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A SYSTEM to restrict the number of coaches into Bowness on any one day has been suggested by a Windermere parish councillor.

In a bid to ease congestion, councillor E.W.R Oakden, who is also a member of the South Lakes Council, said it should be worked out how many coaches Bowness could absorb and issue a set number of licences for a day.

"Is there any means of controlling coaches coming into Bowness, including those from overseas and if not why not?" he asked a parish council meeting.

"One coach is equivalent to 25 cars coming through," said councillor G.

Lubbock, although it was agreed the national park should not be restricted to people who own cars.

The council was going through the Planning Boards National Park plan and gave its views on various things and discussed the problems of traffic.

"It is important we re-emphasise road widening is not compatible in the Lake District," said councillor Oakden.

"The roads should be kept small - if they are widened more and more traffic will come in."

50 Years Ago-September 20, 1952

THE Westmorland planning committee meeting at Kendal on Wednesday afternoon decided to recommend to Westmorland County Council and make it "reluctantly agree" with certain provisions to the use of the Bela River Camp as an open prison.

Later the same week, Holme parish council at a meeting attended by rate payers decided to send a "very strong protest" to the county council and South Westmorland Council against the establishment of the camp in their area.

The decision to send the protest was agreed unanimously after members had referred to the views put forward by the adjoining parish councils of Beetham, Milnthorpe and Holme parish councils.

Westmorland County Council will consider the proposals and the protests at a special meeting called for next Tuesday.

100 Years Ago-September 20, 1902

"HAVE you a bad leg, a poisoned hand, a carbuncle or an abscess? I can cure you.

I don't say perhaps, but I will.

Because others have failed is no reason I should.

You may have wounds that discharge or are swollen, that when you press your finger on the inflamed part it leaves an impression.

If so, under the skin you have poison that defies all the remedies you have tried, which if not extracted, will cause you suffering till death releases you.

Perhaps knees are swollen or the joints ulcerated, then the disease, if allowed to continue, will deprive you of the power to walk.

You may have been told your case is perhaps hopeless or have been advised to submit to amputation, but do not.

Send me a Postal Order for 2s 6d and I will post you a box of grasshopper ointment and pills, which have never failed to cure."

150 Years Ago-September 18, 1852

MANY improvements are being made in the pleasant town of Appleby and if the spirit of the inhabitants continues to move in that direction in a short time it will be, if it is not already, one of the most beautiful places in the Kingdom.

The corporation have already been laying out the money at their disposal, and very judiciously, in improving the streets and lakes of the Eden within the borough.

ON Wednesday, the busy and reportedly improving port of Barrow was the scene of an event novel and most interesting in its history.

We allude to the launch of the first vessel ever built at that port, a first class schooner of 189 tons burthen, for the building yard of William and Richard Ashburne and owned by Thomas Roper, James Davis and others.

The vessel was christened by Richard Roper and was named 'Jane Roper' in compliment to the wife of Thomas Roper.