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Thomas Telford's stately bridge over the Severn was completed in 1801, a delightful mixture of stone and cast iron.

This view was taken from the iron bridge, and shows the backs of various High Street and Moulsham Street properties. Some of them had their own landing stages.

The water mill is 18th-century, with three pairs of wheels driven by a cast iron breast-shot wheel.

Newark's position on the Great North Road and the River Trent attracted industry including flour milling, maltings, brewing, an iron works, leather working, and even a glue factory.

The Racecourse occupies part of Pitchcroft, which is where the Romans dumped the slag from their iron workings.

Wrexham's prosperity was founded on its position at the centre of the north Welsh coalfield, which fed local iron-, steel- and gasworks.

The cast iron garden railings were all lost during World War Two, when they were removed for salvage.

Uley Bury, from where this view was photographed, is acclaimed the most spectacular Iron Age hill- fort in the Cotswolds.

It is somewhat ironic that the site along the west cliff where the holiday developments were planned became this caravan site.

The cast iron bridge was built in the 1850s, with Sir Charles Barry, the Houses of Parliament architect, acting as consultant. To the right is New Scotland Yard, which was completed in 1890.

The Iron Bar steps lead down the gully referred to as Breckmaenchine.

The 18th-century buildings have changed little since 1900, and the delicate wrought iron balcony can still be admired above the centre shop.

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

Old Sarum is a hillfort built by the people of the Iron Age, who came to Britain from around 500BC. Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community.

For centuries cloth was exported to the continent, and later, so was iron and coal. The waterfront is crowded with huge warehouses and granaries. Here we see barges clamouring at the lock gates.

The magnificent cast-iron pillars held up the glass roof, giving welcome natural light to the interior of the busy Borough Market.

The central doors have beautiful scrolled wrought iron hinges dating from c1300.

The iron pier was built in 1867.

There is evidence that this headland was occupied during the Iron Age. It is thought that one or two stock-rearing families lived here, with banks and ditches across the neck of the promontory.

The busy industrial village of Millom on the Duddon Estuary was founded on the wealth won from the iron ore discovered at nearby Hodbarrow in 1868.

The village grew with coal, quarrying, an iron works and cloth making.

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

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

Ironically, this trend has not really been adopted in the more commercialised society of Britain as she is now.