For this week's Nostalgia edition we will be taking a look back at the year 1970.

Over 50 years have passed since this time and Whitehaven looks a whole lot different than it did all those years ago.

Although five decades have passed and a lot has changed, there was still a great deal going on in the world at this time.

This was an era when the half crown coin ceases to be legal tender, Richard Branson started the Virgin Group with discounted mail-order sales of popular records, English band Black Sabbath released their self titled debut album in the UK, credited as the first major album in the heavy metal genre, Paul McCartney publicly announced that he had left The Beatles in a press release, written in mock-interview style, included in promotional copies of his first solo album and headlined in the Daily Mirror newspaper and British Leyland created a niche in the four-wheel drive market by launching its luxury Range Rover, which was to be marketed as a more upmarket and urban alternative to the utilitarian Land Rover that has been in production since 1948.

It was also a time when the Methodist Church allowed women to become full ministers for the first time and Roy Jenkins became deputy leader of the Labour Party.

These photos show what was happening in Whitehaven at this time, we can see a dog show taking place in the town, three photos of people taking part in the Whitehaven Music Festival, and a bed push in Whitehaven market place.

Other photos show beer barrels being loaded onto a boat in the harbour, Whitehaven photographer Lilian Douglas and Diana Dors making a star appearance at the Whitehaven RAOB during 1970.