Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow

Name: Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
Notes: None
Postal address: 140 Duke Street
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Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA14 1XW
Telephone: 01229 407377
Web address: http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/recordoffices/barec.asp

Documents: 24

z1567-70

 notices and correspondence relating to Ulverston Customs House, 1835-40, including notices regarding Falmouth Harbour Lights, 1835, Needles Light, 1838; crew list of the Ellen and Sarah, c.1840; light duties correspondence, 1839-40; p

1835 -1840 navigation lighthouses
BD/S04/34

poster for the Windermere operating between Ulverston and Liverpool, early nineteenth century

1820 -1830 shipping
Z2108/1-2

committee card and report of Barrow Yacht Club, 1875

1875 -1875 yachting leisure
Z3222-34

Barrow crew lists, 1859-1913

1859 -1913 shipping commercial mariners
Z3322

two crew lists for the Maria Lamb of Barrow, 1886

1886 -1886 mariners shipping
Z3323

 official logbook and account of voyages and crew for P.S. Lady Margaret of Barrow, 1907

1907 -1907 shipping commercial passenger
Z3201

typescript copy of diaries of voyages of the British Queen and Eugenie of Barrow, 1873, 1876

1873 -1876 travel leisure
Z3324

half-yearly agreements and accounts of voyages and crew for P.S. Lady Moyra, 1910-11

1910 -1911 shipping passenger
Z1572

crew list of the Red Diamond of Ulverston, 1840-2

1840 -1842 mariners shipping
BDY/123

 Barrow pilots licenses, 1873-1907, and sailing apprenticeships, 1872-1965

1872 -1965 pilotage shipping
BT/NDLB/1-4

 minutes of the Barrow Local and the Cumberland Dock Labour Boards of the National Dock Labour Corporation, 1942-69

1942 -1969 docks
BDX/52

 file of reminiscences of James T. Gawthrop of service on HMS Amphitrite including copy of citation for awards to British seamen by Victor Emanuel III, 1921; photocopies of logbooks of HMS Princess Margaret, 1918; HMS Windsor

1918 -1921 navy service
BDX/43

service papers of H. Hool, 1940

1940 -1940 navy
BDX 325

Naval construction and Armaments Co. Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness: letterbook

1893 -1894 navy shipbuilding Companies weaponry correspondence
BDB 16 TD Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd., Barrow: registers of apprentices and apprentice time books. 1891 -1967 construction Companies training
RNLI Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Barrow: returns of service log. 1997 -1999 welfare rescue coastguard
Barrow in Furness Port Barrow-in-Furness port: registers and records rel to shipping activities 19th-20th centuries. 1800 -1999 harbours trade commerce
Barrow in Furness Port Barrow-in-Furness port: registers of pierhead arrivals and departures. 1923 -1974 harbours sailings shipping
BDX 446 Thomas Norman, shipyard worker, Barrow: family papers and local souvenirs 1900 -1989 None
BTSR Barrow-in-Furness port (addnl): shipping registers 1901 -1987 harbours
BDB Vickers Shipbuilding Group, Barrow-in-Furness: card indexes with brief details of factory floor personnel and yard labourers 1900 -1950 shipwrights construction staff
BT/SR Barrow-in-Furness Port: shipping registers 1990 -1994 harbours
BDSo 105 Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Ulverston branch: account book 1965 -1993 welfare rescue finances
BDX 574

Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, armaments manufacturers, shipbuilders and engineers: registers, photos and plans 1935-52.

1935 -1952 arms armaments companies shipbuilders shipwright industry engineering