10 years ago

THE North West Air Ambulance received £49,000 through affinity savings accounts held with the Barrow-based Furness Building Society.

COUNCIL chiefs spent £15,000 on high-tech adjusting bollards to stop the wrong kind of cars parking too close to Barrow Town Hall on the courtyard.

A SEMI-DETACHED bungalow in St Bees Drive, Barrow, was offered for sale at £142,500. A terraced house in Hartington Street, Barrow, was £104,950.

TV comic Freddie Starr was to visit Ulverston Coronation Hall as part of a nationwide tour. Top price tickets were £18.50.

25 years ago

A TERRACED house in Kent Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £29,500. A semi-detached bungalow at Wakefield Street, Askam, was £52,000.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Dalton's Rainbow Playgroup from closure held a protest march through the town. It was based in a community centre in Station Road which Barrow Borough Council wanted to shut.

THERE were plans to burn household rubbish from all over the country in a floating ship anchored in Barrow. The project was said to be worth £100m.

WORK started on a £7.5m factory site in Barrow for English Estates. It would be known as the Furness Business Park.

50 years ago

FOUR cherry trees were planted at the old people's bungalows, in Devonshire Road, Millom, by Ivor Billing and fellow councillor John Turner.

THE Women's Institute was considering a country market at Grange.

YOU could earn up to £670 per year as a typist based at Barrow for North West Electricity.

MORE than 6,000 people signed a petition calling on Barrow to keep live theatre, following the end of professional shows at Her Majesty's Theatre, in Albert Street.

Happy birthday

JAMIE BELL, actor, 31; CHRIS KLEIN, actor, 38; JASPER CARROTT, comic, 72.