@@peterbutler904 The only roads that has changed over the years is the A590 and A66 Penrith to Workington , had a look to see if the full A590 is on YT , Nothing . next project . will have to time it right to get a sunset off Walney . FB been haked trying to get it back , so not been able to share the vid on groups.
There more to Barrow than the Ship Yard , and it will still be going long before you have gone , has another 30 years of work and are you say I am a Dick head Sour Grapes. that not nice
Barrow in itself isn't really I suppose you make of it what you want eh, but it's in an ok location tbh blackpools an hourish manchester Liverpool are 2 hours, also lake district is only 20 mins away and its got a history
Billy Butlin was about to build a Holiday Camp before the second World War on North Walney (up past the Crown) but war broke out and it never happened. Would have been very different had that happened.
It makes me sad to realize that 3 buildings on this video have gone forever, the White House ripped down so a greedy t**t could sell more cars, the Travelers ripped down for a car park for the evening fail and soon to be built upon by the same greedy ba****d that turned the engineers into flats and the house of lords burnt out
Upsets me to see the place I’ve called home all of my life constantly under flack from everyone. Barrow might not be the best place around but if you’ve been here you know there is charm to this town. See it for what it is and not what it isn’t, ladies and gents.
Barrow has been ruined by the local town planner who have allowed so many building ripped down for houses(Grammar School, Vickerstown etc) or converted into flats( most pubs in town center)
The train station looks the same. I had a boyfriend whom I met at Newbarns House. He lived in Workington. When we were older we met up again. (We lost touch once he left the home.) When I saw him off on the train, the guard would let us sit on it, if it was early at the station. Then he’d come & tell me when to get off as the train was going.
As a child, I grew up at number 2 Hertford Street. Coming from town, turn left on Ainslie Street. Go along & turn right on Oxford Street, then next left which I think is Lancaster Street. Marsh’s pop factory was on that street. (Sass was the favourite.) As you go along Lancaster Street, Hertford Street was on the right hand side. I’ve also lived at Blake Street not far from the town centre & on Mill Lane on Walney. There was a jewellers called Harts in Barrow market where I would buy necklaces. I also went to Blackmores on Dalton Road. They sold all sorts, but bikes were downstairs & record vinyls upstairs. I lived at a children’s home called Dunlop House based at the top of Abbey Road, when I was a child. I have also lived in Foster care. At 14 in November 1979, I went to Newbarns House children’s home. I left there 2 months later & lived with Mrs Sadler on Lesh Lane.
Who remembers the birds at night at Ramsden Square near the library? They were loud & scary & there was bird poop everywhere. It was like The Birds movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
That was a stupid idea, barricading Duke Street off near Cornwallis Street so you had to do a loop and come out again at the top of Dalton Road/Church Street, what was the point of that ?
We used to go to the Olympic on a Thursday after school to get our tea for watching Little House on the Prairie. Myself & my siblings would have sausage chips & gravy or mushy peas. Our parents would have fish & chips. We also went to Mattys on Ainslie Street. My doctors surgery was Rogers or Rogerson on the corner of Ainslie Street & Abbey Road. We would use cardboard to slide down the hills at the amphitheatre at Furness Abbey. I live in Leeds now. Have done since 1986, but have been back a few times. Sadly I haven’t been since 2000.
I'm from stoke on trent, i worked in barrow in 1977-78, at weldit engineering (anyone remember it?) building oil rigs on the narrow island at the bottom of ramsden dock road, i love barrow ever since, i visit regularly, yes, it is a run down area, but it has a special place in my heart. :)
That brings back a lot of memories. I paused it where the police station was. My dad was architect in the town hall and the police station was one of his old design jobs. Thay've just about all gone now.
Sad to read so many negative comments as Barrow has given so much in the past, from its giant Iron & Steel furnaces, which built railways around the globe, to the many merchant, passenger and naval ships that contributed greatly to the prosperity and survival of this country in good times and bad. Former and existing Barrovians may well feel let down by the plight of a town that has given so much, but received so little in terms of inward investment in infrastructure and jobs.
Bikers have ruined Hawes. Not a nice place to turn up when its full of bikers on their powerful super bikes, treating the Dales like the Isle of Man TT.
As an Ulverstonian who visits Barrow regularly for work I think it's not all that bad a place. For what it's worth my parents came from Dalton,Dan, and they never had a good word to say about Dalton either. So for anyone that wants to know the true meaning of "bleak and miserable" just spend a day in Dalton and I guarantee you will appreciate where you come from a whole lot more.
My parents came from there, they never had one single good thing to say about the place & watching this video I can understand why. It looks bleak & miserable....
As parents,we left in order to have a better quality of life for of our children.some were born there, some weren't.we are no better off regarding money but we are all much much better off by being free of the Barrow culture.Barrow when I was young had around 3 times the national average of people leaving.your parents have spared you of what some of us lived with.I went into care here and the first thing I noticed was how the majority of people looked the same.many inbreds and like you say,depressing.
+Ken Johnson , You can say that of Any Place on a Late Wet Sunday Afternoon , But Have got "The Lake" on you door Step and the Best Sunset off Walney .
No,i must admit that I now don't have either of the the things you mention. I used to live on Schneider road and I watched many a sunset from the reservoir, the slag bank,down by the college and of course walney itself. But what I do have today is that I'm still only 20 miles or so from the lake district.I'm 9 miles from Scotland and that is the gateway to something so beautiful that its regarded better scenery than the rocky mountains.I've had the pleasure of seeing an amazing sunset that makes a mockery out of what you can see at walney. Leaving Barrow opened my horizons.I can drive 70 miles east and see a beautiful sunrise,drive a lot further to see the best sunset there is and whilst I don't have them on my doorstep, I have lots of countryside around me to compensate.since I left Barrow, I've seen so much more and no,it's not inbred and depressing everywhere on a wet afternoon. Life is what you make of it and wherever we go,we always take ourselves along for the journey. Barrow is a shithole of a place with one road in and one road out.I'm so glad we took the road out.that's why 3 times the national average left because there is a better quality of life waiting elsewhere.
