How England Was Made | Episode 2: Iron Bridge

[@stevethecountrycook1227]

A wonder of engineering and art in its day! Greetings across the pond cousins! May God Bless.

[@inisipisTV]

That footage of the bridge by river is so beautiful. Wonderful that such old buildings and structures.

[@in-the-city-lights]

It's cool seeing something so close to my house on one of my favourite channels

[@stevegee7593]

The only time I went there you could still drive across the bridge. (Around 1979) Due to it being very busy was unable to stop.

[@bennickss]

Weird, I thought that road traffic over the iron bridge was banned in 1932

[@laurametheny1008]

Thank you guys! This stuff is awesome. One of my fave things is history especially European etc. Also love historical fiction. I'll probably never get to visit...Ireland and UK is my dream....so it's great to watch and listen to kind of visit virtually. God bless you.🇬🇧🙏💚🇮🇪💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@MrsBrit1]

Went there with my daughter's class (as a parent chaperone) when she was in maybe year 1 or 2. Being American, I certainly didn't know the history or significance of it, but did appreciate it's construction. I don't remember them even saying how old the bridge was when we had the tour of the little museum next to it, or maybe I missed that bit, being distracted by my student group. This was a nice little video.

[@jeremiahbarberan951]

I like history

[@ChaR_OfTheK0Rn]

same :)

[@peterdarnell9183]

I live on the wirral love ❤️ Shropshire and Ironbridge especially

[@raymondwong6937]

❤

[@in-the-city-lights]

My great grandfather also jumped off of this bridge and swam up the Severn

[@alanmiller8887]

Great to hear from you. Regards to your Great Grandad. My ancestors are from Edgerley ( near Nesscliff). I first crossed this bridge, as a kid, on my Bike, in about 1935. A great honour to be related to the start of the Industrial Revolution.

[@yashaant_t720]

yo this is cool asf i will visit it lol

[@yashabokhari9189]

How come there are only 5 comments?!

[@ingridmatthews6627]

Not enough Mrs Crocombe.

[@lambdillion4610]

@@ingridmatthews6627 hahahahaha

[@deeremeyer1749]

"Freestanding metal structure"? So are the abutments and approaches "freestanding" with it?

[@poletooke4691]

How original is the bridge today? Like, how much of it has had to be replaced and fixed over the years?

[@InsertTheSims]

To my knowledge most of the bridge is original and has just been coated over and over again over the years to prevent rust, until the big refurb that was done over the last few years. I was born and grew up just up the hill from the Ironbridge and many of my ancestors worked around the Severn gorge area in those days 😊

[@alanmiller8887]

The bridge is still original. ! It's the water that flows under it that changes

[@user-ey6oi4xw8r]

Britain from 1800 to 1900. 20,000 Waterwheels decreased in number.Windmills decreased in number. Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared. Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10,000,000 !!! For every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 we now had an additional 500 Steam Engines providing Power in 1900 !!! And you don't need a flowing river of water for each one either, so they can be sited anywhere. Power supply for the whole country increased by 500 times!!! This WAS the Industrial Revolution. James Watt's Steam Power created the Industrial Revolution! Not an Iron bridge.

[@ingridmatthews6627]

Needs more Mrs Crocombe, sry.