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

10 YEARS AGO

Work was about to start on a £1m specialist care home on the former health centre site in Victoria Road, Ulverston. There would be self-contained flats for six autistic adults.

Ten acts would feature in a charity night planned for the Engineers Club, on Abbey Road, Barrow, to raise cash for Mind in Furness.

The Brathay Hall Trust, based in Ambleside, won a £2.5m Government grant to prevent young people becoming involved in gun and knife crime.

Cumbrian farmers with their own well or bore hole could face a £700 inspection fee under proposals from the Department of the Environment. Food and Rural Affairs.

25 YEARS AGO

An appeal was made to find a dozen volunteers to revive the Barrow branch of the Workers Education Association.

A new household waste recycling site for Ulverston residents was opened at Morecambe Road.

A rare hen harrier made its winter home at the Sandscale Haws nature reserve, Barrow. It was only the second of its kind to have been recorded at the reserve, said National Trust warden Peter Burton.

Ulverston high-tech firm Acrastyle won a £400,000 contract to supply equipment for a Dutch gas-fired power station.

50 YEARS AGO

Barrow Docks was losing £2,000 every week, said Mr S. Finnis, chairman of the British Transport Docks Board. It needed to find 250,000 tons per year of extra business.

Francis McLauchlan, of Egerton Buildings, Barrow, was made a Serving Brother of the Order of St John.