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Posted -  06/06/2008  :  07:10
I'm going to try to post an engine list by Arthur Roberts of Leeds. It's a big text and so I have converted it to plain text. If anyone wants the original file with all the bells and whistles, mail me at the address below and I'll send you one.

If you scroll down to the end, you'll find an index, this isn't accurate for the plain text because the pagination is lost, however it gives an alphabetical ist of the engines in the text and if you use the page search facility on your browser you will find the entry.  The original Word doc has 156 pages and the page numbers apply to that version.  If the number of responses creates a new page, go to page 1 of the topic for the full text.

June 2009. I have revised this text and published it with other rare texts in 'Steam Engine Research Resources' on Lulu.com, if you are interested in researching old engines you'll find it a useful book.


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ARTHUR ROBERT'S BLACK BOOK.

 

[Many years ago I was allowed to copy a copy of this book.  It is a list of

engines visited by A S Roberts who at that time lived at 15 Pasture Crescent,

Chapel Allerton, Leeds 7.  I would estimate the date of the notes as being

1960s.  As I go through the entries I get clues as to his companions.  It would

appear that they included Arnold Throp, George Watkins and Edgar Brook. 

Arnold will be familiar to anyone who has seen his fine miniature engines or

read the Model Engineer, George needs no introduction.]

 

WARNING!  No list like this can be accurate or complete.  It was

never meant for publication and was Arthur's best shot.  There are

some obvious mistakes but much of the information is

accurate/informative and adds to the sum of our knowledge.  When

I came to the engines of which I have personal knowledge I found

that there were quite serious mistakes but at least he had identified

the fact that an engine was there.  If you see an entry that intrigues

you check it out by using another source.  The main value of the list

is that it gives us an idea of just how many engines there were in

the hey day of the industry.  We aren't even sure that he visited all

the engines he describes but some definitely have the ring of truth

and every now and again he pops a bit of information out that

could only have come from a well-informed source at the mill,

particularly about engines moved or long gone.  So, be wary, don't

take what is recorded as the absolute truth but enjoy it, it's quite

evident that Arthur and his mates did!  [Where I have found

mistakes which I am sure of I have inserted comments in italics

using trusted sources such as Watkins, Shackleton and the various

trade directories.]  One more thing, Arthur often mentions a name

at the head of his description.  At first I took these to be the

engineers, and identified some as such from personal knowledge

but I think some are the mill manager.  Best to regard them all as

his contact at the mill.  Where I have additional knowledge I have

added it as a note in italics.  Watkins refers to George Watkins,

Shackleton refers to Geoff Shackleton and if no name is given it is

personal knowledge (which can also be flawed!)

 

Where I have added information on firms, mills and locations this

has been gleaned from Worrall 1941 in most cases.  In some where

Worrall had no answers, the Manchester Royal Exchange

directories for 1912, 1954 and 1965 have been used.

 

ABB begins with some explanation of the terms used:

STEAM ENGINES

Flywheel between cranks on cross compound engines unless otherwise stated.

All engines are horizontal unless otherwise stated.

Condenser behind cylinder means that the air pump is in line with and driven

by extension of the piston rod.

Unless otherwise stated, the guides are small slipper type on gudgeon pin, one

on each side of the crosshead.

Air pump driven from the tail rod means that the condenser is underneath the

floor and driven by a bell crank lever.

Air pump driven from crosshead means same as above but the lever is driven

from the crosshead by links in the same manner.

In most cases, when Arthur refers to 'piston valves' he means cylindrical slide

valves, not modern high pressure piston valves.

THE LIST.

[In the original the engines are listed in the order that they were visited.  This

makes the list very difficult to consult but could be searched if used as a file in

Msoft Word.  I shall list them in alphabetical order and ignore locations as I

am not sure about many of them.]

 

MARSHALL FLAX MILL.

(Built by Ignatius Bonomi, 1839)

240hp double beam engine by Benjamin Hick; 1840.  Two 54" diam cylinders

X 5ft stroke.  15psi; 19rpm.  26ft diam flywheel gear drive.  Double ended slide

valves driven from underneath.  Airpump and feed pump driven by rods from

the beams.  A model of the engine exists in South Kensington Museum.

Replaced a James Watt engine

 

S MUSGRAVE, WORTLEY.

200HP TANDEM COMPOUND ENGINE BY Newton, Bean and Mitchell;

1908.  12" HP, 22" LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 95rpm.  14ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  LP

slide valve.  HP Corliss valves.  Separate condenser in other room.

 

RICHARD BUCKTON, HUNSLETT.

Engineer Mr E Mather.  Installed 1924.  250hp tandem compound engine by

Woodhouse and Mitchell; 1890.  13"HP, 22"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  80psi, 82rpm. 

15ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Corliss HP, slide valve LP.  Airpump drive from

crosshead.  Light return crank drives short shaft with two eccentrics for

outside drive HP valves.  Came from T Helm's at Raistrick. R Hd.

 

MANOR ROAD MILL HOLBECK

Marsden Brothers, Dyers.  180hp tandem compound engine by Marsden,

1900.  12"HP, 23"LP X 3ft stroke.  95psi, 84rpm.  12ft flywheel, 7 ropes.  Both

cylinders are Corliss valves.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

JOSHUAH WILSON, LEEDS.

(Benjamin Gott)   Engine named 'Beckett'.  Engineer Mr H Sullivan.  450hp

tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1891.  17 ½ "HP, 30"

LP X 5ft stroke.  120psi, 62rpm.  20ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valve to HP

cylinder, double port slide valves to LP.  Air pump driven from crosshead. 

Engines in separate rooms.

 

Also auxiliary to weaving shed; 50hp single cylinder horizontal engine by

Woodhouse and Mitchell, date ?.  10" diam cylinder X 24" stroke.  120psi,

120rpm.  7ft flywheel.  Plain 10" belt drive by 4ft diameter pulley.  Non-

condensing.  Disk crank and Pickering governor.

 

[beneath this entry is 'Wood and Baldwin 1881.  Woodhouse and Mitchell,

1885.]

 

BEAN INGS MILL, 1792, LEEDS.

Joshua Wilson.  Engine named 'Gladstone'. Engineer Mr W Roberts.  450hp

tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1889.  17 ½"HP,

30"LP X 5ft stroke.  120psi, 4 ball Proell governor, 62rpm.  20ft flywheel, 12

ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders, all valves at bottom of cylinders.  Air

pump driven from crosshead.  Engines are opposite hand.

 

Also electric lighting set.  200hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by

Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1897.  10"HP, 26"LP X 18" stroke.  120psi, 200rpm. 

7ft flywheel Ropes.  6" diameter piston valves.  Proell governor controls a cut-

off valve inside HP piston valve.  Non-condensing.  Drives 115V Dickenson

dynamo for lighting only.

 

CASTLETON MILL. ARMLEY

Thomas Leuty.  Engineer Mr W Shields.  38hp tandem compound engine by

Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1921.  14"HP, 24"LP X 36" stroke.  160psi,

100rpm.  13 ¾ ft flywheel, 7 ropes.  Corliss valves both cylinders.  Trunk

guides.  Three eccentrics.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

HARGREAVES AND NUSSEY, WORTLEY

150HP single beam engine.  28" diam cylinder X 5ft 6" stroke.  65psi, 50rpm. 

19ft flywheel, gear drive.  Slide valve.  Air pump and feed pump driven by rods

from the beam.  Gear driven Watt governor.  10ft spur gear driving 4ft outside

engine room.

 

ILLINGWORTH AND INGHAM, LEEDS

Engineer Mr Metcalfe.  250hp tandem compound engine by G Blamires,

Cleckheaton, 1868.  13"HP, 22"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 70rpm.  12ft

diameter flywheel 10" belt.  Slide valves.  HP has expansion valve.  Small

governor at side driven by cshaft.  Non-condensing, exhausts to river.

 

BRADLEYS, TONG ROAD, LEEDS.

140hp single cylinder engine.  19" diameter cylinder X 3ft 6" stroke.  70psi,

56rpm.  14ft flywheel, gear drive.  Slide valve.  Air pump driven from eccentric. 

[illegible line]

 

F A LODGE, ARMLEY

In 1928  Engineer Mr Ernest Leek. (note at bottom says 'came from Mk Days

1903-1928.  From date of 1903 attributed to the engine I suspect 1928 refers

to installation of second-hand engine.)

350hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1903.  85psi,

65rpm.  16ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  15/16"HP,

30/28"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  (Arthur appears to have been unsure of the

measurements)  Air pump driven from the crosshead.

 

J HARDCASTLE, LEEDS

Engine not new here but unknown where it came from.  Engineer Mr D

Johnson.  250hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell

c.1890.  12"HP, 22"LP X 3ft stroke.  1912 (date of installation?) 100psi, 74rpm. 

11ft 6" flywheel (enclosed with gear drive).  Corliss HP cylinder (rear), Slide

valve LP with its eccentric on return crank driven by short shaft, valve at

outside.  Eccentric on crank shaft for Corliss valves. Air pump drive from the

crosshead.  Gear drive, 8ft gear on to 6ft.  C H Milnes put this in. (engine?).

 

.LOCKWOOD. LEEDS

Engineer Mr G Thirkell.  90hp tandem compound engine by Manlove, Alliott

of Nottingham, 1890.  10"HP, 17"LP X 30" stroke.  95psi, 75rpm.  10ft fly

wheel, 3 ropes.  Slide valves, expansion valve on HP.  Non-condensing.  Disc

crank.  Exhausts to atmosphere.

 

J LUPTON, LEEDS.

Now Leeds United Hospitals laundry.

.Engineer Mr J Stewart.  350hp tandem compound engine by Hick

Hargreaves, 1896.  15"HP, 24"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 86 1/2rpm.  16ft

flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Trunk guides.  Runs

wrong way.  Spring fork trip gear.  Now drives a 150KVA alternator by C and

Batley[sic]  8ft pulley – 7 ropes to countershaft.  All electric laundry, two new

large package boilers in 1961/62.

 

RUDKIN'S MILL, WORTLEY

WOOD AND MORRIS.  Mr G Sowry engineer.  150hp single beam engine.  26"

diameter cylinder X 5ft stroke.  60psi, 56rpm, Watt governor.  16ft flywheel. 

Plain slide valve, long and double ended, driven from underneath.  New steel

connecting rod in 1900.  Condenser underneath engine driven by rod from

beam.  No name or date known.

LATER.

200hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1920. 

12"HP, 22"LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 95rpm.  15ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  New 9ft

X 30ft boiler in 1912.

 

ANDREW MELLISH, WORTLEY

(Late Thomas Pawson)  Engineer, Mr G Gill.  250hp single beam engine. 

30"diameter cylinder X 6ft stroke.  Watt Governor.  65psi, 25rpm.  18ft

flywheel, enclosed.  Slide valve is long and double ended driven from

underneath.  Beam bearing on CI girders supported by ornate CI columns. 

Condenser underneath .  Air pump and feed pump driven from beam.  No

name or date known, probably 1860.

 

ALSO

150hp single cylinder engine 1860(?).  20" diameter cylinder X 5ft 6" stroke. 

65psi, 48rpm.  18 ft flywheel.  Plain slide valve on top of cylinder.  Air pump

driven from eccentric.  Three boilers, two in use.

 

J RATCLIFFE, WORTLEY

Iron Foundry.  Engineer Mr W Shepherd.  40hp single cylinder overhead

crank engine by J Ratcliffe, 1892.  14" diameter cylinder X 24" stroke.  85psi,

90rpm.  9ft heavy flywheel, plain, 6ft pulley 12" belt on to 6ft pulley.  Slide

valve.  Pickering governor.  Disc crank.  Main bearing at top of an 'A' frame. 

Curved casting with end bolted to the wall supports top of 'A' frame.  Rear

bearing in wall box.  Non-condensing engine.

 

RAWLINGS. LEEDS.

Varnish Works, Burley Road.  ?hp inverted single cylinder engine by Marshall,

1914, installed here in 1930.  8" diameter cylinder X 12" stroke.  Piston valve,

90rpm.  4ft flywheel.  Belt drive.  Non-condensing.

 

ELMFIELD MILL. BRAMLEY

Engineer Mr Joe Wade.  250hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and

Wigzell, 1890.  12"HP, 24"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  10ft flywheel, 12"

belt (and also ropes).  Air pump drive from tail rod of LP cylinder through bell

crank.  Valve drives for Corliss valves at outside of engine on crank side.  Four

eccentrics on a short cross-shaft under and between cylinders driven by

sloping shaft from enclosed crankshaft.  Engine was rebuilt like this with a

new cylinder by Marsden in 1907.

 

GLOBE MILL. LEEDS

Water Lane, Holbeck.  60hp single cylinder engine by ?.  18" cylinder X 3ft

stroke.  65psi, 67rpm.  Slide valve.  13ft plain flywheel with 6ft belt pulley. 

Non condensing.

 

DEAN STREET MILL.  KIRKSTALL ROAD.  LEEDS

J Clarke.  90hp single cylinder engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1928. 

15" cylinder X 24" stroke.  80psi, 100rpm.  12ft diameter enclosed narrow

heavy flywheel.  4(?) ft pulley, 6 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Trunk guides.  Non

condensing engine.

 

HODGSONS.  BRAMLEY

Mr J Jackson and Mr Bentley (1963).  400hp tandem compound engine by

Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1914.  15"HP, 30"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  150psi,

94rpm.  Right hand.  14ft flywheel, 12 ropes, drop valves on both cylinders. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

D WHITAKER, TONG ROAD, LEEDS

Engineer Mr T Farrar.  60hp single cylinder beam engine by ?.  85psi, note

speed, 90rpm.  18" diameter cylinder X 3ft stroke.  12ft flywheel, 7ft belt

pulley.  Air pump driven from beam.  Slide valve.  Speed was originally 56rpm.

 

BOYES AND HALLAWELL, HOUCH END. BRAMLEY.

350hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1908.  14"HP, 29"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  120psi, 86rpm.  12Ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss valves both cylinders. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

J7H ROBINSON. HOLBECK. LEEDS

Mill Green.  Arthur Clayton, engineer.

 

S GIBSON.  BRAMLEY

Engineer Mr D Gripwell.  250hp tandem compound engine by Marsdens,

1908.  13"HP, 30"LP X 48"stroke.  150psi, 90rpm.  16ft flywheel, 8 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

This engine taken out about 1920 and replaced by another (below) Rained day

and night.

 

300hp tandem compound engine by Marsden's. 1920?.  15"HP, 29"LP X 3 ft

stroke.  150psi, 96rpm.  15ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind

LP cylinder.

 

[Here there is a note, A Throp and E Brook [Edgar], Leeds-Burnley March 25,

1965.  I don't know what this refers to but could possibly be friends and co-

researchers of Arthur.    An Arnold Throp was a very well known maker of

miniature steam engines and wrote in the Model Engineer up to the late

1980s.  It's an unusual name and I think this may be the man.]

 

W M RENNIE, STANNINGLEY

Engineer Mr Herbert Airey.  750hp cross compound engine by Woodhouse

and Mitchell, 18??.  23"HP, 43"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  18ft

flywheel, 15 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Tail rod slippers on both cylinders.  Air

pump driven from HP tail rod.  New LP cylinder by Newton, Bean and

Mitchell in 1912.  Buss(?) governor by Schaeffer and Budenberg.

 

ALSO

500 hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, here 1900.  15 1/2" HP, 28"lp

X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 72rpm (was 83)rpm.  15ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss

valves.  Airpump driven from LP tailrod by bell crank.  Edward's air pump. 

(Came from W and J Whitehead?.)

 

I GAUNT. GRANGEFIELD MILL, STANNINGLEY

Engineer Mr Hudson.  1000hp cross compound engine by Woodhouse and

Mitchell, 1906.  23"HP, 46" LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  HP L H side.  160psi, 72rpm. 

20ft flywheel, 26 ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Large 'I' girders at each side of rope drive diagonally

from engine bearings to shaft bearings.  Proell governor.  Tailrod HP guide.

 

At WESTFIELD MILL  (same firm?)

850hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 190?.  20"HP, 38"LP X 5ft

stroke.  140psi, 69rpm.  "0 ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves.  Airpump

driven from…….[text ends]

 

H LISTER.  PUDSEY

Mr Flanagan and Mr Raistrick.    Two 250hp inverted vertical engines by

reader of Nottingham, 195?.  ?HP, ?LP X ?stroke.  200psi, 500rpm.  Piston

valves.  Coupled directly to 200KVA Brush 3 phase, 440V alternators. 

Enclosed governors.  Exhaust at 12lbs to pipe line into mill for process.  This

steam demand controls the engine power used.  YEB mains supply used in

conjunction, the mill either taking power or feeding back into the mains.  A

very modern plant with two new large package boilers.

 

PRIESTLEY.  STANNINGLEY

Engineer Mr J Jackson.  500hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell,

1898. (installed here in 1910)  18"HP, 35"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 85rpm.  15ft

flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.  Bought from Halifax Electricity company and originally

had a flywheel generator.  Rotor altered to rope flywheel.

 

SAM CORDINGLEY.  PUDSEY

PRIESTLEY MILL.

350hp single beam compound engine by Schofield and Taylor.  21"HP, 26"LP

at 3ft 6" and 7ft stroke.  125psi, 48rpm.  15ft flywheel, plain.  Corliss HP

valves, slide valve on LP.  Airpump driven from the beam.  Gear drive outside

the engine room.  Mc Naughted in 1919 and taken out in 1950.

 

KELLET BROWN, CALVERLEY

Engine named 'Minerva'.  Engineer Mr Mortimer.

400hp tandem compound engine by Marsden 1888.  14"HP, 24"LP X 4ft 6"

stroke.  140psi, 62rpm.  22ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Airpump driven by lever from

LP tail rod.  Support guides.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.

 

LISTER BROTHERS. HORSFORTH

Engineer Mr E Flather.  450hp cross compound engine by Newton Bean and

Mitchell, 1904.  16"HP, 30"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  85psi, 85 rpm.  15ft flywheel, 16

ropes.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.

[note on page:  J W Best. Heather Mill, Horsforth.]

 

J WALTON.  CALVERLEY

Engineer, Mr Joe Beach.  500hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1921. 

17"HP, 32"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 84rpm.  20 ft Flywheel, 9 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Whitehead governor.  Corliss

Valves on both cylinders.

 

W TOWLER.  FARSLEY

Engineer Mr Richard Roach. 

260hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1921.  16"HP,

28"LP X 30(?)" stroke.  140psi, 103rpm.  12ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  Enclosed governor.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.

 

MATTHEW WALKER. PUDSEY

UNION MILL

Engineer Sugden Roberts.  250hp single beam engine by Schofield and Taylor,

1885.  28" diameter cylinder X 6ft stroke.  65psi (later 100psi), 33rpm.  18ft

plain flywheel, gear drive bevels.  Slide valve.  Airpump drive from beam. 

McNaughted Corliss HP1902.  New boiler.

 

VALLEY ROAD.  PUDSEY

TROYDALE.

Engineer Mr Samuel Kenworthy.  80hp single cylinder engine by ?, 1878.  16"

diameter cylinder X 3ft stroke.  65psi, 66rpm.  14ft flywheel.  Air pump driven

by eccentric.  Slide valve.  Gear drive outside engine room.

 

LUPTON.  CLIFFE MILL.

250HP single beam engine by ?, 1852.  20"HP, 33"LP X 6ft stroke.  65psi,

32rpm.  20ft flywheel, gear drive.  Corliss valve on HP, slide valve LP.  Air

pump drive from beam.  McNaughted about 1906.  Two boilers.  Accident to

cylinder, taken out in 1930?.

 

VALLEY ROAD.  PUDSEY

TROYDALE.

60hp single cylinder beam engine by ?.  15" diameter cylinder X 4ft stroke. 

60psi, 36rpm.  12ft flywheel, Gear drive.  Air pump driven by rod from beam. 

Slide valve.  Gear drive outside engine room.  Shafting under the floor. 

Cornish boiler.  Also a waterwheel.

 

BEAUMONT AND SMITH.  VALLEY MILL.  PUDSEY

Engineer Mr Henry Coates.

250hp overhead crank engine by Schofield and Taylor, 1840.  11"HP, 22"LP X

3ft stroke.  80psi (later 140psi), 80rpm.  12ft flywheel, direct drive.  Both

piston rods onto a long beam with a fulcrum in a wall box.  HP piston rod at

end of beam and extension up to bush in platform.  Parallel motion to

crossheads.  Air pump and feed pump driven from beam.  HP cylinder added

and beam lengthened like Edwin Shaw's engine.

 

BEAUMONT AND SMITH.  VALLEY MILL.  PUDSEY

250hp tandem compound engine  by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, ?.  11 ½ "

HP, 21"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 88rpm.  14ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  Corliss valves

on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Bought from

Holroyd's, Sheepscar, Leeds in 1931.  New boiler.

 

RICHARD INGHAM. PUDSEY

Engineer Mr Percy Shaw.

150hp single beam engine by Wood Brothers, Sowerby Bridge, 1831.  25"

diameter cylinder X 5ft stroke.  65psi, 21rpm.  17ft flywheel, gear drive outside

the engine room.  Slide valve LP, McNaughted about 1906 by ?.  16"HP X 30"

stroke with Corliss valves.  120psi, 60rpm.  Small, narrow engine room.  Air

pump and feed pump driven from beam.  This engine taken out 1945/46 and

replaced by the tandem below.

 

260hp tandem compound engine by Marsden's, built 1890 installed at

Ingham's in 1945.  12 ½ "HP, 25"LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 87rpm.  10ft

flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  (struck out; Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder)  Airpump driven from crosshead in new engine

house alongside beam engine house.  From Abbey Mills, Kirkstall.

 

PUDSEY WORSTED MILL COMPANY

GREENSIDE MILL PUDSEY

Engineer Mr Sunderland Jnr.  250hp tandem compound tandem engine by

Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 19??.  11"HP, 21"LP X 3ft stroke.  90psi, 90rpm. 

11ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  Corliss HP, slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.

 

GREENSIDE MILL PUDSEY

100hp vertical overhead crank engine by Schofield and Taylor, 1871.  Two 25"

diameter cylinders X 5ft stroke.  (HP added in 1898)  60psi, 50rpm.  10 ft

flywheels, double gear drive.  Slide valves.  Watt governor.  No guides but

parallel motion.  Engine built into corner of room and anchored to walls.  HP

cylinder in next room. 

 

T J MOHUN AND SON, PUDSEY

ALMA TANNERY

Engineer Mr Flanagan.  120hp single cylinder engine by Newton, Bean and

Mitchell, ?.  ? diam cylinder, ? stroke.  160psi, ?rpm.  ? ft flywheel, 5RMM[sic]. 

No air pump.  Corliss valves.  All power to English Electric alternator.  Steam

used in tannery.  One Cornish boiler, 6ft 6" X 24ft with mechanical stoker,

1925.

 

UNION BRIDGE.  ROKER LANE.  PUDSEY

Engineer Mr Brook.

180hp single cylinder engine by Marsden 1896.  Rebuilt in 1919.  18" diameter

cylinder X 3ft stroke.  'Edith May'.  [name of engine?]  80psi, 82rpm.  11ft

flywheel, 12" belt.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Corliss valves on new

cylinder, old cylinder has slide valves.  Andrew Hinchcliffe was old engineer. 

Replaced small beam engine by Gerald Harley and Foster 1962[sic.  Should

this be 1862?] 

 

FORRESTS. PROSPECT MILL.  PUDSEY.

Engineer Mr Whitton.

600hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1904.  17HP,

34"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  110psi, 86rpm.  18ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Air pump

driven from crosshead.  Gland and tube tail rod support to LP cylinder at rear. 

Both cylinders Corliss valves.  Engine named 'Ellen'.

 

AB HAINSWORTH.  STANNINGLEY

1400hp inverted vertical triple expansion engine by Yates and Thom, 1900. 

21"HP, 34"IP, 54"LP X 3ft stroke.  20ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss valves to all

cylinders.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead.  Intermediate cylinder had a

smash so it was converted to a cross compound.  [This may account for the

two figures given for horse power, 1200 and 1400hp.]  Originally from Salford

or Stockport Tramways.

 

BARRACLOUGH'S.  PUDSEY

IRON FOUNDRY.

100hp cross compound overhead crank engine by ?, 1896.  12"HP, 24"LP X 3ft

6" stroke.  100psi, 80rpm.  10ft flywheel, 8ft pulley.  Built on 'A' frames.  Disc

cranks.  Built as a simple.  HP cylinder added.  Slide valves, slipper guides and

non-condensing.

 

CLOUGH, RAMSDEN.  PUDSEY

400HP TANDEM COMPOUND ENGINE BY Marsden, 1918.  16"HP, 30"LP X

4ft stroke.  120psi, 85rpm.  18ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.  Both cylinders have Corliss Valves.

 

J MATHER.  LEEDS

RIDGE MILLS.   (OUT[I assume this means scrapped])

250hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1901.  14"HP,

25"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 450degrees [I assume this means superheat] 

18ft flywheel, 24" belt.  Corliss valves.

 

KIRKSTALL FORGE CO. LTD.  LEEDS

Mr Jones, rolling mill engineer.  500hp cross compound engine by J&E Wood,

Bolton, 1903.  18"HP, 36"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi (was 80psi), 72rpm.  16ft

flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves, all at bottom of cylinders.  Air pump driven

from LP crosshead.  Web crank at LP side to drive rope rim bolted to geared

flywheel.  Shaft driven low speed governor.  Drives bar and shaft rolling mill. 

Indicated 560hp.

 

ACKROYD AND COMPANY.  LEEDS

TROY MILL, HORSFORTH

Engineer Mr Dobson.  500hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and

Wigzell, 1898 but installed here 1915.  17"HP, 30"LP X 4ft stroke.  100psi,

70rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valve HP (front) and slide valve on LP. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Brought in from Midland Mill,

Keighley

 

FARNLEY FORGE. LEEDS

Blowing engine.  120hp single cylinder engine by Bowling Iron Company,

185?.  32" diameter cylinder X 7ft stroke.  45psi, 7>20rpm.  32ft plain

flywheel.  Slide valve.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Double guide bars. 

Large Watt governor.  Blowing cylinders horizontal and in tandem behind

steam cylinder.  Used for blast furnaces.

 

MOORLANDS MILL.  BIRKENSHAW

500hp inverted cross compound engine by Marsden, 1909.  17"HP, 33"LP X

3ft stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Air pump driven by lever

from LP crosshead.  Corliss valves on both cylinders. 

 

THOMAS AMBLER.  ARDSLEY

Engineer Mr Frank Milnes.  1000hp cross compound engine by Hick

Hargreaves, Bolton, 1912.  20"HP, 40"LP X 4ft stroke.  170psi, (84)89rpm. 

18ft flywheel, 22 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pump drive from

LP tail rod.  The original condenser taken out and a new rope-driven one put

in.  Rotary extension pump.  Vertical dash pots.  Lumb governor.  May

indication 1380hp.  1966 indication 494HP + 340LP.

 

PALESIDE MILL.  OSSETT

Engineer Mr Amos Sowden.  500hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and

Wigzell installed here in 1926.  16"HP, 25"LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 84rpm. 

12ft flywheel, 22" belt.  Corliss HP, slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.

 

ABRAHAM MOON.  GUISELEY

Engine named 'Vera'.  Engineer Mr N Peate.  300hp tandem compound

engine by Marsden, 1911-1946.  14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 72rpm. 

14ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.

 

SPRINGHEAD.  GUISELEY

300HP tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1904, December 1952.[date

installed at Springhead?]  14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 70rpm.  14ft

plain flywheel, direct drive.  Corliss HP, slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from

crosshead. (Ken Freeman later)

 

NAYLOR JENNINGS.  YEADON

Engineer Mr Wood. 

600hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1919/1958.  18"HP, 36LP X 4ft

6" stroke.  160psi, 72rpm.  16ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

BANKSFIELD DYEWORKS.  YEADON

SCOTT AND RHODES

600hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, ?.  18"HP, 36"LP X

4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  15ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Replaced my a turbo-

alternator.

 

E DENNISON.  YEADON

WESTFIELD MILL

750hp tandem compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley.  18"HP,

37"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  18ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  Drop valves on both cylinders.  Replaced by

Metropolitan Vickers alternator, 900hp, 7000rpm, 750KVA, 440V, 3 phase.

 

J L PEATE.  YEADON

(sold 1917)  Engineer Mr Gordon.

600hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1917.  18"HP, 36"LP X 4ft

stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Engine taken out in

1926 probably because the second motion shaft broke twice and the owners in

London decided to electrify.  Fault was bad alignment of the shaft.

 

BOTTOMS MILL.  BIRKENSHAW

200hp cross compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1920.  16"HP,

26"LP X 30" stroke.  100psi, 100rpm.  12ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  Trunk guides.  Cylinder end covers.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.

 

WILLIAM MURGATROYD.  YEADON

Engineer Mr Murgatroyd.

600hp cross compound engine by Marsden, 11 November 1918.  18"HP, 36"LP

X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 82rpm.  16ft flywheel, 10 grooves but no ropes fitted. 

Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder. 

Two 9ft pulleys, 12 and 7 ropes.  [Second motion?]

 

H BOOTH.  GILDERSOME

Chief engineer Mr Tetlow.  350hp cross compound engine by Woodhouse and

Mitchell, 1899.  (Mill 1850)  13"HP, 27"LP X 3ft stroke.  140psi, 86rpm.  14ft

flywheel, 11 ropes.  Air pump driven by LP crosshead.  Proell governor. 

Double wrist plates.  Added 11ft rope drum with 6 ropes for drive to 150KVA

alternator.  New LP cylinder in 19??.

 

ADNA BROOK.  GILDERSOME

180hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1905.  10"HP, 20"LP X 3ft

stroke.  120psi, 90rpm.  All Corliss valves.  14ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

MAIDEN MILL.  GILDERSOME

MORRIS'S OLD FLAX MILL.

Engineer Mr T Bell.  500hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1920. 

(installed here in 1949.  Replaced a 250hp tandem by Woodhouse and

Mitchell.  Marsden engine came from Jackson's at Morley.)  17"HP, 35"LP X

3ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 85rpm.  17ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.  Lumb governor.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.

 

OLD FLAX MILL   GILDERSOME

NOW REBUILT AS MAIDEN MILL.

200hp side lever marine engine, unknown maker and date.  18"HP, 32"LP X

4ft stroke.  100psi, 50rpm.  Slide valves.  18ft flywheel in room with the added

horizontal HP cylinder.  Air pump drive was from the side lever.

 

WOOD AND GRIMSHAW.  DRIGHLINGTON

Engine named 'Leslie'.

300hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1890.  14"HP, 29"LP X 3ft

stroke.  85psi, 83rpm.  12ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead.  (Installed here in 1914)

 

BOOTH BROTHERS.  DRIGHLINGTON

Engine named Cockersdale?

200 hp tandem compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1910. 

12"HP, 20"LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi,90rpm.  Drop valves.  14ft flywheel, 10

ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

F DICKENSON.  DRIGHLINGTON

300hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1909. 

16"HP, 30"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven by tail rod of LP cylinder by large

bell crank.

 

JOHN WILSON.  GILDERSOME

Engineer Mr A Dean. 

800hp twin tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1929. 

two X 13"HP, 26"Lp X 30" stroke.  160psi, 100rpm.  Corliss valves.  14ft

flywheel, 16 ropes.  Vertical Edwards condensers.  Airpump driven from each

crosshead.  Chain driven governor.  Taken out in 1960.

 

BENN AND WEBSTER.  MORLEY

Engine named Laura.  Engineer Mr Smithson.

250hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1900.  12"HP, 24"LP X 3ft

stroke.  100psi, 80rpm.  14ft flywheel, 24" belt.  Corliss valves on HP and slide

on LP.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  (Like Barker's below but opposite

hand)

 

J BARKER.  MORLEY

250hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1896.  12"HP, 24"LP X 3ft

stroke.  120psi, 78rpm.  14ft flywheel, 24" belt.  Corliss valves on HP and slide

on LP.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  (Like Benn and Webster's above but

opposite hand.)

 

WATSON.  MORLEY

FIELD MILL.  MORLEY

Engineer Mr J W Rhodes.

350hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1922. 

16"HP, 31"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  15ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  All power

goes to alternator.  Sister engine to Scholes below.

 

D. SCHOLES.  MORLEY

Engineer Mr Gomersall.

350hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1922. 

16"HP, 31"LP X 3ft stroke.  130psi, 90rpm.  15ft flywheel, no ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  All power

goes to alternator.  Sister engine to Watson's above.  9ft and 8ft pulleys with 8

ropes each.

 

APPLEYARDS.  MORLEY

OAK MILL.  MORLEY

Engine named 'Laura'.  Engineer Mr J Sharpe. 

350hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1929. 

15"HP, 26"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 94rpm.  Enclosed governor.  15ft flywheel,

12 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Trunk guides integral with bed. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  ('Annie 1906-1929.  Newton, Bean

and Mitchell.)

 

GREENWOOD AND WALSH.  MORLEY

Engineers Hedley Healey and Ben Whiteley.

660hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1920.  19"LP, 38"LP X

5ft stroke.  160psi, 66rpm.  18ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Tailrod support slide to

HP cylinder.  All power to alternator.  Engines named Laura and Fanny.  (Very

much like Matthew Walker's)

 

ALBERT GLOVER.  MORLEY

GLEN MILL.  MORLEY

Engineer Mr Walsh.

500hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1929. 

17"HP, 34"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  16ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

MARK HOLROYD.  DEWSBURY

SPINKWELL MILL.  DESBURY

350hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 19??.  14"HP, 28"LP X

3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 78rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Two engines, right and left hand.

 

MARK HOLROYD.  DEWSBURY

CALDER MILL.  DEWSBURY

450hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1923.  17"HP, 34"LP X

4ft stroke.  150psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Lumb governor.  Tailrod

support to HP cylinder.

 

WILLIAM GREENWOOD.  DEWSBURY

PROVIDENCE MILLS.  DEWSBURY

Engineers Mr Singleton and Mr Crawshaw.

250hp tandem compound engine by Wood and Baldwin, 1880?  15"HP, 24"LP

X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 85rpm.  14ft enclosed flywheel, direct drive.  Corliss

valves on HP (rear) and slide valve on LP.  Non-condensing.  Double guide

bars.  Proell governor.  Two eccentrics on return.crankshaft for outside Corliss

gear.  Was single cylinder with expansion gear on cylinder but off now.  Bed

extended front and rear for HP cylinder.

 

WILLIAM WALKER.  OSSETT

Engine named 'Olive' and installed here in 1920.

250hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1892.  14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  120psi, 76rpm.  9ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP and slide

valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Whitehead governor.

 

WILSON BROTHERS.  DEWSBURY

Engineer Mr Derek Giggle.

250hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1910.  12"HP, 24"LP X 3ft

stroke.  120psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel, 6 grooves.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  18" belt with 14" on top, no ropes

fitted.  'George III' [engine name?]

 

TATTERSFIELD. DEWSBURY

300hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1923.  18"HP, 35"LP X 4ft

stroke.  80psi, 73rpm.  15ft flywheel, 11 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP, slide

valve on low.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  (Notes below this

entry: J Scatchyard, Pale Side Mill, Ossett. 

 

THOMAS AND D LEE.  DEWSBURY

SYKE ING MILL.  DEWSBURY

Engineer Mr J Riley. 

350hp tandem compound engine by Bever and Dorling, 1897.  18"HP, 31"LP X

3ft stroke.  125psi, 87rpm.  15ft narrow flywheel.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP tail rod.  10ft rope pulley with 12 ropes. 

Support guide to tail rod.

 

J FRANCE.  DEWSBURY

ALBERT MILL.  DEWSBURY

Engineer Mr Parker, Manager Mr Millard (50 years in post)  Firm established

in 1790.  Named 'Elsie' and 'Mabel'. 

250hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1911.  14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  150psi (was 75psi), 82rpm.  14ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Eccentric driven

feed pump from engine shaft.  Stopped December 1963.  (Note reads:  Also

Pollitt tandem out.)

 

MATTHEW WALKER.  ALVERTHORPE

(Note reads: Like G & Walsh.)

Engineer Mr Brown.

750hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1912.  19"HP, 37"LP X

4ft stroke.  150psi, 84rpm.  17ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Two plus two eccentrics, two wrist plates on each cylinder. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder (LH).  Support guide to HP tail rod. 

Lumb governor.  (two use) 1963.  Boilers, 3 Thompson (Wilson) package. 

Ropes drive back to 10ft drum in engine room.

 

J M BRIGGS.  OSSETT

RUNTLINGS MILL.  OSSETT

'Rhoda'.  Left hand. 

250hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1908.  12"HP,25"LP X 3ft

stroke.  140psi, 82rpm.  14ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP, slide

valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Porter governor. 

(note reads:  M Walker, Alverthorpe.  Old water tank by Pearson and Spurr,

dated 1873.)

 

J WALKER.  DEWSBURY

LOW MILL, DEWSBURY

Engineer Mr Singleton.

250hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1879.  12"HP, 24"LP X 4ft

stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  16ft narrow flywheel.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder

added in 1925.  Slide valve on LP.  Return crank drives shaft with drive to

cross shaft in front of the HP (rear) cylinder with two eccentrics.  1963.  Air

pump driven from crosshead.

 

J WALKER.  MIRFIELD

BUTT END MILLS.  MIRFIELD

Engineer Mr g Goodall.

350 hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1927.  15"HP, 30"LP X 3ft

stroke.  125psi, 90rpm.  Engine named Edith Mary.  16ft flywheel (13 tons) 13

ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.

 

J WALKER.  MIRFIELD

HOLMEBANK MILL.  MIRFIELD

Engine men all Walker.  Engine named 'Gertrude'.

500hp single beam engine by Cardwell, Dewsbury, 1871.  Corliss HP cylinder

added in 1909 by Schofield and Taylor.  26"HP X 39" stroke.  39"LP X 6ft 6"

stroke.  120psi, 36rpm.  22ft narrow flywheel, 25 tons with teeth for barring

engine.  Main drive is a 7ft gear.  Air pump driven from the beam. 

Also at same location:  300hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Marsden,

1925.  24" diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  Drop valves.  120psi, 160rpm.  12ft

flywheel, 12 ropes.  Tail rod support guide.  Whitehead governor.  Separate

condenser.  All power to alternator originally at SANDYGATE MILL. 

BURNLEY

Originally at Robinson and Peel, Bradford. (engine?)

 

GEORGE LYLE.  MIRFIELD

Engineer Mr W H Owen.

500hp compound engine.  19"HP horizontal cylinder X 6ft stroke with Corliss

valves in one room.  Crank pin in 8ft gear wheel and return crank drives and

main bearing in wall box.  Long shaft driving cross shaft in front of cylinder

with two eccentrics for HP Corliss gear at outside.  Beam engine in next room

with 35 ¼ " LP cylinder X 6ft stroke on same crankshaft.  Air pump driven

from beam.  Cranks at 180 degrees.  120psi, 42rpm.  Horizontal engine has

double guide bars.  By Woodhouse and Mitchell with Marsden's Cylinder.  18ft

flywheel in beam engine room.(1860/1900.{ inserted afterwards})  Slide

valve beam engine cylinder.  Lumb governor driven by ropes.  Bearings on top

of slide bars as if a slide valve horizontal cylinder had been used with the valve

on the top.  Very interesting engine, no dates available. 

 

WORMALD AND WALKER.  DEWSBURY

Engine named 'Daisy'.  Engineer Mr Metcalfe.

350hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1926. 

14"HP, 28"LP X 4ft stroke.  Corliss valves on HP and slide valve on LP. 

125psi, 72rpm.  16ft flywheel, no ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.  Bevel gear drive to vertical shaft driving all floors.  Whitehead

governor.  Flywheel enclosed.

 

J NEWSHOLME.  BATLEY

Engine named 'Eileen'.  Engineer Mr Fred Oakland.

750hp cross compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1915.  18"HP,

33"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  200psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel, 13 ropes.  Corliss valves

on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  16ft drum on

second motion shaft

 

600hp compound beam engine.  26"HP, 42"LP X 3ft 6" and 7ft stroke.  60-

140psi, 26-36rpm.  25ft flywheel.

 

RAWDEN, BRIGGS.  RAVENSTHORPE

(Note.  Closed 17 January 1964)

Engineer Mr Ellis.  500hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1921. 

17"HP, 34"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 82rpm.  16ft enclosed flywheel. 

Airpump driven from LP tail rod by bell crank.  Direct drive to mill shafting. 

Support guides. 

 

C & J STUBLEY.  BATLEY

Engineer Mr Fletcher.

650hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1890. 

20"HP, 37"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 62rpm.  20ft flywheel, 42" wide belt. 

Corliss valves on HP and slide valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.

 

WILLIAM BLACKBURN.  BIRSTALL

Engine named 'Eveline'.  Engineer Mr P Crowther. 

200hp single cylinder engine by Mark Shaw, 1904.  21" diameter cylinder X

3ft 6" stroke.  100psi, 78rpm.  13ft flywheel, 7 ropes driving a 6ft diameter

drum in engine room.  Corliss valves.  Air pump drive from crosshead. 

Governor mounted on edge of bed and driven by return crank.

 

WILLIAM HOLTON.  BIRSTALL

Engineer now Mr Fletcher, Mr Frank Metcalfe.  (was Mr Newsome.)

650hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1918.  19"HP,

36"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Most of power taken by alternator.  Replaced an old beam

engine.  Mr Newsome.

 

TANKARD'S MILL.  BIRSTALL

(NEAR BATLEY)

Engineer Mr Hurst.

150hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1890.  16"HP, 21"LP X 3ft

stroke.  120psi, 84rpm.  16ft plain flywheel with plates on the rim to form a

30" wide pulley.  Corliss valves on HP and slide valve on LP.  Air pump drive

from crosshead.  Altered by Newton Bean and Mitchell and Cole Marchant

and Morley.

 

SPRINGFIELD.  GILDERSOME

450hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1926. 

13"HP, 26"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  160psi,100rpm.  12ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

JAMES IVES.  YEADON

LEAFIELD MILL.  YEADON

Engineer Mr Smith.

350hp tandem compound engine three rod type (so almost certainly P&W),

1903.  15"HP, 28"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 77rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes. 

Corliss HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

ALSO AT LEAFIELD:

250hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1885.  16"HP, 28"LP

X 4ft 6" stroke.  All slide valves.  85psi, 75rpm.  12ft flywheel, 8 ropes (1960). 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

AT MANOR MILL.  YEADON

500hp tandem compound engine, by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1920.  18"HP, 34"LP

X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Ordinary cylinders, not

three rod type.

 

WILLIAM FISON.  BURLEY

Engineer Mr Hargreaves.

500hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1896.  There rod type. 

110psi, 70rpm.  16ft flywheel with balance weight.  18"HP, 36"LP X 5ft stroke. 

14"HP, 27"LP X 4ft stroke.  (must be double tandem)  Air pump drive from

crosshead.  Two 300hp vertical water turbines bevel geared to horizontal

shaft.  Turbines and engine clutch coupled to 20ft rope drum.

 

VICTORIA

Originally had two 100hp steam engines with wide 25ft 90hp undershot water

wheel. 

 

AT SAME MILL

Engine named 'Diana'.

150?hp inverted vertical high speed compound enclosed engine Belliss and

Morcom.  110psi, 550rpm, 4ft flywheel.  Coupled via David Brown gearbox

(3:1) to 100KVA alternator by Crompton Parkinson running at 1500rpm. 

Motor driven Edwards air pump and separate condenser.

Section of waterwheel by Wren and Bennett, 1835-1895. 

 

Water turbines running, engines stopped, 1960.  Turbines: One 48" diameter

at 108rpm and two 42" diameter at 108 rpm.  All by Turnbull.

 

J PRIESTMAN.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr Cooper.

1000hp double beam compound engine by Bowling Iron Company, 1870.  Two

30"HP, two42"LP X 3ft 6" and 7ft stroke.  120psi, 28rpm.  20ft flywheel with

gear on rim driving two 5ft pinions below the wheel with hardwood teeth

inset.  McNaughted about 1898, runs noisy.  Corliss HP cylinders, 1898.  Slide

valves on LP cylinders.  Air pump driven fro the beam.  There is a note saying

that the engine at Big Mill at Earby had the same arrangement but with one

pinion.  I checked with Walt Fisher and this is correct but at Earby the gearing

and pinion were steel I think.  Certainly not hardwood teeth.

 

ALSO AT J PRIESTMAN.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr P Clay.

500hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1880.  16"HP, 30"LP X 5ft

stroke.  120psi, 45rpm.  18ft flywheel with teeth on rim driving a 5ft 6" pinion. 

Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Tail

rod support guides to both cylinders.

 

ALSO

250hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1902.  12"HP,

24"LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Both cylinders

have Corliss valves.  Airpump driven from the crosshead.

 

ALSO

150hp inverted, vertical, enclosed, compound engine  and 500hp steam

turbine both driving generators.

 

ALSO

J PRIESTMAN.  BRADFORD

Engineers Mr Taylor and Mr Scott.

Modern diesel plant, 1952, in new building adjacent to the mill.  Two 1080hp

two stroke diesel engines by Allen.  Direct coupled to Brush alternators,

6,600volts, 3 phase, 375 rpm.  980KVA.  Both 3 cylinders and fitted with

compressed air starting gear.

 

JOHN SMITH.  BRADFORD

FIELDHEAD MILL.  BRADFORD

450hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1890.  18"HP, 34"LP

X 4ft stroke.  130psi, 94rpm.  14ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Lumb governor. 

Modernised by Newton, Bean and Mitchell.

 

ALSO AT FIELDHEAD MILL

Engineer, Mr Bentley. 

600hp cross compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1884.  18"HP,

36"LP X 4ft stroke.  130psi, 90rpm.  18ft flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Lumb governor. 

Driving the spinning mill.

 

ALSO AT FIELDHEAD MILL

400hp tandem compound engine by Cole Marchant and Morley, 1911.  15"HP,

30"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  130psi, 90rpm.  16ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Drop valves on

both cylinders.  Air pump driven by bell crank from LP tailrod which has

slipper support.  Crossed arm governor.  Driving twisting shed.  9Notes:

Edwards 20"diameter X 15" stroke.  Out 1948.)

 

T H SHAW.  BRADFORD

No. 1.  Engineer Mr A Gibson.

500hp tandem compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1911.  17 ½

"HP, 30" LP X 3ft stroke.  Lumb governor.  140psi, 102rpm.  13 ft flywheel, 12

ropes.  Drop valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.

 

No. 2.

Also in same room, end to end.  600hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt

and Wigzell, 1911.  18"HP, 34"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 82rpm.  16ft flywheel,

14 ropes.  Drop valve inlets and Corliss exhausts.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.  Engineer in charge Duncan McAllan.  In very long, light,

engine room.  Crank to crank.

 

No. 3.

Engineer Mr W England. 

600hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Sulzer Brothers, 1913.  26 5/8"HP, X

28 ½ " stroke.  (Metric sizes)  140psi, 150rpm.  12ft polished flywheel.  Drop

valve inlets.  Air pump drive from crank pin.  All enclosed engine.  8ft rope

pulley in room behind.  This engine in another part of the mill to the others. 

Six large Lancashire boilers.  Branch of Woolcombers.  Mr Womersley general

engineer.  Mr P Higgins engine engineer.

 

W AND J WHITEHEAD.  BRADFORD

Engineers Mr Booth and Mr Firby.

