A royal visit has always drawn the crowds in Cumbria and one of the highlights of 1983 was the arrival of Diana, Princess of Wales.
This was only two years after her much publicised marriage to Prince Charles and a year after she’d given birth to her first son, Prince William.
His brother Prince Harry would be born the year after.
Still only in her early 20s, Diana was at the peak of her popularity, as evidenced by the large number of people of all ages who turned out to see her.
What is notably different from similar scenes today is that there are no mobile phones documenting the action; instead all you can see in the picture are a couple of cameras at the bottom left.
A crowd amassed the same year for a very different reason – to see the Salami Brothers perform at Ewanrigg. It looks like one of them is about to eat fire.
Meanwhile, Jill Kennedy and Donna Dawson modelled outfits by local fashion designer Jayne Ayres, who held her first fashion parade in the Twisted Wheel, Carlisle, in May.
The designer clearly had an interesting take on trousers. It’s not clear if they caught on.
Members of the Inglewood School netball team are pictured with their mascot after winning the local championship, while a play was performed at Irthing Valley School in Brampton.
The title isn’t specified, but the picture shows a boy being taken to task.
The year 1983 marked the opening of the new Post Office sorting office in Junction Street, Carlisle. Pictured are assistant postmaster George Armstrong, centre, with supervisor David Armstrong and Graeme Thompson.
There was also charitable giving, with Anne Lancaster, left, from the Blue Bell Inn, Sowerby Row, handing out cheques to Anne Roper, far right, from Raughton Head, who was given £200 for Leukaemia Research; Dr Colin Thompson, chairman of the Penrith branch of the British Heart Foundation, £200, and Mrs Leslie Thomson, chairman of the Penrith branch of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council, £159.
The remaining pictures show winners of the South End Leek Show and children enjoying a game of ‘Bat the Rat’ at the News & Star stand at the Cumberland Show.
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