Barrow in furness

153 – 159 Dalton Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire Woolworths opened in Barrow-in-Furness towards the end of 1926. It was a large store, spanning two shopfronts. Source: Francis Frith Somet…

Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness is a large industrial town which grew from a tiny 19th Century hamlet to the biggest iron and steel centre in the

Barrow-in-Furness, port town and borough (district), administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England. It lies on the seaward side of the Furness peninsula between the estuary of the River Duddon and Morecambe Bay. A narrow channel of the Irish Sea, now bridged, lies between the mainland and the low, elongated Isle of Walney, providing shelter for extensive shipyards. The rapid modern growth of Barrow dates from the 1840s, when ironworks were established…

Piel Castle, Piel Island Piel Castle stands on Piel Island, just off the coast of Walney Island and Barrow-in-Furness. Piel Castle stands on the

IT has taken 150 years for Barrow’s shopping centre to move from roughly the area of Morrisons towards the bottom of Dalton Road and then all the…

A collection of images spanning 64 years has been described as the "historical Google Earth".

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Barrow-in-Furness, population 69,087, is the hub of Britain's nuclear weapons arsenal. Matt Kennard talked to residents about the town's questionable industrial heritage, the local dominance of BAE Systems, and what nuclear disarmament would mean for the town and its workers.

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