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This plate is on a dynamo supplied by McClure & Whitfield for powering the projectors at the Brookfield Cinema in Poynton, Cheshire, in 1938. The translation - Mersey, I'm ready. The Mersey Dynamo works of McClure & Whitfield appears to have originated in a foundry business called Cameron Pearson which was merged into McClure & Whitfield in 1892 and became one of the first electrical engineering companies in the world, manufacturing dynamos. McClure & Whitfield installed the first electrical lighting powered by one of their dynamos on the Embankment in 1897, it also supplied the navy through 2 world wars with steering and drive motors for submarines, surface ships and indeed for mulberry harbour. In 1946 the business partnership existing between David McClure and Robert Brotherton Whitfield dissolved but the business continued. The company still exists and is still a private company owned by the family trading as Piggott and Whitfield Ltd, based in the North-West and in the City of London, installing mechanical, electrical, control and data systems into commercial and industrial properties all over the UK and beyond.

Seen on a fence at the Thomas Bolton copperworks in Froghall. William Bain and Co Ltd started business in 1859 in the old Lochrin Distillery in Edinburgh as Lochrin Iron Works – producing iron fencing and gates for estates in Scotland. In 1888 the works was moved to Coatbridge. William Bain Fencing Ltd continues in business today, having moved the Lochrin Works to Cumernauld where they still supply palisade fencing to a range of designs.

When the Caldon canal was opened between Etruria and Froghall milestones were erected marking the distance from each end of the waterway. Later, in 1811, when the branch to Uttoxeter was completed from Froghall soon became necessary to amend the distances to reflect this and new mileposts were commissioned in cast iron. These were supplied from the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Stone which was established c1818. This example dates from 1820. Many of the stones have not survived, having been redundant for 190 years or so, but this example remains near Consall Forge alongside its replacement.

The Albert Edward Bridge was erected in 1863 to the design of Sir John Fowler, engineer. The cast iron single span double track railway bridge carries the railway line from Shifnal to Ironbridge Generating Station over the River Severn. The lettering on the bridge includes reference to the Coalbrookdale Company as responsible for casting and erection.