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| AIRSHIPS
ONLINE
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Airships online
houses the online archive of the Airship Heritage Trust. Inside you will
find an extensive history relating to all of the British Airships from
1900 to the present day.
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| ASKAM
HERALD
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An unofficial
community website containing news from Askam and Ireleth.
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| ABOUT
ULVERSTON
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This part of
Cumbria is a walker's paradise. There is a network of footpaths, green
lanes and bridleways which link the villages and ancient sites, and
pass through an idyllic pastoral countryside
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ASKAM & IRELETH HISTORY |
site is
devoted to the history of Ireleth and Askam, two villages on the Furness
peninsula on the west coast of Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England.
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| BBC CUMBRIA
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Includes such things as weather, local
news and features...
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| BARROW
TRANSPORT WEBSITE
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This Website has been designed to
inform young and old of past public transport in Barrow-in-Furness. How things have changed the old blue and cream
Corporation Vehicles, the great battle of Barrow Buses, Ribble Mini Link
everywhere, free buses, blocking in of buses at stops then The Transport
Giant Stagecoach taking over and peace reigned whether it be for better or
worse you all have your views.
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| BARROW-IN-FURNESS
BOROUGH COUNCIL
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A council site relating to all things
Barrow-in-Furness.
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| BARROW
IN FURNESS DOG TRAINING CLUB
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A club founded in 1991 by a small
group of enthusiastic dog owners who were having to travel 40 miles to the
nearest club that could provide agility training.
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| BARROW
TOURISM
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| BARROW
SHIPYARD BAND
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Barrows local ship yard band site.
quite interesting and informative...
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| BARROW
ISLAND WEB SITE (THE)
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Information on this site derives from
the barrow museum, library ,chatting to people who live or have lived on
the island for most of or all their lives not to mention the heritage
archives.
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| BARROW
ROTARY CLUB
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Home of the Barrow Rotary Club.
Founded in 1932
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| BARROW
BOROUGH SPORTS COUNCIL
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Barrow Borough
Sports Council was established in December 1999, after the old Sports
Advisory Committee was wound up. The old Advisory Committee was primarily
set up (in 1987) to advise Barrow Council on sporting issues.
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| CENTRAL
& SOUTHERN LAKELAND & THE LAKELAND PENINSULAS
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This site allows the visitor to discover
a multitude of hidden treasures, spectacular coastline, meandering rivers
and crystal clear lakes, high fells, and peaceful valleys, bustling market
towns and picturesque villages...
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| CUMBRIA
DIRECTORY
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This site covers all of Cumbria and
includes many interesting articles including such delights as tradition,
tourist attractions and an excellent database of towns and
villages...
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| CUMBRIA COUNTY
COUNCIL
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For local government information at
all levels. includes many useful statistics pages and local
government news and events. Local media etc. etc...
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| CUMBRIA CONSTABULARY
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Cumbria Constabulary has gradually
evolved for over more than a century, but on a local basis it was only
officially formed in April 1974 with an establishment of 1044 officers.
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| CUMBRIA
RECORD OFFICE
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Included amongst the 10 miles of
records the Cumbria Archive Service cares for are parish registers, other
ecclesiastical records, wills, electoral registers, maps and plans,
poor law records, title deeds, and photographs. The archives of many
families, businesses, local authorities, solicitors, societies and schools
are also deposited in the Record Offices.
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| DUDDON
ESTUARY
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The Duddon is a large sandy estuary
lying between Morecambe Bay and the West Cumbrian coast. It opens into the
Irish Sea just north of Barrow and Walney Island. A total length of
shoreline of 45 kms encloses a total area of 3500 ha. making it the second
largest estuary in Cumbria after the Solway Firth.
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| DOCK
MUSEUM
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Home of the widely acclaimed Dock
Museum. includes details of all forthcoming events and exhibitions at the
Dock Museum, as well as detail of permanent galleries such as
'Shipbuilders to the World'. In addition the site has details of the
Museum's social and industrial history collections and education services.
The site also includes thousands of shipbuilding images from the Vickers
Photographic Archive.
