Shipbuilding at Barrow-in-Furness

This episode was recorded at the fabulous Dockyard Museum in Barrow-in-Furness during the filming of their magnificent collection of ship models for the Lloyds Register Foundation's project 'Maritime Innovation In Miniature'. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century Barrow experienced one of the fastest and most extraordinary transformations in history when it changed from a small farm to one one of the largest and most successful shipbuilding centres in the world in just a handful of years. Dr Sam Willis speaks with John Irving, Barrow local and premises manager at the Dockyard Museum to find out more about the history of Barrow and about their extraordinary collection of ship models, two of which are now immortalised in super high-definition video - HMS Vengeance, one of Queen Victoria's most important battleships and RMS Orion, a passenger liner from the 1930s that transformed our expectation of comfort and safety at sea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.