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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.

knick-knacks; family parties, encamped with umbrellas and novels; eager children, sprawling babies and their nurses, and scores of adventurous youngsters seriously labouring in the sand with spade and wheel-barrow

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

Barrow boys, porters and carters do their best to earn a few shillings. Note the large pair of spectacles above the optician's shop.

Powerstock is a good holiday place for the archaeologist, for apart from the hillfort, there are prehistoric barrows, Roman roads and Saxon settlements nearby.

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

For a very long time Whitby did not have such a thing as a fish shop, as the fishermen themselves supplied their wives, and most locals bought their fish from Jack Gash and his barrow

Barrow has an excellent public library, and the building has the same appearance today. It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.

Many ships have been constructed in Barrow. This crane is still in use, and can be seen from many parts of the town. Here, it is being used in the fitting out of the Oronsay in Buccleuch Dock.

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'.

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 belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow. Its unusual name comes from the wife of its 17th-century owner.

It belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow. Its unusual name comes from the wife of its 17th-century owner.

This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the far side of the bridge.

Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.

There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high. The Norman church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1849, with a timber bell turret and a shingled spire.

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley