Some of the cast of the Alston revue.

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.

The Shap under-17 football team.

SHAP under-17 footballers, winners of the Kent Valley League championship in 1970. Back row (left to right): J. Cowan, T. Jackson, D. Rebanks, Mr. T. L. Steadman (manager), Canon T. E. H. Baily (chairman), S. Sisson, I. Davidson, J. Gowling. Front: T. Taylor, J. Airey, K. Newsome, R. Cherry, R. Carson, S. Simpson.

The presentation to the matron, Miss Dorothy Baird.

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.

Rugby club officials and guests at the dinner.

IT is 25 years since a dinner was held at Penrith Rugby Club to celebrate the centenary of the birth of rugby in the town. Back row (left to right): Mr. J. W. Nicholson, past president; Mr. Barry Price, guest speaker; Mr. D. U. Hodgson, county president; Mr. A. Broach, county treasurer; Mr. A. Bleasdale, Penrith president; Mr. J. C. Lee, Cumbria’s RFU representative; Mr. A. Boak, past president. Front: Mr. G. E. Chappelhow, past president; Mr. Mike Wilson, club captain; Mr. J. N. Bell, guest speaker; and Mr. I. C. Barnes, vice-president.

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.

The postcard shot of Penrith Castle Park.

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.

Stainton villagers who raised funds for the cancer scanner.

Stainton villagers look on as David Llewellyn and Jack Hetherington, secretary and chairman, respectively, of the village’s children’s sports committee, present a cheque for £1,000 to Mrs. Sylvia Ingham, of Penrith, representing the Cumbria Cancer Scanner Fund. The money was raised by a special group formed in Stainton and involving representatives of village organisations and clubs.

The platform party at the annual conference.

THE platform party at the annual conference of the Westmorland Women’s Section of the British Legion which was held at Appleby in November, 1966.