 The headquarters of Barrow's anti-aircraft defences was in the Furness Abbey Hotel, a sandstone building next to the former railway station by the ruins of the abbey, in a valley screened by trees, it would seem to have been an unlikely target.In May 1941 it was attacked and badly damaged by the "Luftwaffe".Most of the hotel was subsequently demolished and the remaining part became a public house/restaurant known as 'The Abbey Tavern'.