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St. Mary of Furness Church stands in Duke Street. Designed by E.W. Pugin (1834–1875) on a site donated by the Duke of Devonshire, the Church was built during 1866-7 and opened for worship 28 August 1867. Its fine spire, shown here, was added in 1888.
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Looking south-west from Duke Street. The church was designed by E W Pugin. The spire is a prominent landmark.
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St. Mary of Furness Church stands in Duke Street. Designed by E.W. Pugin (1834–1875) on a site donated by the Duke of Devonshire, the Church was built during 1866-7 and opened for worship 28 August 1867. Its fine spire was added in 1888.
©Ian Petticrew
St. Mary of Furness Church stands in Duke Street. Designed by E.W. Pugin (1834–1875) on a site donated by the Duke of Devonshire, the Church was built during 1866-7 and opened for worship 28 August 1867. Its fine spire, shown here, was added in 1888.
©Ian Petticrew
St. Mary of Furness Church stands in Duke Street. Designed by E.W. Pugin (1834–1875) on a site donated by the Duke of Devonshire, the Church was built during 1866-7 and opened for worship 28 August 1867. Its fine spire was added in 1888.
©Ian Petticrew
The home of Barrow's rugby league club. The glory days of the 1950s and 1960s, when Barrow reached four Wembley Challenge Cup finals winning one of them, are gone now and they play in the lowly National League 2.
©Rosalind Mitchell
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Looking Northwest. Characteristic red-brick Victorian housing. The Furness Hotel is on the corner of Bath Street.
©Rosalind Mitchell
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Formerly the town's major intersection where Abbey Road, the main road in and out, crosses Duke Street, the commercial hub. It has a strangely French feel about it.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Legendary captain of Barrow Rugby League Club in the team's glory days in the 1950s, commemorated in front of College House at the northern end of Duke Street, in Hindpool close to Craven Park.
©Rosalind Mitchell
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A leafier road than usual in this part of town. The building with the round tower on the corner of Nelson Street was once a church. The spire that once topped the tower has long gone.
©Rosalind Mitchell
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A mixture of traditional and more modern housing.
©Rosalind Mitchell
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Looking south from the John Whinnerah Roundabout near Tesco. This one-time industrial area is changing rapidly as former shipyard land is redeveloped.
©Rosalind Mitchell
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©Ian Petticrew

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