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The name was earlier spelled Baycliffe and some residents who grew up there still use that spelling. PIE: Phil Wood with a selection of pies at The Farm Shop, Baycliffe, in 2003 In 2003 one of The Mail’s weekly business profiles featured The Farm Shop in the village, which was run by Martin and Helen Barlow. The article referred to how 16 years earlier Martin, working as a small farmer and selling home-made vegetables, needed a new potato store. Having previously been involved in building work he was determined to make a good job of it. So much so, in fact, that his neighbours j...

A 20-year-old Dalton woman was one of the stars at the Barrow and District Caged Bird Association show in October 1991 when her budgies and lovebirds gained top marks. CAGE: A pair of yellow African ring necks which were judged to be the best parrots in the show in 1996 Sharon Benzie, of Littlefield, won the prestigious Tyson Cup and Evening Mail Trophy at the annual show, held at Forum 28 in the town. The event attracted more than 250 entries. Sharon said she was ‘very pleased’ to win at what was her second show. “I showed at Ulverston last week,” she said. “Then it�...

ON this very day 80 years ago Barrovians had spent the night hiding in shelters for almost eight terrifying hours after an aerial attack. From 9.57pm on Tuesday April 15 in 1941 to 5.35am the following day, bombs fell on the town centre, killing 20 people. Bombing during mid-April 1941 caused significant damage to a central portion of Abbey Road, completely destroying the Waverley Hotel as well as Christ Church and Abbey Road Baptist Church. Among the dead was Baptist Minister Gilbert Mason, bravely trying to protect his Abbey Road church as a fire watcher. He would have been armed ...

Nostalgia Menu See photos images Barrow Amateurs went to the local MFI store in 1994 to have their pictures taken. PRODUCTION: Director Jane France with props sourced after an article in the Evening Mail for Barrow Amateurs' 1997 production of Habeas Corpus They were lent the store for the evening because they needed three kitchens in which to take publicity shots for their forthcoming production of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular. The comedy is about three couples who meet for drinks every Christmas. Each pair tak...

By MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 I look up and behold the ornately ornamented ceiling of Detroit's Orchestra Hall, a place I've never actually been. I look down and my legs have vanished, replaced by a single black pole terminating into a tripod. I look all around and find every other seat in the hall empty, though I'm told that at least 10 of us are in attendance. And onstage in front of me, I see the 19 socially distanced members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra tuning their instruments in complete silence - that is, until I pop in my ear buds.