25 years ago – 1996
Cumbria
Christian organisations in the Carlisle diocese are to be discouraged from applying to the lottery fund for grants because the lottery goes against Christian ethics.
At a meeting of the Diocesan Synod at Cartmel on Saturday, members passed by an overwhelming margin a motion put forward by Canon Chris Atkinson that: “This synod believes that the National Lottery does not refelect Christian ethics.”
The synod also passed, by a narrower margin, a second motion that church bodies should be discouraged from making applications to the lottery fund.
Penrith
Penrithian Arthur Blaylock has raised more than £300 to date for Age Concern Eden through a sponsored marathon dance.
Mr. Blaylock, aged 81, completed 22 dances in a stamina-sapping session at a supper dance at Cliburn village hall.
The former farm worker is well known among dancing circles for his verve and gusto on the dance floor.
The future of Eden District Council-owned land in the Southend Road area of Penrith is in the melting pot in view of proposals to create a food superstore, petrol filling station and car parking.
Councillors went into secret session at a special meeting on Thursday to hear a proposal from independent developers to build on council land.
The agenda items was called “Planning gain and development”.
During the debate into whether the discussion should be held in public or private, councillors discussed reports that companies such as Sainsbury’s or Tesco might be interested in the superstore plan.
Keswick
People standing at a new bus stop in Keswick could have a long wait – the next bus is not due until the summer at the earliest.
The stop near the Lakeside car park is for a summer service to Watendlath, but it is not even certain if the buses will run at all this year.
“It is reassuring people that this is the place to wait for a bus,” said a spokesman for the Lake District traffic management initiative, which erected the sign.
Eden
The Eden community could suffer a major slump as a result of the latest announcement o links between mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of the illness.
Any permanent fall in beef consumption resulting from the news would severely hit the incomes of most Eden farmers, on whom the economy of the area is still largely reliant.
Richard Morris, managing director of auctioneers Penrith Farmers’ and Kidd’s, said that 5,000 farmers bought or sold animals through the company, and 85 to 90 per cent of these were involved in beef production.
Mungrisedale
Vaudeville is alive and well at the Palace of Varieties, Mungrisdale.
An astonishing array of talent was on display at the first Mungrisdale Revue, held to raise funds for a new kitchen at the village hall.
Youthful Helen Fleming showed courage as well as a delightful singing voice as she opened proceedings before a packed house with Cabaret.
Dorothy Chalk, Jean Worthington, Christine Fleming, Mabel Little, Muriel Stoddart, Jean Armstrong and Bradshaw starred in a Mothers’ Union playlet which combined laughter with a serious message.
50 years ago – 1971
Penrith
Two Sixth Form pupils of Penrith Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Rodney Pearson, Penrith, and Julia Goulding, Temple Sowerby, will be appearing on the B.B.C. television program “Platform VIth” on Tuesday night at 10-10 pm.
The series features debates between teams from schools in the North and Julia and Robert will be proposing a motion that “Industrial development in the North West is more realistic than further development in the North East”.
Members of the North West Suckled Calf Breeders’ Society, at their ninth annual meeting in the Agricultural Hotel, Penrith, on Thursday evening, were advised by their President, the farmer Earl of Lonsdale, to look ahead to the problems of the Common Market, the loss of hill subsidies and replacement of herds during the initial years of the Brucellosis eradication scheme.
“I cannot see that entry into the Common Market, as I understand it, can be anything other than extremely difficult for hill farming,” declared Lord Lonsdale.
Berrier
In these days of spiralling prices, people tend to think back to “the good old days” when things were cheaper, and one who is really qualified to judge inflation is Mr. John Joseph Jackson, Murrah Hall, Berrier, who celebrated his 95th birthday on Thursday, and can remember when coal was 7d. a cwt.
In his younger days farm hands were paid £12 per half year at the age of 17, and £8 at the age of 20. Beef was 6d. to 7d. a pound and flour 1s. 6d. per stone.
Keswick
Keswick’s new £150,000 automatic electronic telephone exchange near the G.P.O. sorting office in Penrith Road comes into operation on Monday when, at 8-30 a.m., the old exchange above the main Post Office at the corner of Main Street and Bank Street – the last manually operated in Cumberland – will close.
Ringing the operator will in future entail dialling “100” to contact the Penrith exchange staff, instaed of merely lifting the telephone to hear a familiar voice at the Keswick exchange.
Alston
After discussing several possible sites, and agreeing that those at Tyne Willows or Hairhill apearedmost suitable, teh Alston Moor Swimming Pool Committee on Tuesday decided to call a public meeting to consider the suggestion.
100 years ago – 1921
Garrigill
Garrigill cattle show is to be revived.
This was a unanimous decision at a well attended meeting, when Mr. J. Millican presided. The Rev. N. A. Walton was appointed secretary.
Kirkby Stephen
Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan and Company, having recently extended operations for the working of limestone and ironstone quarries in the North of England, are turning to Westmorland and it is expected that working will start shortly on the working of pure limestone and ironstone on the 1,630ft. high Hartley Fell.
The ironstone there was worked 60 years ago.
