Cambridge Society Berkshire Branch 2003 - Sunday
Sunday was a tour of Ironbridge. Started badley when no bus turned up at Blists Hill. No matter we teamed up in the cars and drove. We had Ken in our car.
We started with the Coalbrookedale Museum of Iron, where we the furnace built by Darby and the museum. We visted Darby House. Abraham Darby was the first person to smelt iron with coke instead of charcoal. He started this in Coalbrookdale. Another Darby, Abraham Darby the Third built the first to build an iron bridge.
After this we went and walked over the Ironbridge, and then had lunch in Mrs Peacock?s Pantry. We had the whol of the cafe to ourselves
The afternoon was spent in Blists Hill. This is a museum located on another mining and smelting site. The museum has also been set up to recreate a village. People recreating the feel of the house inhabited each house. These people interacted with the visitors, and in the shops also traded with the visitors. We visited here 10 years ago. It had changed over the time, and was well worth the visit.
