Many of these photos will be familiar, although probably not with this clarity, whereas others have not been generally available before. The photographs have been scanned and enhanced before being put onto this site to make them available to all and to ensure that a permanent photographic record is kept of the history of Harrington.

Many of the old photographs in Stanley Jackson's scrapbooks also included his comments and descriptions of locations and events and details of the people shown, e.g. in football teams, school photographs and even the bible class of 1917 (which includes the young Stanley shown here). Stanley was a railwayman all his life. Take a look at the Cleator & Workington Junction Railway pages which include Stanley and has items largely from Stanley's collection of railway memorabilia.


The photographs on this site start with Harrington being a bustling industrial community with five railway stations, a harbour full of ships, shipbuilding sheds, iron works, chemical works, brick works, sand pits, quarries and coal mines.

The Harrington of today is largely a commuter village and the harbour area (now Harrington Marina) a popular leisure facility.