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Barrow Blitz
The Barrow Blitz is the name given to the ''Luftwaffe'' bombings of Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom during World War II. They took place primarily during April and May 1941, although the earliest ''Luftwaffe'' bombing occurred in September 1940.Barrow-in-Furness the Fortunes of War VSEL shipyard was the main target for bombing alongside Barrow's which were formerly the largest in the world. Prelude Many Barrovians believe the first sign of German interest of the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindenburg Over Barrow
Hindenburg may refer to: Film and television * ''The Hindenburg'' (film), the 1975 film * '' Hindenburg: The Untold Story'', a 2007 television docudrama Places * Hindenburg, a village in Templin, Brandenburg, Germany * Hindenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, a village in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany * Hindenburg Range, a mountain range in Papua New Guinea * Hindenburg O.S., former name of Zabrze, Poland Vessels * LZ 129 ''Hindenburg'', an airship involved in a disaster ** ''Hindenburg''-class airships * ''Hindenburg'' (icebreaker) * SMS ''Hindenburg'', a 1917 battlecruiser built for the Imperial German Navy * SS ''Columbus'' or SS ''Hindenburg'', a German liner People with the name * Carl Hindenburg Carl Friedrich Hindenburg (13 July 1741 – 17 March 1808) was a German mathematician born in Dresden. His work centered mostly on combinatorics and probability. Education Hindenburg did not attend school but was educated at home by a private tut ... (1741–1808), mathematician * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness
The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness is a £200 million development under construction in and around the Port of Barrow, England. The site covers an area of some and was due for completion in 2020. The internal road network is already complete, with construction of a large business park complex ongoing and work on a 400-berth marina and 650 home Marina Village due to start thereafter. In 2010, The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness ranked as the ninetieth most costly regeneration project in the United Kingdom by Regeneration & Renewal. Progress on the project stalled between 2010 and 2016 due to complications with funding following the disabandonment of the North West Regional Development Agency. BAE Systems opened a large logistics warehouse named the Resolution Building on Dova Way within the designated Business Park Area in October 2016, while and construction of a new access road from Salthouse Road to the Marina Village commenced in May 2017. Background and history A 400-berth m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindpool
Hindpool is an area and Wards of the United Kingdom, electoral ward of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is bordered by Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Barrow Island, Central Barrow, Ormsgill, Parkside, Barrow-in-Furness, Parkside and the Walney Channel, the local population stood at 5,851 in 2011. The ward covers the entire western half of the town centre and includes Barrow's main List of leading shopping streets and districts by city, shopping district. Other local landmarks include the Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness, Furness College Channelside campus, the Dock Museum and the Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library, Main Public Library. Hindpool is also home to two stadia - Barrow Raiders' Craven Park (Barrow), Craven Park and Barrow A.F.C.'s Holker Street. The ward itself will be combined with Barrow Island and Central wards in April 2023 following formation of the new Westmorland and Furness Local Authority and be named 'Old Barrow'. History The Hindpool Estate ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dock Museum
The Dock Museum is situated in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Most of its exhibits concern the history of the town, focusing on the shipbuilding industry at VSEL (now BAE Systems), the steelworks industry — of which Barrow once had the world's largest, the Furness Railway and the World War II bombings of the town. There has been a museum in Barrow since 1907 and in its current location since 1994, when 50,000 people visited it in its first year, visitor numbers peaked at 120,000 in 2001. The museum has free entry and remains under public ownership. Exhibits On initial entrance to the museum, the ground floors galleries are about the town's history, its rapid mushrooming, as well as how it was affected by World War II. The largest part of the museum is housed in a former dry dock, where three floors containing models of ships and submarines built in Barrow, along with other exhibits can be found. The Vickers Photographic Archive, an archive of 10,000 glass plate ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean War
, date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950) , place = Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Korea Strait, China–North Korea border , territory = Korean Demilitarized Zone established * North Korea gains the city of Kaesong, but loses a net total of {{Convert, 1506, sqmi, km2, abbr=on, order=flip, including the city of Sokcho, to South Korea. , result = Inconclusive , combatant1 = {{Flag, First Republic of Korea, name=South Korea, 1949, size=23px , combatant1a = {{Plainlist , * {{Flagicon, United Nations, size=23px United Nations Command, United Nations{{Refn , name = nbUNforces , group = lower-alpha , On 9 July 1951 troop constituents were: US: 70.4%, ROK: 23.3% other UNC: 6.3%{{Cite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrow Park Cenotaph
