Barrow Archive Centre

• Estate papers of the Duke of Buccleuch, reflecting the local iron ore industry c1854-1963 (BDBUC).
• Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. including gun mounting drawings c1898-1950 (BDB 16 and others).
• Hodbarrow Mining Company Ltd 1824-1969 (BDB 21) and Millom Hematite Ore and Iron Company Limited (and associated companies 1824-1970 (BDB 47).
• Original historical documents relating to the area of Furness (Lancashire North of the Sands) and South West Cumberland, particularly for Barrow, Ulverston and Millom, including Church of England parishes, non-conformist churches, local authorities, civil parishes, schools, businesses and industries, landed estates, solicitors, societies.
• Ordnance Survey maps
• Local studies collection of photographs, slides, postcards and pamphlets.

Microfilms of Church of England and non-conformist churches registers of baptism, marriage and burial. Cemetery records (on microfiche) and some indexes for Barrow, Dalton, Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands.

Newspapers (on microfilm) including:

• Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser, 1848-1914
• Barrow News, 1883-1985
• North Western Daily/Evening Mail, 1898-current
• Lancaster Gazette

The library holds books relating to Barrow, Furness and the counties of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland.  A selection will be available in the library but the rest can be requested. There is also a collection of periodicals, most of which need to be requested:

• Chetham Society
• Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society
• Fell and Rock Climbing Club Journal
• Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
• Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
• Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist
• Lancashire Parish Register Society
• Northern History
• Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
• Surtees Society
• Census returns for Furness and Cartmel areas, and South Cumberland including Millom, 1841-1901, with some printed indexes.

• One public access computer in the Archive Centre and one in the Local Studies Library to allow brief 'look-ups' of a limited selection of useful websites containing local sources, including CASCAT, Ancestry and Find My Past
• Free, public wi-fi
• Wheelchair access
• Vending machine and seating area available in adjoining library