10 YEARS

More than 1,000 people attended a fun day hosted by Barrow Dad's Group, at Brisbane Park rugby field.

Brian Roberts won the trophy for the best exhibit in the annual St Luke's flower show, Barrow, with his chrysanthemums.

The Great Escape Seven motorcycle ride raised £2,017 for the Hospital Equipment Fund for Furness and £1,008 for Sandside Lodge School.

Barrow's youth brass band folded as it did not have enough musicians to carry on. Numbers had fallen from 20 to just three.

25 YEARS AGO

People who fell into the sea along the coast road had their survival chances improved by four lifebelts installed at Bardsea, Roosebeck and

Goadsbarrow by South Lakeland District Council.

Firefighters had to use air bags, ropes and a tractor to release a cow which became trapped upside down in a ditch near Pennington.

A semi-detached bungalow at Brent Avenue, Dalton, was offered for sale at £49,750. A terraced house at Hood Street, Hindpool, Barrow, could have been yours for £23,950.

50 YEARS AGO

Barrow MP Albert Booth made a tour of the Listers textile mill, near Roose railway station. He was shown round the automatic winding department by general manager Mr F. Greenhalgh.

Hoffmans Circus was being held in Barrow Public Park with two shows daily.

Two huge sections for a new aero-engine test facility being built in Hampshire left Barrow by sea to Southampton docks on the Barrow-owned Pool Fisher.