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A cart stands with hurdles for the sheep pens beside one of the French cast-iron lions given by Ferdinand Rothschild in 1887. They were hauled here by steam wagons from Waddesdon Manor.

The village seems so much at peace that it is hard to believe there was once a thriving iron foundry close by at Furnace Mill.

At this time the fare on the steamer between Chester and Eccleston was about 6d each way, and 8d each way between Chester and Eaton Iron Bridge.

This building at the foot of Park Lane, with its stuccoed walls, pedimented porch, and ornamental iron gates, was built around 1820 as the lodge to Cheam Park House.

The lamp replaced a cast iron lamp with a fluted pillar in 1936.

This is ironic in a way, for Bunyan, the author of 'Pilgrim's Progress', had been a thorn in the flesh of the establishment in the 17th century, and was more likely to have been cast into prison by the

One clear change in this photograph from previous views is the loss of the ornate iron railings around the whole area. They disappeared during the Second World War to be melted down for munitions.

Findon is on the top of the Downs, just north of Worthing, and was noted for an annual sheep fair. Now horse breeding and training is an important local activity.

A fine example of a West Sussex County Council signpost with cast iron post and circular ornamentation on the top stands on the pavement.

The town grew in the 18th and 19th centuries through the productin of lead, coal and iron. The Wrexham Lager advertised on the right was the first to be brewed in Britain.

It is a great pity that a little more money could not have been found in the Council's coffers to provide a scheme of enhancement, rather than this concrete and iron piping solution.

Water from the pump was used by the blacksmith to cool down and shrink the red-hot iron tyres he fitted to wooden wagon wheels.

It is a great pity that a little more money could not have been found in the Council's coffers to provide a scheme of enhancement, rather than this concrete and iron piping solution.

Dubbed Noah's Ark and debunked by royal surgeon and Dorset writer Sir Frederick Treves - 'as out of place as an iron girder in a flower garden' - Pier Terrace still comes in for criticism.

It is ironic that the statue was itself removed in 1946 and re-erected in Trendell's garden, by then Abbey Grounds and a public park.

The front of the house once boasted an ornate iron and glass conservatory constructed by Macfarlane's of Glasgow, but this was removed after the Second World War.

Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

His farce 'Blott on the Landscape' had its television debut in 1985, with ironical timing, as the northern arm of Bridport bypass was cutting its way across meadows to the east.

The Knoll, rising 550 feet from the Somerset flatlands between the Rivers Axe and Brue, is topped by one of Somerset's finest Iron Age hill forts.

Across the road, beside the old-style 'Halt' sign, is Sunnybanks (right), where the corrugated iron roof has since been removed and replaced by thatch.

It later became a centre for the iron industry with a furnace, a forge and a cannon foundry. The church of St Margaret has Norman walling and windows.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The proprietor of J L Brooks' ironmongery shop has not yet opened the shop's wrought iron entrance gate.

Two bus stops are opposite each other: one is outside the shop advertising Zebrite, a black lead used to clean iron grates and the ranges found in most cottages.