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

The name 'Lavengro' is the title of a book by George Borrow, the Victorian writer and linguist: he was born at East Dereham in Norfolk.

The public opening was on 30 June 1908, and the mayoress of Barrow, Mrs T F Butler, performed the ceremony.

The rural nature of this scene is emphasised by the cart just visible inside the barn, and the boy with his barrow about to cross the road.

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.

It was owned by the Borwick family - Mr Borwick lost all his clothes in the fire, and had to borrow replacements.

It was built to bring iron ore to the deep-water harbour here before Barrow Docks were built.

Following the First World War, many changes took place once again around Britain, and in Barrow and Furness in particular.

Bayards Cove, which takes its name from the French 'bayart', meaning 'barrow', was most famously used as a set for the television series 'The Onedin Line'.

The gap in the buildings marks the south side of the green, down the middle of The Steyne, laid out in 1807; it copied that in Brighton and borrowed its name.

On the downlands close by are a considerable number of prehistoric barrows - burial grounds of some of the earliest inhabitants.

Built in 1899 for the General Steam Navigation Co, the paddler was purchased by the Furness Railway in 1907 and entered service on the Barrow- Fleetwood run in April 1908.

The road off to the left leads to the very ancient village of Woodnesborough ('Woden's barrow'), said to be where the Scandinavian god Woden was buried.

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.

Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flour- ished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Just beyond, joining Third and New Courts of St John's College, is the Bridge of Sighs, its Gothic design unashamedly borrowed from the covered bridge of the same name in Venice.

Barrow-in-Furness street lighting was provided by gas light in the 19th century, and many of these gas lights continued in use into the middle of the 20th century.

It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow.

The young man holding the wheelbarrow worked for a local grocer and used the barrow for delivering goods, or, as can be seen here, for giving a local youngster a jaunt.

Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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.

Running north to south with closely built houses of all ages, the High Street of this quaintly composed village is set in a large parish rich in vernacular architecture, ancient burial barrows

This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder