WE are getting to the time of year when summer carnival organisers start looking for their queen and ladies-in-waiting.

Today’s selection of pictures show some of the winners from events held in past decades – mostly in the 1930s – and have been kindly provided by Kath Horton, of Furness Park Road, Barrow.

Among the women featured are Barrow queens Kathleen Roach in 1938 and Audrey Leitch in 1939.

Another queen is known only by the first name Alice and could represent Dalton or Ulverston, probably in the 1920s.

There is also a picture of a float in what was called the Barrow Hospital Demonstration which was held to raise funds on September 7 in 1935.

It was entered by the sheet metal department in the engineering works at Vickers Armstrongs and the wagon has the distinctive Barrow registration number of EO5370.

The important factor in any carnival is the weather – and the most difficult to predict.

In July 1966 a week of brilliant weather turned to chill winds and rain clouds in time for a Saturday gala day at Seascale – producing the worst conditions seen in the eight years since the event was started.

The Seascale gala maid that year was Christine Long and her attendants were Christine Gerry and Janet Ashburn.

Despite the poor weather, more than 1,700 people turned up and watched Border TV personality Derek Batey open the event.

He gained fame as the presenter of the long-running TV show Mr and Mrs.