Reconstruction illustration of the 18th century lead smelter at the Bower Yard at Ironbridge, showing the surrounding vegetation poisoned by the fumes and with figures wokring in the foreground

Date:: 1992 - 1993

Location:: Bower Yard Lead Smelter, The Gorge, Telford And Wrekin

Reference:: IC146/005

Type:: Reconstruction Artwork

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Description

The illustration is reproduced as figure 15 on page 30 of the English Heritage Book of Ironbridge Gorge by Catherine Clark (1993).

The smelter was one of four in the area in the mid-18th century and used local coal to smelt lead imported from Wales.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC146 Ironbridge Gorge, The Gorge, Telford And Wrekin; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Dobie, Judith

Illustrator: Vanns, Michael A

Keywords

Georgian Lead Smelter, People At Work