10 years ago

BARROW Town Hall chiefs were set to spend £60,000 on helping the homeless.

THERE was a long queue of pensioners waiting to get their new Stagecoach smart card bus passes electronically activated in Barrow.

SWARTHMOOR magician Steve Dacre used a copy of the Evening Mail as part of a trick to help win the North Western Society of Magicians' Close Up contest. He poured water from the paper into a wine glass - but the paper was still dry when he had finished.

ULVERSTON couple Matthew and Bea Grice opened the Temple Thai restaurant in a former lingerie shop in Cavendish Street, Ulverston.

25 years ago

A TERRACED house in North Lonsdale Road, Ulverston, was offered for sale at £42,000. A Georgian terraced house in The Square, Broughton, was £69,950.

FURNESS had a strike-free year according to new figures from the Department of Employment.

ULVERSTON men Colin Athersmith and David Crossley won a holiday in Orlando, America, was winners of the TV quiz show Bullseye, hosted by Jim Bowen.

FRED Postlethwaite retired after 20 years as chairman of Kirkby Parish Council. He was replaced by Dr Derek Stansfield.

50 years ago

YOU could earn up to £785 a year as home help organiser for the health department at Barrow council. A NEW extension opened at the Barrow Marks & Spencer store on Dalton Road.

YOUNGSTERS from Holy Trinity School, Darwen, were shown around the Barrow docks tug Rampside by skipper Alfred Goff.

THE Conservative Club, in Abbey Road, Barrow, had a dance with music from the Levenaires Band.

THE Furness Water Board was warned of the danger of a typhoid or dysentry outbreak at Arrad Foot, near Ulverston, until urgent action was taken to imrove the water supply.

Happy birthday

LIAM NEESON, actor, 65; PADDY McALOON, singer, 60; GEORGE EZRA, singer, 24.