10 YEARS AGO

Top TV darts player Peter Manley was to play an exhibition event at the Cemetery Cottages Club, Barrow.

You could earn £5.98 per hour as a kitchen assistant at Dowdales School, Dalton.

A semi-detached house at Friars Lane, Barrow, was offered for sale at £179,950. Another semi at Slop Lane, Stainton, was £224,950.

A new solar-powered training centre in Haverigg, near Millom, was pledged £100,000 by the West Cumbria Development Fund. It was to be called the Lighthouse Project and would cost a total of £1.4m.

25 YEARS AGO

Increases of up to 18 per cent in fees for Barrow Borough Council's leisure facilities were approved by councillors.

A link-detached house at Redoak Avenue, Barrow, was offered for sale at £56,500. A terraced house at Settle Street, Barrow, was £31,950.

Millom-born Bishop of Europe, the Right Reverend John Satterthwaite, was to retire to Carlisle.

The new man behind the bar at the Britannia In, Dalton, was former VSEL production control engineer Gary Place.

50 YEARS AGO

Barrow Rugby League Club was trying to sign full back Brian Jefferson from Keighley.

You could have seen the Polka Puppet Theatre at Ulverston Coronation Hall or Barrow Town Hall.

There was a £120 jackpot to be won at the Palace Bingo Club held in Millom Palladium.

Former Coronation Street actress Lynn Perrie topped the bill for a cabaret evening at Barrow's 99 Club to raise cash for the Abbeyfield Society.