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Henry Schneider 1817-1887. Appropriately, his statue stands in Schneider Square, Barrow. Despite his devotion to the Church of England he was corrupt in politics even by standards of the time. Photo courtesy Cumbria Archive Centre (Barrow) 2022. Iron ore in Furness, Park haematite mine, new directions, new works, mines at Stank, Furness Railway locomotive on Barrow's Wetherspoons pub sign, Bessemer converter from Cumbria at the Kelham Island Museum at Sheffield, steelworks, steel rails, home life and politics, politics, Barrow in Furness, steam launch Esperance at the former Windermere Steamboat Museum, Captain Flint's houseboat in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, further reading |