Carnforth

And we had...

It was only a small, a small office, uh, up the road in Carnforth.

But, um, they had a little sales department.

They had an accounts payable department, an accounts receivable department.

Somewhat similar mounds, but composed of sand and gravel, are termed eskers.

They occur in the neighbourhood of Carnforth.

Latest of the deposits which have produced large effects upon the scenery are those which fill in lakes and estuarine tracts.

We have seen that Coniston is being filled in by delta growth where rivers enter the lake.

The introduction of iron shipbuilding in 1870 was a very important step as regards the prosperity of Barrow, and this industry now employs 10,300 men.

The manufacture of guns is also an important industry in Barrow.

Steel is also manufactured at Ascombe, Ulverston and Carnforth.

several industries are connected with the town of lancaster the most important being the manufacture of linoleum and oilcloth the taking of fish is one of the great industries of the british isles but the fishing stations on the north sea are much more important than those of the western coasts nevertheless the capture of fish especially if we include shell-fish around the coast of morecambe bay is very considerable about three hundred and sixty six boats and one thousand two hundred and seventy eight men are engaged in the fisheries of the north lancashire coast on the north side of the bay the principal fishing ports are barrow ulverston and carke but these are not of great importance except as regards cockles and shrimps morecambe is noted for its mussels shrimps and flat-fish the best mussel beds lie between morecambe and hasham on the tracks of stone or skiers which there abound the so-called prawns of morecambe bay are not true prawns and may be passed by with mere mention the supply of cockles mussels and shrimps on the other hand is very large cockles are obtained nearly all the year round but chiefly in winter and spring they are secured by means of a three-pronged iron fork attached to a wooden haft this is known as a cockle cram the muscles are obtained by means of a rake attached to a shaft thirty or forty feet in length this is a long fleetwood is the greatest of the lancashire fishing ports and is indeed one of the most important in england there is much shrimp fishing at lytham and st anne's-on-sea salmon are extensively caught in the larger rivers chapter seventeen mines and quarries the chief mines of north lancashire are those which yield iron they are situated in the furnace district in the area composed of carboniferous limestone around dalton and lindale the ore is an oxide of iron known as red hematite occurring chiefly in fissures of the limestone when these deposits were first worked is unknown but scattered about along the lake-sides and stream-sides of high furnace are the remains of old smelting works or bloomeries as they are termed where the ore was reduced by means of charcoal These bloomeries were erected where charcoal could be readily obtained, and in many cases also where water power was available.

Because the railways were beginning to connect the country in a way that would soon mean that a day would come when you could travel to the other side of the bay At speed, but without having to get your feet wet.

In fact, the same year as the Seven Farmhands died, Furness was connected to Carnforth and Lancaster via rails for the first time.

A fully connected Morecambe Bay Rail network was achieved in 1867.

And it is not surprising that it was this milestone that convinced John Carter, this being the sixth iteration of John Carter, that the family finally needed to move on from guiding people across the sands as a job.