[TheForge] Re: Iron Bridge

[Mike Spencer]

Dave Smucker <davesmucker at hotmail.com> wrote:

> In 1980 when we were working and living in Wales you could still
> walk among the stones at Stone Hedge but we never make it to Iron
> Bridge.

I was there for the 1980 Hereford blacksmithing conference.  Part of
the deal was a day trip to Ironbridge/Coalbrookdale.

> I had little time off because the "plant" was losing $ 4.000.000 per
> month and we were working close to 12 hours per day 7 days a week.

Now my curiosity is aroused.  What were you doing there, what was the
"plant"?

After the conference, I had no specific plans except to spend a week
in London so one of the local guys took me home to his rather isolated
stone house in Wales for dinner and an overnight.  Tearing at speed up
paved country lanes only a little wider than the car, overhung with
foliage so every curve was a blind corner, on the wrong side of the
road (to the extent that "side" meant anything on such a narrow lane)
was um... exciting. :-)


- Mike

-- 
Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
                                                           /V\ 
mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^