A boy aged around 10 had to be rescued by firefighters after managing to climb to the top of the Cenotaph in Barrow Public Park.

There was agreement to build a zebra crossing on Greengate Street, Barrow, near the Greengate Infant School.

The dust settled after a pair of massive brick cooling towers were brought down at the Calder Hall nuclear site in West Cumbria. Calder Hall had been opened by the Queen in 1956.

A meeting was called to form a new Dalton Traders and Business Association.

25 YEARS

Rail officials were to offer refunds to Millom commuters who were overcharged by £2.10 in a mix-up about newly-imposed day return fares.

More than 50 people joined voluntary warden Geoff Johnson on a fungus hunt at Sandscale Haws and the Roanhead dunes, near Barrow.

In the past three months, Barrow's Citizens' Advice Bureau dealt with debt cases involving well over a million pounds.

County engineers believed that Lindal and Marton School was sinking due to the effects of an underground stream. It was expected to cost £170,000 to deal with the problem.

50 YEARS AGO

You could dance to pop music from the Uz Groop at St Luke's Hall, Barrow. It cost three shillings (15p) to get in.

The National rust was launching an appeal fpr £10,000 to deal with flooding damage at Borrowdale, Langdale and the Duddon Valley.

Damage to a beach cafe at St Bees, in West Cumberrland, was thought to have been due to a whirlwind. A number of windows were smashed and the roof damaged.

Millom's Palladium cinema was being put up for sale by owners MBC Cinemas. It was hoped there could be a joint bid by Millom council and Millom Amateur Operatic Society.