Barrow was a key town in the industrial revolution, has a long history of shipbuilding and engineering and the paper has been in circulation since the late 1800s so contains a wealth of local history as well as that linked to the wider world through the shipbuilding carried on. As predominantly a working class town to have access to the paper would be of great value to social historians and genealogists.

Would love this to be digitised. has all my votes!

The local library has copies available. Can they be used/

BJ is correct. From humble beginnings, Barrow became a huge industrial centre during the 19th c. Interesting its climb and later decline.

Barrow was a boom town in the late 1800s and it would be good to read about its industrial and social development in real time, day by day.