Memories in Metal: Cast Iron Grave Makers

Harold Mytum from the University of Liverpool explores how Coalbrookdale and other iron foundries across the country satisfied demand for churchyard memorials by developing designs using innovative materials such as cast iron.

Discover how, in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, the bereaved could express their loss in ways that combined mass production with individual memory.

This talk is part of IGMT’s ‘Twilight Tales’ series of talks, exploring the darker, stranger, and more unusual stories from history and our Collections.