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This blog entry has generated quite a bit of interest, so by way of a 'thank you' here are four bonus pictures. These are some inside photos so I hope you'll find them interesting. Part of the display in no.2 furnace. Originally there would have been a wine glass shape lining between the base and the opening of the chimney but this had been cut away for replacement but the works closed before the replacement was built. Some of the cottages were furnished as they would have been at different times, and I forgot toe make a note of the dates!. Close inspection of my full size photos I would place this one at 1900s possibly around 1914. The vases are about right for that period and the photo on the mantelpiece is of soldiers in first world war style uniforms. I'm much more confident to date this one at 1940s as the newspaper headline reads "Hitler Assassinated". Another one I'm confident to date as 1950s as the date on the Playbook Annual is 1954. (I remember some of the things in that room, and I've still got a standard lamp like that in my living room). I hope you enjoyed looking at these bonus photos.

It was raining when I got up this morning, well I did say we could do with some rain, but it's bright and sunny now.

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Well it's still early isn't it.

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That's Good News and just what you wanted. I'm happy for you.

It's a good thing your sister checked the theatre timings, you'd both have been seriously upset if you'd missed the opportunity to see the Black Butler movie .

They certainly didn't get free food. The company owned shop at the works was run to make a profit for the company.

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I changed my bedsheets and did some laundry.

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@Sasuke Yes, you can still go into the foundry and no.2 furnace's cast house and there's a sort of audio visual presentation in there that gives an idea of what it would have been like working in there with coloured lights and a sound system that played the noise of the furnace and shouts of the workers. You can go right up to what is left of no.2 furnace but access to the other furnaces is not allowed. You can enter the workers houses and they're set out as the would have been in different decades, they're quite small but they were well equipped. @Zeref I'm glad you find my blogs interesting a learn something from them, and thank you for the compliments about my photos. I'm sure it's a place I wouldn't want to work! As far as I know nothing was actually done about the child labour, I think it was just one of those inspections that was made and filed. The children in the iron works probably had a better life than those working in the mines where the iron ore came from.

I quite like seahorses and I agree with you that they do look rather like aquatic dragons.

It's nice here, bright sunny 20C and no rain. Actually I think we could do with some rain everywhere’s getting so dry.