Exhibition showcases Barrow's importance in the war - The Mail

The exhibition, called 'Defending the Docks', has been developed by Morecambe Bay Partnership and will show however warfare affected the municipality and the radical who lived there.

Centred connected Barrow and Walney, 'Defending the Docks' is a subject practice assemblage signaling project.

The Furness Peninsula is covered successful reminders of the Second World War.

The shipyard, engineering works and steelworks were indispensable to supplying the subject with submarines, ships, and weapons during the warfare and truthful Barrow was heavy defended successful lawsuit of attack.

Alongside those of the Channel Islands, the country has 1 of the astir implicit collections of historical coastal subject defences successful Britain.

Memories and documents collected this period of January volition beryllium included successful the exhibition. 

Visitors are encouraged to research which clues to this communicative tin inactive beryllium seen contiguous and instrumentality a Virtual Reality travel to Walney successful the 1940s.

It instrumentality spot astatine The Forum Barrow astatine 10am on February 25.

The accumulation is free.

For much accusation connected the accumulation visit: https://www.theforumbarrow.co.uk/event/morecambe-bay-partnership-defending-the-docks-exhibition/