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A Bottle in the Sea.

                             Article from the Barrow Evening Mail. 1988.

'Strange how fate led me to Walney'

WHEN Jud Evans was 13 (1948) he went on a trip to the Isle of Man from Liverpool with the Boys' Brigade. Halfway across the Irish Sea he threw a bottle overboard with a childish message inside. The bottle washed up on Walney Island where it was picked up by a Bar­row youngster who got in touch with Jud after finding the message and the schoolboy's plan-drawing of Walney, similar to a kid imagining Treasure Island. The hand of fate was to play its part for Jud nearly 40 years later.

MANAGER

After buying and running a hotel in Turkey Jud was looking through the job advertisements in a national newspaper, he saw that someone was needed as a sales manager on Walney Island.

Noting the Walney ad­dress and his mind going back to the bottle, he applied for the job and got the position.

That was three years ago — at the West shore Mobile Home Park and he has just been made general manager, supervising 300 homes on the 11-acre site.

REUNION

Mr Evans told the Mail 'The strange thing is that it was the mention of Walney that attracted me.

'Yet, amazingly, Earnse Bay beach where West Shore Park now stands was the very place where the young lad found my bottle.