10 YEARS AGO: The new Core Strategy from South Lakeland District Council looked to the building of 1,130 new homes in the Ulverston area.

A terrace house in Walton Lane, Barrow, was offered for sale at £119,950. A detached house in Worcester Street, Barrow, was £105,000.

The newly refurbished Askam Co-op store was officially re-opened by Lucy Pether from Askam School.

You could earn up to £18,430 per year as a learning mentor at Millom School.

25 YEARS AGO: Planners gave approval for the demolition of a chimney on the Hartley's brewery site at Ulverston, which had last brewed beer in 1991.

Addiction to tranquillizers in Barrow was 20 per cent higher than in any other part of Cumbria, said a report for the Family Health Services Authority.

A semi-detached house in Ennerdale Close, Dalton, was offered for sale at £33,500. A terraced house in Main Road, Swarthmoor, was £39,500.

The former Abbey Methodist Church in Barrow, renamed the Trinity Church Centre, was to be gutted in a £500,000 scheme to provide a social centre and a place of worship under one roof.

50 YEARS AGO: Holme Island, near Grange, was withdrawn from sale by public auction when bidding ended at £19,400.

The Rivers Lune, Kent and Leven were being checked by a Salford University team as part of a three-year project to show why salmon migrate to fresh water rivers.

Noreen Pickerill and Bill Steel starred in the Abbey Musical Society production of Wedding in Paris at the Public Hall, Barrow.

More than 130 Furness people returned from a four-day trip to Holland with The Mail.

The number of people in Barrow without a job was 717. At Dalton it was 90.

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