CONTRIBUTORS to Signal Film and Media s online exhibition on the Barrow Blitz have spoken about their pride of working on the project. The exhibition went live last week as part of the 80th anniversary of the heaviest bombing that hit Barrow during the Second World War, with the Blitz having a personal effect for one contributor. Jean said: My mother s family lived in Barrow and they were in the middle of the town and The Blitz was happening all around them. My mother lost one of her closest friends in the bombing on Vernon Street. I was born and grew up in Barrow and as a child there were some parts of buildings that were still missing from the war.
AN exhibition is to showcase previously unseen photographs to mark the 80th anniversary of the Barrow Blitz. Previously unseen photographs will be shown in an online photography exhibition to mark the anniversary of the German bombing raids. The exhibition includes rare photos from the Sankey Family Photography Collection – a unique record of life in the area during the latter years of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th. Edward Sankey and his sons Raymond and Eric were prolific photographers of Furness, Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire. This exhibition will give an insight into some of the ways the Barrow Blitz affected the town, reflecting on the many changes that have taken place in Barrow due to World War Two.
Previously unseen photographs of Barrow Blitz to be shown in exhibition
Old Coppernob at Central Station Barrow. Damaged in the Blitz
Previously unseen photographs will be shown in an online photography exhibition to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Barrow Blitz.
The monumental event took place in 1941, with the heaviest bombing happening between May 3 and May 10.
Edward Sankey and his sons Raymond and Eric were prolific photographers of Furness, Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire.
The Sankey Family Photography Collection is a unique record of life in the area during the latter years of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th.
ON this very day 80 years ago Barrovians had spent the night hiding in shelters for almost eight terrifying hours after an aerial attack. From 9.57pm on Tuesday April 15 in 1941 to 5.35am the following day, bombs fell on the town centre, killing 20 people. Bombing during mid-April 1941 caused significant damage to a central portion of Abbey Road, completely destroying the Waverley Hotel as well as Christ Church and Abbey Road Baptist Church. Among the dead was Baptist Minister Gilbert Mason, bravely trying to protect his Abbey Road church as a fire watcher. He would have been armed with a tin hat, stirrup pump and a bucket of sand to deal with incendiary bombs.
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