Timeline with Ann Jones

Modern manners? No thanks!

Published 11 October 2008

When I was a youngster I was made to sit down and write thank you letters whenever I received a present, usually at birthdays and Christmas.

Timeline concert in memory of Jimmy Henshaw

Published 6 October 2008

A date for your diary - Sunday, November 30. Timeline is hosting a charity concert at Harraby Catholic Club in memory of one of Cumbria’s finest musicians, Jimmy Henshaw.

If you were a fan of the late great Matt Monro, whose golden voice sold him over 100 million records in a career that spanned over 50 years, then you may like to spend an evening in the company of his son, Matt Monro Jnr.

On the record: Carlisle singer’s life in music

Published 4 October 2008

Music has always been Richard Atkinson’s passion. Better known on the music circuit as Richard Dean, he has travelled worldwide with a career spanning over four decades. Today he shares his memories with Timeline.

Ready to rock in Jimmy’s memory

Published 4 October 2008

WE'RE in business! The tickets for Timeline’s Charity Concert in memory of Jimmy Henshaw at Harraby Catholic Club on Sunday November 30 are now on sale. It’s a great afternoon’s entertainment with Rue and the Rockets and Tony Johnson.

The rubber woman blues

Published 27 September 2008

Alastair Duncan of www.fenderstrat.co.uk recalls the history of one of the bands he was in during the mid Seventies – The Hootenanny Blues Band.IN 1977 Richard Sutton, theatre director of the Carnegie Theatre in Workington, read an article about Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger forming a group called the ‘Hootenannies’ in America during the 1940s inviting folk singers, poets and other artists to turn up spontaneously.

Tomorrow’s world on tomorrow’s TV?

Published 27 September 2008

FROM 1965-2003 the BBC programme Tomorrow's World wowed audiences with inventions that promised to transform our lives... and there are rumours that it could be making a return to our screens.

Remember Brook St?

Published 27 September 2008

WE ASKED Timeline readers to submit their school pictures, but to date only James Cartwright from Currock has submitted the Brook Street Boys in 1955 – and a fine bunch they look too.

Making music a family affair

Published 20 September 2008

WE WERE having the time of our lives playing with the band and I can remember thinking to myself ‘I will remember these days for the rest of my life’.

We’ll fix it for Jimmy’s concert

Published 20 September 2008

TIMELINE hosts a charity concert at Harraby Catholic Club on Sunday, November 30 in memory of one of Cumbria’s finest musicians, Jimmy Henshaw. It promises to be a great afternoon of Sixties nostalgia.

Flower names are in fashion once again

Published 20 September 2008

WITH names like Lily Allen and Daisy Lowe in the headlines, flower names are making their way back into fashion for a new generation of parents.

My very best of British

Published 13 September 2008

One in 10 people say Britain is losing its identity. Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has suggested that young people should be encouraged to undergo a citizenship ceremony including an oath of allegiance. Imagine a completely British existence, where everything not adhering to strict guidelines is banned. Every car, food and even landmark having to pass a test of Britishness before being granted entry into this brave new world of Bulldogs and Bentleys.

Carry on! You’re 50

Published 13 September 2008

ON THE subject of being British, the slapstick Carry On films celebrate their 50th birthday this year.

Pontin on a show made my holiday

Published 6 September 2008

When I was about six or seven the Carlisle Cathedral choir came round schools to look for young recruits.

Joe’s Bryl-iant memories

Published 6 September 2008

IN A recent interview with Radio Cumbria presenter Joe Costin, he told Timeline he was a Brylcreem boy during the Sixties.

All that jazz at Coach House just too popular

Published 30 August 2008

The Coach House Club wasn’t just about getting big names to augment the normal sessions as members had been used to special events in earlier years at Kirklinton Hall and as fancy dress was in vogue in those days, Midsummer balls, Halloween parties, etc were often organised.

Punchline to our joke of a summer

Published 30 August 2008

UNLESS you’ve been on holiday abroad this year, the chances of a beach holiday in the UK will have been pretty slim, thanks to the good old British weather.