Belgian Refugees

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West Cumberland and the Furness Area hosted many hundreds of Belgian refugees during World War One. Most worked in the shipyards at Barrow-in-Furness or in coal mines at Whitehaven. The following give mentions of both individual refugees from local newspapers and records at Barrow Archive Centre and Barrow Library.

• Mentions of both individual Belgian refugees and events affecting Belgian refugees in the locality, extracted from the Millom Gazette, the Whitehaven News, other local newspapers and from original archive sources:
  Belgian refugees mentions (PDF 205KB)
• Belgian workers at Vickers and their families, living in Barrow and the Furness Area: gives names, ages, addresses, work details, arrival information: 
  Belgian workers at Vickers (Excel 104KB)
  Belgian workers at Vickers (PDF 85KB)