AN evening to celebrate and discuss a Furness town's history takes place next week.

Discovering Dalton, which takes place at the town's community centre, is an evening of local history, archive material, stories and memorabilia from Sue Benson of Barrow Library and historian and writer Gill Jepson.

The event will be in the east wing of Dalton Community Centre from 7pm on June 20.

Writers taking in part in the Dalton LitFest scriptwriting competition Daltonia, to capture the history of the town in a drama, are encouraged to go along