10 YEARS AGO

Hotel boss Les Bennett wanted to increase the size of the Fairway, on Hawthwaite Lane, Barrow, from 35 to 41 bedrooms.

A terraced house at Powerful Street, Walney, was offered for sale at £174,950. A semi-detached house at Ilkley Road, Barrow, was £210,000.

Barrow councillors agreed to press ahead with plans to demolish 125 homes in the Arthur Street area of the town.

Barrow's Four Groves Community Association moved to a new base in the community centre on Suffolk Street.

25 YEARS AGO

Two teenage boys staged a dramatic rootop protest for several hours in Paradise Street and Storey Square, Barrow, over decisions about their care taken by social workers

A terraced house on Farm Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £39,950. A detached house at Keswick Avenue, Hawcoat, Barrow, was £85,000.

Council house rents in the Millom area were to be increased by £2.50 per week by Copeland.

There were plans to build 15 houses on land at Trinkeld Park, Swarthmoor.

50 YEARS AGO

The British Empire Medal was presented to William Bowyer for his work on the Barrow-built submarine Valiant during a record-breaking underwater trip to Singapore.

You could buy a two-year-old Jaguar Mk 2 car with a 3.4-litre engine for £650 at Loxhams and Simpsons, on Cornwallis Street, Barrow.

There was a total of 206 people without work in Millom — or 6.6 per cent — before the effect of the closure of the town ironworks.