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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

The remains of an Iron Age hill fort (the Bulwark), dating from 700BC-100AD, may be seen on Llanmadog hill. Allegedly a ghost may be seen in Llanmadog churchyard.

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

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

The woods conceal former ironstone quarries that fed the iron making industry of Corby.

Ribble Valley archaeological finds are on display at Ribchester Museum, including the replica of a Romano-Celtic head and metal objects from the Iron Age hill fort at Portfield, Whalley.

Its iron girders were replaced in 1939 with stone arches.

at the Embankment in central London; seen here from the Barnes bank towpath, his suspension bridge has a 420-foot main span, and the towers are finished with French-style pavilion roofs, all in sheet iron

The tall iron posts support the power wire. Amongst this modernity, there are still gas-fuelled street lights.

The iron gates and railings were later removed to fuel the war effort.

It replaced a ferry by means of a 1792 Act of Parliament, and is still in use (10p for a car, pedestrians free).The present late Victorian iron bridge replaced the original timber one.

The pilasters are in Bath stone, with elegant wrought iron roof supports.

Outside St Peter's church, an ornate cast iron signpost erected in 1830 has hands pointing to London, Yarmouth and Framlingham.

Almost everything in the church - the pillars, the window frames, the font and the tombs - is made of Blaenavon iron.

All Saints' Church, higher up the village, has a massive Norman tower, and the church is built in the local iron-rich brown limestone.

Worthing's was a good example, with screens to protect the band from the sea breezes and an elegant wrought iron openwork cupola to its ogee roof.

By 1440 the town was trading in dairy produce, wine, fish, garlic, silk, iron, coal, copper and lead.

There is also a working watermill with an iron water wheel powered by the River Maun, and an accompanying tea room.

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up

Again on the left we can see a good example of the typical Saltburn glass and cast iron canopies to keep pedestrians sheltered.

Unlike many other Welsh towns, whose growth was based on coal or iron and steel, Carmarthen had long been a market town and the centre for an age-old agricultural tradition.