This week a photography exhibition has been organised in St Nicholas' Gardens to showcase the history of Whitehaven and the surrounding areas.

Whitehaven Town Council and local businessman Gerard Richardson have organised the event as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. 

The exhibition is running all this week through until Sunday, June 5. 

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Mr Richardson said: "We are doing another one of our ever popular photo exhibitions. We will be using some of our existing photo stock whilst also using some brand new ones. 

"There is a giant photograph of the chemical works factory Marchon, so anyone who worked at Marchon over the last 60 years will recognise those shots.

"There is also a brilliant one of the Maritime Festival that has been stitched together as one large image. 

"We hope people will come down and relive memories, we've got a couple of nice photos of Her Majesty The Queen with her visit to Whitehaven in 2008. 

"But this is all about nostalgia and if the Platinum Jubilee is about anything it's about familes coming together and enjoying a nostalgic moment and that's what these photographs do."

Gerard explained that the exhibtion is a look back at nice memories, some recent and some more distant.