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.

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

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

• Growing up in wartime Barrow

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.

• Opportunity to share your Furness College days

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

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.

• Ongoing study of mining past

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.

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

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

• Venerating Ursula and 11,000 virgins

HOW a growing online collection of centuries-old documents is changing our understanding of life under the control of lords of the manor is explored in a study day.

• Piece of shrapnel was poor consolation for lost school in Barrow
• Watched Barrow liner taking shape
• Piece of shrapnel was poor consolation for lost school in Barrow
• Barrow folk honest when cash went flying
• Living on the margins of the Western Lakes

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

• Opportunity to share your college days

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?

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

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.

• Keeping your tea under lock and key
• Rare token to pay for electricity
• History to read on the doorstep
• Quest for copy of steel book

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.

• King’s Own troops in hostage drama
• Appeal made for details of wartime officer

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

TODAY we are taking a look at the unique civic career and remarkable life of Lawrence Allen.

• History told in rare old manuscripts
• Mystery picture identified and makes £28 in sale
• Waiting in vain for chance to impress Queen Victoria
• Leisure boat had took part in war

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.

• Taking the boat to Piel Island

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