Love Your Neighbourhood: We Meet the People of Ironbridge

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00:00We as a business have been here over 10 years, we owning this business have been here 5 years

00:12so, personally I've been here most of my life.

00:15Just the great outdoors and the space and the community we actually live in, it's just

00:20lovely.

00:21Come and visit us, come and see our lovely spirits and ales and wines in the shop, come

00:25and try stuff in our shop, we have a lovely taster bar, there's some other great venues

00:31across Ironbridge where e-tourists can go and eat, places to visit, the museums as well

00:37so yeah, it's a great place to be.

00:40I'm just an Edgman Newport but I think it's always been a feel of, you drive down the

00:49hill and you just feel like, it's lovely, it's like a holiday town and everybody always

00:55talks about it and it's amazing.

00:57I do like Ironbridge, it's lovely, it's like, I live at the top of the hill so when I come

01:01down it's like being on holiday, it's like just, you know.

01:05I think, sorry, it's different but I've got a lot of people that come in and they say

01:11a week ago I had dogs and I was speaking to somebody that grew up here and you know you

01:18just have a chat with people and then all of a sudden they say you get lost in all the

01:22trails around and people don't always know.

01:25There's so many hidden gems all around that it's unbelievable.

01:30It's so nice, it's, I don't know, it's a nice walk by the river and erm.

01:35You feed the dogs.

01:36Yeah.

01:37There's a chip shop, ice cream, a pie shop, a lot more than that.

01:44That's it.

01:45You've got one at Frugal's where they have hot dogs and they have food.

01:49The gorge seems to be very popular.

01:51Yeah.

01:52And erm, Corporate.

01:54Yeah and all the, yeah.

01:55All the China and that is down at Corporate.

01:57I think, we don't actually do that, don't we, but I can understand people loving, you

02:02know, to go round the museums and all that and then just to, you know, it's like you

02:07say on a day like today, it is nice isn't it, you know.

02:10It's almost to the people that come here.

02:13We get an awful lot of tourists and yet we get an awful lot of people, locals and what

02:17not.

02:18And the bridge.

02:19Just sitting outside, looking at the bridge all day in the sun, gorgeous.

02:23We fell upon this by pure luck and we loved it, absolutely loved it.

02:27First time we saw it and that's it, bare bone.

02:30And in the summer it's always busy.

02:33It's just a beautiful place to come.

02:35Lots of museums, lots of cafes, lots of other businesses, small businesses and local businesses

02:41which keeps the place going.