Plans for sculpture to honour 300 years of industrypublished at 08:58 British Summer Time 7 September 2021
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Plans are being put forward for a sculpture to honour 300 years of industry in the Ironbridge Gorge.
The Coalbrookdale Foundry closed in 2017 after centuries of metal casting. The Coke Hearth Improvements Group is proposing to place an anvil, recovered from the site, on the nearby green.
Casts of a jacket, visor and boots will be added to give the impression “a foundry worker has sat on the anvil, taken off his PPE and walked away”, the group says.
Plans for the sculpture will go before Telford & Wrekin Council on a date to be confirmed.
Earlier this year, Shropshire Homes Ltd applied to build a 30-flat block and 48 new houses on the nine-acre Wellington Road foundry site, with a planning decision on the application still to be made.