Episodes
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| 20200927 |
Luke Wright discovers Barrow- in Furness through the eyes of the poets who've been inspired by this coastal industrial town.
Barrow propelled itself onto the map 150 years ago after the discovery of iron ore transformed Barrow-the-fishing-village, into a frontier town of the industrial revolution, earning it the title of The Chicago of the North.
Millom poet, Norman Nicholson wrote `Railways spool out their tangle of parallels....wagons stand abandoned beside broken down buffers and stonechat perch upon them, as if the red of their breasts were intended by nature for camouflage among rust` of this part of the world - so it's no wonder that Barrow Island became the inspiration for Thomas the Tank Engine!
And William Wordsworth was no stranger to Furness Abbey - `a mouldering Pile` and `holy Scene` of The Prelude - and across the water to Piel Castl
| First Broadcast | Comments |
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| 20200927 |