IRONBRIDGE
The world's first iron bridge spans the River Severn
Iron
Taken by the war memorial in Ironbridge, with the roof of the toll house just visible
Railings
Ironwork amid the railings
It's Saturday - where is everyone? (Watching the Lions/Wimbledon/Cricket/Live 8 - delete as applicable)
House in Ironbridge
Bedlam Foundry - the blast furnaces here once dominated the gorge, now they are a scheduled ancient monument.
Wild flowers and weeds are taking over
Behind Bedlam a walkway climbs up the slope, with interesting ironwork on the handrails
A scene inside the Tile Museum at Jackfield
There has been recent restoration work at this museum
Fresh paint
At Broseley there is a clay pipe museum within a workshop which closed down in 1957. At the heart of this site is a 'time capsule' - work rooms which have been left just as the last worker left them nearly fifty years ago.
BLISTS HILL AT IRONBRIDGE
The replica Victorian High Street
Lance Armstrong's cast offs in the bicycle shop
Patterns in the pharmacy
Inside the plumber's workshop
The sweet shop (all that you remember from that school trip, Jonathan?)
The Hay Inclined Plane seen from the top....
....and from the bottom
Iron tombstones outside the mission church
The blast furnaces
Nearby Blists Hill is the Tar Tunnel, originally intended to be a subterranean canal from the mines to the river, but used instead as a source of natural bitumen which drips through the walls.