Miners who travelled with their own religion

A ROW over charitable status has thrust a rather reclusive Christian sect called the Plymouth Brethren firmly into the spotlight.

Last updated 20 November 2012
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Corrie star who was late for the switch-on

THE Coronation Street legend Bill Tarmey, who died recently aged 71, got to meet many of his fans in South Cumbria in 1992.

Last updated 19 November 2012
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Miners who travelled with their own religion

A ROW over charitable status has thrust a rather reclusive Christian sect called the Plymouth Brethren firmly into the spotlight.

Last updated 19 November 2012
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Bringing a jobs surge

Last updated 18 November 2012
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See rare movies of life in county

LOCAL history lovers can take a trip back to the Lakeland of yesteryear thanks to a screening of rare film footage.

Last updated 16 November 2012
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Top seats at show under half-a-crown

THE golden age of the Barrow theatre is recalled in a pair of vintage posters being sold at next week’s Kendal sale by 1818 Auctioneers.

Last updated 16 November 2012
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Recording the county’s rich industrial heritage

THE difficult task of deciding which industrial buildings deserved to be included in a new book on the county’s architectural treasures was explained in a talk at Greenodd.

Last updated 16 November 2012
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World away from her favourite snowdrops

TODAY’S contribution comes all the way from New South Wales in Australia from Barrovian Irene Oakes.

Last updated 15 November 2012
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Massive influx of men attracted to mine jobs

THE first hints that what became Millom could be sitting on a fortune in iron ore did not come until the mid-1850s at a time when almost everyone living in the area was Cumberland born and bred.

Last updated 14 November 2012
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Village had gasworks and rail station chief

ASKAM still retains a range of shops and services but they can’t compare with what was on offer 100 years ago.

Last updated 13 November 2012
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Remembering all villagers who took up arms

IT is quite unusual to have a comprehensive list of people from a school, church, factory or community who took part in the First World War.

Last updated 12 November 2012
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The missing of the Somme

OF all the monuments to lost lives in the First World War, few have the impact of the Thiepval Memorial to the missing of the Somme – both in scale and in the numbers of men it represents.

Last updated 12 November 2012
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Windows tell stories of loss

FEW village churches have such an impressive range of military memorial windows and wall plaques as St James’ at Arnside.

Last updated 12 November 2012
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Village marches to war

ON Remembrance Day when communities gather round cenotaphs and other war memorials up and down the country to remember the dead it is easy to forget that many more who went to war had their lives changed by what they had to endure.

Last updated 12 November 2012
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See battlefields on Mail tours

THIS weekend a group of Evening Mail readers are seeing for themselves the famous battlefields and memorials which have shaped public perception of the human sacrifice seen during the First World War.

Last updated 12 November 2012
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Stories revealed

THE enhanced search facility on the excellent website of more than a million names maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission allows a detailed look at how individual regiments, towns, or villages suffered in the two world wars.

Last updated 12 November 2012
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Town emigrants die for new flag

THE huge white memorial to the heroic Canadians who died capturing Vimy Ridge during the First World War bears the name of one of Barrow’s “Foreign Legion.”

Last updated 12 November 2012
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Working with nature

THE long-lost story of industrial activity in the countryside can be read like a book by walkers – if you know what to look for.

Last updated 12 November 2012
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Looking back on 90 years

Last updated 9 November 2012
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