A BUILDING crew of 300 youngsters from Furness primary schools turned the bottom floor of Barrow’s Dock Museum into a model village in clay.

The children helped to build houses, bridges, roads, a railway and a gravel river as part of a project led by Stuart Bastic, Barrow Council’s artworks and craftworker-in-residence.

The Mail, on January 20 in 1992, noted: “With the help of teachers and volunteer passers-by Philip Berris and John McCullough, the children are getting through 15 large bags of clay a day.”

Getting involved in the project were pupils from South Newbarns, Vickerstown on Walney and George Romney School at Dalton.

The finished model village was put on show to the public in February.

Newbarns teacher Jenny Marshall said: “At first they made little square houses but once they saw the whole thing put together it really stretched their imaginations and they began to make all sorts of different things.”