The first 20 engineering students at Barrow's Furness College were awarded their B. Eng Electrical and Mechanical Engineering degrees through Lancaster University.

Work was to start on Barrow's £200m dockland regeneration scheme after the government gave the green light. Construction on the first £17m phase was due to start within days.

Enthusiasts from Furness Amateur Radio Society were to operate a radio station on the Hoad at Ulverston with the call sign GB2JBM. It was part of the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend.

Bad weather prompted the cancellation of a planned visit to Barrow docks by the German cruise ship Delphin Voyager.

25 YEARS

Carole Mitchell, Judith Baily and Sheila Hartny were to attempt the 100-mile Wainwright Coast to Coast Walk, from St Bees to Robin Hoods Bay, to raise funds for the Millom Hospice at Home appeal.

A terraced house in Grosvenor Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £27,000. A semi-detached house at Carlton Avenue, Barrow, was £84,000.

Harold Wilkes, of Butts Beck, Dalton, received a medal from Russia for his role on the Second World War Arctic supply convoys to the Soviets.

Norweb planned extensive improvements to overhead power lines supplying Baycliff village. Some pylons were in poor condition due to the effects of sea spray.

50 YEARS AGO

Vickers would play Dalton in the final of cricket's Higson Cup at the Furness Park ground.

You could earn £12.30 per week as a porter for Barrow and Furness Hospital management committee at its Aldingham Hall continuation hospital. It was a 40-hour week and you had to pay rent to live in the adjoining Dove Cottage.

TV and Decca recording stars The Kenways were to play at Barrow's 99 Cabaret Club, in Dalkeith Street.

There was more than £400 on offer in prize money for entrants at the 42nd Bootle Show, near Millom.