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Iron Bridge Gorge world heritage site, Shropshire
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Old Darby furnace with beams from 1638 and 1777
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The Old Darby Furnace from the 18th century
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Abraham Darby learned how to use coke to smelt iron in 1709 and his family operated the Coalbrookdale for over a hundred years
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Diorama of the iron bridge. The cast iron bridge was opened in 1781.
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Darby works, Coalbrookdale, c. 1800
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William Williams, Afternoon View of Coalbrookdale, 1777, Shrewsbury Museum and Art
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Philip James de Loutherbourg, Coalbrook Dale by Night, 1801, Science Museum
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Bedlam blast furnace ruins in Coalbrookdale
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Iron bridge
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Iron bridge
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Iron bridge
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Ironbridge, detail
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Commemorative Plate for the visit of the Prince of Orange to Iron Bridge in 1796
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William Williams, Iron Bridge, 1780, Museum of Iron
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Iron pots were one of the signature products of the Darby iron works in the 18th century
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Iron fountain, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Charles Muss, Coalport China Works, c. 1800. The china works were near the Darby iron works.
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Iron vanity, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Iron table for the Great Exhibition of 1851, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Decorative iron bench, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Iron Black Venus, Great Exhibition, 1851, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Iron railway ties for coal mines, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Iron rails and wheel, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
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Hay incline
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Hay incline to move coal from the mine to the river, Coalbrookdale
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Drift mine tunnel, Coalbrookdale
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Decayed carriage with iron steam train, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron