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Backbarrow, Cumbria
Backbarrow maps
Historic maps of Backbarrow and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Backbarrow maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Cumbria
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Backbarrow books
Displaying 3 of 25 books about Backbarrow and the local area. View all Backbarrow books
A Taste of Cumbria and the Lake District
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Cumbria Photographic Memories
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Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories
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Memories of Backbarrow
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The Whitewater Hotel at Backbarrow, near Newby Bridge
I stayed in Backbarrow for several days at the Whitewater Hotel which has been converted from a former mill building by the river. The lobby of this lovely "spa hotel" has display cabinets of memorabilia from its industrial heyday in the last century which was interesting and I recommend a visit.
My wife Elizabeth and I used this... [more]
Shared on 18 April 2008
Cumbria memories
I would like to share with your readers that my father Alban Crossley was born in Staveley and his mother Ethel Crossley (nee Bateman) worked in the bobbin mill in Staveley. Unfortunately my grandfather Michael Crossley died as a result of a motorbike accident. My father died in 1983 age 59years old.
We lived in Staveley in... [more]
Shared on 30 June 2008
My grandfather worked as wheelwright for Thomas Wren, ajoining the Swan Hotel. Can any relitive of Thomas Wren please give me any more information? His name was John Hartley Wilson of Lakeside.
My E Mail is johnwilson45@tiscali.co.uk THANK YOU
Ken Wilson
Shared on 21 April 2008
The children in the boat are Leslie (boy), Harry (his brother), Noel (his sister) Wren. His other sister Millie Wren is sitting on the riverbank. The other child is a neighbour. For many years Millie Wren was a teacher at Lightburn School, Ulverston.
Shared on 06 April 2006
In April 2008 I went on holiday to the Lakes with my wife, Elizabeth, and we enjoyed a day's outing here. We first took a steam train from Haverthwaite through Newby Bridge to Lakeside where the steamer quay looks not much different from the view shown in this photo. Then we boarded a steamer which took us up the lake... [more]
Shared on 06 October 2008
The gentleman with the scythe over his shoulder was my grandfather. His name was Joseph Jackson, born in 1849 at Bootle in Cumberland. He spent most of his life as a tenant farmer, first at Canleton Farm near Egremont also in Cumberland. He then moved to Lane Ends Farm at Haverthwaite in what was then Lancashire owing to... [more]
Shared on 06 April 2006
Grandmother lived in Penny Bridge manor
My grandmother Sarah Hewitt was supposed to have lived in Penny Bridge manor and had a sister, I think, who drowned crossing the river - before the bridge was put in, maybe? - but I cannot find any information on her or her family. I would really appreciate any information.
What a beautiful place!!
Shared on 23 May 2009
My mothers was evacuated to Penny Bridge during WW2
My mother Iris Woods was evacuated to Penny Bridge during WW2. She first stayed at Penny Bridge House with the Stanley sisters - Franny & Alice? She then was moved to Mrytle Cottage to live with Fred & Ellen Stanley.
She has very fond and happy memories of her time there. I'm trying to trace some information... [more]
Shared on 01 December 2008
Extracts From Backbarrow & Cumbria books
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Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories
Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its bad treatment of the children who worked there. Originally, it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill. Later, it was to become an ultramarine works, when all around it was coloured blue. Backbarrow also had an ironworks, one of the oldest in the country.
This is an extract from Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories.
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Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories
Formerly, a railway line from the station to the slate quarries ran across by the mound (centre). The houses at Marshside beyond it were originally built for the quarrymen; to the left were the houses for the overseers. On the right, by the main road, which had not long been built at the time of this photograph, is a cluster of prefabs, temporary... [more]
This is an extract from Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories.
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Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories
Eccle Riggs Hall was built for Lord Cross in 1865. It remained in use as a private house until about 1959, from when it served as an hotel for about forty years. Today, it is a private property once again, and is now occupied by a publishing company. In its earlier life, the front of the building was covered in ivy with little more than the... [more]
This is an extract from Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories.
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