Nostalgia and Memories

Start: Pupils lined up at the start of the egg and spoon race in the July 1997 sports at North Walney School Nursery

Nostalgia: A celebration of nursery school fun and games

Do you remember when Dalton's best pint was decided on the toss of a coin?

Nostalgia: Did you dare to take the 170ft bungee jump in 1994?

Do you remember when a night out at the public hall cost 35p?

Nostalgia: Were you there when the karaoke fad reached the Strawberry?

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Nostalgia: The school which had its own bank

Would you pay £200 to have a ram's head on the wall?

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Nostalgia: Golf groundsman gets new role as sand pilot

Enthusiasts preserving the motorcycle heritage of Furness

Nostalgia: Schools combine to create a village in clay

Nostalgia: Giant bottle of bubbly was a Valentine's Day bonus

Do you remember when a packet of tea was just 7p?

Were you there when TV's Flog It! team came to Barrow?

Do you remember when Margi Clarke brought her comedy show to the Coro?

Nostalgia: Dressing up and having fun with music from the past

Do you remember when being an apprentice paid £7.35 per week?

Nostalgia: The story behind the pints at Copper Dog pub

Do you remember when using the launderette cost 12p?

Nostalgia: How lollipop people kept us safe on walk to school

Do you remember when a packet of Jaffa Cakes cost just 8p in Barrow?

Were you there when Barrow Superbowl was stripped bare by auction bidders?

Do you remember when Lakes planners called for a deer cull?

Nostalgia: Ringing the changes for services in Furness

Display looks at flying boats built in the Lakes

Display shows how flu killed many young South Cumbrians

Seeking out Iron Age hill forts in Furness

Nostalgia: Sharing your school days in Furness

How new technology has kept our water supplies flowing

Nostalgia: Scramble for bottled water at the shops

Do you remember when a Barrow factory escaped a worldwide jobs axe?

Former paper mill workers urged to share their memories

Do you remember when a major retailer wanted to bring 100 jobs to Hollywood Park?

Were you there for the birth of the karaoke craze in Barrow?

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Do you remember the Ulverston playgroup who asked Mr Blobby for a new home?

Nostalgia: sample the age of elegance on a Lakeland steamboat

What Barrow product could once circle the globe 150 times a week?

New exhibition looks at 130 years of public transport in Furness

Do you remember when Walney's Lady Love workers were urged to strike?

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Nostalgia: Were you at the packed house for Mail's Battle of the Bands?

Do you remember when Debenhams was to star in a £20m Barrow shopping development?

Nostalgia: Famous Christmas show takes to the stage in February

Mining history features in photographic exhibition

Cumbrian railway history group gets 500th member

Cumbrian treasure finds to feature in talks day

Were you one of the 10,000 to sign a "Save the railway" petition?

Nostalgia: Life as a foreigner in Furness during the war fever

Do you remember when 11 days on holiday from Furness cost £59?

Dangers of wartime flying over Cumbria told in a new book

Exhibition and special service for Furness building's 150th birthday

Do you remember when a hospital job in Furness paid 33p an hour?

Nostalgia: Furness infants become supermodels for a day

Do you remember when a council caretaker got just £13.75 per week?

Nostalgia: Freezing conditions prompts a town of snow sculptures

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