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You can see the iron railings around his grave at the bottom left of our picture. The church is built in Perpendicular style.

On the Wraysbury bank, near to where we see the boathouse of W Hanes and Sons, there once was a wharf where iron ore was landed for refining at a local mill before being taken to London.

In 1140 the Norman Lord of the Manor, Geoffrey of Limesey, built a church (probably on the site of a Saxon one) dedicated to St Leonard, patron saint of prisoners and, appropriately enough, of iron workers

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

Four hundred years ago, Godstone was at the centre of the leather trade and the manufacture of gunpowder, while to the south there were important iron-works.

The ornate circular iron railings attached to the balustrade were replaced by a set of public toilets that stood on the Parade, but were removed after the Second World War.

The land around once belonged to the Cookesey family, but was bought in the 1600s by Thomas Foley, who had made his fortune in the iron trade.

Earls Colne is a large industrial village on the A604: silk-winding, brick-making, seed-growing, and iron-founding have all taken place here.

Lying at the end of a little lane that is a dead end, this is yet another former port that now lies, quite literally, some miles inland - the church even has an iron ring attached to it where once, so

Ignoring the small building (left) and the iron railings this could almost be a rural scene.

Though famous for its leather goods,Walsall grew up on coal and ironstone mining, iron working, and limestone quarrying.

Abraham Darby bought a furnace in 1706 and began experimenting with ways of smelting iron by using coke rather than charcoal In 1709 he mastered the technique and changed the world.

Numbers 93, 94 and 95 High Street, on the Bank Street side, date from about 1855, an early example of an iron-framed building.

The typical wrought-iron gates, like so many others, met their fate in 1940 when they were smelted down for the war effort.

The centre of the Market Place is marked by a splendid Victorian cast iron water pump, decorated with fish, crown and arrows, and the motto 'Defend They Ryghts'.

At the time of the Industrial Revolution the people of Lilleshall, until then mainly a farming community, began mining limestone to supply the iron-smelting industry at Coalbrookdale.

A fabulous collection of more than a hundred gold, silver and electrum torcs, dating from the Iron Age, was found here: they are now in Norwich Castle Museum.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury began its existence during the Iron Age, but it became important when King Alfred founded an abbey here and installed his daughter as abbess.

The Early English-style interior has arcade columns of cast iron and a continous roof in timber-ribbed vaulting.

An auction notice on the left of the picture advertises a sale of five hundred sheets of corrugated iron and imported timber.

The four iron bollards replaced the earlier turnstile which charged a small entry fee to the gardens.

The hillsides and vales of Membury have been farmed since at least the Iron Age.

The iron pier was built in 1874 by the lessees of the Eastham Ferry Hotel, obviously with an eye to improving their own trade as well as that of the village.

The High Road itself, ironically, tended to be where the better-quality homes were built.