Snow sculptures were lining Ulverston’s streets in February 1996 as artistic designers fought against a meltdown to build some spectacular icy creations.

The first snow to draw gasps of appreciation appeared in Brogden Street.

PLAYING: Gwenda Meredith serenades a snow sculpture in Market Street, Ulverston, in February 1996

PLAYING: Gwenda Meredith serenades a snow sculpture in Market Street, Ulverston, in February 1996

Passers-by were posing for photographs with the snow woman who was peering into a children’s wear shop - and she appeared to have had her done especially for the wintry occasion.

Further down the end of Market Street a group of neighbours created Clarissa, a snow woman playing her own fiddle.

COLD: A snow man at The Gill in Ulverston in February 1996

COLD: A snow man at The Gill in Ulverston in February 1996

Gwenda Meredith was so delighted with the woman right outside her front door she retrieved her own fiddle to play her a tune.

“We’ve used icicles to make her violin bow,” said Ms Meredith.

Ms Meredith, Sue Teper, Emma Johnson, and her friend Mike took two and a half hours to complete their snowy friend.

Just alongside, a neighbour had brought a bear with a honeypot to life and another had created a giant snake writhing among the trees.

BUILT: Liam Rooke, 11, with bear snow sculptures, Yogi and Booboo, in Laburnum Crescent, Barrow, in February 1996. Other people who built them were Sarah, 12, and Emma Rooney, 13, and their friend Andrea, 13

BUILT: Liam Rooke, 11, with bear snow sculptures, Yogi and Booboo, in Laburnum Crescent, Barrow, in February 1996. Other people who built them were Sarah, 12, and Emma Rooney, 13, and their friend Andrea, 13

In Tarnside a buxom woman and a man were surveying the street,

Back up the hill at The Gill, what was probably the town’s most elaborate work, centred on a giant igloo with its very own Eskimo fishing outside.

There was a dog with a fish in its mouth and builders had been dry snow walling to fence in their creation.

Nearby was a skeleton in a coffin and a snow bear, adding even more dimensions to the scene.

Jon Wright said all The Gill neighbours had gathered together to create their centrepiece and children had been playing in the igloo all week.

SKI: A father and son from Croftlands skiing down the lane into The Gill, Ulverston, in February 1996

SKI: A father and son from Croftlands skiing down the lane into The Gill, Ulverston, in February 1996

Meanwhile, Birkrigg Common had its own ski slope for avid skiers in February 1996.

The common and Bardsea village itself were pretty well snowed under with most people unable to get their vehicles out for a while.