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| ECASTLES
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On this site you will find information
on over 950 English and Welsh castles, fortified houses, Pele towers and
coastal forts built since the first century, with maps to show you where
they are and which others are nearby.
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| EXPLORE LOW
FURNESS
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Here you can discover a corner of
hidden Britain and plan a visit to one of the cradles of Celtic
Christianity. Low Furness is an area steeped in history and Druidic,
Roman, Viking, Puritan and Victorian influences all add to the atmosphere
of mystery that swathes the countryside.
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| WALNEY
CHURCHES ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP
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For all things to do with the islands
churches: Walney has three Christian denominations working closely
together, Roman Catholics, Methodists and Anglicans. Sadly for the
partnership, Walney Baptist Fellowship has closed down, and the members
now worship in Barrow and with the other Walney Churches.
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| FOUR
AM DESIGNS
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A local compilation of animated gifs,
by Jill Lawson. Well worth a visit...
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| FURNESS
TRADITION
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Now in their
fifth year Furness Tradition is a folk-arts development group based in the
Furness market town of Ulverston. The group was initiated by volunteers to
celebrate, encourage and make familiar the musical inheritance of the
Furness and South Lakeland area of South Cumbria.
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| FLEETWOOD
MARITIME HERITAGE
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Covers many interesting nautical
issues with lists of wreckages and tales of trade-links amongst its
content. Also some nice pictures...
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| FURNESS
GOLF CLUB
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Situated on the Western tip of the
Furness Peninsula, Furness Golf Club provides both an invigorating and
difficult challenge to both professionals and amateurs alike.
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| FURNESS
DIRECTORY
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A site that changes daily and contains
a comprehensive list of services and business's in the Furness and
surrounding area. Whatever you are looking for, you will find headings for
services, contact names, telephone and fax numbers and also individual
websites of the service where available.
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| FRIENDS
REUNITED
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Looking for old friends? Finding them
is easy. You can search by school, college, university, workplace,
regiment and even where you have lived. So whether you're looking for a
school friend or an old neighbour, friends reunited should be able to
help?
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| FURNESS
RAILWAY TRUST
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Official website of Furness Railway
Number 20, Britain's oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive.
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| IRELETH
& ASKAM-IN-FURNESS HISTORY SITE
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An excellently
put together site devoted
to the history of Ireleth and Askam-in-Furness, two villages on the
Furness peninsula on Cumbria's west coast.
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| LINDAL &
MARTON COMMUNITY WEB-SITE
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A local community web-site serving
both Lindal and Marton.
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| LANCASHIRE TOWNS
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A website that
covers the entire Historical County of Lancashire including Walney Island
(Ancient name Sistuntii, meaning Country of Water) the boundary of which
is still the official Lancashire County Boundary, more or less as it has
been since 1100AD. (site down as off 24/07/04)?
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| LAKE
DISTRICT PENINSULAS
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Nature and
heritage jostle for your attention in this special area of Cumbria.
Bustling towns and picturesque villages nestle against a scenic backdrop
of countryside and coast, stretching from the endless expanses of
Morecambe Bay to lush, gentle, countryside inland.
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| LAKESIDE
RAILWAY
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The main
supporting group of the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway Co. Ltd?
Volunteers are found throughout the railway, working behind the scenes on
track, signaling, carriage and locomotive repairs, also as booking clerks,
buffet attendants, ticket inspectors and guards, right through to the
engine footplate as cleaners, firemen and drivers.
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| LAKES
GLIDING CLUB
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The Lakes Gliding Club is a year round
training and soaring site, it has a range of gliders available for club
members and a well proven training programme. So whatever flying
experience you have, you will be more than welcome to experience soaring
flight in a glider at the friendliest gliding club in the UK.
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| MORECAMBE BAY
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This website gives information about
Morecambe Bay's wildlife and shows how people are working together to
ensure we continue to use the Bay in a sustainable way.
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CHECK
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Check out the local weather outlook. A
great site for weather checks in any district...
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| NETTING THE BAY
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Visit Galleries
with past and present images of fishing people, the boats they used and
their equipment. Take a look at the marine life in and around Morecambe
Bay and learn something about it's natural history and ecology.
