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This blue commemorative plaque records: Robert Ransome 1753-1830 established his iron foundry on this site 1789 Recorded plaque organisation: Ipswich Society.
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Robert Ransome was an English industrialist who founded a prominent iron foundry in Ipswich, crucial for the development of agricultural machinery and later for pioneering the manufacture of wire rope, significantly impacting maritime and industrial technologies.
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