Broseley Town Centre before the rain 121013

Broseley Town Centre before the rain 121013

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In Broseley's heyday in the early to mid 1800's, furnace, foundries, boring mills, smithies and kilns were much in evidence. The tow was a thriving Andalusia settlement and developed into a major centre for coal, clay and limestone extraction as well as tile, brick and earthenware manufacture.

Most famously Broseley produced clay tobacco pipes. The pope works are in King Street. 

Broseley's early industrial significance cannot be overstated. For example, the reason for the construction of the Iron Bridge was to link the rapidly growing Broseley with another famous industrial town, Coalbrookdale. What's more Broseley attracted many engineering pioneers and entrepreneurs. Men such Iron made John Wilkinson. He built the first iron boat and further developed a method of driving a forge hammer with rotative steam engine at Willey. 

Abraham Darby 1st, the coalbrookdale ironmaster, is buried near the Pipeworks Museum. John Guest, an ironmaster whose early company eventually became GKN, founded the chapel at Birchmeadow (now a community centre_. John Rose of Coalport China fame lived at the Lawns, an imposing Georgian house on Church Street. 

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