Do you remember when? What was in the South Cumbrian news 10, 25 & 50 years ago
10 YEARS AGO
Youngsters at St Pius X School, Barrow, raised almost £700 for Catholic Aid for Overseas Development.
Around £70,000 in public money would be needed to move lizards away from the site of a planned Barrow business park off Ramsden Park Road. The site was expected to bring up to 650 jobs.
A new multi-use games area was officially opened at Lund Terrace, Ulverston. Brenda Lowther, 73, and Kiasten Cowperthwaite, four, were chosen to open the £55,000 facility.
A semi-detached house at Bewley Steps, Barrow, was offered for sale at £149,950. Another semi at Redshaw Avenue, Barrow, was £150,000.
25 YEARS AGO
Emily and Hiram Clarke, of Eamont Close, Walney, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. He was a former Barrow shipyard blacksmith’s striker.
Cumbria TEC won funding to develop a three-year marine engineering apprenticeship for 50 youngsters in partnership with Furness College and VSEL.
Heart attacks and medical conditions killed 13 of the 27 people who died on the Lakeland fells last year by the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association. Only five deaths were a direct result of mountain accidents.
50 YEARS AGO
Millom Rotary Club held a ceilidh at Millom School’s Alexandra Hall with music by St James’ Irish Dancers and Barrow Scottish Dance Group.
Barrow mayor George Hartshorn signed the contract which would start the town’s major development project for a new market, shops and a multi-storey car park.
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