Nan Tait Centre
The Nan Tait Centre is a Grade II listed building located at Abbey Road in the Hindpool area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Designed by architects Woodhouse and Willoughby it was built for the Barrow Corporation as the town's new Technical School.Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “College of Further Education Annexe including front railings and piers”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library and Barrow-in-Furness railway station.
Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library
Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library is a Grade II listed Beaux-Arts style building located at Ramsden Square, Barrow-in-Furness, England. Operated since 2023 by Westmorland and Furness Council, it is the largest library in the town and the present structure, designed by J A Charles was originally built as a Carnegie library with support from the Carnegie Foundation. Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library is situated 510 feet southwest of Nan Tait Centre.
Barrow-in-Furness railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barrow-in-Furness is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line and Furness Line, 85+1⁄2 miles south-west of Carlisle and 34+3⁄4 miles north-west of Lancaster, in the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Barrow-in-Furness railway station is situated 1,500 feet northeast of Nan Tait Centre.
Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Ian Petticrew, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall is a Gothic Revival style municipal building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The building, which served as the headquarters of the former Barrow Borough Council, and now one of the bases of Westmorland and Furness Council, lies within a Conservation Area with Grade II* listed status. Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall is situated 1,500 feet south of Nan Tait Centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrow-in-Furness and North Scale.
Barrow-in-Furness
Photo: Stevvvv4444, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and seaport in Cumbria, at the tip of the Furness peninsula. Many visitors come to Barrow for the Dock Museum, which tells the history of steelworks, the shipyard and the Barrow Blitz.
North Scale
Village
North Scale is a village and one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney, Cumbria, England. It is the northernmost settlement, lying a mile north of Vickerstown.
Vickerstown
Suburb
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vickerstown is an area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, covered by the wards of Walney North and Walney South. It is an example of a model village built for workers by a company needing to expand, having been constructed in the early 20th century by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering.
Nan Tait Centre
- Categories: arts center, college building, and office building
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.11548° or 54° 6′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.22969° or 3° 13′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C6R4Q8C+54OpenStreetMap ID
way 964603585OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q6962230
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