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This brick kiln at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm is an updraught beehive structure modeled on the kiln at Oreton which dated to around 1870. T...
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From the late 18th and throughout the 19th century the Morda stream provided the necessary water power to drive the machinery for a range of factor...
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In 1996 there was a proposal to build a new house at The Bungalow, Bridge Bank, in Broseley. This site once formed part of the Benthall Ironworks ...
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Watermills were the most common type of mill in Shropshire because many streams and rivers flow throughout the county. Windmills are not common a...
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In the 18th century Coalbrookdale must have been an impressive, if not scary place to visit, with all the noise and heat associated with blast furn...
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This photograph shows the Coalport China Museum in Ironbridge. These buildings once formed the Coalport China Works, which were first opened in t...
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This is the factory floor for Woodforms, a woodcrafts based company based at The Poplars organic farm near Oswestry. The computerised lathe seen h...
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Coracles have a long history of use on the River Severn. Different designs were used for different areas along the river. The Ironbridge type was m...
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Jackfield, on the banks of the River Severn near Ironbridge, became famous throughout the 19th century as a centre for the production of bricks and...
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These fragments of pottery were found around the Pottery Cottages in Trefonen. It is thought that they date to around 1820. The fragments to the ...
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The Hoffman, or ring kiln, was heralded as the most efficient of all time. It produced a purer lime and used less fuel than vertical kilns. The k...
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In 1860 the Cambrian Railway (connecting Llanymynech with Welshpool and Whithurch) opened. At once it was possible to transport volatile quicklime...
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