100 YEARS AGO - 1918
The retirement from the headmastership of Kirkby Lonsdale elementary school of Mr John Taylforth recalls the circumstances that in 62 years this school has only had two headmasters.
Mr Taylforth’s own term of service in that capacity is 39 years.
50 YEARS AGO - 1968
Though 13 tons of tea in boxes was scattered onto the pavement when a large container toppled from an articulated lorry as it rounded the corner from Miller Bridge to New Road in the early hours of Tuesday morning, not a drop was spilled.
The driver of the lorry, from Birmingham, was unhurt and the load undamaged. It narrowly avoided crushing a newly erected bus shelter.
25 YEARS AGO - 1993
Ordnance Survey has put hundreds of abandoned Lake District ‘trig pillars’ up for adoption and is looking for volunteers to see that they do not fall into disrepair.
Advances in satellite mapping has made most of the concrete and stone monuments, marking many of the area’s high spots, redundant.
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