WE wanted to show you what was going on in Carlisle 50 years.

The year is 1974, and things were quite a bit different here in Cumbria than they are nowadays.

This was a time when Snow Knight won the Epsom Derby at odds of 50/1 being ridden by Brian Taylor; Liverpool appointed 55-year-old first team coach Bob Paisley as their new manager; the ninth James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun, premiered in London, it is the second of seven films to star Roger Moore as James Bond; China gave two giant pandas, Ching-Ching and Chia-Chia, to Britain; BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation; and Roger Hargreaves' Mr. Men TV series is first broadcast on BBC1.

These photos show what was going on in Carlisle at this time. We hope that they bring back some fond memories for some of you.