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The iron pier was built in 1874 by the lessees of the Eastham Ferry Hotel, obviously with an eye to improving their own trade as well as that of the village.

The High Road itself, ironically, tended to be where the better-quality homes were built.

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

This is Thomas Telford's iron bridge, crossing the River Severn at its junction with the River Avon.

Iron Age dwellers built a fortification on Berry Head, and Celtic inhabitants would have collected salt and fish where the harbour now stands.

This view looks across the ornate, wrought iron gates of the Ladybower Dam towards the newly planted regimented forestry on the slopes of Win Hill.

Another iron-making village, situated on a tributary of the River Mole, Leigh (pronounced 'Lye') is centred on this demure, triangular village green with its covered pump.

The High Road itself, ironically, tended to be where the better-quality homes were built.

Green-painted iron gates inscribed 'In memory of the fallen' open into the Garden of Remembrance from Plymouth Road, just round the corner from the bus station.

Once part of an ancient hunting forest and dominated by a castle, Powerstock huddles in its valley not far from the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon, in the heart of West Dorset.

In its heyday, the port would be filled with up to 80 vessels, exporting the locally mined coal and iron ore, but today it is largely silted up and used only for small fishing boats and weekend sailors

It was built in 1890 to replace an earlier iron bridge which had been swept away in the Great Flood of August 1888. The town has always been particularly susceptible to flooding.

The Oxfam poster both pre-empts the later popularity of charity-shopping, and also displays an effective line in ironic copywriting. Fading into the distance is the high ground of Thorndon Park.

In 1779 Abraham Darby II's Coalbrookdale Ironworks cast the ribs of this, the world's first iron bridge.

Buckland Rings, the great earthworks nearby, probably date back to the Iron Age, though the Romans used the fortifications during their invasion of England - coins of the Emperor Claudius have been found

Four thousand years ago, Iron Age folk lived in and around the hillforts of Maiden Castle, Poundbury and the other fortifications of this part of Dorset.

The present cast-iron North Bridge over the Colne was built in 1843 and widened in 1903-08. The tim- ber-framed cottages reflected in the water are 17th century.

On the left is Kerrison the butcher's ornamented shop front, with a refined iron balcony overhead.

On the left, about 200 metres toward town, the path from Wolversdene Road crosses the access to the Quality Hotel and runs through the trees on top of the bank to the old Iron Bridge.

It was built in 1825 for Robert Thomas Crawshay, a very wealthy local iron-master. Crawshay had something in common with Francis Frith - he too was a devotee of early photography.

Over thirty years later, horse traffic has disappeared, as have the ornamental iron railings to the right. They were almost certainly taken for scrap to help the war effort fifteen years earlier.

Unfortunately, the cast-iron framed building in the distance has long gone.

The ugly iron railings do little to enhance or exploit this fine dolmen; it is sad that it may well be the price society has to pay for preserving one of the oldest man-made monuments in Britain - it dates

The banks of the original Iron Age fort can still be seen in this photograph. The Normans built a cathedral within it which was abandoned in the 13th century.