HOT sun and loud music was the perfect combination for crowds of rock fans seeking the best vantage point to enjoy a feast of bands in the great outdoors.

The Mail, on Monday, June 29 in 1992, noted: “Hundreds of rock fans of all ages flocked to Barrow Park on Sunday afternoon for an afternoon of sunshine and local music.

“Billed as Barrow’s answer to Glastonbury, the Furness Live Music event celebrated National Music Day.

“Four bands played, Big Spider, Dead Grateful, The Banned and Lakes Blues Band and the event went on for more than three hours.

“It was the first park gig of the year for Furness Live Music.”

It had been a weekend of glorious weather which brought out the crowds at other event, such as the St Luke’s Garden Party at Barrow, where the Reverend Clive Gillespie was dressed as Humpty Dumpty and Norman Tate hit all the high notes on his trumpet.

The Saturday had seen the 33rd village gala at Lindal which raised a record £1,000 for church funds.

The village green was packed for the opening ceremony performed by Lindal writer Janet Sproat.

The gala queen at Lindal was 11-year-old Tina Thompson.

Also making the news that weekend was a proposal by Barrow Borough Council to allow the use of wheel-clamping on cars whose drivers persistently refuse to pay parking fines or fees.

The move camp as it was revealed the council had made a £24,000 profit from parking fees and fines in the last financial year.

A Mail article noted: “In the past some drivers have parked free repeatedly, because the council has not been able to trace the owners through the driver and vehicle licensing centre in Swansea.”

It was announced that 201 jobs would go with the closure of the Elbeo stocking factory in Mainsgate Road, Millom, after 34 years.

The business had been taken over two years earlier by American firm Sara Lee.

All production was to move to the firm’s Pretty Polly factories in Nottinghamshire.

Elbeo managing director Clive Cooke said: “We need to update our plants and that needs considerable investment.

“We’ve decided it will come in Nottinghamshire.”

The hands on one face of Ulverston’s TSB bank clock tower had stopped and the three other faces all told different times due to a flock of birds nesting inside the tower and playing havoc with the mechanism.

Barrow stayed top of cricket’s North Lancashire and District Division One after a win against Carlisle at Edenside.

Ulverston’s 16-year-old batsman Stuart Know hit a six to pull off a win in the last over against Penrith.

In football, Barrow AFC appointed Paul Rowlands as a player/coach to work with manager Graham Heathcote.