10 YEARS AGO
There were plans to establish a Kip McGrath educational consultancy at a house on Furness Park Road, Barrow.
A mountain bike valued at £2,500 was stolen from the Skelwith Fold caravan park, Ambleside.
Superbike champion James Whitham was at the Waterstones store in Barrow to sign copies of his autobiography What a good do.
A semi-detached bungalow at Yewdale Avenue, Barrow, was offered for sale at £199,950. A detached house at Woodland Park, Barrow, was £237,950.
25 YEARS AGO
Matalan was opening a store on Walney Road, Barrow, by November and was recruiting staff, including a store manager on £18,000 per year.
The Animal Rescue charity shop, in Derry Street, Barrow, was having a sale with everything priced at 10p.
Many of Barrow's indoor market traders were set to boycott the new Monday trading day being introduced by South Lakeland Properties.
A giant boulder found during excavations for the Dalton by-pass was to be used as a marker on one of the town's boundaries, near Broughton Road bridge.
50 YEARS AGO
Work was to start in a few weeks' time on a £20,000 road-widening scheme at Lindal.
Sydney and Edith Newby, of Priory Station House, Ulverston, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. As a boy, Mr Newby won many trophies for swimming.
The 33-strong Nelson Salvation Army Sunday School Choir visited Barrow to present a musical programme at the Holker Street School.
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