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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.

Here, trams are passing at the Barrow Island end of High Level Bridge on Michaelson Avenue. The upper decks are open to the elements.

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.

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.

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This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder

Piel is one of three islands off the coast at Barrow, and is crowned by the ruined remains of 14th-century Piel Castle, which boasts the largest medieval keep in the north-west of England.

Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex. In the picture the Stores has a sign offering 'Morning coffee and light refreshments, Teas'. There is still a very good tea garden here.

Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow. Lane End is the crossroads in the centre of the picture.

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

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.

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

The High Level Bridge spans part of the dock area; it links Barrow Island, which was a separate island, with the mainland.

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.

It is a monument to John Barrow, one-time Secretary of the Admiralty and a great traveller, who founded the Royal Geographical Society in 1830.

In June 1920 four Southport Californians were sold to Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Tramways as a stop-gap measure until new cars ordered from Brush were delivered.

The greengrocer still sellls from his barrow in almost the same spot today.

To the left is Wart Barrow Lane, whilst the road to the right is Green Lane, which leads towards Boarbank Hall.

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.

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.

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

George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, stayed here in 1857.