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Also Known as the Inveraray Bridge, it is a stone two arch Bridge completed 1775/76 on the Inveraray Estate in Argyll and Bute. It crosses the River Argyll which flows into Loch Fyne.

I came across this museum 2012 while i was working in the area, and is maned by volunteers. In the workshop is a Sunderland Engine that has been stripped down for refurbishment, it was discovered in the dock.

Opened in 2013 it is for pedestrians and cyclists, the mast has a pulley system which draws the platform either side up.

The earliest record of the mill is 1351, the current mill building was started 1630 on the footings of an earlier mill. By the end of the 19th century was producing animal feed, during the second world war the roller mills at ports were suffering from bombing and the grain supply from Canada and USA was blockaded. As a result Stretton and other small mills around the country had to supply the country, working 24/7. The last miller was Albert Victor who retired 1959, John Boucher restored the mill and opened it to the public as a working museum 1977.

The statue stands in front of Gladstone`s library and was commissioned 1910, it was created by Irish sculptor John Hughes and meant stand in Dublin City, and the first world war delayed statues erection. In 1923 Dublin City Council refused to accept it because of the difficult political scene and was placed in Hawarden 1925.

The library was founded by William Gladstone in1895 it is Britain`s only Prime Ministerial Library, and the building was designed by John Douglas. Gladstone was eager to share his personal library with others, especially the poor. 1895 at the age of 85 Gladstone his daughters and valet, wheeled 32,000 books three quarters of a mile from his home Hawarden Castle to the library. It became residential in 1906 it now has 26 rooms and has 250,000 books. It is dedicated to dialogue, debate and leaning for open -minded individuals,

The bridge crosses the River Dee, and is known as the blue bridge. It is a double leaf rolling bascule bridge, construction started 1925-1927 at the cost of £83,051. Constructed by Sir William Arrol.

The bridge crosses the River Dee, Designed by C.A.Hobson construction started 1887-1889. The bridge is a swing bridge 160m long the largest in the UK the last time it opened was used 1960. It runs along side Tata steel once British steel, it is used by pedestrians, cyclists and trains, Workers used the train from Wrexham area Wales and the Wirral England, iron ore and other minerals from Bidson docks Birkenhead. And workers walked and cycled to work from the Shotton area. I used it many times when i worked there in my younger days on a Friday and Saturday evening when i used to slope off Naughty Me.

The mine first opened 1527, but closed because the deep workings were unworkable because of underground rivers. 1845 John Taylor & Sons opened the mine again and in stalled a Cornish Beam steam engine. 1900 the price of lead fell while the price of coal for the steam engine rose, 1909 work stopped and the mine was sold off 1914.

The jig box was used in the 1860`s, the miners used it to separate the galena ( lead ore ) from the waste minerals. The inner box has a sieve on the bottom gravel placed on the sieve and galena on the top, using a long handle the box is dipped into water and moved quickly up and down this is called jigging. The jigging motion allows the heavier galena to move down through the gravel bed, the top layer being waste and lighter than the galena is thrown away.

The steelworks was in operation between 1796 -1990, and founded by John ` Iron Mad` Wilkinson. 1,100 jobs were lost when United Engineering Steels stopped production, the blast furnace, mill and other sections were sold to China,

A Prince of Gwynedd he lived between 1173-1240, and ruled over most of Wales from 1216 using a combination of military strategy and diplomacy.