Biscuits were not the only things you could find in a biscuit tin, reported The Mail in 1996.

At a new exhibition at Barrow's Dock Museum people could buy tins containing original works of art.

A limited edition of 200 sandwich box-sized tins had been produced for the Cumbria Visual Arts Festival, which was the county's contribution to Visual Arts UK.

Inside the tins, which cost just under £20, were two or three miniature pieces of artwork created especially for the box.

They had been made by the artists featured in the exhibition, which celebrated professional artists who lived or worked in the county.

There were three simultaneous exhibitions at galleries in the county, The Dock at Barrow, The Beacon at Whitehaven and Shaddon Mill at Carlisle.

Thirty artists were selected to exhibit out of 120 who submitted work.

Also in the box was a catalogue featuring 120 of the county's professional artists, including Maddi Nicholson and Stuart Bastik of Ulverston, creators of the artwork on Brady's lorries; machine embroiderer Louise Wareing of Walney; Martin Copley, potter of Barrow; Louize Speakman, Emma Louise Lobb and Lara Aldridge, jewellery maker, ceramicist and glass designer who all worked in the craft centre at Millom Station; William Plumptre, potter of Grange; Patrick McMahon, glass engraver at Haverthwaite; landscape painter Kenneth Leech of Coniston; and painter and screen painter Judy Evans of Witherslack.

The Dock had four tins for sale, which also contained a diary of events marking the Cumbria festival.

In 1996 a group of Furness school children had been finding their sea legs thanks to a unique sailing club.

The nine boys and girls, aged 12 to 15, sailed through the week-long trip from Liverpool to Anglesey and back to Ramsden Dock in Barrow.

St Bernard's RC School pupil Jordan Satterthwaite, aged 12, from Walney, who had been on the high-masted yacht, said: "We have been putting up the sails and generally helping out."

Skipper of the Francis Drake, the Ocean Youth Club yacht, Eddie Green said: "We give young people the chance to experience sea life and adventure."

The two youth club yachts were due to move to the Dock Museum and would be open to the public to look around.