10 YEARS AGO

The Punchbowl Inn at Crosthwaite was named Pub of the Year 2009 by Michelin in its 2009 Eating Out in Pubs Guide.

A new JJB Sports gym and superstore costing £2m opened its doors at Cornmill Park, Barrow.

Barrow AFC signed 25-year-old defender Craig James on a one-month contract. His previous clubs had included Hibernian, Port Vale and Darlington.

There were plans for six semi-detached homes on land off Lord Street, Askam.

25 YEARS AGO

Jess Thompson-Hughes was the new manager of the JHP Training business centre in Ramsden Square, Barrow.

Former VSEL worker Melanie Bennett, of Barnes Avenue, Dalton, was the first woman at Furness College to pass an internationally recognised welding qualification.

The Red Lion at Swarthmoor and the general Burgoyne at Great Urswick made it into the Good Pub Food book from the Campaign For Real Ale.

A terraced house at Clifford Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £19,500. A former caretaker's house at Duddon Drive, Barrow, could have been yours for £31,000.

50 YEARS AGO

Retired Furness members of the Amalgamated Union of Engineers and Foundrymen went on an excursion to Fleetwood by bus.

A modernised terraced house in Manchester Street, Barrow, was £1,500. A semi-detached bungalow at Foxfield Road, Walney, was £3,700.

Doubts were expressed by several Ulverston councillors about the merits of the fluoridation of water supplies.