Annual gala celebrations are thriving in Longtown say organisers who are celebrating one of the biggest community efforts of all time.

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Welcome to Longtownlocal - a great new website for Longtown and its people brought to you by the Cumberland News.
We want your help to ensure this site becomes essential viewing for everyone in the town.
Have a look around the site - we've just added a nostalgia picture gallery and lots of useful information - please let me know if you have information you would like included on the site. Email me at lwatson@cngroup.co.uk

A selection of Longtown images taken from our photo archive. A nostalgic look at images from around Longtown. Why not send us your images of the town so that we can show everyone a bit of history and take a look a how things used to look?