Parts of the country were slowly starting to pick up the pieces and recover from the twin storms of Corrie and Malik this week.

And here in Cumbria, despite some weather warnings for the west, the county escaped the worst of the weather, which caused devastation elsewhere and left tens of thousands of people without power.

A nine-year-old boy was killed near Stoke-on-Trent when a tree fell on him and, in Aberdeenshire, a 60-year-old woman was killed by a falling tree during winds gusting up to 85 miles per hour.

The scale of the twin storms was summed up by a forestry worker on the radio who spoke about trees snapping like matchsticks. He said he had never experienced anything like it.

Although there was no serious disruption in Cumbria, the county is no stranger to bad weather, and this week, we delve into the archives to dig out some photographs of times when storms affected the area.

Unfortunately, the area, too, has experienced loss of life. Most memorable was the death of PC Bill Barker in 2009.

PC Barker was trying to save lives by stopping motorists from crossing a bridge near Workington. When the bridge collapsed, PC Barker was thrown into the torrential river and drowned.

The 2009 storm will live in the memory of many, with four bridges down and hundreds evacuated from their homes.

Many organisation came to help, from the RAF to volunteer organisations, and people were rescued, fed and kept warm.

People of the Maryport side of the Derwent were completely cut off from the Workington side because of a bridge collapse. But it was not long before Tesco had a pop-up shop which people could reach by the temporary station hastily built by Network and Northern Rail – and in no time at all, the Army had built a temporary bridge

On the pages today we have pictures of Storm Jonas at Whitehaven Harbour in 2016 and a scene from the town in February 1996.

A memorable picture from 2014 shows a train being battered by waves while travelling along the coastal route and another photograph shows fallen trees blocking the Frizington to Whitehaven road in 2013.