Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness

Originally separate from the British mainland, land reclamation in the 1860s saw the northern fringes of the island connected to Central Barrow.The area is home to the vast majority of Barrow's shipyard including the Devonshire Dock Hall complex - the main occupier of the reclaimed land from Walney Channel.The land surrounding the apartments and along the main roads has benefited from a £1 million landscaping project to create parks, open spaces and growing areas.Barrow Island is also home to a large business park currently under construction as part of the £200 million Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness project.Many of the existing shipyard buildings were constructed by VSEL, including the huge Heavy Engineering Workshop and Devonshire Dock Hall complex.Despite this, current owners, BAE Systems, have ambitious expansion plans on Barrow Island associated with the Trident successor programme.
Tenements along Ship Street
Barrow Island seen in 1890 dominated by its shipbuilding works
Typical 19th century industrial architecture on Barrow Island
Anchor Road on Barrow Island
Cavendish Park, once a major railway junction on the island
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