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On the history page it is to let you now things like the missionary school that was near ferry road. As of yet I don’t have any accurate dates. But on the 1895 map it shows the missionary rooms and the school.

We also found information about the fever hospital and about the outbreak of small pox amongst the black huts. An article wrote by a young girl a reporter for the barrow herald the then paper in barrow tells how she Came across a hut with at least twelve people all having the pox. A lot of children had the pox and a lot died from it.

The map of 1873 shows the hospital right across from the Shipyard cottages. The huts were there to house the navies and their families. The huts held a family and maybe a couple of lodgers most lodgers would pay around a shilling for there board and dinner which most days was bread and some cured meat or poultry and a bottle of ale. At that time most navies didn’t drink water or any other beverage that’s probably why very few ever went down ill.

As with most towns or cities there where always the public houses this is another part of the islands history the first public house (pub) the old barrow arms would have been frequented mainly by navies and some ladies. As time has past there have been more public houses opened on the island the Devonshire hotel the royal hotel the old municipal the most resent revamped and renamed chandlers.