HMS Invincible pictured in Florida in 2004 is one of the most famous ships to have been built in Barrow Dastafshan, Afshin. "Shana Haji, the first Iranian player in Scotland". Persian Mirror. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 . Retrieved 21 June 2007. In April 2023, both Barrow Borough Council and Cumbria County Council ceased to exist when the districts of Barrow, Eden and South Lakeland merged to form Westmorland and Furness. A new town council was established to cover the wards of the existing borough (with the exception of Dalton North and Dalton South), which retain control of certain services locally.

There is a slight chance that damage to buildings and homes could occur, with roofs blown off and power lines and trees brought down Ball, Jamie (8 July 2018). "Going with the flow on the River Barrow: Could this really be just 1.5 hours from Dublin?". Independent.ie. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020 . Retrieved 31 January 2020. Census Analysis – Distance Travelled to Work" (PDF). Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 22 June 2015.a b c d "Defence boom will create thousands of BAE jobs in Barrow". North West Evening Mail. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 March 2014. Ireland" (PDF). www.romaneranames.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2019 . Retrieved 4 May 2019. Barrow and its wider urban area form part of 'Britain's Energy Coast', [85] and has one of the highest concentrations of wind farms in the world, the vast majority are located offshore and have been built during the early 2010s. All four of these wind farms are located off the coast of Walney Island, including the 189 turbine Walney Wind Farm, 108 turbine West Duddon wind farm, 30 turbine Barrow Offshore Wind Farm and 30 turbine Ormonde Wind Farm. Walney Wind Farm was the largest offshore wind farm in the world upon completion, in 2015 it received government consent to be trebled in size. DONG Energy and Scottish Power maintain a wind farm operations base with 30 full-time staff members at the Port of Barrow. [86]

Average Weather for Barrow-in-Furness". MSN.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012 . Retrieved 3 August 2007. Go Anywhere On a Boat From Barrow". North West Evening Mail. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015 . Retrieved 11 January 2015. Plan of Barrow 1843" (PDF). Barrow Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2007 . Retrieved 10 June 2007. South Walney". Cumbria Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011 . Retrieved 2 September 2011.November 2005 – Executive Committee Agenda". Barrow Borough Council. November 2005. p.5. Archived from the original (DOC) on 28 September 2007 . Retrieved 14 August 2007.

Hetherington, Peter (19 May 2004). "Council gives thumbs up to 12mile(19km) bridge for Morecambe Bay". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 9 March 2007. Conservation Areas in the Borough". Barrow Borough Council. Archived from the original on 23 November 2012 . Retrieved 9 June 2013. Barrow is served by one commercial radio station, Heart North West, which broadcasts from Manchester and serves the area around Morecambe Bay. Another commercial station, Abbey FM, ceased broadcasting in February 2009 when it went into administration. [166] The BBC's local radio service is BBC Radio Cumbria. [167]There are many pubs and working men's clubs in Barrow. Barrow has fourteen of the latter, one of the highest number per capita of any British town. [175] There are also many bars and clubs found primarily in Barrow town centre on Duke Street and Cornwallis Street. Popular venues on Duke Street include the following bars: Jefferson's, the Buddha Bar, Bar Cairo and the Drawing Room. They did have a Yates's but the building was deemed unsafe and has since been demolished. Cornwallis Street – often dubbed the " Gaza Strip" by locals – is currently undergoing a multi-million pound renovation with the former Martini's being the flagship renovation into Club M. Other clubs on Cornwallis Street include: Kavanna's, O'Sullivan's and Skint. Between 2004 and 2010 Barrow was home to one of North West England's largest nightclubs, the 2,500-capacity Blue Lagoon occupied the entire hull of the former Danish ferry Princess Selandia, which has now left the town. [176] Barrow's largest nightclub is now Manhattans, which opened on Cavendish Street in late 2011. Barrow". Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Archived from the original on 19 August 2007 . Retrieved 25 August 2007. An army was led by Domnall ua Néill into Leinster; and he plundered from the Berbha eastwards to the sea; and he carried off a great prey of cattle; and he laid siege to the Norsemen and the Leinstermen for two months. On this occasion were slain Fionn, son of Goirmghilla; Dunghal, son of Dunghal Ua Riagain; Ronan, son of Bruadar, son of Duibhghilla, and other nobles of the Leinstermen along with them. History [ edit ]

In 2023 media reported that Barrow was "torn apart" by false grooming gang allegations, with public demonstrations targeting the local newspaper, the Asian community and police. [47] [48] Governance [ edit ] Barrow's Grade II* listed town hall viewed from Schneider Square Coronavirus: Why does Cumbrian town of Barrow-in-Furness have highest rate of infection in UK?". The Independent. 15 May 2020 . Retrieved 5 June 2020. After completion of In Search of the Myreque you can use the trapdoor south of the Hair of the Dog in Canifis to access a faster shortcut to the boat. During World War II, Barrow was a target for the German air force looking to disable the town's shipbuilding capabilities (see Barrow Blitz). [33] The town suffered the most in a short period between April and May 1941. During the war, a local housewife, Nella Last, was selected to write a diary of her experiences on the home front for the Mass-Observation project. Her memoirs were later adapted for television as Housewife, 49 starring Victoria Wood. The difficulty in targeting bombs meant that the shipyards and steelworks were often missed, at the expense of the residential areas. Ultimately, 83 people were killed and 11,000 houses in the area were left damaged. To escape the heaviest bombardments, many people in the central areas left the town to sleep in hedgerows, with some being permanently evacuated. Barrow's industry continued to supply the war effort, with Winston Churchill visiting the town on one occasion to launch the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable. [34] Besides the dozens of civilians killed during World War II, some 268 Barrovian men were also killed whilst in combat. [32] Barrow-built Mikasa was the Imperial Japanese Navy's flagship during the Russo-Japanese War Proficiency in English, 2011 (QS205EW)". Archived from the original on 1 October 2013 . Retrieved 16 April 2013.In a 2002 outbreak of legionellosis in the town, 172 people were reported to have caught the disease, of whom seven died. This made it the fourth worst outbreak in the world in terms of number of cases and sixth worst in terms of deaths. The source of the bacteria was later found to be steam from a badly maintained air conditioning unit in the council-run arts centre Forum 28. [42] In the 2015 Indices of Deprivation, Barrow was ranked as the 44th most deprived district in England (out of a total of 326). [189] The equivalent figures for 2007 and 2010 stood at 29th most deprived and 32nd most deprived respectively. [190] The Indices of Deprivation is based on income, employment, education, health, crime and barriers to housing and services and living environment. Within these subcategories, most notably Barrow ranked as the 5th most deprived in terms of health deprivation and disability, and in huge contrast, 324th most deprived in terms of access to housing and services (i.e. 3rd least deprived). [189] In the 2010 Indices of Deprivation, the majority of areas in Barrow Island, Central, Hindpool, Ormsgill were amongst the 3% most deprived areas in the country, while large parts of suburban Barrow including Newbarns and Roose were amongst the 25% of least deprived areas in England. [190] Health [ edit ] Furness General Hospital, the primary hospital for Barrow and South West Cumbria Multi million pound plans for Barrow police station revealed". North West Evening Mail. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013 . Retrieved 26 June 2013.