Industrial Heritage - Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Shropshire
Iron-making in Coalbrookdale during the eighteenth century was revolutionary: it developed coal and coke as fuel, applied steam engine technology and promoted the emergence of a transport network. The Iron Bridge confirmed Coalbrookdale's significance and became, in its own lifetime, an internationally known symbol of the Industrial Revolution.
The Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site is today full off monuments and buildings that give glimpses into the heavy industrial past of this now tranquil valley. The remains of furnaces, foundries, mines, slag-heaps can all be seen as you travel around the Gorge.
