Telford History: Ironbridge Cooling Towers

The photographer appears in this picture atop the partially built cooling tower at Ironbridge.

Huge thank you to Mark Richardson for scanning in the slides of Gordon Crawford.

Mark is on twitter: @MRichardson67

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