A SEMI-DETACHED bungalow at Lindal Close, Dalton, was offered for sale at £136,500. A semi at Strathaird Avenue, Walney, wasd £149,950.
CUSTOMERS were given the opportunity to turn any much-loved pair of old jeans into a new pair of sandals - called Softwalkers - at the Askam firm Urofoam.
ULVERSTON residents were to be consulted on a major educational reorganisation in the town by Cumbria County Council. Proposals included closing Dale Street Infant and Nursery Schools in Lund Terrace.
WORK started to demolish a Victorian industrial site at the side of Ulverston Canal to make way for luxury homes. The buildings had been empty since the 1970s.
DALTON man Colin Pickthall was the new Labour MP for West Lancashire. He was the former head of modern European cultural studies at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk.
THE London Symphony Orchestra gave a concert in the unusual setting of Brady's Warehouse, Barrow.
BROUGHTON bellringers and Dalton Roman Catholic Church were being asked to submit bids to see who would get the Dalton cemetery bell.
DEMOLITION work on Barrow's Abbey Baths was costing Cumbria County Council more than £50,000. The site was being cleared for a new magistrates' court.
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.
MARY Wilson, wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, was on her way to Barrow as chief guest for the commissioning of Britain's third nuclear fleet submarine, Warspite. She had launched the submarine in September 1965.
THREE Barrow soldiers were among a contingent due to leave with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment for Aden, one of the world's trouble spots. They were Joseph Dickenson, Malcolm Wright and Malcolm Seward.
BARROW Grammar School and Millom School were the finalists in the Barrow and District Table Tennis League's knock-out contest.
SEAN BEAN, actor, 58; NICK HORNBY, novelist, 60; VICTORIA BECKHAM, designer, 43.
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