1500hp tandem compound engine by Sulzer Brothers (4685), 1919.  180psi,

133rpm.  Drop valves on all cylinders.  19"HP, 38"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  14ft

polished flywheel.  Air pump driven from a crank at end.  Exhaust to mill

processing.  Was direct drive to the shafting but now all power on to

alternator.

 

ALSO

1600hp, trip expansion 4 cylinder engine by Cole, Marchant, 1896.  26"HP,

39"IP, and two 42"LP X 6ft stroke.  180psi, 54rpm.  All Corliss valves.  28ft

flywheel, 40 ropes.  Tailrod supports to LP cylinders.  Air pump on each.  Two

wrist plates on each cylinder.  'Kenneth and Maude'.   (1950)[not clear what

this date refers to.  Year it came out?]

Note:  Had a Marsden 500hp tandem which went to Rennie's at Stanningley 

Original engine was a single cylinder beam.

 

SMITH (ALLERTON) LTD.  BRADFORD

Engine named Walter Livsey[sic]'.

300hp single beam engine by ?, 1869.  110psi. ?rpm.  Slide valve cylinders. 

18"HP x 30", 28"LP [sic], X 5ft stroke.  10ft flywheel.  17" wide teeth.  Air

pump driven by rod from beam.  Flywheel later made plain for 16" wide belt

drive.  New Corliss HP cylinder in 1898.  (out in 1937)

 

300hp tandem compound engine by Cole Marchant, 1898.  14"HP, 28"LP X

3ft 6" stroke.  110psi, 85rpm.  All cylinders Corliss valves.  18ft flywheel, 11

ropes.  (Named 'Charles Henry.  Out 1958.

 

JEREMIAH ROBERTSHAW

Beam engine was to have been a twin beam but was not built.

 

HENRY WHITEHEAD.  BRADFORD

Engine named 'Minnie'.

800hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1894. 

21"HP, 42"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 62rpm.  18ft flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss

HP cylinder and slide valve low.  New HP cylinder in 1952, 1000hp.

 

HOLMES MANN.  BRADFORD

HARRIS STREET

Engineer Mr Hume.

650hp cross compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1921.  18"HP,

35"LP X 30" stroke.  120psi, 100rpm.  Drop valves on both cylinders.  15ft

flywheel, 12 ropes.  Trunk guides.  Tailrod support to LP cylinder.  Very long

cylinders with horizontal valves at bottom (exhaust?), inlet valves at top

vertical.  Horizontal condenser behind HP cylinder.  Driving 500KVA

alternator.

 

ALSO

100hp single cylinder engine by Newton Bean and Mitchell, 1897 and 1920. 

17" diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  12ft flywheel.  14" belt.  Driving AC

generator.  [From Hammerton street?.  Text unclear]  Two boilers, one oil and

one wood by Holdsworth.

 

J W FIRTH.  BRADFORD

HALL LANE

Engineer Mr T Gott.

500hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1910. 

20"HP, 36"LP X 3ft stroke.  140psi X 94rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Return

crank drives short shaft with three eccentrics for Corliss gear, all at outside. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

T WHITELY.  BRADFORD

150hp cross compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1900.  11"HP,

21"LP X 30" stroke.  75psi, 75rpm.  10ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss valve HP

and slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

J H SMITH.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr Scott.

600hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1896. 

18"HP, 35"LP X 4ft stroke.  80psi, 73rpm.  15ft flywheel, 11 ropes.  Corliss

valve HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

CITY COMBING COMPANY.  BRADFORD

Engine named 'Ethel'.

250hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1903.  11!HP,

23"LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 87rpm.  14ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss HP

cylinder, slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  (13 ¼ " +

24 ¼ ".  Sizes after re-boring?)

 

TUNWELL MILL.  BRADFORD

SMITH AND HUTTON

Engineer Mr Gaunt. 

300hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1903.  14"HP,

27"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 70rpm.  New 14ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP tailrod.  Mill driven by

10ft>4ft gear in next room.  Rope drive to alternator.

 

ALLERTON COMBING COMPANY.  BRADFORD

TOP MILL, ALLERTON

Engine named 'Annie'.  Engineer Mr M Pressland.

350hp tandem compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1897.  15 ½

"HP, 30"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 71rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Trip in forked

valve rods from 2+2 wrist plates.  Surface condenser.  Trunk guides.  Lumb

governor.  Built up sectional flywheel.

 

D ILLINGWORTH.  BRADFORD

1000hp single cylinder engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1860.  40" diameter

cylinder X 10ft stroke.  80psi, 45rpm.  Corliss valves.  30ft (55 tons) flywheel,

27 ropes.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Marine connecting rod.  20"

diameter crankshaft.  [Note.  Looks like  a beam engine.]

 

ALSO

450hp single cylinder engine by Hick Hargreaves.  28" diameter cylinder X 5ft

stroke.  Corliss valves.  80psi X ?rpm.  25 ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Air pump

driven from crosshead.

 

J PILLEY  BRADFORD

UNION MILLS.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr W Ackroyd.

350hp tandem compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1909. 

13"HP, 26"LP X 3ft stroke.  140psi, 103rpm.  Drop valves on both cylinders. 

14ft plain enclosed flywheel.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Lumb

governor.  Direct drive to mill shafting.

 

ALSO

80hp vertical compound enclosed engine by Belliss and Morcom, no date. 

Drives 50Kw dynamo.  6"HP, 10"LP X 6" stroke.  Central valve to both

cylinders.  140psi, 520rpm.  Exhaust steam to mill processing.  All plant in

lovely condition but poor engine room.

 

F C CRABTREE.  BRADFORD

BURLINGTON MILL..WOODHALL ROAD.  BRADFORD

Engine named 'Enid'.  Engineer Mr A Smith.

700hp vertical cross compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1908. 

20"HP, 36"LP X 3ft stroke.  Drop valves.  150psi, 110rpm.  12ft flywheel at

end.  16 ropes.  Air pump drive from LP crosshead.  Steam re-heater between

cylinders.  Engine was 550hp with 100psi and 100rpm, increased in 1940.

 

CITY WASTE.  BRADFORD

ROSS MILL.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr Frederick Ogden.

400hp vertical cross compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1906. 

15"HP, 28"LP X 3ft stroke.  Corliss valves.  120psi, 73rpm.  11ft (15 ton)

flywheel, 14 ropes.  Air pump drive from LP crosshead.  Balanced overhead

cranks.  Newton, Bean and Mitchell governor.  Flywheel in centre.  Brought

from Howarth, Tumbling Hill.

 

T HOWARTH.  BRADFORD

ATLAS MILL.  BRADFORD

Engine named 'Agnes'.  Engineer Mr A Morpeth. 

500hp vertical cross compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1906. 

21"HP, 42"LP X 3ft stroke.  Drop valves.  160psi, 80rpm.  15ft (20 ton)

flywheel at end, 26 ropes.  Air pump drive from LP cylinder crosshead. 

Double web crankshaft.  Diagonal shaft drive up to cross shaft with eccentrics

like F C Crabtree's engine.  Driving an alternator.

 

G R MORRISON.  SHIPLEY  (25/10/63)

350hp tandem compound engine by ?.  12"HP, 26"LP X 3ft stroke.  100psi,

96rpm.  10ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder. 

Corliss valves on HP (front), slide valve LP.  Trunk guides.  Lumb governor. 

Engine runs the wrong way.  Two Lancashire boilers with Proctor stokers.

 

H HEY.  BRADFORD

BRICK LANE MILL.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr A Hargreaves.

600hp double beam compound engine by Timothy Bates, 1864.  Two 21"HP X

2ft 9" stroke.  Two 31"LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 49rpm.  18ft flywheel with

18" wide gear teeth.  Cast iron plates bolted onto rim to make a 36" wide belt

pulley by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1920.  HP cylinders were added in 1902. 

Corliss HP and slide valve LP.

 

STUART BROTHERS.  SHIPLEY

ASHLEY MILLS.  SHIPLEY

80hp single cylinder beam engine by Cole Marchant, 1831 or 1841. 

26"diameter cylinder X 5ft stroke (4ft 9").  90psi, 39rpm.  19ft flywheel, gear

drive.  Air pump driven from beam by rod.  Very peculiar cam valve gear. 

Varley's patent cut-off controlled by a large slow speed governor. 1960.  Cross

girders support bearing for beam.

 

A S WHITEHEAD.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr A Shaw.

Two 100hp single cylinder engines by Fairbank and Brierley Brothers

(Shipley), made right and left hand, 1900.  12" diameter cylinders X 30"

stroke.  160psi, 100rpm.  6ft 6" flywheel, 14" wide belt.  Separately driven

condenser in room between the two engines.  Corliss valves.

 

JOHN SMITH.  BRADFORD

FIELDHEAD MILL.  BRADFORD

550hp twin compound beam engine by the Bowling Iron Company, 1869.  Two

14"HP, two 27"LP X 3ft and 6ft stroke.  100/130psi, 30rpm.  18ft flywheel,

gear drive.  Airpump rod driven from beam.  Corliss HP cylinders added in

1910.  Slide valve LP cylinders.  Four fluted columns support cross girders wall

to wall.  Inserted wood teeth in 4ft 6" pinion.

 

BAILDON COMBING COMPANY.  SHIPLEY

LOWER HOLME MILL.  SHIPLEY

Engineer Mr S Horwell.

1000hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Sulzer Brothers, 1922.  33 ¼ "

diameter cylinder X 36" stroke.  14 ½ ft polished flywheel.  140psi, 133rpm. 

Air pump driven from crank end of shaft.  Direct drive to mill shafting and a

ten ft pulley with 16 ropes.  Some to next room to drive an alternator.  Three

bearing web crankshaft.

 

E J SMITH.  BRADFORD

ANCHOR MILL, TONG STREET.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr Horwell. 

400hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Sulzer Brothers, 1945.  21 ½ "

diameter cylinder X 25 ½ " stroke.  140psi, 158rpm.  12 ft polished flywheel. 

Air pump driven from crankpin.  8ft rope pulley, 15 ropes.  All enclosed engine

with drop valves.  'Joyce'.  [engine name?]

 

CHARLESTOWN COMBING COMPANY

Engine named 'Dulcie'.  Engineer Mr Richard Halliwell.

600hp tandem compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1912.  19"HP, 37"LP X

4ft stroke.  140psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel (18ft 9"), 15 ropes.  Drop valves on

both cylinders.  Trunk Guides and circular casting between cylinders.  Support

guides in front and behind LP cylinder.  New horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder replaced one below driven by bell crank from tail rod.  Barring engine

by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, two cylinders.

 

RAMSBOTHAM.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr W Horwell.

650hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Sulzer Brothers, 1913.  29 ½ "

diameter cylinder X 31 ½ " stroke.  140psi, 144rpm.  14ft polished flywheel. 

Airpump driven from crank pin.  9ft rope pulley, 18 ropes.  All enclosed

engine.  Drop valve inlets.  1961 (date scrapped?)

 

Allen turbo alternator 1275hp = 1080KVA.  250psi, 9220rpm>1500rpm. 

Stoekight epicyclic gearbox[sic].

 

E LEGOTT.  BRADFORD

Stopped September 1964.  Engineer Mr A Hargreaves.

100 hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1898.  9 ½ "HP,

17"LP X 30" stroke.  Three rod type.  100psi, 102rpm.  11ft flywheel, 7 ropes. 

Slide valve on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  One

Cornish boiler.

 

GREENHILL COMBING COMPANY.  BRADFORD

FLORENCE STREET.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr T Holdsworth.

350hp tandem compound engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley, 1907. 

14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft stroke.  140psi,100rpm.  14ft flywheel, 11 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Drop valves on both cylinders. 

Engine nearly enclosed by guards.  Named 'Cassie'.

 

PRESTON ST COMBING CO.  BRADFORD

ILLINGWORTH MORRISS

Engineer Mr Bentley.

750hp tandem compound Uniflow engine by Cole, Marchant and Morley,

19??.  24"HP (rear), 30"LP X 27" stroke.  140psi (600 degrees), 150rpm.  10ft

narrow flywheel.  4 ¾ " rope drive sc[sic]  Drop valves on both cylinders. 

Delas jet air pump[sic].  Trunk guides.  Web crank.  Three bearing crank shaft. 

Side shaft  DC generator also direct drive on engine shaft.  Side shaft with

eccentrics on outside of engine.

 

PHOENIX COMBING CO.  BRADFORD

SMITH STREET.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr L N Heath.

750hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1905.  14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft

stroke.  120psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind

LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  1960.  (date scrapped?)

 

WILLIAM BRIGGS. CLAYTON.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr Allinson.

350hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom , 1887.  15"HP, 30"LP X 4ft

6" stroke.  Slide valves on both cylinders.  120psi, 64rpm.  20ft flywheel, 10

ropes.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead.  In 1897 a Metcalfe Corliss HP

cylinder was fitted.  In 1907 Newton, Bean and Mitchell fitted their gear to this

cylinder and a Lumb governor.

 

J ?.  BRADFORD

600hp double beam compound engine by ?, 1871.  Two 24"HP.  Two 36"LP,

3ft and 6ft stroke.  All LP cylinders slide valves, HP Corliss valves.  120psi,

32rpm.  18ft flywheel, gear drive on to one 4ft 6" pinion underneath.

 

BRADFORD COMBING CO.  BRADFORD

SYDNEY MILL.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr A Denney.

750hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by J Musgrave, 1910.  30" diameter

cylinder X 39" stroke.  160psi, 121rpm.  13ft polished flywheel, 19 tons.  Munza

inlet valve gear (Stockholm).  Named 'Margaret'.  1956 [date scrapped?]

 

SIR H W RIPLEY.  BRADFORD

Engineer Mr Umpleby. 

500hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Sulzer Brothers, 1920.  27 ½"

diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  160psi X 140rpm.  14ft polished flywheel. 

Extraction engine.  Exhaust to mill processing.  Drop inlets, Uniflow exhaust,

all enclosed.  (with H Lee 26/09/1932.  {date of visit?})

 

PEEL MILL.  BINGLEY

Engineer Mr Pickles.

500hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1925. 

16"HP, 30"LP X 3ft stroke.  180psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Drop

valves on both cylinders.  Uniflow LP cylinder.  Separate rope driven

condenser.

 

JOHN WHITE'S TANNERY.  BINGLEY

PARK ROAD.  BINGLEY

Engineer Mr H Atkinson.

100hp single cylinder engine by Carr Foster of Bingley, 1899.  15" diameter

cylinder X 17" stroke.  75psi, 92>88rpm.  8ft flywheel with 12" belt drive. 

Slide valve.  Non condensing; steam used in tannery for process.

 

C CRABTREE.  BINGLEY

PAPER MILL, BINGLEY

Engineer Mr Cyril Bradley.

150hp tandem compound engine by Carr and Company, Bingley, 1853. 

10"HP, 20"LP X 3ft stroke.  90psi, 75rpm.  12ft flywheel, belt drive.  Slide

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Very low-built

engine. 

 

ALSO

25hp single cylinder engine by ?, 1880.  10" diameter X 82rpm.  6ft flywheel,

belt drive.  Slide valve.  Non-condensing, steam used in factory.

 

DALTON MILLS.  KEIGHLEY

TRUSTEES OF J H CRAVEN

Engineer Mr J F Fisher.

Two 1000hp tandem compound engines by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1904.  Right

hand engine named 'Jennie', left hand, 'Zilda'.  22"HP, 42"LP X 5ft stroke.  All

Corliss valves.  130psi, 65rpm.  18ft Flywheel, 37 tons, 22 ropes.  Horizontal

condensers behind LP cylinders.  (1960 – 1962.  Date scrapped?)

 

These engines took the place of  a 3,000hp[?  When first installed the engines

were described as 500 nominal hp] double compound beam engine dated

1872.  [Arthur has this down as Burnley Ironworks but it was actually built

by Bracewell of Burnley and designed by Pickup who later managed the firm

when it became BI.  Cost £12,000.  Designed in 1873 and installed in 1876]. 

Two 45"HP cylinders X 4ft 6" stroke.  Two60"LP cylinders X 9ft stroke.  Slide

valves.  65psi, 34rpm [Watkins says 22.5rpm].  30ft flywheel (90 ton) with

24ft gear [19" broad teeth at 6 ½ " pitch] (45 ton).  Air pumps driven by rod

from each beam.  The built up flywheel gave trouble.  Claimed to be the

world's largest engine in 1875.  [When Arthur says that the flywheel gave

trouble he is right.  I have seen pictures of the smash and the spokes of the

separate 24ft diameter jack wheel broke off at the boss when an

underground second motion shaft broke and allowed the pinion to roll under

the jack wheel.  By 1904 when this happened the big double beam running at

slow speed was hopelessly old-fashioned and it was easier and better to

scrap the engine and replace with the two Pollitts.  Pollitt and Wigzell were

at their peak at the time and I'll bet they gave the mill a very good quote. 

Shackleton record of the Bracewell engine, similar to that installed at

Brierfield Mills in 1868:  Two 41"HP, two 63"LP X c.54" stroke.  1500hp. 

C.28ft flywheel, gear drive.  Pressure and rpm not known.]

 

IRVING FIRTH.  KEIGHLEY

BEECH MILLS.  KEIGHLEY

Engineer Mr G Brown.

700hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1894. 

22"HP, 43"LP X 5ft stroke.  120psi, 76rpm.  20ft flywheel, 23 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP, slide valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder. 

Cylinders named 'Minnie' and 'Ria'.

 

THORP JOHNSON.  KEIGHLEY

BOBBIN MILL

The Hon. Mr S Scaife. 

150hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1918. 

10 ½ "HP,20 ½ "LP X 3ft stroke.  100psi, 89rpm.  10 ft flywheel, 6 ropes. 

Corliss valves on HP cylinder, slide valve on low.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.  Whitehead governor.  Golbourne Street from Merralls

Syke Mill, Haworth 1934.

 

ABRAHAM AMBLER.  WILSDEN

Mr Brooksbank.

600hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1896.  14"HP, 28"LP X 4ft

stroke.  140psi, 68rpm.  15ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  New Cylinders by

Newton, Bean and Mitchell.  Taken out 1963/64.

 

ABRAHAM AMBLER.  WILSDEN

500hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1896.  12"HP, 23"LP

X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 75rpm.  15ft flywheel, three belts.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on new cylinders by Newton, Bean and

Mitchell.  Was a slide valve engine and had a P&W balanced crank.  Running

in 1965.  Oil firing in 1961.

 

JOHN DIXON.  STEETON

BOBBIN MILL.  STEETON

Mr Emmott.

400hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1911.  18"HP, 32"LP X

4ft stroke.  120psi, 62rpm.  16ft flywheel X 4ft wide.  Belt drive.  Corliss valves

on HP cylinder, slide valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser at crank end of

engine driven by long rod from outer guide block.  Whitehead governor.

 

THOMAS WILSON.  KEIGHLEY

LOW BRIDGE MILL.  KEIGHLEY

400hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by Marsden.  No date.  14"HP,

25"LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 84rpm.  12ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves. 

Web cranks.  Air pump driven from a crank at the end of the crankshaft.

 

W H FOSTER.  DENHOLME

[Is this Black Dyke Mills?]

Mr Flather.

500hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1904. 

Corliss valve HP, slide valve LP.  120psi, 82rpm.  17ft enclosed flywheel, 24"

belt.  Right Handed.  Lumb governor.

 

ALSO

800hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, Left

handed, 1898.  21"HP, 38"LP X 5ft stroke.  120psi, 82rpm.  15ft flywheel, 54"

wide belt.  Corliss valves on HP, slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind

LP cylinder.  These two engines in one room.

 

ALSO

500hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1904.  17 1.2 "HP,

32"LP X 5ft stroke.  15ft flywheel, 38" wide belt.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder,

slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Lumb governor. 

Right handed engine.

 

W H FOSTER.  DENHOLME

Mr Henry Briggs.

400hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1869.  19"HP, 38"LP X

5ft 6" stroke.  New Corliss HP cylinder in 1894.  (This engine was originally

two cylinders simple with two condensers.)  37 ½ rpm.  No guides, Parallel

motion.  18ft flywheel, geared with 12" wide teeth driving 6ft pinion then tex

ropes to countershaft and tex ropes hence to 500KVA, 600rpm alternator. 

Corliss HP cylinder and slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from parallel motion

lever.  Gearing; 160 teeth to 45 teeth.  Lumb governor.  One ordinary Pollitt

and one disc crank.  The mill originally had three 500hp beam engines.

 

TAYLOR BROTHERS.  SILSDEN

Mr S Bentley.

500hp vertical cross compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1896, installed

in 1917.  17"HP, 35"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 72rpm.  18ft flywheel, 18 ropes. 

Corliss valves on HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.  Originally built for Union Mills, Audenshaw.

 

PETER GREEN.  BRADLEY

Mr T Heseltine.

250hp tandem compound engine by Smith Brothers and Eastwood, 1901. 

11"HP, 18"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  14ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  120psi, 90rpm.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Rocking lever for the Musgrave's trip gear. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  [Newton Pickles rebored both

cylinders and air pump.  He said that the trip gear was Musgrave's and was

very noisy.]

 

COLLINGHAM AND KEIGHLEY.  KEIGHLEY

CONEY LANE MILL.  KEIGHLEY

[In about 1820 Mr Joseph Keighley built a mill and dwelling house in Coney

Lane where for some years he wove.  The mill eventually passed out of his

sons hands and became Sugden and Keighley who replaced the dwelling

with offices and shops and completely rebuilt the mill.]

1000hp cross compound engine by Marsden, 192?.  21"HP, 43"LP X 4ft 6"

stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  18ft flywheel, 27 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Airpump

driven by bell crank from LP tail rod with support guides.

 

TIMOTHY HIRD.  KEIGHLEY

KNOWL[SIC] MILL.  KEIGHLEY

500hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  20"HP, 36"LP X 4ft

6" stroke.  120psi, 70rpm.  18ft flywheel with 12 ropes.  Corliss valves. 

Airpump driven from LP crosshead.  Taken out and altered to tandem for

Acres Mill, Keighley in 1926.

 

This engine replaced by: 1000hp cross compound engine by Marsden, 1926 –

1959.  22"HP, 44"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  18ft flywheel, 27 ropes. 

Air pump driven by bell crank from LP tail rod with support guides.  Cylinders

named 'Richard' and 'Sarah'.

 

PRINCE SMITH.  KEIGHLEY

STRONG CLOSE. KEIGHLEY

Mr J Hago

750hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Cole Marchant and Morley, 1926.  31"

diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  160psi, 160rpm.  10 ½ ft polished flywheel. 

Drop valve inlets, Uniflow exhaust.  Rope driven extractor pump.  Surface

condenser.  240 volt DC generator on the engine shaft.

 

ALSO

400hp tandem compound engine by Cole Marchant and Morley, 1910.  16"HP,

32"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  12ft 6" flywheel, 24 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind the LP cylinder.

 

Two large boilers.  Both out 158/59.

 

PRINCE SMITH.  KEIGHLEY

BURLINGTON SHED.  KEIGHLEY

1250hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 18??.  28"HP, 54"LP X

5ft stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  20 feet flywheel, ? ropes.

 

MERRALL.  HAWORTH

LEES MILL.  HAWORTH

1000hp cross compound by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1900.  22"HP, 42"LP X 5ft

stroke.  140psi, 67rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder,

slide valve LP.  Originally gear drive under floor.

 

MERRALL.  HAWORTH

EBOR MILL.  HAWORTH

800hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1891. 

20"HP, 41"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 65rpm.  18ft flywheel, belt.  Corliss

valves on HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Engine named 'Edwin'.

 

HAYFIELD WOOLS.  GLUSBURN

Mr J C Horsfall.

1500hp cross compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell. 1929.  20"HP,

38"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 96rpm.  16ft flywheel and one 14ft with 22 ropes. 

Drop valves to all cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  All

power onto alternator.  John and Donald engine names?), 1961 (date out?)

 

BAIRSTOW NO. 2 MILL.  SUTTON

Mr Marsden.

500HP vertical cross compound engine by Cole Marchant and Morley, 1909. 

17"HP, 34"LP X 30" stroke.  160psi, 118rpm.  12ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Drop

valves to both cylinders.  Angular drive shaft to eccentric shaft at cylinder

level.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  All power to alternator.

 

HIELD BROTHERS.  OXENHOPE

Mr E W Goss.

400hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1903. 

16"HP, 30"LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 80rpm.  15ft flywheel, 16 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on HP and slide

valve on LP.

 

ALSO AT HIELD BROTHERS

600hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1896.  19"HP, 34"LP X

5ft stroke.  150psi, 75rpm.  20ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Horizontal condenser

behind the LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Also at Brigella Mill,

Bradford.

 

HATTERSLEY.  HOWARTH

(also at Springhead, Mytholmes.) 

PROVIDENCE MILL.  HOWARTH

Mr F W Sunderland.

300hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1905. 

12"HP, 24 ½ "LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 90rpm.  12ft flywheel, 10 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Corliss valves both cylinders. 

(1960) [scrapping date?]

 

MITCHELL.  OLD TOWN.  [HAWORTH?]

100hp single beam engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, named Mabel(?),

1851.  16"HP, 21"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  100psi, 62rpm.  13ft flywheel with 6

ropes.  Air pump driven from beam.  Corliss HP cylinder added and pressure

raised from 85psi (by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1885?)  Gear wheel near

flywheel not used now.  December 1961 [scrapping date?]

 

HOLDSWORTH.  HALIFAX

Mr G E Barker.  Engine named 'Constance'.

450hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1900.  14"HP, 27 ½ " LP

X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 80rpm.  14ft Flywheel, 13 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Three boilers, two in use.  Replaced a

single beam engine, also two more engines.

 

BLACKBURN AND BRAY.  HALIFAX

Engine named 'Ruth'.  Mr Wal Carter.

250hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1908. 

12"HP, 24"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 82rpm.  15ft flywheel, 10 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on HP and slide

valve LP.  Feed pump driven by eccentric on engine shaft.  Lumb governor.

 

ACKROYD (SUCCESSORS).  HALIFAX

CLAY PITTS MILLS.  HALIFAX

Mr C Firth.

600HP TANDEM COMPOUND ENGINE BY Pollitt and Wigzell, 1924. 

18"HP, 36"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  Named 'Doris'.  150psi, 78rpm.  15ft flywheel, ?

ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Lumb governor.  Flywheel boarded.

 

HALIFAX CORPORATION TRAMWAYS

ELECTRICITY WORKS

Three 1200hp cross compound engines by Pollitt and Wigzell.  (capable of

overload up to 1600hp)  27"HP, 51"LP X 5ft 6" stroke (?).  150psi, 550 degrees

superheat, 90rpm.  16ft plain flywheel alongside generator on engine shaft. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  ECC

dynamos.  One to Willowhall and one to Pellon Lane.

 

OATS BROTHERS.  HALIFAX

Mr Cunliffe.

1100hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1922.  23"HP, 42"LP X

5ft stroke.  180psi, 72rpm.  20ft 40 ton flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Tailrod support

guides to both cylinders, (on LP side between cylinder and condenser.) 

Flywheel off-centre to get barring engine in.

 

WILLIAM MORRISS.  SOWERBY BRIDGE

CORPORATION MILLS, SOWERBY BRIDGE

350hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1907.  17"HP, 32"LP X

4ft stroke.  90psi, 80rpm.  15ft flywheel, 17 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

PROSPECT MILL.  SOWERBY BRIDGE

RAMSDEN'S LTD.  SOWERBY BRIDGE

500hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1885. 

23"HP, 43"LP X 5ft stroke.  60psi, 68rpm.  16ft flywheel, gear drive.  Slide

valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

CALVERT.  ILLINGWORTH

Engine named 'Matilda'.  Mr T C Tillotson.

500hp cross compound engine by Wood Brothers, 1878.  18"HP, 36"LP X 4ft

stroke.  120psi, 80rpm.  14ft flywheel, belt drive.  Corliss valves on HP

cylinder, slide valve low.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Peculiar

belt drive.  LP Lt Pollitt and Wigzell cylinder.  HP is Woodhouse and Mitchell

cylinder.  Lagged.

 

BOTTOMLEY'S.  BUTTERSHAW

Mr Frk Metcalfe.

450hp single beam engine, 1880.  23"HP, 42"LP, X 3ft and 6ft stroke.  100psi,

56rpm.  Corliss HP and slide valve LP.  Airpump driven from the beam. 

Rebuilt by Woodhouse and Mitchell in 1`926.  HP cylinder added and new

beam installed.  Now 650hp compound 15ft flywheel with 10 ropes instead of

the old gear drive

 

ALSO

250hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1896.  12"HP, 24"LP X

4ft stroke.  100psi, 80rpm.  14ft flywheel, gear drive.  Airpump drive from LP

crosshead.  Corliss valves on HP and slide valve on LP.  Mr Frk Metcalfe to

William Holton.  [change of engineer?]

 

ALEXANDRA MILL.  HAWKSCLOUGH

ROGER SHACKLETON

100hp overhead crank engine (Grasshopper) by ?, 1840.  10"HP, 20"LP X

30/18  and 2ft/3ft stroke.  100psi, 52rpm.  12ft plain flywheel with gear drive

on side of wheel.  Air pump driven from grasshopper beam.  Both cylinders

connected to beam on fulcrum on a slide in the wall box.  HP cylinder at end

of beam and LP under crank.  Extension of the piston rod as guide and also a

parallel motion.  [Full description of this engine by Arnold Throp in the

Model Engineer of 13/03/58.  Vol. 118, page 317.]

 

SHEPHERD AND BLACKBURN.  SOWERBY BRIDGE

500HP TANDEM COMPOUND ENGINE BY Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod

type, 1896.  16"HP, 32"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi (later150psi), 75rpm.  18ft

flywheel, 15 ropes.  Horizontal condenser near crank.  Corliss HP and slide

valve LP.  Air pump driven by rod from slide block.  Also two more mills.

 

PROSPECT MILLS.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX

Engine named 'Hannah'.  Mr Alec Dunne.

800hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, not three rod, 1884. 

19 ½ "HP, 36"LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 77rpm.  18ft flywheel.  Two 18" belts,

0ne 26" belt and one 14" belt.  New Corliss valve cylinders in 1912.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  (P Pollard 1961)

 

HORSFALL.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX

Engine named 'Elizabeth'.  Mr Greenwood.  750hp vertical cross compound

engine by Wood Brothers, no date but marked as out in 1960.  20"HP, 40"LP

X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  14ft flywheel, 22 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Flywheel at end of shaft.  Vertical condenser with Airpump driven

from crosshead.  Lumb governor

 

WALLER BROTHERS.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX

Engine named 'Progress'.  Left handed.

250hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1891.  14 ½

"HP, 25"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 80rpm.  15ft 6" flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP and slide vale LP.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead (rear) 

Proell governor.

 

ALSO

250 hp single beam compound engine by ?, no date.  22"HP, 32"LP, X 6ft

stroke.  140psi, 42rpm.  20ft flywheel.  Corliss valves on HP and slide valve

LP.  Air pump driven from beam.  McNaughted by Woodhouse and Mitchell in

1901 and new steel beam fitted.

 

J SMITHIES.  ELLAND

1100hp cross compound engine by Wood Brothers, 18??.  22" HP, 42" LP X 5ft

stroke.  140psi, 70rpm.  20ft flywheel.  Corliss valves.  Airpump driven from

LP crosshead.  New LP cylinder with valves at bottom.

 

ELLAND DYEING COMPANY

BRIDGE END,  ELLAND

350hp cross compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1920.  16"HP,

34"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves. 

Came from Kidderminster in 1936 arranged to drive a generator via a

countershaft.  Replaced a much repaired old beam engine.

 

VICTORIA.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX

Engine named 'Mary'.  Mr Gilburn.

250hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1903. 

13"HP, 24"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss

HP cylinder and slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder. 

Originally a Whitehead governor, later a Lumb.  Taken out 1962.

 

HOYLES.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX

Engine named 'Amy'.  Ray Lister.

250hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1919.  10"HP, 21"LP X

3ft stroke.  140psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss HP cylinder and

slide valve LP.  Double guide bars, runs wrong way.  Horizontal condenser

behind LP cylinder.  Whitehead governor.  Out 1962.

 

J SPEAK.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX

Engine named 'Alfred'.  Mr H Smith.  600hp tandem compound engine by

Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1911.  14"HP, 28" LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 18

ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.

 

ALSO

?50hp overhead crank engine by ?.  10" HP, 19" LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  140psi,

90rpm.  10ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder and slide valve

on LP.  Built on two girders on 4 columns.  Slipper guide for LP crosshead.  Air

pump worked from long beam on fulcrum in wall box which is part of the

parallel motion for HP crosshead.  Cranks at 190 degrees.  [Looks like a

grasshopper?]

 

WILKINSON.  BLACKLEY.  ELLAND

Engine named 'Nancy'.

400hp cross compound engine by Ruston and Proctor, c.1890.  18" HP, 33" LP

X 3ft.stroke.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Disc cranks.  Trunk guides.  Corliss

valves on HP cylinder, slide valve LP.

 

ALSO: AT ATLAS WORKS.  ELLAND

350hp vertical compound engine by Belliss and Morcom, 1911.  160psi,

375rpm.  7ft flywheel.  Piston valves.  Totally enclosed and pressure

lubricated.  Direct coupled to Parkinson 250Kw dynamo.

 

HOYLE.  COPLEY.  ELLAND

Mr Greenwood.

1500hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and E wood, Bolton, 1896. 

20" HP, 32" IP and two 33" LP X 5ft stroke.  150psi,75rpm.  24ft flywheel, 40

ropes.  All Corliss valves at bottom of cylinders.  Airpump driven from each

crosshead.

 

WHITWORTHS.  LUDDENDEN FOOT

?50hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, no date.  14" HP, 27"

LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

J MAUDE.  STAINLAND

BANKHOUSE.  STAINLAND

(1952. date out?]  Mr G Clegg.

500hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1920.  18" HP, 36" LP X

4ft stroke.  125psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  All Corliss valves.  Air

pump driven from LP crosshead.  Tail rod supports to both cylinders.  Lumb

governor replaced by Whitehead.  All power on to Metropolitan Vickers

500KVA alternator.  Came from Newsome's, Dewsbury.

 

RALPH BREARLEY.  BRIGHOUSE

Installed 1910, Right hand engine.  Rebuilt by Marsden 1949.

260hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1910.  10 ½ "

HP, 21" LP X 30" stroke.  160psi, 96rpm.  9ft flywheel, was gear drive but now

6 ropes.  Corliss valves to both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.  Double slide bars.  Proell governor.  Engine runs wrong way. 

Eccentrics driving feed pump.

 

KAY AND JAGGER.  ELLAND

Engine named 'Eliza Ann'.

300hp tandem compound engine by Wood and Baldwin, 1881.  12" HP, 24" LP

x 3ft stroke.  All slide vale.  120psi, 80rpm.  11 ½ ft flywheel with 8ft belt

pulley.  Air pump horizontal behind LP cylinder.  Return crank drives shaft

with eccentrics for HP slide valve (outside).  Double guide bars.  Lumb

governor.  (disc crank, see Casson)

 

KAYE AND JAGGER.  WESTBURY.  ELLAND

250hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell. 1924.  10" HP,

20" LP X 3ft stroke.  150psi, 97rpm.  14ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Proell governor.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder. 

Engine runs the wrong way.

(Wood and Baldwin in 1884)

 

ROBERT KAYE.  ELLAND

300hp tandem compound  engine by Wood and Baldwin, 1856.  14" HP, 21"

LP X 3ft stroke.  Slide valve cylinders.  120psi, 75rpm.  12ft geared flywheel,

enclosed.  Airpump driven from the crankpin.  HP Corliss cylinder by

Woodhouse and Mitchell in 1909.  Slide valve LP cylinder. 

 

HAIGH AND HEPSTALL[SIC].  ELLAND

Engine named 'Mary Agnes'.  Left hand.  Mr Charlesworth.  300hp tandem

compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, three rod type, 1898.  15" HP, 27" LP

X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 84rpm.  Corliss HP cylinder and slide valve LP.  14ft

flywheel, 10 ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

(Haigh and Heppenstall, Bridgefield Mill.

 

T CASSON.  MARSHFIELD MILL.  ELLAND

Mr Harold Turner.

300hp tandem compound engine by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1901.  10"

HP, 21" LP X 30" stroke.  All Corliss valves.  150psi, 80rpm.  14ft flywheel, 9

ropes.  Whitehead governor.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

J CASSON.  ELLAND

350HP TANDEM COMPOUND ENGINE BY woodhouse and Mitchell, 1886. 

10" HP, 21" LP X 4ft stroke.  110psi, 108rpm.  12ft flywheel, 8ft pulley, 10

ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Both cylinders have slide

valves.  Return crank drives shaft with eccentrics for driving the slide valve of

HP cylinder on outside.  LP slide valve on inside as usual.  Vet low built

engine.  Disc crank on return shaft drives air pump.

 

KNOWLES BRICK AND PIPE WORKS.  ELLAND

T Armstrong.  1953 (Probably date of visit because I know the engine was

running in the 1970s.)

350hp tandem compound engine by Hick, Hargreaves, 1883.  13" HP, 26" LP

X 4ft stroke.  All Corliss gears.  85psi, 78rpm.  18ft flywheel, 7 ropes.  Trunk

Guides, Lumb governor.  Airpump driven from crosshead.  Brought from Isaac

Holden's who had six.  [Daniel Meadows photographed this engine in the

1970s and said it was the dirtiest engine house and the most neglected engine

he had ever seen.  The floor in the engine house was covered with mud.]

 

D SHARRATT.  ELLAND

100hp tandem compound engine by ?, 1861.  10" HP, 14" LP X 30" stroke. 

80psi, 96rpm.  9ft flywheel.  Old belt drive governor.  Corliss HP cylinder and

slide valve LP.  This engine was a single cylinder, The Corliss valve HP

cylinder was put in next to the crank and the old cylinder moved back to make

a tandem by J Mackrell of Elland in 1905.  Drive outside the engine room.

 

W ATKINSON.  BRIGHOUSE

Engine named Mary.  Mr George Sewell.

1000hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1909.  20 ½ "

HP, 42 5/8 " LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 80rpm (later 83).  18ft flywheel, 16

ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Flywheel and drive in next

room.  Vertical shaft barring engine.[sic?]

 

T HELM.  SPOUT MILL.  RASTRICK

Engine named 'Mary'.  Mr Edwards.

600hp tandem compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1924.  16" HP,

32" LP (rear) X 3ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 80rpm.  14ft flywheel, 7 ropes.  Air pump

drive from the crosshead.  Proell governor.  Guard right round crank.  Gear

drive also, in next room.  Pressure now 120psi and 82rpm.  Old Woodhouse

and Mitchell tandem to R Buckton.

 

EDWARD SYKES.  BARKISLAND

KRUMLIN MILL.  BARKISLAND

Engine here in 1916.  Mr Wadsworth.  Named 'Judith Hannah'.

200hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1899.  13" HP, 23" LP

X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 85rpm.  12ft flywheel, 12 tons, 9 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  Brought from London Omnibus company as

one of a pair.  £100.  Used there for chaff-cutting.  [Horse-drawn buses?] 

Two Cornish boilers with underfired stokers.

 

JOHN SMITH.  RASTRICK

BADGER HILL MILLS.   RASTRICK

Named 'Queen Mary'.  Mr Gledhill.

250hp tandem compound engine by Wood Brothers of Sowerby Bridge, 1890.

13" HP, 26" LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 81rpm.  14ft plain flywheel.  9ft pulley

with 10 ropes outside engine room.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP

cylinder.

 

VICTORIA MILL.  EARBY

Engineer, Mr T Almond. 

1ooohp triple expansion double beam engine by W and J Yates, Blackburn,

1856.  29 ½" HP, 46" IP and two 40" LP X 3ft 6" and 7ft stroke.  160psi,

34rpm.  16ft, 40 ton flywheel, with 16" wide gear (driving pinion in cellar) 

Corliss vales on HP and slide valves on IP and LP cylinders.  New crankshaft

and air pumps fitted by H Brown, Sons and Pickles.  Condenser underneath,

separate drive.  Originally 2 X 40" cylinders.

 

BOOTH AND SPEAK.  EARBY

LOW MILL.  EARBY  [Arthur has this wrong, I think he is talking about

Albion Shed, Earby]

450hp tandem compound engine by W Roberts, Nelson, 1890.  [Engine

named 'Enterprise']  16 ½" HP, 33" LP X 3ft stroke [actually 4ft]  140psi

65rpm [Actually 75rpm]  15ft flywheel ? ropes.  [Actually 13ft and direct

drive]  Corliss valves on outside of HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  [Actually an Edwards air pump in the cellar.] 

return crank drives shaft for outside Corliss gear with two eccentrics. 

 

BOOTH AND SPEAK.  EARBY

SPRING MILL.  EARBY

Engineer Mr Hedley Bradshaw.

[The first engine at Spring Mill was a 200hp cross compound by Burnley

Ironworks, 1895.  All Corliss valves.  11"HP, 22"LP X 3ft stroke.  12ft flywheel

with 8 ropes.  120psi, 65rpm.  Named 'Alice Ann'.  Removed in 1923 and sold

to T Timperley and Sons, sanitary pipe makers, Sharneyford between Bacup

and Todmorden.  [The engine Arthur describes was installed in 1923 and

came from Burgess and Ledward of Walkden who had four similar engines. 

Installed by Burnley Ironworks at a cost of £330 including transport. ]

450hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1894 [1899]  16"HP, 27"

LP [29"] X 4ft stroke.  130psi [160], 58rpm [60]  16ft flywheel, 10 ropes. 

Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Airpump driven by bell crank from LP tail

rod.  Support guides.  [Engine scrapped in 1968]

 

CROW NEST MILL.  BARNOLDSWICK

Right hand HP cylinder named 'Lily'.  Left hand LP named 'Laura'.  Engineer,

Mr Sidney Heaton.

1000hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1914.  21" HP, 42" LP

X 4ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  26ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Slipper guides.  Tailrod supports.  Air pump driven by bell

crank off LP tail rod.  [In 1951 the engine had a major smash of the LP

cylinder and ran for some months on the HP with the exhaust coupled direct

to the condenser.  The air pump was driven by a temporary rod supported

by a bearing from the LP crosshead.  Scrapped December 1966.]

 

SLATERS.  BARNOLDSWICK

CLOUGH MILL.  BARNOLDSWICK

350hp tandem engine [No, it was a250hp cross compound]  by Burnley

Ironworks, 1913.  12"HP 24"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  12ft flywheel, 8

ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders. Horizontal air pump driven by LP tail

rod.  Whitehead governor.

 

The original engine at Clough c.1825 was the first steam engine in Barlick,

the mill had been water-powered before this.  It was a simple beam as far as

we know and in 1879 a simple horizontal engine by Furneval of Haslingden

was added but gave a lot of trouble and was removed in 1900 and the old

engine was brought back into use.  The Furneval was relocated to Walmsley

Mill, Whalley and it is thought that Ashton Frost did this work, converting

the engine to a compound at the same time.  Newton Pickles worked on the

engine at Whalley and said that it was a long, ungainly, lumbering wastrel.

 

WELLHOUSE MILL.  BARNOLDSWICK

CALF HALL SHED COMPANY.  BARNOLDSWICK

Mill built by William Bracewell of Newfield Edge in 1853.  Originally

powered by multiple compound beam engines,(for full description see

'TEXTILE MILLS OF PENDLE' by Geoff Shackleton)  thought to be Yates. 

When the Calf Hall Shed Company bought the mill (which they owned until

Silentnight bought it) the bank had brought in Rushtons of Colne to demolish

the existing engines and CHSC installed one side of the eventual double

tandem engine.  This double engine is the one Arthur describes.

 

1000hp twin tandem compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1890.  [First

side.  Second installed 1895]  Two 18"HP [16 ½" actually]  two 34"LP [33"]  X

6ft stroke. [4ft actually]  26ft flywheel [19ft], 20 ropes. [16]  120psi [135] 

60rpm.  [72]  Corliss valves at bottom all cylinders.  [The new engine had

Corliss valves at all four corners]  Slipper guides.  Air pump driven from LP

tail rod.

 

BANCROFT SHED.  BARNOLDSWICK

JAMES NUTTER AND SONS.  BARNOLDSWICK

500hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, Phoenix Foundry, Nelson.

1924 [1920]  LP cylinder named 'Mary Jane', HP cylinder named 'James'. 

15"HP [17"], 30" LP [34"] X 4ft 6" stroke.[4ft]  150psi [160], 72rpm.  18ft

flywheel [16ft], 13 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Slipper guides. 

Tailrod supports.  Air pump driven by bell crank from LP tail rod.

 

MIDGELEY.  FLEECE MILL.  KEIGHLEY

Engine named 'Alice Mary'.  Mr G Waddington.

750hp tandem compound engine by Marsden, 1901.  (moved 1903) (1956) 

18"HP, 36"LP X 4ft stroke.  Porter governor.  160psi, 83rpm.  18ft flywheel, 16

ropes.  Corliss valves.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Cross shaft

with eccentrics and governor drive.

 

ALSO

500hp tandem compound engine altered by Smith Brothers and Eastwood,

1900.  15"HP, 30"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  Porter governor,.  160psi, 78rpm.  14ft

flywheel, two 12" belts.  Corliss valves.  Airpump driven by eccentric. 

(Probably a Marsden engine.)  Two Lancashire boilers 9ft X 30ft.  One

Lancashire boiler 7 1/2ft X 28ft.

 

MIDGELEY.  FLEECE MILL.  KEIGHLEY (part only Midgeley)

 

Engine named 'Victoria'. 

600hp tandem compound engine altered by Smith Brothers and Eastwood,

1900.  (probably a Marsden engine).  16"HP, 33"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 80

rpm.  Whitehead governor.  14ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP, slide

valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Altered in 1927, direction

reversed.  Alternator drive. 

 

ALSO

200hp inverted vertical enclosed compound engine by Browett and Lindley. 

160psi, 735rpm.  Direct coupled to 110volt 700 amp DC generator. 

Now two package boilers.  All out in 1956.

 

DOBROYD.  HUDDERSFIELD

JACKSON BRIDGE.  HUDDERSFIELD

Mr Butterworth.

400hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, (1932) 1924.  24"

diameter cylinder X 24" stroke.  Drop valves to inlet.  160psi, 140rpm.  12ft

flywheel, 14 ropes.  Whitehead governor and rope driven air pump.

 

ALSO

400hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, (1920)

1937.  24" diameter cylinder X 24" stroke.  Drop valve inlets.  160psi, 9 ropes. 

Governor on eccentric shaft.  No tailrod.  Air pump driven from crank at end

of shaft.  Flywheel outside room on a shaft coupled to engine.

 

ALSO

220hp vertical compound engine by Allen, Bradford.  11.5"HP, 17.5"LP X 8"

stroke.  160psi, 500rpm.  15psi exhaust steam to mill process.  All enclosed. 

Piston valves.  Direct coupled to Generator.  All above engines drive 3 phase

alternators.

 

J SYKES.  HUDDERFIELD

ROCK MILL.  BROCKHOLES.  HUDDERSFIELD

Mr Nightingale.

1000hp double compound beam engine by ?, 1870.  Two22"HP, two30"LP, X

33" and 5ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 52rpm.  24ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  New Corliss HP

cylinders in 1900 by Schofield and Taylor, Huddersfield.  Slide valve LP.  New

rope flywheel replaces gears.  Engine now runs reverse way.  Air pumps and

feed pump driven by rods from the beam.    The flywheel was altered by fixing

a new rim on pedestals on the old spokes which made it a larger diameter than

the original gear wheel.

