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Harrington harbour area at it's industrial peak



Harrington harbour area today

This site is an archive of historical photographs of Harrington, now part of Workington in Cumbria, in the north west of England, from the scrapbooks and photo collection of the late Stanley Jackson together with those of Geoff Johnstone.

Their collections cover most areas of Harrington, as well as local events, football teams, school photos etc.

The site has many pages of old photographs grouped by geographical areas or topics and accessed by the index on the left of this page.

It must be difficult for people of younger generations to imagine what a bustling industrial community Harrington was and how much has disappeared almost without trace.

On some of the pages "before and after" photographs have been included, either to identify locations, or to contrast the changes that have taken place over the years.

A painting of Harrington by H. Broderick
(from a combination of several photographs from around 1910)

Many of these photos will be familiar, although probably not with this clarity, whereas others have not been generally available before. The photographs have been scanned and enhanced before being put onto this site to make tham available to all and to ensure that a permanent record is kept of them.

Many of the old photographs in Stanley's scrapbooks also included his comments and descriptions of locations and events and details of the people shown, e.g. in football teams, school photographs and even the bible class of 1917 (which includes the young Stanley Jackson shown here).

The photographs start with Harrington being a bustling industrial community with five railway stations, a harbour full of ships, shipbuilding sheds, iron works, chemical works, brick works, sand pits, quarries and coal mines.

The Harrington of today is largely a commuter village and the harbour area (now Harrington Marina) a popular leisure facility.

Sports Day by the harbour

The Wooden Pier


One of the iron works locos at the sand pits around 1900
The original Harrington School with the initials of pupils carved into the beams in around 1790


The captions and descriptions of the photographs are correct to the best of our knowledge (and Stanley's notes) but we welcome any corrections or additional information and especially additional photos.

Links to other sites which may be of interest -

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Harrington History Group
www.harringtonhistorygroup.co.uk

Click on the link above to visit the website of the local history group of Harrington, publishers of the "Harrington Through the Years" series of books. Please contact them through their website if you have memories of Harrington to share, or wish to purchase one of the books. The books can be bought locally at Derwent Bookshop

The books are now also available on eBay


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Oral History Group Copperas44 Index of Harrington & Workington Ships
St.Mary's Church & Parish Website Workington & Harrington Ship Owners in 1848
Harrington Shipping 1811 Allerdale Borough Council - Harrington Harbour
Harrington Shipping 1840 Report on The Explosion at Harrington No.10 Pit
Cumbria Railways (incl Lowca) The Loss of the James Ewing
The Lowca Light Railway The Loss of the Ann Gambles
Harrington Magnesite Plant The Wreck of the Geltwood
Whitehaven on the Web The Scarrows - Master Mariners of Harrington
Harrington Youth Club The History of Salterbeck
Cumbria Past (CWAAS) Harrington Scouts

 

This site is non-profitmaking and we intend that larger size versions (in jpeg format) of all the photographs on the site will be made available on a CD (at cost, plus postage & packing).
copyright © 2005 - 2009 Alastair Duncan @ www.workington.me.uk
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