10 years ago

THE former Canal Tavern pub at Ulverston was offered for sale at £245,000.

PLANS were being drawn up for a £35m new campus for Furness College, at Channelside in Barrow.

ULVERSTON Society of Artists was staging an exhibition with more than 120 pieces of art on display in the Supper Room at the Coronation Hall.

GRAHAM Capstick headed a goal for Holker Old Boys from the remarkable distance of 57 yards against Oldham-based Chadderton at the Rakesmoor Lane ground in Barrow.

25 years ago

SCOTTISH darts star Jocky Wilson played an exhibition and met fans at the Travellers Rest Social Club in Abbey Road, Barrow.

A TERRACED house in Argyle Place, Barrow, was offered for sale at £19,500. A terraced house in Tudor Square, Dalton, was £32,950.

RAYMOND Hillman, of Hartington Street, Barrow, retired from Barrow's postal sorting office after a 43-year career delivering the mail.

SOUTH Lakeland District Council planners voted against a scheme to demolish the 200-year-old brick chimney at Hartley's brewery in Ulverston.

50 years ago

ACTORS from Broughton won the Dobson Shield in a three-day Furness and Cartmel Drama Festival held at Grange.

YOU got a free Philips food mixer worth almost £6 if you bought a new refrigerator from Barrow Co-operative Society’s furnishing department on Abbey Road.

IT was claimed that the building of a Morecambe Bay Barrage from the Cartmel peninsula would result in a rock-carrying lorry passing through Flookburgh every 30 seconds for more than a year.

THE semi-finals of the Barrow Road Safety Queen contest were held at the Vickerstown Institute on Walney. Six from the 22 entrants reached the May final.

Happy birthday

JOEY LAWRENCE, American actor and singer, 41; CARMEN ELECTRA, American actress, 45; SHEMAR MOORE, actor, 47.