An iron foundry set up by Abraham Darby in Shropshire. Can you guess what the is made of?
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Coalbrookdale Company
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Chelsea Embankment - Albert Bridge
{Inscribed on a stone plaque on the plinth, on the east side:} Chelsea Emban...
Chelsea Embankment - Old Church
There were at least 3 designs for lamps along the Thames Embankments. This on...
Great Exhibition - Coalbrookdale Gates
From Royal Parks: "The gates were designed by Charles Crookes. Each of the ca...
Lauderdale Road Synagogue - Halford
This design was used repeatedly to commemorate the dead of the City of London...
Temperance fountain
This fountain was originally erected July 1861 at the Royal Exchange. It was ...
Other Subjects
William Harnett Blanch
Historian. Born into a family of gun and rifle manufacturers, he was a prolific writer of books, mainly about the local history of London. He also founded The London Thirteen Club as a means of de...
Sir Proby Cautley
Civil engineer and palaeontologist. FRS.  Born Suffolk.  Proby was his mother's maiden name.  1819 went to India as a commissioned second lieutenant.  Apart from a few years his work there was main...
Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd.
Steel producer, originating in Grimsby, and bridge builder from the 1920s. Nationalised and subsumed into the government-owned British Steel Corporation in 1967. Wikipedia has a list of their brid...
George Croydon Marks
Engineer and politician. Born in Eltham. He was apprenticed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. In 1882 he joined Tangye Ltd in Birmingham and became head of the lifting-machinery department and an exp...
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