The Barrow

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By the 1890s the shipyard was heavily engaged in the construction of warships for the Royal Navy and also for export. Population figures for the town itself were not collected until 1871, [20] though sources suggest that Barrow's population was still as low as 700 in 1851. The four main docks include Buccleuch Dock, Cavendish Dock, Devonshire Dock and Ramsden Dock, with the latter handling almost all of the port's cargo.

The first of its kind in the UK it came to an untimely end on 24 September 1911 when it was wrecked by wind during trials.

Around the same time the Hindpool Retail Parks and Dock Museum were constructed over various former industrial sites in Barrow, including the dry dock, the Barrow Jute Works and the Barrow Steel Works.

There are also an increasing number of modern office buildings as well as the shipyard's construction halls which dominate much of Barrow's skyline.Barrow and its wider urban area form part of 'Britain's Energy Coast', [85] and has one of the highest concentrations of wind farms in the world, the vast majority are located offshore and have been built during the early 2010s.