West Cumberland News 14 Feb. 1959 14 Feb. 1959 News | 14 Feb. 1959 News |
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STOLEN GOODS FINES _____ HUSBAND TOLD WIFE TO PLEAD GUILTY. Hannah HOWLETT, 47, housewife, Ehen Road, Cleator Moor, was fined £10 in each of two cases of receiving stolen goods at Maryport Court yesterday. Ald. D. G. WILSON added that if the £20 was not paid within a month she would go to prison for three months. Mrs. HOWLETT pleaded not guilty to receiving stolen goods knowingly, but after three youths, including her 18 year old son, Derek John HOWLETT, had given evidence, she went into the box and her husband in Court said: “You had better come down here and plead guilty.” P. C. HOLMES said the property had been recovered. STOLEN IN SCOTLAND James MONAGHAN, 17, labourer, of Balloch, Scotland, and a 16 year old Cloeator Moor boy pleaded guilty to stealing an eiderdown, candlesticks, alarm clock and a canteen of cutlery, together worth £3, at Morpeth Fair early in October. They stated that they were working on the fair and took the articles to Mrs. HOWLETT at Cleator Moor when the fair reached Cumberland. MONAGHAN was fined £2, plus £6 15s 4d costs. The case against the 16 year old boy was adjourned for a week for a report. MARYPORT THEFT. Derek J. HOWLETT’s statement said he took a traveling clock from a fair vehicle at Maryport. He pleaded guilty. Ald. WILSON said he had a bad juvenile record, but as he had not been in trouble for four years they would put him on probation for two years. ____________ STRANGE SITUATION. _____ One of the signal stations was at Maryport. Among others that near Moresby had a fort in a strange situation, lying in the valley of Lowca Beck, dominated by the cliffs of Lowca to the north and by the rising ground to the south and east. The theory of coastal signal stations, however, explains everything. Soldiers in the fort at Moresby could see three things very well - the horison straight out to the sea, the top of Lowca cliffs to the right, and St. Bees Head to the left. The obvious hypothesis is that the fort served a tower on the top of Lowca Cliffs which, if it ever existed, has long ago perished through erosion. A modern signal station high above Moresby and Distington on the Pica Plateau, by the way, is beam radar for the London - Prestwick planes which come over Red Pike at Buttermere and the plateau every night in all weathers, and never deviate from the beam. We had an impression that the establishment was a post of the Royal Observer Corps, the commandant of which, Mr. Chris GREENHOW, of The Fish, Buttermere, enlightens us otherwise. _____ Are property prices likely to fall? Mr. SANDERSON is often asked that question. His own view is that there is little likelihood of any fall as far as West Cumberland is concerned. “The small amount of private house building since the war has resulted in keen competition for most of the attractive secondhand houses now offered for sale, and a continuing rise in building costs is also against such price reduction,” he says. That is a comforting thought to those people already established in homes of their own. ________ MILLOM INSPECTOR RETIRING. After being stationed at Whitehaven for five years, Inspector C. E. DARBY is moving to Millom to succeed Inspector W. TAYLOR, who is retiring. Inspector TAYLOR is a former Whitehaven R. U. player and C. M. S. Cricketer. Inspector DARBY will be followed at Whitehaven by Inspector GRESHAM, from Penrith. P. C. BEATY, Whitehaven office staff gets promotion to the rank of sergeant and goes to Penrith. P. C. McDONALD, of Silecroft will join the C. I. D. at Kendal. Other changes in the Whitehaven Division include: P. C. BRISCO, Millom to Silecroft; P. C. CALVIN, Cleator Moor to Egremont in place of P. C. ELLIOT, who is