A flat at the Old Ship Inn, Ireleth, was offered for sale at £79,950. A terraced house in Bailey Street, Ulverston, was £117,950.

The Inner Wheel Club of Ulverston celebrated its 59th birthday with lunch at the Coot on the Tarn restaurant in Urswick.

At least six people put their names forward as a potential new coach for Barrow Rugby League Club, following the resignation of Paul Crarey.

A garage in the hamlet of Newland, near Ulverston, sodl for £54,000 in a public auction.


25 YEARS AGO

The Department of Transport agreed to look into the possibility of an underpass at Mouzel Lane on the route of the new A590 Dalton bypass. South Lakeland District Council.

Star of TV show The Comedians, Steve Barclay, was to feature in a music hall show called The Good Old Days at Ulverston Coronation Hall.

Half of the people interviewed in a survey by Copeland Councuil into a proposed nuclear waste repository at Sellafield said the scheme was a good idea.

Governors of Coniston's John Ruskin School invited parents to join them on a test run of a planned double-decker bus service to the school along narrrow country roads from Broughton.

50 YEARS AGO

A Hadwin's coach tour from Barrow to Blackpool would cost you 10 shillings and sixpence (52p). Going to Morecambe was six shillings and ninepence (33p).

You could earn up to £795 a year working for the North Western Gas Board as a prepayment meter collector in Barrow.

The third Furness Dance Festival was held at the Coronation Hall, Ulverston. It was organised by the Geoffrey Morris Dance Studios of Ramsden Square, Barrow.

Ulverston Swimming Club held its first gala at the Abbey Baths, Barrow. Carole Langhorn won three races.