10 YEARS AGO

Pregnant police officers in Cumbria were to be the first in the North West to wear new maternity uniforms.

Machinery worth at least £25,000 was stolen by raiders at Goldmire quarry, near Dalton.

Holbeck Ghyll at Windermere was judged to have the best wine list in the country by the Good Food Guide 2009.

A modern detached family house at Low Farm Close, Lindal, was offered for sale at £199,950. An end terrace house at West View Road, Barrow, was £94,950.

25 YEARS AGO

Furness Enterprise, the Department of Trade and Industry and English Estates were set to move from Hartington Street into a new £2m home on Barrow's Project Furness site.

A terraced house in Hawke Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £24,950. A semi-detached house at Woodland Park, Barrow, was £67,500.

A war memorial was unveiled at Haverigg prison to mark the 50th anniversary of the site being opened as an RAF station.

Members of the King's Own Royal Border Regimental Association were successful in a bid to buy Ulverston Drill Hall from the Ministry of Defence.

50 YEARS

You could buy a Hoovermatic De-luxe twin tub washing machine for £72 from Smiths in Dalton Road, Barrow.

A new three-bedroomed detached house on the Greystones Park Estate, Dalton, was offered for sale at £4,995.

A public appeal was being considered to raise half of the £4,000 needed for repairs to the Hoad Monument at Ulverston. Ulverston Urban District Council would raise the rest.