In 1991 The Way We Were feature in The Mail focused on part of the village of Askam.

It stated a whole new village bridging the gap between Askam and Ireleth had grown up around the Railway Inn since a picture used with the article was taken 70 years previously.

At that time the pub on the corner of Dale Street and Ireleth Road, Askam, sold Thompson’s Ales, brewed in Barrow.

Since then, Thompson’s beer had given way to Matthew Brown and the fine Victorian building had lost the part of its mock Tudor façade which faced into Dale Street.

All around it new homes had been built.

Houses and a garage covered what had been the waste ground beside the pub, while where there were hedges and fields across the road there was now a group of bungalows on Ireleth Court Road.

The road rising uphill to Ireleth had been resurfaced in 1990 and was of a far higher standard than the rough hard core acceptable to the mainly horse-drawn traffic of 70 years previoulsy.

Another The Way We Were feature in 1991 featured a group of Askam youngsters who were on their way to school.

They were pictured in Duddon Road next to the railway crossing in around 1914.

Starched white collars and cloth caps seemed to be the unofficial school uniform for boys at that time.

The boy in the central group marked with an ‘X’ was Dan Waidson, whose father was a soldier based at Colchester with the King’s Own.

On the back of the postcard Private John Waidson is told how his new baby son is ‘getting some colour in his cheeks, and sleeps champion.’

Duddon Road had seen a few changes since the class of 1914 posed for the camera.

The tree and the low wall on the right had gone to make way for parking near the K Shoe factory.