The fictional detective Inspector Charles Parker was said in Dorothy L Sayers's Clouds of Witness to have been educated here.
186 students from Barrow Boys Grammar School died during combat in World War I and II and are commemorated on plaques in Furness Academy.
[1] Alumni of the grammar schools are known as 'Old Barrovians' The boys had a school song: Autumn gold and winter weather, summer due and bluebell spring, days afoot in Furness heather, these I know, these are mine, these are part of me till I. perish.
2012 saw the establishment of Furness Academy which utilised the buildings of Parkview School for one academic year.
A common misconception was that the former grammar school buildings held listed status and were immune from major development.