 

ALSO

80hp tandem compound engine by Ball and Wood, New York.  250rpm,

coupled direct to DC generator.

 

ALSO

20hp single cylinder horizontal engine, no name or date, Belt drive.  10"

diameter cylinder X 20" stroke.  100rpm.

 

JOB BEAUMONT.  HUDDERSFIELD

Milnsbridge.  Huddersfield

Mr Reg Wood.

500hp tandem compound engine by J&E Wood, Bolton, 1903.  16"HP, 29"LP

X 4ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  140psi, 67rpm.  20ft flywheel, 11 ropes.  All

valves at bottom of the cylinder.  No trip to LP inlet valves.  Air pump driven

from crosshead.

 

F FIRTH.  HUDDERSFIELD

CELLARS CLOUGH.  SLAITHWAITE

250HP SINGLE BEAM ENGINE.  15"hp, 24"lp x 2FT AND 4FT STROKE. 

100PSI, 46RPM.  17FT FLYWHEEL, 3 ROPES.  Slide valve LP cylinder,

Corliss HP cylinder added.  Air pump drive by rod from the beam.  Spur gear

drive to mill.  Rope drive goes to the generator.  No maker's name or date.

 

TITANIC.  HUDDERSFIELD

TITANIC   LINTHWAITE

Mr H Wood.

850hp tandem compound engine by Mark Shaw, Milnsbridge, 1911.  18"HP,

36"LP X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  150psi, 72rpm.  18ft flywheel, 20 ropes. 

All valves at the bottom of the cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

E COTTON.  HUDDERSFIELD

LINTHWAITE

1961.

150hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1904.  10"HP, 19"LP X

3ft stroke.  120psi, 100rpm.  12ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss HP and slide valve

LP.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder

 

EDWIN SHAW.  SLAITHWAITE

Engine named 'Elizabeth'.   Mr Bamforth.

250hp overhead crank compound engine by Schofield and Taylor, 1887. 

11"HP, 22"LP X 3ft 6" and 3ft stroke.  Slide valves.  150psi, 60rpm.  12ft

enclosed flywheel with gears.  Both piston rods on to long beam fulcrumed on

a swinging arm to bed and protruding below.  HP piston rod extends up to a

guide bush.  Feed pump and air pump driven from beam.  Parallel motion

levers to swinging beam.  Lumb governor.  Balanced crank.  Gear drive 5ft jack

wheel on to 3ft spur wheel.

[This is the grasshopper taken out by Duncan Smith and re-erected in a new

engine house at Wortley Forge museum.]

 

J KENYON.  DENBY DALE

150hp overhead crank compound engine by ?, installed 1903.  14"HP, 26"LP X

3ft stroke.  Slide valves.  85psi, 60rpm.  14ft flywheel X 30" wide.  Overhung

crank.  Flywheel in centre.  No Guides, parallel motion to crossheads.  One

lever extends to drive air pump.  Plain slide valve on LP cylinder.  A trip valve

arrangement on HP cylinder behind main valve worked by extra eccentric and

control rod.  Engine bearings on long I girders wall to wall and supported by

similar vertical girders anchoring parallel motions.  Right and left hand cranks

at 180 degrees.  Two 12" belt drives to mill, one very short with jockey wheel.

 

E CROWTHER.  SLAITHWAITE

Engine named 'Lizzie'.  Mr Carr.

250hp tandem compound three rod engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1910.  14

½"HP, 28"LP X 2ft 9" stroke.  150psi, 83rpm.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder,

slide valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  3ft gear on

crankshaft drives 5ft gear below floor with bevel driven vertical shaft to all

floors. 

ALSO

220hp enclosed vertical compound engine by Belliss and Morcom.  500rpm

direct coupled to Brush generator, 400v, 187Kva.  12"HP, 18"LP X 8" stroke. 

ALSO

A 40hp water turbine which replaced a water wheel.  New oil-fired Ruston

boiler November 1963.

[Both engines taken out and stored by Robert Aram.]

 

 

W POCSON.  SLAITHWAITE

Mr Armitage.

600hp tandem compound engine by J and E Wood, 1911.  17"HP, 33"LP X 5ft

stroke.  140psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss valves both cylinders. 

All in normal position.  Air pump drive from crosshead.

 

CHAS. MOON.  NEW MILL

Mr A Doyle.

300hp tandem compound engine by Schofield and Taylor, 1912.  13"HP, 25

½"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 88rpm.  14ft flywheel, 7 ropes.  Corliss HP

cylinder and slide valve LP.  Return crank drives two eccentrics for outside

Corliss valves.  Lumb governor.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Old beam

engine of 36" diameter and 6ft stroke.  Beam broke Christmas 1936(?).

 

Z HINCHCLIFFE.  DENBY DALE

600hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Sulzer Brothers, 1910. 28" diameter

cylinder X 30" stroke.  140psi, 142rpm.  14ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Drop valve

inlets.  Air pump drive from crankpin.  Enclosed engine.

 

ALSO

350hp cross compound engine by Schofield and Taylor, 1895.  16"HP, 29"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 75rpm.  16ft flywheel.  Corliss HP and slide valve LP.  Air

pump driven from crosshead.

 

KITSON.  DENBY DALE

450hp single cylinder engine by Galloway, 1910, installed here in 1938.  28"

diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  Non-condensing.  100psi, 93rpm.  14ft

flywheel, 7 ropes.  Piston valve with cut-off controlled by governor.  Sliding

link.  Eccentric on gear driven shaft.  Trunk guides bolted to cylinder and box

bed at front. 

 

NORTON.  SCISSETT

Mr Armitage and Mr Radley.

350hp tandem compound three rod engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1886. 

13£HP, 26"LP X 5ft stroke.  100psi, 55rpm.  18ft plain flywheel x 18" wide. 

Corliss valves on HP and slide valves on LP.  Whitehead governor.  Gear drive. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

FAIRLEA.  LUDDENDEN FOOT

Engines named 'Energy' and 'Enterprise'. 

800hp vertical cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1890.  21"HP,

42"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  All Corliss valves.  180psi, 91rpm.  16ft flywheel, 20

ropes.  Balanced cranks, flywheel in centre.  Double Cast Iron support

columns.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

W ROUSE.  HALIFAX

900hp tandem compound three rod type compound engine by Pollitt and

Wigzell, 1890.  90psi, 74rpm.  17ft flywheel, belt drive.  Slide valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Two 22" and two 16"

belts.

 

FIRTH BROTHERS.  SHEPLEY

(T Joseph Ranks, Hull first and here from Ell.  Whiteley.)

600hp triple expansion vertical engine by Wood Brothers 1909, here in 1940. 

18"HP, 28"IP and 40"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  Double Cast Iron support columns. 

Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  All power

to 3 phase alternator by ECC, 500KVA, 440v.

 

BARBER BROTHERS.  HOLMBRIDGE

450hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Clayton and Goodfellow, 1922.  20"

diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  Drop valve inlets.  170psi, 150rpm.  12ft

flywheel, 9ft rope pulley.  3phase ECC alternator driven at 375rpm by 9 ropes. 

Rope driven air pump.  Web crank.  Three bearing crankshaft.  Tailrod

support.  Whitehead governor.  Bought 1950 from Ribchester

 

WASHPIT MILL.  HOMFIRTH

Mr Lodge.

600hp tandem compound three rod type engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1909. 

18"HP, 35"LP X 4ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  180psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel,

18 ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder. 

 

ALSO

F & Chalmers [Fraser and Chalmers of Erith?] steam turbo alternator. 

Exhausts to mill or LP cylinder on engine.  6000RPM, geared down to

600rpm direct coupled 3 phase alternator.  Uses YEB mains at off-peak hours.

[Engine named Agnes. Finished working on July 16th 1980.  Looked after by

Herbert White the engineer as a hobby.  Herbert died in 1997.  Removed to

Tom Nuttall's Markham Grange museum in 1998 and re-erected there in

steam.  ]

 

R BEANLAND.  CLAYTON WEST

Engine named 'Sylvia'. 

650hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1903.  17"HP, 36"LP X

4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  20ft flywheel, 21 ropes.  Corliss valve on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.

 

ALBION MILLS.  THONG BRIDGE

Engine named 'John Woodhead'?.  Mr Fisher.

300hp tandem compound engine by Pearson and Spur of Birstall, 1865.  14

¼" HP, 28 1.2" LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  20ft flywheel with jack wheel. 

Corliss valves on HP and slide valve on LP.  Altered by Schofield and Taylor in

1`9??.  This was a simple engine, a new cylinder made to replace the original

in 190?.  Then this cylinder was moved back and a new LP cylinder put on in

front.  Airpump driven from crosshead.  Return crank drive for the governor.

 

GLOBE SPINNING COMPANY.  SLAITHWAITE

1250hp cross compound engine by Daniel Adamson, 18??.  25"HP, 53"LP X

6ft stroke.  160psi, 58rpm.  24ft flywheel, 28 ropes.  Lumb Governor.

 

ALSO

300hp tandem compound.

 

NELSON BROTHERS.  TODMORDEN

MILLSTEAD MILL.  TODMORDEN

Mr Appleyard.

400hp tandem compound engine by Wood Brothers, Sowerby Bridge, 1874. 

14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 62rpm.  17ft heavy built-up flywheel. 

Both cylinders have slide valves.  Was a single cylinder with air pump driven

by bell crank from tail rod.  HP cylinder added to rear in 1900, bed extended

and another slipper guide added between the cylinders with a crosshead. 

Original drive to the air pump left undisturbed.  Alterations by Ebor

Engineering Company.  Whitehead governor on the throttle.  Bevel gear drive

outside the engine house .  Bow window built on engine room to pass new HP

cylinder.

 

FIELDEN BROTHERS.  TODMORDEN

WATERSIDE MILL.  TODMORDEN

Mr Baron and son. 

1250hp double beam engine by Clayton Goodfellow, 1889.  2 x 30"HP, 2 x

45"LP, 3ft 6" and 7ft stroke.  95psi. 25rpm (later 28rpm).  28ft (70 ton)

flywheel, 34" wide.  Slide valves on all cylinders.  Slow speed governor.  Air

pumps driven by rods from each beam.  Engine in centre of mill.  Flywheel has

internal teeth on each side and a large pinion drives each half of the mill. 

Named 'Sam' and 'John'.  Fine engine but poor room.  Replaced two single

beam engines which ran 1828 to 1889.  This is a very old mill which originally

had a very large and wide undershot water wheel.

 

ROSS MILL.  BACUP

J HOYLE.  BACUP

Mr C Williams.

4000hp twin tandem compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1911.  Two

26"HP, two 54"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 70rpm (was 68rpm).  27ft flywheel, 86

tons, 68 ropes.  Trunk guides.  Tail rod support guides.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  Airpump driven from each tail rod.  LPs are at rear.  Support guides

between cylinders.  6" stay bolt between each pair of cylinders.  13" x 16" long

crank pin.  Longest rope 303ft (centres?)

[George Watkins says it ran on 160psi.  He also says that first half of the

engine was installed in 1912 and the second half in 1921.  The engine ran at

3000hp regularly and on one occasion when one side failed, the remaining

side ran at 2000hp.  George says 66ropes and also that the engine was

stopped in 1963/64.]

 

WILLIAM HARGREAVES.  BACUP

250hp cross compound engine by J Petrie, 1909.  15"HP, 30"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  120psi, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder, Slide valve on LP. 

Very large horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Slipper guides.  Enclosed

engine.  German governor.

 

T WEST.  TODMORDEN

VALE MILL.  TODMORDEN

250hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell.  14"HP, 29"LP, X 3ft

stroke.  110pasi, 72rpm.  12ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder,

slide valve LP.  Whitehead governor.

 

LORD BROTHERS.  TODMORDEN

STOCKHILL MILLS.  TODMORDEN

200hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, 1867.  Gear drive.  5ft stroke. 

100psi, 30rpm.  18ft flywheel.  New HP cylinder has Corliss valves at top.  LP

has slide valve with eccentric driven by a return crank.  Air pump driven by

crank at the end of this shaft. 

 

FIELDEN AND RIGG. TODMORDEN

BANCROFT MILL.  TODMORDEN

Single cylinder horizontal engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell.  [Fielden and

Rigg were warp sizers.]

 

??. TODMORDEN

?hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, 18??.  Gear drive.  HP Corliss

valves, all at top of cylinder.  Slide valve on LP with eccentric on return crank

shaft.  Air pump driven from eccentric.

 

CRABTREE AND FARROW.  TODMORDEN

300hp cross compound engine by Scott and Hodgson.  No details except

Corliss HP and slide valve LP.  Whitehead governor.  (Carfield Mill,

Portsmouth)?

 

MONS MILL.  TODMORDEN

[Originally called Hare Mill but name changed to Mons when Carel invested

in firm.] 

Sam Mathews[sic], Lancashire Cotton Corporation.  Mr H Haigh.

3000hp cross compound engine by Carel Freres of Ghent, Belgium, 1913.  39

¾"HP.  72 5/8" LP.  X 4ft 9 ½" stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  Drop valves on both

cylinders.  25ft flywheel, 70 ropes.  Trunk guides and tail rod supports. 

Cylinder steam-jacketed.  Airpump LP side from HP crankpin.  Water-cooled

main bearings.  Mishap to barring engine (1961) new one bought from Moston

Mill.

[George Watkins reported but 4ft 7 ½" stroke.  Designed to run the double

mill at 200psi but second half never built because of subsidence and bad

trade.  Five boilers installed with room for two more for full installation. 

Flywheel 13ft 8" wide for 69 ropes.  Weighed 130 tons with crankshaft. 

Engine dismantled in 1964 and mill closed in 1968.  Newton Pickles saw

engine running and said it was rough and a wastrel, no doubt partly

because it was running below designed pressure and load.  This was the

largest Carel engine brought into Lancashire.]

 

WILLIAM GREAVES.  BACUP

100hp tandem compound engine by ?, 1888.  10"HP, 18"LP, X 20" stroke. 

100psi, 70 – 110rpm.  10ft flywheel, 10" belt.  Slide valves on both cylinders. 

Horizontal condenser driven by rod from one side of crosshead through trunk

guides.  Disc crank. 

 

SIR H W TRICKETT.  WATERFOOT

SLIPPER FACTORY.  WATERFOOT

200HP TANDEM COMPOUND ENGINE BY w Sharples., 1900.  13"HP,

25"LP, 30" stroke.  160psi (now 80psi), 1900.  Left hand engine.  10ft

flywheel, 8 ropes.  Single support guide to LP cylinder.  Tailrod driving bell

crank to air pump.  Slide valves on both cylinders.  Expansion valve on HP

valve.  Controlled by ? governor in drum on crankshaft which alters stroke of

Expansion eccentric.  'Janie', HP at front, 'Elsie', HP at rear.

 

JAMES ASHWORTH.  BACUP

ACRE MILL.  BACUP

250hp tandem compound engine.  No details except that it ran at 69rpm, had

Corliss valves on HP and Piston Valve on LP.  Runs the wrong way.

 

BUTTERWORTH.  WATERFOOT

Mr H Hunt.

600hp cross compound engine by S S Stott, 1911.  17"HP, 35"LP X 4ft stroke. 

Corliss valves.  160psi, 75rpm.  15ft built-up heavy flywheel.  Single support

guide to LP tailrod which drives bell crank to air pumps, two 20" diameter X

14" stroke.  Corliss gear with sliding block.  [Sounds like Dobson block

motion]  Inlet valves rods drop down onto die.  Slipper guides.  Forked

connecting rods.  Very noisy steel driving gears, 11ft X 104 teeth at 4" pitch on

to 7ft X 64 teeth.  LH cylinder, HP, named 'Agnes'. RH, LP, named A

'Amy'.

 

??

 

SILK MILL. COLNE

600HP Tandem triple expansion engine by Yates and Thom.  Left hand, 1891. 

16"HP, 26"IP, 34"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 77rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Flywheel outside engine room in shed.

[I have no idea which engine is referred to here.  Certainly not in Colne,

Lancs to my knowledge.  The date ascribed to the engine is interesting.  To

the best of my knowledge the Yates firm started in 1826, It may have been a

partnership, J&D Yates, this later became J&W Yates and was incorporated

as Yates and Company in 1889  According the Register of Defunct

Companies, A Receiver for the debenture stock holders was appointed and an

unspecified dividend paid in November 1905.  removed from the register in

1906.  Yates and Thom Ltd was registered in 1905 but went into voluntary

liquidation on 15th June 1927.  The capital was returned to the shareholders

and a final meeting held on 23rd March 1929.  This was almost certainly a re-

structuring of the company as, to the best of my knowledge it continued

trading.  I suspect as Foster Yates and Thom Ltd.  Therefore on the face of it

there could not be a 'Yates and Thom engine in 1891 as the company wasn't

registered until 1905.  However!  On 11th December 1893 wrote to Yates and

Thom about a new steel boiler for their Clarence Mill.  So it looks as though

Yates and Thom were trading under that name before 1893 and so this date

could be right.   It ain't easy!)]

 

A AND F PICKLES.  COLNE

200hp tandem compound engine by William Roberts, 1927.  12"HP, 24"LP X

3ft stroke.  130psi, 85rpm.  12ft flywheel, 7 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Slipper guides.  Air pump driven by bell crank from LP tail rod.

 

BLACK CARR.  TRAWDEN

250hp tandem compound engine by William Roberts, 1871.  13"HP, 26"LP X

4ft stroke.  Slide valves on both cylinders.  100psi, 56rpm.  11ft flywheel, 24"

belt.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  HP cylinder has expansion gear on SV,

outside.  Return shaft drives two eccentrics and governor.  Governor is large

old type at 36rpm.  Double slide bars.  Governor controls throttle?.

 

VIVARY MILL.  COLNE

200hp tandem compound engine by William Sharples [of Ramsbottom] ,

1890?  16"HP, 30"LP X 3ft stroke.  Right hand engine.  120psi, 80rpm.  12ft

flywheel, 7 ropes.  Slide valve LP and Corliss valves on HP.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  Double slide bar guides.  Large diameter

second motion pulley.

[Shackleton has same basic details but 1893, 10 ropes, 100psi, 250hp.  HP

named 'George', LP named 'Mary'.  Lumb governor fitted in April, 1926.  This

mill originally had an unknown beam engine, replaced in 1915 by this 

second hand Sharples engine brought from Huddersfield]

 

THOMAS MASON.  COLNE

PRIMET MILL.  COLNE

500hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1890.  17"HP, 32"LP X 4ft

stroke.  All slide valves.  150psi, 60rpm.  20ft heavy built up flywheel, 8 ropes. 

Old type governor controls.  Cam driven trip valves on HP cylinder behind S

valve.  Return crank drives eccentrics.  Air pump drive from crosshead.

[Geoff Shackleton: dated 1884.  250hp.  16"HP and 30"LP.  18ft flywheel. 

90psi.  Originally ran on 75psi.]

 

ALSO.

200hp single beam engine by Roberts, 1835.  16"HP X 4ft stroke.  26"LP X 6ft

stroke.  15ft flywheel with inside teeth driving 4ft gear.  Horizontal HP

cylinder added and built in next room and fastened to wall.  Very old Watt

governor.  Air pump driven by rod from beam.  60rpm?.

[Shackleton: Pusher cylinder 14" diameter.  27"LP, 54" stroke.  18ft flywheel,

10ft diameter jack gear on side.  90psi, 36rpm.  250hp.  Steam pressure was

raised from 75psi to 90psi in 1930s. Originally 2 Lancashire boilers, in 1938

replaced with single oil-fired boiler.]

 

WALK MILL.  COLNE

E AND P RILEY.  COLNE

Mr P Galtry.

600hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1907.  17"HP, 34"LP X 3ft

stroke.  Corliss valves.  150psi, 82rpm.  16ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Slipper guides. 

Robert's governor.  No air pump on engine.

[Shackleton:  Both engines shared same engine house.  Dated 1905.  16"HP,

27 ½"LP.  42" stroke.  350hp.  150psi 78rpm.  'Wind boarding' on flywheel is

sheet steel.  This engine and the later 1906 engine replaced a 30hp beam

engine possibly by Bracewell of Burnley and a waterwheel.]

 

ALSO

300hp tandem compound engine by William Roberts, 1907.  15"HP, 30"LP X

3ft stroke.  14ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Slipper guides.  80rpm.  No air pump on the

engine.  Brequet condenser installed by Hick Hargreaves with double

centrifugal pump which deals with the exhaust from both engines.

[Shackleton:  1906.  250hp.  150psi.  13 ½"HP, 26"LP.  150psi.  11ft flywheel. 

Hick-Brequet patent jet condenser fitted in 1920 by Hick Hargreaves. 

Previously both engines had crosshead driven air pumps.  C.1956 the tandem

was retired and the cross compound ran both sheds.  As number of looms fell

consideration was given to re-commissioning the tandem to drive both but

the idea was abandoned.  Both engines scrapped in October 1972.]

 

BRIERFIELD MILL COMPANY

LATER SMITH AND NEPHEW TEXTILES LIMITED

SOUTH SHED.  BRIERFIELD

1200hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J Petrie, Rochdale, 1895. 

18"HP, 28"IP, two 32"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 61rpm.  24ft flywheel, 36

ropes.  Piston valves on all cylinders. 

[Shackleton records:  This engine drove the South sheds and replaced a

vertical engine by William Bracewell, Burnley.  1000hp.  18", 28" and two

32" cylinders X54" stroke.  62rpm.  24ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  ]

[Watkins records:  JOHN PETRIE AND CO, WHITEHALL ST, ROCHDALE. 

(Established 1816)  Brierfield Mills, Brierfield, Nr Burnley, Lancs.  Cotton

Spinning and Weaving.  Following the successful use of piston-valves on

their beam engines, Petrie's continued to use them on their horizontal

engines, of which Brierfield had three, all triple expansion. The spinning mill

engine, probably replacing a beam engine, was built in 1894 to develop

1,500hp at 57rpm.  The cylinders were 24, 36, 42, and 42in bore by 5 ft

stroke, all with twist cut-off piston-valves, and with internal valves for the

high-and intermediate-cylinders.  The low-pressure cylinders were nearer to

the cranks, each with its own condenser, with air pumps driven from the

crankpins.  The 24ft flywheel drove by 36 ropes. Eight Petrie boilers

provided steam at 160psi for the three Petrie, and one Burnley Ironworks

engines, all of which were scrapped when another group took the mills in

1959.

 

ALSO

900hp triple expansion tandem engine by j Petrie, Rochdale, no date.  17"HP,

24"IP, 45"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, ?rpm.  22ft flywheel, ?ropes.  Piston valves

on all cylinders. 

[Shackleton records:  750hp.  17", 24" and two 45" X 5ft stroke.  22ft flywheel,

15 ropes.  Governed on the throttle.  Dated 1885.  Trunk guides.  ]

 

ALSO.  SPINNING MILL

1500hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J Petrie, 1894.  23"HP, 35"IP,

two 40"LP, X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 57rpm.  24ft flywheel, 36 ropes, piston valves

to all cylinders.

[Shackleton records basically the same information.  ]

 

ALSO

450hp twin tandem compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1906/1921.  Two

12"HP, two22"LP X 30" stroke.  16psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss

valves to all cylinders.  Said to be a single tandem which was doubled in 1926. 

Named 'Dyson' and 'Tunstall'.  Out in 1958 according to George Watkins.

[Shackleton records 90 rpm.  12 ½"HP, 25"LP  and 13 ½"HP, 27"LP.  Both 3ft

stroke.  14ft flywheel, 15 ropes.  Right hand engine was BI order 49/1906 and

left hand engine was BI order 149/1920.  The drawings of 1906 showed a full

twin tandem.  Last used 1954 and scrapped 1958.  Shackleton also records

that Henry Tunstill installed a steam engine in 1838 but no record of it exists. 

William Bracewell of Burnley built a large double beam engine for the mill in

1868. Precise details not known but thought to be comparable to a similar

Bracewell engine fitted at Dalton Mills, Keighley in 1876 ]

 

VALE MILL. NELSON

BUILT BY NELSON ROOM AND POWER COMPANY IN 1886

750hp cross compound engine by William Roberts of Nelson, 1888.  24"HP,

38"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  All Corliss valves.  140psi, 55rpm.  18ft very heavy built

up flywheel, with 14ft jack wheel gear driving 6ft pinion.  Double slide bars. 

Whitehead governor.  Air pump drive from crosshead.

[Shackleton records:  580hp.  22 ¼"HP with Slide valve cut-off gear.  5ft

stroke.  HP named 'Rachel',  LP named 'Minnie'.  53rpm.  Rebuilt with new

Corliss valved cylinders in 1924.  Double helical gear drive 13ft diameter X

12" wide.  Steam superheated to 480 degrees.]

 

ALSO

450HP VERTICAL COMPOUND ENGINE BY William Roberts, 1891.  20"HP,

36"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 80rpm.  15ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves

on HP and slide valve on LP.  Very massive construction.  Airpump drive from

crosshead.  Old type Robert's governor.

[Shackleton record: 400hp.   17"HP named 'Marie'.  36"LP named 'Alice'.  3ft

stroke.  14ft flywheel.  Dated 1907.  Steam superheated to 480 degrees.]

 

MARSDEN MILL.  NELSON

Mr J Marsden.  Mill built in 1907 by the Marsden Mill Company.

750hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1912.  14"HP, 27"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  Corliss valves.  175psi, 65rpm.  22ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  All

valves at bottom of cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.

[Shackleton records: 1911.  20"HP and 39"LP.  160psi, 67rpm.  18ft flywheel,

18 ropes.  800hp.]

 

ALSO

1000hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1913.  20"HP, 40"LP X

4ft stroke.  175psi, 60rpm.  22ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders on corners.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.

[Shackleton records:  1000hp.  1907.  21"HP, 42"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  160psi,

75rpm.  20ft flywheel.  The two engines were located in two separate engine

houses, one on each side of the boiler house.  Steam for the 1907 engine was

from two 8ft 6" diam X 32ft Lancashire boilers by Galloway.  Fitted with

superheaters.  In 1912 the third boiler was installed and space made for a

fourth.  Galloway's supplied the third boiler but the maker of the fourth is not

known.  At this extension the superheaters were by passed and the pressure

raised to 175psi on saturated steam.]

 

SPRING BANK MILLS.  NELSON

Mr Henry Rigby.

850hp quadruple expansion vertical engine by L Musgrave of Bolton, 1893.  15

½"HP, 18 ½"IP, 26"IP, 37"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  210psi, 90rpm.  Flywheel in

centre, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Overhung crank at each end

of the main shaft with two cylinders acting on it via a triangulated connecting

rod using a type of parallel motion one lever of which extends to operate a

vertical air pump.  Cranks set at 180 degrees.  (see engine at Eckersley, Wigan)

[Shackleton records:  750hp.  1892.  13 ½", 18 ½", 26", 37" X 42"stroke.

200psi.  14ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Engine named 'Victory'.  First ran in April

1893.  In 1924 Roberts' supplied a new HP cylinder.  The cylinder was re-

bored at least twice and an insurance report of 1961 records the bore as 15

¾".  The engine was scrapped c.1964 when the mill was electrified.]

 

NELSON COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

50hp single cylinder horizontal engine by T and R Lees, 1908.  15" diameter X

24" stroke.  Slide valve.  100psi, 75rpm.  (ft plain flywheel.  6 ft rope pulley, 4

ropes.  Trunk guides.  Non-condensing.

 

PENDLE STREET MILL.  NELSON

Engine named 'Isobel' and 'Nellie'.

1200hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, Nelson, 1885.  24"HP,

48"LP X 6ft stroke.  160psi, 47 ½ rpm.  18ft, 50 ton, built up flywheel.  Air

pump drive from LP crosshead.  Was a slide valve engine but later had Corliss

valves.  LP inlet valves are inside and driven from eccentrics on main shaft. 

HP valves and LP exhaust valves are all outside and driven by eccentrics on

two short shafts driven by return crank on each side of the engine.  Whitehead

governor.  Double slide bars.  New Corliss cylinders by Roberts, 190?.  14ft

gear next to flywheel drives 7ft gear on second motion shaft in engine room

with four sets of bevel gears.  Inverted vertical barring engine.  3 oil-fired

boilers.  Two in use.

[Shackleton reports: LP cylinder was 46 ½" diameter after rebuild of 1923. 

Earlier Cylinders were slide with cut-off gear on the HP.  Also reports new

helical second motion gear and shaft by Brown and Pickles in 1926.  This

may be an error, Newton Pickles said they used the original gear, it was the

shaft that broke.  The engine ran for the last time on 27th June 1969.  (See

Lancashire Textile Project, Newton Pickles evidence for first hand

description of the engine which he ran for many months when the engineer

was sick)]

 

GLENFIELD MILL.  NELSON

WILLIAM UTTLEY LTD

600hp cross compound engine by William Roberts., 1910.  16"HP, 35"LP X 3ft

stroke.  160psi, 73rpm.  16ft flywheel, 15 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP and slide

valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

[Shackleton records:  17 ½"HP.  Otherwise same.  In later years the engine

room also contained a small British Thompson Houston steam turbo

alternator set.]

 

J SUNDERLAND, SONS AND COMPANY. NELSON

OAK BANK MILL.  NELSON

400hp triple expansion engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1897.  12 ½"HP, 18"IP,

30 ¼"LP X 4ft stroke.  175psi, 75rpm.  18ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss HP and

IP, slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Lumb governor. 

H Brown and Pickles re-bored HP and IP 4/7/1962.  [Note that this was

during annual Wakes holiday.]

[Shackleton reports: 18 ½"IP, 30"LP.  180psi, 80rpm.  P&W order number

O.149 stated that the engine should be 'like Bankfield', referring to the mill at

the bottom of Hallam Road.  Engine cost £1605 plus £120 for erection.]

 

THOMAS FLETCHER AND SON LTD.  NELSON

DALE MILL.  NELSON

250hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1914.  13 ¼"HP, 26 ½"LP

X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 86rpm.  14ft flywheel, 7 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.

[Shackleton records 300hp.  Mill wove out in 1967.]

 

F O LAMBERT.  NELSON

LOMESHAYE BRIDGE MILL.  NELSON

300hp tandem compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1900.  16"HP, 32"LP

X 3ft stroke.  100psi, 83rpm.  14ft flywheel, 12" steel belt.  Corliss valves on HP

and slide valve on LP.  Airpump driven from crosshead.  Whitehead governor.

[Shackleton records: date 1901?.  14"HP, 28"LP.  The10ft flywheel originally

drove the mill by9 ropes but was later converted to a steel belt about 1/8"

thick which gave good service. The mill was originally driven by a beam

engine which had been McNaughted.  In 1882 a larger compound beam

engine was installed after the mill was enlarged. Both beam engines ran into

the 20th century with the older engine being retained until about 1933.  The

1882 engine was removed following a flywheel smash in 1911 and was

replaced by the second hand Scott and Hodgson.  This engine ran until 1963

when the mill was electrified.]

 

DANIEL WALTON LTD.  NELSON

ALBERT MILL.  NELSON

1000hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by William Sharples, 18??.  All

Corliss valves.  80rpm.  Gear drive from flywheel.  Air pump driven from each

crosshead.

[Shackleton records:  In 1863 when the mill opened it was powered by a

double beam engine built by Bracewell and Griffiths of Burnley.  Two new

beams in 1886 and two new cylinders in January 1890.  In 1895 the new

Sharples engine was installed in a new engine house.  It was said to be the

largest that the firm made.  The drive was via gear wheels which were very

noisy.  William Roberts made a new flywheel, main gear and second motion

gear to speed the engine up to 80rpm.  This was done in 1924.  The engine

was still running in 1942 but by 1953 the mill had been electrified.  Original

engine dimensions were: 1000hp.  16"HP, 35"IP, two 36"LP X 4ft stroke. 

150psi, 80rpm.  Flywheel 18ft diameter, gear ?ft.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  Burnley Ironworks supplied a new vertical air pump and

condenser in 1924.  The 16"HP cylinder was a BI replacement in 1920.  New

boilers were installed for the Sharples engine in 1895.  No tail rods.]

 

TAYLOR AND CLARKSON.  BURNLEY

BRENNAND MILL.  BURNLEY

500hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1926.  22"HP, 44"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 72rpm.  18ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss valves. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  HP cylinder is Left hand.

[SCG comment.  This figure for hp looks conservative to me given the

dimensions.  Also number of ropes indicates higher horse power.]

 

HOLLIN BANK.  BRIERFIELD

Mr Albert Farrer

750hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1890.  22"HP, 35"LP X 5ft

stroke.  Slide valves.  120psi, 57 1/2rpm.  20ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Return

crank drag shaft with governor centre 4"(?).  LP slide valve driven from LP

crosshead.  Air pump drive from LP crosshead.

 

HENDON ROOM AND POWER COMPANY.  NELSON

HENDON MILLS.  NELSON

Engine named 'Norah'.

700hp triple expansion three cylinder engine by William Roberts, 1900.  14

½"HP, 21"IP, 36"LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 76rpm.  18ft flywheel.  Horizontal

condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Corliss HP(?), slide valve LP.  Double

guide bars.  Out 1960.

[Shackleton records:  500hp.  21 ¼"IP and 36 3/8"LP.  74rpm.  16ft flywheel,

13 ropes.  Load on engine was sometimes 700hp and they had trouble with

the beds coming loose.  Fitted with a Bee governor and one of only two triple

expansion engines made by Roberts.  ALSO: 80hp tandem compound engine

by Thomas Robinson of Rochdale installed in 1930s in a room next to main

engine.  Used for driving tape machines when uneconomical to run the main

engine.  Tailrod condenser and Proell governor..  Mill had two Lancashire

boilers.]

 

FINSLEY MILL.  BURNLEY

WHITHAM'S.  BURNLEY

 

Mr Walter Tate.

760hp triple expansion vertical engine by J Musgrave, Bolton.  1891.  16

½"HP, 26"IP, 42"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  10psi, 70rpm.  20ft flywheel, two belt

drives; one 38" X 140ft.  One 26" wide X 90ft.  Corliss valves on all cylinders. 

Air pump belt driven.  Lumb governor.  Out in 1958 according to A E Lyon.  3

Lancashire boilers, 7ft 6" X 30ft.  Triplex type, 3 cylinders side by side on

single crank.

 

PLUMBE STREET MILL.  BURNLEY

WHITHAM'S WEAVING DEPT

800hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1898.  22"HP, 46"LP X 4ft 6"

stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  All Corliss valves.  24ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Air pump

driven from LP crosshead.  Lancashire boilers 8ft 6" X 30ft.  New LP cylinder

by H Brown and Pickles in 1954 according to George Watkins.  Finished 1960.

[See Newton Pickles tape 78/AG/08 in Lancashire Textile Project for this job.  

Also 78/AG/12 for staking the flywheel on this engine.]

 

IMPERIAL MILL.  BURNLEY

JOHN SPENCER.  BURNLEY

650hp cross compound engine by Wm Roberts, 1905.  17"HP, 34 ½"LP X 5ft

stroke.  150psi, 67rpm.  19ft flywheel, 13 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Like Stuttard's engine.

 

TRAFALGAR SHED.  BURNLEY

KEIGHLEY'S.  BURNLEY

250HP INVERTED VERTICAL CROSS COMPOUND ENGINE BY William

Sharples, 1898.  14"HP, 24"LP X 24" stroke.  120psi, 110rpm.  6ft 6" flywheel,

10 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP and slide valve on LP.  Two web cranks,

flywheel at end of shaft.

 

T BURROWS.  BURNLEY

BRITANNIA MILL.  BURNLEY

850hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks Company, 1912.  20"HP,

42"LP X 5ft b6" stroke.  150psi, 65rpm.  20ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss valves

on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Whitehead

governor.  (Similar engine to Coronation Mill.)

 

MASON, WEST AND BATHER.  HARLE SYKE

KINGS MILL.  HARLE SYKE

450hptandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1912.  16"HP, 30"LP X

3ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 85rpm.  16ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.

 

BEN THORNBER.  BURNLEY

DANES HOUSE MILL.  BURNLEY

650hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1912. 

21"HP, 40"LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 73rpm.  18ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss

valves.  Airpump driven?

 

WALMSLEY'S.  BURNLEY

PEEL MILL.  BURNLEY

1250hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by Burnley Ironwork Company,

1896.  18"HP, 27"IP, two 28" LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 64rpm.  24ft flywheel,

24 ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Airpump drive from each crosshead. 

All valves at bottom of cylinder.

 

T HAYTHORNTHWAITE AND SON.  BURNLEY

LODGE MILL.  BURNLEY

Mr Pickles.

450hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1906.  16"HP, 31"LP X

3ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 78rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal air pump behind LP cylinder.

 

LANCASTERS.  BURNLEY

SPRINGFIELD SHED.  BURNLEY

Two engines:  500hp tandem compound three rod type engine by Pollitt and

Wigzell, 1896.  16"HP, 32"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 78rpm.  18ft flywheel, 15

ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on HP and

slide valve LP.

 

HARTLEY SPENCER.  BURNLEY

STANLEY STREET MILL.  BURNLEY

100hp tandem compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1893.  8 ½"HP,

17"LP X 28" stroke.  100psi, 104rpm.  ?ft flywheel, 4 ropes.  Both cylinders

slide valve on same eccentric.  Air pump horizontal opposite crank driven by a

rod from one guide.  Expansion valve on HP cylinder controlled by Hartnell

governor.  [Small mill, heald yarn doublers.]

 

SHARP THORNBER LTD.  BURNLEY

PARK SHED.  BURNLEY

700hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, Bolton, 1907.  23"HP, 46"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  Drop valves.  160psi, 90rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Air pump

driven from crosshead.  Trunk guides.  LP cylinder on left named 'Florence'. 

Hp named 'Margaret'.

 

LEE BANK MILL.  NELSON

LEE BANK SHEETING COMPANY.  NELSON

Mr Peel.

400hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1914.  15"HP, 29"LP X 3ft

stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  16ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Sliding horizontal

dashpots.  Whitehead governor.

[Shackleton records:  13 ½"HP and 27"LP.  380hp.  14ft flywheel, 8 ropes. 

9this data comes from the original manufacturer's drawing.  British Engine

Insurance Company's reports 1950/1968 consistently record the HP as being

14 ½" diameter.  Perhaps it was replaced at some time?.  Corliss motion was

Whitehead design.  All weaving stopped in 1972 when Silentnight  bought the

mill from the Spirella Group.  There was an attempt to save the engine in

1973 but this failed and it was scrapped.]

 

RICHARD STUTTARD LTD (1893).  BURNLEY

PRIMROSE MILL.  BURNLEY

650hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1903.  17"HP, 34 ½"LP X

5ft stroke.  140psi, 66rpm.  18ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  10ft second motion rope drum in engine room.  Horizontal

condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Like engine at J Spencer. Imperial Mill.

 

L THORNBER.  BURNLEY

DEAN MILL  PLUMBE STREET

350hp cross compound engine by Wood Brothers, Sowerby Bridge, 1906. 

14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 75rpm.  15ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP cylinder, slide valve on LP.  Edwards air pump on condenser. 

Wood Brothers governor.  Airpump driven from crosshead.

 

SUTCLIFFE AND CLARKSON.  BURNLEY

WISEMAN STREET MILL.  BURNLEY

450hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1916.  17"HP, 30"LP 3ft

6" stroke.  150psi, 63rpm.  16ft narrow flywheel.  Corliss valves on HP both at

top.  Slide valve LP cylinder.  8ft gear.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.

 

FOSTER AND CUREDALE.  BURNLEY

HABERGHAM MILL.  BURNLEY

Mr W Whitehead.

450hp tandem compound three rod type engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1912. 

16"HP, 30"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 71rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP cylinder and slide valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.  Whitehead governor.

 

GR???? MILL.  BURNLEY

400hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1912.  12"HP, 23"LP

X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  14ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on HP and

slide valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

R PICKLES.  BURNLEY

CAIRO MILL.  BURNLEY

Mr J Ridley.

400hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1886.  16"HP, 30"LP

X 5ft 6" stroke.  Engine named 'Nannie'.  90psi, 54rpm.  16ft flywheel, 32"

wide belt driving a 9ft pulley in the engine room.  Slide valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Lumb governor controls

expansion valve on HP.

 

KIPPAX LIMITED.  BURNLEY

WORSTHORNE MANUFACTURING COMPANY

BROWNSIDE MILL.  BURNLEY

BROWHEAD MILL.  BURNLEY?

250hp tandem compound three rod type engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1915. 

11 ½"HP, 23"LP X 30" stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP cylinder, slide valve on LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.

 

LIVINGSTONE MILL.  BURNLEY

JOHN GREY?  BURNLEY

1000hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1878.  18"HP, 36"LP X

5ft stroke.  160psi, 55rpm.  16ft flywheel, 13ft gear on spokes.  10" wide helical

teeth driving 6ft pinion.  Slide valve on LP cylinder with eccentric on engine

shaft.  HP cylinder has Corliss valves, all at top, with eccentrics on a return

crank driven shaft.  Airpump driven from crosshead.

[I have a problem with this entry, from the dimensions given it would be

closer to 600hp.  The HP cylinder looks like a replacement.  Putting all the

valves at the top was a favourite method of getting away from modifying the

bed of a slide valve engine to accommodate Corliss valves at the bottom. 

Compare this with Pendle Street in Nelson.]

 

JOHN GREY.  BURNLEY

CAMERON MILL.  BURNLEY

450hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks Company, 1906.  16"HP,

32"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 69 ½"rpm.  16ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Edward's air

pump.  Lumb governor.

[Geoff Shackleton records:  Cameron Mill, Burnley was named after Verney

Cameron who was an English explorer and writer who went to Africa as a

leader of an expedition to help David Livingstone in 1872. Livingstone died a

year later but Cameron went on to be the first person to cross Africa from

east to west.  Cameron Mill was built in 1905 to hold 800 looms but later had

about 900. Again, John Grey was the only occupier of this mill whilst it was

weaving.  The steam engine here was made by Burnley Ironworks Company

and was their engine order number 40 / 1905.  Horizontal cross-compound,

450ihp, 16" + 32" x 54 ins stroke.  70 rpm, both cylinders Corliss valves,

flywheel driving 12 ropes.]

 

ELM STREET MILL.  BURNLEY

100hp cross compound Uniflow engine by Galloway, Manchester, 1926. 

20"HP, 36"LP X 3ft stroke.  150psi, 115rpm.  13ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Trunk

guides.  Enclosed engine.  Drop valves.  Massively built engine, beautifully

finished.  Both cylinders have tail rod supports.  Air pump driven from LP tail

rod.

 

NELSON LAUNDRY.  NELSON

NELSON COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

50hp single cylinder engine by T and R Lees of Hollinwood, 1905.  15"

diameter cylinder X 24" stroke.  100psi, 75rpm.  9ft plain flywheel, 5 ropes on

a 6ft drum.  Slide valve.  Trunk guide.

[George Watkins records:  T R Lees of Hollinwood, Lancs, made small steam

engines as a stock line for over fifty years.  This was made in 1908.  rope

drum was 5ft 6" diameter with four cotton ropes.  Plant closed in 1964 when

all was scrapped.]

 

GEORGE STREET MFG CO LTD.  BURNLEY

CORONATION MILL.  BURNLEY

800hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks Company, 1910.  20"HP,

42"LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 65rpm.  20 ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss valves

on both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Whitehead

governor.  (Like Britannia mill)

 

SWANSEY SHED.  WHITTLE LE WOOD [Arthur has this as Burnley but this

is the only Swansey Mill I can find]

400hp cross compound engine by Victor Coates, 1892. [Victor Coates and Co.,

Lagan Village, Belfast.]  19"HP, 36"LP X 4ft stroke.  100psi, 50rpm.  16ft

flywheel, gear drive.  Slide Valve on LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on HP which

was installed by Clayton and Goodfellow.

 

BISHOP HOUSE.  BURNLEY

500hp cross compound engine by William Roberts, 1890.  22"HP, 44 ½"LP X

5ft stroke.  160psi, 45rpm.  17ft flywheel, gear drive.  New Corliss cylinders

installed 1920, originals were both slide valve.  Air pump driven from

crosshead.  New flywheel in 1949 after a serious over-speed.  Cast by William

Roberts, installed by Henry Brown, Sons and Pickles.  [See Lancashire Textile

Project, Newton Pickles tape, 79/AG/14 for a full account of this accident and

the repair of the engine including the fact that Roberts cast the flywheel

badly but couldn't rectify the fault with a new one because it would have

bankrupted the firm.]

 

EDMUND HALSTEAD LTD (1903).  BURNLEY

QUEENSGATE MILL.  BURNLEY

760hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1895.  29"HP, 40"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 68 ½ rpm.  18ft flywheel, 22 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Whitehead

governor.

 

WALSHAW MILL COMPANY (1905).  HARLE SYKE

500hp tandem compound engine (not three rod type) by Pollitt and Wigzell,

1905.  16"HP, 26"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  200psi, 63rpm.  20ft flywheel, 18 ropes. 

Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Very large engine room.  Air pump drive

from crosshead.  Provision made on bed and shaft to convert to triple

expansion, four cylinder.

 

QUEEN STREET MILL.  HARLE SYKE

Mr Atkinson.

500hp tandem compound engine by William Roberts, 1895.  16"HP, 32"LP X

4ft stroke.  New Corliss cylinders by Roberts in 1914, named 'Peace'.  140psi,

70rpm.  14ft flywheel, very heavy construction, direct drive to shaft.  Air pump

driven from crosshead. 

[See Newton Pickles tapes in Lancashire Textile Project for many accounts of

this engine including new rings on HP cylinder.  Two Lancashire boilers, one

very old with longitudinal stays not in use.  Now preserved as a working mill

by Lancashire Museums Service.]

 

PRIMROSE MILL.  HARLE SYKE

Weaving.  Mr G W Harriss. 

750hp tandem compound three rod type by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1906.  17"HP,

35"LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 82rpm.  16ft flywheel, 82rpm.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Lumb governor.  (later replaced by Whitehead)  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  Rope drive generator.  Main drive to end of

lineshaft and 25 bevel drives to cross shafts.  [A normal arrangement but

Arthur specifically mentions it here. In passing it is worth stating that some

mills had an extension of the lineshaft poking out through a hole in the back

wall and this was used by local builders or the mill company to drive a

mortar mill utilising the clinker from the coal-fired boilers to make ash-lime

mortar.]

 

FINSLEY VIEW MILL.  HARLE SYKE

[This mill was known locally as 'Siberia' because the weaving shed was very

cold in winter.]  Mr Pickles.

650hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1904.  17"HP, 35"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 68rpm.  17ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  [Dismantled by Henry

Brown Sons and Pickles c.1970.  Re-erected in East Hall of the South

Kensington Science Museum by Riley's of Heywood.  See Lancashire Textile

Project for much about this engine.  Newton Pickles tapes.]

 

PROGRESS.  PADIHAM

Mr T McCough.

500hp cross compound engine by W and J Yates, 1886.  22"HP, 40"LP, 4ft

stroke.  HP is right hand side.  140psi, 56rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ft gear cast on

flywheel drives 4ft pinion.  Both cylinders have slide valves.  HP has two

vertical trip valves controlled by the governor.  Lagged cylinders.  Air pump

driven from LP crosshead. 

 

ORCHARD MILL.  PADIHAM

600hp inverted triple expansion engine by Wood Brothers, 1900.  16"HP,

25"IP, 36"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  14ft flywheel.  Two cranks with

flywheel between, LP cylinder on one and IP and HP on the other.  HP

cylinder above IP cylinder.

