10 YEARS AGO

Ulverston's Charter Beer Festival proved so popular that the pumps ran dry more than an hour before the scheduled call for last orders.

A semi-detached house at Boarbank Road, Ulverston, was offered for sale at £170,000. A terraced house at Fell Croft, Dalton, was £119,950.

Businessman Des Johnston was the new chairman of the Barrow Raiders rugby league club.

A new Stagecoach bus was introduced, decorated with the film achievements of Ulverston-born Stan Laurel

25 YEARS AGO

Regulars of the Cross Keys pub, Barrow, were to visit 31 bars in a fancy dress pub crawl to raise money for the Furness Hospice.

A terraced house at Osborne Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £23,500.

Cumbria Euro MP Lord Inglewood wrote to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine urging him to back Barrow's bid for European aid to reflect cuts in defence spending.

Litter dropped in South Lakeland cost almost £500,000 per year to clean up.

50 YEARS AGO

Bus workers at Barrow voted unanimously to reject any productivity deal with Barrow Corporation's transport department until a weekly £1 pay rise was agreed.

Work started on a £274,664 scheme to improve the A590 road between Backbarrow and Newby Bridge.

There were just 49 accidents in Barrow in August, a fall of 20 on the same month in 1967.

The St Luke's Flower and Vegetable Show in Roose Road Methodist Hall, Barrow, attracted 300 entries.