Broseley
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Broseley is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019. The River Severn flows to its north and east. The first iron bridge in
All Saints' Parish Church
Thomas Salter Pyne, in Vanity Fair, 1900
Hermione Baddeley, 1970s
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision ca
Broseley
…in 1590. The Broseley Pipeworks is one of the trust's ten museums, another being the Jackfield Tile Museum in Jackfield, just north-east of the town. John Wilkinson constructed the world's first iron boat whilst living in the town. The plans for the Iron Bridge were drawn up in Broseley. Abraham Darby I, who developed…
Wilkinson by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Iron cannons at Youghal, County Cork, Ireland
Steam engine by James Watt (1797)
The Iron Bridge spanning the River Severn in Shropshire