The image is of steam driven blowing engines that were used to provide compressed air to the iron smelting blast furnaces at Blist Hill Ironworks
The image is of the David and Sampson steam driven blowing engines that were used to provide compressed air to the adjacent iron smelting blast furnaces at Blist Hill Foundry [Victorian Town] as it was in 1900 when the English Queen, Queen Victoria was still alive. Blist Hill like lots of other heavy industries along the River Seven and Ironbridge Gorge made their prosperity from smelting and forging iron products
Size: 6000px × 4500px
Location: Blist Hill, Ironbridge, Shropshire
Photo credit: © Allan Hartley / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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