carrying bogus papers.

Life in the forest for timber girls

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HAVING named most of the wartime forestry workers on two Grizedale pictures (January 19) we can now tell you who took the pictures.

Readers winkled out the full story of song

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A REQUEST for information about a song written about Walney brought back happy memories for several readers.

Try camping indoors

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THESE days you can’t even bank on decent summer weather so it makes sense to get away from it all for a winter break in the country and avoid the crowds.

Spotlight falls on year of treasure

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FURNESS features strongly in a day devoted to the latest research in archaeology being hosted by the Centre for North-West Regional Studies on March 3.

Dress to impress

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YOU can be asked to help judge some unusual contests but one for head bands takes some beating.

Lessons from the past

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SIXTY pupils from Ulverston’s Sir John Barrow School went back in time to discover what education was like in the Victorian era.

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The golden key fit only for a princess to use

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THE golden key used by Princess Louise to open the iconic Barrow Technical School in Abbey Road is being offered for sale at just under £10,000.

All dressed up for dinner

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Members and guests of the Rotary Club of Furness at the sixth charter anniversary dinner held in July 1997 at the Coot, Urswick.

Island lads aim for cup

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WITH Walney Central playing Kells in the Cumbria Cup final at the Copeland Stadium tomorrow, amateur rugby league writer Paddy McAteer takes a look at former Walney teams from his vast collection of pictures.

Names are found for our footballing five

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We have had names suggested for the five soccer team boys pictured at Lightburn School, Ulverston, around 1970 (Memories Page, Monday).

Looking back on times we sampled a good pint

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COUNTRY and town centre pubs face ever- increasing financial pressures from the recession and our changing habits.
These Evening Mail archive pictures are from the 1990s when more people were keen to take over the reins at the traditional watering holes in South Cumbria.
It was a more care-free era before the advent of the now commonplace cut-price beer offers at supermarkets.

Behind the curtains at major cinema revamp

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THIS set of Evening Mail archive pictures shows the major transformation of the 2,000-seater cinema auditorium of the old Ritz into the three-screen Astra.

No airship was safe from Nora

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JACK Marsh, of Barnard Street, Barrow, takes a look back to Barrow’s role in the brief heyday of the airship.

Time for some fun

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THIS interesting group of pictures comes from the Evening Mail archive and shows youngsters from the South Cumbria Scout and Guide movement at an end-of-year fun event.

Members of fire crew spotted in old pictures

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WE have had success in finding names for several of the 1960s Barrow firefighters and fire station workers (Memories Page, December 28).

New power to light up our homes and offices

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ROOSECOTE has played an important role in the generation of power supplies for decades and looks set to do so in the future through plans to burn biomass.

Artistic tour of the past

Mems/001.jpg A TREASURE trove of original artwork showing South Cumbria’s villages, public buildings and grand country homes is being sold at auction later this month.

Taking a picture break at the tannery

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THIS picture from the 1950s shows workers taking a break at the old West Cost Tannery at Haverigg.

Spot yourself on school pictures

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THE old Newbarns Infant School, Barrow, has now gone and been replaced by housing at Bewley Steps.

Millom Ironworks CD

A0449413 A new picture cd from the Evening Mail featuring 190 images of Millom Ironworks through the decades. It includes views of the buildings dating from the Victorian era through to closure in September 1968.

Click here to view a selection of images from the CD
Click here to order your copy

Hodbarrow Mines CD

A0449412 A new picture cd from the Evening Mail featuring almost 150 views of the famous Hodbarrow Mines which raised 25 million tons of heamatite iron ore until the last pit at Moorbank was closed at the end of March in 1968.
Click here to view a selection of images from the CD
Click here to order your copy

Land of the painlookers

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THIS strange story of ‘painlookers’ and ‘sackings’ was last told 50 years ago to mark a revamp of the Queen’s Arms at Biggar.

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