The talk by Jean McSorley on October 10 will reveal fascinating information such as maps that have never made public and hidden details from photos and background stories of the town’s biggest ever construction project. The talk is in honour of years of back-breaking work by thousands of dockers with the docks classed as a ‘triumph of engineering’ that would put Barrow on the world map. READ MORE: Barrow pubs captured throughout history and where they are now READ MORE: 30 years of Barrow's Dock Museum in pictures READ MORE: Barrow: Sankey exhibition shows town's most-treasured old photos The Sankeys were a father-and-son trio who documented life in Furness in photographs for over 70 years.
Although not quite early enough to capture the bulk of the construction of the docks, the family began around 1900 and captured pictures of the airshed being built and part of the dock system. For more history and nostalgia stories, subscribe to the Mail Some of this system is pictured under construction in 1907 with a large crane on the quayside of Buccleuch dock which is covered with large piles of stone/earth. SS Eros of Newcastle listing to one side to aid with the unloading of its cargo of timber in 1911 (Image: Sankey online archive) In 1910, photos start to emerge of the airship shed that housed some of the biggest vessels known to the world at the time.
A large steel structure is under construction alongside the dock wall which is the very early stages of the shed. They also .
