NEW Year's Eve has arrived and Furness and the South Lakes has become well known for throwing the best parties and events to bring in the new year.

After Christmas had brought the merriment of the festive season to its height, many of us like to plan for the new year and begin our resolutions.

We have collected some of our favourite pictures from new year in Barrow and the South Lakes over the decades.

Brave new year dippers refuse to let the cold get in their way and several were captured from Millom in 1988.

Were you one of the New Year's Eve party-goers in Market Place, Ulverston, in 1989 and, if so, who were you smooching?

Or maybe you went to a fancy dress bash like the punk, sailor and cowboy pictured by us in 1990? What will your resolution be and what do you have planned for 2022? As 2021 comes to an end we look back at what could have been under lockdown.