00:00Hello, my name's Norman Padgett. I'm a local industrial historian, and I think you might enjoy my book, The Ironmen of Shropshire.
00:10It's written from the perspective of the first ironmasters and the way they changed world industry starting back in the early 1800s and 1700s,
00:22because they chose radical ways to produce iron, which made it cheap and easy to access for everybody, from just a few shillings for an item up to complex steam engines.
00:37The business was that they made iron cheap to buy, cheap to use, and easy to bring to market.
00:46This is my book, The Ironmen of Shropshire.
00:52Which will be available through Amazon, Waterstones, WH Smiths, and various Ironbridge Museum shops during this coming summer.
