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This was overcome by the building of an unsatisfactory wooden jetty in 1824, which in turn was replaced between 1853 and 1857 by Birch's iron jetty.
It burned down in 1908, and the front block was rebuilt by Thomas Thurlow, who also designed Walter Birch's factory in Leigh Street.
It could be said that the modern history of Barrow-in-Furness began with the birth of the Furness Railway in 1846, when a line was opened from Kirky and Crooklands to Rampside and Barrow.
In February 1960 the church bells rang throughout the villages of Kent to herald the birth of Prince Andrew.
The arch commemorates the birth of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, in 1841.
In 1519 a Bewdley girl gave birth to his illegitimate son, later created Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the