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| NATIONAL SERVICE
MEMOIRS:
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The site shares
local man 'Alan Parkinson's army and military experiences whilst serving
in the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment, as a national serviceman in the
Cameroons and also contains the true story of his time training from
Fulwood to Barnard Castle, to the Cameroons and back to Barnard Castle.
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| NORTH
WEST EVENING MAIL
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Home of the local newspaper covering
all current affairs and topics, with quite a large build up of backdated
news stories beginning to accumulate...
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| PARK HOMES
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A family
run business specializing in the running of Residential Home Parks backed
by a full membership of the British Holiday and Home Parks Association
Ltd. Park homes (sometimes known as mobile
homes) provide an alternative lifestyle to city living, yet benefit from
all local amenities and attractions.
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MILLOM
MUSEUM
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Official web-site of the museum. It
contains pictures of some exhibits and staff, visitor information, an
index of local RAF personnel and quite a comprehensive links page. The
site also contains archives of Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal
Canadian Air Force who had local accidents in Cumbria.
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| SUBMARINE
HERITAGE CENTRE |
The Submarine
Heritage Centre is a Charitable Trust that has been established to create
a Centre that will celebrate the design, build and operation of
Barrow-in-Furness built Submarines since 1886. It will serve both as an
absorbing educational venue and a worthwhile visitor attraction for
present and future generations.
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| SOUTH
LAKES
UK
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The South lakes Web Site for Barrow and
the Furness Peninsula. Hosted by Bill Clark.
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ASSOCIATION (BARROW-IN-FURNESS)
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| SAINT PAUL'S
CHURCH
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On our this site you will find an
assortment of things ranging from the details of service times, to
editorials on the nature of life the universe and everything.
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| SAINT
MARKS CHURCH
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St. Mark's is part of the
Church of England, in the Diocese of Carlisle and has a regular
worshipping congregation of approximately 110 people.
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LAKES WILD ANIMAL PARK
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A local zoo,
which is constantly changing, in the years since it opened (1994), it has
changed beyond recognition, from converted farmland with a basic animal
collection to a world recognised centre for conservation, breeding and
education.
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| SOUTH
END CARAVAN PARK
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A site opened
in 1976 by the Mulgrew family who also
own and run the adjoining farm.
The site has been added to and improved ever since.
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WORLD WAR EXPERIENCE CENTRE, The
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A site with a
mission of collecting, document, preserve, exhibit and encourage access to
the surviving material evidence and associated information of the men and
women who participated in the war in whatever capacity whether military,
civilian or conscientious objector and therefore not really Walney
related, but it does give an insight in to 'Warrent Officer Ernie Reynolds
life and his time at Number 10 AGS (Air Gunnery School) Walney
Island.
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CENTURY DEFENCE ARCHITECTURE IN CUMBRIA:
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Within this site
you will find a gazetteer of pill-boxes, air-raid shelters, Royal Observer
Corps posts, and other defence infrastructure in Cumbria that is quietly
mouldering away, the threat of invasion and warfare it was constructed to
stand against long gone.
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| THROUGH
MIGHTY SEAS
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A website
covers the maritime history of the merchant sailing ships of the North
West of England and the Isle of Man, through the period from the late
1700's until the First World War. There are histories of more than 650
ships, indexed by region, and over 80 historic photographs.
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| VISIT CUMBRIA
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A guide
to the many attractions and places of interest in Cumbria, The Lake
District, England, including historic buildings, lakes, preserved
railways, churches, the National Trust, and much more. There are about 700
pages, and 1400 pictures.
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| WALNEY
ISLAND.COM
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A fun, informative and educational
site about all things Walney Island.
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WINGS OVER WALNEY |
Home of the official Walney Air
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| WALNEY ISLE
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Explore the pictures which take you on
a visual virtual tour of the island's many attractions. More than 1,500
Walney Isle Images of local features and events are free to send as
e-greetings cards or to save as widows wallpaper to brighten up your
desktop.
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PAGE
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It
is recorded that never before in England has an industrial town grown so
quickly, from a village to a town. It is believed to be over a
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