The Barrow Park Cenotaph is the main war memorial in the UK town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, North West England. Located in Barrow's main public park, the structure is grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel .... It is made from Portland limestone and is pillar like in appearance. It was built in 1919 in commemoration of the 616 Barrovian men who lost their lives in combat during World War I, however since then the names of 274 more locals have been added (268 of these being fatalities of World War II and 6 of the Korean War). The cenotaph currently only bears the names of Barrovians lost during these three wars whilst in military action (i.e. excluding civilians killed in the Barrow Blitz). Two inscriptions on the memorial read, ''To the glory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass-Observation
Mass-Observation is a United Kingdom social research project; originally the name of an organisation which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the University of Sussex. Mass-Observation originally aimed to record everyday life in Britain through a panel of around 500 untrained volunteer observers who either maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires (known as directives). The organisation also paid investigators to anonymously record people's conversation and behaviour at work, on the street and at various public occasions, including public meetings and sporting and religious events. Origins The creators of the Mass-Observation project were three former students from Cambridge: anthropologist Tom Harrisson (who left Cambridge before graduating), poet Charles Madge and filmmaker Humphrey Jennings. Collaborators included literary critic William Empson, photographers Humphrey Spender and Michael Wickham, collagist Julian Trevelyan, novelists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nella Last
Nella Last (née Nellie Lord; 4 October 1889 – 22 June 1968) was an English housewife who lived in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England. She wrote a diary for the Mass Observation Archive from 1939 until 1966 making it one of the most substantial diaries held by Mass Observation. Her diary, consisting of around 12 million words, is one of the longest in the English language. Biography She was the daughter of local railway clerk John Lord. She married Will Last on 17 May 1911, a shopfitter and joiner. They had two sons together, Arthur (8 August 1913 - 18 May 1979) and Clifford (13 December 1918 - 1991). During the Second World War she volunteered for the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) and the British Red Cross. An edited version of the two million words or so she wrote during World War II was originally published in 1981 as ''Nella Last's War: A Mother's Diary, 1939-45'' and subsequently republished as ''Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrow-in-Furness Railway Station
Barrow-in-Furness is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line and Furness Line, south-west of Carlisle and north-west of Lancaster, in the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History The present station was formerly known as ''Barrow Central'', and at one time it was a terminus for British Rail long-distance or InterCity services. From October 1947 until May 1983 these included sleeper services to and from London Euston. A sleeper service in the London direction only was briefly reintroduced between May 1987 and May 1990. The original Barrow station of 1846 had been a wooden building at Rabbit Hill, near the site of the present St. George's Square. It was eventually replaced in 1863 by a new brick building close by, which had been designed by the Lancaster architect Edward Paley, and which latterly came to be known as Cambridge Hall. On 1 June 1882, the town's principal station was transferred to its present sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furness Abbey
Furness Abbey, or St. Mary of Furness, is a former Catholic monastery located to the north of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The abbey dates back to 1123 and was once the second-wealthiest and most powerful Cistercian monastery in the country, behind Fountains Abbey, prior to its dissolution during the English Reformation.History of the abbey The abbey contains a number of individual Grade I s and is a . History of the abbey Early history [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furness Abbey Hotel
The Furness Abbey Hotel was demolished in 1953, having been bombed in May 1941. Its site now forms the car park to Furness Abbey and the museum. The station at Furness Abbey also suffered bomb damage and was demolished in the early 1950s. The original station booking office and refreshment room, built in 1862, which had been attached to the hotel, survives as The Abbey Tavern, standing in Abbey Approach, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, to the north of the remains of Furness Abbey. The current structure is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History In the 17th century the whole site included the manor house for the Preston family, and probably incorporated the guest house of Furness Abbey. By the 19th century, having gone through several ownerships after the Preston family had departed, the manor house was empty and semi-derelict until it was purchased by the Furness Railway in 1847. The Lancaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Barrow
Central Barrow refers both to the town centre of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and to the electoral ward that roughly covers the eastern part of that town centre. In 2001 5,584 ( ranking 5th out of 13) lived in the Central ward. The population density was 55.96 per hectare, which was well above the local average of 9.24, and England average, 3.77. The population of Central ward had reduced to 4,583 at the 2011 Census. Central Barrow is amongst the 3% most deprived areas in the country and households have an average weekly income around £100 lower than the region's average, however the area being the central business district of the town is also home to many of Barrow's retail outlets, as well as a large amount of offices, restaurants and governmental buildings. Part of the £200 million Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness project is being constructed in the southern part of Central Barrow (including the new Marina Village). The ward itself will be combined with Barrow Island an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
