Search Currently displaying: 7 results You've searched for:Theme: "Working in the Bay" xCentury: "19th" xlocation: "Barrow-in-Furness" xtype: "story" x Search term Filter by Location Walney Island (2)Filter by Century 17th (1)18th (2)20th (4)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 ... 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 ...