Excellent explanation, very clear and informative!

Formidable. Qué hermoso . El mejor homenaje a la técnica y sus héroes . Gracias !!

Ironbridge was built from cast iron (see description above) - liquid metal poured into sand moulds to produce the complicated shape of each part. This is what the Darby family were famous for. Wrought iron was worked [hammered, rolled, etc.] (wrought is earlier English for worked; "what Man has wrought..."). A wright was a worker, a craftsman especially skilled in strong and complex constructions predominantly in wood and later including some metal, trades such as: millwright, shipwright, etc., and some became adopted as surnames: Wright, Arkwright, Cartwright. Different materials, different properties, different skills.

I grew up around the ironbridge... love this place so much that once I actually did a flower arrangement of it

Excellent film! I was very impressed with your knowledge and your investigature! With the involvement of enthusiasts such as yourself; the bridge is held up to the World as the wondrous piece of engineering that it is.

What a great film of our heritage! . . Fred Dibnah would be proud of you if he were alive today. All the best .. . Martin.

Great video! I have always been curious about Ironbridge so i enjoyed this video greatly.

Brilliant.

Thank you, most informative, in fact I have 'shared' to History Enthusiasts on the really ubiquitous Facebook.

Excellent video well done. Ref Thomas Telford Longdon on Turn Aquaduct iron trough.

I wonder just how long that concrete bed between the two abutments will last in keeping them apart. There is no way you can permanently stop the two banks coming together. When concrete fails under compression the failure is catastrophic. I worked on building the cooling towers, the fourth tower nearest to Ironbridge was built on piles which were inside a concentric tube filled with grease to allow for this slippage. The expected rate of movement was 2 inch every 100 years which was the maximum design life for that tower, it's now gone so all is safe. All this other piling activity we have seen around this area over the last few years will have a safe design life of some sort but I'm not prive to that information. It would be nice to know however. It is not possible to permanently stop nature from working on these two banks.

Brilliant

my great x11 grandad built this!

At school we had trip to there they are renovating it

very good, lots of info, slight disagreement about the face there are in fact two, one both side and both slightly different. I​ think there Pritchard and Darby.but that's just me.

The face profile appears in the same way as did the profile of "The Old Man of the Mountain" used to. It was in the state of New Hampshire USA - it collapsed some years ago.

"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).

look from both sides, there are two faces

Because it looked good 😂

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excellent vid, thanks for no pounding drums or swirling whooshing, intense violins, bangs pops clicks pounding bongos awful annoying background noise intrusive background noise