10 years ago

ALL 600 tickets were snapped up for April 11 show at Ulverston Coronation Hall by TV comic Freddie Starr. The last time he had visited Furness was in the 1960s before winning Opportunity Knocks.

CUMBRIA Crystal was producing a range of glassware engraved with an image of Ulverston's Hoad Monument to help raise funds for a major restoration project.

CHIEF Fire Officer for Cumbria, Bernard Dolan, retired after 39 years in the Fire and Rescue Service. He had served as a firefighter in his home town of Barrow in 1971.

CUMBRIA County Council planned to cut opening times at libraries by an average of 10 per cent to save £68,000 a year.

25 years ago

THE Nottingham-based Centric Pub Company bought six Furness pubs from Bass Taverns. They were the Crystal Palace, the Regal and the Theatre Hotel, all in Barrow; the Castle House Hotel, Walney and the White Horse and Devonshire Arms, in Dalton.

AMANDA Slee, of Egremont Street, was chosen as Millom's carnival queen in an event held at Kelly's Nightclub.

COUNTY council highways chiefs rejected plans for a new rank for six taxis mear Kwiksave, in Dalton Road, Barrow.

RECRUITING started for a new Italian restaurant in Cavendish Street, Barrow, to be called Salvana's.

50 years ago

YOU could start on £5 per week as a 15-year-old telephonist for the General Post Office in Barrow. The money went up to £12.52 at the age of 25.

TOPPING the bill at Barrow's Public Hall, in Cornwallis Street, Barrow, was pop band Mommies Darlings.

YOU could see Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music at Barrow's Odeon cinema. The cheapest tickets were five shillings (25p).

THE new Roman Catholic bishop appointed for Windermere was the Right Reverend Thomas Bernard Pearson. He woulds also be parish priest for the newly built Our Lady and St herbert's Church, Windermere.

Happy birthday

ROBERT DOWNEY JR, actor, 52; MALIK YUSEF, actor, 46; NATALIE PIKE, actress, 34.