Newest Review: ... furnace over three months to produce; this was because the maximum one furnace could produce was 4 tonnes at a time. The bridge eventually cost £6,000 to build and put Darby into serious debt which he remained for the rest of his life; his wife cleared his debts after his death. The bridge officially opened on New Year's Day 1781 and you originally had to pay toll costs, for example carriages drawn by six horses, mares, geldings or mules would have to pay 2d to get across and for a calf, pig or sheep it would be 1/2d. This is the birth place of the Industrial Revolution. One of the many hotels I mentioned earlier is called the Tontine H... more