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Blackboys is a small iron industry village. Its name is believed to have come from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the woods.

The bridge is the Thetford Town Bridge, a cast-iron structure that dates from 1829.

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

Yeldham Oak - seen here in the background - is now a hollow stump held together with cement and iron bands.

The cast-iron breast shot waterwheel is inside the building and is dated 1800, with the initials of John Lowe, the miller.

Its Cornish name of Pendinas means 'fortified headland', and for centuries that was what it was - there are the remains of an Iron Age fort, and the island once held guns to ward off the threat from Napoleon's

This magnificent clock is made of iron and has the words 'This column was constructed at the Stourbridge ironworks 1857' cast into its base.

The iron bridge, raised in 1914, carries the London road over the River Medway into Rochester; it replaced the old stone bridge, which had stood a little further upstream by the Bridge Chapel.

Looking south from the bridge, the towering mass of the former Empire Hotel is on the right with its terrace. Beyond is the spire of St John the Baptist Church and the Parade Gardens.

Splendidly guarded by four toll houses or lodges in Greek temple style with Doric columned porticos, the cast-iron bridge was designed by Henry Goodrich and opened in 1827.

Behind the telegraph pole in the middle of the picture is a listed cast iron telephone kiosk of a type designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Visitors to Eaton Hall could alight here and walk through the park to the Hall, or go on a little further to Eaton Iron Bridge.

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.

The iron-framed Pier Pavilion can be seen in the background.

Note the hay rake, coal-scuttles and assortment of pip- ing and rope adorning the window of the local iron- mongers in the centre of Lyndhurst.

The most famous iron furnace here was the 'Bedlam Furnace': with its flames and smoke, and noise and grime, it must have seemed like the very gates of Hell.

The iron railings were taken for the war effort in the Second World War. St John's was situated on Church Street, and perhaps its most famous vicar was William Thornber, known for his fiery sermons.

On the right-hand side, Timothy White's chemist's shop boasts a cast-iron canopy over its entrance.

A popular ramble is to the nearby Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon - immortalised by Thomas Hardy in his novel 'The Trumpet-Major'.

It seems slightly ironic, given that the purpose of building societies was to enable people to own their own homes, that an attractive cottage was demolished to make way for this rather grandiose structure

Grangetown developed around the old Grange Farm, when a local iron works was established here by Bolckow and Vaughan in the early 1850s.

These seem to have more in common with Nelson's navy than with the iron-clad battleships that were starting to dock at Devonport at this time.

It seems slightly ironic, given that the purpose of building societies was to enable people to own their own homes, that an attractive cottage was demolished to make way for this rather grandiose structure

In 1848, it was widened and given footpaths and the iron railings shown.