LEVEN VALLEY HERITAGE
The museum is located on the site of the former Backbarrow Blue Mill, which closed in the early 1980’s and is best remembered for the washing additive ultramarine pigment, an optical brightening agent often referred to as Dolly Blue.
The Leven Valley Heritage Centre is an integral part of a captivating overall experience and tells not only the Dolly Blue story but also other aspects of the area’s history, including life the iron works, the gunpowder mills and woodland industries.
The Lakeland Motor Museum was granted planning permission to convert the derelict Blue Mill carton filling building in June 2008. Building works were started in early May 2009 and completed in late May 2010. In its heyday The Carton Filling Department employed 50 women and 7 men, with the packaged product being supplied to the home market and exported around the world.
Local Attractions
WINDERMERE LAKE CRUISES
LAKESIDE & HAVERTHWAITE RAILWAY
Education Visits & Courses
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Admission Prices
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- Open daily except Christmas Day from 10.00
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- Closing at 16.30 until the 30th March then 17.30 until the end of October
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- Enquiry line: 015395 30400
The museum provides insight into a once thriving industrial Backbarrow, which served the Lancashire textile industry with bobbins, high quality iron for the Barrow-in-Furness shipbuilding yards and explosives for mining, quarrying, and munitions.
