This week we’ve dusted off the archives from 1975 to see how people were entertaining themselves in the first month of the new year.

In Cummersdale, just outside Carlisle, the village show was about to open in the Embassy Ballroom with high kicks and the glimpse of a garter! The show started out as a youth club show but parents and older brothers and sisters felt the lure of the greasepaint and joined in and were ready for curtain up.

Meanwhile, reporter Maureen Scott, now farming reporter for The Cumberland News, was out learning how to Morris dance. Donning the traditional tinkling bells and a floral hat she took to the classroom floor at Trinity School, Carlisle and joined the newly formed Carlisle Morris Men in their weekly practice session.

Ed Mycock, who had learned Morris dancing at university, had set up the team. They were joined by Sue Allan on the concertina and Ian Walker on the fiddle.