10 years ago

A TERRACED house at Victoria Street, Millom, was offered for sale at Victoria Street, Millom. A semi-detached house at Deal Avenue, Walney, was £112,000.

THERE was a search for new tenants at the 17th century High Cross Inn at Broughton.

A GROUP of Furness College catering and hospitality students prepared a special historic meal which was served on the replica Napoleonic Wars ship The Grand Turk during a visit to Barrow.

BARROW'S Waterfront regeneration was helping to create some of the 31 new jobs in Cumbria created by Capita Symonds for engineers and consultants. The firm provided services for Cumbria County Council.

25 years ago

A STONE Age find of national significance was made by archaeologists in a cave at Scales, near Dalton. Among the discoveries were flint knives and scrapers, antler tools and human teeth and skull fragments.

BARROW council was relying on council house sales of £240,000 to avoid any budget cuts to town hall services.

BARROW police officer Steve Holmes was off to Australia as part of the British police rugby league touring party.

WALNEY had some of the cleanest beaches in the North West according to new figures from the National Rivers Authority. Bardsea beach had failed three different tests, including one for entero-viruses.

50 years ago

ANNIE Wells retired as Grange superintendent of the St John Ambulance Brigade after 35 years with the first aid organisation.

WINIFRED Webber was the new president of the Barrow Business and Professional Women's Club.

A TOILET role was sixpence (2p) and a family box of Weetabix was 2/3 (11p) from Dalzell's store in Douglas Street, Walney.

MILLOM Rural District Council was asked to spend £400 to repair a sea wall at Seascale where a house, called herding Neb, on Drigg Road, was threatened by coastal erosion.

Happy birthday

LIONEL RICHIE, singer, 68; JOHN GOODMAN, actor, 65; VIKRAM SETH, author, 65.