Village rates mention in the Domesday Book

BARDSEA is a great place for a pub lunch and a stroll on the beach, but has a long and interesting history stretching back at least 1,000 years.

Manx use for Lakes stone axes

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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Try a pint and a prayer

BACK in 1901 Torver’s population was just 207 and it still had a railway station.

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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Street racing with a stick and boolie-hoop

JACK Marsh, from Barnard Street in Barrow, takes a look to a street game much in favour with youngsters of the past – the boolie.

Keeping 30,000 workers off the ale

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.

War girls stepping out

WE are hoping someone in Grange will recall the reason for this rather impressive march of military ladies on Main Street during the Second World War.

UPDATED: Love Memories

Ulverston Mem 20 Our online archive has now been updated.
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A country way of living

TODAY we are taking a look at a couple of aspects of country life in the South Lakes just over a century ago.

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‘s in a decade?

IN tomorrow’s Evening Mail you can read about the hopes and predictions for the next 10 years made by young people in our latest Love Barrow supplement.

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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