Forest Hillbilly
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- in a hidey-hole
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Wales
The first bridge made of iron , during the Industrial Revolution, was coincidentally erected in a town called Ironbridge. Spooky. 😎
it may be more of a case that when they decided to build one the town with that name seemed a good place to start?The first bridge made of iron , during the Industrial Revolution, was coincidentally erected in a town called Ironbridge. Spooky. 😎
I remember a visit to the Ironbridge museum many years ago when our daughter was very young and she switched off the power while a group of us were watching a short film. It all went black. Embarrassing. The place will forever be etched in my memory.it may be more of a case that when they decided to build one the town with that name seemed a good place to start?
😉I remember a visit to the Ironbridge museum many years ago when our daughter was very young and she switched off the power while a group of us were watching a short film. It all went black. Embarrassing. The place will forever be etched in my memory.
Anyway, the bridge came first in 17 hundred and something (can't remember the exact date) and the town, imaginatively named Ironbridge, developed around it.
It's like when Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease. His parents were tempting fate there.The first bridge made of iron , during the Industrial Revolution, was coincidentally erected in a town called Ironbridge. Spooky. 😎