25 Years Ago

February 4, 1978

ULVERSTON Town Council is pressing for traffic lights at two junctions in the town. The council heard that Mr R.M. Longden-Thurgood had written to the North West Road Construction Unit urging that traffic lights, controlled together, should be provided at the junctions of the A590 with Princes Street and Victoria Road, as part of Stage Three Diversions. "He has been advised that it is intended to control the Princes Street junction by traffic lights as part of Stage Three," the council was told. Any question of traffic lights at the Victoria Road junction would, however, have to be raised with the Department of Transport. The council decided to make representations to the department.

50 Years Ago

February 7, 1953

FURTHER progress towards providing an art gallery for Kendal in Abbot Hall mansion was reported by Ald. T.H. Dobie when he presented the minutes of the Museum Committee at Tuesday's meeting of the town council. Ald. Dobie said the director of Manchester City Art Gallery had inspected Abbot Hall last week to advise and had expressed great admiration for the beautiful Georgian building which, he said, would be ideally suited for the purpose. "At this stage we cannot give you any figures of probable cost, but I can say that two-thirds of the expense will be restoring the building and the amount for the actual conversion into an art gallery will be very small," he added.

100 Years Ago

February 7, 1903

THE agitation at Ambleside against dear milk came to a head on Saturday in a mass meeting of milk buyers who made speeches, passed resolutions, and nominated a deputation to confer with the milk-sellers. The price of milk at Ambleside is 4d. per quart, in all the country round it is 3d. per quart. Presuming that the facts are as they were stated on Saturday, it is strange that this state of things should have lasted 18 months. Here we have a place where there is a considerable demand for milk, where there is discontent with the conditions of the present supply, where anyone introducing a good supply at 3d. per quart would do a profitable business, yet nobody ventures in with three penny milk. How is it that the four penny men keep the monopoly, at a price which is 33 per cent higher than that obtained by the producers of the similar article in the adjacent district? Somehow or other the present state of things does not square with the law of supply and demand.

150 Years Ago

February 5, 1853

THE proposal to introduce organ music into Scotch Church, Rodney Street, is likely to lead to further discord. On Sunday last, a notice was posted on the church doors, intimating that, as a large number of the pew holders had not signified any opinion on the subject, the committee of management would take an early opportunity of ascertaining the decision of those who had not yet given their votes for or against the introduction of an organ into that place of worship. The presenter was also requested to read the notice immediately after the last psalm of the service, but whether from a pious horror of such an inroad upon the established usages of the establishment of the Church of Scotland, from a natural dread of being displaced in the event of a musical instrument being introduced in his place, or from forgetfulness, it does not appear, but certain it is that he omitted to read the notice.

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