10 YEARS AGO

Barrow Borough Council was considering plans to scrap parking charges for town centre motorists on Saturdays.

A semi-detached house in Dundee Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £119,950. A terraced house in Kendal Street, Barrow, was £109,950.

More than 2,000 people across Cumbria managed to give up smoking in the past year with help from the NHS.

There were plans for a £350,000 contract parking area on Holker Street, Barrow, opposite the old Kwik Save store. Building work would be finished in around six months, borough councillors were told.

25 YEARS AGO

The King Alfred Hotel, Walney, held a fun day to raise cash for Friedreich's Ataxia.

A guest house on Abbey Road, Barrow, was offered for sale at £95,000. A detached house at Overbeck Drive, Barrow, was £115,000.

Cumbria library staff were being sent on training courses on how to cope with troublemakers and vandalism.

There were plans for 25 new homes at Station Road, Off Lancashire Road, Millom.

50 YEARS AGO

A derelict 16th century farmhouse at Beckstones, Ulpha, was being renovated by volunteers to become a camp for boys from approved schools.

It was claimed that a cache of gold sovereigns had been found under the foundations of the Liberal Hall at Lindal.

A terraced house at Collingwood Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £1,700. A new semi-detached house on Duddon Road, Askam, could have been yours for £4,600.