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Ports, docks and canals
Ports, docks and canals
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6 stories about Ports, docks and canals
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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, ...
Canal Foot Song
Performed by Year 6 : Church Walk School: 6/7/2017 Chorus Canal foot we have childhood memories, Canal Foot! Canal Foot! (x2) 1. One step and ...
Growing up at Canal Foot - Eunice Sampson, Jane Smith and Ann Johnson
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 ...
Smugglers Cave on Holme Island - Gillian Asplin
35 images of Ports, docks and canals
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Oral history interview with Maisie and John Murray
Plover Scar lighthouse seen from Sunderland Point at dusk.
Plover Scar lighthouse seen from Sunderland Point at dusk.
Postcard. Walney Bridge
Sambo's Grave at Sunderland Point.
The Creeks of Lancaster: Initial Archaeological Desk-based assessment and Report on Wardley's Creek
The Lune estuary at dusk from Sunderland Point.
The Lune estuary at Sunderland Point showing five small boats.
The remains of the barque "Vanadis" in Half Moon Bay, Heysham
The rocky shore at Sunderland Point at dusk.
Two small fishing boats on the Lune estuary at Sunderland Point at low tide
View across the River Lune from Sunderland Point across to Glasson Dock, with a pleasure yacht and a local fishing boat in the foreground and the Bowland Fells in the background.
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Oral history interview with Maisie and John Murray
Plover Scar lighthouse seen from Sunderland Point at dusk.
Plover Scar lighthouse seen from Sunderland Point at dusk.
Postcard. Walney Bridge
Sambo's Grave at Sunderland Point.
The Creeks of Lancaster: Initial Archaeological Desk-based assessment and Report on Wardley's Creek
The Lune estuary at dusk from Sunderland Point.
The Lune estuary at Sunderland Point showing five small boats.
The remains of the barque "Vanadis" in Half Moon Bay, Heysham
The rocky shore at Sunderland Point at dusk.
Two small fishing boats on the Lune estuary at Sunderland Point at low tide
View across the River Lune from Sunderland Point across to Glasson Dock, with a pleasure yacht and a local fishing boat in the foreground and the Bowland Fells in the background.
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35 documents about Ports, docks and canals
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Oral history interview with Maisie and John Murray
Interview carried out on 23 August 2016 with Maisie and John Murray born 1936. Grew up in Morecambe and Overton, now living in Arnside. Childhood memories of Morecambe and Overton. ...
Plover Scar lighthouse seen from Sunderland Point at dusk.
Plover Scar lighthouse seen from Sunderland Point at dusk.
Postcard. Walney Bridge
Colour postcard, with “Walney Bridge as Completed” printed on it. It was sent on 17 June 1907. The drawing is by William McDowell. View Dock Museum catalogue
Sambo's Grave at Sunderland Point.
Here Lies Poor Sambo Who (Attending his Master from the West Indies) Died on his arrival at Sunderland. Full sixty years the angry Winter’s Wave Has thundered at this bleak ...
The Creeks of Lancaster: Initial Archaeological Desk-based assessment and Report on Wardley's Creek
Desk-based assessment report of the history of ports in the Morecambe Bay area from the Paeleolithic period to the 20th century (Adobe Acrobat document).
The Lune estuary at dusk from Sunderland Point.
The Lune estuary at Sunderland Point showing five small boats.
The remains of the barque "Vanadis" in Half Moon Bay, Heysham
The remains of the Russian barque “Vanadis” in Half Moon Bay, Heysham, coming out of the sands after 98 years. “Vanadis was built in Jakobstad in 1874, 185 ft overall ...
The rocky shore at Sunderland Point at dusk.
Two small fishing boats on the Lune estuary at Sunderland Point at low tide
View across the River Lune from Sunderland Point across to Glasson Dock, with a pleasure yacht and a local fishing boat in the foreground and the Bowland Fells in the background.
Looking across the River Lune at low water.
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