10 YEARS AGO

The former community centre at Victoria Hall, on Rawlinson Street, Barrow, was sold at auction for £110,000.

Retired firefighter Colin Biggs, of Whinlatter Drive, Barrow, received his MBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to voluntary organisations.

A detached house at Devonshire Road, Millom, was offered for sale at £200,000. A house at Aldwych Terrace, Ulverston, could have been yours for £142,950.

25 YEARS AGO

The Blue Diamonds Marching Band, from Ulverston, won the National Jamboree Championships held in West Yorkshire.

A new nature trail was opened around Brown Robin Nature Reserve, Grange, by Cumbria Wildlife Trust.

A terraced house at Osborne Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £22,500. A semi-detached house at Holbeck Road, Barrow, was £55,950.

Road safety campaigners renewed their appeal for a lollipop patrol on the busy A590 at Swarthmoor.

50 YEARS AGO

You could earn up to £1,055 per year as an assistant in the rating and finance section with North Lonsdale Rural District Council in Ulverston.

Almost 30 test borings were said to show that a Morecambe Bay barrage could be built on sand, a public meeting was told at the Palace Theatre, Morecambe.

There was to be a £36,000 improvement scheme on the A5092 Greenodd to Grizebeck road. It would deal with a bad bend at Langholme Bridge.