Cumbria

A fine mosaic at the former Technical School on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness which was built 1900-1903 for Barrow Corporation to the design of Woodhouse and Willoughby.

Nothing too fancy, but the 1909 built Methodist Church at Askam-in-Furness still has a wealth of terracotta trimming. The tops of the gate pillars are impressive lumps too.

Working Men's Club and Institute Union (CIU) built this terracotta clad convalescent home between 1912-14. It operated until 1989 by which time 83,028 convalescent residents had passed through its doors. It has since been completely refurbished with an extra storey added across the imposing frontage and is now owned by Brancaster Healthcare as Cartmel Grange Nursing Home.

Watch office at RAF Cark with a smaller Fighter Satellite Watch Office to the right. The airfield was constructed for fighters in late 1940 but appears to have been mainly used for anti-aircraft training and later for pilot training.

The former Central Fire Station on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, was built in 1911 by the Borough Surveyors under architect Arthur Race. The terracotta for this Grade II listed building was supplied by Burmantofts of Leeds.

William Gradwell was a major building contractor in Barrow-in-Furness. In 1855 he moved his business to Hindpool, Barrow, and set up a brickworks in Dalton Road capable of turning out 75,000 bricks a week.

R. Wilson was operating Broughton Moor Colliery and Brickworks in the 1880s. In the 1890s the business traded as Flimby & Broughton Moor Coal & Firebrick Co. Ltd.

In 1876 AJ Woodhouse moved his yard to Walney Road and his works covered an area of over 20 acres. The Furness Brick Company works lasted to 1972 and the site is now occupied by Asda.

Henry Graves, Gillhead Brickworks, Flimby, Cumbria. In 1867 a colliery was sunk at Gill Head, Flimby by Messrs Lucock & Carlton to produce coal, fireclay and gannister. The Whitehaven News for 18th January 1872 carries an advert "Gillhead Colliery and Brickworks for sale, apply Mrs. Lucock, Broughton Moor". Again, in January 1876, "FOR SALE by private treaty; Gillhead Colliery and Brickworks near Flimby, in use by representatives of the late Mr. Joseph Lucock". In 1878 a partnership between Mary Lucock and Henry Graves, as Coal Owners and Brick and Tile Manufacturers, at Gill Head, in the parish of Flimby, was dissolved with Henry Graves continuing the business in his own name. The business became the Gillhead Coal & Firebrick Co. in 1897.

The Furness Brick & Tile Co Ltd has been established for over 145 years at Askam in Furness and remains a family owned business. The works continues to manufacture a vast range of standard and bespoke bricks to order.

The Furness Brick & Tile Co Ltd has been established for over 145 years and remains a family owned business. The works can manufacture a vast range of standard and bespoke bricks to order. The transverse-arch continuous kiln has twenty chambers and is coal-fired.

Side entrance to the former Technical School on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness was built 1900-1903 for Barrow Corporation to the design of Woodhouse and Willoughby. The building contractor was W Gradwell and Co. It is listed Grade II.

The Florence ironstone mine near Egremont continued in use until 2008. It was the last working deep iron ore mine left in Western Europe and produced ore, products for the cosmetics industry and high quality haematite for jewellery. Production ended when BNFL ended the contrract for the mine to supply water and the cost of pumping rendered the mine uneconomic.

The Florence ironstone mine near Egremont continued in use until 2008. It was the last working deep iron ore mine left in Western Europe and produced ore, products for the cosmetics industry and high quality haematite for jewellery. Production ended when BNFL ended the contrract for the mine to supply water and the cost of pumping rendered the mine uneconomic. The red haematite has had a marked effect on everything it touched, including these buildings on the surface.

The Nakhoda Ragam class is a class of corvette offshore patrol vessels originally built for the Royal Brunei Navy and named after the lead ship of the class, in turn named after a legendary Malay seafarer. Three vessels were built by BAE Systems Marine (now BAE Systems Maritime - Naval Ships). The ships were to be named: KDB Nakhoda Ragam KDB Bendhara Sakam KDB Jerambak The customer refused to accept the vessels and the contract dispute became the subject of arbitration. When the dispute was settled in favour of BAE Systems, the vessels were handed over to Royal Brunei Technical Services in June 2007. In 2013 it was announced that these warships had been sold to the Indonesian Navy and would soon be leaving Barrow where they have been laid up since 2007.

Roosecote Power Station was a gas-fired and former coal-fired power station, in Barrow-in-Furness. The gas-fired station opened in 1991 and was the first CCGT power station to supply electricity to the United Kingdom's National Grid. It was mothballed in 2012 after a proposed biomass power station was cancelled. The station was a Combined cycle gas turbine power station, fueled by gas from Centrica's Morecambe Bay field which is landed at nearby Westfield Point. The station generated electricity using one 165 MWe Alstom GT13E gas turbine, its associated alternator having a terminal voltage of 15.75 kV, rated at 210MVA, from which the exhaust gases at 520C pass through one CMI heat recovery steam generator. Steam from this powers one 63MWe steam turbine, with its alternator having a terminal voltage of 12.5 kV. The station has a thermal efficiency of 49%. The electricity generated enters the National Grid, via a transformer, at 132 kV, where it powers part of the United Utilities (former NORWEB) network. By March 2012 it was reconfigured to allow operation in the Short Term Operating Reserve market. The plant employed 33 people. It was demolished in 2014/15.

Rather than demolish this corrugated iron building when the metal wasted away, the Millom OAP's Association Hall has been entirely reclad in the modern equivalent and is again fit for many years of service.

This is one of three kilns on this hillside at Scales Green, a few miles from Ulverston, and is much larger than the other two. The kiln is generally in very good condition although the tree growth on top will eventually destroy the structure if not removed. A particularly rare survival is the lime shed/store on the front. The roof of the shed has been repaired recently and it is now used for agricultural storage.