Do you remember when Barrow was dropped from hovercraft services?

10 YEARS AGO

Trees, parking spaces and road narrowing were among schemes planned to spruce up Bath Street, in Hindpool, Barrow.

A semi-detached bungalow at Stainton Drive, Dalton, was offered for sale at £135,000. A terraced house at Harrison Street, Barrow, was £75,000.

United Utilities was ready to spend £16m to improve the quality of the bathing water in Windermere.

Dunelm Mill wanted to open a shop in the former Barrow Superbowl on Hollywood Park, Barrow. The homeware store would bring up to 100 jobs.

25 YEARS AGO

Dalton's Jane Skinner and Walney's Wendy Sanders were to be among the first women in the country to be ordained as Church of England priests.

The number of day-case patients treated within the South Cumbria Health Authority had grown by 135 per cent in the past 10 years.

A new semi-detached house by Black Swan Homes at Boulton Common, Barrow, was available at £55,995.

Ulverston Council gave guarded approval for the town's experimental one-way traffic scheme to continue.

50 YEARS AGO

American TV and recording stars The Impressions were booked to perform at Barrow's 99 Cabaret Club, in Dalkeith Street. Tickets were 37p.

There was an attempt to revive short-lived hovercraft services across Morecambe Bay — but was dropped as a destination. Fleetwood and Morecambe were the only planned calling points by Norwest Hovercraft.

Illuminated addresses went to Mr R. Fairclough and Miss M. McColl on their retirement from Barrow Corporation.