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.
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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.