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‘Roll-up, roll up! It’s a sell-out as Barrow prepares for Barnum’.

A DALTON Road firm which rose from the Barrow market stall became a great success story for members of the Barrow Civic and Local History Society. Phil Heath said his father, Joe, had moved to Barrow after the Second World War and repaired typewriters from a stall on the old Barrow Butter Market, near the town hall. A shop bought on the Corner of Paxton Terrace and Duke Street went to make way for a new town centre development in the late 1960s and prompted a move to Dalton Road. The shop had been Jack Dall's the ironmongers and Phil joined the firm full-time from school in 1971 when ...

THE shows of Abbey Musical Society have been generating laughter, tears, and applause for decades in the community. In 1985, the musical society’s opening performance of The Inn of the Eighth Happiness was a colourful affair. It was hoped that the shades of grey that lingered in the weather would end that week, by which time performers had been able to master their microphone difficulties. and the children had found the confidence they needed to raise their voices. Noren Steel, who took on the demanding role of Gladys Aylward, portrayed the determined missionary excellently. It won ...