Films on Cumbria's coastal life in the past 100 years will be shown at a screening next month.

The North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University will screen the collection Moving North Coastal – Cumbria By The Sea at Workington's Carnegie Theatre on September 8.

The compilation of archival films includes footage behind the scenes of the Carnegie as it put on a performance of Gilbert And Sullivan’s Patience in 1966.

In This Is Britain people will have a chance to look back at how new industries were being developed in the area for new post war markets.

Viewers will join the Sykes family as they travel on the Ravenglass and Eskdale railway in the 1950s and follow the men of Workington as they make the rails in Steel Road, a film from 1960.

Footage also includes motor racing on the sands at Barrow in 1929 and of the Slate Quarry at Kirkby-in-Furness in 1945.

People will also join broadcaster Ray Gosling as he tours Barrow and the local area in a 1960s TV documentary, head out to sea with the Moons Men of Flookburgh in search of their daily catch and look at Millom’s plans for regeneration in the 1980s after the closure of its steelworks.

The project is part of the nationwide launch of the BFI's Britain On Film Coast And Sea.

The collection features over 600 newly digitised archive films from across the UK drawn from the BFI national archive and the UK’s regional and national film archives, available mostly for free and many for the first time on BFI Player.

Screenings take place at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets cost £2 for the matinee and £5 for the evening screening.

Tickets are available from carnegietheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows , by calling 01900 602122.