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23/05/2024

A showcase of photographs from the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, captured by a life-long resident and presented with pride. Images can be purchased as ready-to-hang wall art from my chosen print partner. A gift to make someone smile for many years Please check out my blog for regular upda...

23/05/2024

Despite repeated attempts to get Facebook to rename this page 'Ironbridge Images', it never happened. Therefore I have created a new page 'Ironbridge Images, and this page will cease to be updated. Please visit the new 'Ironbridge Images' page - and don't forget to add a 'like'. Thank you.

19/05/2024

'Memories' - a series of blog posts looking back at images from my archives, with some thoughts about the motivation for the shot or the circumstances in which it was taken. This first image in my 'memories' project was taken in homage to a classic 'Two Ronnies' sketch on their TV show in the 1970's. The show, by Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, was a series of comedy sketches during a time before satellite and cable television, and the 'Four Candles' sketch was first aired in 1976, when there were just three television channels to choose from; BBC1, BBC 2 and ITV....

‘Memories’ – a series of blog posts looking back at images from my archives, with some thoughts about the motivation for the shot or the circumstances in which it was taken. This …

18/05/2024

I'll bet that there aren't very many of us left in the Ironbridge Gorge that remember this building when it was Beddoes, the ironmongers, where you could get anything from four candles to fork handles. It was established in 1871 by Frank Green Beddoes, and he had this building purpose-built as his shop, with showrooms on the first floor. He also had a large warehouse unit on Waterloo Street, opposite the…...

I’ll bet that there aren’t very many of us left in the Ironbridge Gorge that remember this building when it was Beddoes, the ironmongers, where you could get anything from four candles …

13/05/2024

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12/05/2024

If you visit Ironbridge by car, you may well follow the signs to Ironbridge Central car park and wonder why it has that name, given that it really isn't 'central' to anything. This was a name dreamt up by the illustrious Telford & Wrekin Council, but the car park is still known by locals as 'Station Yard car park'. Why?...

If you visit Ironbridge by car, you may well follow the signs to Ironbridge Central car park and wonder why it has that name, given that it really isn’t ‘central’ to anything. Thi…

09/05/2024

The public telephone box in Coalport, in the Ironbridge Gorge, shortly before it was removed in 2020. This 'modern' version had previously replaced a traditional red telephone box, one in which I made many calls before my parents had a telephone line installed (yes, there was life before mobile phones). I can even remember the original public telephone that used pre-decimal coins, and had an 'A' and 'B' button that determined if you were going to connect to the call (and let the box have your money) or terminate the call (and have your money back). It was a stressful time when you were down to your last penny coin!

The public telephone box in Coalport, in the Ironbridge Gorge, shortly before it was removed in 2020. This ‘modern’ version had previously replaced a traditional red telephone box, one …

08/05/2024

I have done a little rebranding with a new name, Ironbridge Images, which reflects my primary subject matter, and I've added a static front page to my website give continuity. The blog still remains, of course, albeit tucked inside the site. I have also consolidated my print sales and will now solely be selling through my preferred print partner…...

I have done a little rebranding with a new name, Ironbridge Images, which reflects my primary subject matter, and I’ve added a static front page to my website give continuity. The blog still …

06/05/2024

I'm going to hazard a guess that, after the famous bridge itself, this is the most photographed area of Ironbridge; Darlington's shop and Severn Bank alley. It still has an 'olde world' look about it and is probably closer to what Ironbridge was really like in Victorian times than the local museum can ever try to replicate.

I’m going to hazard a guess that, after the famous bridge itself, this is the most photographed area of Ironbridge; Darlington’s shop and Severn Bank alley. It still has an ‘olde …

04/05/2024

A little further on from the level crossing gates mentioned in Secret Ironbridge: Open Wide, and the Great Western Railway track-laying engineers must have thought that Christmas had come early when they came upon Chapel Lane at right-angles to the railways path. All they needed to do was build some brick parapets and then drop a ready-made bridge on top, which was in contrast to most of the bridges in the Ironbridge Gorge that needed to be skew-bridges with complex brick-built abutments....

A little further on from the level crossing gates mentioned in Secret Ironbridge: Open Wide, and the Great Western Railway track-laying engineers must have thought that Christmas had come early whe…

01/05/2024

This is another in my project If the colour ain't right... where I desaturate images that just don't look good with their natural colours. This time, it is a shot of Coalport China Works, just a short walk from my house. It was taken at the end of a particularly damp November, and the towpath was covered in a luminous green moss, which was quite distracting....

This is another in my project If the colour ain’t right… where I desaturate images that just don’t look good with their natural colours. This time, it is a shot of Coalport China …

27/04/2024

This is the old police station and court house on Waterloo Street in Ironbridge, Shropshire. It was built in 1862 in an Italianate style, with blue bricks and white brick and stone dressings, by a local builder and architect, Samuel Nevett. Similar buildings were built by him in the Ironbridge Gorge with a similar style. Until recently, it was a very fine Indian restaurant called Pondecherry, but unfortunately the economic downturn meant that is was unsustainable and it has closed. The building is currently empty. The image is another from my day-to-night project, processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

This is the old police station and court house on Waterloo Street in Ironbridge, Shropshire. It was built in 1862 in an Italianate style, with blue bricks and white brick and stone dressings, by a …

24/04/2024

I firmly believe that the best black-and-white photographs are those that are taken specifically for that genre. However, there is also a common saying: "If the colour ain't right, go black & white" Actually, I'm not sure that it is a common saying, but the image here is a case in point. It has been lying on my hard drive for a couple of years; there was something about it I liked, but the colours just didn't work....

I firmly believe that the best black-and-white photographs are those that are taken specifically for that genre. However, there is also a common saying: “If the colour ain’t right, go b…