Search Currently displaying: 4 results You've searched for:Theme: "Ship and boat building" xlocation: "Barrow-in-Furness" xtype: "story" x Search term Filter by Theme Defending the Bay (1)Second World War (1)Filter by Location Walney Island (1)Filter by Century 17th (1)18th (1)19th (3)20th (2)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 ... 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 ... 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 ...