 

ALBION.  PADIHAM

PERSEVERANCE MILL COMPANY.  PADIHAM

Mr Johnson.

1250hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by Burnley Ironworks Company,

1906.  18"HP, 27"IP, two 28"LP X 5ft stroke.  200psi, 56 ½ rpm.  24ft (50 ton)

flywheel, 24 ropes.  All cylinders have Corliss valves at bottom.  Exhaust and

inlet together on LP cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.

 

G GREEN AND COMPANY.  PADIHAM

GREEN LANE MILL.  PADIHAM

300hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1911.  12"HP, 24"LP X

3ft stroke.  150psi, 83rpm.  15ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  All Corliss valves at bottom

of cylinders as Albion.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Half of mill

burned out and not replaced.  Bought from Burnley Corporation Electricity

Department who had three in 1893.  Had twin beam engine before this.

 

PRIMROSE MILLS.  CHURCH

W AND F CHAMBERS.  CHURCH

400hp cross compound engine by Ashton, Frost, 1884.  17 ½"HP, 36"LP X 4ft

6" stroke.  HP cylinder on left hand.  160psi, 40rpm.  16ft flywheel with gear

rim.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Slide valve LP and Corliss

valves on HP.  Flywheel drives 6ft gear.  Horizontal feed pump at side of

condenser.

 

DEVERON MILL.  GREAT HARWOOD

400hp cross compound engine by Clayton and Goodfellow, 1899.  17"HP,

31"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  130psi, 54rpm.  16ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss HP and

slide valve LP.  Cam type Corliss motion driven by side shaft [Sounds like

Craig's motion.]  Horizontal feed pump driven by extension of the slide valve

spindle.  (Like engine at mill opposite)

 

QUEEN MILL.  ACCRINGTON

(Mill closed and all out in 1964)

350hp cross compound engine by Whitaker of Accrington, 1912.  15 ½ "HP,

30"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 76rpm.  LP crank leading.  16ft flywheel, 11

ropes.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Slide valve on LP and

Corliss valves on HP.  Slipper guides.  Cranks set at approximately 160

degrees.  Also: Horizontal donkey engine, 9" X 16" stroke,  20" disc crank. 

Slide valve.  Double slide bars.  4ft 6" flywheel.

 

BLEACH WORKS.  CLITHEROE

PRIMROSE WORKS.  CLITHEROE

600hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1898.  18"HP, 38"LP X 3ft

6" stroke.  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 84rpm.  17ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Trunk

guides.  Hick Hargreaves governor.  Trip in rods from wrist plates.  Support

guides on both tail rods.  Air pump drive by bell crank from LP cylinder.

 

OSWALD POMFRET.  TURTON

Cylinders named 'Ruth' (HP) and 'Henry'.  Mr J Wilson.

300hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1905.  18"HP, 36"LP X 4ft

stroke.  100psi, 68rpm.  14ft flywheel, 11 ropes.  Trunk guides.  Yates and

Thom governor.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Eccentrics to rocking levers.

 

CALDER VALE MILL.  BURNLEY

650hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1900. 

18"HP, 35"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  14ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss

valves.  Airpump driven from crank pin.

 

DARWEN COTTON MANFG CO LTD (1875).  DARWEN

BOWLING GREEN MILLS.  DARWEN

350hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, Bolton, 1906.  18"HP, 35"LP

X 3ft stroke.  125psi, 72rpm.  18ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders with all valves at bottom.  Air pump drive from HP crosshead.

 

GREENFIELD MILL CO.  SPRING VALE

GREENFIELD MILL CO.  DARWEN

300hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1888.  16"HP, 30"LP X 5ft

stroke.  100psi, 49rpm.  17ft flywheel, 13ft gear, 152 teeth driving 60 tooth

gear.  Corliss valve HP and slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.

 

PROSPECT MILL.  DARWEN

PROVIDENT MILL CO LTD. DARWEN

250hp cross compound engine by Ashton Frost, 1906.  15"HP, 30"LP X 4ft

stroke.  140psi, 39 ½ rpm.  18ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP and

slide valve LP.  Slipper guides.  Feed pump beside the condenser.  Horizontal

condenser behind the LP cylinder.

 

HAWORTH HOLDENLTD (1901)  HODDLESDEN

VALE ROCK MILL.  HODDLESDON

Mr H Watson.

450hp tandem compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1911.  20"HP, 36"LP X

3ft stroke.  150psi, 80rpm.  17ft flywheel, 11 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP tail rod by bell crank.

 

DARWEN GAS WORKS

Two right hand and left hand 60hp single cylinder horizontal blowing?

Engines by g Waller Stroud.  Direct coupled to gas pumps.  12" diameter

cylinders X 12" stroke.  100psi, 10<60rpm.  6ft 6" flywheel.  Slide valves. 

Slipper guides.

 

GRANE MILL MANUFACTURING CO LTD.  HASLINGDEN

GRANE MILL.  HASLINGDEN

500hp cross compound engine by S Stott, Haslingden, 1907.  18"HP, 36"LP X

4ft stroke.  High pressure is right hand cylinder.  140psi, 62rpm.  15ft flywheel,

14 ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from the LP tail

rod with support guides.  Slipper guides.  Very slow and very heavy governor. 

Cylinders named 'Alice' and 'Hilda'.  Twin air pump.

 

PLANTATION MILL.  HASLINGDEN

[On Flip Road, Haslingden?]

500hp tandem compound engine by S S Stott, Haslingden, 1881.  17"HP,

32"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 62rpm.  16ft enclosed flywheel with 8ft jack gear. 

Corliss valves on HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from crankpin. 

Return crank drives outside slide valve.  Cross shaft for Corliss valve

eccentrics.  HP cylinder at rear.  Double slide bars.

 

CLOUGH END MILL.  HASLINGDEN

450HP CROSS COMPOUND ENGINE BY Furneval, Haslingden, 1905. 

18"HP, 36"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 70rpm.  16ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP cylinder and slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP

cylinder.  Slipper guides.  Slow, heavy governor.

 

PARKER'S MILL.  HASLINGDEN

CHARLES LANE MILL.  HASLINGDEN

CARR PARKER AND CO LTD.  HASLINGDEN

500hp tandem compound engine by S S Stott, 1908.  16"HP, 30"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  140psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder,

slide valve on LP.  Condenser is separate with a rope driven air pump.  Slipper

guides.  Cylinders named 'Tom' (front) and 'Mary', (rear).

 

BROOKHOUSE MILL.  PRESTON

Mr J Yates.

500hp cross compound engine by Ashton Frost, 1906.  16"HP, 36"LP X 3ft

stroke.  120psi, 84rpm.  18 ½ ft flywheel, 11 ropes.  Slide valve LP, Corliss

valves on HP.  Slipper guides.  Lumb governor.  Air pump driven from LP

tailrod with support guides.  

 

ALSO

750hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1876.  18"HP, 48"LP X 3ft

6" stroke.  120psi, 84rpm.  14ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.  Flywheel in centre.  [The ratio between the HP and LP cylinders

looks all wrong to me.  If the engine was 750hp it would be more likely if the

HP was 24". ]

 

IMPERIAL MILL, GREENBANK.  BLACKBURN

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION

Mr J Slater

1700hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by Yates and Thom, 1901. 

25"hp, 38"ip, two 42 ½" LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 60rpm.  29ft flywheel, 38

ropes.  All Corliss valves.  Trunk guides and rod supports between cylinders. 

Tailrod guides with air pumps driven by a bell crank on each.

[Watkins records:  1901.  Engines named 'King Edward VII'  and 'Queen

Alexandra'.  1700hp, 67rpm, 180psi from four boilers.  27ft flywheel. 

Scrapped in 1963.  Central barring ring on flywheel.  HP at front, IP behind

at right rear.  Both LP on left hand.]

 

HORROCKS AND CREWDSON.  PRESTON

1000hp vertical cross compound engine by Yates and Thom , 1892.  24"HP,

48"LP X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 72rpm.  26ft flywheel, 35 ropes. 

Driving alternator.

 

HASTON LEE MILL.  BLACKBURN

[Emerald Street, owned by Herbert Slater (1915) later owned by John Bury &

Co (1930) cotton manufacturers followed by Vale Cotton Manufacturing Co

Ltd (1939-58) who had 646 looms.]

350hp cross compound engine by Ashton Frost, 1912.  16"HP, 30"LP X 3ft

stroke.  140psi, 84rpm.  16ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valve HP and slide

valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Feed pump driven by

extension of SV spindle.

 

J GREENWOOD.  BLACKBURN

AUDLEY FLOUR MILL.  BLACKBURN

500hp cross compound vertical engine by Yates and Thom, 1901.  19"HP,

38"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 65rpm.  14ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  All Corliss valves. 

Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

HOLLINSHEAD MILL.  BLACKBURN

SCRIM MANUFACTURING COMPANY.  BLACKBURN

Tandem compound by Ashton Frost, 1906.

 

LEVER MILL.  BLACKBURN

350hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1912.  16"HP, 32"LP X 3ft

6" stroke.  150psi, 75rpm.  15ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Trunk guides.  No tail rods.

 

JOHN TAYLOR.  BLACKBURN

BRIDGEWATER MILL.  BLACKBURN

900hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1913.  24"HP, 48"LP X 4ft

stroke.  160psi, 72rpm.  20ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves.

 

FERNHURST MILL.  BLACKBURN

LAWRENCE COTTON.  BLACKBURN

Cross compound engine by Clayton Goodfellow.

 

REDMAYNE AND ISHERWOOD.  KIRKHAM

FLAX MILLS.  KIRKHAM

Mr Wilfred Fenton.

250hp tandem compound engine by Stevenson, Preston, 1860.  14"HP, 26"LP

X 3ft stroke.  Slide valves.  100psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  LP slide valve driven by eccentric on crank

shaft.  HP slide valve driven by return crank with two eccentrics for valve and

expansion control.  Controlled by Whitehead governor.

 

PROGRESS MILL.  KIRKHAM

WHITTLE AND TURNER LTD.  KIRKHAM

Mr Rimmer Iddon.

500hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by J Musgrave, 1914.  24" diameter

cylinder X 32" stroke.  Drop valve inlets.  160psi, 138rpm.  12ft flywheel. 

Direct drive.  Enclosed engine.  Tail rod support.  Rope driven Edwards air

pump and condenser.  Balanced valves operated by horizontal oscillating rod.

[Uniflow engines run on higher compression than a normal engine and can

run very lumpy at start and stopping.  See Newton Pickles in the Lancashire

Textile Project (79/AG/14) for the bad effects on bevel gears in shafting even

when rope driven.  Direct coupled like this engine could spell trouble.]

 

SUNNYBANK MILL.  KIRKHAM

SUNNYBANK WEAVING COMPANY.  PROPRIETORS KIRKHAM AND

WESHAM ROOM AND POWER COMPANY LIMITED

Mr H Hornby.

600hp cross compound engine by J Foster, Preston, 1907.  17"HP, 38"LP X 4ft

6" stroke.  Corliss valves.  175psi, 60rpm.  20ft flywheel, 11 ropes.  Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

JOHN BIBBY AND SONS.  FRECKLETON

BALDERSTONE MILL.  FRECKLETON

Engine cylinders named 'John' and 'Alan'.  Mr G Layton.

350hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, Bolton, 1901.  14"HP (right

hand), 26"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 78rpm.  18ft flywheel,

10ropes.  All valves at bottom, no trip gear on LP.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.  Direct exhaust.  Horizontal slide inlet. [sic]  Vertical dash pots. 

Old type governor.

 

MELLOR MILL.  MELLOR

[IS THIS ELSWICK MILL?]

Mr W A Duxbury.

400hp cross compound engine by Clayton and Goodfellow, 1878.  26"HP,

?"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  Originally all slide valve but a new Corliss valve cylinder

installed by Yates and Thom in 1919.  130psi, 76rpm.  18ft flywheel, 38" X 111ft

belt drive.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.

 

JOHN FISH LTD (1874).  BLACKBURN

[Not sure which mil but I suspect it is Florence Mill.  Worrall 1941 records

them being at Waterfall, Florence, Primrose and Ewood Mills.  I traced them

as far as 1941 but my next directory is 1954 when there was no trace of the

firm.  I found this record for Florence Mill on the internet; "Whalley New

Road built in 1889 owned by Herbert Slater (1902-51) cotton manufacturer

used by John Fish Ltd (1939) cotton spinner & manufacturer later owned by

William Birtwistle Allied Mills Ltd in 1958".]

 

1400hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, 1901.  22"HP,

34"IP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

PAPER MILL.  RAMSBOTTOM

Mr Darrell.

1000hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1907.  21"HP, 42"LP X

4ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 95rpm.  18ft flywheel, 22 ropes.  Trunk

guides.  No tail rods.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

COBDEN MILL.  SABDEN

Mr Bridge.

800hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1912.  21"HP, 42"LP X 3ft

6" stroke  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 80rpm.  17 ½ ft flywheel, 22 ropes. 

Support guides to both tail rods.  Airpump driven from LP tailrod.  Trunk

guides.  Trip on spindles.  Guards right round cranks.  There is an old beam

engine room intact.

 

SOLOMON LONGWORTH AND SONS.  WHALLY

JUDGE WALMSLEY MILL.  WHALLEY

Mr G Garratt.

500hp tandem compound engine by Furneval, of Haslingden, 1878.  18"HP, 

34"LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 47rpm.  16ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves

on HP and slide valve LP.  Return crank drives a shaft with two eccentrics for

outside drive valves on HP.  Air pump driven from the crosshead. Between the

two cylinders.  (From Barnoldswick in 1900, GW.)

This engine was in Barlick at one time at Clough Mill.  Here is a record of a

conversation between me and Newton Pickles:  "Newton says that he and his

father were once called out to the engine at the mill in Whalley which lies

under the railway viaduct. When they went in Johnny looked at the engine

and said he had seen it before. It was the engine which had been installed in

the old engine house at Clough when the beam engine wan taken out. [I later

found this was incorrect, it was installed near to the beam engine because in

1891 the Furneval was stopped because the number of looms had fallen and

the beam engine restarted after some trouble getting it freed up so the two

were there at the same time.] It ran at about 38 rpm and was installed in the

engine house at Judge Walmsley Mill, Whalley running under instead of

over. They did quite a bit of work on it down there. Newton said it was only

in Clough for a year or two and was taken out by Burnley Ironworks when

the new engine was installed in 1913. [see below. The new engine was sold in

1900 and they ran on the beam engine until the new BI engine was installed

in 1913] He thinks Burnley Ironworks installed it at Whalley shortly

afterwards. He also said that his Father said the reason why it was taken out

was that it was a wastrel.  [The last twenty years have produced a lot of

information about this engine. It was made by Furneval at Haslingden and

installed new at Clough. It was single cylinder condensing, 33 inch bore and

five and a half feet stroke. When it was moved to Whalley in 1900 it was

converted to a tandem by Ashton Frost who added a new HP cylinder and it

was rated at 300 hp in this form. It ran 900 looms, 16 ft diameter flywheel

with 14 cotton ropes. The engineer at the time Newton worked there was

George Garratt.  Newton also said that it was the worst engine he ever saw. 

It had a big CI fish tail counterweight on the crank with no finish on it at all. 

Newton reckoned that it was an imbalance in this set-up which kept bringing

the flywheel loose on its shaft]

 

LONGRIDGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY

QUEEN'S MILL.  LONGRIDGE

Mr Thomas Case.

300hp tandem compound engine (not three rod type) by Pollitt and Wigzell,

1906.  14"HP, 28"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 78rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes. 

Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pump drive from crosshead.  Separate

cylinders, HP at the rear.  Brought here in 1925 from Preston.

 

GREEN BROTHERS (1903).  WHALLEY

ABBEY MILL.  WHALLEY

Mr Holden.

300hp cross compound engine by W and J Yates of Blackburn, 1888.  16"HP,

30"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 58 ½ rpm.  14ft plain flywheel.  10ft jack gear on

flywheel.  Slide valves on both cylinders.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead.

[I saw this engine run once many years ago and what struck me was how

dirty it was, how much noise it made and how much steam flew out of the

valve spindles on the slide valves at each stroke.  It was kept in for a long

while as a potential heritage attraction but the last I heard it had been taken

out and stored but later scrapped.  I do not know whether this is true or not.]

 

PARK PLACE SPINNING CO.  BLACKBURN

PARK PLACE MILL.  BLACKBURN

[Park Place Mill, Windham Street, Grimshaw Park.  Built by Pilkington Bros

& Co (1845-78) cotton spinners and manufacturers in 1845 on a previous mill

site belonging to John Haughton. In 1858 they employed 1,450 people.

Owned by Park Place Spinning Co Ltd (1902-30) cotton spinners &

manufacturers then used by William Taylor & Sons (1903-4) cotton spinners

& manufacturers. It was purchased by the Lancashire Corporation in 1930

and closed. It was demolished in 1936-7 followed by the chimney in 1938.]

2200hp vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1902.  30"HP,

60"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

CROSTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1887)

JUBILEE MILL.  CROSTON.  PRESTON

Engine named 'Edward Walmsley'  Mr Ashcroft.

450hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by Yates and Thom, 1924.  27 ½ "

diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  160psi, 138rpm.  11ft flywheel, direct drive. 

Drop valve inlets.  12" diameter webbed, three bearing crank shaft.  Air pump

under engine driven by lever from crank at end of engine shaft.

[George Watkins records:  The Croston Manufacturing Co, Croston, Nr

Preston.  Cotton Weaving.  Other concerns soon began to build Uniflows, and

at least two firms in Bolton, two in Blackburn, one in Manchester, and others

in Yorkshire did so. The Croston Co was established in 1887, having a cross

compound engine gear driving the original shed. More capacity was

required in 1922, a new shed was built, and 'Edward Walmsley', made by

Yates & Thom of Blackburn in 1924, was installed to drive the new and the

old sections. A new boiler by Fosters for 160psi was installed and ran the old

engine at reduced pressure until the new engine was ready. The latter

developed 450hp, from a cylinder 27 1/2 in bore by 2ft 6in stroke, running at

140rpm and using superheated steam at the full boiler pressure. It will be

noted that …. the higher engine speed allowed the engine to be coupled

directly to the main shaft, also that this engine has a rotating side shaft drive

for the valves.]

 

J W SMITH AND SONS.  LONGRIDGE

CRAMP OAK MILL.  BERRY LANE.  LONGRIDGE

500hp tandem compound engine by Ashton Frost, 1905.  Installed here in

1928.  16"HP, 36"LP X 3ft stroke.  Right handed engine.  140psi, 85rpm.  18ft

flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP, slide valve LP.  Airport driven by bell

crank from tail rod which has support guides.

 

MATTHIAS MUNROE AND SON.  GUIDE.  BLACKBURN

SPRINGFIELD MILL.  GUIDE.  BLACKBURN

Mr A E Lyon.

350hp cross compound engine by Ashton Frost, 1898.  13 ½ " HP, 30"LP X 4ft

stroke.  HP is right hand.  160psi, 65rpm.  18ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP cylinder and slide valve LP.  Corliss gear driven from return

crank.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

GREENFIELD MILL.  SPRING VALE NEAR DARWEN

300hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1888.  16"HP, 30"LP X 5ft

stroke.  ?psi, ?rpm.  17ft flywheel, gear drive.  Corliss valves on HP and slide

valve LP.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Gear drive is 13ft jack wheel,

152 teeth driving 5ft spur gear, 60 teeth.

 

ALBION MILL COMPANY.  LITTLEBOROUGH

Mr Wild.

500hp tandem engine by J and W McNaught, 1905.  18 ½"HP, 38"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  140psi, 70rpm.  16ft, 50 ton flywheel, 28 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP

and piston valve on LP.  Side shaft drives governor and cross shaft in front of

HP (rear) cylinder for Corliss valves.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

A AND W LAW.  LITTLEBOROUGH

LYDGATE MILL.  LITTLEBOROUGH

Woollen manufacturers. 

?hp overhead crank single cylinder non-condensing engine, no maker.  15"

diameter cylinder X 20" stroke.  Coupled to a 40ft diameter waterwheel, later

replaced by a water turbine.

 

HARTLEY AND COMPANY.  LITTLEBOROUGH

[Preserved by Holroyd's at the original Petrie works in 1962.  Moved from

there in 1987 by Stanley Graham and re-erected at Ellenroad Engine House. 

Put back in steam in 1992.]

Nominal 25hp single beam engine by J Petrie, Rochdale November, 1841.  25

1.2" diameter cylinder X 5ft stroke.  Never compounded.  20psi, 34rpm.  16ft

flywheel, rim gear drive.  Slide valve, valve for each end of cylinder connected

by cast iron pipe columns.  Valve worked from underneath.  Airpump driven

by rod from beam.  Had CI crankshaft originally.  Price, with boiler, £650. 

Stopped work in 1942.

[Watkins records: Hartley & Co, Whitelees Mill, Littleborough, Lancs. 

Blanket Mills.

Made by Petrie & Co, Rochdale in 1841, this, in itself unaltered, drove the mill

until it closed in 1948, although a pusher engine was fitted to the crankshaft

at one period, and later removed. The cylinder was 25.5in bore by 5ft stroke,

and running at 34rpm it had developed 120hp at times, with steam at 40psi.

The use of separate slide-valves for the top and the bottom of the cylinder, in

chests connected by fluted side pipes, was an example of the way in which

parts needing accurate construction were made of small size, permitting

large engines to be made with limited equipment. The drive was by teeth on

the flywheel rim to a pinion on the mill shaft, although there were two

pinions at one time.  The stairways and crank pit railings were neat

examples of foundry work, and indeed, the whole was a charming industrial

scene almost entirely in cast iron.]

[Entry from the weighing book of the late Frank Shore Esq.  This is an

abbreviated list of engines made by John Petrie. 

'November 1841.  Supplied to John Hurst.  20 nominal horse power.  £650. 

24hp boiler.'  There is also an entry dated March 1859, order number 161

noting the supply of a 13 nominal horse power diagonal engine to John

Hurst and Sons, Whitelees Mill.]

[See 'Wheatsheaf Centre and Volunteers', and 'Building the Whitelees Engine' 

in SG Memoir for a full account of the 1987 rescue and the 1991/92 rebuild of

this engine.]

 

A AND W LAW.  LITTLEBOROUGH

DURN MILL.  LITTLEBOROUGH

Woollen manufacturers.

?hp single engine by Earnshaw, Barlow and Hall, 1885.  No details.

[Watkins records: 

A. &J. Law & Co, Durn Mill, Littleborough.  Dress & Costume Cloth Mfrs.

Made by Earnshaw & Holt, engineers and boilermakers, Rochdale, in 1864,

this drove the mill through spur and bevel gearing. It was condensing, with a

slide-valve cylinder 28in bore by 4ft stroke, and designed for 60psi, it used

steam at 90psi in later years when, running at 63rpm, it developed 250hp. It

was replaced in 1946 when the load had grown to 400hp; it had, for the last

seven years of its 80 years life, run 13 hours per day. Its only failure was a

split cylinder cover in 1881 due to water, and other than the fitting of

metallic packings, and in 1921, a new Lumb governor (cost £300) its life was

uneventful.]

[From the Museum of Industry at Manchester: This single-cylinder

horizontal steam engine was made by Earnshaw & Holt of Rochdale in 1864.

This type of engine became very popular from the 1850s onwards. Being

mounted on its own cast-iron base, it did not require the support of an

engine house and was much easier to install in a mill. Engines of this type

were soon accepted as the way forward for powering mills. With a working

life of nearly a century, this engine worked at Durn Mill in Littleborough

where it powered machinery that produced tartan cloth. It ceased to run in

the 1950s and was acquired by the Museum in 1969.]

 

ARROW MILL.  ROCHDALE

COURTAULDS.  CASTLETON

1700hp triple expansion engine by J and W McNaught, 1907.  25"HP, 38"IP,

60"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel, 47 tons, 40 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP and IP cylinders.  Piston valve on LP.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.

[Watkins records:

The Arrow Mill, Castleton, Rochdale.  Cotton Spinning.

Arrow, containing five acres of floor space, was an example of the speed of

mill building at the time. The contract to build was signed late in 1906, the

first brick was laid in January 1907, the engine first ran under steam in

February 1908, and the first cotton was spun in this large mill fifteen months

after the first brick was laid. One of the only two vertical triples which J. &

W. McNaught of Rochdale made, 'Reliance' was designed to develop 1,700hp

at 75rpm. The Corliss-valve high-and intermediate-pressure cylinders were

25 and 38in bore, and as often in Rochdale practice, the 60in low-pressure

was fitted with a piston valve. The 22ft flywheel drove by 40 ropes and the

barring engine with its horizontal cylinder driving through a vertical

crankshaft was a typical McNaught feature. Four boilers by Tinker Shenton

supplied steam at 180psi until some fifty years later the mill was converted

to electric drive from the Grid and the engine was scrapped.]

 

SAMUEL O'NEILL.  ROCHDALE

LINDEN MILL.  CASTLETON

450hp tandem compound engine by J Petrie, 1909.  19"HP, 36"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  80psi, 84rpm.  13ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Neukomm[sic] drop valves on

both cylinders.  Balanced crank.  Slipper guides.  Air pump driven from

crosshead.  Named 'Marion'.

 

CREST RING MILL.  ROCHDALE

QUEENSWAY.  ROCHDALE

1250hp triple expansion engine by J Petrie, 1907.  21"HP, 36"IP and 52"LP X

4ft stroke.  180psi, 81rpm.  22ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP and

IP cylinders and piston type on LP.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead.  HP

runs on overhung crank.

[Watkins records:

The Crest Mill, Castleton, Rochdale.  Cotton Spinning.

J Petrie of Rochdale only made three vertical triple-expansion engines, which

went to the Crest and Marland mills at Rochdale, and the Linnet at Gee

Cross. Crest Mill was built in 1907 for ring spinning, and needed only two

floors to use the 1,800hp that 'Gladys', the engine, developed. The high-

pressure cylinder, 21in bore, had Corliss-valves across the cylinder centre

line, whilst the intermediate-and low-pressures, each fitted with piston

valves, were 34 and 56in bore, all by 4ft stroke. Running at 75rpm, it drove

by 32 ropes from the 26ft flywheel. Steam was supplied by four Yates &

Thom boilers, 9ft in diameter, at 190psi which had to be maintained for full

load, when up to 120 tons of coal were used per week. The mill was later

converted to electric drive, and the engine scrapped. The high-pressure

crank was a half or single web type.]

 

MARLAND MILL.  ROCHDALE

1800hp triple expansion engine by J Petrie, Rochdale, 1907.  21"HP, 34"IP

and 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  190psi, 80rpm.  22ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP and IP cylinders, piston type valves on LP.  Airpump driven from

LP crosshead..  (Very much alike these last two.) [Arthur has added a note: 

"Lower is GW version.  Fig 11 in Mill Engine."]

 

CROFT MILL.  ROCHDALE

1800hp twin tandem engine by Buckley and Taylor of Oldham, 1906.  Two

21"HP, two 44"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 72rpm.  24ft flywheel, 42 ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pumps driven from crossheads.

 

BAYTREE MILL.  MIDDLETON

BAYTREE MILLS LTD (1903).  MIDDLETON JUNCTION

1400hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, 1905.  22 ½"HP,

34"IP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 78rpm.  20ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.

 

IRK MILL.  MIDDLETON

700hp Manhattan engine by George Saxon, Oldham, 1908.  23"HP, 43"LP X

3ft stroke.  160psi, 92rpm.  15ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves.  Air pump

driven from vertical crosshead.

 

REX MILL.  MIDDLETON

REX MILL (1919) LTD.  OLDHAM ROAD   MIDDLETON

1150hp vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, Oldham, 1905. 

26"HP, 53"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  22 ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.

 

CLOVER MILL.  ROCHDALE

(as Croft)  1800hp twin tandem engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1906.  Two

21"HP, two 44"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 72rpm.  24ft flywheel, 42 ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pumps driven from crossheads.

 

STATE MILL.  ROCHDALE

1800hp twin tandem engine by J and W McNaught, 1901.  Two 21 ½"HP, two

44"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 65rpm.  24ft flywheel, 42 ropes.  Corliss valves on

HP cylinders and piston type valves on LPs.  Air pumps driven from cross

heads.  LP cylinders at rear.

 

SPARTH MILL.  ROCHDALE

SPARTH MILL COMPANY.  CORPORATION ROAD

Mr T Sunderland.

1700hp twin tandem engine by J and W McNaught, 1901.  Two 21 ½"HP, two

43 ½"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 68rpm.  24ft flywheel, 44 ropes.  Corliss HP,

slide valve LP.  Air pumps driven from crossheads.  Cross shaft each side with

two eccentrics for HP rear cylinder.

 

FACIT MILL.  ROCHDALE

Engines named 'Margaret' and 'Molly'.

1600hp cross compound engine by J and W McNaught, 1905.  27"HP, 57"LP X

5ft stroke.  160psi, 70rpm.  26ft flywheel, 32 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pumps driven from crossheads.  Lumb governor.

 

ALSO

A 350hp tandem compound by J Petrie, 1875.  Left handed, named 'Elaine'. 

[There is an entry in the Petrie Weigh book which could refer to this engine: 

"September 1875, engine number 259, For the Freehold Spinning and

Weaving Company, Shawforth (Roughly same local area as Facit)  80

Nominal Horse Power.]

 

WASP MILL.  ROCHDALE

JOHN SANDIFORD AND SONS LTD.  WARDLE

750hp tandem compound engine by J and W McNaught, 1898.  13"HP, 26"LP

X 3ft stroke.  150psi, 70rpm.  12 ½ ft flywheel, 8 ropes.  Slide valve on LP

driven by eccentric on engine shaft.  Corliss valves on HP at rear.  Two gears

and bevels drive a side shaft to a cross shaft in front of the HP cylinder with

two eccentrics working wrist plates at two levels for the Corliss valves.  This

engine is half of the BES Company twin tandem.

[A tandem compound engine with Corliss valve gear built by J & W

McNaught Ltd of Rochdale in 1902 for the Wasp Mill, Wardle, Lancs.  This

engine is now preserved at the Bolton Steam Museum of the Northern Mill

Engine Society.]

[Watkins records:

John Sandiford & Sons, Wasp Mill, Wardle, Nr Rochdale, Lancs.  Wool Dyers

and Carbonisers.  'Elsie' was built by J. & W. McNaught, and purchased

secondhand by Sandifords about 1914. The cylinders had Corliss-valves; the

high-pressure was 13 ¼ and the low-pressure 24in bore by 3ft stroke. Using

steam at 130psi, and running at 73rpm, it was heavily loaded at times. The

twin slipper crosshead guides were characteristic of the large mill engines.

Two boilers for 160psi supplied the engine and heavy process load, but the

drives were gradually changed to electric motors, and, still structurally

unaltered, the engine was superseded in 1967.]

 

JACKSON.  ROCHDALE

500hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1882.  17"HP, 33"LP

X 5ft stroke.  120psi, 63rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on HP. 

Slide valve LP.

 

JACKSON.  ROCHDALE

350hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1889.  14"HP, 28"LP

X 5ft stroke.  120psi, 61rpm.  16ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump drive from crosshead.

 

HIGHAM'S.  ROCHDALE

450hp tandem compound engine by J Petrie, 1904.  15"HP, 29"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  150psi, 82rpm.  20ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves LP cylinder. 

Slide valves on HP worked by cams on a vertical shaft driven by a long side

shaft driving governor.  Lumb regulator  [Wilby patent?] on an old governor. 

Two eccentrics on engine shaft operate LP Corliss valves.

 

SHAWCLOUGH MILL (1902) LTD.  ROCHDALE

Mr Barton.

450hp tandem compound engine by J and W McNaught, 1907.  15"HP, 33"LP

X 4ft stroke.  155psi, 75rpm.  14ft flywheel, 17 ropes.  Corliss HP and slide

valve LP.  Air pump drive from crosshead.  Long side shaft drives the governor

and a cross shaft in front of the Rear cylinder with two eccentrics for Corliss

gear. 

 

ALSO

350hp tandem compound engine by Robinson, 1884.  14"HP, 27"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  155psi, 84rpm.  14ft plain flywheel.  Corliss valves on both cylinders. 

Air pump and horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Double wrist

plates on each cylinder.

 

ENSOR MILL.  ROCHDALE

ENSOR MILL COMPANY LTD.  CASTLETON

Engine named 'Clara'.  Mr Travis.

750hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1915.  21"HP, 39"LP X 4ft

stroke.  160psi, 73rpm.  21ft flywheel, 21 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump drive from tail rod.  Fine guards round cranks.

 

ALSO

750hp tandem compound engine by Sharples [Barrow in Furness?], 1908. 

19"HP, 40"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 72 ½ rpm.  22ft flywheel, 17 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump drive from crosshead.  Fine guard round

crank. 

 

New Corliss gear and Lumb governors to both engines instead of Dobson's

motion.

 

R CUDWORTH.  NORDEN

BAITINGS MILL.  NORDEN.  ROCHDALE

Engine named 'Mary'.  Mr W Dobson.

250hp tandem compound engine by S S Stott, Haslingden, 1895.  12 ½"HP,

24"LP X 3ft stroke.  Right hand engine.  140psi, 68rpm.  14ft plain flywheel. 

Corliss valves on HP and slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind rear LP

cylinder.  Rope drive, 6 ropes, outside the engine room.  Lumb governor.

[This engine was out of use in the 1980s when I was working on Ellenroad. 

Round about 2004(?) it was dismantled and I believe exported.  However,

this engine has a place in the history of conservation of steam weaving

plants which should be recorded. At the risk of boring you, here's the story…..

 

It's almost the end of January 2001 and I have been triggered into the

realisation that not only is there is a gap in the memoirs I have already

'finished', but we need an update because the story moves on.

 

What started this was Janet (my daughter) asking me for some pics of

engines and me.  I sent her one of Newton and me repairing Bancroft Engine

in 1978 and it struck her that she hadn't got a lot of pictures of these aspects

of my life.  I did a search and found a few which I sent to her and at the same

time scanned some other pics I came across which would go well in my copy

of the memoirs.  One of these was a picture of the boiler at Jubilee Mill, more

of this later.  I looked through the memoir to find the right place to insert the

pic and realised that I'd never told the story about this and some related

aspects of my life.  So, here we are hard at it writing the memoir again!  I've

called this section conservation matters because it will include matters other

than Jubilee but which are closely related and in some cases, more recent. 

Right, sit down and concentrate, there may be questions afterwards!

 

 

THE LAST STEAM DRIVEN WEAVING SHED IN

LANCASHIRE.

 

One aspect of human behaviour that has intrigued, amused and at times

infuriated me at various times during my mature (?) life is the preoccupation

with superlatives.  If something is the 'biggest', the 'oldest' or the 'last', its

stature is enhanced.  It's easier to attract interest to something if it can be so

described.  This is a very lazy and immature way of making decisions,

particularly in the field of conservation.  It is almost as though there is some

inertia in the system which can only be overcome by some easily recognised

and irrefutable quality and these adjectives have disproportionate powers. 

In truth, the criteria which govern selection should be based on merit but this

very seldom happens.  Let me illustrate this with an account of the effort to

preserve the 'last steam driven weaving shed in Lancashire'.

 

In 1978 I was already in fairly close contact with some of the most influential

people in the conservation of the industrial heritage because of my

involvement with Bancroft and the Lancashire Textile Project.  The LTP was

another last minute project, gathering oral evidence as to how the textile

industry in Barlick actually functioned before it vanished forever.  Even then

I knew that the approach was flawed, something of interest sat there for a

hundred years and its importance was only recognised at the last minute. 

The consequence is, in all these cases, that what could have been a measured

and scholarly approach becomes a cavalry charge.  When there were

thousands of steam driven mills nobody had any interest in preserving one. 

By the time we had got down less than half a dozen, in 1978, the matter was

being addressed.  Here is what happened.

 

Early in 1978 when we knew Bancroft was going to close I had a visitor at

the engine house, Peter White.  He was a London based civil servant working

with English Heritage, the government organisation concerned with

heritage preservation and at that time rejoiced in the title 'Her Majesty's

Inspector of Ancient Monuments (NW) .  I tried to persuade him that

Bancroft should be preserved as a fine example of a typical East Lancashire

steam driven weaving shed.  My reasons were that it was a late mill in good

condition, classic girder shed construction and it was as-built, it had never

been altered.  It had plenty of land around it and so could easily be

augmented with essential things like a visitor centre, car parking and

administrative facilities.  It was situated in the right place, at the gateway to

the Dales to make it an easily integrated part of a wider tourist-based

economy.  It had a skilled work force which could be nurtured and employed

and finally, it had enough space to accept Henry Brown Sons and Pickles in a

section of the shed which could be saved from inevitable extinction and

become a training and maintenance resource for the whole of the heritage

industry.  With the benefit of over twenty years hindsight I still believe this

was a powerful and convincing case which should have been taken seriously

but it was ignored.

 

The first question Peter White asked me was where the money would come

from.  I told him I saw no problem.  How many tea towels, dusters and dust

sheets did the government buy in a year?  Give the contract for weaving

them to Bancroft at an economic price and run it like a business.  In modern

terms, make it a cost centre.  It would make money without a doubt.  The cost

of doing this was £60,000 for the mill and site and enough capital injected as

a loan to start the enterprise off.  Remember, these were two businesses that

were making a profit in the commercial world with no favourable contracts.

 

I was told that this was impossible as the government could not be seen to be

acting commercially.  I asked him how this squared with the Royal Ordnance

Factories or the Royal Dockyards but this was brushed aside.  He then told

me that as far as he was concerned, the decision had been taken.  Bancroft

would be allowed to go to the wall and this would leave only two major

steam mills running, Queen Street at Harle Syke near Burnley and Jubilee

Mill at Padiham.  There was another, Sutcliffe and Clarkson's at Wiseman

Street, Burnley but this was never seriously considered.  The demolition of

Bancroft would be used to make a case for the preservation of Jubilee Mill as

that was the preferred option.  Queen Street was seen as a good mill but

handicapped by its position and lack of room to expand visitor facilities.

 

I didn't agree with any of this at the time and with hindsight I'm still

convinced that I was right in advocating Bancroft as the ideal candidate. 

Nothing that has happened since has done anything other than reinforce my

conviction.

 

What did happen?  Well, it's a matter of record that Bancroft was demolished

but the engine and boiler house were saved by a local initiative supported by

the Pendle Council and backed indirectly by English Heritage through a

derelict land grant.  The result is a running engine in an isolated engine

house in a housing estate which is completely out of context.  I'm glad it's

there but am painfully aware of what might have been.  I was the first

chairman of the Trust but stepped aside once we had got it going.

 

Wiseman Street closed and the engine is still in there but everything

connected with it is gone, including the boiler house I think and there is no

realistic prospect of it ever running again.  Even if it did, there is no context.

 

What happened to the grand plan to preserve Jubilee?  This is where we get

an insight into how well preservation was being managed from London. 

Jubilee Mill was built in 1887 by the Padiham Room and Power Company.  It

was powered by a slide valve cross compound engine by Yates and this

engine is I think the oldest Yates engine still surviving and also the only

engine I know with expansion gear on the high pressure.  The engine drove

the site until the late 70's and was retained on site after the mill stopped.  By

1979 Bancroft was under the hammer and on 24th July 1980 the engine house

was scheduled as Monument 188 (Lancashire)  Note that a ghastly mistake

had been made, the boiler house, chimney and mill were given no protection

at all.

 

In April 1986, Jubilee Mill was bought by N&R Contractors of Portsmouth

Mill, Todmorden.  My old mate Norman Sutcliffe and his brothers bought to

mill to demolish it and sell the land for housing.  All this was perfectly legal. 

Robert Aram and I got wind of this shortly after demolition started.  Robert

went straight down to Padiham and bought the scheduled monument and

the artefacts out of the workshop and paid N&R to make the building secure. 

He knew that if this wasn't done the engine would be vandalised.  I rang EH

and informed them that the grand plan had gone awry, that the mill was

being dropped and that there was nothing they could do about it.  I also told

them that Robert had stepped in and taken the engine under his wing.

 

The net result was a disaster.  True, the engine was saved and in good hands

but it was an isolated artefact, out of context with no boiler and chimney and

I told Robert we were on a hiding to nothing if we tried to do anything with

it.  I shan't detail the initiatives we attempted but suffice it to say that every

overture we made to the local council, EH and the Science Museum all came

to nothing.  The situation we had was a decaying engine house in the middle

of a housing estate and no chance of doing a Bancroft with a dedicated band

of volunteers because, to a man, the locals wanted it demolishing.  They

couldn't understand why this eyesore had been left to blight their property

prices.

 

Eventually Robert bought Masson Mill in Derbyshire and we put up a

proposal to move the engine down there and install it in steam in a proper

context attached to a mill.  I handled this for Robert and in August 1996 we

were granted Scheduled Monument Consent to move the engine to Masson. 

The intention was to move the engine as soon as consent was granted and we

were promised that this would be given by end December 1995 but due to the

fact that the consent was eight months late, the window we had for removal

to Masson in terms of the work schedule down there and the availability of

funding (all out of Robert's back pocket!) had evaporated and the engine had

to sit there awaiting a new opportunity.

 

This opportunity arose in 1999 and with the full consent of EH we set on

Gissing and Lonsdale and removed the engine for installation in Derbyshire. 

At long last, we could breathe a sigh of relief, the Yates engine was safe. 

How much danger was it under at Padiham?  Between 1986 and 1999 the

engine house was set on fire twice and broken into several times.  My

estimates for the total cost of damage over the period were about £11,000. 

To this must be added one of the strangest cases of theft I have ever come

across.  As key-holder for Jubilee I was contacted by Padiham police on 27th

August 1990 to ask whether we had sold the boiler that was lying in the mill

yard as a man was cutting it up!  I told them to collar the man immediately

and I would come straight over as we hadn't authorised any work.  I should

explain that as part of the plans to find a role for the engine Robert had

bought a redundant Lancashire boiler early in 1989 from Dura Mill at Facit

when it closed and transported it to Padiham for potential re-use there.  The

35 ton boiler was laid in an enclosed yard behind locked gates and we

thought it was reasonably safe.  How wrong we were!

 

I went down to Padiham and found that Mr Chadwick the General Manager

of a reputable firm of scrap merchants, Lethbridge's of Blackburn had

bought the boiler for £600 from two people called 'Smith Brothers' in a pub

in Padiham.  He had set on his contractor Steven Kennedy to cut it up and he,

in turn had set on a man called David Stott who was in the cells.  This poor

little bloke was entirely innocent, he was only doing what he was told and I

got him released immediately.    The story was, of course, very suspect and

I've never really understood why Lethbridge's ever got involved in such a

dodgy deal.  I was talking to the detectives about this and one of them said

'Once a scrapman, always a scrapman!'  I think that's probably as good an

explanation as we'll ever get.  This affair dragged on for two years but

eventually we got full restitution for the loss of the boiler and all other costs

but only at the door of the court.

 

If you've been following the story, you'll realise that the number of possible

candidates for preservation has been falling!  Bancroft and Jubilee

demolished and  Wiseman Street a non-starter.  As far as anyone concerned

knew, there was only one candidate left for 'Last Steam Driven East Lancs.

Weaving Shed', this was Queen Street at Harle Syke.  Remember that this

had never been a strong contender because of its situation but all of a

sudden, it was the only candidate on the horizon.  EH kept a fairly low

profile on this one and it was left to Burnley Council to initiate a move in this

direction.  I knew nothing about what was going on as I was busy doing me

history degree at Lancaster as a mature student.  I got word that Burnley

Council had bought Queen Street on the 7th of February 1983 and   gone into

partnership with Pennine Heritage from Hebden Bridge.  Both Robert and I

forecast that it would end in tears because we knew quite a lot about PH and

none of it was good.  However, it was Somebody Else's Problem and we

ignored it.

 

In May 1983 I was a year out of Lancaster and managing an Interpretative

Team down at Pendle heritage when I was approached and asked to put

myself up as a candidate for the post of manager at Queen Street Mill.  It

seemed like a good idea to have a crack so I applied.  It was a three day

interview process run by the Council and Pennine Heritage.  I remember that

David Fletcher and his manager, Bill Breakell were on the panel together

with some Burnley people.  It was all very strange, they didn't seem to want

to hear what anyone was saying, all they wanted to do was tell the

candidates how they were going to run the project.  I only knew one of the

other candidates, Anna Benson from Helmshore who was a driving force at

Higher Mill.  I told her there was something funny going on but I decided to

stick with the process. 

 

I got a very clear indication of how wrong things were when they got me in

for interview and started to tell me what good condition the plant and engine

were in.  I told them to think again and showed them a picture of the bore of

the HP cylinder showing the big groove in the bottom where the broken piece

of piston ring had worn a groove after Arthur Martin, the engineer, had run

it for God knows how long without oil.  They asked me where I'd got the pics

and I told them I'd taken them when I was with Newton Pickles who had

done the repair.  They lost interest in me immediately.

 

When I got outside I told Anna she was going to get the job and she wouldn't

believe it, she asked me how I knew.  I told her that what they wanted was

someone they could control and she was spot ball.  This didn't please her but

as it turned out I was exactly right.  When I got home that night I got a

phone call from a mole in Hebden Bridge who had heard a conversation in

the pub between David Fletcher and someone else.  Part of the conversation

alluded to the fact that Anna was going to be given the job but they were

going to complete the interviews. 

 

First thing the following morning I went to Queen Street and withdrew my

application on 'personal grounds'.  As I left I told Anna she was going to get

the job and I warned her that she should only accept if she could do it on

secondment from the Lancashire Museum Service.  She asked why and I told

her it would end in tears but I think she suspected me of being jealous of her. 

As things turned out I was right again and I suspect that if you were to ask

Anna for her side of the story of the next five years she would have a sorry

tale to tell.

 

By May 1989, Queen Street was in trouble, Anna Benson was the mill

manager but Pennine Heritage had been squeezed out by the Council.  EH

threw in £50,000 to keep the mill open during the summer but it was

obvious that there was either going to have to be a completely new initiative

or else the mill would have to close.  I was over at Ellenroad at Rochdale

sorting the Ellenroad Engine out and I got a call one day in 1987 from John

Lowe who was the architect for the Council.  My profile had been raised in

the Borough because Robert and I had spent a lot of time with the council

discussing possible avenues for dealing with Jubilee.  John wanted to take

me to lunch!

 

I knew they wanted something and basically the question was, 'What do we

do about Queen Street?'  My answer was the same as it had always been, if

you want to save a mill, let it run and make money.  I told him they should

get on to the Co-op at Balloon Street, get their help and form a cooperative

weaving shed.  Weave cloth in the shed by steam and make up in the disused

units at the back and get some professional marketing people in.  The union

shirts they were making were superb and there was no reason why they

shouldn't make a profit. As a throw away line I told him that if they wanted

an easy way out I could find them a buyer.

 

I suspect John shot straight back to Andrew Walker with the good news and

almost immediately AW was back on to me like a ton of bricks.  Robert and I

had talked this right through and on March 15th 1987 I met Andrew Walker

and gave him Robert's proposal.  Basically, Robert would buy the mill off

them for £5 and give them the option to buy it back for the same sum five

years later plus whatever he had spent on it.  I was to inspect the place, draw

up a plan and draft a set of articles for a company limited by guarantee, to

name but a few.  We did all this, met the senior officers, put the proposal and

plans on the table and left it to them.  I kept sending reminders but in effect

they put us on the back burner.  In July 1992 I got a letter saying that the

mill had been sold to Lancashire County Council and that there was to be a

'new initiative'.  They thanked us for our interest and apologised for the

delay!

