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In 1627 Richard Foley opened a slitting mill at Hyde in Kinver for the purpose of cutting iron rods into suitable lengths for nailers.

The cast iron frame contained two 60ft-high domes, and huge figures of Pomona and Flora stood over the arched entrance. This market was demolished in 1973.

This photograph reveals the 1860 iron structure, and the business and bustle of a working port.

The iron bridge (demolished in 1978) brought the line from Exeter, and did not run parallel to the road bridge.

Glebe Farm and the tithe barn disappeared in the 1960s; the original thatched roof was under corrugated iron sheeting.

After that, the ironing still had to be done, usually the same evening whilst listening to the radio.

The surrounding iron railing has since been removed.

In 1900 the Sheepbridge Coal & Iron Co secured an interest in the Dinnington Main Coal Co, which had been formed to exploit the coalfield to the north of Kiveton Park.

By 1560 it was owned by Sir William Paget, who developed an iron smelting industry and deforested much of it for fuel.

The iron horse trough was erected in 1919 as a memorial to Lieutenant Howard H Dainton and friends of the 4th Gloucesters, who died in the Great War.

High Street c1955 Mayfield's attractive High Street, with its raised brick pavements and fine architec- ture, speaks of the days when Mayfield was an important iron town.

A settlement since the Iron Age, with the Romans and Anglo-Saxons leaving artefacts as evidence of their time at Bourton, the village uses its river as a focal point for such activities as setting the

The jetty was constructed by the Skinningrove Iron Company in 1886 to enable the products from their works to be exported.

The wrought and cast iron span shown here was opened in 1883 and still carries traffic into the town centre.

Victoria Bridge, on the Severn Valley railway line from Bewdley to Bridgnorth, has a span of 200 feet; when it was built in 1862, it was considered the largest cast iron single arch bridge in the world

A huge iron chandelier now hangs from the central arch.

The iron choir screen which separated the entrance to the choir from the nave was removed in 1959 by order of the Dean and Chapter, presumably to give an uninterrupted view from the western entrance

The arch of this impressive monument was originally crowned by Wyatt's colossal equestrian statue of the England's military darling, the Iron Duke.

Highgate's cottage kitchen with its cast iron range and beamed ceiling was the centre of family life.

Ingleborough Cave is one of the major show caverns of the Yorkshire Dales. We are in the iron-gated entrance passage, looking out from inside the cave.

This outcrop is inside a stone fort, where the remains of hut circles belonging to the late Bronze/early Iron Age have been found.

The arch of this impressive monument was originally crowned by Wyatt’s colossal equestrian statue of the England’s military darling, the Iron Duke.

In 1900 the Sheepbridge Coal & Iron Co secured an interest in the Dinnington Main Coal Co, which had been formed to exploit the coalfield to the north of Kiveton Park.

The stately 212ft-high Perpendicular tower of Derby's Cathedral of All Saints, which dominates this view of Iron Gate, still exerts a powerful influence on the county's biggest city.