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The cast iron lampposts show a return to Victorian styles, with the hanging baskets a brave attempt to cheer up the area.

The council placed the iron railing around the site in 1913.

The camera is looking along Church Street, which curves away uphill to the village square of Ticehurst, another Wealden iron-making village.

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

The railway network serviced the iron and steel furnaces, and the railway wagons were unloaded directly into the furnaces.

There are three churches visible which are St Aidan`s, in the distance, the original Coulsdon Baptist Church (an iron hall built in 1936) and the former Elim Pentecostal Church with its Italian marble

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

Facing out across the Weald, 400ft below, this small group of sandstone cottages is close to an Iron Age fort.

This famous memorial, encased in iron, dates back to 1841 and marks the spot where King William Rufus, son of William the Conqueror, was accidentally killed by an arrow shot by the nobleman Sir Walter

On the right is the post office, its thatched roof replaced by corrugated iron.

The wrought iron gates were added in 1872, replacing wooden doors. Decorative horseshoes and shields on the gates are a reminder that real horseshoes were once nailed to the wooden doors.

In 1922, Field Marshall Earl French of Ypres, in the presence of 10,000-15,000 people, unveiled these handsome wrought-iron gates to the Whitehall Recreation Ground as a memorial to Rugby's 404 fallen

The rather delightful cottage on the right behind its iron railings went in the 1960s to be replaced by humdrum modern houses.

Street offered such delights as Mrs Elizabeth Cockerill, china, glass and earthenware dealer, Plowright & Pratt (extreme right), ironmongers by appointment to the Prince of Wales, who sold iron

The old Automobile Association cast-iron signpost standing at this former major road junction has long since gone. On the left we can see Barclay's Bank, on the corner of Cricklade Street.

Some of the village shops were built from corrugated iron before modernisation in the early 1960s. Richard Eurich RA, the official war artist to the Admiralty from 1941, lived here.

On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings

At the far right is part of the former carpet factory; by 1960 it was occupied by Andersay Engineering Company making metal stools and ironing boards.

The main part of the bridge consists of a lattice of iron girders. Built by William Baker, the chief engineer for the London and North Western Railway, it used 48,115 rivets.

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.

Out of view to the right are the railway line and the Suffolk Iron Foundry.

When thatch had to be replaced with corrugated iron, it was not unusual to find hidden objects: swords from Cromwellian days, chalices, contraband and coins, or precious items from shipwrecks.

It is a pity that the stone balustrade has given way to a plain iron railing.

This is the main road that links Ironbridge with Coalbrookdale, the place where the Industrial Revolution really did start in 1709 when Abraham Darby I discovered a method of smelting iron