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Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness
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15 stories
11 photos
14 multimedia
3 documents
15 stories about Barrow-in-Furness
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Back on our Map -nature & wildlife
The 4 year Back on our Map (BOOM) project (2019-2023), led by the University of Cumbria, in partnership with Morecambe ...
Barrow-in-Furness Docks
The Devonshire and Buccleuch Docks were constructed by the late Mr Brassey in 1867. At the same time a certain ...
Barrow-in-Furness: The early days
Barrow-in-Furness – but yesterday an obscure fishing village and today a corporate borough with nearly 30,000 inhabitants. Francis Leach in “Barrow-in-Furness, ...
Cycling in Barrow
Barrow Amateur Cycling Club Headquarters The club, which opened in 1906, was based in the Old Royal Hotel on The Strand. ...
Defending the Docks Oral History
Defending the Docks was a community heritage project researching many different aspects of the history of Barrow-in-Furness during the Second ...
Discover the Bay from the Furness Line
This series of ten interpretation panels and accompanying ‘window gazer’ leaflet along the scenic Furness Line, celebrate the wonderful cultural ...
Early Shipbuilding in Furness and Barrow
Sailing vessels have been built on the Furness coast for centuries. An attempt was made to build a warship at ...
Gliding in Furness
The Furness Gliding Club The club was formed in Barrow in October 1930 and rapidly attained a very prominent position amongst ...
Iron and Steel Works, Barrow-in-Furness
Iron ore mined in the Furness area and not used in the local iron furnaces at Backbarrow, Newland and Duddon ...
Modern Salt-Making
Salt on Walney During the 1880s salt was discovered by chance on Walney whilst boring for coal. By the late 1890s ...
School Boy Adventures in Barrow, Dalton and Askam
On the penultimate day of the school year at Barrow Grammar School for Boys, something happened to upset our headmaster, ...
Shipbuilding in Barrow-in-Furness
“Thousands of men are even now employed and Old Barrow Island-two years since quite a pleasant rural nook, with fields ...
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11 images of Barrow-in-Furness
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3D image of full pillbox at Barrow waterfront
3D image of partial pillbox at Barrow waterfront, side view
Bell
Bomb
Gas mask
Herbert Leigh
Lifeboat N.T.
Photographic slide of Lifeboat
Postcard. Walney Bridge
RNLB Herbert Leigh
Tablecloth
14 media clips about Barrow-in-Furness
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3D model of full pillbox at Barrow waterfront
3D model of partial pillbox at Barrow waterfront, side view
Interview with Glenn Mahaffy & others from Mind in Furness who worked on the BOOM Project
Members of a social group held at Barrow Age UK talk about life in Barrow.
Oral History Interview with Alfred Fishwick - Defending the Docks
Oral History Interview with Denys Vaughan - Defending the Docks
Oral history interview with Denys Vaughan, born in Barrow 1931, now lives in Grange
Oral History Interview with Edith Knight - Defending the Docks
Oral History Interview with John Crossfield - Defending the Docks
Oral history interview with John Murphy of Walney Island
Oral History Interview with Margaret Charnley - Defending the Docks
Oral history interview with Robin Reginald Beck who worked at Lakeland Laundry (1967-1972)
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3 documents about Barrow-in-Furness
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ARP Card, 1940
Barrow Lifeboat Station Centenary Certificate
Morecambe Bay Lives Celebration Booklet