10 YEARS AGO

South End Caravan Park held its annual carnival and fun day on Walney. It raised £1,609 for the oncology ward at Furness General Hospital.

Television presenter Nick Crane was to lead a walk and give an evening talk as part of the Coniston Walking Festival at the end of the month.

Adults were scaling 10ft fences to hold games on an all-weather pitch built for under-11 children at Bath Street, Barrow.

Coniston firefighters pulled a car around Coniston Water in four hours and 20 minutes to raise around £2,000 for charity.

25 YEARS AGO

Former Barrow AFC soccer star Tony Rigby was being offered for sale by Bury for £400,000. He had been watched by scouts from Manchester City and Spurs.

A semi-detached house at Watergarth, Biggar Bank, Walney, was offered for sale at £49,950.

A questionnaire asking tenants if they wanted Barrow council to sell off its 3,500 homes to a housing association resulted in 87 per cent being against the scheme.

Former American teacher, the Reverend Tricia Azionta-Newcomer, became Ulverston's first woman Methodist minister.

50 YEARS AGO

Barrow AFC were drawn away from home to Chorley in the first round of the Lancashire Senior Cup.

A new Norweb automatic washing machine was £93.45 from the Norweb showroom in Barrow.

The Karl Denver Trio were to open a grand gala for the 26th Barrow Extension Scout Group at George Hastwell Training School, on Abbey Road, Barrow.