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--- Quote from: sbwhart on October 01, 2009, 04:55:57 PM ---Every time I see that, I think it must have been hell for anyone to live and work their.

Stew

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Absolutely  :bugeye:  but i would still love to see what it was like

dsquire:
Stew

Thanks for showing us Iron Bridge. I shall be doing more searching for info on it now that I know about it. Unfortunately I can't just go for a short drive and drop in on it like some on my MadModder brothers can so will have to do it the internet way. :clap: :clap:

Cheers  :beer:

Don

bogstandard:
Just think Don,

All the stuff we play about with today all started in that little river valley. If it wasn't for that, we might be driving around in Fred Flintstone cars.

When I used to go fishing there, I was always in awe of what the place represented, and that was well before it was recognised as a world heritage site, with museums and such.

There has been so much written about the place, you will have little trouble in visualising being there yourself.


John

Stefan Pynappels:
I've always wanted to see that! I reckon it is as much art as anything Michaelangelo or Raphael made, and much more than a lot of modern stuff (Damien Hirst etc.). It is amazing what these guys did in terms of pushing the boundaries of what they knew.

I love the series "Industrial Revelations with Mark Williams", he really loves his subject and has a great way of bringing the information to a new audience. He is very good at pointing out strange facs, such as the cast iron aquaduct which used a mixture of cotton, oxblood and lead as the sealing putty between the cast sections, and still carries water without leaking. Seeing how these guys adapted their older technology to make it work with the new materials makes me wish I was around then.

I'd like to think that if civilisation as we know it was to end, I'd have the gumption to try to make things work in a similar trial and error way that helped these guys make their great advancements.

John Stevenson:
If it wasn't for the Victorians we would be in the shït, literally.
They designed and built all the sewerage works, tunnels that are still in use today, all we do today is parch up what's fell off in the last 100 years.
They had a flair for style and design, none of this designed down to the last gram of metal saved but typical belt and braces "If it looked right it was right "

John S.

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