25 years ago – 1996
Patterdale
Patterdale mountain rescue team have submitted a planning application for their new £250,000 headquarters.
The team of 28 rescuers, currently based at Deer Howe, Patterdale, need more space for their equipment and rescued climbers and walkers.
Dr. John Ellerton, chairman of the Patterdale team, said: “We have used our present base for the last 30 years and it has served us well. We have now joined forces with Outward Bound Ullswater which means that we have to increase the facilities.”
Alston
Plans to turn Alston Town Hall into a multi-purpose community centre have received a boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund. An award of £149,000 has been granted to the project, which also received £60,907.69 from the European Regional Development Fund.
Alston fireman Dennis Nichol was the centre of attention at the town’s fire station.
Mr. Nichol, of Chapel Terrace, Alston, was awarded a medal from the county brigade for 20 years’ service and good conduct.
Members of Dennis’s family were present to see him receive the award and everybody then enjoyed a buffet meal at the Swan’s Head Inn.
Penruddock
A piece of village history was made at Penruddock when Karen Head married Peter Cross – they were the first couple to wed in the village church.
All Saints’ Church, originally built in 1901, was without a licence for weddings for 91 years, meaning villagers had to go to Greystoke to be married locally. In 1992 it was decided to put this right and, having obtained a licence, the church bells finally rang out for a wedding this year.
Appleby
Former Appleby solicitor Alan McKenzie Fell died at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, at the weekend, aged 81.
Mr. Fell, who lived at Bongate, worked for a number of practices in Appleby and Kirkby Stephen and was also clerk to Kirkby Stephen Magistrates’ Court during his career.
Kirkby Thore
Memories of cooking in a small kitchen outside the school were recalled when Ann Aldridge retired as the cook at Kirkby Stephen School.
Mrs. Aldridge has served meals at the school for 27 years and also cooked for Cliburn and Temple Sowerby schools.
Before becoming the cook she was a general assistant for two years and during that time the food was prepared in a small kitchen outside the school.
50 years ago – 1971
Caldbeck
Regular transmission of the B.B.C. 2 625-line colour service will begin from the Caldbeck transmitter on Monday, 16th August.
The B.B.C. 1 service will be added a few weeks later. This news was given to Mr. Michael Jopling, M.P. for Westmorland, in a letter from the B.B.C. this week.
Penrith
August Monday, the 30th, will hear “Time” called for the last time at one of Penrith’s oldest inns, going back to the 16th Century.
It is the Old Crown in King Street, and Mr. Bill Holmes and his wife Edith are giving up the tenancy of the former Glasson’s, now Whitbread-Duttons’, house to run a guest house in Blackpool.
Mr. Holmes told the “Herald” that one of the reasons for their decision to leave was because the residential business of the inn had been hit by the advent of the Penrith by-pass and later by the completion of the Motorway through the two counties.
To mark his retirement after 25 years at St. Andrew’s Parish Church, Penrith, Mr. Albert Rushforth was presented with a music cabinet after Sunday’s Evensong. His successor is Mr. Donald Wood.
Temple Sowerby
Only five weeks after taking over the courts of the former tennis club, the newly-formed Temple Sowerby Bowling Club opened its green for the first time on Wednesday night.
The tennis courts had not been used recently and had fallen into a bad state but the members of the committee of the Bowling Club have put in so much hard work, when Mr. Sam Burns, President of Appleby Bowling Club, bowled the first wood on Wednesday, he congratulated them on the condition of the green.
Ravenstonedale
A meeting of the trustees of some of some of the Ravenstonedale charities, together with other members of the Parish Council, was held to discuss a proposal by the Parish Council to integrate the Ravenstonedale Parochial Charity, the John Robinson Charity and the John Holme Charity.
100 years ago – 1921
Keswick
A flag at Keswick day raised £30 for the Sailors’ Orphanage in Hull. It was organised by Miss Lawson, The Library, Keswick, and the collectors were: Misses Salmon, S. Salmon, M. Williamson, M. Milburn, Harden, Richardson, B. Pape, Grainger and Thornthwaite.
Skelton
At the Royal Lancashire Show, Mr. J. H. Toppin, Skelton, scored another success with his notable Shorthorn heifer, Mischief, which followed up its achievements at the Royal and Yorkshire Shows by winning outright Lord Derby’s 100-guineas championship with his third successive triumph.
Mr. Toppin’s cow, Bright Princess, was placed reserve.
