10 YEARS AGO: There were hopes for Big Lottery Fund cash to link Millom and Haverigg with a new network of footpaths and cycleways.

You could earn around £20,000 as store manager for confectioner Thorntons in Barrow.

Dalton vicar the Reverend Alan Mitchell was named as Dalton with Newton Town Council's Citizen of the Year.

A semi-detached house at Juniper Close, Dalton, was offered for sale at £163,000. A terraced house at Settle Street, Barrow, was £90,000.

25 YEARS AGO: Barrow market butcher James Fisher retired. His stall was taken over by Norman and Sue Rhodes.

Former deputy Prime Minister Viscount Whitelaw was to speak at a conference at the National Park Visitor Centre, Brockhole, on Faith in Tourism.

The former chief constable of Greater Manchester Sir James Anderton was to give a speech in Barrow about his career.

The new chairman of Barrow-based Furness Building Society was chartered accountant John Winder.

50 YEARS AGO: John Cameron and Donald McFarlane, both of Walney, were to retire as members of the island's Auxiliary Coastguard Service.

There was a licensed house for every 367 people in the Bootle division, covering Millom, Haverigg, Silecroft and Bootle. Magistrates were told that the area had 27 pubs and four off-licences, plus 10 clubs able to sell alcoholic drinks.

the police officer Peter Cooper, of Thornhill, near Egremont, was awarded the British Empire medal for saving a boy from drowning at St Bees.

The fashion department at the County Stores, Ulverston, could offer a repair or remodelling service on your fur coats and stoles.

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