IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Duke Street, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 1HH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Duke Street, LA14 1HH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (115 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Locally known as the Town Centre
Has recently been revamped
Image: © Stephen Middlemiss
Taken: 12 Nov 2009
0.01 miles
2
Barrow-in-Furness - Town Hall and Market
Shame about the converging verticals. This was at the end of a reasonable walk around the BAE Systems site and the Dock Museum.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 21 Sep 2018
0.02 miles
4
Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on the east angle of the Town Hall. It marks a point 12.760m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 28 Mar 2018
0.02 miles
6
The Town Hall at Barrow-in-Furness
The centre of Barrow-in-Furness is dominated by its fine red sandstone Town Hall. The building was the result of an architectural competition held in 1877, the winner of which was Belfast architect W. H. Lynn (1829-1915), a specialist in the design of imposing civic buildings in the Victorian Gothic style (other surviving examples of his work are the town halls at Chester and at Paisley, and the Belfast Central Library).
Construction of the Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall did not run smoothly. The Council's constant cost-cutting in its design delayed the start of construction until 1882, and work was later hampered by cracks appearing in its central tower - the results of economies forcing the contractor to use poor quality sandstone - which had to be dismantled and rebuilt. To reduce its weight the rebuilt tower was 13 feet shorter than originally designed. The Council's parsimony even extended to querying Lynn's purchase of a pitch-pine flagstaff when Norwegian spruce had been specified, though the difference in cost can only have been a matter of a few pounds and the pitch-pine was ready to hand in the nearby docks.
The Town Hall's completion coincided with Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in the summer of 1887, when the Marquis of Hartingdon turned a golden key to symbolically open the building.
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 22 Sep 2009
0.03 miles
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Duke Street
Looking southeast towards the impressive Town Hall.
Image: © David Medcalf
Taken: 23 Nov 2023
0.03 miles
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Furness House
Office building in the centre of Barrow-in-Furness.
Image: © Peter McDermott
Taken: 3 Sep 2021
0.04 miles
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Duke Street at Barrow-in-Furness
This view along Duke Street is towards Barrow's imposing Town Hall (its clock tower is centre left in the picture), which dominates the skyline and the town centre. There is much interesting Victorian property in the area dating from the Town's ship-building and engineering heyday.
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 22 Sep 2009
0.04 miles