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Further west the photographer looks east along the Parade with the ornate iron archway into the former Esplanade Park.

East of Crowborough the tour reaches Wadhurst, once a village of importance in the Wealden iron industry and now a quiet and typical High Weald village.

The top of the same iron-railed gate as in the 1899 photograph (43872) can be seen in the hedge in the foreground.

In 1814 the business was bought by John Day, and during 1822 he had the cast iron memorial erected in the market square.

The town is also noted for its late 19th- century iron railings and for St Cuthbert's Church, which has a type of roof unusual in Northumberland.

Only Tasker's cast-iron could make possible such slender columns on the chancel steps.

There are connections with the Sussex iron industry, for an ironmaster once lived here. The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister.

He was obviously influenced by the local tradition (for which there is no evidence) that an Iron Age fort once occupied the hilltop.

Another touch of industry is lent by the massive iron vessel with its lifting gear.

The cast iron rustic bridge, built in 1870, has always been a much-photographed spot.

In the background to the right is Ramsgate's iron pier, whilst to the extreme left is the Pavilion sundeck .

The economic growth of the town and district has depended over the centuries on agriculture, especially sheep farming, the wool trade, glove-making and leather work, iron work, and cement production

Workers took up residence on a grid-iron of industrial streets, and the town boomed.

No one can truly say when man first settled in this area, but there was certainly an Iron Age settlement at Beacon Hill c400 BC.

Opposite the Old George Hotel is the premises of James Beach, pharmaceutical chemist and maker of the Poor Man`s Friend ointment, with iron merchants and supplier of sewing machines H N Cox and

A few doors away, the Swan Hotel has lost the bunch of grapes which, from the time of the Skidmores who owned it from 1692-1820, hung from the hook on the extreme end of the wrought iron inn sign.

Records of an iron and wire works here go back to the 16th century, and production continued until around the end the 19th century.

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.

Set at the mouth of the River Conway, or Conwy, this mediaeval walled town with its famous castle, one of Edward I's 'iron ring' around Wales, is still remarkably self-contained.

The white fencing on the right has disappeared and iron railings have been added. Typically, the Lloyds Bank branch has gone.

The other, The Prince of Wales, closed in the 1920s; it only had a licence to sell beer, unlike The Anchor, which had a full licence.

Ironically, shortly after being enlarged and castellated in about 1833, the castle suffered severe structural damage caused by mining subsidence.

The houses on the north side, on the right of the photograph, are of 1881; with their ornate cast iron railings they are a little grander than those on the south side, which are slightly later

Barrow-in-Furness sprang from a tiny hamlet in the 19th century to become the world's largest producer of iron and steel, and a major force in the world of shipbuilding.