I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb where talk about the town of Ironbridge, the building of the famous Iron Bridge and the Irongbridge Gorge which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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PhotoHunt – Creative
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out Whistlestop PhotoHunt.
10 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2012
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Signs of the Past
I am not at all sure about ‘WANTED young girls for bottling and pickling’…
10 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2012
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Elegance on the Incline
For those who are interested in the technical details:
The Hay Inclined Plane connects the canal at Blists Hill with the canal at Coalport, lifting boats 63m using a combination of steam power and gravity. The inclined plane was opened in 1792 and remained in use until the end of the nineteenth century. It survives today [...]
17 Comments CherryPie on May 21st 2012
