10 YEARS AGO

Barrow rock group The Relics received a Youth Opportunities grant from Cumbria County Council to fund equipment and facilities for a scheme to encourage youngsters to take up an instrument and form new bands.

A semi-detached house at Hest View Road, Ulverston, was offered for sale at £132,500. A terraced house at Fell Croft, Dalton, was £85,000.

The cost to Cumbria police of hiring interpreters for crimes involving foreigners had increased by 400 per cent in five years — from £17,460 to £88,073 — which was the biggest rise in the country.

25 YEARS AGO

A team of pool players from the Sheffield pub, Barrow, were losing finalists in the Strongbow and Bowland Inns Knockout Competition.

A detached dormer bungalow at Overbeck Drive, Barrow, was offered for sale at £80,000. A semi-detached house at Wellington Street, Dalton, was £47,950.

50 YEARS AGO

Former deputy head girl Joan Kenworthy returned to Barrow Grammar School for Girls to be speaker at the speech day held in Barrow Public Hall. Miss Kenworthy was co-warden of Salisbury Hall at the University of Liverpool.

Villagers at Oxen Park faced tap water which had the smell of rotten fish and contained live worms, North Lonsdale Rural District Council was told.

You could enjoy a three course lunch at the Home and Colonial supermarket, on Dalton Road, Barrow, for 20p.

A detached bungalow with two bedrooms on the new Mountbarrow estate at Ulverston was on sale for £3,495.