Search Currently displaying: 15 results You've searched for:type: "story" xlocation: "Barrow-in-Furness" x Search term Filter by Theme Defending the Bay (2)Second World War (2)Fun in the Bay (4)Entertainment (1)Natural landscape (1)Sailing and pleasure boats (1)Swimming (1)Nature in the Bay (1)Back on our Map Species Restoration Project 2019-2023 (1)Working in the Bay (8)Copper, iron and steel (2)Ports, docks and canals (3)Salt (1)Ship and boat building (4)Women's lives (1)Filter by Location Arnside and Silverdale (2)Carnforth (1)Cartmel Peninsula (2)Flookburgh (1)Grange-over-Sands (1)Ulverston (2)Walney Island (4)Filter by Century 17th (1)18th (2)19th (9)20th (9)21st (1) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Gliding in Furness The Furness Gliding Club The club was formed in Barrow in October 1930 and rapidly attained a very prominent position amongst ... Yachting in Barrow Barrow Yacht Club The Barrow Yacht Club was established in 1870 under the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke ... Cycling in Barrow Barrow Amateur Cycling Club Headquarters The club, which opened in 1906, was based in the Old Royal Hotel on The Strand. ... 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 ... 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, ... Discover the Bay from the Furness Line This series of ten interpretation panels and accompanying ‘window gazer’ leaflet along the scenic Furness Line, celebrate the wonderful cultural ... Zeppelin over Barrow - Denys Vaughan 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 ... Back on our Map -nature & wildlife The 4 year Back on our Map (BOOM) project (2019-2023), led by the University of Cumbria, in partnership with Morecambe ...