Barrow Hematite Steel Company

The steelworks around 1873
The steelworks as they appeared in 1920
A railway in Mariefred (Sweden) constructed with 'Barrow Steel' dated 1896

The Barrow Hematite Steel Company Limited was a major iron and steel producer based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire (now Cumbria), England, between 1859 and 1963. At the turn of the 20th century and the Technological Revolution it operated the largest steel mill in the world.[1]

  1. ^ "Barrow-in-Furness". Visit Cumbria. Retrieved 16 March 2013.