10 years ago

A TERRACED house in Hartington Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £104,950. A terraced house in Ulverston Road, Lindal, was £115,000.

CHOIRS from Walney, Barrow and Dalton came together for Furness Children Sing at St James' Church, in Blake Street, Barrow. The concert was to raise cash for disadvantaged children.

AMBITIOUS economic regeneration plans for Grange received the backing of a £100,000 grant from South Lakeland District Council.

PART of a cargo of spruce tree trunks washed ashore on Walney after falling off the deck of MV Stina, off Wicklow, Ireland.

25 years ago

THERE were plans for 19 timber holiday chalets in the Greenscoe quarry, near Askam.

THERE was a suggested merger between South Newbarns Infanmt and Junior Schools in Barrow. The two schools had 300 spare places between them.

NEARLY 80 wide loads were to be moved from Barrow docks to the new gas terminal at Rampside. About half of them would be wider than 30ft and would need lmap columns and traffic lights to be moved.

THERE were plans to build a golf driving range next door to the Park Vale sports centre on Walney.

THE serach started for a new Ulverston carnival queen.

50 years ago

THERE were just 117 people without work in Millom. That was 3.7 per cent of the 3,200 working population.

A TEAM from Ulverston Grammar School won the Cumberland , Westmorland and North Lancashire Schools Rugby UInion Tournament at Netherhall School, Workington.

PRINCESS Sharada Shah of Nepal was to make an informal Easter visit to the lake District as a guest of the Foreign Office.

THERE were complaints from Broughton to the Furness Water Board about the rusty colour of tap water in many homes. Officials said that 4,000 yards of water pipe needed cleaning.

Happy birthday

QUENTIN TARANTINO, director, 54; CLARK DATCHLER, singer, 53; NATHAN FILLION, actor, 46.