Search Results

Iron railings have now been erected, with a path from the promenade leading to the beach. As the season got under way, more and more attractions appeared.

The Roman Catholic Chapel pre-dates the iron horse, having been built in 1798. Later churches, however, include St Luke's at Raven Meols (1852-55) and Holy Trinity (1890).

This little village on the edge of Ashdown Forest was a centre of the Wealden iron industry. It once had three foundries, the last of which became a gunpowder mill in 1849.

The gateway through the iron railings on the right leads into the Verdin park, which lies just behind.

Spanning the street are a pair of open decorative iron arches on which are hung the town lamps. On the left is a formidable display of boots and shoes cascading over the shop facia.

It still looks the same as in this photograph, apart from a fresh white coat of paint and a new pub sign hanging from the wrought iron wall bracket.

Yet it was a prosperous port and boasted thriving iron foundries and an early copper-smelting house.

Many visitors walk up to the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon. One such rambler was Thomas Hardy, who famously used the ramparts as a setting in his novel 'The Trumpet Major'.

The gates to the churchyard are cast iron and very obviously much older, perhaps from the previous church which was built on the site in 1839.

An ancient iron bloomery, or furnace, was discovered in St Paul's churchyard in 1912 when the church was being extended; this is very appropriate for the churchyard that is the last resting place

An hourglass on an elaborate iron stand carries the arms of the Farriers' Company, London, and is a unique expression of the blacksmith's art of the time - 17th century - with leaves and grapes, a

Situated near to the junction of two Roman roads and several prehistoric trackways, the Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings dominates the surrounding downland.

Many visitors walk up to the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon. One such rambler was Thomas Hardy, who famously used the ramparts as a setting in his novel 'The Trumpet Major'.

Some of the sandstone cottages in the village of Swainby are still known as the Miners' Cottages, remembering the village's brief spell as an iron mining centre during the 19th century.

Unfortunately, the cast-iron framed building in the distance has long gone.

The settlement was once the centre of a local iron-working industry, and the white-painted Gun Inn with its swinging signboard was where John Browne, the local ironmaster, designed ordnance for the navies

Wooden seats have replaced the old iron ones, but the fascination of the river for amateur photographers and for children is evidently unchanged.

At Furnace, a small town hugging the western shores of Loch Fyne, iron-smelting works were established in the early 19th century.

This horse represents a supremely ironic comment.

Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.

In the next century, industrial production made cast-iron gutters cheaper and they were more effective at this task.

The playground is still surrounded by its hairpin iron railings.

These seem to have more in common with Nelson's navy than with the iron-clad battleships that were starting to dock at Devonport at this time.

Beyond the water meadows of the River Itchen is the Iron Age hillfort of St Catherine's Hill, the site of a maze which perhaps was used by penitent local monks, who would be blindfolded as they attempted