Search Currently displaying: 24 results You've searched for:Theme: "Working in the Bay" xlocation: "Barrow-in-Furness" x Search term Filter by Type catalogue_item (16)story (8)Filter by Theme Defending the Bay (8)Second World War (8)Fun in the Bay (3)Natural landscape (1)Sailing and pleasure boats (1)Swimming (1)Filter by Location Arnside and Silverdale (1)Grange-over-Sands (2)Heysham (1)Lancaster (1)Morecambe (1)Ulverston (1)Walney Island (6)Warton (1)Filter by Format Documents (2)Book (1)Manuscript (1)Images (5)Photograph (5)Multimedia (9)Oral history (9)Filter by Century 17th (1)18th (2)19th (7)20th (18)21st (3)Filter by Period Iron Age (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 ... 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) 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. 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 ... Oral history interview with Denys Vaughan, born in Barrow 1931, now lives in Grange Morecambe Bay Lives Celebration Booklet Oral History Interview with Denys Vaughan - Defending the Docks Oral History Interview with Alfred Fishwick - Defending the Docks Oral History Interview with John Crossfield - Defending the Docks Oral History Interview with Edith Knight - Defending the Docks Oral History Interview with Margaret Charnley - Defending the Docks Oral History Interview with Sheila Watson - Defending the Docks 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 ...