retiring after 34 years of service. __________________ RYDAL WATER LIT BY CAR HEADLIGHTS. Day long sunshine helped to make Saturday and Sunday the biggest skating weekend in Southern Lakeland since Windermere was frozen over 30 years ago. People from many parts of the north-west were among the 2,00 on Rydal Water, and 1,000 on Tarn Hows, while Grasmere and all the smaller lakes and tarns had their quota of visitors. At Rydal police had to control parking arrangements, vehicles being parked for nearly a mile along the roadside and in the fields bordering the edge of the ice. Some stayed late to skate by the light of car headlights. Windermere is frozen across its width near the Ferry and Belle Isle. Although Mr. Kenneth SHEPHERD, of Sawrey, has walked across the ice, there is no immediate prospect of a general freezing of England’s longest lake, the upper half being completely free from ice. __________ HOUNDS RESCUED FROM MINE CLIMBED DOWN OLD MINE TO SAVE HOUNDS. A visitor to the Lake District risked his life at the weekend to save two foxhounds of the Ullswater Pack which had fallen down an abandoned mine working. The visitor, Mr. Richard DAVIE, of Sunderland, a keen follower of the Ullswater foxhounds, was watching a hunt near Appleby when the fox dashed past and vanished in an old mine-working followed by the hounds. Mr. DAVIE ran into the mouth of the mine just in time to see a fall of rock knock two of the hounds into the sump of the old mine. He climbed down about 15 feet, picked one of the hounds out of the water and climbed safely back. Then, despite the risk of further falls of loose rock, he insisted on being lowered down again and rescued the second hound which had been slightly injured. _________________ WIGTON YOUNG FARMERS Two Wigton young farmers and one from Caldbeck have been chosen to go to United States: Anne BOZWNESS, Wigton Canada: Joan MANN, Wigton Australia: Marjorie RIDLEY, Caldbeck. The other four, who did not qualify, were Charlotte GASH, Eileen WANNOP and _______________ SEATON PARISHIONERS AS GENEROUS AS EVER. Even on a sunny day the attendance at the annual parochial gathering of the The Vicar, the Rev. F. MOORE, who was accompanied by Mrs. MOORE, performing STALLHOLDERS. Mrs. J. H. MELLORS Miss. LOMAS Mrs. F. MOORE Mrs. T. HODGSON Mrs. G. KENNEY Mrs. E. J. COOPER Mrs. I. LAMB Mrs. T. WILSON Mrs. J. JEFFERSON Mrs. W. MANSELL Mrs. F. SHAW Mrs. R. C. GRAHAM Eric SANDWITH Robbie STEELE David WALLACE William REED Misses.: Margaret MOORE Helen FOSTER Edith MOORE Joan BRIGGS In charge of the tea were Mesdames: SPEARS F. NORMAN T. FORRESTER J. W. FISHER J. W. PRICE J. W. LAWSON J. T. CRAIG H. ROUTLEDGE J. SKELTON R. G. BRIGGS J. SANDELANDS REID BUTTOLPH D. SANDELANDS A. ATKINSON. _______________ SOLDIER’S DEFENCE Ewan John BOWEN (20), trooper, of the 11th Hussars Hadrian’s Camp, Carlisle, It was alleged that at 3:50 a.m. on February 8th P. C. THORNBOROUGH heard BOWEN denied the damage in Court and said he had taken a girl home after the ________________ WORKINGTON FIRE. A fire in the Bromley Street allotments Workington, on Monday night The car and greenhouse are owned by Mr. Arthur McCUTCHEON, of Finkle Street, Workington Fire Brigade was quickly on the scene, but the garage and _______________ MARYPORT MAN WHO PANICKED. Sydney LOGAN (30), Labourer of Grasslot, Maryport, had a £5 fine to pay at Supt. R. HOGG said the police recovered the drums from a demolished house Mr. J. N. WORTHINGTON, for LOGAN, said he worked at J. Moss Bay for United Mrs. A. A. GARDNER presided over the monthly meeting of the Maryport Other business included the reading of the accounts and also the decision to A special prize given by Mrs. TOWERS was won by Nurse DOBIE. Two new members ________________ |
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