10 YEARS AGO: Work started to turn a former garden for the Victoria Park Hotel, Barrow, into a car park.

The number of people being taken to court in Barrow for not paying mortgages or rent had increased by 18 per cent in the past two years.

Youngsters from Cartmel Primary School held a sponsored balloon launch to start a funding appeal to extend the school hall.

Plans were approved for an American diner at a former bathroom showroom opposite the Portland Walk Arcade, Barrow.

25 YEARS AGO: Wesley and Hazel Rayner, of Cheltenham Street, Barrow, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr Raynor was with the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment during the Second World War.

More than 3,000 people signed a petition calling for Roose hospital, Barrow, to be spared from closure.

Furness building firms were being invited to tender for work worth £2m at St Bernard's Secondary School, Barrow. It was all part of a move to a single site at Rating Lane.

Parents at St Paul's Junior School, Barrow, were voting on whether to opt out of local authority control.

50 YEARS AGO: You could see Irish show band The Witnesses at Barrow's 99 Cabaret Club, in Dalkeith Street.

A terraced house in Byron Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £1,600.

You could earn up to £735 per year as a laboratory assistant for Barrow education committee.

A new Fiat 125 was £1,040 from the Mill Brow Garage, on Abbey Road, Dalton.

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