tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60895626538026633902023-11-16T03:57:01.082-08:00BERNARD DEVLIN, ( MEMORIES ) BARROW IN FURNESS UKGREETINGS, ONE AND ALL, OLD OR YOUNG. PLEASE SIT BACK, AND RELAX, TAKE A TRIP, DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH ME, BARROW IN FURNESS AS I REMEMBER IT SO MANY YEARS AGO, SO MANY CHANGES HAVE TAKEN TO OUR LITTLE TOWN, AND ALOT OF THEM NOT FOR THE BETTER, SADLY AS I WRITE.BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-62098426011104452472013-01-31T05:19:00.001-08:002013-01-31T05:19:06.763-08:00BERNARD DEVLIN, BARROW IN FURNESS, 1960, PART 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzuG0YPETeNBbf-KscRwEmHV6oAiF1SjxMOxVJgys5_4qpoSB1sD1DUV8-dDsxheTACNOcacvSCZfBTBH7TSw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>well to me as I write this Blogg, this film takes me back to my young youthful day, as I look and watch this film, at the beginning as they get off the train at Barrow central station, I hear the producers of the film describing my town as a dirty industrial town , not very nice to hear, when we look back to our once thriving industrial town that made steel, and ships for all over the world,<br />
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we were world renowned, and although, continuous casting was invented in my little town of Barrow in our steelworks, we brought the Japanese into our steel foundry and taught them Continous Casting, thus' our steelworks closed and we are now importing steel from Japan,<br />
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well enough of me and my complaining I hope you enjoy my BLOGGS' and form your own opinions of the 2 part film, thank you for watching,<br />
kind regards<br />
B,J,DEVLIN<br />
BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-26752575951091192632011-12-26T08:16:00.000-08:002011-12-26T08:18:08.832-08:00BERNARD DEVLIN, BARROW IN FURNESS, SUMMER OF 1960<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4q-MyiE2w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4q-MyiE2w</a><br /><br />BARROW IN DFURNESS SUMMER OF 1960BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-58673050847385505432011-12-25T15:40:00.000-08:002011-12-26T02:28:52.007-08:00BERNARD DEVLIN, BARROW IN FURNESS SUMMER OF 1960BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-3059301001747223742011-12-25T14:34:00.000-08:002011-12-25T15:39:58.159-08:00BERNARD DEVLIN, BARROW IN THE 1960S<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyjd80bsYI3yfks8UI3yZ4s_EUNoOPwfXyXY6qeutGlRCI6yyc7WQhvGqZDWybAXGsjvP1ddF8binOgjQw1Bw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-65287503086188207972009-03-11T14:37:00.000-07:002009-03-12T07:39:36.340-07:00BERNARD DEVLIN, BARROW AT WAR,<p><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwDiCSjv0T4l4EVw-3bguyBZfoU5mbJ_jlqy-5ZpDFvdG6SGIKD2P3QH4K56Eq-9eepLjvmoVVE3K4qSsLt7w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><p> BARROW AT WAR, </p><p> </p><p>BARROW HAD ITS FAIR SHARE OF BOMBING DUREING THE WAR, BEING A SHIPBUILDING TOWN AND LARGE PRODUCERS OF IRON AND STEEL, THE WORST EFFECTED AREAS WERE HINDPOOL, NEWLAND STREET, WAS DESTROYED FAMILIES WERE WIPED OUT, ALSO SALTHOUSE AREA OF THE TOWN, WERE A YOUNG CHILD WAS THE FIRST FATALITY OF THE BOMBING, </p><p>I DID THIS LITTLE FILM IN TRIBUTE TO THE BARROW PEOPLE AND HOW THEY STOOD TOGETHER THROUGH HARD TIMES, AND WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO THEM ALL</p><p> WE OWE YOU SO