Petrol leak and bombs no threat to gasworks

IN October 1963 workmen were busy installing a £500,000 new Micro-Simplex gas plant at Salthouse gasworks in Barrow.

Memories of Furness General Hospital

0504521 ON this day 25 years ago the first patients arrived at Barrow’s new Furness General Hospital.
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Who needs a bridge?

AS it is currently not the easiest task to drive a car in or out of Walney through the roadworks we have dug out a few pictures of alternative means of transport.

Memories of Alfred Barrow, Thorncliffe and Parkview

0019694 ON Wednesday Alfred Barrow Thorncliffe and Parkview schools all closed their doors for the final time.
We're looking for former pupils, staff and governors to get in touch with memories of their time time at Barrow's closing schools.
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Winners of the double

IN the season of 1959-60 it seems the rugby players from St Aloysius School, Barrow, were pretty tough to beat.

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Memories of a former Alfred Barrow teacher

I TAUGHT in Alfred Barrow Girl's School during the period when Miss Kay Barrett was Head of School (1975-9). She was the best Head Teacher I have ever worked for in my teaching career.

Era of food shortages made worse by blizzard

IN this fourth extract from the newspaper cuttings and letters sent to an American pen pal by Barrow teenager Margaret Stanswood we take a look at what life was like in the town just after the end of the Second World War.

UPDATED: Love Memories

Ulverston Mem 20 Our online archive has now been updated.
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Time travelling village

THIS set of before and after pictures show the Waberthwaite village school and its traditional post office with a 100 year gap.

Artistic tour of the past

Mems/001.jpg A TREASURE trove of original artwork showing South Cumbria’s villages, public buildings and grand country homes is being sold at auction later this month.

What price for town’s water supply in 1878?

MONEY went rather further in 1878 when Millom was asked whether it wanted to pay for its own reservoir.

Names found for sports stars of Beef and Beer

THE sporting stars of Beef and Beer featured on the Memories Page (June 21) and we hoped for find out some more information about this curious sporting fixture.

A0449413 A new picture cd from the Evening Mail featuring 190 images of Millom Ironworks through the decades. It includes views of the buildings dating from the Victorian era through to closure in September 1968.

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A0449412 A new picture cd from the Evening Mail featuring almost 150 views of the famous Hodbarrow Mines which raised 25 million tons of heamatite iron ore until the last pit at Moorbank was closed at the end of March in 1968.
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