"We've got computers and stuff these days [to make] images [but] he was just the master ... with the creativity and longevity ...

Professor Sir David Cannadine explores political fame and image by looking at how an object ... a revered elder statesman behind his wrought-iron gates at his country estate, Astley Hall.

He’s also, it transpires, a huge heavy metal fan, especially iron gates. What’s more, he actually makes them – and for the first time the gates, welded out of vintage iron and other metal ...

If it weren’t for a pair of history buffs, the iron gates of the old Spokane County Jail might have been lost to the ages. But now, 46 years after the old jail was torn down, plans are underway ...