 

So, QS sailed off into the future under the guiding hand of Mr Blundell the

Lancs. County museum chief with Ian Gibson actually doing the work.  Not

surprisingly I hold the same opinion I had in 1978 at Bancroft.  The only way

to make something like QS work is to get it started generating money.  It has

to be looked at as a business problem.  It shouldn't be like this, museums like

Queen Street and Helmshore should be funded to the hilt from the public

purse on the grounds that they are World Heritage sites but until this happy

day arrives we have to do anything we can to protect them from destruction.

 

My reading, as I sit here banging this story out for you in 2001 is that QS

and Helmshore are on a knife edge.  Nobody can guarantee that they will be

there in five years.  What a condemnation of our system!

 

I can't remember the exact date, it would be about 1993 or 94, I had been

invited by Peter White to accompany a Council of Europe jolly across

northern England looking at industrial heritage sites.  The excuse for me

being there was the Lancashire Textile Project and all the work I had done on

big artefacts.  I couldn't be with them at the start and joined the party in

Durham.  Put your hard hats on, there's going to be some serious name-

dropping here!  I was in the crypt of either the cathedral or the castle taking

wine with Lord Montague, the chair of EH and various senior members of

the organisation and I decided to be naughty.  I asked Lord M if I was right

in thinking that the basis for the decision to fund Queen Street was that it

was the 'Last Steam Driven Weaving Shed'.  He said that this was correct.  As

I opened my mouth I could see heads shaking in the background and eyes

rolling upwards as they realised what I was going to say next. 

 

I said, 'Are you aware there's another steam driven weaving shed in

Rochdale?'  It was a moment to cherish, the buggers all knew there was but

they weren't interested in it so they ignored it.  LM was very interested and

asked me to send him details.  I did, I sent him a full set of pics of the mill and

received in reply the standard small 'your communication has been received'

postcard.  End of story, deep-sixed.  In truth Baiting's Mill at Norden wasn't

a very interesting building but it had all the elements of a steam driven shed. 

What annoyed me was the fact that they all knew about it but ignored it for

their own ends, it would have been 'untidy' to recognise it.

 

Last year I got a request from Robert Aram.  He asked me to get over to

Baitings at Norden and photograph the loom-breaking and dismantling of

the engine.  I did this and it was just like the old days, blood and mud and

smoke and destruction.  As Robert said, It's the last one we'll see.  When I got

home I rang EH in London and got a nice young lady who knew nothing.  I

was very kind to her and told her that if she wanted to spread joy in the

office she should go to her boss in the NW division and say 'Stanley says

you're safe.  Cudworth's are scrapping everything at Baitings Mill'.  She

asked for my name and number but of course, nobody ever got back to

me………  Sorry for the length of that but these matters need to be recorded as

they flag up the mistakes of the past and might help us find the way into the

future.]

 

NORMANTON AND SONS LTD.  WHITWORTH

BRIDGE MILL.  WHITWORTH

[This entry puzzles me.  In 1941 Bridge mills was Matthew Stuttard, sizers

and wouldn't need an engine this size.  Normanton and Sons are down as

Vale Mill in 1941 and Brookside and Vale in 1954 in the trade directories.]

500hp tandem compound engine by J and W McNaught, 1907.  14"HP, 28"LP

X 4ft stroke.  170psi, 81rpm.  16ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Airpump driven from crosshead.  October 1946 (date out?)

 

BARCHANT MILL.  ROCHDALE

BARCHANT SPINNING COMPANY

500hp tandem compound engine by Wood Brothers, here 1918.  14"HP,

26"LP, X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 104rpm.  10ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Drop valves on

both cylinders,  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

MAYFIELD MILL.  ROCHDALE

OSWALD AND DUNCAN LTD.  HAMER LANE

500hp tandem compound engine by J and E Wood of Bolton, 1903.  17"HP,

32"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 81rpm.  20ft flywheel, 18 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  All valves at Bottom of cylinders.  Air pump driven from

crosshead.

 

JOHN BRIGHT.  ROCHDALE

MOSS MILL.  ROCHDALE

 

[Entry in Petrie weigh book:  "November 29th 1890.  James King and Sons

new mill (Moss).  Pair of horizontal tandem engines 300NHP.  Second engine

set to work 18th March 1891.  30ft flywheel, 44 ropes, (70 ¾ tons finished) 

Moss Mill Co.]

1800HP TWIN TANDEM ENGINE BY j Petrie, 1890.  Two 24"HP, two 45"LP

X 6ft stroke.  175psi, 53rpm.  28ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss HP valves and

slide valve LP.

 

WARDLE COTTON COMPANY.  ROCHDALE

RYDINGS MILL.  WARDLE

500hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by J Musgrave, Bolton, no date.  24"

diameter cylinder X 32" stroke.  160psi, 134rpm.  12ft flywheel.  Rope drive. 

New tail rod and guide 1925.

 

EDMUND LEACH.  WARDLE

LODGE AND CROSSFIELD MILLS.  WARDLE

500hp double beam engine by J Petrie.  Two 21"HP, two 30"LP X 3ft 6" and

7ft stroke.  100psi (60psi)  ?rpm.  20ft flywheel.  Air pumps driven from

beams.  Was a twin cylinder simple at 60psi.

[I don't think it is this engine but in the Petrie weigh book there is an entry

dated January 1877, order numbers 268/269 for two 80NHP beam engines

of 84" stroke and for 40psi.  The customer is Isaac Hoyle and another,

Summerseat, Bury.  This is the only 84" stroke engine I can find in the book.]

 

BUTTERWORTH HALL.  MILNROW

Out in 1957.  1200hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1912.  25"HP,

52"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 62rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.

 

TIMES MILL  COMPANY.  MIDDLETON

AVON MILL (1919) LTD.  MIDDLETON

2,500hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon, 1908. 

28"HP,44"IP and two 48"LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  200psi, 60rpm.  28ft flywheel,

50 ropes.  Corliss valves an all cylinders.  Air pumps driven from the

crossheads.

 

DART MILL.  BOLTON

?hp triple expansion vertical engine by J and W McNaught, 1905?.  180psi. 

Air pumps driven from crossheads. 

 

KING SPINNING COMPANY  ROYTON

KING MILL.  ROYTON

[Arthur has this as Middleton but there is no such firm there.]

1750hp triple expansion vertical engine by George Saxon, 1898.  23 ½"HP, 36

½"IP and two 40 ½"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 60rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pumps driven from crossheads.

 

REDCROSS MILL.  ROCHDALE

JAMES NELSON LIMITED.  ROCHDALE

500hp tandem compound engine by J Petrie, 1892.  18"HP, 36"LP X 4ft 6"

stroke.  100psi, 70rpm.  12 ft open arm flywheel, 12 ropes.  Piston valves with

cut-off.  HP cylinder at rear possibly added later.  Lumb governor.

[Petrie Weigh book records:  9th May 1892, Thomas Watson and Company,

Redcross Street, Rochdale.  Horizontal tandem engine, 50 nominal horse

power.

 

JOHN BRIGHT AND BROTHERS LIMITED.  ROCHDALE

FIELDHOUSE MILL.  ROCHDALE

Mr Hirst.

Two double beam engines by J Petrie, 1845.  two 40"diameter cylinders X 7ft

stroke.  40psi, 28rpm.  18ft flywheel, gear drive.  Slide valves.  Air pumps

driven by rods from the beams.

[Petrie Weigh book records:  June 1845, 0rder numbers 61 and 62.  Pair of

60 nominal horse power engines for John Bright Brothers.  £2,900 without

flywheel. 

March 1873, order numbers 244/245.  Pair of beam engines to work at

40psi.  Both 30 nominal horse power.  Pair of horizontal engines with 28"

cylinders to work at 30psi

August 28th 1893.  No order number.  John Bright Brothers, 30 nominal

horse power.  No details.]

One of the above simple double beam engines was altered by Petrie in 1900 to

a 1000hp triple expansion four cylinder beam engine.  24"HP, 45"IP, two

40"LP X 3ft 6" and 7ft stroke.  160psi.  18ft flywheel, gear drive.  Corliss valves

on HP and IP and slide valve on LPs.  Air pumps driven by rods from beams.

 

ALSO AT FIELDHOUSE MILL.

1200hp tandem compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1910.  23"HP, 46"LP X

4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  20ft flywheel, 26 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Tail rod support guides and

between cylinders.  Driving an alternator in case of power failure on mains

supply. 

 

ALSO

1000hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1905. 

21"HP, 45"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  16ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven by bell crank from crosshead.

 

ALSO

Had a 600hp De Laval turbine two belts driving from a gearbox.

 

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  ROCHDALE

ARKWRIGHT MILL, COOK STREET, HAMER

Mr Williams.

2500hp twin tandem compound engine by J Petrie, 1886.  New cylinders by

George Saxon in 1914.  Two19 ½"HP, two 40 ½"LP X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss

valves.  180psi, 74rpm.  Semi-circular supports between cylinders.  Guards

almost enclose the cranks.  25ft, 80 ton flywheel, 30 ropes.  Cross shaft drives

governor and has four eccentrics at each end.  Air pump drive from each LP

tailrod.  Support guides to each tail rod.

[In the Petrie weigh book there is an entry dated October 30th 1886.  Order

number 313 from the Arkwright Spinning Company for a pair of 100nominal

horse power tandem compound engines with rope drive]

 

[I asked Geoff Shackleton about these entries because I thought that one of

them might be for Masson Mill.  Here's what Geoff said:  Stanley, Forget the

1890 Petrie HTC, this was supplied to the Arkwright Spinning Company,

Arkwright Mill, Hamer, Rochdale. This mill also had a double tandem engine

by Petrie in 1886 and another double tandem engine by them in 1901. I've

looked at the J & E Wood records again for the work at Masson in 1911 and

they say 'new cylinders, compounding 17 + 32 x 42 for 75psig'.  This is

sometimes written this way for the supply of replacement cylinders to an

existing compound but could be the supply of two new cylinders whilst

compounding an existing single cylinder engine (Marshall 100hp?).  Geoff]

 

WHITFIELD MILL.  FACIT

THOMAS HOGHTON (BACUP).  WHITFIELD MILL

500hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1907.  19"HP, 38"LP X 3ft

stroke.  All Corliss cylinders.  160psi, 82rpm.  18ft flywheel, 17 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind the HP cylinder owing to the shape of the engine

room.

 

STANDARD MILL.  ROCHDALE

2500hp twin tandem compound engine by J and W McNaught, 1890.  New

cylinders by McNaught in 1912.  Two 26"HP, two 46"LP X 6ft stroke.  120psi,

56rpm.  Old cylinders were piston valves, new had drop valves on all cylinders. 

28ft Flywheel, 44 ropes.  Air pump drive from each crosshead.  Support

guides.

[Apart from the fact it isn't triple expansion this looks very similar to the

Ellenroad engine made two years later.]

 

MARS MILL.  ROCHDALE

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  MARS MILL.  CASTLETON

Mr Gregory

1500hp cross compound engine by Urmston and Thompson of Oldham, 1908. 

29"HP, 59" X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 67rpm.  24ft flywheel, 36

ropes.  Air pump driven from LP tail rod which has support guide (only) like

Royton Ring Mill.

 

MOSS BRIDGE.  ROCHDALE

RAMSBOTTOM AND HITCHON.

300hp cross compound engine by Woodhouse and Mitchell, 1892.  100psi,

85rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP and slide valve LP.  Air

pump driven from crosshead, double guide bars.

 

SOUDAN MILL.  MIDDLETON

1200hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon, no date. 

21"HP, 33"IP, two 37"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 55rpm.  28ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.

 

THOMAS LEACH.  ROCHDALE

Moss Street, photo Hanson.  [Almost certainly Tim Hanson.]

350hp tandem compound engine by Earnshaw, Barlow and Hall, 1863.  15

½"HP, 30"LP X ?ft stroke.  Slide valves.  18ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Valve at top

of HP cylinder, at side of LP.  A forked connecting rod straddles the HP

cylinder from a crosshead between the cylinders to crank.  Double guide bars. 

HP valve worked from the rear.  Right hand engine.

 

ERA MILL.  ROCHDALE

2000hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J Petrie, 1898.  26"HP,

36"IP, two 42"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, ?rpm.  26ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Corliss

valves on HP and IP, slide valve LP.  Air pumps driven from tail rods with

support guides.  HP cylinder altered in 1904.

[The Era Mill, Woodbine St, Rochdale, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning.  'Victoria',

built by Petrie in 1898 differed from the Brierfield Mills engine in having

Corliss-valves for the high-and intermediate-cylinders (although the low-

pressures still had piston-valves) and in having the air pumps at the rear of

the engine. Designed to develop 1,500hp at 65rpm, the cylinders were 24, 36,

42, and 42in bore by 5ft stroke, with the drive from the 26ft flywheel by 40

ropes. Four Petrie boilers supplied steam at 160psi, and were still doing so

when 60 years old. Except for the fitting of a new design of high-pressure

cylinder in 1904, little was changed in its 60 years of life, which ended when,

in 1958, the mill was converted to electric drive.

 

MARTIN MILL.  BAGSLATE.  ROCHDALE

MARTIN'S MILL LTD.  BAGSLATE

200hp single beam engine by J Petrie, 1869.  There is a horizontal single

cylinder engine on the same shaft in another room by S S Stott, 1884.  This

engine is now a 300hp compound beam engine 18"HP, 30"LP X 5ft and 6ft

stroke.  17ft beam.  125psi, 64rpm.  18ft flywheel, 13ft gear on to 5ft second

motion gear.  HP is Corliss valves, LP is slide valve.  Air pump (original)

driven from beam.  Cranks set at 180 degrees on shaft.  On horizontal engine a

return crank drives wrist plate and governor.

[I have searched the Petrie Weigh book for an order which I could definitely

tie in with this engine but can't find one.]

 

COOPERATIVE LAUNDRY.  ROCHDALE

75hp single cylinder engine by James Milnes of Heywood, 1905.  14" diameter

cylinder X 30"? stroke.  ?psi, 105rpm.  Slide valve with expansion valve.

 

T AND C LITTLEWOOD AND COMPANY LTD.  ROCHDALE

BUCKLEY MILL.  ROCHDALE

300hp single beam engine by John Petrie, 1863.  22 ½"HP, 30 ½" LP X 2ft 9"

and 5ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 42rpm.  14ft flywheel, gear drive.  Air pump driven

by rod from beam.  HP cylinder added in about 1896.  Corliss valves on HP

and slide valve LP.

 

DISTRICT LAUNDRY.  ROCHDALE

50hp single cylinder horizontal engine by A B Lord or T Robinson.  13"

diameter cylinder X 24" stroke.  90psi, 140rpm.  Slide valve.

 

VICTORIA MILL.  ROCHDALE

VICTORIA SPINNING CO LTD.  ROCHDALE

Mr A Walker.

1300hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and W McNaught, 1900. 

21"HP, 33"IP, two 37"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 71rpm.  25ft flywheel, 29

ropes.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder  All others have piston valves with twist

motion.  Air pump drive on each crosshead.

 

ECLIPSE MILL.  ROCHDALE

2000hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and W McNaught, 1900. 

Named 'Century'  24 ½"HP, 38 ½"IP and two 43"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi,

67rpm.  24ft flywheel, 42 ropes.  Corliss on HP cylinder, all others piston

valves.  Air pump driven from each crosshead, Lumb governor.

[Watkins records:  The Eclipse Mill, Rochdale, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning.  Built

in 1900 the Eclipse was a large mill, with 118,000 spindles. Called 'Century',

the engine was made by J. & W. McNaught, to develop 1,700hp a 67rpm,

using steam at 180psi from four boilers. The Corliss-valve high pressure

cylinder was 24in bore, with a 38in intermediate, and two 42in bore low-

pressures with piston valves, all by 5ft stroke. In later years, there was

continuous trouble over smoke from poor fuel, which caused a change to

electric drives in the 1950s, but the mill was closed a few years later.]

 

UNKNOWN MILL.  ROCHDALE

[Same details as Eclipse except 32 ropes]

 

PILOT MILL.  BURY

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  BURY

Mr Rawlinson.

2000hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and E Wood, 1906.  23

½"HP, 36 ½"IP, two 40"LP X 5ft stroke.  200psi, 66 ½ rpm.  24ft flywheel,

46 ropes.  Corliss valves to all cylinders.  Air pump driven from each

crosshead.  Lumb governor.

 

ELLENROAD MILL.  NEWHEY

2500hp twin tandem engine by J W McNaught, 1896.  Altered from triple

expansion four cylinders by Clayton Goodfellow, 1921.  Two 23 ½"HP and two

44"LP x 6ft stroke.  180psi, 58 1/2rpm.  28ft flywheel, 44 ropes.  Piston valves

on LP cylinders, Corliss 9cam) valves on HP.  Air pump driven from each

crosshead.  The 84 ton flywheel new in 1921.

[Basically accurate, this is the engine I spent 8 years refurbishing.  I never

measured the cylinder bores and can't comment apart from saying that I

always thought the HPs were 26" and the LPs 43".  Flywheel has 42 grooves

and not 44.  This is a low number for an engine which was capable of

delivering over 2800hp (from indicator diagrams in engineer's log book) but

it should be remembered that when the engine was altered after the fire they

couldn't get a wider flywheel in and so had to settle for 42 ropes maximum. 

Ideally, it should have had 50/55 ropes to cope with the new design load of

2500hp.  The original triple expansion had a design load of 1700hp. The date

of original build is wrong, it was 1892. In winter at full load the mill used

over 100 tons of coal per week. There is a 375KVA alternator in the cellar

driven by a countershaft from the main flywheel. Also a Browett and Lindley

enclosed engine direct coupled to a DC machine which provided pilot lights

in the mill when the main engine was stopped.  Before the alternator there

was a large Dynamo driven by countershaft from the main engine in a room

next to the engine.  Feed water for the five Lancashire boilers was provided

by a belt driven Frank Pearn pump which could deliver 4000 gallons per

hour.  There used to be a steam injector as well for emergencies but in about

1956 this was replaced by a very large three legged Weir pump bought

secondhand from ICI where it had been one of a pair used for pumping

sulphuric acid and this pump is different in that it has a stainless steel bucket

and liner.  There is also a large Mather and Platt Underwriter fire pump. 

The engine was run on just the left hand side for a while before the complete

stoppage in 1972.  There is an indicator record of that side giving over

1500hp.  Whitehead governor driven by the same shaft which runs the

Craig's motion Corliss valve gear.  The engine is now preserved by the

Ellenroad Steam Museum and steams regularly running at the original

speed.]

 

ROBERT STOTT'S SONS.  ROCHDALE

MELLOR STREET MILL.  ROCHDALE

750hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by Wood Brothers, 1907.  13"HP,

18"IP, 22"LP and 27"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  15ft flywheel, 15 ropes.  Air pump

driven from tail rod with guides.

 

GARFIELD MILL.  NEWHEY

GARFIELD SPINNING COMPANY LTD.  NEWHEY

Mr J Scott.

2000hp triple expansion engine by J Petrie 1883.  Altered from twin tandem

by J Musgrave, Bolton, 1901.  24 ¾" HP, 26"IP, two 40"LP X 5ft stroke. 

180psi, 58 ½"rpm.  30 ft flywheel, 26 ropes.  Piston valves to LP cylinders

Corliss valves on IP and HP cylinders.  Air pumps driven from each crosshead. 

These two engines altered opposite way.

[Petrie weigh book says: September 1884, order no. 305, 200NHP.]

 

QUARRY MILL.  ROCHDALE

S A HEYWOOD AND SONS (1898).  ROCHDALE

120hp single cylinder engine by J Petrie, 1860.  18" diameter cylinder X 3ft

stroke.  100psi, 65rpm.  15ft flywheel, 14" belt.  Piston valve with internal trip

gear operated by cams on a vertical shaft which also drives the governor.  Air

pump driven from the tail rod with guides.

 

ENTWISTLE.  BURY

[In 1941 Worrall, J and A Entwistle are noted as being at both Brickhouse and

Stanley mills.]

300hp tandem compound engine by S S Stott, Haslingden, 1904.  16"HP,

30"LP X 3ft stroke.  140psi, 87rpm.  12ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on

HP cylinder, slide valve on LP.  Slipper guides.  Forked connecting rod. 

Separate rope driven air pump and condenser (vertical) in corner of the room.

 

TWIN MILL.  HEYWOOD

COLLINS BROTHERS LTD.  HEYWOOD

250hp tandem compound engine (converted from a single with a new HP

cylinder by Riley of Heywood) by Mills of Heywood, 1865.  11"HP, 22"LP, X 3ft

6" stroke.  95psi, 42rpm.  18ft flywheel, bevel gears.  Air pump driven by

crosshead.  Slide valve LP cylinder at front.  Return crank drives bevel driven

long side shaft to governor and a cross shaft with two eccentrics for outside

drive HP Corliss valves.  Double guide bars.

 

GE AND W WIKE (1907).  BURY

CHESHAM MILLS.  BURY

Engines named 'Ethel' and Myrtle'. 

200hp tandem compound engine by W and J Yates, Blackburn, 1885.  15"HP,

25"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  80psi, 67rpm.  14ft flywheel, enclosed, 5 ropes.  Slide

valves on both cylinders.  Double guide bars.  Lumb governor.  Air pump

driven from the crosshead.  Stopped  August 1963. [Not clear whether this

applies to this engine or the next at Mutual.]

 

MUTUAL SPINNING CO LTD.  HEYWOOD.

1500hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and E Wood, 1898.  21"HP,

33"IP, two 35"LP X 6ft stroke.  160psi, 53rpm.  24ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Air

pumps driven from crossheads.  All Corliss cylinders.  Two 26" diameter X 24"

stroke air pumps.  Support guides on both tail rods.  (From Wood's booklet)

 

UNITY RING MILL.  HEYWOOD

1800hp twin tandem compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1907.  Two

21"HP, two 44"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 72rpm.  24ft flywheel, 46 ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Cross shaft just forward of HP cylinders with 4

eccentrics at each end.  Air pumps driven from each crosshead.  Porter

governor.  No tail rods.

[Watkins records:  Unity Ring Mill, Heywood, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning. 

Illustrating the next phase in Buckley & Taylor's design, this was built in

1909, although they were making vertical engines before then. The Corliss-

valve cylinders were 20 and 41in bore by 5ft stroke, which with steam at

160ps~ developed 1,900hp at 67rpm. The high-pressure cylinders are still at

the rear with the air pumps driven from the crossheads, but it was governed

by cut-off of the Corliss-valves. It ran with very little trouble until the mill

was closed in 1958. The 24ft flywheel weighed 53tons.]

 

KENYON.  BURY

ROACH BANK MILLS.  BURY

Hick Hargreaves cross compound running a generator.

 

HEALEY BROTHERS.  HEYWOOD

MOSSFIELD MILL.  HEYWOOD

900hp cross compound engine  by George Saxon, 1915.  23"HP, 46"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 63rpm.  26ft flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.

 

BURNS RING MILL.  HEYWOOD

[Burns Ring Spinning Company in 1912 M/c Royal Exchange year book but

no trace in 1941 Worrall.]

1000hp quadruple expansion engine by J Musgrave, no date.  15 ½"HP.  23"

and 31 ½"Ips and 45 ½"LP X 4ft stroke.  200psi, 85rpm.  20ft flywheel, 37

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump worked from extension of one

of the parallel motion levers.  [Is this an inverted vertical?]

 

SEFTON MILL   HEYWOOD

600hp vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1901.  19"HP, 37"LP

X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 75rpm.  20 ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.

 

BRIAR MILL (1920) LTD.  SHAW

Mr Fisher.

1900hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon, Manchester,

1907.  35"HP, 38"IP, two 42"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 66rpm.  24ft flywheel,

40 ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Piston rod supports between

cylinders.  Air pumps driven from crossheads.  No tail rods.

 

CLOUGH MILL.  SHAW

JOSHUAH MILNE   SHAW

350hp cross compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1911.  18"HP, 36"LP X

3ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP

and slide valve LP.  Two eccentrics on a cross shaft for outside drive Corliss

valves.  Webbed crank for LP cylinder with Flywheel the other side of the

bearing.

 

CORAL MILL.  NEWHEY

1100hp vertical cross compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1907.  20"HP,

45"LP X 4ft stroke.  170psi, 80rpm.  22ft flywheel with 20 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from the crosshead.

 

RICHARD BARNES AND CO LTD.  MILNROW

FIRGROVE MILL.  MILNROW

Mr Hardwick.

500hp tandem compound engine by J and W McNaught, 1907.  19"HP, 31"LP

X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 77rpm.  16ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Air pump driven from

crosshead.  Slide valve LP cylinder at front, Corliss valves on HP.

 

DEE MILL.  SHAW

Mr Walker.

1500hp tandem compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, Guide Bridge 1907. 

two 18"HP, two 42"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  26ft flywheel, 38 ropes. 

Corliss valves on HP cylinders, Piston valve LPs.  Cross shaft driving governor

and eccentrics for Corliss valves on HP.  Air pump driven from each

crosshead.  Supports to piston rods between cylinders.

[Watkins records:  Dee Mill, Shaw, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning.  One of the few

twin tandem mill engines built by Scott & Hodgson, this was made in 1907.

The Corliss-valve high-pressure cylinders were 21in bore, and the piston-

valve low pressures were 44in bore, all by 5ft stroke. Running at 65rpm, they

were designed to develop 1,500hp, steam being supplied by four boilers by

Joseph Adamson of Hyde, which, designed for 200psi in 1907, were still

insured for that 60 years later. The mill was gradually changed over to

electric drive, and when this was completed in 1968, the owners gracefully

permitted the engine to remain in position, under the care of The Northern

Mill Engines Society of Rochdale, a worthy end for a good servant.]

[Unfortunately George was being a bit premature.  NMES ran the engine

occasionally for a few years but then there was some trouble and shortly

afterwards the mill was demolished.  The engine house was scheduled in

May 1982 as County Monument 28 under the 1979 Act.

 

Here is the back story:  Dee Mill was built, and first started on the 20th April

1907, by the Dee Mill Company.  The engine was built and installed by Scott

and Hodgson of Guide Bridge near Manchester.  It was a twin tandem

compound designed for 1500hp at 65 ½ rpm and was a lovely example of a

typical textile steam engine which ran overloaded at times up to 1900hp. 

The ownership of the mill passed to the Lancashire Cotton Corporation and

later to Courtaulds Limited.   By 1967 most of the machinery had been

electrified and the engine was only driving an alternator and the Blowing

Room, a total of about 350hp.  The engine was stopped in September 1967

and the ropes cut down.  In February 1968 the Northern Mill Engine Society

intervened and ran the engine in steam occasionally from 1976 onwards. 

This arrangement was terminated by Courtaulds and from then on the

engine was left idle.  The mill eventually closed completely in 1982 and, with

the exception of the engine house and chimney, was demolished in 1984. 

Though protected in theory by Scheduling, the engine started a rapid decline

accelerated by neglect and vandalism. 

 

In 1986 I got word from one of my moles that Dee Mill chimney was going to

be felled.  I went down there and introduced myself to Mervyn Simpson of

Simpson Brothers (Explosives) Ltd from Heywood who had the job of

dropping the stack and watched it come down.  Ownership of the site passed

through several hands and plans were made for re-development but the

presence of the engine house blighted every attempt at improvement and it

was never in the interests of the owners to protect it.  By 1992 the site was

owned by Littlewoods Home Shopping Group who had a large operation on

the adjoining Lily Mill site  and wished to build a new facility over the road

on the Dee and Ash Mill sites.  They had been 'advised' that they could never

get permission to demolish the Monument as the protection was too strong. 

At this point, the man in charge of solving the problem did what is always a

useful exercise; he sat down and read the files.  He came across the name

Stanley Graham and contacted me……

 

We have to step back a few years here.  The reason why my name appeared

in the files was because I had a history with the Dee Mill site.  Ten years

before all this happened, in the days when the Department of the

Environment was in charge of all Scheduled Monuments, I was asked by Her

Majesty's Inspector of Ancient Monuments for the area to keep an eye on the

site and feed him any information that emerged.  I visited occasionally and

got thrown off by large Irish men and let it be known to the steam mafia that

I had an interest.  The gist of my reports was that the owners, whilst

appearing to be concerned, were actually pursuing a course of constructive

neglect.  At one point we foiled a projected raid on the site to scrap the

engine. 

 

Early in 1990 I was contacted by the new Inspector, by that time English

Heritage had been formed, in order to get an opinion from me as to what

could be done to retrieve the situation.  The trigger for this was the fact that

the site had changed hands and the new owner wanted to redevelop it as 

'The Eurotech Centre'.  None of this could happen while the engine was on the

site.  We agreed that the best route to salvage something from the wreck and

enable the development was to record the engine in situ and try to get

funding to dismantle and remove to a place of safety.  Our reasons for

recommending this course were that Scheduling was not protecting the

engine and there was no prospect of any improvement as long as the engine

was isolated and unprotected. 

 

I worked with the Inspector and got estimates for dismantling and removal. 

I also made informal approaches to Oldham MBC to find out whether there

was a place for the engine in their projected scheme at Manor Mill in

Oldham.  The upshot of all this was that Oldham MBC hadn't got the funding

to take the engine into their care.  They couldn't even agree to providing a

safe haven for the dismantled parts. 

 

At this point the Eurotech developers threw in the towel and Littlewoods

bought the site.  Having read the files, Dave Biggin, the Littlewoods executive

in charge of developing the site, found my telephone number and gave me a

call in April 1992.  We went into the engine house and had a look at the

engine.  I can think of few sadder sights than a wonderful piece of machinery

that has been vandalised to the extent that it had.  All the loose parts had

been stolen for scrap, other parts damaged by ineffectual attempts at

dismantling, the whole was red rust and had been sprayed all over by

graffiti artists.  To a bloke like me who had just spent eight years restoring

Ellenroad it was a terrible sight.  Worse was to come when we went in the

cellar.  It was obvious that someone was using it for shelter while taking

drugs, it was damp, cold and absolutely filthy.  A further problem was that

there was septic water leaking in through the foundations.  The most likely

cause for this was organic matter rotting in the old mill lodge which had

been filled in with demolition rubble.  We came out into the fresh air and I

told Dave that I could get rid of it for him but it would be a long job.  I

pointed out that what we were proposing to do was the legal equivalent of

demolishing Stonehenge and we would have to jump through a lot of hoops

but it could be done.  I think it was the first time anybody had made a

positive and practical proposal for the site and after a day or two to consult

he came back to me and gave me a free hand.  They asked me how much my

hourly rate would be and I plucked what to me was an enormous figure out

of mid air.  They bit my hand off and I realised that I was out of touch, I'm

pretty sure I could have doubled the figure!  I went away a wiser man but

stuck by the figure I had quoted.

 

At first Littlewoods' preferred plan was to follow the original

recommendation and get Oldham to take the engine off their hands, they

asked me to approach Oldham again and re-run the Manor Mill proposal

past them with the addition of a subsidy from Littlewoods towards the cost. 

The corporate view was that they did not want to be seen as the bad guys in

this, if it was possible Littlewoods wanted to preserve the engine and were

offering a serious amount of money.  I tried but failed to convince Oldham

MBC.  We were back to square one and so in February 1993 Dave asked me

for plan 'B'.

 

Simple plans are always the best.  I told Littlewoods that I could see only one

way out.  We should bite the bullet and apply for Scheduled Monument

Consent to Demolish.  My reasons were as follows:

 

The engine had been vandalised to the stage where any dismantling and re-

erection, even if funding was available, would result in a replica and not the

original artefact. 

 

Scheduling had failed to protect the engine. Its continued presence on the site

damaged the 1979 Act and was a drain on the limited resources of English

Heritage.

 

When the decision to schedule was taken in 1982 it was not clear that two

other engines would be refurbished and demonstrated regularly in steam;

the Ellenroad and the Trencherfield.

 

When in its prime the Dee Mill Engine was a good example of the standard

spinning mill prime mover. However, it had no historical or technical

features which cannot be found in other engines apart from the fact that it

was possibly the last Scott and Hodgson surviving.

 

Even if it was desirable, there could be no public access to the engine on the

grounds of safety. The vandalism had released asbestos into the house and

the structure was not safe.

 

Taking all these factors into account, my case was that it was time to resolve

the question of the Dee Mill by demolishing the house and scrapping the

engine. This was supported by OMBC on economical, environmental and

heritage grounds. The benefits of doing this far outweighed the liability of

allowing the present situation to continue. 

 

The crux of the matter was that we would have to convince English Heritage 

that the scheduling process had failed and that Dee Mill was an indictment of

the whole system.  The best solution was to bite the bullet, demolish and

accept Littlewoods' offer to fund a textile survey in Oldham by the Museums

Service to give interpretational input to the new exhibitions at Manor Mill. 

We had to bide our time while the committees ground their way through the

proposal but in the end I got a result.  Subject to our doing a measured

drawing of the house and a photographic record of the demolition, we could

go ahead.

 

I made the application to what was then the Department of National

Heritage and after full consultations and assessment English Heritage

advised the Department of National Heritage that the case for demolition of

the Dee Mill Engine and house was sound. Scheduled Monument Consent to

demolish was granted on 23 May 1994 and the demolition commenced on

June 18.

 

Wile the mandarins were making their decision I went down to Rochdale

and had a word with Peter Dawson who was my architect at Ellenroad.  We

arranged to go to Dee and measure the building up.  Measuring a building

like Dee Engine House is a two man job.  Somebody has to hold the end of the

tape!  True, there are modern instruments which measure by bouncing a

pulse off an opposing wall but methods like this were no good to us as many

of the measurements we needed were obstructed by parts of the engine. 

Additionally, Peter needed my advice as theoretically we were measuring to

a standard which would enable someone to use the drawings to reinstall the

engine.  This meant that the position of things like holding down bolts had to

be carefully plotted.

 

One of the first things we discussed was which system of measurements we

would use.  There isn't a lot of point measuring a building built using the old

Imperial measures in metric units.  As it turned out, the building was

constructed in increments of three inches.  Anywhere where we couldn't get

an accurate measurement because of obstruction we guessed to the nearest

three inches.  The acid test of any measured plan is when the draughtsman

sits down at the drawing board and converts the measurements made on site

into a scale drawing.  Any discrepancy between the overall sizes and the

cumulative totals of the individual measurements stands out like a sore

thumb.  Peter said that all the measurements fell together like a jigsaw

puzzle, as much a commendation for the original builders as the

draughtsman.  The other thing that became obvious was that the building

was perfectly square, quite an unusual thing in a large old building like the

Dee Engine house.

 

One major task was that Littlewoods brought in a contractor and did a full

asbestos clearance on the building, a very expensive part of the process.  I

gave the necessary notifications to everyone involved and we started

demolition early in the morning of June 18th 1994.

 

It was a sunny Saturday and at half past five in the morning we were

unloading a big tracked back-hoe off its transporter and getting on to the

site.  The engine house stood alone in the middle of a field of rubble and we

could get to it all round.  I knew that as soon as we were noticed the

enthusiasts would come out of the  woodwork and we would get a certain

amount of flak.  Before we even went on the site I primed the lads that were

doing the job.  If asked any questions they were to say they knew nothing

beyond the fact that it was legal and they had a job to do.  If asked about me,

I was just an amateur photographer doing some pictures.  I had told them

exactly what I wanted doing and they started into the building after doing a

thorough search to ensure that there was nobody inside.

 

Unless you have seen it done before, you can have no idea how quickly a big

machine can destroy a building.  There was nothing subtle about our

approach, the machine got up to the building, reached out and simply pushed

a section of wall in until it collapsed.  We started by breaking the pillars

between the windows on the south side and as we did the second pillar the

roof fell in with a tremendous roar.  We worked our way round the building

collapsing the walls until we arrived at the end where the flywheel was.  I

told the driver to drag the rubble back into a ramp, climb the ramp until he

could reach the flywheel and smash the castings on top.  I knew that

whatever happened, once this was done there was no going back.  My worry

was that we might end up with people lying down in front of the machine to

stop us.  It was far too late for anyone to save the engine but there were

certain to be people who wouldn't understand this and we had to very

quickly reach a point where it was obvious that it was too late.

 

As the machine was smashing the castings on the wheel a man came running

across the site in dressing gown, pyjamas and carpet slippers.  He was

absolutely livid and started screaming and shouting at the machine driver. 

Eventually he gave up and retreated but said he was going to ring the

Council.  We carried on levelling the house and had started to drag the

rubble and wreckage back off the engine.  The man who had tried to stop us

returned with a Councillor who he had dragged out of bed.  This bloke was

evidently trying to play it as though he had not known that the demolition

was going to happen.  He did know of course because during the process of

consultation it had been voted through in a full meeting of the Council.  I

suspect he was trying to keep his constituent on-side politically by

pretending he knew nothing about it.

 

I decided it was time I came out of the closet and introduced myself to the

Councillor.  He took me on one side and muttered to me that he was glad to

see the engine house going but was it legal?  I assured him that the Consent

had been granted and the necessary letters giving 14 days notice had been

sent three weeks before.  Thus armed he went back to his constituent and

made whatever explanations were necessary.  I felt sorry for the protester

actually because he evidently had strong feelings about the engine.  But, as I

said later, they'd had twelve years to do something about it but had simply

sat back and watched it decay.  We had several more officials round our ears

during the day and the press as well but we were legal and the bottom line

was that the vast majority of local residents wanted it to go.

 

It took a fortnight to scrap the engine and clear the site.  I made up a final

report using the pictures I had done and sent it off to all concerned together

with the measured drawing of the engine house.  Dee Mill site was cleared

and could now be re-developed by Littlewoods at their leisure.

Sorry for the length of that but it's not often you get the full story of

something like that straight from the horse's mouth.  Demolishing Dee was

sad but interesting.  I have no regrets about doing it, it was the only solution

to what had developed into a big problem all round.  It confirmed me in my

long held opinion that no matter how many legal safeguards are put in

place, the preservation of any large artefact like Dee Mill Engine or

Ellenroad depends on the quality of care given by the people on the ground. 

The actions of a government department in London can do nothing to ensure

survival.]

 

ASH MILL.  SHAW

ASH SPINNING CO (1883).  SHAW

Mr William Pearson.

2000hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1883.  Altered in 1936 by

George Saxon, Manchester.  24"HP, 52"LP X 6ft stroke.  All Corliss valves. 

190psi, 57 ½ rpm.  32 ft flywheel, 68 tons, 35 ropes.  Air pump driven off each

crosshead.  Tail rod support guides to each cylinder.  Lumb governor.  This

engine was built as a 1500hp twin tandem with two 24"HP and two 46"LPs X

6ft stroke.  No tail rod supports.  Corliss valves.  52rpm.

 

DAWN MILL.  SHAW

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  SHAW

Engines named 'Venus' and 'Mars'.  Mr W Holding. 

1800hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon of Manchester, 1902. 

Two 20"HP, two 40"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 64rpm.  26ft flywheel, 35 ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Supports to piston rods between cylinders.

 

HAWK MILL.  SHAW

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  SHAW

Mr Halsall. 

1700hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1909.  30"HP, 61"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 71 ½ rpm.  24ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Air pump driven

from crosshead.  No tail rods.  Trunk guides.  Lumb governor driven by ?

[Watkins records:  The Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Hawk Mill, Shaw. 

Cotton Spinning.  The mill was built in 1908, and the engine supplying

1,500hp was made by Yates & Thom, Blackburn. The cylinders were 27 3/ 4

and 56in bore by 5ft stroke, it ran at 70rpm, using steam at 175psi, driving

by 37 ropes from the flywheel.  Yates & Thom preferred a trunk-type frame

which together with the valve gear and flat tail rod slides, were

characteristic of the makers' design. All was scrapped about 1964.]

 

WYE MILL NO 2.  SHAW

Engine named 'Margaret'.  Mr Shannon.  2500hp cross compound engine by

Buckley and Taylor 1924.  32 ½"HP, 60"LP X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves. 

180psi, 68rpm.  24ft flywheel, 50 ropes.  Slipper guides.  Lumb governor.  Tail

rod supports to both cylinders but heavier on the LP.  Air pump drive from LP

tail rod.

[Watkins records:  The Wye Mill Co, No 2 Mill, Shaw, Lancashire.  Cotton

Spinning (1926)  Wye No 2 was significant in that not only was it the last

spinning mill to be built with the traditional engine and rope drives, but it

was also the last and the largest mill engine the makers, Buckley & Taylor,

Oldham, built. Designed to develop 2,500hp, the cylinders were 32 and 70in

bore by 5ft stroke, the low pressure cylinder being the third largest in a

Lancashire spinning mill (Sun Mill low-pressure was 73in and Mons was

721/4  in bore). Running at 66rpm, it used steam at 180psi, and until 1960 all

of the power was delivered to the mill floors by 48 ropes from the 24ft

flywheel. Then with the introduction of motor-driven ring spinning frames,

the engine was used to drive these through an alternator, but by 1964 Grid

current was cheaper and the engine was then stopped.]

 

TRENT MILL.  SHAW

Mr Fielding.

1800hp cross compound engine by George Saxon of Manchester, 1907. 

30"HP, 60"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 65rpm.  26ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pumps driven from each crosshead.

 

WYE MILL NO 1.  SHAW

1800hp cross compound by Buckley and Taylor, 1910.  28"HP, 56"LP X 5ft

stroke.  All Corliss valves.  180psi, 67rpm.  24ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Slipper

guides.  Lumb governor.  Tail rod supports to both cylinders.  Air pump drive

from LP tail rod.

 

RUTLAND MILL.  SHAW

Mr Brierley.

1700hp cross compound engine by George Saxon of Manchester, 1908.  27 ½"

HP, 58"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 67 rpm.  26ft flywheel, 35 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP tail rod which has support

guides.  HP has no support guide.  Altered in 1913, 2" larger HP and 5" larger

LP.  Raised to 68rpm.

 

CAPE SPINNING CO.  SHAW

700hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon of Manchester,

1901.  23"HP, 36"IP, two 40"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  26ft flywheel, >

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

SHAW SPINNING CO.  SHAW

1200hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon of Manchester, 1905. 

24"HP, 32"IP, 50"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Airpump driven from LP crosshead.

 

LILY MILL b.  SHAW

1800hp cross compound engine by George Saxon of Manchester, 1915. 

29"HP, 60"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 65rpm.  26ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

LILY MILL.  SHAW

No details beyond that it was a vertical triple expansion engine.  Corliss valves. 

Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

DAISYFIELD MILL.  BURY

W AND J HUTCHINSON LTD (1837).  BURY

1000hp single beam triple expansion beam engine by Buckley and Taylor,

1903.  28"HP x3ft stroke, 32"IP x 4ft stroke, 44"LP x 6ft stroke.  120psi, 41 ½"

rpm.  28ft flywheel, 26 ropes.  33ft 6" beam.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder,

slide valves on IP and LP.  Air pump driven by rod from beam.  Slide valves

driven from below.  Eccentrics on bevel-driven cross shaft.  Large cross

girders for beam bearing supported by two circular columns.

 

NILE MILL.  HOLLINWOOD

2500hp double beam triple expansion engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1898. 

32"HP x 3ft 6" stroke,  38" IP x 4ft 9" stroke.  52"LP x 7ft stroke.  One set on

each beam.  160psi, 50rpm.  23ft very heavy built-up flywheel with 160 tooth

gear driving an 8ft 6" pinion with 59 teeth.  Corliss valves on HP cylinders. 

Slide valves on all others.  34" diameter X 3ft 6" stroke air pumps driven by

rods from each beam.  19" diameter crankshaft with 30" long bearings. 

Eccentrics on bevel-driven cross shaft.  Large cross girder for beam supported

by circular columns.

[Watkins records:  Nile Mill, Hollinwood, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning.  When

projected in 1898, the Nile with 104,000 spindles was the largest ring

spinning mill in the world, and was historically significant since it was the

last cotton mill to be built with the traditional beam engine, gear and vertical

shaft drive. Designed by J. H. Tattersall, it was a double engine with a

complete triple-expansion engine on each beam and cost over £ 10,000. The

Corliss-valve high-pressure cylinders were 32in bore by 4ft 9in stroke, and

the slide-valve intermediate and low pressures were 38in by 4ft 9in and 52in

by 7ft stroke. Running at 38rpm, it developed 2,400hp using steam at 160psi

from four of the five boilers. The pressure was later allowed up to 170psi,

and was still so in 1960 when after a very successful life, the mill closed and

all was scrapped.

 

TAY MILL.  HIGGINSHAW, OLDHAM

As Nile Mill engine.  Designed by John Tattersall of Preston.  Drawings in

Birmingham Museum.  Winsor Mill[sic]

 

FOX MILLS.  OLDHAM

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION

Mr Enoch Booth.

1800hp single Manhattan engine by George Saxon, 1909.  28"HP (vertical),

57"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 78 ½ rpm.  22ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Webbed crank and four bearing crankshaft with

flanged coupling.  Air pump driven by bell crank from LP tail rod which has

Support guides.  Two eccentrics for vertical HP cylinder are outside of the

bearing.

 

SADDLEWORTH WOOLLEN CO.  DELPH

350hp tandem compound engine by Broadbent of Huddersfield, 1899.  15"HP,

29"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  Right hand engine.  180psi, 75rpm.  13ft flywheel, 8

ropes.  Corliss valves on front HP cylinder, slide valve on LP.  Air pump driven

from LP tail rod bell crank.  [Is this Oak Dale Mill, Delph?]

 

IRIS MILL.  HATHERSHAW.  OLDHAM

Mr Tetlow.  1876[?]

2000hp double beam twin compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1898

compounded.  Tow 34"HP x 3ft stroke.  Two 54"LP x 6ft stroke.  180psi, 38 ½

rpm.  19ft built-up flywheel.  22"wide gear teeth driving 7ft pinion.  Corliss

inlet and piston exhaust valves on HP cylinders.  Slide valves on LP cylinders

driven from below.  34" diameter x 3ft 6" stroke air pumps driven by rods

from the beams.  Bevel driven cross shafts with eccentrics for the HP valves. 

Beams 30ft centres.  Four fluted columns with turned bases support cross

girders.  This engine made by Wood Brothers originally? With two simple

cylinders at 75psi.  Three new Adamson boilers in 1957.

 

DURBAN MILL.  OLDHAM

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION

Mr Fletcher.

1800hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by Yates and Thom, 1906. 

24"HP, 29"IP, two 38"LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 65rpm.  27ft, 67 ton

flywheel, 38 ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Guide under block between

cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.

 

KENT MILL.  OLDHAM

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION

Mr Durham.

1500hp cross compound engine by George Saxon of Manchester, 1909. 

25"HP, 52"LP X 5ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 64rpm.  26ft flywheel, 28 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Hollow,

turned extension support for each tailrod.

 

BELL MILL.  OLDHAM

1500hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon of Manchester,

1905.  25"HP, 36"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 62rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Air

pump driven from each crosshead.

 

HERON MILL.  OLDHAM

HERON MILL.  HOLLINWOOD

1400hp vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1902.  26"HP,

50"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 80rpm.  16ft flywheel, 32 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Air pumps driven from LP crosshead.

 

CAIRO MILL.  OLDHAM

1000hp vertical trip[le expansion engine by George Saxon of Manchester,

1904.  18 ½"HP. 29"IP and 47"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel,

? ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

DEVON MILL.  OLDHAM

1200hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1910.  25"HP, 52"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 62rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

SUMMERVALE MILL.  OLDHAM

1650hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1919.  31"HP, 61"LP X 6ft

stroke.  160psi, 55rpm.  16 ½ ft flywheel, gear drive.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  144 teeth driving 67 teeth.

