10 YEARS AGO

Youngsters from Low Furness Primary School at Urswick completed a music workshop with viola player David Aspin and composer Emily Howard from the Manchester Camerata orchestra.

A semi-detached house at Conyers Avenue, Barrow, was offered for sale at £239,950. A terraced house at Ireleth Road, Ireleth, was £149,950.

Almost 3,000 people signed a petition calling for the building of a second road bridge between Barrow and Walney Island.

South Lakeland hotelier Jonathan Denby signed the band Heroes of She to his record label Northern Music Ltd.

25 YEARS AGO

There would be just 12 patients left to move when Roose hospital closed at the end of the month.

You could earn £3.58 on the kitchen team at South Walney Infant School.

An all-day bowls tournament at Ulverston's Kings Head pub raised £500 for a new radio mast on Kirkby Moor for the Furness Mountain Rescue team.

A terraced house in Gateshead Street, Barrow, was £24,950. A terraced house at Linsty Green, Backbarrow, was £45,000.

50 YEARS AGO

More than 2,000 strikers at the Vickers yard in Barrow turned down an offer to take a who-does-what dispute between rival unions to arbitration.

Around 90 people were expected to lose their jobs in the next few weeks with the closure of the Dalton men's underwear factory of Hodgkinson and Gillibrand in Long Lane.

Junior dancer Debby Swarbrick, of Redwater Gardens, Barrow, reached the grand final of a national Butlin's talent contest.