A ROBOT exhibition is set to be held in Whitehaven later this year ... and Robbie the Robot from the 1960s, who is around six feet tall and made from scrap metal. "It's a fabulous exhibition with a ...

Arthur Ferguson opened Ferguson's Shop in Millom in the 1950s and still works around six days a week ... David said: "We live in Cumbria so we aren't far from the Scottish border. "He used to drive ...

Members of West Coast Cosplay have been in Carlisle this week to promote the Minicon event taking place this month in Whitehaven. The group will be in Whitehaven and Workington in the coming ...

Earlier this week one of my co-workers asked me what I was going to write about this month and I thought, “Dang, I haven’t even thought about that yet.” ...

FORMER patients are among those to oppose a decision made by NHS bosses to close a mental health facility. Yewdale Ward at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven will shut, with extra beds due ...

Arthur Ferguson opened Ferguson’s Shop in Millom, Cumbria, in the 1950s and has run it ever since. The great-grandfather, who served in WWII, still enjoys helping customers and says he likes the ...

George Brooks, a soda jerk at the Bodega Lunch Club in La Crosse for more than 41 years, had a special talent of raising and training bloodhounds to search for people. Between 1932 and 1960 ...

In the 1960s, the space at Carlisle station was used ... Lawson's Monument will be moved as part of the scheme. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. What happened to the ...

Whitehaven is a town by the sea but not a seaside town. The first designed town in England since the Middle Ages, it was ...

Tel 01642 246295. (Mann) Peacefully at Emmaus House, Whitehaven, Cumbria on April 27th, aged 97. Beloved wife to the late Aleksander, mother to Richard and Paul, mother-in-law to Gráinne and ...