Let us not forget that Barrow-in-Furness is a great shipbuilding town, and the towns heritage is of great importance. HMS Illustrious built at Tyneside has been back there countless times to pay a visit, HMS Invincible has never been back to Barrow-in-Furness. Should Barrow be forgotten, should we throw away the memories of those great shipbuilding days, where has it all gone? this is what Barrow is famous for, and we owe it to the people of Barrow-in-Furness to show the world just how wonderful it was to build ships and submarines back in the good old days. We have had many ships come and visit our town, but never had one of our own come back for a visit. What do we have now? compared to those days, where are all the big ships and why is our heritage slipping away from us. It takes alot of time and hard work to build a ship and there have been so many wonderful ships built and launched here in Barrow. Our workforce is a credit to us. Vickers Shipbuilding Ltd, those were the days, long gone but still in our hearts, and HMS Invincible gives us a chance to remind people of those fantastic times we had building ships. History is something that we cannot change, and as a Barrovian, I am very proud of my town and its history. In 2005, like I have said, HMS Invincible sailed up the East Coast of England from Portsmouth visiting different ports along the way, and when I went to visit her that year in North Shields, it was great to see that the people there welcomed her and did her proud, but! I thought she is not home, and the people of Barrow-in-Furness should get to celebrate 25 years of Invincible, afterall it is their hard work their great craftsmanship that went into building this fine vessel. The Government gave Barrow shipping orders, they know that we are more than capable of building such vessels and have an excellent reputation in the Shipbuilding Industry, and so, with this in mind it is only fair that we get to have HMS Invincible come back to Barrow so that the ship can honour the town that built her and is home to her and the town can honour their ship. HMS Invincible was Flagship for the Royal Navy and I have learned such alot from the people of Barrow in reading their stories about which part they built and how they remember the launch and what it meant to their families and how proud they were. The people that built  HMS Invincible know more about this ship than I do, and that is why this website is dedicated to them. Should Barrow be left out completely? should we say goodbye to our heritage? NO!! absolutely not, why should we be left out.

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