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A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden.

It was also possible to sail to Douglas from Barrow, Silloth, Whitehaven and Glasgow.

Here, a local passenger train is on the up line for Barrow, having left Grange station.

Lewis`s (left) has a fine array of braziers, bins and barrows outside.

We are looking westwards to the snout of Goggin's Barrow (right), Black Head (centre), and Redcliff Point (left) above Weymouth Bay.

George Borrow, the 'gentleman gypsy', was lucky to have been born in this pleasing old country town.

This was once a magnificent chambered long barrow that was covered with a brilliant white chalk mound.

Other street names were taken from ships that had been built at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.

In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style

Ivy-covered Littlemore Cottage (left) stands beside the stream from Water Barrows; gritty heathstone- walled 17th-century Cockles Cottage is on the right.

For many years the river at Barrow has possessed a watery magnetism which has drawn people from the city to its banks on warm summer days, either to enjoy a picnic, or to venture onto the

This was once a magnificent chambered long barrow that was covered with a brilliant white chalk mound.

In pre-world war two days, most travellers toured their patch by train and tram, hiring a barrow-boy if necessary to trundle their wares between calls.

Opposite, on the corner of King Street, Mrs Burrows was continuing a long-established blacksmith's business at the 16th-century forge.

Lynn had forgotten to do so, and Barrow Council had to publicise for the architect 'Ira' to unveil himself to them.

The Great Western Railway ordered two fast triple-expansion steamers, costing £55,000 each, from the Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness, for the Weymouth-Jersey summer service.

Tourism was also hampered by the depression of the 1920s, and there was to be growing competition from the other seaside resorts after the Second World War which would diminish visitor numbers further.

It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that surround the area.

George Borrow, the 'gentleman gypsy', was lucky to have been born in this pleasing old country town.

Displays of various kinds decorate the entrance hall; these may include photos of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who made numerous visits to Barrow to launch ships from

Certainly people as different as George Borrow and Lee Chapman have looked back on their days in the town with affection.

To the left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling

The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.

It was built to help ships navigating the River Lune and to guide ships to Glasson docks - it was not built for the benefit of Barrow-in-Furness, as the town was only a small fishing hamlet at the time