A look back at what life was like in Cumbria in the mid 1950s

Looking back now, it is an entirely different world from the one that we know today and many of you reading this may not even remember this era.

However there are some similarities in that there was a great deal going on in the world, just as there is today.

It was a time when the USSR successfully launched Sputnik 1, the very first artificial satellite, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was created and Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to successfully climb to the top of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

It was also a time when Roger Bannister became the first recorded man to run a mile in under four minutes, the popular children's television show "The Mickey Mouse Club" premieres, the Disneyland theme park in California also opened during this year and the McDonald's chain of restaurants is started by Ray Kroc.

However, there was also an awful lot going on here in Cumbria too. We've compiled together pictures of this era to show you what life was like here at this time.

We can see Dalston Station in 1954, competitors who took part in the Inter Secondary Schools Swimming Gala and Sister Nancy Roper greeting three new recruits at the Cumberland Infirmary.

Other photos show a postcard of English Street in Carlisle, Valley Junior School with the school's first head teacher Mr Purdham and Calder Hall in 1955.

The final photos show the inside of the turbine at Calder Hall power station, the Kirtlside Band in Dumfries and the British Red Cross Cumberland 40 Silloth Detachment from May 1956.