Search Currently displaying: 4 results You've searched for:Theme: "Working in the Bay" xCentury: "20th" xlocation: "Barrow-in-Furness" xtype: "story" x Search term Filter by Location Walney Island (2)Filter by Century 21st (1) 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 ... 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 ...