Barrow-in-Furness (inhabited place)
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
150 ton crane lifting a submarine at Barrow, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Aerial view of Vickers Works, Barrow-in-Furness, 1949 - 1969
336 x 174 mm. Photographic copy of a sketch of an aerial view of the Vickers shipworks.
Bows on view of T.S.S. Kedah shortly before launch, July 1927, 1927-07
202 x 143 mm. A view looking down the slipway at the Vickers Naval Construction Works at Barrow-in-Furness, with the T.S.S. Kedah resting on blocks just before the launch. The Kedah was built for the Straits Steamship Company for service between Penang and Singapore and was launched on July 16, 1927.
Building H.M.S. Vanguard, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Looking down from top of 150 ton crane.
Driving piles at Cavendish Dock for the new airship shed, 1909
Quarter-plate. Shows also the Kellner Partington Paper Pulp Company's buildings - get their wood from Norway.
Driving piles at Cavendish Dock for the new airship shed, 1909
Quarter-plate. Shows also the Kellner Partington Paper Pulp Company's buildings - get their wood from Norway. [Shows only one pile driver, seen to the right of 5183].
Garrison Gunmounting Dept : Vickers Sons and Maxims works, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Barrow-in-Furness. [Interior view of works}.
General view from top of 150 ton crane looking south, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). The gun mounting shops are to the left: note triple-bayed engine-shops.
General view from top of 150 ton crane looking south, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). The gun mounting shops are to the left: note triple-bayed engine-shops.
Launch of H.M.S. Vanguard at Barrow (Dreadnought type), 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Launch of the Earl Grey, Icebreaker for Canada, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). At Barrow.
Looking west from the top of one of the big cranes, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Looking over Walney Island and the workmens houses over there. Barrow-in-Furness.
Men returning to work on the battleships San Paolo (for Brazil) and Vanguard (British) at 9 a.m. after the breakfast hour, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Naval Gunmounting Dept, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Showing a row of 4.2 in guns.
Non-Malayan photographs, 1927 - 1969
Contains loose prints, some mounted, of events outside Malay but relating to it - visits of Malayan notables to the U.K., trade exhibitions, gatherings of the British Association of Malaysia and other events.
The Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Company's works, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Black Combe in distance: from top of 150 ton crane in Vickers Maxim's works.
The Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Company's works, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Black Combe in distance: from top of 150 ton crane in Vickers Maxim's works.
The boiler shops : V.M. [Vickers-Maxim] works, Barrow-in-Furness, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Interior view of workshop].
The Cavendish Dock, Barrow-in-Furness, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Pile driving for new airship shed.
The Cavendish Dock, Barrow-in-Furness, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Pile driving for new airship shed.
The Earl Grey Icebreaker after her launch, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Paddlesteamer to the left].
The erecting pits for 12 in gun-mounting, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). These pits are built exactly to correspond with the interior of the barbette so that the entire fittings may be finished in the shop before being transferred to the ship.
The Gunslide Department, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Making the cradles in which the 12 in. guns slide back in recoil upon being fired.
The icebreaker Earl Grey in Barrow Docks, 1909
Quarter-plate (landscape format). And cantilever crane.
The launch party beside the bows of the Kedah, July 16, 1927, 1927-07-16
202 x 139 mm. Showing officials and guests beneath the bows of the Kedah just prior to the launch. The ship was launched by Sir George and Lady Evelyn Maxwell (at left of the group); beside them stand Oliver and Violet Catherine Marks. Other figures have not been individually identified.