10 years ago

BROUGHTON Beck residents, near Ulverston, held a gala to mark the 70th anniversary of the official presentation of the village hall to the community.

FIVE shortlisted candidates were to be intereviewed for the role of King of Piel, a title which comes with being landlord of the Ship Inn on Piel Island.

A giant truck, weighing in at 220 tonnes, slowly moved through Barrow and South Lakeland. It was carrying a Siemens generator from Barrow docks to a bimass power plant in Lockerbie, Scotland.

MORE sections of Donald Campbell's Bluebird speedboat were recovered from the bed of Coniston Water, including a section of the cockpit.

25 years ago

ULVERSTON Amateurs presented La Cage Aux Folles at the Coronation Hall. Russell Palmer and Allan Lewis were among the cast.

IT was revealed that Cumbria County Council had underpaid national insurance by £325,000 over the past six years.

COUNTY planning chief Windsor Biggs warned that work on the Dalton bypass faced serious delays because the contractors had nowhere to dump their waste.

THE boiler house chimney at Barrow's former Abbey Baths was toppled. It had been built in the 1950s as part of extensions at the site, which was being cleared for a new magistrates' court.

50 years ago

ULVERSTON Golf Club got a new £20,000 clubhouse. The club steward was Ron Hatton.

YOU could earn up to £705 a year as a junior clerk for North West Electicity, based at Duke Street, Barrow.

MANY of the workers at British Laundry Machinery's Roose factory faced redundancy as part of a major reorganisation.

MICHAEL Jopling, the Westmorland MP, joined the protest over plans to drop sunday railway services at Windermere and Arnside. He said there would be a serious effect on the tourismn industry.

Happy birthday

BEN ELTON, comedian, 58; SANDI TOKSVIG, presenter, 59; AMY RYAN, actress, 48.