Blists Hill blast furnaces

Just a quick post tonight as it's late. These are the remains of three blast furnaces at Blists Hill in Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. They were built in the 1830s and 1840s and operated until 1912. They took some of their raw materials - iron ore, coal or coke and limestone - from tub boats on the Shropshire Canal which runs just behind and above the furnaces, and the pig iron they produced was carried away by canal too.


Some coke making was done on the site, and minerals were also mined very near by.