Sokna of Haugesund, Norway offloading timber at Old Ferry Wharf.

"Old Ferry Wharf can accommodate vessels up to 120m in length and 3100dwt, with spring tide drafts in excess of 5m. Vessels may sit safely aground at low tide ...

its 2 acre storage yard have been heavily involved in the forwarding and distribution of Baltic timber products"

http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=926  

Geoff Swain Collection 25 April 1994

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"Ferry Road chapel was erected in 1877. It closed in 1994 and permission to sell was given in 1995. It is now standing disused"

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

This was a four-storey mill with four sails built in 1816.

It worked until the early days of the twentieth century.

Location of mill: TA 062 229

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 has an entry "King Thomas (Mrs.) miller (wind), Barrow haven".

Shown as "Disused" on the OS 25 inch map published 1908. 

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

A view into the chancel showing the Perpendicular rood screen.

Mark Acton, 2021 

The ashlar-faced tower is from the Decorated period with upper level from the later Perpendicular period.

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

View of Holy Trinity from the south-east.

The church stands on high ground on the west side of Churchside at the north end of High Street.

August 2021

The south wall of the chancel is constructed principally of chalk, a local material frequently found in the churches of the northern Wolds.

Brick has been used to repair the friable chalk. Immediately to the left is a substantial brick buttress. 

August 2021 

The plain font of uncertain date.

August 2021 

The view down the nave towards the chancel with the 5-bay north arcade (left) of the Norman period. The 4-bay arcade to the right is about a century later in date.

August 2021 

This portrait of John Harrison hangs in Holy Trinity church.

John Harrison (1693-1776), born in Yorkshire, spent much of his life in Barrow working as a carpenter and clockmaker.

His chief claim to fame is the invention of the marine chronometer, an essential instrument for determining longitude at sea. 

August 2021 

The sloping roof over the north aisle is supported by slender timber brackets probably fitted in the nineteenth century.

August 2021 

Barrow's war memorial was made by William King and Sons of Barton and unveiled in July 1921.

August 2021 

A window commemorating St Hugh of Lincoln.

August 2021 

This mill, built in 1869, originally had four floors and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Pearson's Mill continued working up to the 1920s and is now part of a nursery business.

Location of mill: TA 060 217.

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"A barn was registered for worship in September 1819 and a chapel built in 1833, also in the High Street, with a gallery being added in 1849.

A Sunday school was erected in 1853.

The last service was held on the 11.4.1943 and the chapel sold before 1947.

It is now in use as a village hall"

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in the High Street in 1780.

It was enlarged in 1803 but was replaced in 1817 on the same site.

A Sunday school added in 1838.

This chapel was demolished to make way for a third chapel which was opened, again on the same site, in 1868.

A new kitchen and toilets were added in 1973.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 59" 

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School with the date stone reading "1838".

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in the High Street in 1780.

It was enlarged in 1803 but was replaced in 1817 on the same site.

A Sunday school added in 1838.

This chapel was demolished to make way for a third chapel which was opened, again on the same site, in 1868.

A new kitchen and toilets were added in 1973.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 59" 

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994