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View Full Version : New nuclear sub is lifeline for Barrow


Drone_pilot
28-08-06, 16:58
If British manufacturing really is dying, then the industry is making one
of its last stands in Barrow.

The shipbuilding town on the isolated Furness peninsula in south-west Cumbria
is home to 3,200 steelworkers, designers, engineers, fitters, electricians and
other skilled workers building some of the Royal Navy's most secretive and deadly weapons.



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