 

GLEN MILL.  OLDHAM

1700hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1904. 

Two 20" HP and two 44"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  26ft flywheel, ?

ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

MAPLE MILL.  OLDHAM

1000hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1904. 

18 ½" HGP, 29"" IP, 47"LP X 4ft stroke.  185psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel, ?

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

MARLBOROUGH 1&2.  OLDHAM

Two 1700hp vertical triple expansion engines by George Saxon, Openshaw,

1907.  25"HP, 38"IP and 60"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel, 40

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

ARGYLL MILL.  FAILSWORTH

Mr Cunane[sic].

2000hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1908.  26"HP,

53"LP X 5ft stroke.  195psi, 67 ½"rpm.  26ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss valves

on all cylinders.  Circular tail rod support on each cylinder.  Air pump drive

from each crosshead.

 

MANOR MILL.  OLDHAM

1500hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1907.  25"HP, 52"LP X 5ft

6" stroke.  160psi, 64 ½ rpm.  26ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Hollow turned extension

support for each tail rod.

 

ROYTON RING MILL.  OLDHAM

[LCC]

Mr Wilson.

1700hp cross compound engine by Urmston and Thompson, 1908.  29"HP,

59"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 67rpm.  24ft flywheel, 36rpm.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP tail rod with support guides on LP

only.  This engine is like Mars Mill.

 

WARWICK MILL.  MIDDLETON

Mr Halsall.

1500hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1909.  25"HP, 52"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 65rpm.  26ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Turned supports on

pedestals to both tail rods.

 

GRAPE MILL.  OLDHAM

2500hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1906.  29 ½" HP and 60"LP X

5ft stroke.  185psi, 68rpm.  26ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Drop valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Hollow turned support

guides to tail rods.  Trunk guides.

 

ACE MILL.  OLDHAM

Mr Garlick.

2500hp cross compound engine by Urmston and Thompson, 1920.  31"HP,

65"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 64rpm.  26ft flywheel, 42 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Air pumps driven from LP tail rod which has large double

support guides.  Single support to HP rod.  Trip gear in valve rods.

 

A B STOTT.  ROYTON

OSBORNE MILLS ABRAHAM STOTT.  BUSK

Mr Southest.

1500hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1913.  28"HP, 54"LP, X

4ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 75rpm.  20ft flywheel, 34 ropes.  Air

pump driven from LP tail rod with support guides.  Single support for HP tail

rod guide.  Trunk guides.

 

ALSO

1200hp steam turbine by Parsons Ltd.  5000rpm geared down to 330rpm. 

Three Lancashire boilers, oil-fired.

 

DELTA MILL.  OLDHAM

DELTA MILL.  ROYTON

1500hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, Bolton, 1902.  29"HP,

56"LP X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  140psi, 61rpm.  26ft flywheel, 40 ropes. 

Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Support guides to each tail rod.

 

ELK MILL.  ROYTON

SHILOH SPINNERS.  ROYTON

[Arthur has this down as LCC but he is wrong.  Owned by the Gartside

family firm, Shiloh Spinners right through its life.  Never entered any of the

amalgamations.]

2600hp two stage steam turbine by Parsons Ltd, 1926.  Turbine each side of

the gearbox with shaft drive at one end to a 4ft diameter 40 rope drum.  Other

end direct coupled to a 750KVA alternator.  Trope driven air pump with

surface condenser.  260psi steam at 520degrees superheat.  Turbine runs at

5000rpm geared down to 330rpm.  Three Lancashire boilers, oil-fired.

[Watkins records:  The Elk Mill Company, Royton, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning. 

The turbine was the most compact of all mill drives, frequently adopted to

replace old power units, though some mills were specially built for turbine

drive. Elk, of 1926, the last steam-driven cotton spinning mill built in the UK,

was thus. The double-cylinder Parsons turbine, works No 2028, developed

2,600hp at 5,000rpm and drove through a gearbox which, reducing the

speed to 333 rpm, drove the Elk mill by 50 ropes from a 5ft pulley and the

Shiloh mill nearby from a 728kW alternator. Superheated steam at 260psi

was supplied from four Daniel Adamson boilers in a highly economical

plant, and the turbines and gearbox were only 16ft long overall.]

 

REGENT MILL.  OLDHAM

Mr Hardman.

2000hp vertical triple expansion engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1906.  24"HP,

39"IP and 63"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 64rpm.  26ft flywheel, 26 ropes. 

Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  16",

built up, eight bearing crankshaft.  Lumb governor.

 

MALTA MILL.  MIDDLETON

1200hp vertical triple expansion engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1904.  20"HP,

32"IP, 52"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 72rpm.  22ft flywheel, 32 ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Eight bearing

crankshaft.  Stopped 1963.

 

SUN MILL.  OLDHAM

3000hp vertical triple expansion engine by Scott and Hodgson, Guide Bridge,

1908.  29"HP, 42"IP, 73"LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 70rpm.  26ft flywheel, 40

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

CROMER MILL.  MIDDLETON

Mr Booth.

2000hp vertical triple expansion engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1904.  25"HP,

38"IP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  200psi, 80rpm.  22 ft flywheel, 34 ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Built-up

crankshaft as Malta engine.  Stopped 1963.

 

WHITELANDS.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

1100hp twin tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, 1883.  Two 24"HP, two

46"LP X 6ft stroke.  90psi, 50rpm.  20 ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on

all cylinders.  Air pumps driven from each crosshead.

 

CURZON MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

1200hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon, no date. 

20"HP, 32"IP and two 37"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  26ft flywheel, ?

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.

 

ROCK MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

Mr George Gee.

1250hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon, 1892.  22"HP,

36"IP, two 40"LP X 6ft stroke.  120psi, ?rpm.  16ft geared flywheel, 18" wide. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pumps driven by crossheads.  Gearing is

120 teeth on to 54 teeth, 4 7/8" pitch.

 

HURST MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

LANCS. ASBESTOS COMPANY

2300hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, no date.  25"HP,

38"IP and 62"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 77rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven by LP crosshead.  (130,000

spindles, 1600 looms)

 

TEXAS MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

Mr G Gee.

1500hp vertical three cylinder compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw,

altered in 1921.  28"HP (centre), 33"IP and 51"LP X 4ft stroke.  170psi, 78rpm. 

22ft flywheel mounted at end of shaft driving 28 ropes.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  Air pumps driven from LP and IP crossheads.  Built as a triple

expansion in 1907 at 1200hp.  New 51"LP cylinder, old 21"HP removed and IP

used for HP.

 

TUDOR MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

Mr P Taylor.

1800hp triple expansion vertical engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1906. 

22 ½"HP, 34"IP and 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  18ft flywheel, 40

ropes.  Corliss valves to all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead. 

Saxon governor at the HP end of the bed. 

 

GROSVENOR MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

Second-hand inverted [vertical] cross compound.

 

DIAMOND ROPE WORKS.  ROYTON

Engine named 'Lily',

350hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1900. 

18"HP, 33"LP X 2ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 100rpm.  14ft flywheel, 14 ropes. 

Corliss valves on HP, Piston slide valve on LP.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.  Two web crank.  Four bearings with the flywheel outside the bed.

[Now in preservation at Bolton Steam Museum.  (NMES)  An inverted

vertical compound engine with Corliss valve gear built by Scott & Hodgson

Ltd of Guide Bridge in 1914 for Hardman and Ingham's Diamond Rope

Works, Royton, Lancs.]

 

CEDAR MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

Mr Briggs.

1500hp triple expansion vertical engine by George Saxon, 1905.  20"HP,

32"IP, 50"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 75rpm.  22 ft flywheel, 28 ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Saxon governor

at the HP end of the bed.

 

MONARCH MILL.  OLDHAM

Engine named: 'Alexandra' and Edward VII'.  Mr Catlin

2500hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon, 1903.  Two 22"HP

and two 45"LP (front) X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  200psi, 63rpm.  26ft

flywheel, 35 ropes.  Lumb governor, no tail rods but semi-circular supports to

piston rods between each pair of cylinders.  Air pump driven from each

crosshead.

 

RIDGEFIELD SPINNING COMPANY.  FAILSWORTH

1200hp Manhattan compound engine by George Saxon, 1911.  25"HP, 51"LP,

X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  22 ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves.

 

MAGNET MILL.  OLDHAM

Mr Leng.[?]

2200hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1903. 

Two 20"HP and two 44"LP 9front) X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  160psi, 64

½ rpm.  27ft flywheel, 35 ropes.  No tail rods but semi-circular supports to

piston rods between each pair of cylinders.  Air pumps driven from each

crosshead.

 

ROY MILL.  OLDHAM

2000hp twin tandem engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1906.  Two 20"HP and

two 38"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 70rpm.  28ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss

valves to HP cylinders, Slide valve LP.  Air pumps drive from both crossheads. 

Tailrod supports to both LP cylinders.  New crankshaft in 1945?.

 

HAWTHORN MILL.  OLDHAM

HAWTHORN.  CHADDERTON

Mr Thorp.  Mr Rainford.  Left hand HP named 'Samuel', right hand named

'Esther'. 

1250hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon, 1878 and

altered in 1910.  31"HP, 32"IP, two 36"LP X 5ft stroke.  Lumb governor. 

180psi, 55rpm.  26ft flywheel, 28 ropes.  LP slide valve cylinders at the front

(original) with valves at outside driven by eccentrics on return crank drive

shafts.  HP and IP Corliss cylinders are driven by bevel geared cross shaft near

cylinders which drives the governor as well and has 2 eccentrics for the Corliss

motion at either end.  No tail rods.  Air pump drive from each crosshead. 

Double guide bars.  Lovely engine.

 

PALM MILL COMPANY LTD.  OLDHAM

1200hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1884.  27"HP, 51"LP

X 5ft 6" stroke.  Slide valves.  90psi, 70rpm.  20ft flywheel, 36 ropes. 

Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.

 

WILTON MILL.  RADCLIFFE

LCC.  Mr Ted Sugden.

1500hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by Galloway, Manchester, 1908. 

23"HP, 36"IP, two 40"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 63rpm.  26ft flywheel, 37

ropes.  HP is rear left cylinder.  Direct drive to Corliss valves on all cylinders. 

Very massive bed with double cast iron guide bars.  LP cylinders at the front,

no name on engine.  No tailrod supports but semi-circular support guides

between each pair of cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.

 

ROBERT HYDE.  MILLBROOK

SPRING GROVE MILLS.  MILLBROOK, STALEYBRIDGE

500hp tandem compound engine by Benjamin Goodfellow Ltd, 1897.  11"HP,

24"LP X 30" stroke.  Slide valves.  160psi, 94rpm.  16ft flywheel with 8

grooves.  Bevel gear.  HP cylinder in front with expansion valve controlled by

the governor.  No air pump, running water condenser.

 

PETER CROOK LTD.  FARNWORTH

DRAKE MILL.  FARNWORTH

1400hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, Blackburn, 1906.  27"HP,

56"LP X 5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  165psi, 69 ½ rpm.  24ft flywheel, 37

ropes.  Forked connecting rod, trunk guides.  Tail rod support guides to both

cylinders with an air pump driven from each. 

 

MOSTON MILL.  MANCHESTER

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.

1600hp right handed, tandem compound engine by Carel Freres, Ghent, order

number 875, 1909.  30"HP, 53"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 90rpm.  21ft flywheel,

62 tons, ? ropes.  Drop valves on both cylinders.  Airpump driven from crank

pin.  Tail rod support guide.  This engine was originally going to be a twin

tandem.  Crank and trunk guide casting on the left.

[Watkins records:  Moston Mill, Moston, Nr Manchester.  Cotton Spinning. 

Intended to be a double mill eventually, Moston was built with the

crankshaft, and flywheel for the full power, and provided with the bed for the

other half the engine upon which the outer end of the crankshaft ran. Built by

Carels Brothers, Ghent, Belgium in 1909, it was their works no 875, with

cylinders 30 and 53 bore by 3ft 11 ¼ in stroke. Developing 1,200hp at

90rpm, superheated steam 200psi was supplied by Tetlow boilers. The

flywheel, 19ft in diameter, was provided with the sixty rope grooves that the

full power would have require The second half of the mill, however, was

never completed, and in 1958 electric drives were installed, and the engine

was scrapped. Typical of Continent design, six or more of Carels' engines

were installed in Lancashire mills in the early 1900s.]

 

CENTURY MILL.  FARNWORTH

LCC.

1500hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1902.  26"HP, 54"LP X

5ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  190psi, 59rpm.  27ft flywheel, 45 ropes.  Trip

gear in valve rods.  Single support guide to each cylinder with the air pump

driven from the LP tail rod.

 

SAXON.  DROYLSDEN

Mr J Taylor.

1500hp cross compound engine by Daniel Adamson, 1907.  27"HP, 56"LP X

5ft stroke.  160psi, 65 ½ rpm.  24 ft flywheel, (bored) [plug fit?]  36 ropes. 

Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from the LP tail rod.  Single

support guides to each tail rod.  Whitehead governor.  New Cylinders by

George Saxon, in 1915.

 

RUGBY MILL.  OLDHAM

RUGBY MILL.  CHADDERTON

1200hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1910.  25"HP, 52"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 62rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.

 

RAM MILL.  OLDHAM

1800hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1909.  30"HP,

60"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 65rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders. 

 

ROLLING MILL. OLDHAM

Inverted vertical cross compound engine by Buckley and Taylor.

 

MERSEY MILL.  OLDHAM

MERSEY MILL.  FAILSWORTH

1600hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1909.  26"HP, 53"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 65rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.

 

VINE MILL.  OLDHAM

VINE MILL.  ROYTON

2400hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1898. 

Two22"HP, two 44"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 62rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.

 

GORDON MILL.  OLDHAM

Buckley and Taylor engine.

 

BEE SPINNING CO (ROYTON) LTD.  ROYTON

1400hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by George Saxon, Openshaw,

1901.  23 ½"HP 36 ½"IP and two 40 ½"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 60rpm.  26ft

flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.

 

HOPE SPINNING CO.  FAILSWORTH

[No trace in 1941 directory but definitely in business in 1912]

1200hp vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1908. 

25"HP, 51"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP condenser.

 

LARK SPINNING CO.  HOLLINWOOD

2500hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1901. 

Two 20"HP, two 45"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 60rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.

 

LEES BROOK MILL.  OLDHAM

1200hp cross compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1886.  21"HP (rear),

48"LP X 6ft stroke.  Originally slide valves.  120psi, 35rpm.  ?ft plain flywheel. 

Spur gear drive and vertical bevels.  HP Corliss cylinders added and valves

worked from cross shaft in 1906.  New cylinders at same time.

 

CROAL SPINNING CO.  BOLTON

Engine named 'Shelagh'.  Mr Vickers.

1300hp vertical triple expansion engine by Yates and Thom of Blackburn,

1908.  21 ½"HP, 34"IP, 55"LP X 4ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  180psi, 81rpm. 

22ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Overhung

cranks, flywheel central.  Light return crank from HP drives Lumb governor. 

Tail rods on all cylinders and six bearing crank shaft.

[Watkins records:  The Croal Spinning Co, Bolton.  Cotton Spinning. 

'Shelagh' was built by Yates & Thom in 1908, to develop 1,300hp at 82rpm.

The cylinders were 21.5, 34, and 55in bore by 4ft stroke, and were supplied

with superheated steam at 160psi by three Yates & Thom boilers which

retained the original working pressure fifty years later. Originally the mill

was driven from the 22ft 6in flywheel by 36 ropes, but by 1957 the load

consisted of three alternators driving the mill by motors; however, some

years later the current was taken from the Grid, and the engine was

scrapped. Interesting features were: that there was no entablature

connecting the tops of the columns, but the cylinders were made monobloc by

flange connections.  The high-pressure cylinder drove by a half or overhung

crank, but was fitted with a box type of big end, whilst, most rare for vertical

mill engines, each piston was fitted with a 2.5in diameter tail rod projecting

through the top covers, working in tubular cases.]

 

NORTH END SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON

BLACKBURN ROAD.  BOLTON

Arthur notes this as Hesketh's, Astley Bridge.  Mr Johnson.

1600hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, Bolton, 1903.  28"HP, 58"LP

X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 62rpm.  26ft, 62 ton, flywheel, 48 ropes.  Corliss valves

on both cylinders.  Twin air pumps driven from LP crosshead.  Support guides

to both tail rods.

[Entries like this intrigue me.  The figure for horse power looks about right

given the engine details but looking at 48 ropes one wonders whether it was

originally installed to be capable of enlarging, perhaps to twin tandem.  A

good rule of thumb is to regard each rope as being capable of transmitting

50hp.  In which case the designer was looking for an eventual output of

about 2400hp.  The big problem that they had at Ellenroad when it was

raised from 1700hp to 2500hp was that they couldn't get a wider flywheel

between the beds and so had to use 42 ropes pressed at times to 2800hp.]

 

FLASH STREET MILL.  BOLTON

ORMROD, HARDCASTLE CO.  BOLTON

[I have seen three different spellings for the name of this firm but this

spelling 'Ormrod' is the one used in both the Manchester Roy. Exch. and

Worrall directories and so is probably the most likely.]

1000hp vertical triple expansion engine by Victor Coates, Belfast, 1900. 

18"HP, 28"IP, 48"LP X 3ft  6" stroke.  180psi, 82rpm.  22ft flywheel, 26

ropes(?).  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Out in 1956 (GW).

[Watkins records:  Ormerod, Hardcastle & Co, Flash St Mill, Bolton.  Cotton

Spinning.  One of the few Irish engines fitted in Lancashire spinning mills,

this was built by Victor Coates & Co, Belfast, in 1900. Designed to develop

1,000hp at about 85rpm, it was never fully loaded as the projected mill

extension was not completed. The cylinders were 18, 28, and 48in bore by 3ft

6in stroke, all coupled together, and with the Corliss-valves all across the

crankshaft centre line. The flywheel, fitted with the 'H' section arms used by

Irish and Scottish builders, (see also early Yates engines like Jubilee which

had 'H' section arms) was 22ft diameter, grooved for 39 ropes to drive the

mill floors.  At Flash St the centre cylinder was supported by two massive

forged steel columns. It was scrapped when the mill was converted to electric

drive in the late 1950s.]

 

ORMROD, HARDCASTLE CO.  BOLTON

COLUMBIA STREET MILL.  BOLTON

J and E Wood engine, 1906.  700hp.  18"HP, 36"LP X 4ft stroke.  18ft

flywheel.  160psi.

 

EAGLEY MILL.  BOLTON

UNITED THREAD MILLS.  BOLTON

[BRANCH OF J AND P COATS IN 1941]

800hp single cylinder engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1884.  52" diameter

cylinder X 6ft stroke.  65psi, 60rpm.  24ft flywheel, 11ft 6" wide.  Corliss

valves.  Three driving belts.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Support guide

to tail rod.  [See entry for Crosses and Winkworth, Rose hill number 3 mill,

Bolton, where there was a similar engine.]

 

GREAT LEVER SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON

Mr Sharrocks.

1500hp vertical cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1905.  28"HP,

57"LP X 4ft stroke.  165psi, 75.6rpm[sic].  22ft flywheel, 42 ropes.  1 ¾"

diameter ropes 238ft long.  Lumb governor.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.

 

WILLIAM WALKER.  BOLTON

ROSE HILL TANNERY.  BOLTON

Mr Riley.  Engine named 'Elizabeth'.

800hp right hand tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, Bolton, 1926. 

27"HP, 32"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 136rpm.  14ft massive plain flywheel. 

Drop valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from enclosed crank at the

end of the crank shaft.  Three bearing main shaft.  Enclosed engine with steam

jacketed LP cylinder (front).  Mather and Platt 600KVA alternator on engine

shaft with 10ft rotor and exciter.  David Pimblot, engineer.

 

BARLOW AND JONES.  BOLTON

1600hp single cylinder Uniflow engine by J Musgrave, Bolton, 1925.  40"

diameter cylinder X 4ft stroke.  Left hand engine.  160psi, 124rpm.  15ft

flywheel, ? ropes.  Drop valves.  Tail rod.  Air pump driven from crank at end

of crankshaft.

[Watkins records:  Barlow &Jones, Prospect Mill, Bolton.  Cotton Spinning

and Weaving.  Made in 1925, this was the largest and almost the last Uniflow

made by Musgraves. Designed to develop 1,600hp at 120rpm, the cylinder

was 40in bore by 3ft 8in stroke, driving by 40 ropes to the mill and a 525kW

alternator for the weaving shed. No air pump was fitted for the condenser,

the vacuum being maintained by a Musgrave Radojet air ejector.  This

engine in later years was fitted with a lightweight piston and tail rod, all

being scrapped when electric driving was installed.]

 

BARLOW AND JONES.  BOLTON

See also Eagley Mill, Bolton which had a similar engine.

2000hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1913.  26"HP, 52"LP X

4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  24ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves.

 

WILLIAM HEATON.  BOLTON

DELPH HILL MILL.  BOLTON

LOSTOCK BRIDGE.

1000HP CROSS COMPOUND ENGINE BY j Musgrave, Bolton, 1903.  21

½"HP, 43"LP X 4 ft stroke.  170psi, 73rpm.  28ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  All power on

to alternator.

 

ALSO

1500hp triple expansion horizontal engine by J Musgrave, Bolton, 1901. 

21"HP, 32"IP, 50"LP X 5ft stroke.  170psi, 62rpm.  28ft, 90 ton, flywheel, 36

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from the LP crosshead. 

Tail rod support guides to LP Cylinder.  Support guides between HP and IP

cylinders.  (Sam Mellor and Tom Yates, Musgrave's men)

 

SWAN LANE (1&2).  BOLTON

Mr Booth.

Two 1500hp cross compound engines by George Saxon of Openshaw, 1903

and 1906.  26"HP, 52"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 64rpm.  26ft flywheel, 35

ropes.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air pumps driven from the

crossheads.

 

ALSO

SWAN LANE NO. 3 MILL.  BOLTON

2000hp triple expansion vertical engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1915. 

27"HP, 42"IP, 62"LP x 4ft stroke.  150psi, 80rpm.  25ft, 60 ton, flywheel,

44ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Two air pumps driven from IP and

LP crossheads.  Eight bearing crankshaft in sections coupled together.

[Watkins records:  Swan Lane Mill Co, Bolton, Nos 1 and 2 mills.  Cotton

Spinning.  A fine example of management at its best, Swan Lane not only

completed the original twin mill plan, but in 1914 built the No 3 mill. No 1

was built in 1903, and driven by a cross compound by Geo Saxon of

Manchester, works No 352. Developing 1,300hp at 62rpm, the cylinders

were 26 and 52in bore by 5ft stroke, which, using steam at 160psi, drove the

mill by 35 ropes from the 26ft flywheel.  No 2 mill was completed in 1906 '

when the engine room was extended, and No 2 engine, identical with No 1,

but running at 65rpm to develop 1,400hp, was installed. The two thus drove

the No 1 mill to the left, and No 2 to the right, retaining the brick wall

between the two rope races to reduce the fire risk. Ten boilers in one row

continued to steam the mill and the three engines until, in 1959, motor-driven

ring frames were installed, but one of the engines continued to drive the

lower floor of No 1 and No 2 mills for some time after.]

 

MUSGRAVE SPINNING COMPANY.  BOLTON

ATLAS MILLS.  BOLTON

Mr T Stanley, chief engineer.  Mr Holt.

2500hp twin tandem engine by J Musgrave, 1888.  Two 24 ½"HP and two

46"LP X 6ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  120psi, 61rpm.  32ft, 90ton, flywheel,

60 ropes.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  HP inlet valves at top are

inside drive.  HP exhaust valves at bottom are outside drive.  LP exhaust

valves at bottom are outside drive.  LP inlet valves at bottom(?) are inside

drive.

 

BEEHIVE MILL.  BOLTON

2000hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1905/06. 

22"HP, 34"IP, two 42"LP X 6ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  140psi, 61rpm.  28ft,

90ton flywheel, 42 ropes.  Air pump drive from each crosshead.  Inlet valves

(top) are inside drive.  Exhaust valves (bottom) are outside drive.  Cross shaft

with two eccentrics on each end between each pair of cylinders.  Two engines

in separate rooms.

 

CROSS AND WINKWORTH.  BOLTON

Mr Nightingale.

1250hp tandem engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1877.  22"HP, 40"LP X 8ft stroke. 

All Corliss valves.  160psi, 52rpm.  30ft, 85 ton flywheel, 8ft wide.  Air pump

driven from crosshead.  Built as a single cylinder.  In 1925 an HP cylinder was

added at the rear by Yates and Thom with a trunk guide between the cylinders

and also a tail rod support.  36" and 45" wide belt drives.

[Watkins records:  Crosses & Winkworth, Rose Hill, no 3 Mill, Bolton.  Cotton

Spinning.  Built by Hick Hargreaves & Co, Bolton in 1877, this remarkable

engine ran as a single cylinder for 50 years. The cylinder was 39 ¾ in by 8ft

stroke, with Corliss-valves, steam being supplied by four boilers at 90psi.

When the boilers were worn out in 1925 it was decided to convert it to a

tandem compound, and this was done by Yates & Thom of Blackburn, who

fitted the rear cylinder, of 22in bore, together with three boilers for 160psi. It

then developed 1,000hp at 57rpm until the mill was closed, all being

scrapped in 1960. The single cylinder and massive belt drives were examples

of the American influence sometimes met in the 1870s, the main belts being

45in and 38in wide, each driving to a countershaft and by belts to the several

floors. The flywheel was 3oft diameter, and as a tandem, the engine was 89ft

long.]

 

JOSEPH JOHNSON.  BOLTON

DEANE SHED.  BOLTON

350hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, 1900.  17"HP, 34"LP X 4ft

stroke.  150psi, 78rpm.  17ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Valves at bottom.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

DOVE SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON

EGYPTIAN MILLS.  FARNWORTH.  BOLTON

1400hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1905.  26"HP,

53"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 65rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  This company also operated Deane Church Lane mill.

 

HORROCKS AND CREWDSON.  BOLTON

MOSES GATE WEAVING SHED.  BOLTON

1600hp cross compound engine by Hick Hargreaves, no date.  25"HP,50"LP X

4ft stroke.  180psi, 80 rpm.  22ft flywheel, 35 ropes.  All Corliss valves.  Air

pump driven from the crosshead.

 

OCEAN MILL.  BOLTON

OCEAN SPINNING CO LTD.  GREAT LEVER

1400hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1905.  26"HP,

53"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 65rpm.  26ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.

 

HORROCKS AND CREWDSON.  BOLTON

LORNE STREET MILLS.  MOSES GATE

2400hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1914.  33"HP, 66"LP X

4ft stroke.  180psi, 80rpm.  24ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  Air pump driven by bell crank from tail rod.

 

THIS ENGINE NOT RECORDED BY ARTHUR.

Watkins records:  Horrocks, Crewdson & Co, Preston

.  [Is this Fishwick Street Mill?]  Cotton Spinning.  [According to 1941

Worrall, 320,000 spindles and 7,500 looms] 

Watkins records:  'King' and 'Queen' was built by Hick Hargreaves, Bolton,

in 1915, and was works No 715. Designed to develop 2,000hp, the cylinders

were 30 and 60in bore by 5ft stroke, running at 65rpm, and using steam at

180psi. The 46-rope drive from the 25ft flywheel was split; most of the ropes

went forward to the mill shaft, those driving to the rear were for an

alternator supplying motors in another section. Widespread use of Grid

current, and motor drives in later years led to the scrapping of the several

engines, but the concern stopped producing in the early 1960s after 150

years in business.

 

JUBILEE ROOM AND POWER CO.  PADIHAM

PROGRESS MILL.  PADIHAM

[Not recorded by Arthur]

[George Watkins records:  The jubilee Room & Power Co, Padiham, Lancs. 

Cotton Weaving.  Built as Progress Mill for J. Roberts in 1888 with a single

shed, sufficient power was provided to drive two. The engine was made by

W. & J. Yates of Blackburn, fitted with cylinders of 21 and 42in bore by 5ft

stroke, with cross cut-off valves on the high-pressure cylinder, but with the

overspeed control combined in a single governor. The drive was by a gear

ring on the flywheel arms, and when the new shed was added in 1906, it was

driven by bevel gears from the original second motion shaft. The full 600hp

was then required, and the engine ran at 56rpm, the steam being supplied at

140psi, at first by two three-flued boilers by W. &J. Yates, which were

replaced by three twin-flue boilers by Yates & Thom in 1906. It still ran

perfectly at eighty years old, well kept and most attractive with its original

wooden lagging.  In its last days the engine suffered from problems in the

main bearings, particularly the left hand (LP) side overheating.  H Brown

and Pickles did a temporary repair, relieving the shoulders of the brasses,

which kept the engine going.  When Gissing and Lonsdale dismantled the

engine in preparation for its relocation at Masson Mill we found that the

bottom brasses were completely worn out and cracked in several places.  I

had new bottom brasses cast at the Lily Injector Works (Richard Bonser) at

Rochdale and these were machined and fitted by Gissing and Lonsdale.  See

the entry on Baitings Mill for SCG notes on 'The Last Weaving Shed in

Lancashire'.]

 

COPPULL RING MILL.  COPPULL

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  COPPULL

1600hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and E Wood, 1906.  19

½"HP, 31"IP, two 34"LP X 5ft stroke.  200psi, 68rpm.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  All valves at bottom and no trip gear on LP cylinders.  Normal

arrangement on HP and IP cylinders.  Twin air pumps driven from each

crosshead.  26ft flywheel, 36 ropes.

 

JAMES FLETCHER.  CHORLEY

BROOK STREET MILL.  CHORLEY

Mr Tom Pearce.

150hp single beam engine by J Musgrave, 1850.  HP added 1880.  18"HP X

24"stroke. 26"LP X 42" stroke.  100psi (70), 46rpm.  14ft flywheel, gear drive. 

All slide valves but trip expansion on HP.  Air pump driven from beam.

 

MAVIS MILL.  COPPULL

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  COPPULL

2000hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and E Wood, 1909.  21"HP,

33"IP and two 37"LP X 6ft stroke.  200psi, 69rpm.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  All valves at bottom and no trip on LP cylinder, normal gear on HP

and IP.  Twin air pumps driven from each crosshead.  26ft flywheel, 36 ropes.

 

TALBOT MILL.  CHORLEY

TALBOT SPINNING AND WEAVING COMPANY.  CHORLEY

1600hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and E Wood, 1907.  20"HP,

31"IP, two 34"LP X 5ft stroke.  200psi, 36 ropes.  Corliss valves, all at bottom

of cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Tail rod supports to each

cylinder.

 

UNION SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON

1200hp tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  28"HP, 52"LP X

6ft stroke.  100psi, 50rpm.  32ft flywheel, 28 ropes.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead. 

 

PROSPECT MILL NO 2.  BOLTON

100hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  26"HP, 48"LP X 6ft

stroke.  100psi, 50rpm.  32ft flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

JOHN GILLETT.  CHORLEY

CROSSE HALL WORKS (WEAVING).  CHORLEY

This Ferranti vertical compound engine was originally installed at Deptford

electricity generating station, London.  In 1900 it was moved to Gillett's and

worked here until 1962 when it was moved again to the Ferranti Works at

Hollinwood, near Oldham.  See the Ferranti entry below for more details.

 

PERSIAN MILL.  BOLTON

1200hp tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  30"HP, 50"LP X

6ft stroke.  80psi, 56 ½ rpm.  32 ft flywheel, 28 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from the crosshead.

 

HOWE BRIDGE SPINNING MILL.  BOLTON

HOWE BRIDGE.  ATHERTON

Number 3.  1500hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  32"HP,

60"LP X 7ft stroke.  100psi, 47rpm.  24ft flywheel, 34 ropes.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.

 

BEDFORD.  LEIGH

[THIS LOOKS LIKE COURTAULDS, BEDFORD NEW MILL]

Mr J Barnes.

1500hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1913.  23"HP, 50"LP X 5ft

stroke.  180psi, 67rpm.  24ft flywheel, 33 ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders. 

Trunk guides on both cylinders.  Air pump drive from LP tail rod.  Tail rod

supports to each cylinder.

 

ALSO UNDER SAME HEADING

Mr J Barnes.

1400hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, 1910.  25"HP, 48"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 67rpm.  24ft flywheel, 33 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  All valves at bottom.  Air pump drive from each crosshead.

 

BROOKLANDS MILL.  LEIGH

Mr Waterworth.

1600hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, Bolton.  1893.  26"HP,

50"LP X 6ft stroke.  140psi, 52rpm.  30ft flywheel, 27 ropes.  Corliss valves at

bottom of all cylinders.  Air pump drive from LP crosshead.  Tail rod supports

to both cylinders.  All power on to alternator.

 

BUTTS MILL.  LEIGH

1500hp cross compound engine by Carel Freres, Ghent, 191?.  Very few

details; 66rpm, 66 ropes, drop valves.

 

LEIGH SPINNING CO.  LEIGH

Mr Fitton.

1800hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, Blackburn, 1912.  24"HP,

48"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, 67 ½ rpm.  26ft flywheel, 45 ropes.  Corliss valves

on all cylinders.  Double air pump driven from LP tail rod.  Support guides to

each tail rod and trunk guides.

 

ALSO

1600hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1912.  23"HP, 46"LP X 5ft

stroke.  180psi, 67 ½"LP X 5ft stroke.  26ft flywheel, 33 ropes.  Corliss valves

on both cylinders, double air pumps driven from LP tail rod.  Support guides

on both tail rods and trunk guides.

[The last I heard of these engines is that the surviving one I saw in the 1980s

is still there.  I do not know which of the two it is.  The thing that struck me

about the engine was the Yates and Thom practice of making everything on

the lathe if they could.  Trunk guides are bored of course and the tail rod

guides were an arc of a circle, evidently machined on the lathe.]

 

ALDER MILL.  LEIGH

Mr Lord.

1850hp triple expansion vertical engine by Browett and Lindley, 1907.  24"HP,

36"IP and 50"LP X 4ft stroke.  200psi, 80rpm.  24ft flywheel, 45 ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Airpump driven from the LP crosshead.  Rope-

driven governor at the corner of the bed.  Stopped July, 1960.

 

ALSO

250hp compound vertical engine by Browett and Lindley.  180psi, 400rpm.

 

[Watkins records:  The English Combined Mills Co, Alder Mill, Leigh.  Cotton

Spinning.  Notable for being made by a concern better known for high-speed

engines, the Alder was one of the three mill engines made by Browett &

Lindley, Patricroft.  The three cylinders, each fitted with Corliss-valves in

line with the crankshaft, and separate from each other, were 22.08, 34, and

56in bore, all by 4ft stroke, and developed 1,800hp at 82rpm. Driving from

the 22ft 6in flywheel by 45 ropes, the plant ran unaltered until scrapped

when superseded by electric drives in the early 1960s. The four Tinker

Shenton's boilers retained the original 200psi working pressure until the

end.]

 

CARRINGTON MILLS CO.  LEIGH

KIRKHALL LANE MILLS.  LEIGH

450hp tandem compound engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1907.  17

½"HP, 34"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 85rpm.  18ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.

 

HALL LANE MILL.  LEIGH

1600hp Manhattan engine by George Saxon, 1914.  27"HP, 54"LP X 4ft 6"

stroke.  180psi, 78rpm.  22 ½ Ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Drop valves on the

horizontal HP cylinder and Corliss valves on the vertical LP.  Tailrod support

on the HP cylinder and a bell crank driving the sir pump.  The two cylinders

on to one crank (as Fox Mill).  Out in 1955.

[Watkins reports:  The Hall Lane Spinning Company, Leigh.  Cotton

Spinning (1914).  The vertical-horizontal design, although built many years

before, really came into its own with the wonderful Manhattan generating

plant in New York in 1904, and Hall Lane was one of several which George

Saxon built to this design in the early 1900s. Developing 1,400hp at 75rpm,

the horizontal drop-valve high-pressure cylinder was 27in bore and the

Corliss-valve low-pressure was 54in bore by 4ft 6in stroke. Both cylinders

drove on to one single-web counterbalanced crank, the power being

distributed to the mill from the 22ft 6in flywheel, originally by 40 ropes, but

after an accident the upper floors, and eventually the whole mill, was

converted to motor drives, the mill closing a few years later. The engine and

engine-room were Lancashire practice at its best, and no mill engine had a

finer entry to the rope race.]

 

VICTORIA MILL. MILES PLATTING

Two ?hp single crank compound engines by J Musgrave, right and left hand,

1900.  200psi.  Corliss valves.  Air pump driven from parallel motion lever. 

Triangulated connecting rod.

 

ECKERSLEY.  WIGAN

SWAN MEADOW AND WESTERN MILLS.  WIGAN

Mr Andrews.

1250hp tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, Bolton, 1884.  27"HP,

50"LP X 6ft stroke.  175psi, 52 ½ rpm.  26ft flywheel, 26 ropes.  Corliss valves

on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

ALSO

1450hp cross compound engine by J and E Woods, 1888.  28"HP, 54"LP X 6ft

stroke.  175psi, 53rpm.  30ft flywheel, 32 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  All valves at the bottom of the cylinders.   Pump driven from LP

crosshead.

 

ALSO

1100hp tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, 1882.  26"HP, 46"LP X 6ft

stroke.  175psi, 47rpm.  28ft flywheel, 26 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump drive from the crosshead.

 

ALSO

900hp quadruple expansion vertical engine by J Musgrave, 1894.  17"HP, 24"

and 33" IP, 46"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  175psi, 95rpm.  14ft flywheel, 24 ropes. 

Cylinders at the top.  Two on to one triangular connecting rod each side with

parallel motion, one lever extended to drive the air pump.  These connecting

rods have a most peculiar motion, piston rods connected through short links. 

See engine at Spring Bank Mills, Nelson.

 

MAY MILL.  WIGAN

MAY NUMBER 1 MILL.  WIGAN

Lancashire Cotton Corporation.  Mr Parkinson.

800hp cross compound engine by B Goodfellow, 1892.  22"HP, 42"LP X 5ft

stroke.  180psi, 62rpm.  20ft flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

MAY NUMBER 2 MILL.  WIGAN

Lancashire Cotton Corporation.  Mr Robinson.

1500hp cross compound engine by Ashton Frost, 1901.  23 ½"HP, 50"LP X 5ft

stroke.  180psi, 62rpm.  28ft flywheel, 34 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Single support tail guides to each tail rod.  Polished CI covers over

cylinder ends.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

TRENCHERFIELD MILL.  WIGAN

Lancashire Cotton Corporation.  Mr Moore.  Engines named 'Rina' and

Helen'.  2,500hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J and E Wood of

Bolton, 1907.  25"HP, 40"IP, two 44"LP X 5ft stroke.  200psi, 68rpm.  26ft

flywheel, 54 ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  [Dobson block motion on

HP and IP]  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Lumb governor.  Valves at

bottom [I may be wrong but my memory is of valves at corners]  No tail rod

supports.

[I had the dubious distinction of being the bloke who shut this engine down

for a time.  The engine was built to power a double mill but only one half was

built.  It was preserved as part of the Wigan Pier complex by Wigan MBC.  I

was called in to advise on the barring engine and in the course of the visit

noticed that the right hand half of the flywheel was loose on its stakes and

had moved.  This meant that the engine had to be stopped and repairs made. 

As far as I know these matters have been addressed and the engine is still

steamed for the public.  One other thing I noted was that the front die block

on the left hand HP cylinder Dobson block was loose.  I assume they

addressed that problem as well.  The engine is run at a very slow speed and

the two wheels are mounted very close together.  I pointed out that this was

what was loosening the stakes due to flexing of the shaft but I doubt if this

was addressed.]

 

RYLANDS AND SONS LTD.  WIGAN

GIDLOW WORKS.  WIGAN

Two 460hp twin cylinder engines by J Musgrave, 186?, altered by Sharples in

1900.  40" diameter cylinders X 6ft stroke.  Slide valves.  80psi, 42rpm.  19ft

flywheel with gear drive, 6ft pinion.  Converted to triple expansion, 17"HP,

32"IP and 40"LP X 5ft stroke.  140psi.  Using 40" cylinder as LP.  HP and IP in

tandem replacing the other 40" cylinder.  Corliss valves on HP and IP

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead 9on double side?).

 

QUEEN MILL. DUKINFIELD

1800hp inverted vertical triple expansion engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1902. 

21"HP, 35"IP and 57"LP.  150psi, 70rpm.  26ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss HP

and Slide valves on IP and LP.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

[I like the idea that this engine drove the mill where my mother worked as a

beamer in her younger days.]

 

VICTOR MILL.  STALYBRIDGE

1500hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, 1904.  22 ½"HP,

34"IP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 78rpm.  20ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Air pump

drive from LP crosshead.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.

 

ASTLEY MILL.  DUKINFIELD

1500 cross compound engine by Goodfellow and Matthews, 1880.  32"HP,

60"LP X 7ft stroke.  100psi, 50rpm.  34ft flywheel (78 tons) 32 ropes.  Corliss

valves at the bottom of the cylinders.  Airpump driven from the LP crosshead,

46" diameter X 24" stroke.  Ramsbottom's Corliss gear operated by eccentrics

on cross shaft.

[Watkins records:  Astley Mill, Dukinfield.  Cotton Spinning.  Surely, in

'Constance', Astley had one of the most delightful mill engines. Built in 1885

by Goodfellows & Matthews, Hyde, she was designed to develop 1,300hp at

50rpm, using steam at 100psi. The cylinders were 32 and 60in bore by 7ft

stroke, with the valves below, operated by Ramsbottom's trip gear, driving

by a 32ft flywheel 6ftwide, grooved for 34 ropes. This flywheel weighed 80

tons. The crankshaft bearings were 17in diameter by 3ft 4in total length. She

ran the successful mill, frequently overloaded, until despite every effort, the

depression of the-1930s compelled closure. The open-work cast-iron floor

plates, massive trunk frames, very neat lagging, and the marine-type

starting platform were all the maker's design features at the period. The

total weight was 215 tons, and the low-pressure exhaust valves, 19in

diameter, were probably as large as any fitted to a mill engine.]

 

WELLINGTON MILL.  DUKINFIELD

GARTSIDE AND CO.  DUKINFIELD

Calico Printers Association.

2000hp inverted vertical triple expansion engine by Scott and Hodgson, no

date.  22"HP, 36" IP and 60" LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 72rpm.  26ft flywheel,

40 ropes.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.

 

STALYBRIDGE MILL.  STALYBRIDGE

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  STALYBRIDGE

Worthington Street.  Mr J Fairbrother.

1600hp twin tandem compound engine by Goodfellow and Matthews, 1868. 

Two 22"HP and two 42"LP X 6ft stroke.  120psi, 55rpm.  Air pumps driven by

lever from crossheads with guides between HP and LP cylinders.  30ft

flywheel, 27 ropes.  Built as a 1000hp engine with all Corliss cylinders at

80psi.  HP cylinders at front.  Rebuilt in 1925(?) by Scott and Hodgson as a

1600hp engine on 120psi.  LP cylinders at front with slide valves, Corliss HP

cylinders.  Marine type connecting rods and trunk guides.

 

CRESCENT MILL.  DUKINFIELD

BOWKER AND BALL.  DUKINFIELD

850hp vertical cross compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1912.  24"HP,

41"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  175psi, 88rpm.  19ft flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss valves

on HP and piston slide valve on LP.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  Two

eccentrics and one narrow one for the Corliss valves.  (As Silsden)  One

eccentric with circular guide near piston valve.  Double CI columns, slipper

guides on one edge of each.  Whitehead governor.  Twin cylinder inverted

vertical barring engine.

 

BRISTOL COTTON COMPANY.  BRISTOL

1800 hp twin tandem compound engine by W and J Yates, 1885.  Slide valves

on all cylinders which are close together in tandem pairs.

 

GREENWICH POWER STATION

Two 4,500hp twin Manhattan engines by J Musgrave, May 1906.  Two 33

½"HP, two 66" LP X 4ft stroke.  HP cylinders vertical.  180psi, 94rpm.  20 ft

flywheel, ? ropes.  Generators on engine shaft.  Corliss valves on LP and drop

valves on HP cylinders.  Air pumps driven from vertical crossheads. 

Manhattan Allis Chambers, out in 1925.  [?]

 

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTRICITY WORKS

Two 900hp cross compound engines by Pollitt and Wigzell, no date.  21"HP,

45"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 100rpm.  14ft plain flywheels.  Corliss valves on

both cylinders.  Generator on engine shaft.  Horizontal condenser behind the

LP cylinder.

 

PEAR NEW MILL.  BREDBURY

Out in 1962.  Mr Jim Price.

5000hp twin Manhattan engine by George Saxon, 1912.  Two 30"HP, two 60"

LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 80 ½ rpm.  23ft flywheel, 76 ropes.  Drop valves

on horizontal HP cylinders, Corliss valves on vertical LP cylinders.  Tail rod

support guides on HP cylinders.  Air pumps driven from LP crossheads.

 

GORSEY BANK.  STOCKPORT

CHEADLE HEATH CONDENSER MILL

500hp tandem compound engine by J and E Wood, Bolton, 1908.  Left hand

engine.  17 ½" HP, 31"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  18ft flywheel, 14 ropes. 

Corliss valves on all, at bottom.  Lumb governor.  Air pump driven from bell

crank on LP tail rod.  Single cylinder inverted barring engine.  Very well

finished engine.  January 1964.[Date of viewing or closure?]

 

J OPENSHAW. GARGRAVE

[Problem here because it was Johnson and Johnson since 1930s]

AIRE BANK MILL.  GARGRAVE

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON.  GARGRAVE

Mr Alan Reader, 6 Aire Bank Terrace.

800hp double beam compound engine by Bracewell and Griffiths, Burnley,

1862.  Two 30" HP and two 56"LP X 7ft and 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 31 ½" rpm. 

24ft flywheel, gear drive.  Air pumps driven from beams.  McNaughted by the

makers in 1904.  Originally had two simple 56" cylinders on 80psi.  Corliss

valves on HP and slide valve LP.  Teeth on flywheel rim drive two 5ft pinions. 

Brought in by canal.  Out in 1936.

 

ALSO

400hp tandem compound engine probably by Pollitt and Wigzell.  No date. 

12"HP, 26"LP X 4ft stroke.  120psi, 72 rpm.  16ft flywheel. Horizontal

condenser behind LP cylinder.  Out in 1935.

[I think the tandem engine may have been a Burnley Ironworks because in

June 1904 BI ordered metallic packings from United Metallic Packing Co for

the LP cylinder of an engine at Aire Bank Mill and the owner then was W

and J Slingsby.  Johnson and Johnson bought the mill in 1933/34 and it looks

as though they immediately electrified the mill.  Mains electricity was

available in Skipton at that time, generated in Keighley.  George Ingle in

'Yorkshire Cotton' says that the mill was built in 1791, possibly by Thomas

Mason Senior.  Another Thomas Mason, possibly his son, carried on water-

powered cotton spinning and in 1833 the mill had a twenty hp water wheel

and employed 33 people.]

 

ELDER MILL.  ROMILEY

Lancashire Cotton Corporation.  Mr Crossley

600hp vertical cross compound engine by Daniel Adamson, brought here in

1937.  10"HP, 24"LP X 3ft stroke.  Corliss valves.  180psi, 106rpm.  16ft

flywheel, 19 ropes.  Air pump driven by crank pin set in sheave of feed pump

eccentric.  Overhung crank at LP end.  Web crank for HP flywheel at end.  All

LP valves operate from wrist plate and no trip gear.  HP inlets operated by

cams on exhaust valve levers with trip gear and dashpots.  Open type engine,

two CI iron columns with guides and three steel supports.  Seven bearings. 

