Search Currently displaying: 10 results You've searched for:location: "Barrow-in-Furness" xTheme: "Ship and boat building" x Search term Filter by Type catalogue_item (6)story (4)Filter by Theme Defending the Bay (6)Second World War (6)Fun in the Bay (1)Natural landscape (1)Filter by Location Walney Island (2)Filter by Format Multimedia (6)Oral history (6)Filter by Century 17th (1)18th (1)19th (3)20th (8)21st (2)Filter by Period Iron Age (5) 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 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 - 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 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 ...