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1043, BDB 86/1/314 Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2176

no.1043

Ramsden Dock Floating Swimming Pool

1911

Pool listing badly, left hand changing rooms out of the water, right hand down to roofs. 2 workmen in wellingtons survey the damage by the diving board. Proposed in 1904 but not opened until 1908. Damaged by gales in February and November 1911, December 1914 and by storms in March 1916 - then abandoned.

1043, BDB 86/1/314 Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2176

no.1043

Ramsden Dock Floating Swimming Pool

1911

Pool listing badly, left hand changing rooms out of the water, right hand down to roofs. 2 workmen in wellingtons survey the damage by the diving board. Proposed in 1904 but not opened until 1908. Damaged by gales in February and November 1911, December 1914 and by storms in March 1916 - then abandoned.

Public bathing Docks Accidents Workers
Location: Barrow Island Ward, Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/314
Sankey Number: 1043

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1035 Dredging 22/11/10 Bucket dredger No4 and a hopper in Buccleuch Dock. Ship and house in the background.
# High Level Bridge and Dredger No 4, Barrow-in-Furness Dredger No4 and Hopper No3 working close to the old high level bridge in Bucchleuch Dock.
# Launch of HMS Dartmouth at Barrow Vessel just off the slipway.
1038 Launch of HMS Dartmouth at Barrow Vessel taking to the water, seen from the slipway.
# Launch of HMS Dartmouth The ship now under the controll of tugs in Walney Channel.
1041 SS Antrim passing through Walney Bridge. Walney Bridge raised for a large steamer steaming southward, Vickerstown in the background.
1040 Heysham Steamer SS Antrim a little further down the channel, Vickerstown still in the background.
# Devonshire Dock Crane The hammerhead crane with an unfinished liner alongside and a coaster.
1043 Swimming Baths (wreck) A floating swimming bath in Ramsden Dock. It is partially submerged.
1044 Swimming Baths (wreck) This photo shows the location of the wreck, near the erntrance to Cavendish Dock.
# Aberdeen Floating Dock Floating dock under tow in Walney channel, seen from the tug.
# Aberdeen Lloating Dock Floating dock under tow in Walney channel, seen from the tug.
# Launch of the Aberdeen Floating dock at Barrow. Floating dock under tow in Walney channel, seen from the tug.
# Aberdeen floating Dock Floating dock coming down the slipway
# Largest Graving Dock in the World, Belfast. 'Olympic' in distance. A very big empty dry dock and a 4-funnelled liner beside it.
1050 The Olympic floated into the largest graving dock in the world. The liner afloat in the dock.

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