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Barrow-in-furness

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Description for Barrow-in-furness Paperback. Barrow-In-Furness has experienced an astonishing transformation from a village to a major industrial town over the past 150 years. This book reveals the stories behind this growth through newspaper headlines and reports. Series: Changing Times. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 9. Weight in Grams: 314.

Barrow-In-Furness has experienced an astonishing transformation from a village to a major industrial town over the past 150 years. This fascinating and detailed book reveals the stories behind this growth through contemporary newspaper headlines and reports. Digging for iron, steelmaking, shipbuilding, the growth of the railways and the laying of tram lines are described in articles and historical notes drawn from Barrow's local newspaper, the North West Evening Mail, and from a number of other daily and weekly papers once published in the town.

The newspapers have left us a record of daily life in Barrow, its triumphs and its ... Read more

The extracts have been selected by the Evening Mail's assistant editor, Bill Myers, mainly from material he researched for an exhibition at the Dock Museum to celebrate the newspaper's centenary. The illustrations are drawn from the author's extensive collection of postcards and photographs showing the development of the North West over the past century.

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Changing Times
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752420837
SKU
V9780752420837
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

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