Archive for the tag 'Ironbridge'
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
A Curious Message
“Two Steeples”
PURE WOOL
UNDERWEAR
WILL NOT SHRINK.
13 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2012
The Museum of the Gorge was originally built as a warehouse for the Coalbrookdale Company in 1838 in a picturesque gothic style and was linked by horse-drawn plateway to the furnaces up the valley in Coalbrookdale. Iron products were stored here prior to shipment down the River Severn and onto the markets of the world. [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on May 14th 2012
Filed under Anecdotes, Art, Out & About
An Afternoon Stroll
It was such a lovely afternoon I decided not to waste it and went for a stroll round the ‘Museum of Steel Sculpture‘ in Ironbridge. I have driven past it quite a few times but never quite made it through the gate. Rather clumsily just after I arrived I missed my footing on some steps [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2012
