West Cumberland and the Furness Area hosted many hundreds of Belgian refugees during World War One. Most worked in the shipyards at Barrow-in-Furness or in coal mines at Whitehaven. The following give mentions of both individual refugees from local newspapers and records at Barrow Archives.
Mentions of both individual Belgian refugees and events affecting Belgian refugees in the locality, extracted from the Millom Gazette, the Whitehaven News, other local newspapers and from original archive sources:
Belgian refugees mentions (PDF 205KB)Belgian workers at Vickers and their families, living in Barrow and the Furness Area: gives names, ages, addresses, work details, arrival information:
Belgian workers at Vickers (Excel 104KB)
Belgian workers at Vickers (PDF 85KB)