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The preserved Abbey Road frontage of the John Whinnerah Institute in 2016. The John Whinnerah Institute is a Grade II listed Art Deco building and former educational establishment located on Abbey Road in Barrow-in-Furness, England. [1]
Aim – musician, DJ and record producer [1]; Grian Chatten - musician, lead singer of post-punk band Fontaines D.C. was born in Barrow-in-Furness; Glenn Cornick – ex first bass player in the rock band Jethro Tull [2]
Several notables in Art and Literature have come from Barrow. Artist Keith Tyson, the 2002 Turner Prize winner, was born in nearby Ulverston, attended the Barrow-in-Furness College of Engineering and worked at the then VSEL shipyard. [167]
Hall was born to Eliza Robinson in the City of York in 1859 and died on 31 May 1927 at Barrow-in-Furness. [1] He lived in the City of York, Elswick, Blackpool, Woodland, Coniston and Barrow-in-Furness, [2] [3] and married Mary Annie née Bleasdale. He is buried in the yard of St. Andrews parish church at Coniston. [1]
Nathan Eastwood was born in Barrow-in-Furness, England in 1972. [1] He graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2009. [2] Eastwood was a finalist in the 2007 'Celeste Art Prize' [3] and won the inaugural 'East London Painting Prize' in 2014. [4] He paints everyday domestic and urban scenes of people he records on his mobile phone.
The majority of the Nan Tait Centre is two storey, with the exception of the centrally located domed four storey tower. [1] The building is red brick and terracotta with a slate roof and is noted for its two large east-facing engravings; one panel depicts six robed females underneath the moto 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis', whilst the other bears the moto 'Labor omnia vincit' as well as numerous ...
Romney was born in Beckside in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now in Cumbria), the 3rd son (of 11 children) of John Romney, cabinet maker, and Anne Simpson. Raised in a cottage named High Cocken in modern-day Barrow-in-Furness, he was sent to school at nearby Dendron. He appears to have been an indifferent student and was withdrawn at the age ...
Grian Chatten was born in Barrow-in-Furness, England on 19 July 1995 to an English mother and Irish father. The family moved to Ireland when Chatten was a month old and lived a "nomadic lifestyle" before settling in Skerries, County Dublin when he was twelve years old. [1]