IF you were asked which Barrow group has appeared in front of the biggest crowd you might guess it would be either the town's rugby league or soccer teams in a Wembley final — but it could well be Miss Mildred's Olympic Girls.

This Barrow dancing troupe took part in the Morecambe carnival parade in 1936 and were seen by a crowd estimated at 100,000 people.

It was the time of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games presided over by Adolf Hitler.

Huge numbers of people went to the Morecambe parades, many of them in town for a week's holiday from the Yorkshire mill towns such as Bradford.

The carnival week of activities in the resort traditionally ended with an ox roast by the clock tower.