Saturday, 25 May 2013

SHARE YOUR MEMORIES

WRITE: Bill Myers, Memories, Evening Mail, Abbey Road, Barrow, LA14 5QS.
PHONE: You can speak to reporter Bill Myers or leave messages on 01229 773525.
EMAIL: bill.myers@cnmedia.co.uk


Decline and fall of Cumbria’s mill giants

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THE Furness district of Lancashire was never a hotbed of textile production during the industrial revolution and what few major mills it had have long since gone.

Race course all set to jump back in time

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CARTMEL Races is ready to jump back in time on Saturday.

Pub landladies get big city treatment

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WHILE many drinkers may have raised a glass to the Chancellor George Osborne when he took a penny off a pint of beer in his budget it seems to have done nothing to slow the pace of closures.

Finding out about life in Furness villages

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YOU can take a pictorial tour through the villages of Furness from Askam to Grizebeck in the next meeting being hosted by Askam and Ireleth History Society.

Rail picture holds clues to major tunnel repairs

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A PICTURE (Memories Page, May 1) of a train from Roose approaching the Furness Abbey crossing prompted Barrow railway historian Geoff Holme to write in.

Starting young with construction skills at Furness College

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WE turn the clock back to 1992 in this latest look at the buildings, staff and students who came together to form Furness College.

Barrow munitions workers filled all spare rooms

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IN 1915 Barrow and the surrounding towns and villages suffered a house famine as thousands of new munitions workers struggled to find a place to call home.

Barrow mill a pioneer in use of electric lighting

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THESE details about life at the old dockside corn mills of Walmsley and Smith are taken from a 1906 guide published for delegates to a regional meeting of Oddfellows held in Barrow.

Event to mark 25th anniversary of Barrow shipyard strike

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NEXT month sees the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest economic and social events to affect Barrow in decades.

Chance for a Millom library local history session

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MILLOM library is to hold a local history event on Thursday.

Furness College replaces the era of iron and steel

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IN the latest of our series of articles on the birth and development of further education in Barrow we take a look at the construction of the Furness College buildings on the old iron and steelworks site.

Massive impact of a key Ulverston employer

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THERE is not much left to show the major impact the iron industry had on Ulverston in the 19th century.

Walney pub’s new owners celebrate a right royal business success

AN actress and an artist who breathed life back into a community pub are celebrating winning a prestigious accolade. (1 comment)

Key Burlington link to places of industry

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THE important role in the development of Furness played by an aristocratic landowner who became an industrialist was explored in a lecture by Barrow local historian Walter Johnston.

Crew jump to safety from runaway Haverthwiate train

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TODAY’S pictures show a railway accident which involved a runaway goods train – including an empty gunpowder wagon – at Haverthwaite in 1932.

Ration diet kept us healthy and wealthy

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THE wartime youngster Derek Lyon takes his final look at the effects of the ration era on people’s health.

New Barrow Technical School base had gallery and metal furnaces

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IN the latest of our looks at the buildings, staff and students which came together to form Furness College, we take a look at how the new Barrow Technical School was described on its opening Day on August 25 in 1903.

Wartime children had poor choice of sweets

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THE wartime youngster Derek Lyon has taken a look back to the era of rationing when we were all involuntary weight watchers.

Drama hints at real anguish for parents

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THE First World War drama My Boy Jack, which was staged by Ulverston Outsiders at the Coronation Hall, would have come close to reality for many Furness families.

Home entertainment in the days before TV

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THE ways people kept themselves entertained in the 1950s, before there was widespread access to TV, feature in this set of pictures taken by Bert Whalley.

Recalling era when Barrow had 56 grocers

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THIS fascinating group of 1950s pictures shows the Redman store in Dalton Road, Barrow.

Outings a highlight of social calendar

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THERE was a time when the bus outing was the highlight of the social calendar for most groups, organisations, factories and trades unions.

Barrow college life turned out honest citizens

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TODAY’S memories of life at Barrow Technical College during the 1950s have come to us all the way from Australia.

Dr Beeching’s cuts had us all in a rage

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FIFTY years ago there was only one key question on the minds of people throughout Cumberland, Westmorland and North Lancashire – where would the Beeching axe fall?

Tales of life in Barrow in the 1930s

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TODAY we are taking a fascinating look at life in Barrow during the 1930s through the eyes of Joseph Hucknall.

Quest for copy of steel book

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WE hope you have enjoyed the Memories Page articles on the Barrow iron and steel industry but there are still a few gaps in our knowledge.

Paper historians on trail of old mill facts

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READERS have been asked for help with a writing project about the old Ulverston Paper Mill which worked alongside the town’s canal until the late 1930s.

Barrow technology to take on the world’s best

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THIS month 50 years ago iron production came to an abrupt end in Barrow after more than a century.

Bringing in the harvest

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FARM work has involved hard labour and long hours for centuries but when these pictures were taken in the 1920s there was little in the way of technical help.

A golden day for new college and shipyard

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A UNIQUE golden key presented to Barrow’s first official royal visitor in 1903 to open the new Technical Schools on Abbey Road was designed in the town.

How long will your vintage photos last?

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EVERYONE has treasured photographs but have you ever considered how long they may last?

The alchemy behind a huge iron industry

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RELICS of the Furness iron industry are all around us – from mine spoil heaps and lagoons to sea walls, slag heaps and engine houses.

Getting coast power to where it’s needed

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POWER for light and heat has been produced around the county’s coastline for well over a 100 years but it is only in very recent times that moving it around has become a potential problem.

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.

Dalton pub’s place in the history of gambling

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THE Railway Hotel at Dalton hit the headlines 50 years ago when it installed the first profit-making public house fruit machine in the North of England.

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
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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
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Changing times for the Millom Ironworks beach

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THE changing face of what was once a beach behind the Millom Ironworks features in today’s pictures.

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