MUCH</p><p> </p><p> </p>BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-46731977943869984402009-02-25T04:59:00.000-08:002009-03-11T04:03:22.095-07:00A SLOW DRIVE WALNEY CHANNEL, TO NORTH SCALEThis film i did was my memories, of the past skyline, of our industrial revolution, as i remember it as a child, gone are the large chimneys that once adourned the skyline, looking over towards the old slagbank, our steel foundries, that was once famous all over the world,<br />for its steel, and shipbuilding, are just a bygone memory of our minds, i feel with great sadness in my heart, that our council, did not and should of left a monument in place, at these industrial sites , for our future generations, to look back on how Barrow in Furness was built and its beginnings ( just bittersweet memories )<br /><br />kind regards<br />B,J,DEVLIN<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='354' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz0SNUP_gEbJYVOnDTWZ4lWTcpRZYYo5w2qt3IRe13rFywmdNEKEukayy8oNPxClNBW4XvRs3q7Qpo56Iu2jA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-37843818894370668842008-09-20T03:09:00.000-07:002008-09-20T03:09:33.926-07:00BERNARD DEVLIN, ( MEMORIES ) BARROW IN FURNESS UK: BERNARD DEVLIN, MEMORIES, TURNING BACK THE PAGES OF MY MIND.#links<a href="http://www.thebernarddevlin.net/2008/09/bernard-devlin-memories-turning-back.html#links">BERNARD DEVLIN, ( MEMORIES ) BARROW IN FURNESS UK: BERNARD DEVLIN, MEMORIES, TURNING BACK THE PAGES OF MY MIND.#links</a>BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-11609298906782688072008-09-16T16:17:00.000-07:002008-09-16T16:41:33.229-07:00BERNARD DEVLIN, MEMORIES, TURNING BACK THE PAGES OF MY MIND.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwPDOgSdRRaLbT7TxcZ_a7SbzYpW6dRQ3CzWRmXVbqseb7oJ6OI9iM1u8_i5Xh7fnet7LBvBzYaIXBeimfPEA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-29923833983710074422008-09-16T03:01:00.000-07:002008-09-16T03:55:49.689-07:00BERNARD DEVLIN, A STROLL ALONG, ( WALNEY CHANNEL )THIS IS A FILM I TOOK, ( ALONG WALNEY CHANNEL, ) <br /> LOOKING ACROSS TO ,<br /> BARROW TOWN,<br /> WERE, THE OLD INDUSTRIAL CHIMNEYS OF OUR FOUNDRIES, ONCE FAMOUS ADORNED THE SKIES,<br /> ALL THERE IS TODAY, FOR ME,<br /> IS BITTER SWEET MEMORIES, OF WHAT WAS.<br /> IT DOES' SEEM SAD TODAY, THAT ALL THOSE, FOUNDRIES, HAVE GONE WITH NO , MONUMENT AS TO WERE THEY ONCE STOOD, FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO SEE, AND TO REFLECT ON HOW OUR TOWN WAS MADE FAMOUS FOR ITS INDUSTRIAL CAREER<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwhzPpnKDIqlbc01q9c03QZ3KPS5HOII24zbyDN4zjmcORK9pWiN27ASohofeL33naF4QSkAkR7sC35N_OtFg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>BERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-46407376677254018502008-09-15T19:57:00.000-07:002008-09-15T20:01:51.222-07:00BERNARD DEVLIN, A JOURNEY BACK TO VICKERS AND DALTON ROAD, BARROW IN FURNESS 1960SA LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE YEARS WHEN VICKERS HAD A FULL EMPLOYMENT, IN THE TOWN, THIS VIDEO SHOWS THE WORKERS LEAVING WORK, AND THEN WE TRAVEL TO DALTON ROAD, 1960S 1970SBERNARD DEVLINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11489523933148646456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089562653802663390.post-20165382084807381312008-09-15T19:39:00.000-07:002008-09-15T19:51:40.572-07:00BERNARD DEVLIN, (A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME,) BARROW IN FURNESS<a 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