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The bare Marine Gardens stretch along Grand Parade up to the Pier, broken only by the footway leading past the iron fountain to the beach.

Like Dawley, Oakengates sits on old coal mines and iron works, which have all now closed down.

The Thames is now flowing into London proper, and we reach Hammersmith, with its monumentally-scaled iron bridge.

Once the site of an ancient Iron Age hill-fort, stone from here was quarried in the 19th century and used for the building of the docks at Liverpool.

In 1627 Richard Foley opened a slitting mill at Hyde in Kinver for the purpose of cutting iron rods into suitable lengths for nailers.At this time nailmaking was an important industry in southern Staffordshire

Pretty cottages with iron latticed windows compliment thatches old and new all along the main street.

The beautiful cast iron tracery of the Pavilion was only completed in 1871, so it was brand new when this photograph was taken.

These include the Blist's Hill Museum (with many restored buildings), a museum of iron, a china museum, a tile-making museum, and even a restored police station.

This rocky promontory was defended in the Iron Age by an earthwork consisting of a rampart and ditch, which are visible across the top of the narrow neck.

The erection of iron railings by the Windsor Estate to enclose and prevent access to the beach except by gates is already under way.

Here from the Reading bank we look towards the 1869 iron Caversham bridge; it was demolished in 1924 to be replaced in 1926 by the present concrete one.

Old Sarum was originally an Iron Age fort with earth ramparts. The Normans fortified the existing site using local and occasionally unstable building materials.

It is a single-span iron bridge. When it opened in 1828, it was originally a toll bridge, although tolls no longer had to be paid after 1900.

It was built to bring iron ore to the deep-water harbour here before Barrow Docks were built. The yachts are on the site of the terminus.

The stamp of ancient man is here too - there are traces of defensive works on the summit, while on the lower flank are Iron Age field boundaries or lynchets.

The building in the centre, just to the left of the lamp standard, is the Staines Iron Works.

The playground is still surrounded by its hairpin iron railings.

As part of the A5 road construction, Thomas Telford built the elegant Waterloo Bridge (Y Bont Haearn - the Iron Bridge) in 1815, and the defeat of Napoleon is proudly commemorated on its

The water pump has been refurbished and joined by a telephone box, a cast iron sign and lamp posts.

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

At Meldon, it crossed the West Okement River on this 120-feet high cast iron structure, opened in 1874. The line is now closed, although tracks still service a local quarry and Bere Alston.

In its heyday, long before this picture was taken, the canal was used to transport goods and products such as coal, iron, stone, agricultural wares and much more besides.

The village once had its own railway station and iron workings, as well as a farm with nine dairy herds.

Note the fashionable straw hats, and the wrought iron frame protecting the wooden signpost by the lady on the left.