Search Currently displaying: 43 results You've searched for:location: "Barrow-in-Furness" x Search term Filter by Type catalogue_item (28)story (15)Filter by Theme Defending the Bay (17)Second World War (17)Fun in the Bay (8)Entertainment (2)Natural landscape (2)Sailing and pleasure boats (2)Swimming (3)Nature in the Bay (2)Back on our Map Species Restoration Project 2019-2023 (2)Working in the Bay (24)Copper, iron and steel (2)Ports, docks and canals (5)Rescue services and safety at sea (5)Salt (1)Ship and boat building (10)Women's lives (5)Filter by Location Arnside and Silverdale (3)Carnforth (1)Cartmel Peninsula (2)Flookburgh (1)Grange-over-Sands (3)Heysham (1)Lancaster (1)Morecambe (1)Ulverston (3)Walney Island (8)Warton (1)Filter by Format Documents (3)Book (1)Manuscript (2)Images (11)Object (4)Photograph (7)Multimedia (14)3D model (2)Oral history (12)Filter by Century 17th (1)18th (2)19th (9)20th (34)21st (4)Filter by Period Iron Age (7) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Gliding in Furness The Furness Gliding Club The club was formed in Barrow in October 1930 and rapidly attained a very prominent position amongst ... Yachting in Barrow Barrow Yacht Club The Barrow Yacht Club was established in 1870 under the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke ... Cycling in Barrow Barrow Amateur Cycling Club Headquarters The club, which opened in 1906, was based in the Old Royal Hotel on The Strand. ... Vickerstown The Isle of Walney Estates Company Limited was set up in the late 1890s to provide housing for the increasing ... Oral history interview with John Murphy of Walney Island Oral history interview with Sheila Drewery (worked at Lakeland Laundry 1964-1976) and Bryn Howell (worked there from 1963) Oral history interview with Robin Reginald Beck who worked at Lakeland Laundry (1967-1972) Members of a social group held at Barrow Age UK talk about life in Barrow. Modern Salt-Making Salt on Walney During the 1880s salt was discovered by chance on Walney whilst boring for coal. By the late 1890s ... Postcard. Walney Bridge Barrow Lifeboat Station Centenary Certificate RNLB Herbert Leigh Photographic slide of Lifeboat Herbert Leigh Lifeboat N.T. 3D image of full pillbox at Barrow waterfront 3D image of partial pillbox at Barrow waterfront, side view 3D model of full pillbox at Barrow waterfront 3D model of partial pillbox at Barrow waterfront, side view 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, ... Barrow-in-Furness Docks The Devonshire and Buccleuch Docks were constructed by the late Mr Brassey in 1867. At the same time a certain ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... PAGE: 12Next >