RAISING a glass to the opening of a new £60,000 extension to Penrith RAFA Club in Victoria Road in November, 1981, are (left to right); Raymond Bulman (ex-president); Edwin Martin (treasurer); Jim Laing (vice-chairman); Mrs. Jessie Stephens (chairman of the executive committee of the RAFA, who performed the opening ceremony); Brian Reay (secretary); John Crook (chairman); and Jack Donaldson (president). The extension created a new functions room and games room.

IT is 35 years since the first Matron of Penrith New Hospital, Miss Dorothy Baird, left to head Carlisle’s maternity services. She was presented with gifts from hospital staff and patients, the League of Friends and the town’s doctors. Left to right: Miss Baird, Sister M. H. Ogle, Sister A. K. Tyres, Sister A. J. Rutland, Miss H. Baily, secretary of the Friends, and Dr. G. H. Kilgour.

MEMBERS of Tebay WI celebrated the 40th anniversary of the foundation of their institute in 1982. At the cutting of the celebratory cake (left to right) are Mrs. Dorothy Martin (treasurer), Mrs. Jean Kay (Federation chairman), Mrs. May Nelson (founder member and first president), Mrs. Jackie Huck (secretary), Mrs. Kath Hartley (president) and Mrs. Wendy Hunter (Federation vice-chairman).

SOME of the group of 23 Lake District national park voluntary wardens and rangers who tackled two large dumps of old cars and other rubbish on Moor Divock, overlooking Pooley Bridge, in June, 1979. All the major items were removed with the exception of one old car enjoying a temporary new role as a haven for nesting birds.

THE entertainments committee of Alston Football Club produced a revue, with the theme of the moon landing, which was presented in the town hall on four separate nights in December, 1969. The producer, Mr. Len Barham, art master at Samuel King’s School, is pictured with some of the cast.

CELEBRATING “Trafalgar Night” at a dinner in October, 1982 — 177 years after the British victory over the French and Spanish fleets — are members of Penrith Royal Naval Association. Left to right: Mrs. Edna Thomlinson, Mrs. Jean Mitchell, Mr. Stan Mitchell (secretary), Dr. Colin Thomson (president), Mrs. Jean Hutchinson, the Rev. Simon Crawley, Mr. Craig Hutchinson (chairman) and Mrs. Colin Thomson.

PENRITH Castle Park was in its infancy when this postcard shot appeared in 1929. The park had been opened six years earlier as a result of initiative and determination on the part of the old urban district council in the face of resistance from niggardly ratepayers at the time. There are now plans to update the park.

TELEVISION presenter Bob Langley draws the winners in a raffle organised by proprietors Francis Coulson and Brian Sack at Sharrow Bay Hotel, Ullswater, in aid of the Sue Ryder Fund. Watching are members of staff, Pat Langley and supporters of the then Sue Ryder home at Acorn Bank, Temple Sowerby, including Stephanie Bateman, Dorothy Leeming, sister-in-charge Pauline Bateman and resident Barbara Greenwood.