Image, from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, is a 2021 photograph of one of Abraham Darby’s furnaces, now on display at the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron. (4/4)
January 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Image, from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, is a 2021 photograph of one of Abraham Darby’s furnaces, now on display at the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron. (4/4)
Dutch Ovens:
On this day in history, 317 years ago, January 10, 1709, English Quaker ironmaster and foundryman Abraham Darby fired up the world’s first coke-fired blast furnace at his iron foundry at Coalbrookdale, England. The Coalbrook Furnace specialized in making large cooking pots. (1/4)
On this day in history, 317 years ago, January 10, 1709, English Quaker ironmaster and foundryman Abraham Darby fired up the world’s first coke-fired blast furnace at his iron foundry at Coalbrookdale, England. The Coalbrook Furnace specialized in making large cooking pots. (1/4)
January 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Dutch Ovens:
On this day in history, 317 years ago, January 10, 1709, English Quaker ironmaster and foundryman Abraham Darby fired up the world’s first coke-fired blast furnace at his iron foundry at Coalbrookdale, England. The Coalbrook Furnace specialized in making large cooking pots. (1/4)
On this day in history, 317 years ago, January 10, 1709, English Quaker ironmaster and foundryman Abraham Darby fired up the world’s first coke-fired blast furnace at his iron foundry at Coalbrookdale, England. The Coalbrook Furnace specialized in making large cooking pots. (1/4)
Brilliant article Laura - Though it strikes me there's a problem with the funding idea as good as it is. Think of Ironbridge area, a lot of the pubs are about money & nothing else but then think of the Coalbrookdale Inn & All Nations, real community pubs, they are the types of pub we need to support
January 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Brilliant article Laura - Though it strikes me there's a problem with the funding idea as good as it is. Think of Ironbridge area, a lot of the pubs are about money & nothing else but then think of the Coalbrookdale Inn & All Nations, real community pubs, they are the types of pub we need to support
Part of the 'golden mile' section of the GWR at #Coalbrookdale (1862-64), so called because of the colossal cost of building an elevated railway on a sloping curve, over a large pool, larger works & around. It is quite a sight. #WallsOnWednesday #IndustrialHeritage #Shropshire
📷 My own
📷 My own
January 7, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Part of the 'golden mile' section of the GWR at #Coalbrookdale (1862-64), so called because of the colossal cost of building an elevated railway on a sloping curve, over a large pool, larger works & around. It is quite a sight. #WallsOnWednesday #IndustrialHeritage #Shropshire
📷 My own
📷 My own
Happy New Year friends and followers! We're beginning 2026 in style with the first ever Slingsby to be featured on Grit Salt Bin Monday: a robust, heavy duty 200L located directly beneath Coalbrookdale viaduct.
#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Coalbrookdale #Shropshire 💛🚂
#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Coalbrookdale #Shropshire 💛🚂
January 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Happy New Year friends and followers! We're beginning 2026 in style with the first ever Slingsby to be featured on Grit Salt Bin Monday: a robust, heavy duty 200L located directly beneath Coalbrookdale viaduct.
#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Coalbrookdale #Shropshire 💛🚂
#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Coalbrookdale #Shropshire 💛🚂
There is also a nonspecific Crinoid on the left and a nonspecific, hard to see Graptoloid in the top right. Crinoids and Graptoloids are known from the Coalbrookdale Formation, but none of them have been described.
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There is also a nonspecific Crinoid on the left and a nonspecific, hard to see Graptoloid in the top right. Crinoids and Graptoloids are known from the Coalbrookdale Formation, but none of them have been described.
Continuing my Herefordshire series with Carduispongia, Thanahita, Protaster, Haliestes, Nymphatelina, and some more Offacolus. See comment for key.
#sciart #paleoart #art #invertefest
#sciart #paleoart #art #invertefest
December 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Continuing my Herefordshire series with Carduispongia, Thanahita, Protaster, Haliestes, Nymphatelina, and some more Offacolus. See comment for key.
#sciart #paleoart #art #invertefest
#sciart #paleoart #art #invertefest
I enjoyed a festive treat at the Gorge Film Club in Coalbrookdale today in the form of the Holdovers. I'll admit, this one passed me by on release (although it was very successful) but that's my loss because this is a modern Christmas classic. Funny, poignant and full of pathos ✅
#TheHoldovers 🎬🎄
#TheHoldovers 🎬🎄
December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I enjoyed a festive treat at the Gorge Film Club in Coalbrookdale today in the form of the Holdovers. I'll admit, this one passed me by on release (although it was very successful) but that's my loss because this is a modern Christmas classic. Funny, poignant and full of pathos ✅
#TheHoldovers 🎬🎄
#TheHoldovers 🎬🎄
Some screenshots of the new Project Century models in the TpF2 Model Editor
December 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Some screenshots of the new Project Century models in the TpF2 Model Editor
🎄 It’s Day 19 of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here is the Museum of the Gorge at Ironbridge after a severe overnight frost. This is the former Severn Warehouse, where goods produced in Coalbrookdale were moved before starting their journey to the rest of the country and around the world. ☃️
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🎄 It’s Day 19 of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here is the Museum of the Gorge at Ironbridge after a severe overnight frost. This is the former Severn Warehouse, where goods produced in Coalbrookdale were moved before starting their journey to the rest of the country and around the world. ☃️
Stained glass 📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Stained glass 📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
John the Baptist preaching is taken from Maarten van Heemskerck.
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
December 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
John the Baptist preaching is taken from Maarten van Heemskerck.
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
Above the Flemish Last Supper are some small panels of further continental stained glass. The ones at the top are damaged and I'm having difficulty working them out but the three in a row below are straightforward.
