Looking back 25 years in the Cumberland News archives to see what was happening this week, we have highlighted these pictures.
Silloth Primary School received £23,000 worth of brass musical instruments as part of a county wide push towards expanding the music curriculum.
And Alan Bowerbank of Brook Street Carlisle asked for donations instead of presents for his 60th birthday and raised £560 for Marie Curie cancer care.
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