Do you remember when? What was in the South Cumbrian news 10, 25 & 50 years ago

10 YEARS AGO

Foreign language students from Ulverston Victoria High School were helping to create an online French or German visitor guide for hotels in Grange and Kendal.

A Christmas fair held by Cambridge Primary School, Barrow, raised £800 towards the cost of equipment for the school and its playground.

The world famous Black Dyke Band was to perform at Ulverston Coronation Hall in a brass band concert organised by the Barrow and District Society for the Blind.

Greenodd post office was to scale-down its services to the public to a total of 11 hours per week. It was one of 34 in Cumbria affected by cutbacks.

25 YEARS AGO

Barrow organist Billy Byng, 74, retired after 60 years with a final performance at the Barrow Conservative Club, on Abbey Road.

Barrow's Union Jack Club upset planners over a scheme to paint its Lawson Street headquarters in red, white and blue.

Barrow's Dane Garth Mental Health Unit, at Furness General Hospital, opened its doors to residential patients. A plaque was unveiled by Barrow MP John Hutton.

The county council's Barrow Neighbourhood Forum presented £1,000 to the Barrow table tennis centre based at Parkview School.

50 YEARS AGO

It was planned to bring down up to 30,000 tons of slate in a big blast at the Broughton Moor Green Slate Quarries, near Coniston.

Diamond rings cost from £50 from the Starlight Collection offered by Barrow jeweller W. T. Story, at Dalton Road.