The Annunciation is after Cornelis Cort
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
The Annunciation is after Cornelis Cort
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Above the Flemish Last Supper are some small panels of further continental stained glass. The ones at the top are damaged and I'm having difficulty working them out but the three in a row below are straightforward.
The Annunciation is after Cornelis Cort
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
The Annunciation is after Cornelis Cort
📷 Dim Parcio
Holy Trinity, Coalbrookdale
Brooke's furnaces were probably in his manor of Madeley at Coalbrookdale (which certainly existed before the English Civil War) where two cementation furnaces have been excavated. Design may be said to aim at providing an audience with a subject position, which it is to confirm.
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Brooke's furnaces were probably in his manor of Madeley at Coalbrookdale (which certainly existed before the English Civil War) where two cementation furnaces have been excavated. Design may be said to aim at providing an audience with a subject position, which it is to confirm.
The Squatter’s Cottage at Blists Hill was built around 1830 by miner Michael Corbett on waste land. Such cottages were common in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield. They stood on unregulated commons, with families paying a 30 shilling yearly encroachment fine for up to 60 years to be allowed to stay.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Squatter’s Cottage at Blists Hill was built around 1830 by miner Michael Corbett on waste land. Such cottages were common in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield. They stood on unregulated commons, with families paying a 30 shilling yearly encroachment fine for up to 60 years to be allowed to stay.
Brilliant TV - the A level syllabus I followed (1969-71) explained British economic growth without mentioning the empire - it was all turnips and Coalbrookdale - there was a massive hole in the story.
My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Brilliant TV - the A level syllabus I followed (1969-71) explained British economic growth without mentioning the empire - it was all turnips and Coalbrookdale - there was a massive hole in the story.
I had a trip to #Coalbrookdale Community Centre this afternoon to watch Ocean with David Attenborough at the bi-weekly Gorge Film Club. Stunning cinematography and a profound message of hope for the future of our seas. Very highly recommended ✅
#Ocean 🎥
#Ocean 🎥
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I had a trip to #Coalbrookdale Community Centre this afternoon to watch Ocean with David Attenborough at the bi-weekly Gorge Film Club. Stunning cinematography and a profound message of hope for the future of our seas. Very highly recommended ✅
#Ocean 🎥
#Ocean 🎥
Blackfriars Bridge, London. Drinking fountain. 1861 sculpted by Wills Bros and cast by Coalbrookdale Foundry. Photo: 15.06.2024. #London #fountain #Coalbrookdale
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Blackfriars Bridge, London. Drinking fountain. 1861 sculpted by Wills Bros and cast by Coalbrookdale Foundry. Photo: 15.06.2024. #London #fountain #Coalbrookdale
This amazing swan bench made by Coalbrookdale sits beside the maze in the garden at Chatsworth House, England.
Museum of Artifacts
Museum of Artifacts
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This amazing swan bench made by Coalbrookdale sits beside the maze in the garden at Chatsworth House, England.
Museum of Artifacts
Museum of Artifacts
Evening at the fabulous Coalbrookdale Inn, former CAMRA Champion Pub of the Year, back to its best for sure after a few years in the doldrums.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Evening at the fabulous Coalbrookdale Inn, former CAMRA Champion Pub of the Year, back to its best for sure after a few years in the doldrums.
My new book on Class 20s is now out with Transport Treasury Publishing:
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November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
My new book on Class 20s is now out with Transport Treasury Publishing:
Buy it now:
ttpublishing.co.uk/.../spotligh...
Buy it now:
ttpublishing.co.uk/.../spotligh...
#RememberanceSunday RIP Herbert Ernest Randall, born 1896 Coalbrookdale, Salop; died of wounds in France 1918 www.findagrave.com/memorial/247...
Second Lieutenant Herbert Ernest Randall...
Second Lieutenant, Herbert Ernest Randall He served in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 7th Bn. Service Number 09566 Herbert was the son of Alfred Edmund and Constance Hannah Randall, of Coalbroo...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#RememberanceSunday RIP Herbert Ernest Randall, born 1896 Coalbrookdale, Salop; died of wounds in France 1918 www.findagrave.com/memorial/247...
I have worked with a similar early visual record - 'A plan of Coalbrookdale by Thomas Slaughter, 1753'. I always suspected that the depicted buildings may have been reasonably accurate.
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I have worked with a similar early visual record - 'A plan of Coalbrookdale by Thomas Slaughter, 1753'. I always suspected that the depicted buildings may have been reasonably accurate.
🏨 Do you know the local inventor that lived in the Valley Hotel in Coalbrookdale?
⚡ Thomas Parker, known as "Edison of Europe” was a pioneer of electric vehicles and innovation
🚘 Like him, we’re planning for the future - have your say https://orlo.uk/PmlEd
⚡ Thomas Parker, known as "Edison of Europe” was a pioneer of electric vehicles and innovation
🚘 Like him, we’re planning for the future - have your say https://orlo.uk/PmlEd
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏨 Do you know the local inventor that lived in the Valley Hotel in Coalbrookdale?
⚡ Thomas Parker, known as "Edison of Europe” was a pioneer of electric vehicles and innovation
🚘 Like him, we’re planning for the future - have your say https://orlo.uk/PmlEd
⚡ Thomas Parker, known as "Edison of Europe” was a pioneer of electric vehicles and innovation
🚘 Like him, we’re planning for the future - have your say https://orlo.uk/PmlEd
3D Model of what is often referred to as Richard Trevithick's Coalbrookdale Locomotive. This this the first locomotive? Did it even run? Maybe.
Regardless, here's a model of it.
Regardless, here's a model of it.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
3D Model of what is often referred to as Richard Trevithick's Coalbrookdale Locomotive. This this the first locomotive? Did it even run? Maybe.
Regardless, here's a model of it.
Regardless, here's a model of it.