The Friends of Furness Hospitals carnival hit the streets in style in 1989.

The long procession snaked its way through the town, stopping every now and then for a dancing display.

Thousands of Barrovians turned out in the bright sunshine to watch the spectacle. Led by the City of Newcastle Drum Corps, the parade featured more than 100 entries.

More than £5,600 for the Friends of Furness Hospitals was dropped in collecting tins during the day.

Dancing schools were as colourful as ever. The Imperial School, Tapettes, Janet Wright School, C. Hart and D. Kennedy and Nellie English schools all had row after row of toe-tapping youngsters dancing up Abbey Road.

Marching bands included Ulverston Drum Majorettes and Blackpool Panthers.

One of the most imaginative sights of the carnival was St Paul's Cubs' Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. They had all converted their bicycles into World War One planes.

Carnival Queen Beverley Reid sat with her ladies in waiting in a float filled with lilac and white flowers.

Floats included Greengate Juniors' French Revolution, with the pupils dressed in period dress and high cotton wool wigs - it won best entry in the parade.

Howard Leroy, skill centre manager of VSEL, dangled from a chain at the back of the first year apprentices' Ghost Train float, dressed as Quasimodo.

Welfare State International's entry had an underwater theme, with huge pink and white jellyfish costumes and multi-coloured fish with scales of red, yellow and green plastic.

Award winners included The Alison Minor Award for the most original dancing troupe: the Bassetts Bases from Christine Hart and Dorothy Kennedy School of Dance. Rene Rawlinson Memorial Award for the best-dressed dancing troupe: the Pretty Powder Puff from the Nellie English School of Dance. Under-18 fancy dress: Beth and Sue Kirby. Adult fancy dress: Ian Watson.

The money raised would be spent on equipment for ambulances for Furness General Hospital.