10 years ago

AN appeal went out for people to come forward to alleviate Cumbria's shortage of foster carers.

A TERRACED house in Powerful Street, Walney, was offered for sale at £133,950. A detached bungalow in Yarlside Road, Barrow, was £130,000.

ENGLAND football hero Steven Gerrard was tipped as the person to unveil the statue to Barrow's Emlyn Hughes on Abbey Road.

HELICOPTER carrier HMS Ocean - which was fitted out in Barrow - was involved in a £28m drug bust in the Caribbean. It played a key role in the seizure of 12 bales of cocaine.

25 years ago

COUNTY Road was dropped from the Ulverston carnival parade route due to the costs of traffic control.

A CLASSIC motorbike ridden by Barrovian Bill Maddrick in the Isle of Man TT Races in the 1950s was sold at auction at the RAF Museum, Hendon, for £14,500.

THE Princess of Wales turned down an offer to become honorary president of Barrow Rugby Football Club. The invitation was the idea of the club's commercial manager Les Kirkman.

A MAJOR fundraising lottery with £16,000 in prizes was about to be launched in aid of St Mary's Hospice in Ulverston.

50 years ago

WORKERS and management from the Vickers shipyard at Barrow were on a week's course together to study how the yard should be run into the 1970s. The joint work study course was being held at the Electrical Trades Union training college at Esher, Surrey.

YOU could earn £16 for a 40-hour week as a maintenance fitter and turner for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Windscale and the Calder Works, Sellafield.

THERE was £13 a week on offer from North Lonsdale Rural District Council as a rodent operator. You needed to be able to drive a small van.

Happy birthday

JULIAN CLARY, comedian, 58; PAUL WELLER, singer, 59; ANTHEA TURNER, presenter, 57.