Six-year-old Neil Harrison of Huddleston Road, Millom, was aa area winner of Boots Easter Egg competition in 1989.

On March 10 that year, he was presented with a basket of Boots’ chocolate Easter eggs by the Millom branch manager Mr S Fletcher.

To win the prize Neil had to guess the approximate number of Boots mini-eggs which were inside a giant plastic egg, which was displayed in 250 of Boots’ larger branches. The answer was a mammoth 1,900.

It was the third win for the Harrison family in as many weeks. His grandmother Irene won the £1,000 Build-a-Lottery and his father, Ian, won the Evening Mail tank of petrol.

In 1990 Ulverston’s traditional pasche egg rolling on the slopes of Hoad Hill proved a big attraction for hundreds of people, despite the chilly winds.

That year’s event was organised by Bill Cubin, the Grand Sheik of the Birth Mark Tent, the local branch of the Laurel and Hardy appreciation society, and was held to mark the 100th anniversary of Stan Laurel’s birth.

Town crier Alf Jarvis heralded the start of the proceedings, on Easter Monday, which were attended by town Mayor and Mayoress, Cllr Colin and Mrs Dorothy Richardson, with his loud bell and equally-loud voice.

Music was provided by Ulverston Town Band, led by conductor Richard Foden.

A new event was a competition for ‘egg jarping’, a game once played by Ulverston-born Stan when he was a lad in the town.

To round off the afternoon, Welfare State International presented a 15-minute play Cuckoo, one of the forthcoming Shipyard Tales to be performed in Barrow in July.

Winners of the egg rolling competition: Sarah Ann Lupton, Allyson Cole, Matthew Shaw, Joanne Lupton. Egg ‘jarping’ winners: James Thornton and Deborah Fox. Runner-up: Christopher Waters. Best Easter bonnet: Helen Miller. Best decorated egg winners: Clair Lupton, Adam Rawlinson, Helen Miller, Deborah Fox.