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Barrow In Furness, St James Church 1895
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More about this scene
During the time leading up to the First World War (1914-18), a number of food shortages, popularly referred to as famines, hit Barrow-in-Furness. The last one was recorded in 1908, and the curate of St James's Church in Blake Street, HIndpool (pictured here), with the backing of some local businessmen, provided a much-needed soup kitchen to alleviate the problems. It is curious that there is little record of whether or not the poor residents of Barrow Island had access to any soup kitchens, but there are records of the children of the island waiting expectantly outside the shipyard gates to ask the workers for any food they might have had left over after they came out of the yard gates to go home. The workforce was obliging, and happily gave what they had left.
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