Light return shaft at LP end drives shaft with LP and feed pump eccentrics.

 

J RICHARDSON.  1909/15.  AIRTON

John and Isaac Dewhurst, 1785-1882.  [George Ingle in 'Yorkshire Cotton' 

gives a full history of the mill which was originally water-powered corn and

after 1786 for cotton by various owners until 1825 when it was bought by

John and Isaac Dewhirst from Skipton.  In 1836 a new mill was added with

steam power and gas lighting.  In 1837 James Garforth had taken the mill. 

In 2008 it had been converted into flats.]

90hp compound single beam engine by ?, 1840, taken out in 1909.  18"hp X

27" stroke.  30"LP X 54" stroke.  16ft plain flywheel.  60psi, 42rpm.  Slide

valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from the beam.  Coupled to a 21ft

diameter X 12ft 6" wide waterwheel by Lund of Eastburn, 19ft head, 5-7rpm,

reputed to give 100hp.

 

E MATTHEWS.  EASTBURN

Mr S Barsby.

150hp single beam engine by Burnley Ironworks, no date.  [Bracewell

engine?]  17"HP, 21"LP X 2ft and 4ft stroke.  15ft beam.  85psi, 52rpm.  14ft

encased flywheel with gear drive outside.  Corliss valve HP added, original

cylinder became slide valve LP.  Steel forked connecting rod.  Two fluted

columns support two cross girders in walls.  Whitehead governor.  Parallel

motion on both cylinders.  Cast Iron crank.  Stopped 1954.

 

FORD AYRTON.  LOWER BENTHAM

150hp vertical single cylinder engine by Hick Hargreaves, 1886.  20"diameter

cylinder X 30" stroke.  12ft plain flywheel.  80psi, 90rpm.  Corliss valve gear. 

Airpump driven by lever from crosshead.  Also a 30hp and a 50hp water

turbine, each or both used via clutch.

 

BREMNER MANUFACTURING CO LTD.  OTLEY

150hp single cylinder engine by Robey, 1900.  18" diameter cylinder X 30"

stroke.  100psi, 96rpm.  10ft flywheel, belt drive, two 12" belts, one on top of

the other, the inner one running slack.  Drop valves and trunk guides. 

 

BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM

100hp tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1909.  7 ½"HP, 15"LP

X 2ft stroke.  200psi, 70rpm.  8ft and 10ft plain flywheels for rope brake tests. 

Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Corliss valves.  Whitehead

governor.  This engine was at Manchester University and was built as a test

engine.

 

LEEDS UNIVERSITY

10hp side by side compound engine by Marshall of Gainsborough, 1924.  5

½"hp, 9"LP X 12" stroke.  150psi (LP 60psi maximum), 150rpm.  Two 4ft

flywheels with water channels.  Steam jacketed cylinder.  Rope brake. 

Separate condenser or non-condensing.  Drop valve HP, Slide valve LP with

Meyer expansion gear.  Side shaft (lh), D valves, two eccentrics S valve. 

Double web cranks (Half disc) three bearings.  Flywheel at each end of shaft. 

 

Also

Inverted compound engine by J Howden with central piston valve.  25hp 650

rpm, 150psi.  Steam jackets.  Direct coupled to Hulme DC dynamometer test

rig.  Also:  Belliss and Morcom 50hp turbine.

 

LEIGH MILL.  COVENTRY

Mr James.

500hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1910.  16"HP, 32"LP X

3ft stroke.  100psi, 88rpm.  14ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Horizontal condenser

behind the LP cylinder.  Corliss valves on both cylinders with two wrist plates

on each cylinder.  Inverted vertical single barring engine.

 

OLIVER'S MILL.  BAMFORD

Mr Bramwell.  Left hand engine.

500hp tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, 1907.  16"HP, 38"LP X 3ft

stroke.  160psi, 102rpm.  14ft flywheel, 14 ropes.  Drop valves on both

cylinders.  Trunk guides.  LP cylinder at front.  Air pump driven from

crosshead.  50hp and 20hp water turbines.  Used to have a large water wheel

and a beam engine before Ladybower reservoir was opened.

 

ALFRED HERBERT.  COVENTRY

EDGEWICK WORKS.  COVENTRY

Three 550hpvertical cross compound engines by Allen, 1946.  14"HP, 25"LP X

12" stroke.  200psi (run at 150psi), 375 rpm.  6ft flywheel direct coupled to

alternator.  Exhaust steam at 10psi used for heating shops and used in winter

only.  A Herbert coal pulveriser feeds five Lancashire boilers.  Alternators are

450KVA, 440volts three phase.

 

ALNE BRICKWORKS.  HEMINGBROUGH

80hp single cylinder engine by Thomas Metcalfe, 1880.  18" diameter cylinder

X 48" stroke.  Slide valve.  100psi, 35/90rpm.  14ft narrow flywheel.  Narrow

slipper guides to crosshead.  Pickering governor.  No condenser.  Four ft belt

pulleys.  Exhaust steam goes to brick drying.

 

BROADSTONE SPINNING MILL.  REDDISH

Two 1500hp vertical triple expansion engines by George Saxon, Openshaw,

1906/1907.  22"HP, 35"IP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  200psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel,

? ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pumps driven from LP crosshead.

Another as above 78 1'2 rpm, 1908.

[Watkins records:  Broadstone Mills, Reddish, Stockport.  Cotton Spinning. 

Broadstone, like Swan Lane, was planned for an extension which was

completed, but the plan was quite different, since although the rope race was

central, and divided by a brick wall, the power plants were entirely separate,

as Nos 1 and 2 mill each had its own boiler house with four boilers and

separate chimney. Built in 1906 and 1907, with the mills, the engines,

identical but of opposite hand, were made by Geo Saxons with Corliss-valve

cylinders 22, 35, and 54in bore by 4ft stroke, developing 1,500hp at 75rpm

when supplied with steam at 200psi. Typical Saxons' plain design, with the

intermediate-pressure valves across the engine centre line, they gave

exemplary service until the mills were closed in 1959, when with other usage

the whole plant was scrapped.]

 

ECCLES SPINNING CO.  PATRICROFT

Eccles Spinning and Manufacturing Company Ltd. (1905).  Canal Bank,

Patricroft.

1500hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, 1906.  23"HP,

34"IP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 70rpm.  20ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

CHADWICK AND TAYLOR.  SALFORD

[ORDSALL HALL PAPER WORKS?]

700hp Manhattan engine by George Saxon, 1909.  23"HP, 46"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  16ft flywheel, ? ropes.

 

JOHN KNOWLES.  PENDLEBURY

NEWTOWN MILLS.  PENDLEBURY

1200hp twin tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  Two 24"HP,

two 42"LP X 5ft stroke.  85psi, 57rpm.  28ft flywheel, 28 ropes.  Corliss valves

on all cylinders.  Airpump driven from each crosshead.

 

WINTERBURN.  SALFORD

500hp cross compound engine.

 

WARDSEND STEEL WORKS.  SHEFFIELD

2000hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1870?.  34"HP, 57"LP X

5ft stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  28ft flywheel, 15 ropes.  Corliss valves and double

slide bars.  Tail rod supports to each cylinder with bell crank driving air pump.

 

ALSO

350hp cross compound engine by Davy Brothers, Sheffield, 1870?.  19"HP,

36"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 60rpm.  16ft flanged flywheel with 26" rim belt

(not used).  Slide valve cylinders originally but new Corliss cylinders by

Ashton Frost in 1924.  6ft double helical gear driving 9ft gear(?).  LH (LP) side

of flywheel.  Double slide bars.  No barring engine.  Whitehead governor.  Mr

Shaliker, engineer.

[Last run in 1964.  See the very comprehensive article by Arnold Throp in the

Model Engineer of 15/01/65 entitled 'LUBRICATED WITH SUET AND

WATER'.  The engine drove two stands of rolls.]

 

RIVER DON WORKS.  SHEFFIELD

12,000hp inverted vertical engine by Davy Brothers, 1898.  three 40"diameter

cylinders X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 0/120rpm.  Reversing engine.  Davy's reversing

valve gear.  4ft pinion on to 16 ft gear.  Non-condensing.  Piston valves.

[Watkins records:  The English Steel Corporation, River Don Works, 48in

Plate Mill.  1961.  Davy Brothers, Sheffield, 1905. Three cylinders 40in x 4ft

6in. Piston valves, non-condensing.  160psi . Up to 120rpm.  This was Davy's

late design with each cylinder and motion line separate, couplings between

the cranks, and with stays from the centre to the two outer standards

passing through holes cast in the inner frames. joy's valve gear, although

light in structure, was adequate for the valve drives. It was geared down 4 to

1, and could roll an ingot down to a plate 40ft long 13ft wide and 3in thick.

Rolling a slab 24in thick to 3 ¼ in thick took fifty passes through the rolls in

16 minutes, each pass needing up to ten revolutions of the engine.]

 

ALSO

8000hp horizontal engine by Davy Brothers, 1897.  Two 40" diameter

cylinders X 3ft stroke.  80psi.

 

PORTWOOD SPINNING CO.  STOCKPORT

PORTWOOD MILLS.  STOCKPORT

500hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1901.  19"HP, 36"LP X 5ft

stroke.  100psi, 60rpm.  18ft flywheel, gear at side.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

MAYALL AND MASSEY.  WOODLEY

600hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1910.  19"HP, 38"LP X 4ft

stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Airpump driven from crosshead.

 

THOMAS WRAGG.  LOXLEY

WRAGG, FIRECLAY MINERS.  LOXLEY.  SHEFFIELD

Mr Rowett.

12ohp single cylinder engine by Thornewill and Warham, Burton on Trent,

1919.  22" diameter cylinder X 3ft stroke.  Runs wrong way.  80psi, 75rpm. 

10ft plain flywheel, direct drive.  Drop valve on inlet and Corliss exhaust.  Two

wrist plates.  Drop valves worked by shafts on cylinder top with a trip on lever

from wrist plate.  Trunk guide.  Proell type governor.

 

J RIVETT.  SOUTH REDDISH

  MILL.  SOUTH REDDISH

350hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1910.  17"HP, 32"LP X 3ft 6"

stroke.  120psi, 75rpm.  18ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from the crosshead.

 

BESSBROOK SPINNING CO.  NEWRY, IRELAND

1200hp cross compound engine by J and E Wood, 1902.  25"HP, 52"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 68rpm.  26ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss valves, all at the

bottom.  Air pump drive from crosshead.  Tail rods supports on both

cylinders.

 

CROMFORD AND HIGH PEAK RAILWAY

MIDDLETON TOP.INCLINE ENGINE

100hp double beam engine by Butterley, 1829.  Two 25" X 5ft stroke cylinders. 

5psi, 0 to 80 rpm.  14ft plain flywheel.  Air pumps driven from beam.  Gear

drive to haulage shaft.  Two Cornish boilers.  Stopped in 1963.  Incline is 1 in

8.5 and approximately 850 yards long.

[This engine was used to wind trucks up and down the Middleton Incline, on

the High Peak Railway which has a gradient of 1 in 8, and is a beam engine

built by the Butterley Company in 1829 - these are the original engines for

the railway which began operation in 1830. Each engine cost £2000, a very

large sum in those days, and the incline was in use until 1963.  The engine is

in preservation and is workable by compressed air.  The date given in the

ISSES handbook is 1825.  At the time of writing the engine house is closed

until further notice.]

 

RICHARD HILL.  MIDDLESBOROUGH

WIRE WORKS.  MIDDLESBOROUGH

400hp vertical single crank compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  15"HP,

24"LP X 3ft stroke.  140psi, 100rpm.  11ft plain flywheel, 6 x 2 ½" diameter

ropes.  Corliss valves.  Non-condensing.  Gear drive but also rope drive.

 

MONTON MILL.  NEAR ECCLES

LCC.

1400hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1906.  

27"HP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel. ? ropes.  Air pump

driven from LP crosshead.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.

 

J BIBBY, OIL AND CAKE MILLS.  LIVERPOOL?

650hp quadruplex engine by J Musgrave, no date.  12"HP, 17" and 24" IP,

35"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  200psi, 100rpm.  15ft flywheel, 17 ropes.  Corliss valves

on all cylinders.  Air pump driven by lever connected to triangular connecting

rod.  Two cylinders on each crankpin.

 

RANKS.  BIRKENHEAD

OCEAN FLOUR MILL.  BIRKENHEAD

2000hp inverted vertical engine by Wood Brothers, Sowerby Bridge.  No

details apart from 180psi and Corliss valves.

 

BUCHANAN'S FLOUR MILL.  BIRKENHEAD

800hp inverted vertical compound engine by Fairbairn, Lawson, Combe and

Barbour, Leeds, no details.

 

ALSO

1600hp horizontal triple expansion four cylinder engine by Wood Brothers,

Sowerby Bridge.  No details.

 

J AND P COATS.  PAISLEY

FERGUSLIE THREAD WORKS.  PAISLEY

850hp double beam engine by J Musgrave, 1855.  Two 45"HP, two 50"LP X 3ft

6" and 7ft stroke.  Slide valves.  75psi, 26rpm.  24ft geared flywheel, 16" wide. 

38tons, 200 teeth.  Another engine in 1876.  43"HPs, 51"LPs X 3ft 6" and 7ft

stroke.  Air pumps driven from parallel motion.

 

CANAL MILL.  CHORLEY

W AND C WIDDOWS.  CHORLEY

?hp beam engine by Knight and Wood, Bolton, 1855.  HP cylinder by Wood

Brothers in 1896.

 

HEBDEN AND SONS.  BOLTON

250hp single beam engine by J Musgrave, 1855.  30"HP, 39"LP X 3ft 6" and

7ft stroke.  80psi, 25rpm.  25ft flywheel 21 ½" gear X 10" face.  Compounded

in 1888 by the makers.  Air pump driven from beam.

 

GREENHALGH AND SHAW.  BOLTON

SHARPLES MILL.  BOLTON

350hp single cylinder engine, no maker or date.  30" diameter cylinder X 5ft

stroke.  85psi, ?rpm.  25ft flywheel, 15 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Air pump driven

from crosshead.

 

Also a Musgrave engine at Halliwell Mill, Bolton

 

BOMBAY UNITED SPINNING AND WEAVING COMPANY

1800hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave.  35"HP, 60"LP X 7ft stroke. 

Corliss valves.  110psi, 44rpm.  22 ½ foot flywheel, 17 ¼ ft gear, 128 teeth,

5"(?) pitch driving 49 teeth pinion.  Air pump driven from each crosshead. 

Tail rod supports and trunk guides.

[From Jamieson's Steam Engines]

 

ALSO

2500hp cross compound engine by Douglas and Grant, Kirkcaldy, no date. 

34"HP, 70"LP X 6ft stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  30ft flywheel, 38 ropes.  Corliss

valves.  Air pump driven by lever from the tail rod of the LP cylinder.  Tail rod

supports to both cylinders.

[From Jamieson's Steam Engines]

 

ORIENTAL SPINNING AND WEAVING COMPANY.  BOMBAY

2200hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  42"HP, 72"LP X 6ft

stroke.  125psi, 49rpm.  Corliss valves.  21ft flywheel, 14ft gear.  88 teeth

driving 55teeth.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Tail rod supports. 

Trunk guides.

 

LEAN'S MILL.  GLASGOW

1000hp twin McNaughted beam engine by Turnbull, Grant and Jock, 1859

and 1870.  Two 24"HP and two 48"LP X 6ft stroke.  100psi, 45rpm.  18ft

flywheel.  Air pump driven from each beam.

 

ACTON HALL COLLIERY.  FEATHERSTONE

1200hp twin cylinder engine by Hathorn Davey, Leeds, 1892.  Two 36"

diameter cylinders, X 6ft stroke.  120psi, 65rpm.  20ft drum.  The only Davey

winder.  Equilibrium drop valves.  Double slide bars. 

 

ALSO

1000hp twin cylinder engine by Bradley and Craven, Wakefield, 1893.  Two

30" diameter cylinders X 5ft stroke.  20ft drum.  120psi, 60rpm.  Equilibrium

drop valves.  Three shafts, 540 yards deep.

 

ALSO

800hp twin cylinder engine by J D Leigh, Patricroft, 1872.  Two 31" diameter

cylinder X 4ft 6" stroke.  Equilibrium drop valves.  No tail rods.  Barclay's

Kilmarnock valve motion.  All the above have link motion reversing gear.

 

OLD ROUNDWOOD COLLIERY.  WAKEFIELD

1000hp twin cylinder engine by Bradley and Craven, 1910.  Two 34"cylinders

X 5ft 6" stroke.  100psi, 0-90rpm.  16ft drum, 440 yard shaft.  Corliss valves

from wrist plate driven by link motion reverse.  Return crank each side drives

shaft with two eccentrics for outside motion.  Proell governor and overspeed

governor. 

 

ALSO

700hp single cylinder engine at other shaft.

 

ALSO

300hp McNaughted single beam engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1904.  18"HP,

24"LP X 3ft and 6ft stroke.  Gear drive from flywheel and Whitehead

governor.

 

PRINCE OF WALES COLLIERY.  CASTLEFORD

640 yards shaft.

2500hp twin cylinder engine by Bradley and Craven, 1912.  Two 48" diameter

cylinders, 50psi.  New cylinders by Markham, 1938.  Two 38" cylinders X 7ft

stroke.  150psi, 60rpm.  28ft double conical drum, 120 tons.  Drop valve inlet

valves and large diameter piston exhaust valves all worked from wrist plates

operating from steam reversed link motion.  Trunk guides.  Tail rods.  Valve

gear at outside of the engine.  Eccentrics on shafts worked by return crank.

 

ALSO

Mr Norman Mitchell. 

2500hp twin cylinder engine by Bradley and Craven, 1893.  Two 40" diameter

cylinders X 7ft stroke.  80psi, 80rpm.  10ft drum with clutch for 720yard and

230 yard levels.  Vertical equilibrium valves.  Two at each end of cylinder. 

Link motion, steam reverse, double guide bars and tail rods.

 

ALSO

1500hp twin cylinder engine by Walker Brothers, Wigan, 1912.  Two 36"

diameter cylinders X 6ft stroke.  80psi, 80rpm.  12ft drum (originally 18ft).  

Drop valve inlets and Corliss exhausts worked from wrist plates operated by

steam reverse link motion.  Trunk guides and tail rod supports.

 

WROTHAM.  HERTS

Top beam grasshopper engine with cylinder at end.  Connecting rod 2ft from

the end.  Beam fulcrumed on long swinging link.  Air pump and feed pump

driven from beam.

 

ASKERN COLLIERY

ASKERN COLLIERY.  DONCASTER

Shaft sunk in 1911.

Two 3000hp twin tandem compound engines by Yates and Thom, 1910. 

Two36"HP, Two 60"HP X 6ft stroke.  150psi, 0-65rpm.  20ft drum.  Corliss

valves worked by wrist plates worked from the steam reversing link motion. 

Return cranks for the Corliss eccentrics.  Trunk guides.  Proell type governor. 

Single tail rod guides.  Slipper type support guides between HP and LP (rear)

cylinders.  Trip gear on valve spindles with angular rods to dashpots at

Bottom.  Most impressive engines.  Working on 580 yard level in 1000 yard

shafts.  16 Lancashire boilers, 11 in use.

 

HEMSWORTH COLLIERY.  PONTEFRACT

680 yards. 

2000hp twin cylinder engine by S A Ward, Sheffield, 1907.  Two 36" diameter

cylinders X 6ft stroke.  90psi, 50rpm.  32ft conical drum.  Equilibrium drop

valves, two at each end of the cylinders.  Double guide bars.  Tail rod supports. 

 

ALSO

2500hp twin cylinder engine by Markham of Chesterfield, 190?.  Two 36"

diameter cylinders X 7ft stroke.  33ft double conical drum.  90psi, 60rpm. 

Drop valve inlet and Corliss exhausts.  Trunk guides.  Trunk tailrod supports. 

Steam operated link motion to both the above engines.

 

ALSO

500hp inverted vertical compound engine by Browett and Lindley.  Totally

enclosed.  Piston valves, drives a large fan.

 

800hp 11,000volt direct coupled to two Belliss and Morcom inverted vertical

air compressors.  Eleven 9ft X 30ft Lancashire boilers.

 

HUCKNALL COLLIERY NO. ONE

[The Hucknall Colliery Company in 1861/2 originally sank Hucknall No1 and

No2 collieries. The Sherwood Colliery Company then owned them from 1911

to 1947.  No 1 colliery which was situated on Watnall Road ceased winding

coal in 1943 and mining was transferred to No2 colliery sited on Portland

Road. Number 1 site, however, continued to be used for ventilation,

manriding and materials.]

800hp steam winding engine by ?, 1860.  Two 28" diameter cylinders X 4ft 6"

stroke.  70psi, ?rpm.  17ft Drum.  Double guide bars.  Link motion with steam

reverse.  Two vertical equilibrium valves at each end of the cylinders.  Return

crank driven shaft at each side with two eccentrics.

 

HUCKNALL NUMBER TWO COLLIERY

1000hp steam winding engine by Yates and Thom, 1917.  Two 20" diameter

cylinders X 4ft stroke.  200psi, ?rpm.  18ft drum.  Trunk guides.  Corliss valves

operate from wrist plates and link motion with steam reversing gear.  Link

moves up half way as radius rod moves down the same distance.

 

ALSO

1400hp electric winding gear by Associated Electrical Company, Rugby, 1962. 

EEC motor on 800volts DC.  294rpm with 1:10 reduction gearbox.  18ft drum

and 2" rope.  Currently supplied by mercury arc rectifiers from mains

transformer.

 

ASTLEY AND TYLDESLEY COAL COMPANY

800hp tandem compound winding engine by J Musgrave, no date.  Two 32"

diameter cylinders  X 5ft stroke.  80psi, 0 to 65 rpm.  15ft drum.  Link motion,

hand operated.  Two vertical equilibrium valves at each end of the cylinders.

 

BESTWOOD COLLIERY.  NOTTINGHAM

[Confusing information about dates.  Best I can find is Shaft sunk 1872,

winder commissioned in 1876.  Closure 1967 or 1971.]

?hp vertical steam winding engine by ? 1865.  Two 36" cylinders X 6ft stroke. 

Overhead cranks.  90psi, ?rpm.  24ft drum.  Two vertical equilibrium valves at

top and bottom of each cylinder.  Steam reverse.  Believed to be the only

vertical winder in Britain?

[The engine is a twin cylinder vertical winding engine built by R. J. & E.

Coupe, Worsley Mesnes Ironworks, Wigan in 1876. The two cylinders are of

36 inch bore and the stroke is 6 feet. Drop valves control the steam

admission. Steam was supplied at 80 lbs/sq. inch and the engine operated at

1500 horsepower. The 18 foot diameter rope drum wound three tons of coal

from 220 yards at 15 rpm originally although in later years all coal was

extracted via a drift and the winders only used as standby and for men and

materials. Photographed by George Watkins in 1951 (and probably his

details)]

 

ALSO

?hp horizontal winding engine by Nasmyth, Wilson, 1880.  Two 33" diameter

cylinders X 6ft stroke.  90psi, ?rpm.  16ft drum, steel rim X 8ft wide.  Hand

operated link motion.  Was slide valve but castings with piston valves bolted

on to same cylinders in 1922.  Also had a 17ft drum with wood rim turned in

situ.

 

ALSO

500hp horizontal cross compound fan engine.  34"HP, 62"LP X 5ft stroke.  28

rpm.  Fan about 48ft diameter.

 

LINBY COLLIERY.  NOTTINGHAM

1500hp steam winding engine by George Robey, Lincoln, 1922.  Two 33"

diameter cylinders X 4ft stroke.  100psi, ?rpm.  16ft drum.  Trunk guides. 

Drop valves operated by eccentrics.  Two sets of eccentrics on side shafts. 

Steam reverse.  Eccentrics with clutch.

 

[Arthur records another engine with broadly similar details but other

sources say that the two engines were identical.  Here is what I found on the

web:

From Papplewick web site:  This engine came from the nearby Linby

Colliery. The Winder was manufactured by Robey & Co. of Lincoln in 1922

and was erected on Linby Colliery No. 2 Shaft to lift coal. It was used until

December 1982, when it was replaced by an electrical driven winder.  The

winder consists two steam engines, Nos. 40542 and 40543. They each have a

cylinder bore of 24" and a stroke of 40", working on a steam pressure of 120

lbs. sq. in., and exhausting to the atmosphere. Producing about 900 horse

power when winding coal.  Steam is admitted and exhausted via Robey

Patent Drop Valves.  The two engines are connected to the winding drum

that is 6' wide and 9' diameter. This acts as a combined Crankshaft and

Flywheel with a total weight of 24 tons. The engine could operate up to a

maximum rope speed of 32' per second, raising 4 tons of coal per wind in an

automatically operated skip giving a maximum capacity of 300 tons of coal

per hour, from a depth of nearly 450 ft. During its working life the Winder

raised over 40,000,000 tons of coal.  After being rebuilt and housed at

Papplewick with the generous assistance of British Coal, the engine was

restarted by Mr. Ken Moses, Deputy Chairman of British Coal, at a

ceremony held on 21st August 1990.  It is believed to be the only steam

winding engine that is in use and powered by steam in the UK at the

moment.  It looks as though eventual complete closure was in 1988 and that

the remaining engine worked up to that date.]

 

ROALL PUMPING STATION

165hp compound beam engine by Easton and Anderson, 1891.  12"HP X 4ft

stroke, 22"LP X 5ft stroke.  100psi, 23rpm.  14ft flywheel.  Pump driven from

tail rod of the LP cylinder.  Slide valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven by

rod from beam to condenser under the engine. 

 

BRAYTON PUMPING STATION

[Foul water pumping?]

110(?)hp inverted vertical triple expansion engine by James Watt, 1906. 

13"HP, 20"IP, 30"LP X 2ft stroke.  All Corliss valves.  150psi, 47rpm.  Vertical

shaft drives horizontal shaft at cylinder base level with eccentrics.  Four rods

from crossheads to ram pumps below engine.  Connecting rod on an end crank

drives lift pump by rocking lever.  Marshall vertical barring engine.

 

STONEFERRY PUMPING STATION

60hp Cornish beam engine by Jackson, 1844.  50" diameter cylinder X 10 ft

stroke.  Two more in 1863/64.

 

Two 130hp Cornish beam pumps by Chapman and Gresham, 1845.  52"

diameter cylinder X 10ft stroke. 

 

Thompson's erect a large 160hp Cornish beam pump in 1850.

 

HENSALL PUMPING STATION

Two 500hp vertical inverted triple expansion engines by Hathorn Davy, 1934. 

15"HP, 24"IP, 30"LP X 3ft stroke.  Drop valves.  200psi, 23rpm.  Vertical shaft

drives governor and a horizontal shaft at cylinder level with eccentrics.  Four

rods down to ram pumps from each crosshead.  Connecting rod on a crank at

the end of the shaft drives lift pump by rocking lever.  Right hand and left

hand engines by Marshall Brothers engineers(?).

 

SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION.  WILLERBY, HULL

One out of use 300hp Cornish beam pump by Bells, Lightfoot of Newcastle,

1876.  90" diameter, single acting cylinder X 10ft 6" stroke.  30psi, 10 strokes

per minute.  36" diameter ram pump X 10ft 6" stroke.  Two 27" diameter

bucket lift pumps.  Two 3" force pumps from beam also.  Beam is 40ft centres,

40 tons.  430 gallons per lift.  Four fluted columns support arched girder for

the beam.  An enormous engine in a well lit engine room.

 

Present plant all vertical electric bore pumps driven by three Ruston diesel

engines direct coupled to alternators and YEB supply.

 

BESTWOOD PUMPING STATION

Two single cylinder beam pumps, right and left, by Jos. Witham and Son,

Leeds, 1873.  60" diameter cylinder X 8ft 6" stroke.  40psi, 9 ½ rpm.  24ft

flywheel, (12" w x 16" d (?).  19 rpm Watt governor gear driven.  Equilibrium

vertical valves operated from horizontal camshaft under floor.  Air pump

driven from beam.  Lift pump and steam cylinder at end.  Cast iron beam. 

Parallel motion.  10" steel rod down to 30" diameter ram in 200ft well.  75ft

borehole.  Two steel rods down to cross? And pump rod of bucket, 24"

diameter.  Very ornate circular columns support fine cross girders.  Beam

bearings 15" diameter.  Six Lancashire boilers 7Ft 62 X 30ft long.  Station built

by Thomas Hawksley. 

[From Papplewick web site:  The Nottingham Waterworks company built

three Pumping Stations on the sandstone: Park Works (1850) using a 60 HP

Cornish Beam engine to pump from two 240 ft deep wells; Bagthorpe

(Basford) opened with two 60 HP compound Beam Engines in 1857 and was

enlarged in 1868 by the addition of a 80hp single cylinder and finally

Bestwood was opened in 1871 and equipped with two 125hp rotative beam

engines built by J. Witham and Sons, Leeds. Park Works closed in 1895

although the Engine House still stands at the Derby Road end of the

Ropewalk. The Basford, Bestwood and all subsequent sandstone sources

remain in use today.  An auxiliary engine was installed at Bestwood to feed

the Kimberley and Greasley areas by pumping over a Standpipe built

alongside Papplewick reservoir. This engine, together with the Davy that

later replaced it were removed to Papplewick in 1885 to carry out the same

purpose and installed in the small building adjoining to the Boiler House.]

 

CLAYMILLS.  BURTON ON TRENT

Mr Manders.

Four compound beam pumping engines by Gimson, Leicester 1885.  24"HP,

38"LP X 6ft and 8ft stroke.  40psi, 10rpm.  25ft flywheel, 11" wide.  Air pump

driven by rod from beam.  Steam-jacketed cylinders.  Vertical equilibrium

valves operated by cams, two at top and bottom of each cylinder.  Pendulum

governor, 40rpm.  For 12" diameter CI columns with octagonal bases support

horizontal girders on each side.  Two engines, Right and left hand in each

engine room.  Parallel motion at each end of beams.  Two 4" diameter rods

from beam to ram.  21" ram X 6ft stroke, 90 gallons per stroke.  Two engines

run three to six months.  Single cylinder 4" diameter X 6" stroke, 24" flywheel,

horizontal barring engine on each pair of engines.  5 Lancashire boilers, 7ft 6"

diameter X 28ft long.

[found on the web:  Clay Mills sewage pumping station in Burton on Trent

contains four rotative Woolf compound Beam engines made by Gimson & Co.

of Leicester in 1885 which are being restored after a long period of

dereliction.  With riveted wrought iron box section beams 28 feet long, 24

foot diameter flywheel, two cylinders 24 inch diameter x 6 feet stroke and 38

inch diameter x 8 ft stroke, each engine ran at between 6 and 12 rpm and

drove two sewage pumps (one from either side of the beam pivot) each of 21

inch by 6 ft stroke.  Taking steam at 80 psig from a rank of five Lancashire

boilers, the engines exhausted into a jet condenser, the airpump of which was

operated off the parallel motion guiding the piston rod crossheads.  The

valves admitting steam into and out of the cylinders are opened by shafts

driven by under floor rotating cam shafts, operated via bevel gearing from

the crankshaft, the valves are forced closed again by gravity acting on large

weights known as 'top hats'.]

 

MARHAM PUMPING STATION

[Norfolk.  Drainage pumps?]

Two twin triple expansion tandem engines by Worthington Simpson, 1940. 

12"HP, 18"IP, 30"LP X 24" stroke.  180psi, 10-50 strokes per minute.  Direct,

non rotary double acting pumps.  Vertical double air pump worked from

rocker shaft operated by link from guided crosshead.  Corliss non-trip valves

operated from rocker shaft.  Two pairs of double acting pumps with vertical

valve chambers.  Very quiet in action.

 

ALSO

A 25hp and a 50hp vertical single cylinder and one 100hp compound high

speed engine by Hindley.  All direct coupled to DC generators for standby

lighting and auxiliary motors.  Normally driven by mercury arc rectifiers from

mains supply.  4,500,000 gallons daily.  Two Lancashire boilers 7ft 6" X 30 ft

long.

 

SUDBROOKE PUMPING STATION

SEVERN TUNNEL

1964.  Mr T C Stevens.

Six Cornish beam pumping engines by Harvey and Company, Hayle, 1886. 

70" diameter cylinder X 10ft stroke.  60psi, 8 or 9 strokes a minute.  Vertical

equilibrium valves,  35ft beam.  3 x 34" bucket pumps, 3 x 35" plunger pumps. 

All 9ft stroke (two + 12")  336 and 356 gauge (?). 

 

One engine in 12ft shaft, as above but 70" steam cylinder, 37" plunger and 10ft

stroke.

 

Bull vertical direct acting engines at Iron Pit, 1880/1886.  Two 50" cylinders,

26" plungers X 10ft stroke,

 

At Five miles and Four Chains: Two Harvey Cornish beam engines.  One 65"

cylinder and 34" bucket X 9ft stroke and one similar but 35" plunger. 

 

Also in Iron Pit, One Cornish beam.  75" diameter cylinder X 10ft stroke with

35" bucket X 9ft stroke.

 

Also two Cornish beam pumps by Harvey and Company, 1886, at Sea Wall. 

41" diameter cylinder X 9ft stroke.  One 29" bucket and one 29" plunger.  All

ran at 80psi and there were 40 boilers.

[See the various histories of the Great Western Railway and the Severn

Tunnel.  All these engines at Sudbrooke were installed to deal with water

coming into the workings from the Great Spring.]

 

SEVERN TUNNEL.  GWR

Mr Carter (electrician).

400hp tandem compound engine by Walker Brothers, Wigan, 1924.  21"HP,

42"LP X 3ft stroke.  150psi (gives 300hp), 60 rpm.  27ft diameter X 9ft wide

flywheel.  Drop valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crank pin. 

Whitehead governor.

 

Original Guibal fan  40ft diameter x 12ft wide.  18ft shaft North, 15ft shaft

South.  Driven my ?hp horizontal single cylinder engine built by Walker

Brothers, Wigan, 1886.  33" diameter cylinder X 30" stroke.  180psi(?),

30rpm.  Slide valve. 

 

At Benacre; two bull pumps, 22" steam cylinders, 20" plungers X 6ft stroke. 

Three boilers for fan engine, 150psi replaced By Lancashire boilers.  15

Cornish boilers, 7ft diameter X 30ft long by J Thompson, 1886.  As many

boilers in use as are needed by engines running.

 

[Illegible note suggests that pumps are now electric submersibles.]

 

ABBEY PUMPING STATION.  LEICESTER

Sewage pumping station.

Four ?hp beam pumping engines by Gimson of Leicester, 1887/1890.  28"HP

X 6ft stroke.  46"Lp X 8ft 6" stroke.  80psi, 10-16 rpm.  Slide valves.  21ft

flywheel, 21 tons.  26ft 6" X 5ft beam.  Single acting pump drives off each side

of beam, 26 ¾" diameter pumping against 173 ft rise through 30" diameter

pipe 1 ¾ miles long.  At 12 rpm each engine pumps 200,000 gallons per hour. 

Air pumps driven from beam.  Eight Lancashire boilers.

 

N WORSLEY.  BAXENDEN

VICTORIA MILL.  BAXENDEN

450hp cross compound engine by C Whitaker, 1896.  19"HP, 36"LP X 4ft

stroke.  160psi, 76rpm.  18ft flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder,

slide valve LP.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Single slipper

guides.

 

J AND J BIRLEY.  BURNLEY

LODGE MILL?.  BURNLEY

1000hp twin tandem compound engine by Bracewell, no date.  Two 22"HP

and two 40"LP X 6ft stroke.  80psi, 47rpm.  30ft flywheel, 7ft wide, belt drive,

two 17" belts, one 32" belt and one 15" belt.  Slide valves on both cylinders.  Hp

had expansion gear.  Air pump 34" diameter X 21" stroke.

 

ARTHUR EDMONDSON.  BURNLEY

EMPIRE MILL(?).  BURNLEY

600hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1915.  19"HP, 36"LP X

4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel, 17 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Whitehead

governor.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Left hand LP named

'Mabel' and right hand HP named 'Sarah'.

 

HAYTHORNTHWAITE.  BURNLEY

MOUNT PLEASANT MILL.  BURNLEY

500hp tandem compound engine by ?  116"HP, 32"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 52

rpm.  20ft flywheel, 30" belt.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder and slide valve

low.  Horizontal condenser behind LP cylinder.  Cast iron disc crank.  Double

slide bars.

 

J E ELLIOTT.  BLACKO

SPRINGFIELD MILL.  BLACKO

150hp tandem compound engine by C Whitaker, no date.  11"HP, 23"LP X 3ft

6" stroke.  Right hand engine.  120psi, 75rpm.  12 ft flywheel.  Corliss valves on

HP and slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from the crosshead.  Return crank

drives the shaft carrying eccentrics for the Corliss valves.

[Shackleton records:  Springfield Mill was built by the Blacko Weaving Shed

Company around 1860. The weaving shed contained 218 looms made by

Messrs. Harling and Todd of Burnley and was tenanted by Messrs. Horsfield

and Pomfret. By 1882 the mill was owned by William Hartley and Sons but

was taken over by Messrs. Trafford and Brown in 1885. Trafford and Brown

took the space in the mill and increased the number of looms to 305. The mill

comprised a single-storey weaving shed, a warehouse, engine house, boiler

house and tape sizing room. The mill was set back from Gisburn Road and

was accessed by a lane. The mill had a reservoir and its own gas-making

plant and gas holder. In May 1891 a new boiler was installed and a weaving

shed extension was built in the direction of Gisburn Road. The extension held

120 looms and was designed by Samuel Keighley of Burnley. In 1894 a

further weaving shed was built which filled the vacant land between the shed

built in 1891 and Gisburn Road. In 1896 a storeroom and dressing shed were

added to the eastern end of this shed. The shed nearest Gisburn Road was

known as 'Top Shed', the 1891 extension was called 'Middle Shed' and the

shed associated with the early mill, 'Bottom Shed'. Following the extension

there were 500 looms running.  A new company was formed in 1897 in

which the workpeople bought shares. Richard Trafford, who had owned the

mill, took one third of the shares. The new company was registered on 29

April with a capital of £12,000 in £5 shares. One of the sheds was fitted up

with 250 new looms. In 1920 additional space was created by adding a room

over the boiler house as a second storey.  In 1938 the mill was taken over by

Messrs. J. E. Elliot who moved from Holme Mill, Nelson. Messrs. J. E. Elliot

became part of the Slumberland Group in 1947 and made outer covers for

mattresses. Elliot's closed under the Government reorganisation scheme in

1959 and the steam engine was scrapped. Slumberland Ltd. continued to use

the premises as a store for bed mattresses.  In 1962 the mill was leased by

Messrs. J. W. Barritt of Ulverston for weaving. In 1967 Peter Reed Textiles,

who had been renting space at Fernbank Mill, Barnoldswick, moved to the

mill. Peter Reed Textiles closed Springfield Mill in 1986. Walter Smith

(Nelson) Ltd. had space at the mill in 1991.  In 2000 a plan was put forward

to demolish the mill and develop the site of the mill and the mill reservoir for

housing. The plan came to fruition in 2003.

 

POWER PLANT

The original steam engine was a single cylinder condensing beam engine,

maker unknown. In 1907 Chas. Whittaker of Accrington supplied a new

steam engine and the beam engine was retired.  The engine was Messrs. C.

Whittaker order number 39/195 of 1907 and was a right-hand horizontal

tandem-compound engine with low-pressure cylinder behind the high-

pressure. The Corliss valve gear was on the outside of the cylinder driven by

a drag crank. The engine had single slipper crosshead guide. There was no

barring engine.  In the early 1950s there was a single Lancashire boiler

made by Messrs. Anderton and Company of Accrington which supplied

superheated steam and worked in conjunction with a Green' economiser

with motorised scrapers.

 

Chas Whittaker, Accrington, 240hp horizontal Cross-Compound Engine 1907

14 ½" HP, 28"LP X 30" stroke.  125psi, 85rpm.  Corliss valves on HP and

slide valve LP.  12ft flywheel, 9 ropes.  20" diam X 15" stroke air pump driven

from the crosshead.]

 

J DUCKETT.  BURNLEY

SANITARY WORKS.  BURNLEY

400hp single cylinder horizontal engine by Marshall, 1928.  26" diameter

cylinder X 3ft stroke.  180psi, 88rpm.  14ft flywheel, 6 ropes.  Drop valves.

 

ALSO

200hp single cylinder engine by Robey.  20" diameter cylinder X 30" stroke. 

Drop valves.

 

JOHN WARBURTON.  HASLINGDEN

SYKESIDE MILL.  HASLINGDEN

600hp right hand tandem compound engine by C Whitaker, Accrington, no

date.  19"HP, 36"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 76rpm.  20ft flywheel, 14 ropes. 

Corliss valves.  Tail rod support.

 

ANDERTON AND HALSTEAD.  HASLINGDEN

ALBERT AND BRITANNIA MILLS.  HASLINGDEN

1000hp tandem compound engine by S S Stott, Haslingden, 1926.  24"HP,

48"LP X 5ft stroke.  180psi, ?rpm.  20ft flywheel, 17 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Air

pump driven from tailrod by bell crank.  Support guides.

 

NUTTALL AND CROOK.  BURNLEY

ROSEGROVE MILLS.  BURNLEY

750hp inverted triple expansion engine by Yates and Thom, no date.  3ft

stroke.  180psi, 84rpm.  12ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Lumb

governor.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

NEWHALL SPINNING COMPANY.  BURNLEY

900hp triple expansion by Burnley Ironworks.  No details beyond 120psi.

 

SAMUEL HOLDEN.  HOLMFIELD MILL.  BARROWFORD.

HOLMFIELD MILL.  BARROWFORD

No details but Shackleton records:

The steam engine was a horizontal cross-compound type with the high-

pressure cylinder on the right-hand side. Cole, Marchent and Morley

designed engines for a high degree of superheat in the steam and were ahead

of the development of available cylinder lubricants. It could be argued that

this was false economy since a lot of their engines suffered from cylinder

wear and this engine was no exception. The high-pressure cylinder was re-

bored three times and replaced twice. On the second change in the 1940s a

piston rod tail slide was fitted by Brown, Sons and Pickles of Barnoldswick in

order to reduce wear.  This steam engine was Cole, Marchent and Motley

order number 7516/1907. Both cylinders had piston drop valves and trunk

slides. A vertical air pump 34ins. diameter and 17ins. stroke was driven by

the low-pressure piston tail rod. The flywheel weighed 20 tons, was not

boarded and was fitted with sixteen 2ins. diameter ropes. There was a single

cylinder barring engine. The engine was originally fitted with United States

metallic packings but these were changed to Universal metallic packings in

the 1940s. The engine was fitted with a Lumb No.5 governor and No.3

regulator (left-hand) in 1944.  There were originally two Lancashire boilers

made by Yates and Thom of Blackburn which operated at a pressure of 160

psi.  A third boiler was added around 1948.

 

GEORGE STREET MANUFACTURING CO.  BURNLEY

CORONATION MILL.  BURNLEY

450hp tandem compound engine by ?, 1899 (1915).  120psi, 78rpm.  18ft

flywheel.  Corliss valve HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from

crosshead.

 

ROBERT EMMOTT.  BURNLEY

STANLEY AND FERNDALE MILLS.  BURNLEY

750hp cross compound engine by Burnley Ironworks, 1913.  No details.

 

LEES AND WRIGLEY.  OLDHAM

GREENBANK MILLS.  OLDHAM

Number one mill.

1200hp twin beam McNaughted engine by Buckley and Taylor (Both made

and modified by), No date.  Two 29"HP X 3ft 9 ¾" stroke.  Two 45 ½"LP X 7ft

stroke.  160psi, ? rpm.  20ft flywheel, gear drive.  Corliss valves on HP and

slide valves on LP.  Air pump driven from beams.  Very heavy built-up

flywheel with 20" wide teeth on the rim.

 

Number two mill.

1000 hp cross compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1870-1880.  24"HP,

32 5/16" LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 62rpm.  ? ft flywheel, gear drive.  Corliss

valves.  Eccentrics on return crank driven shaft.  Tail rod support on LP only. 

Airpump driven by bell crank from LP tail rod.  Altered from a single cylinder

engine.

 

Number three mill.

1000hp single beam triple expansion engine by Buckley and Taylor, no date. 

27ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on HP, slide valves on IP and LP.  Air

pump driven from the beam. 

 

300hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1816.  Coupled to the above. 

16"HP, 35"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder and slide valve

LP.

 

Number four mill.

1400hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1916.  24"HP, 48"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 64rpm.  25ft flywheel, 40 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Balanced

cranks.  Tail rod supports to both cylinders.  Air pump driven by bell crank

from LP tail rod.

 

JAMES KERSHAW.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

GUIDE MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE

800hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1887? 

20"HP, 45"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 84 rpm.  18ft flywheel, 22 ropes. 

Corliss valves.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

J J ASHTON.  NEWTON, HYDE?

NEWTON MOOR MILLS.  NEWTON

750hp triple expansion engine by J and E Wood, 1912.  140psi.  No other

details.

 

HOLLINS MILL CO.  MARPLE

1400hp cross compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1922.  26"HP, 52"LP X

5ft stroke.  180psi, 67 ½ rpm.  24ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Drop valves.  Tail rod

supports to both cylinders.

 

GOYT MILL.  MARPLE

GOYT SPINNING CO LTD.  HAWK GREEN

2000HP CROSS COMPOUND ENGINE BY Carel Frere, Ghent, no date. 

160psi, 80rpm.  24ft flywheel, 50 ropes.  Drop valves.  Enclosed governor.  Air

pump driven from LP crank.  Diagonal twin cylinder barring engine.

 

STEWART AND LLOYD.  NEWPORT

Mannesman Tube Works.

Two 2500hp twin tandem compound engines by Cole Marchant and Morley,

1917.  Two 23"HP, two44"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi and 600F superheat.  64-

85rpm.  18 ½ ft flywheel, 50 tons, 42 x 2" diameter ropes x 170ft long.  Drop

valves.  Air pumps were originally Edwards, driven separately by motors but

now converted to Delas condensers with M&M steam jet exhauster.  21ft

flywheel on mill shaft weighs 120 tons.

 

J J HADFIELD, BLEACHWORKS.  CHINLEY

Mr Marsland.

450hp cross compound engine by George Saxon (reputed to be last Saxon

engine)  1928.  16 ½"HP, 31"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  120psi, 100rpm.  16ft

flywheel, 12 ropes.  Corliss valves.  Horizontal condenser behind the LP

cylinder.

 

ALSO

Richardson turbo-generator installed in 1938.  Saxon engine used little since. 

200Kw dynamo chain driven by engine as stand-by to a motor generator

driven off mains supply.  [Using a motor driven DC machine driven by AC

was a cheap way of getting a DC supply for older machines and special

needs.]

 

BLISS TWEED MILL.  CHIPPING NORTON

(GW)  400hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1918.  16 ½"HP,

30"LP X 3ft stroke.  Driving generators.  100psi, 90rpm.  Corliss valves. 

Electrified mill.

 

ALSO

Very old mill, Had fire and rebuilt in 1873.  Beam engine 1873-1907.  Two

Crossley Brothers gas engines.  Pollitt and Wigzell engine in 1918.

 

BATHFORD PAPER MILL

(GW)  350hp tandem compound engine by Wood Brothers, 1912.  15"HP,

30"LP X 30" stroke.  150psi, 90rpm.  Corliss valves.

