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Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.
Two cars are on the road to the right, part of the main road to Barrow-in-Furness.
Barrow boys, porters and carters do their best to earn a few shillings.
George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, stayed here in 1857.
once home to what must have been one of the earliest lending libraries in England: in 1492 Geoffrey Downes lent his books to the church, with specific intstructions that gentlemen should be allowed to borrow
The church tower presides over the east end of Fore Street, where two prams and a barrow are the only wheeled traffic on a sunny day.
The view is south- eastwards from the slopes of Flower's Barrow hill fort, inside the area taken over for D-Day tank training on the Lulworth Ranges in 1943.
On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.
Michael Palladino used to go round the town with his ice-cream barrow and charged a penny for a wafer and just a halfpenny for a cup.
A walk along the downlands around Long Bredy shows this to be a very old landscape, with barrows and monoliths from prehistory and ridge paths from more recent times.
It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms - in the watchful presence of priests - to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that
It was immortalised by George Borrow, who enjoyed the most sumptuous breakfast of his life here in 1854 during a tour which he recorded in Wild Wales: `a noble breakfast, such indeed as I might have read
Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Some 60 years earlier George Borrow had stayed here on his tour through 'Wild Wales'; here he drank 'the finest glass of ale he had ever tasted in his life'.
Some 60 years earlier George Borrow had stayed here on his tour through 'Wild Wales'; here he drank 'the finest glass of ale he had ever tasted in his life'.
Powerstock is a good holiday place for the archaeologist, for apart from the hillfort, there are prehistoric barrows, Roman roads and Saxon settlements nearby.
Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex.
It belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow.
It belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow.
John Burrow is shown as the licensee on the board on the Hope and Anchor Inn (right).
