Enjoying the sunshine

Thursday: a fine, warm, sunny evening – just the thing for a trip out with the cameras (not to mention a quick pint afterwards…).

Started down at Ironbridge, trying to get some new angles on the (perhaps?) most photographed piece of ironwork in the UK.

Later, as the sun lowered, we spent half-an-hour a few miles upstream beside Cressage bridge – where, as well as the usual crop of riverside vegetation, including the specimen on the right, there is a patch of teasels, just begging to have their picture taken…

   

Blists Hill

A brief visit to Blists Hill Victorian Town, the chief site of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire. It’s always an interesting place for a wander round on a Sunday afternoon – there are plenty of subjects for the camera (just wish I could find them!)

The three photos depict a (very) short road – “Foundry Alley” – which leads, oddly enough, to the iron foundry (not in use on this occasion); the toll house which once stood beside (Thomas) Telford’s Holyhead Road, and a view from the garden to the locksmith’s and the baker’s.