There have been four major exchange visits between Ulverston and Mexico City and Mexico City and Ulverston.
William Basil Weston's medal was placed on permanent loan at the Green Howards Museum at Richmond in 2001 by his nephew, Basil Weston of Ulverston.
The Gazette entry gives many addresses: Queen Anne’s Gate and Victoria Chambers, Westminster; Aberdare; Tondu; Meathop, Westmorland; Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire; The Hague; Cross Street, Manchester; 46 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill; Ulverstone; Grange-over-Sands; and Wellington, New Zealand.
This epithet was famously used by Lord Haw-Haw during one of his propaganda broadcasts of World War II when he warned the residents of Ulverston that the German Air Force would bomb their pepper pot.
Coauthoring with W. G. Collingwood A pilgrimage to the saga-steads of Iceland. (1899, W. Holmes: Ulverston (publisher))
Benson was the son of John Benson (1684-1766), a salt dealer of Mansriggs, near Ulverston, in Furness.
A passenger ferry to Liverpool thus commenced from Ulverston canal in 1835, which was later complemented by a service from Barrow-in-Furness to Fleetwood.
The Dereham side was unusual in that there was a platform on either side of the train, allowing the passengers the choice of which side to alight from, much the same as Ventor and Ulverston stations.