Ways to while away the summer…
Don’t miss the summer issue of Realm magazine, out on 24th June, 2009. The peaceful Shropshire valley of Ironbridge Gorge made this issue’s cover, and with good reason: this summer marks the 300th anniversary of the development of the world’s first coke smelting furnace on its riverbanks – an invention which revolutionised the iron industry and sparked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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