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Across the road, beside the old-style 'Halt' sign, is Sunnybanks (right), where the corrugated iron roof has since been removed and replaced by thatch.

It later became a centre for the iron industry with a furnace, a forge and a cannon foundry. The church of St Margaret has Norman walling and windows.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The proprietor of J L Brooks' ironmongery shop has not yet opened the shop's wrought iron entrance gate.

Two bus stops are opposite each other: one is outside the shop advertising Zebrite, a black lead used to clean iron grates and the ranges found in most cottages.

This is High Street Inferior, with the centrepiece of a fanciful wrought iron structure providing three gas lanterns as well as a drinking fountain.

On the right is part of West Buildings - demolished in 1891 - with a hand lettered board advertising George Woolgar's iron works in nearby West Street.

By 1440 the town was trading in dairy produce, wine, fish, garlic, silk, iron, coal, copper and lead.

Almost everything in the church—the pillars, the window frames, the font and the tombs - is made of Blaenavon iron.

The firm expanded rapidly, for it had its own coal mines, iron and steel making plant, and a marine engine works.

The wrought iron gate survived the last war.

With the wrought iron gate and lantern frame in front of us, we look northwards towards Bourne Close and eventually, by a footpath across the fields, to Moles Farm and the Sow and Pigs public house at

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.

On the left, at the corner of West End, is the Woolpack Inn, which still has the corrugated iron clad function room we see in this view.

On the left is Kerrison the butcher's ornamented shop front, with a refined iron balcony overhead.

faced by numerous hotels, its expanse of sands between the headlands of the Great and Little Ormes, its pier, its wide streets and its shops beneath glass canopies supported by delicately decorated cast-iron

The abbey was established in 1156, and it gained its revenue from sheep breeding and mining for coal and iron. The monks were the first to produce Wensleydale cheese, using sheep's milk.

It is ironic that this fine house should be frequently disregarded in favour of the Trust's own Wisbech property, Peckover House.

Now a tree-clad hilltop fort, this is another example of the many forts built by the Iron Age people. To date it has never been excavated.

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Long stretches of these Iron-Age defensive works survive on either side of Lexden, and were clearly intended to protect the west and south-west flanks of the town.

By 1860 it was the principal town of Wales, and the iron-making capital of the world. The vehicle on the right-hand side is a dark blue Merthyr Tydfil Corporation ambulance.

This is the main road through what was once the home of the Welsh iron industry. The first forge is reputed to have been working in 1425, with the first ironworks following in 1577.

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.