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Barrow were founded in 1901 and were elected
to Division Three North by 1922. From then until the Second
World War, the club's best position in this Division was
eighth. However, in one season, the club scored over 100
goals, 78 of these coming in just 21 home games.
After
the reorganisation of the league in 1958, Barrow found
themselves in the Fourth Division. The following season,
Barrow played host to Wolverhampton Wanderers in a Third
Round FA Cup tie. Wolves were 4-2 winners in a tighter
game than the score line suggested. The club achieved
promotion to the Third Division in 1967, but the joy was
short lived.
By
1969 the club lost manager Colin Appleton through ill
health and, within another three seasons, the club had
been voted out of the football league all together. The
club were elected to the Alliance Premier League in 1979,
where they remained until they were relegated back into
the Northern Premier League in 1983.
Since
then the club have enjoyed two promotions into the Conference.
One came in 1989, only for Barrow to be relegated to the
then HFS Loans League (now the Unibond Premier Division)
in 1992. In 1998, promotion was gained once more but again
they stayed for just one season before dropping to the
Unibond Premier a year later. The club then achieved modest
positions in the Premier Division without ever really
threatening to make another return to the Conference,
finishing sixth in 2001 and ninth in 2002. They did managed
a second place finish in 2003, although they were never
really in with a chance of catching runaway leaders Accrington
Stanley who dominated the division finishing 16 points
clear of Barrow. Much the same happened the following
year when the club finished third and claimed a place
in the new Conference North.
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