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Built of cast-iron, the bridge was opened in 1863 and improved the city by giving direct access to the original railway station, which was situated within the city walls.

The ancient open space of Frogmoor had from 1877 until the Second World War a fine cast-iron fountain and well trimmed trees.

Somerleyton Hall's impressive cast iron and glass-domed winter garden, with its rich abundance of ferns, climbing plants and typical Victorian ornamentation. It was demolished in 1914.

Beyond the high brick wall with its iron restraints, a very good array of Georgian houses lead the eye into the market place and on to St Dionysius Church.

In the tiny square nearby are the town's unusual stocks, made from iron.

The downlands hereabouts bear the marks of Iron Age dwellers who occupied this valley three thousand years ago.

The Iron Duke, depicted here in bronze, originally stood at Hyde Park Corner in London before being dismantled piece by piece and transported to Aldershot by horses.

The cottage's window frames pay homage to the cast iron that came with the British industrial revolution.

People have certainly lived here since the Iron Age - a fortification from that period on Burley Beacon Ridge guards the surrounding heathland.

On the top of the hill are the remains of Oldbury Castle (an Iron Age fort) and the striking Lansdowne Monument erected in 1845 to the memory of an ancestor of a local landowner.

Broadway and its continuation, the High Street, almost certainly follow the line of an ancient trackway that crossed the River Itchen during the Iron Age.

The growing Victorian population of East- the-Water's first place of worship was a prefabricated 'iron church' built in 1881.

On the left is the Golden Lion Hotel, with its attractive twin shallow bays and decorative wrought-iron balcony.

Today, there are more houses along the street and fewer trees, and the iron railings on the left have gone.

Its primitive and stylised design link it, through coinage, with the ancient Iron Age tribe the Atrebates, who ruled the area before the Roman invasion.

The bridge, which spans the Thames, is famous locally for its distinctive cast iron lattice design.

A Thames Trader lorry is crossing the iron bridge.

The building on the left with the iron balcony is Great Office, where local mine accounts were handled; it was once the Register Office.

The iron railings probably went for wartime salvage, and a part of the gardens disappeared to make way for car parking.

An almost colonial-style veranda with fancy railings is supported on cast-iron pillars with a twisted decoration.

It supplied wood and charcoal to fire kilns for the manufacture of pottery or for the smelting of iron.

There was a major iron foundry here until 1879: the Williams Perran Foundry imported raw materials and exported goods such as steam engines from the wharf on the creek.

It was a popular place for holidays, even though the village had been spoiled by the ruins of an alum works and an iron bridge that carried the railway line between Whitby and Saltburn.

The settlement was once the centre of a local iron-working industry, and the white-painted Gun Inn with its swinging signboard was where John Browne, the local ironmaster, designed ordnance for the navies