 Barrow Central Station was heavily damaged on 7 May 1941; a First World War memorial located within it still bears the holes and gashes caused by the World War II bombings

A local housewife, Nella Last wrote a diary of her everyday experiences on the home front during the war for the Mass-Observation project.Her memoirs were later adapted for television.Barrow's main war memorial is a cenotaph located in Barrow Park.