It was a wet day but morale was high when jobs marchers were escorted into Penrith along Scotland Road by police and supporters 25 years ago.

Jobs marchers on the 500-mile Glasgow to London “People’s March for Jobs” were delighted with the response from Penrithians when they passed through the town. Despite teeming rain, about 40 supporters joined the marchers as they walked to Penrith from Carlisle and escorted them to Ullswater High School where they spent the night. “The local response has been excellent, we are very pleased,” said march marshall Iain Chalmers.

Jobs marchers on the 500-mile Glasgow to London “People’s March for Jobs” were delighted with the response from Penrithians when they passed through the town. Despite teeming rain, about 40 supporters joined the marchers as they walked to Penrith from Carlisle and escorted them to Ullswater High School where they spent the night. “The local response has been excellent, we are very pleased,” said march marshall Iain Chalmers.

KESWICK

A little bit of cricketing history was made in Keswick when the town’s cricket club fielded a third team for the first time. Playing on the Keswick School field, the team comprehensively defeated Morton in an Eden Valley League Division II encounter. The match provided a remarkable contrast in ages. The average age of the Keswick side was 18, the youngest player being 14-year-old Roger Horton. Morton included two of the county’s best-known veterans, 75-year-old Les Mount and 70-year-old George Blacka.

APPLEBY

The lovely tones of the old organ in St. Lawrence’s Church, Appleby, are going on record in celebration of its anniversary. It is 300 years since the organ, formerly in Carlisle Cathedral and possibly dating back to the 1500s, was gifted to the town by a Dean of Carlisle. To mark the tercentenary celebrations, Abbey Recordings, of Oxfordshire, have recorded the playing of a selection of classical pieces on the Appleby organ by Andrew Seivewright, Carlisle Cathedral’s organist.

CUMBRIA

Heavy rainfall over the last few weeks has made the chance of successful crops “touch and go” for Cumbrian farmers. In fact, planting all over the country has been held back by the downpour and, if the rain continues much longer, housewives and farmers alike could be feeling the effects as prices soar in the autumn. Farmer Malcolm Kidd, of North Bank, Lazonby, who is a member of the Potato Marketing Board, expressed concern over the fate of the crops. “All the potatoes should be planted by now, but the ground has simply been too wet. About half the acreage in the country has yet to be planted,” he said.

50 YEARS

PATTERDALE

The number of employees at the Greenside Lead Mine, near Patterdale, totalling just over 80, is shortly to be reduced by rather more than a quarter because of the world-wide recession in the lead mining industry. The 23 men affected at Greenside received notice, and on the same day the mining company stated: “In deciding which men should become redundant, due consideration has been given to those employees with family ties, but this could only be carried out as far as is compatible with the safe working of the mine, for many of the men retained are highly skilled in their own particular type of work.”

ARMATHWAITE

A goods train travelling from Manchester to Carlisle was partly derailed at Baronwood, Armathwaite, when an axle broke on one of the oil tanks it was pulling. Five oil tanker wagons were derailed and a crane from Carlisle worked for six hours removing the tankers from the line. Two suffered severe damage. About 300 yards of railway line were also damaged and permanent way gangs worked for some time repairing the line, which was later reopened.

LAZONBY

Residents of the Lazonby district had the chance to see the process which eggs are put through after being collected from producers, at an open day at the Lazonby Egg Packing Station of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. Visitors were shown how eggs are counted, both by hand and electronically, and then passed under strong lights to look for imperfections.

GREYSTOKE

In the final of the Miss Ullswater competition, Miss Angeline Bell (21), Park Road, Greystoke (Miss Watermillock) was judged to be the winner. The judges were Major and Mrs. Baker, Montreal, Canada, who were staying with Captain Anthony Lowther, joint master of the Ullswater Foxhounds, at Whitbysteads, near Askham. The competition was sponsored by the Ullswater Foxhounds and in the preliminary rounds 26 girls were picked to represent the villages in the area covered by the hunt. This area, which is 1,000 square miles, extends from Burneside, Kendal, around the East Fellside to Dufton and thence to Penrith, Patterdale and Grasmere.

HELTON

Fire endangered an explosive store near Widewath Mill, Helton. A fiercely-burning heath fire was spotted close to the store, which belongs to Messrs. Edmund Nuttall, Sons and Co. Ltd., a large-scale firm of contractors at present engaged in drilling tunnels through the fells to carry water from Swindale into the Haweswater aqueduct. Civilians, many being employees of Messrs. Nuttall, joined forces with firemen from Penrith and Shap in beating out the flames, which at one point were within 75 feet of the store. An area of about two acres of common land was affected, dead grass and bracken being burnt away.

100 YEARS

ARMATHWAITE

The new bridge at Armathwaite, replacing the original one which collapsed, has now been completed. It has cost £4,964 to build and is one of the best bridges on the Eden.

APPLEBY

Mr. William Herdman, Hilton, Appleby, the former manager of the Scoredale Mines, has been elected a member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

PENRITH

A cantata titled “The Musical Village” was performed by Penrith Congregational Band of Hope. The May Queen was played by Miss Doris Pearson and her retinue consisted of Masters George Young, Joseph Pickering, Ernest Irving, Howe and Reggie Brown and the Misses Eunice Kirkbride and Violet Hetherington.

KIRKBY THORE

The death has taken place of Mrs. Crosby, Kirkby Thore, the widow of Mr. John Crosby, Powis House, who was one of the best-known yeoman farmers in the Eden Valley.