10 YEARS AGO

Prices at Barrow's Park Leisure Centre were to be reduced by at least 10 per cent to encourage greater use by members of the public in Furness.

A terraced house in Devon Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £59,950. A semi-detached house at Leece Drive, Dalton, was £165,000.

There was a total of 1,067 people claiming the jobseekers allowance in Barrow. Of those, 430 were were aged between 18 and 24.

Millom international amateur rugby league winger Elliott Miller was being targeted by Super League team Hull FC.

25 YEARS AGO

Students at Ulverston Victoria Upper School took part in a mask and mime workshop with Kendal-based theatre director Deborah Morris.

A semi-detached bungalow at Mallard Drive, Barrow, was offered for sale at £53,950. A terraced house at Tower Street, Roa Island, Barrow, was £43,000.

Barrow's Victoria Tavern, in Oxford Street, planned to convert disused garages into a games room.

Trials were being held from the middle of October for an experimental one-way traffic system in Ulverston town centre.

50 YEARS AGO

You could get a can of Sunshine baked beans for just 3p at the Home and Colonial Supermarket, on Dalton Road, Barrow.

Barrow Rugby League Club was keen to buy scrum half Frankie Jones from Blackpool Borough. Barrow had offered Ged Smith in a swop deal.

Almost 2,000 jobs would be created in Cumberland by new and existing firms during the next two years, said Cumberland Development Council secretary Arthur Eaton.