Dawn Forristal, 57, remembers when Barrow Island, a neighbourhood on the western edge of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, seemed full of potential.
In the Sixties her parents moved into a coveted flat in one of the tenements built here for the region’s shipbuilders. “It felt like a palace,” she said. “Back then, there were waiting lists.”
Dawn Forristal, a newsagent in Barrow-in-Furness
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
Today, the lists are gone and many of the flats are in disrepair. The next generation of Britain’s nuclear submarines are being built nearby, but Barrow Island has not recovered from the loss in the Nineties of thousands of shipyard jobs.
One of the most deprived communities in the country, it is struggling in terms of income and educational attainment. Heroin abuse has been a problem and economic inactivity is
