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History of Coalbrookdale

Coalbrookdale changed the World. Here you can find out how.

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Abraham Darby came to Coalbrookdale in 1708 to make cooking pots.

His first great innovation was to use sand casting, his second was to use coke rather than charcoal to smelt iron.

 

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