Search Currently displaying: 3 results You've searched for:location: "Walney Island" xCentury: "20th" xlocation: "Barrow-in-Furness" xtype: "story" x Search term Filter by Theme Fun in the Bay (1)Swimming (1)Working in the Bay (2)Salt (1)Ship and boat building (1)Filter by Century 19th (2) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Vickerstown The Isle of Walney Estates Company Limited was set up in the late 1890s to provide housing for the increasing ... 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, ...