Search Currently displaying: 8 results You've searched for:location: "Walney Island" xtype: "story" x Search term Filter by Theme Archaeology of the Bay (2)Central Walney Searchlights (1)Cockerham Observation Tower (1)North Walney Gunners Range (2)South Walney- H5 Battery and Hilpsford Battery (1)Defending the Bay (3)First World War (1)Second World War (3)Fun in the Bay (1)Swimming (1)Nature in the Bay (1)Back on our Map Species Restoration Project 2019-2023 (1)Working in the Bay (3)Salt (1)Ship and boat building (1)Tourism (1)Filter by Location Arnside and Silverdale (1)Barrow-in-Furness (4)Cartmel Peninsula (1)Cockerham (1)Ulverston (1)Filter by Century 19th (2)20th (6) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Vickerstown The Isle of Walney Estates Company Limited was set up in the late 1890s to provide housing for the increasing ... Plans for Walney Walney-on-Sea During the late 19th century and early 20th century Walney was seen as a possible seaside resort with hotels and ... 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, ... Wartime Walney The air above wartime Walney was always abuzz with Royal Air Force training flights. Planes chased each other, shot at ... Recording the Bay's Military heritage We are delivering this training project for volunteers to gain skills in archaeological recording and understanding miliary structures and landscapes. ... North Walney Ranges At Walney there are two superimposed ranges, both intended for testing and practising firing from aircraft. Extending out from the peritrack ... 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 ...