 

GEM SPINNING COMPANY.  HOLLINWOOD1700hp twin tandem

compound engine by George Saxon, 1902.  Two 20"HP, two 45"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  26ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss valves on all

cylinders.

 

JAMES GREAVES.  OLDHAM

DERKER MILL.  OLDHAM

900hp twin tandem compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1897.  Two

17"HP, two 38"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  140psi, 67rpm.  18ft flywheel, 22 ropes. 

Corliss valves.  Airpump driven from each crosshead.

 

CENTRAL MILL.  OLDHAM

1200hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1910.  25"HP, 52"LP X 5ft

6" stroke.  160psi, 51 rpm.  26ft flywheel, 26 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.

 

GRANGE VALE SPINNING CO.  OLDHAM

500hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, no date.  17"HP, 36"LP X 5ft

stroke.  160psi, 55rpm.  18ft flywheel.  Corliss valves on both cylinders.  Air

pump driven from crosshead.

 

SUMMERVALE MILL.  OLDHAM

1650hp cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1919.  31"HP, 61"LP X 6ft

stroke.  160psi, 55rpm.  16 ½ ft flywheel, gear drive, 144 teeth – 67 teeth. 

Corliss valves.

 

THORNHAM SPINNING CO.  OLDHAM

1600hp twin tandem compound engine by J and W McNaught, 1876.  Two

18"HP, two36"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 39 ¾ rpm.  22ft flywheel, gear drive,

150teeth x 16" wide x 5" pitch.  Corliss valves on HP cylinders, slide valves on

LPs.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  (The second McNaught engine

had new Corliss HP cylinders.)

 

GLADSTONE SPINNING CO LTD.  OLDHAM

1200hp vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1902.  26"HP,

50"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  18ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves on

Hp cylinder, piston slide valves on LP.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

HOLYROOD MILL.  OLDHAM

?hp twin tandem compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, no date.  All

cylinders have slide valves.  New HP piston valve cylinders with internal trip

gear by J Petrie.  Originally a bevel drive to a vertical shaft from second

motion shaft.  Later the fear was taken out and steel belts from second motion

took drive.  Later still, rope drive from second motion shaft retaining gear

drive on engine shaft.

 

RAVEN MILL.  OLDHAM

RAVEN MILL.  CHADDERTON

1500hp inverted triple expansion engine by Buckley and Taylor, no date. 

22"HP, 34"IP, 55"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  20ft Flywheel, 32 ropes. 

Corliss valves.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

FERNHURST MILL.  CHADDERTON

1600hp inverted triple expansion engine by Browett and Lindley, no date. 

24"HP, 36"IP, 50"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, ? rpm.  22 ft flywheel, 40 ropes. 

Corliss valves.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.  (One of three large mill

engines made by this firm.)

 

ORME MILL.  WATERHEAD

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  OLDHAM

1250hp vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, Openshaw, 1911. 

21"HP, 33"IP, 51"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel, 35 ropes.  

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from the LP crosshead.

 

FERRANTI.  HOLLINWOOD.

Mr Ridding, historian.  [Arthur Ridding published at least two books on

Ferranti.]

350hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by Ferranti.  1881, works

number 381.  13"HP, 26"Lp X 24" stroke.  Slide valves.  150psi, 110 rpm.  7ft,

very heavy flywheel with 10 ropes. 

 

ALSO

Old electric light engine by Ferranti (AC) used at Gillett's Chorley to drive a

weaving mill, 1900-1960.  Reputed to be first installed at Deptford power

station.  Bought back by Ferranti and installed at Hollinwood.  Driving

dynamo, (really a rotary converter)  used as a standby for DC supply which

was normally supplied by Mercury arc rectifiers running on mains AC current. 

Engine under steam for demonstration.

[I saw this engine after it had been dismantled and stored outside in a yard

near Chorley(?).  The flywheel was the rotor for an integral dynamo and

from memory was about 12ft diameter.  In about 1987 I was called in to

advise on the engine by the Lancs County Museum Service who were

considering re-erecting it.  My advice was to get it under cover as soon as

possible.  I do not know what happened to it after that.]

 

LAIDLAW'S MILL.  DUNS

Blanket and tweed manufacturers.

500hp tandem compound engine by Douglas and Grant, Kirkcaldy, 1916. 

21"HP, 40"LP X 4ft stroke.  100rpm.  12 ft flywheel, gear drive outside,.  Air

pump driven from crank on shaft driven by return crank.

 

MARKFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION.  TOTTENHAM

Horizontal triple expansion Worthington engine.  8"HP, 12"IP and 20"LP X

18" stroke.  Air pump on tail rod.

 

ALSO

Wood Brothers McNaughted beam.  21"HP x 44" stroke, 36"LP x 6ft stroke. 

27ft flywheel.

[Extract from The Markfield Beam Engine and Museum website.

This remarkable engine was built by Wood Brothers, of Sowerby Bridge,

Yorkshire, between 1886 and 1888. It was commissioned on the 12th July

1888. It saw continuous duty from that time to around 1905, when it was

relegated to standby duty for storm water pumping.  It is a free-standing

engine of the compound rotative type and is believed to be the last engine

produced by Wood Bros. and the only surviving eight column engine in situ.

The engine has two cylinders arranged to be double acting and compound. 

The engine is rated at one-hundred horsepower and drives two pumps, of the

plunger type. Each pump is capable of moving two million gallons-per-day,

when the engine is running at sixteen revolutions per minute. The pumps are

each twenty-six inches diameter and fifty-one inch stroke. Neither pump can

be isolated from the other.  The engine is constructed within its own base and

eight column framework to make it independent of the building structure,

except at the point where the end of the flywheel axle bearing is supported

within a cast iron frame, built into the wall of the engine house. The base

casting is supported on a solid brickwork structure independent of the walls

of the building.  The flywheel is twenty-seven feet in diameter and weighs

approximately seventeen tons. The spokes are of solid cast iron and the rim

is of hollow section, also of cast-iron. It is believed that the intention was to

fill the rim sections with concrete to increase the weight and potential

momentum. The eight supporting columns are of the Doric style, in hollow

cast-iron, and the general design of decoration to the structure, notably the

use of the acanthus leaf motif, follows the "only the best" attitude of the Local

Councils of the day. The beam itself stands seventeen feet above floor level

and is almost twenty one feet in length. It pivots on two huge bearings that

are lubricated by small oil reservoirs above, as are all the bearings attached

to the beam. The flywheel bearings and those driving the valve timing gear

shafts are lubricated by the small self-feeding glass reservoirs.  When used to

pump sewage, the engine consumed some four hundredweight (200 kilos) of

coal per hour. There were two driver/mechanics to operate the engine who

lived in two cottages on the site, tied to their employment.  The engine has a

speed governor of the centrifugal type, developed by James Watt around

1788, to control the running speed.  Each cylinder piston rod, and the

water/air pump are joined by a series of rods, forming a parallel motion to

the beam. This parallel motion linkage, also invented by James Watt in 1784,

converts the curvilinear motion of the beam into straight-line motion for the

piston rods.  The engine uses the double-expansion compound system,

developed by Arthur Woolf around 1804, whereby the steam is first let into a

high-pressure cylinder, where it is allowed to expend half its pressure before

being let into the low pressure cylinder, to do further work before being

condensed. This system allows for smooth running at minimal fuel

consumption. The flywheel bearings and the bearings for the valve timing

gear shafts are lubricated by small self feeding glass reservoirs.]

 

[Watkins records:  Tottenham Borough, Markfield Road Station. One engine

BY Wood Bros, Sowerby Bridge, 1886.  3.7mgd. 20ft head. 80psi. Cylinders

abt 21in x 4ft and 45in x 6ft.  Piston valves. 16rpm. 100hp. 2 ram pumps,

26in x 4ft 3in.

 

Nineteen engine builders tendered for these engines, and the contract was

awarded to Wood Bros at £2,450. The design with eight fluted columns was

very attractive, and all of the decorative work was in cast-iron. One pump

was driven directly from the beam, and the other by a piston tail-rod below

the high-pressure cylinder, which left little balancing to be done by the 28 ton

flywheel. The piston valves were of Wood's rotating variable cut-off type for

the HP, and simple rotation for the LP cylinders, with manual cut-off

adjustment. The beam again was built up from plates, but the engine was

entirely independent of the house. The valve chests on the left of the cylinders

were attractively ornate, and again the cylinder lagging timbers had no

brass retaining strips. When added capacity was needed in 1905, three

Worthington engines each with cylinders of 8, 12 and 20in diameter were

installed, with 27in pumps, running at 38 double strokes per minute.]

 

 

SOUTH STAFFORD WATER BOARD

SANDFORD.  LICHFIELD

Two 500hp Sulzer Uniflow engines.

 

ALSO

Two similar tandem compound Corliss engines, one by Ashton Frost and one

by Hathorn, Davy.  25 ft flywheels and 20rpm.

 

PEEL MILL NO 1.  BURY

1200hp cross compound engine by J Musgrave, 1886.  32"HP, 56"LP X 6ft

stroke.  85psi, 50 ½ rpm.  32ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  (GW says LP was slide valve.)

 

PEEL MILL NO 2.  BURY

1600hp quadruplex engine by J Musgrave, 1892.  18"HP, 26" and 27" IPs ,

54"LP X 4ft 6" stroke.  200psi, 80rpm.  21ft flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss valves

on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from end of one of the parallel motion

levers. (Fleming, Fergusson and Dixon patent)

 

J R AND A SMITH.  PRESTON

MANCHESTER MILL.  PRESTON

[Also at Peel mill Preston.]

650hp cross compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, no date.  19"HP, 38"LP

X 4ft 6" stroke.  160psi, 76rpm.  20ft flywheel, 24 ropes.  Corliss (?). 

Horizontal condenser behind the LP cylinder.  Tail rod supports to HP

cylinder.

 

G WHITTLES.  LONGRIDGE

STONEBRIDGE MILL.  LONGRIDGE

400hp cross compound engine by J Clayton, Preston, 1876.  18"HP, 32"LP X

4ft 6" stroke.  150psi, 48rpm.  ?ft flywheel, gear drive.  Slide valves on both

cylinders with cross cut off on HP cylinder.

 

BRITISH OIL AND CAKE MILLS.  AVONMOUTH

600hp cross compound engine by G&B [Greenwood and Batley of Leeds(?)],

1904.  Frickhart valve gear, trunk guides.  HP is right hand.

 

ARKWRIGHT MILL.  PRESTON

G AND R DEWHURST LTD.  PRESTON

1500hp inverted vertical triple expansion engine by Cole, Marchant and

Morley.  No date.  24"HP, 36"IP, 56"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 78rpm.  20ft

flywheel, 36 ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from LP

crosshead.

 

MOORBROOK SPINNING CO,  PRESTON

MOORBROOK MILL.  PRESTON

400hp inverted vertical triple expansion engine by George Saxon, 1904. 

12"HP, 18"IP, 29"LP X 3ft stroke.  160psi, 100rpm.  12ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.

 

EAST LANCS PAPER WORKS.  RADCLIFFE

Mr J Yates.

2500hp tandem Uniflow engine by J Musgrave, 1926.  37"HP, 53"LP X 44"

stroke.  180psi, 540F superheat, 112 rpm.  21 foot plain flywheel.  800Kw,

120volt dynamo on left.  Flywheel on right of web crank.  Drop valves.  Tail

rod support to tail rod and between cylinders to piston rod.  All enclosed

engine.  Galloway governor.  Rope driven Musgrave condenser and air pump. 

Also a Radojet can exhaust at 15psi for processing.  Can drive by coupling to

400feet of shafting, now in two sections and driven by an 800hp, 3000volt

motor on each.  Can be clutched together when engine is running but engine is

now stand-by.  Plant now driven by a Hick Hargreaves alternator.  1949.

 

ATLAS MILL NUMBER 6.  BOLTON

MUSGRAVE SPINNING CO.  PRESTON

1500hp twin tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, no date.  Two 24"HP,

two 46"LP X 6ft stroke.  100psi, 50rpm.  32ft flywheel, 22 ropes.  Corliss

valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.  Valves at

bottom.

 

VANTONA TEXTILES.  BOLTON

MOOR MILL.  BOLTON

500hp tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, 1895.  18"HP, 34"LP X 4ft

stroke.  100psi, 7(?)rpm.  18ft flywheel, 16 ropes.  Corliss valves, rocking lever

drive.  Air pump driven from crosshead.  Double guide bars.  Built-up

flywheel, boarded over but level with spokes, showing them.  Left hand engine

with HP at the front.

 

LION MILL.  ROYTON

2500hp twin tandem three rod type engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1890.  Two

26"HP and two 50"LP X 5ft stroke.  ?ft flywheel, 44 ropes.  Corliss valves on

HPs and slide valves on LPs.  Whitehead governor.  This engine was built with

piston valve cylinders but was altered by P&W to the above description in 14

days.  Included new bed and cylinders.  Information from Mr Trevor Lees. 

Was probably too large for this mill.  (GW says all Corliss valves)

[Watkins records:  Lion Mill, Royton, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning.  Lion was

built in 1890 with 109,000 spindles, then the largest number in a single mill

and the engine was sized accordingly. Built by Pollitt & Wigzell, Sowerby

Bridge, Yorks, it developed 2,000hp, from piston-valve cylinders of 27 and

46in bore by 5ft 6in stroke on each side, but these proved uneconomical. In

1900, therefore, Pollitts replaced them by Corliss-valve cylinders, which

were very satisfactory. The replacement was made in 14 days, a record for a

job of such magnitude even then. The original six boilers for 100psi were

retained, but when these were condemned in 1952, the mill was converted to

electric drive by fitting large motors in the rope race, replacing the 40-rope

drive from the 22ft 6in flywheel.]

 

? MILL. MIDDLETON

1150hp vertical inverted cross compound engine by George Saxon, 1905. 

26"HP, 53"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 75rpm.  22ft flywheel, 35 ropes.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

MILTON SPINNING COMPANY.  MOSSLEY

1200hp triple expansion four cylinder engine by J Musgrave, no date.  22"HP,

35"IP, two 39"LPs X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 60rpm.  30ft flywheel, 44 ropes. 

Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead.

 

FIR MILL.  ROYTON

[Was part of the Cheetham Group]

1600hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by Scott and Hodgson, 1907. 

26"HP, 54"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 80rpm.  20ft flywheel, 36rpm.  Corliss

valves on both cylinders.  Air pump driven from crosshead.

[Watkins records;  The Fir Mill, Royton, Lancs.  Cotton Spinning.  Made by

Scott & Hodgson in 1906, the 'Fir' engine developed 1,700hp at 81rpm. The

Corliss-valve high-pressure cylinder was 21in bore, with the valves in line

with the crankshaft, the intermediate-was 38in bore, with a single piston

valve, and the 59in bore-low pressure was fitted with twin piston valves.

With the higher speed, the flywheel was smaller, ie 22ft diameter, and 36

tons weight driving by 36 ropes. Steam was supplied at 160psi, without

reduction for fifty years, by four Yates & Thom boilers until the mill closed.

The raised part of the upper platform, to clear the exhaust pipe flange, and

the twin piston valves for the low-pressure cylinder were Scott & Hodgson

features.]

 

ROYD MILL.  HOLLINWOOD

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  HOLLINWOOD

900hp inverted vertical triple expansion engine by J and E Wood, 1907.  18

½"HP, 28 ½"IP, 43"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  180psi, 94rpm.  16ft flywheel, ? ropes. 

Air pump driven from crosshead.  Corliss valves.

[Watkins records:  The Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Royd Mill,

Hollinwood.  Cotton Spinning.  Royd, built in 1907, was one of the smaller

mills, the engine built by J. & E. Wood of Bolton developing 900hp. The

cylinders, of 18.5, 28.5, and 43in bore by 3ft 6in stroke, were all fitted with

Corliss-valves, which in contrast to the maker's usual practice were fitted at

the opposite sides of the cylinders. It ran at 94rpm, driving by 20 ropes from

a 14ft flywheel. The original three Tetlow boilers still supplied steam at

180psi, when by 1961 electric drives were installed, and the engine was

scrapped. The frame was unusual since there were only two columns in

front, with twin feet to the single casting bed, the intermediate cylinder being

supported by a massive cross casting.]

 

BUCKLEY.  OLDHAM

NORMAN MILL.  OLDHAM

1500hp twin tandem compound engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1893.  Two

19"HP, two 36"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 55rpm.  26ft flywheel, 30 ropes. 

Corliss valves on HP cylinder, Slide valve LP.  Air pump driven from each

crosshead.

 

HARTFORD MILL.  WERNETH  OLDHAM

1800hp twin tandem compound engine by Urmson and Thompson, no date. 

Two 30"HP (rear), two 60"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 68rpm.  24ft flywheel, 40

ropes.  Corliss valves on all cylinders.  Air pump driven from each crosshead. 

No tailrod supports, Whitehead governor.

[G Watkins records:  Hartford Mill, Werneth, Oldham, Lancs.  Cotton

Spinning.  Hartford was the mill in which Platt Bros of Oldham tried out the

various new designs of plant they introduced, and the engine was almost

certainly the only twin tandem that Urmson & Thompson constructed. Built

in 1907, and named 'Oldham', the Corliss-valve cylinders were 21in and 44in

bore by 5ft stroke, and it developed 1,500hp at 65rpm, using steam at 170psi.

The drive was by 34 ropes from the 24ft flywheel, but all was scrapped

when, in 1957 electric drives were installed. It seems incredible that such an

engine was built for £5,400, and its three boilers for £1,900. That, however,

was the cost of this very good plant.]

 

UNITED MILL.  OLDHAM

UNITED SPINNING CO LTD.  WERNETH

Engines named 'Lancashire' and 'Yorkshire'.

1800hp three rod type twin tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell,

1875.  77 ½ rpm.  Gear drive from gear next to flywheel.  Out in 1959.

 

THOMAS MELLODEW AND CO LTD.  OLDHAM

PARKFIELD MILL.  OLDHAM

1200hp cross compound engine by Wolstenholme and Rye, Oldham, 1874. 

20"HP, 40"LP X 6ft stroke.  140psi, 52rpm, 18ft flywheel, gear drive.  Corliss

valve HP and slide valve LP.  Wrist plate with trips in angle rods.  LP tail rod

has support guides and drives the air pump via a bell crank.  Double slide

bars.  Barring engine geared to second motion shaft.

 

OLD MILL.  DUKINFIELD

OLD MILL CO (1894), PARK ROAD.  DUKINFIELD

600hp tandem compound engine by Buckley and Taylor.  No date.  20"HP,

40"LP X 5ft stroke.  160psi, 68rpm.  20ft flywheel.  Corliss valves.

 

THOMAS MELLODEW.  OLDHAM

MOORSIDE MILL.  OLDHAM

1000hp inverted triple expansion engine by Buckley and Taylor, 1907.  16"HP,

30"IP, 58"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, ? rpm.  19ft flywheel, 30 ropes.  Corliss

valves.  Air pump driven from LP crosshead.

 

BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION.  NEWARK

Mr Webb.

Two triple expansion pumping engines by Ashton Frost, 1907.  All Corliss

valves.  25"HP, 41"IP and 66"LP X 4ft stroke.  150psi, 16 rpm.  19ft flywheel,

17"w x 18"d, 23 tons.  LP and IP cylinders vertical, HP cylinder horizontal and

between IP and LP cylinders.  Cranks set at 180 degrees.  Crank same angle as

HP.  Extension of the piston rod drives lift pumps.  Two steel rods from each

vertical crosshead go down to drive 22 ½" diameter ram pumps.  Air pump

driven from one lever of the lift pumps.  Right and left hand engines.  One

running, one at rest.  Inverted vertical barring engines.  Gear driven shaft at

each end of the engine with eccentrics for Corliss valves and governor.  Two

23" diameter lift pumps.  Six 7ft 6" diameter x 30ft long Lancashire boilers by

Yates and Thom.  3 boilers in use.

[From Papplewick web site:  The last station to be built to pump from large

diameter wells, rather than boreholes was established at Boughton, 19 miles

north of Nottingham, in 1901. The main plant was driven by two Manhattan

type triple expansion steam engines built by Ashton Frost of Blackburn. The

standby plant consisted of the 130 HP Davy horizontal engine, used as the

pilot well engine at Papplewick until 1898, together with a triple expansion

engine by Fairburn, Lawson, Combe and Barbour.]

[Watkins records:  Nottingham Waterworks, Boughton Station. One engine

by Hathorn Davey and Co, Leeds, Wks No 3440, 1881. 1 ½ mgd. 400ft. 45psi.

24in and 44in x 6ft slide valves. 8-10spm. 2 x 201n bucket pumps in well.

This was almost certainly the sinking pump for the Papplewick engines, and

removed for similar service at Boughton. It was retained as the well pump

for the first Boughton plant, to serve the high lift triple-expansion Fairbairn

Lawson Combe and Barbour engine. Originally supplied with a condenser

and quadrants, the latter were altered for the Boughton wells by substituting

'T' bobs for the original 'U' type.  It was 65ft long over the pump railings to

the end of the condenser, and pumped up to 2mgd. It was Davey's standard

design of the period, with domed cylinder covers and twin low pressure

piston rods passing beside the high-pressure cylinder to the crosshead

.

ALSO

Nottingham Waterworks, Boughton Station. Two engines by Ashton, Frost

and Co, Blackburn, 1907. 3 mgd. 342ft. 150psi + 100F.  25, 41 and 65in x 4ft

stroke.  Corliss valves. 250hp? 16rpm. 2 well and 2 force pumps.  These

engines maintained the Nottingham tradition for fine engines, with a design

combining a horizontal HP with vertical IP and LP cylinders. The horizontal

HP was coupled to the centre crank and drove the well pumps behind it by a

piston tail-rod, to wooden sweep rods and quadrants.  The vertical cylinders

each drove a force pump below the cranks by side rods. The short stroke

reduced the length of the engine, but it was over 60ft long, and the width was

reduced by placing the layshafts for the eccentrics in the front, so that the

width was little more than that of the crankshaft and its bearings. They were

nearly 28ft high. The four steel front columns and cast-iron back ones with

extended feet, made the whole rigid. It was a credit to all concerned, the

designers and builders, those who ran them, and the Nottingham Authority.

The starting platform with two levers in a frame added to the attraction of

the design.

 

 

PAPPLEWICK PUMPING STATION

Two right and left hand single cylinder beam pumps by James Watt,

Birmingham, 1884.  46" diameter cylinders, double acting X 7 1'2 ft stroke. 

150hp.  50psi, 11 ½ rpm.  20ft flywheel, 14" wide x 16" deep rim.  Gear driven

Watt governor.  Vertical equilibrium valves operated by camshaft at cylinder

centre level.  Air pump driven from the beam.  7" steel rod down to 27 ½"

diameter ram pump.  Cast iron beam, parallel motion.  200ft well and 75ft

bore hole.  Two steel rods down to Lift bucket pump.  Very ornate vertical

columns support fine CI girders for beam bearings.  96 gallons per revolution,

56psi water pressure.  Six 7ft 6" x 30ft Lancashire boilers.

[From Papplewick web site:  Engine Type.  Beam Type. Low Pressure,

Double acting rotative and Condensing House Engine.  Built by James Watt

& Co. Birmingham and London, 1884.  Costs £ 5,525 for each beam engine,

including installation, Total cost of the whole pumping station site was £

55,000.  Steam Pressure when Pumping 50 lbs. per sq. in.  Now about 25 lbs.

per sq. in.  Power Generated.  Approx. 140 hp at 11 1/2 rpm.  Cylinder Bore,

46", Stroke 7 ½ ft. Crank, 3 ¼ ft. throw.  Flywheel, 20 ft. Diameter. Weight

24 tons.  Beam 25 ft Long. Weight 13 tons.  Valve Gear Double Beat Cornish

type, housed in upper and lower Steam Chests and driven by a single Cam

Shaft.  Governing System, Watt's Centrifugal Governor acting on Main

Steam Valve via Rod Linkage.  Condensing System, Watt's Patent Separate

Condenser with spray injection. Fed and cooled with water from the Cooling

Pond.  Rod Linkage.  Watt's Patent 'Three Link Parallel Motion' applied to all

Rods except the Connecting Rod and Boiler Feed Pump Rod.  Boiler Type, 6 -

Hand Fired Horizontal Galloway Boiler. ( Lancashire variant ).  Method of

Working, Three Boilers operational when pumping.  Boiler Size, 7' 2" dia. x

28' 7" long. 3,200 gallons of water.  Steaming Capacity, Approx. 8,000 lbs.

per hour.  Coal Consumption, about 5 ¼ tons per day, when pumping.  Daily

Pumping Capacity, 1,500,000 Gallons per engine per day.  Cooling Pond

Capacity, 1,250,000 Gallons.]

 

ELKSLEY PUMPING STATION.  LINCOLN

Two engines, left and right hand, Inverted vertical triple expansion engines by

Ashton Frost, 1911.  26"HP, 45"IP and 68"LP X 4ft stroke.  180psi, 24rpm.  17

ft flywheels, two to each engine, rims 13" wide and 18" deep.  Corliss valves on

all cylinders.  6 eccentrics.  Air pump driven from ram yoke.  Three 16 ¼" ram

pumps driven by two rods from crossheads.  Two lift pumps 18" diameter and

five foot stroke driven from cranks, one on each end of the crankshaft.  315

feet deep well, 3.6 million gallons a day.  Four Ruston Lancashire boilers, two

in use.  Connecting rod down to guide each end and then rod to wood spear. 

100-1220psi water pressure.  Internal teeth on one flywheel driven by inverted

vertical twin cylinder barring engine.  Mr Evans, Superintendent.  Mr Peet.

 

COTTINGHAM PUMPING STATION

Mr Renshaw.

Three engines.  350hp inverted vertical triple expansion engines by

Worthington.  1932.  18"HP, 31"IP, 50"LP, X 4ft stroke.  18-psi, 520 degrees F

superheat, 25 rpm.  13 ½ ft flywheel, 17 tons.  Piston drop valves on HP

cylinder, equilibrium valves on other cylinders.  Surface condenser but steam

through pipe (?).  Three 12" ram pumps driven by rods from the crossheads. 

LP ram pump has crosshead near the ram which drives two air pumps.  HP is

similar but driving two feed pumps.  Horizontal shaft at cylinder level has

small cranks which operate the valves.

 

WEST RIDING COLLIERY.  ALTOFTS

Mr Johnson.

?hp twin cylinder engine by Bradley and Craven, 1862.  Two 17" diameter

cylinders X 3ft stroke.  120psi, 85rpm.  16ft drum.  Equilibrium drop valves. 

Before 1920 this engine had 24" cylinders running on 60psi.

 

ALSO

?hp vertical twin cylinder engine by Bradley and Craven, 18??.  Two 30"

diameter cylinders X 6ft stroke.  Overhead crank.  60psi, 50rpm.  20 ft drum

and equilibrium drop valves. 

 

ALSO

?hp horizontal twin cylinder engine by Worley Mesnes Co, 1909.  Two 28"

diameter cylinders X 6ft stroke.  18ft drum.  120psi, 60rpm.  Drop valve inlets,

Corliss exhausts.  Originally had 32" diameter cylinders running on 60psi. 

Valves worked by wrist plates.

 

All the above engines have Link motion reverse, trunk guides.  Eight

Lancashire boilers, six in use.

 

WEST RIDING COLLIERY.  WAKEFIELD

750hp cross compound engine by Walker Brothers, Wigan, 1914.  23"HP,

41"LP X 4ft stroke.  Corliss valves.  120psi, 32rpm.  20ft heavy built-up

flywheel, 13 ropes driving 5ft 6" pulley for a 20ft fan.  The fan shaft has a

coupling on each end for engine drive or electric motor.  Air pump driven from

LP crank pin.  Engine is said to have come from a mill.

 

ALSO

Two150hp Belliss and Morcom, vertical compound engines coupled directly to

dynamos.

 

ALSO

?hp twin cylinder engine by Bradley and Craven, 1930.  Two 10" diameter

cylinders X 24" stroke.  5ft flywheel, 0-90rpm.  Corliss valves, wrist plates,

disc cranks.  Trunk guides.  Link reverse.  Single spur and double helical drive

to drum for haulage rope drive for tubs at pit bottom.

 

ALSO

Robey vertical compound driving an air compressor.

 

BANKHALL COLLIERY. BURNLEY

470 yards deep.  Cost £5000.

1750hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1914.  38"HP, 60"LP X 6ft

stroke.  100psi, 80rpm.  18ft drum, 2" rope, 9ft wide.  Drop valve inlet, Corliss

exhaust valves worked from wrist plate operated by link motion with steam

reverse.  Trunk guides.  Tail rod supports.

 

ALSO

520 yard shaft.  1000hp twin cylinder engine by Worsley Mesnes Co, Wigan,

1912.  Two 26" diameter cylinders X 6ft stroke.  100psi, 80rpm.  18ft drum, 9ft

wide.  Piston valves, link motion.  Trunk guides and no tail rods.  Lifted coal in

45 seconds.

 

Five Lancashire boilers fired by natural gas from the pit. 

 

ALSO

500hp cross compound engine by Walker Brothers, 1912.  20"FP, 34"LP X 3ft

6" stroke.  100psi, 60rpm.  18ft flywheel, 10 ropes.  Corliss valves on both

cylinders.  Exhaust steam to LP turbo alternator.  Trunk guides.  Direct Corliss

gear.  Driving ventilator fan. 

 

ALSO

1000hp inverted vertical gas engine using gas from pit direct coup[led to

alternator.

 

RYHOPE PUMPING STATION.  SUNDERLAND

SUNDERLAND AND SOUTH SHIELDS WATER COMPANY

Mr J Weston Adamson, director.

Mr Todd, died in 1965. 

Two compound beam engines by R and C Hawthorne, 1868.  27 ½"HP X 5ft

stroke, 45"LP X 8ft stroke.  24ft flywheel, 18 tons.  33ft centres beams (double

type) 22 tons.  First stage and second stage bucket pumps.  One at each end of

beam.  Vertical equilibrium valves operated by cam shaft under valve chests. 

Connecting rod next to first stage pump and LP cylinder next to second stage. 

243ft lift out of well257ft deep (9ft of water).  15"diameter pump x 10ft stroke

gives 87 gallons, both pumps alike.  One pumps half way to separate shaft and

the other from there to the surface.  Three Cornish boilers originally. 

Replaced by Lancashire boilers by Galloway's in 1908.

[From the Ryhope Museum web site.  During the first half of the nineteenth

century repeated cholera outbreaks, both nationally and locally led to a

much greater concern for water supplies. The creation of the Sunderland and

South Shields Water Company in 1852 was one local result of this. 

The construction

At the time the Company received the Royal Assent there were several

pumping stations in districts around Sunderland but the urgency of water

demands pressed heavily upon the Company. In 1864 four acres of land at

Ryhope were acquired and in May of the following year Thomas Hawksley,

in his position as Engineer to the Company, was asked to provide designs

and specifications for the 'new works'.  Construction of the engine house was

not without its problems. The beam engines and their house form an

integrated structure. Not only did the foundations have to serve as

foundations for most of the engine components, as well as provide support

for the well heads, but also the massive rocking beams had to be supported at

some twenty-two feet above ground level. Therefore engine and engine house

construction had to proceed together, but not in such a manner that they

would interfere with the sinking of the wells.  The station cost the Company

£58,416 compared with an estimated cost of £50,000. It is a tribute to

engineers like Thomas Hawksley, who was responsible for many such

installations all over England, that we retain an admiration for the

'Waterworks' style and standard of architecture which produced such

structures as those at Ryhope.  The engines were built by R & W Hawthorn

and cost £9,000.  The two engines at Ryhope are identical, apart from one

being a mirror image of the other. They are described as double-acting,

compound rotative beam engines. 'Compound' means that the engine has

more than one cylinder; high pressure steam from the boiler enters the high

pressure cylinder then passes via any intermediate cylinders to the low

pressure cylinder, so as to get as much energy from the steam as possible -

there are two stages in the Ryhope engines. 'Double-acting' means that

steam acts alternately on the top then the bottom of the piston - in other

words steam pushes the piston down, then pushes it up.  High pressure

cylinder: 27½ inches diameter by 5 feet 4 inches stroke.  Low pressure

cylinder: 45 inches diameter by 8 feet stroke.  Stop valve working pressure:

35 lbf/in².  HP cylinder inlet pressure: 30 lbf/in².  Condenser vacuum: 26

inches Hg.  Weight of beam: 22 tons.  Length of beam between pump rod

centres: 33 feet.  Weight of flywheel: 18 tons.  Diameter of flywheel: 24 feet. 

Design working speed: 10 strokes/minute.  Pump stroke: 10 feet 8 inches. 

Delivery: 40,000 gallons/hour against 243 feet head.  Main well shaft: 15

feet diameter by 257 feet deep (approx).  Staple well shaft (elliptical): 14 feet

major axis, 10 feet minor axis, by 140 feet deep (approx).  Coal consumption:

1¼ cwt/hour for steady steaming of one boiler.  The pumping of water was

performed in two stages. In the main well an iron barrel extended from the

water table at some 250 feet below ground to a tunnel about half way up,

whence the water ran into the 'staple well' 33 feet away, where the other end

of the pump raised it to the surface, or rather to the reservoir outside the

main building, via another iron barrel. This meant that an equal quantity of

water was being raised by each end of the beam, helping to ensure smooth

operation. There were various reasons for the discontinuance of the use of

the station in 1967. Ryhope is very close to the North Sea and the persistent

abstraction of water by a few fairly local pumping stations led to the water

table dropping below sea level, with the risk of salt ('brackish') water

entering the system. Since water from Ryhope was untreated there would

have been major problems.  Another reason for the demise of Ryhope as a

water source was that the water from such a supply was very 'hard since the

water, as it filtered through the Magnesian limestone, collected various

unpopular salts, such as calcium carbonate. Impounding reservoirs such as

Derwent and Kielder were coming 'on line', with lower running costs than

local pumping stations, and producing quite 'soft' water - reckoned to be

better for the heart than hard water, and better for laundry, but not as good

for making tea.]

 

NORTH DALTON PUMPING STATION

Mr Tom Foster.

Two engines.  Horizontal compound non-rotative engines by Hathorn, Davey,

Leeds.  191?.  23"HP, 54"LP (rear) X 8ft stroke.  120psi (20psi max. on LP), 6-

10 strokes per minute.  Slide and expansion valves.  18" diameter x 24" stroke

air pump driven from lever on pump fulcrum shaft.  Two bucket lift pumps

operate from triangular rocking lever.  17" diameter pumps x 10ft stroke.  20ft

diameter shaft x 250ft deep and 150ft bore.  Steam jacketed cylinders with

steam re-heater.

 

THORPE PUMPING STATION

Two engines as above, 29"HP, 58"LP X 8ft stroke.  100psi, 6-10 strokes per

minute.  Piston drop valves.  Pumps as above but a pair of bell crank rocking

levers.  Sunderland and South Shields Water Company.  Three Lancashire

boilers.

 

PRENTON PUMPING STATION.  BIRKENHEAD

Mr Coey.

Two engines.  500hp horizontal tandem engines by Lilleshall [The Lilleshall

Company began in a partnership formed in 1764 between Granville Earl

Gower and Thomas and John Gilbert. In 1880 it became a limited company

and in 1888 took over the Snedshill Bar Iron Company, which had existed

since 1836. It was engaged in a multitude of industries including coal-

mining, ironstone, limestone and Clay mining; in the manufacture of clay

products; in iron and steel making and finishing; and in light and heavy

engineering.]

26"HP, 52"LP X 4ft stroke.  160psi, 20rpm.  Drop valves.  Bee governor.  Air

pump driven from rear crosshead.  20ft flywheel.  248 teeth for barring

engine.  Trunk guides.  Web type balanced crank.  Edwards air pump driven

by rocking lever from crosshead behind ? which also drives two horizontal

rams and a long wooden connecting rod to levers outside which drive two lift

pumps.  Steam jacketed cylinders.  Surface condenser, steam through tubes. 

Water from mains supply for cooling.  18 ¼" diameter x 4ft stroke lift pumps,

88 gallons per stroke.  11 ¾" ram pump x 4ft stroke to Heswall, 375psi.  14 ¼"

diameter x 4ft stroke ram to Prenton, 210psi.  Two main bearings 13 ½"

diameter and one 12" diameter.  Piston rod 8"-6 ½" and 5" diameter.  Opened

in 1860.  Two 8ft X 30ft Lancashire boilers.

 

DEPTFORD POWER STATION

[These two engines were designed by Ferranti 1895-1900 but never built as

turbo alternators were successfully being used at the time.]

10,000hp twin tandem vertical engines by Ferranti.  44"HP, 88"Lp X 6ft 3"

stroke.  200psi, 60rpm.  46ft diameter rotor of 10,000V alternator used as

flywheel.  HP cylinders at top.  Corliss valves to all cylinders.  Rotor and shaft

to weigh, 225tons.

 

SOUTHPORT ELECTRICITY WORKS.

Three 500hp cross compound engines by John Musgrave, Bolton, 1887. 

17"HP, 33"LP X 3ft 6" stroke.  130psi, 96rpm.  14ft flywheel Ferranti

generator.  Corliss valves.  Disc cranks.  25" diameter x 12" stroke air pumps. 

Two 7ft x 28ft Lancashire boilers with Roberts economisers.

 

JESSE ROBINSON.  THONGS BRIDGE.  HUDDERSFIELD

250hp three rod type tandem compound engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1895. 

12"HP, 22"LP X 3ft stroke.  Left hand engine.  100psi, 85rpm.  13ft flywheel,

18" belt.  Corliss valves on HP cylinder, slide valve LP.  Whitehead governor.

 

TITANIC MILL.  HUDDERSFIELD

TITANIC MILL.  LINTHWAITE

Mr H Wood.  Engine named 'Lady Nannie'.

850hp tandem compound engine by Mark Shaw, 1911.  18"HP, 36"LP X 5ft

stroke.  150psi, 72rpm.  18ft flywheel, 20 ropes.  Corliss valves, all at bottom. 

Air pump driven from crosshead.

 

JOB BEAUMONT.  HUDDERSFIELD

MILNSBRIDGE

500hp tandem compound engine by J and E Wood, Bolton, 1903.  16"HP,

29"LP X 4ft stroke.  140psi, 67rpm.  20ft flywheel, ? ropes.  Corliss valves at

bottom of cylinders.  No trip to LP inlet valves.  Air pump driven from

crosshead.

 

A T WOODHEAD.  HUDDERSFIELD

MELTHAM, WOODHEAD, UPPER SUNNYBANK

120hp single cylinder engine by Pollitt and Wigzell, 1906.  12" diameter

cylinder X 3ft stroke.  Left hand engine.  100psi, 70rpm.  ? ft flywheel, belt

drive and gear off engine.  Slide valve.  Horizontal condenser at crank end, air

pump driven by rod from left hand slide block.

 

WILLIAM GREENWOOD.  EARLSHEATON

PROVIDENCE MILL.  EARLSHEATON

250h- tandem compound engine by Wood and Baldwin, 1885.  15"HP, 24"LP

X 3ft stroke.  Right hand engine with LP at front.  120psi, 85rpm.  12ft

flywheel, direct drive on to shaft.  Corliss Hp (added), slide valve LP.  (HP was

added at rear on an extension to the original bed.)  Corliss gear for new

cylinder is on the outside and driven by two eccentrics on drag link shaft.

 

WILLIAM HOLLAND.  MANCHESTER

VICTORIA MILL.  MANCHESTER

Two 1000hp vertical compound non dead centre engines by J Musgrave, 1902. 

24 ½"HP, 50"LP, X 4ft stroke.  95-160psi, 78rpm.  20 ft flywheel, 26 1 ¾"

ropes.

 

HINCHCLIFFE WRIGHT. DYERS.  HOLMFIRTH

?hp single cylinder engine by Calvert, Huddersfield, no date.  92 diameter X

20" (estimated).  Left hand engine.  120psi, 60rpm.  6Ft flywheel, 3ft belt

pulley.  Slide valve.  Pickering governor.  Non-condensing.  Disc crank. 

Running.

 

ROBERT HOWARTH.  NEWHEY

JUBILEE MILL.  NEWHEY

Fullers and finishers.

80hp single cylinder engine by Ebor Engineering Company, 1891.  18"

diameter cylinder X 3ft stroke.  Left hand engine.  100psi, 84rpm.  8ft

flywheel, 10" belt.  Slide valve.  Pickering governor.  Non-condensing, exhaust

goes to water heating.  Double twin guides.  Runs the wrong way round. 

Running.

 

 

[This is the end of the engine details in the Black Book.  There are more odd

pages of notes etc. but little of interest except for some letters which have

always amused me because of the clear picture they give of the relationship

between these men and their mild obsession.  I shall transcribe them here:]

 

[undated, unsigned letter]

I've just found another engine at a mill out in the country at Linton Mill,

Grassington.

300hp Uniflow by Newton, Bean and Mitchell, 1923.  Could not get to see it

but saw the owner and he told me about it.  Mill closed in 1960 or so, silk mill,

all locked, didn't seem to want to sell it or care.  I always thought it would be

an old beam.  See if it is in you're your/my notebook and alter it if it says beam

engine.

[Here's an excerpt from Newton Pickles LTP tape 78/AG/10 where Newton is

talking about the mill at Linton on which he had worked.

SG: Lowcocks, what are they, are they still a mill?

 

Newton: They were manufacturers.  Grand mill is Linton, make best

museum in the country would Linton Mills if the silly old feller 'ud let

somebody go in and talk to him and do it.  There's everything in that mill. 

There's a Newton, Bean and Mitchell engine, it'd be the last engine they ever

made with drop valves, you know, a drop valve one with a tail end air pump. 

It ran a great big DC generator about ten feet tall.  There's two Paxman

Diesels, I don't know whether they're six cylinder or eight now.  I forget,

one's partially in pieces and t'others all together with great big DC

generators on the ends.  There's a forty horse power turbine that runs a DC

generator which used to light his house and heat it.  It did that for fifty years,

never cost them a penny and when we went to repair it when the bearings

conked out he wouldn't pay for it so I wouldn't go any more.  But it's a

marvellous set up.  Then there's that great big thing down in that concrete

cellar, that'd run all the blinking lot with a DC generator on it as well as

being coupled to all the shafting in the mill.  They ran everything off that

water, when there were plenty of water coming down the river, everything,

mill, houses, looms, the lot.  They even pumped water out of the river for

people to drink.  It's a shame.  In fact I think it's ridiculous, I think someone

wants to go along there and plonk an order on it before the scrap chaps get

in there.  There's shafting up and everything.]

 

[Another letter]

Pep Letter  From, 15 Pasture Crescent, Leeds, LS7 4QS.  [arrow points to post

code and says 'it's come'] 

Dear Edgar, Sorry to hear that you are 'bowed down with grief' but cheer up,

summer will come and we will have a day out.

 

This is an SOS.  Look in the Black Book and find FARNLEY IRON COMPANY,

FARNLEY, LEEDS and see if there is an engine  Vertical plate mill engine by

John Fowler and send me partics.  Also an engine at

CROWTREES/RAISTRICK/BRIGHOUSE> LAUNDRY. And send me partics

written so that an old buffer like me can read them.  I hope things will get

better for you so that you can enjoy all these interesting engines.  I saw one

running last week in Otley.  Must have passed it hundreds of times.  William

Barker (Tannery), 100hp single cylinder horizontal by Marsden, 1895.  17" X

3ft, 100rpm, 55psi.  Corliss.  Non-condensing.  Exhaust to drying etc.  Filthy

but running nice and quiet.  8ft x 24ft Lancashire boiler.  Hand fired.  Yours,

Arthur.  [Then some drawings of Edgar bowed with grief and after reading ?.]

 

[undated letter from Arthur Roberts to Edgar Brook]

Dear Edgar Brook,

Sorry I didn't get to Magnet last Saturday.  I got to Rochdale but on the way to

Oldham I got entangled with a 10 ton Green's Road Roller belonging to a

Rochdale contractor going to Oldham to go on a job.  Not been used for two

years and could not keep up steam.  Only got 50lbs instead of 150.  Had to

keep stopping going up that long hill to Royton.  I got so interested talking to

the two men with it that time got really late and when I got to Broadway I did

not notice and got on a Manchester limited bus and he took me right away.  So

weighing things up I decided to keep away as it would have been 12 by the

time I got there and should have felt such a fool.  I suppose you went.  One day

I took my courage in both hands and went to Orgreave and Swanwick.  I can't

find Moreland or Morgreave or Firbeck on your map but it is a very interesting

map, I'll look after it and let you have it back safe.  Many thanks for all those

visits you took me.  Have you used up all your holiday now?  See if you can get

over to B Winnings and get a FULL report on the engines before they go. 

Some terrible weather about now or is it still.  All for now I think, so all the

best, yours, Arthur.

 

[Undated letter from Arthur to Edgar Brook.]

FRIDAY

Dear Edgar,

According to the fifth and sixth chapters of the 'Books of Hedgah', 13 pages of

which you sent me, thank you very much, I see you made a visit to the

Huddersfield engine.  It appears to be very much like the one at William

Greenwood's, Earlsheaton.  Kindly complete the details.  I am so glad you

went to Fisher, Firths, they both welcome visitors (or it is no use preserving

the engine).  I knew you would like this.  Did you notice those gears on the

engine crank shaft in the back room?  Hardly worn at all.  Little used.  Did you

see the lodge just outside the mill.  I'm so glad you have got to know the two

cross compounds.  So much more interesting now.  There is only now to make

certain about the Hathorn and Davey.  I'm so sorry to let you down on your

visits.  I very much enjoyed them.

 

Transcribed and edited by SCG/28 May 2008

Copyright

No copyright is claimed for this transcription by Stanley Challenger

Graham beyond that which exists in the original works used in this

amalgamation of information from several sources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

? MILL. MIDDLETON      133

??. TODMORDEN      43

ABBEY MILL.  WHALLEY      62

ABBEY PUMPING STATION.  LEICESTER      123

ABRAHAM MOON.  GUISELEY      11

ACE MILL.  OLDHAM      93

ACKROYD (SUCCESSORS).  HALIFAX      30

ACKROYD AND COMPANY.  LEEDS 10

ACRE MILL.  BACUP 44

Acres Mill, Keighley      28

ACTON HALL COLLIERY.  FEATHERSTONE      117

ADNA BROOK.  GILDERSOME      12

AIRE BANK MILL.  GARGRAVE      110

ALBERT AND BRITANNIA MILLS.  HASLINGDEN      125

ALBERT MILL.  DEWSBURY      15

ALBERT MILL.  NELSON      50

ALBION MILL COMPANY.  LITTLEBOROUGH     64

ALBION MILLS.  THONG BRIDGE      42

Albion Shed, Earby 36

ALBION.  PADIHAM      56

ALDER MILL.  LEIGH 106

ALEXANDRA MILL.  HAWKSCLOUGH      31

ALFRED HERBERT.  COVENTRY      112

ALLERTON COMBING COMPANY.  BRADFORD      21

ALMA TANNERY      9

ALNE BRICKWORKS.  HEMINGBROUGH      113

AMBLER.  ARDSLEY      10

AMBLER.  WILSDEN      27

ANCHOR MILL, TONG STREET.  BRADFORD      23

ANDERTON AND HALSTEAD.  HASLINGDEN      125

APPLEYARDS.  MORLEY      13

ARGYLL MILL.  FAILSWORTH      93

ARKWRIGHT MILL, COOK STREET, HAMER 77

ARKWRIGHT MILL.  PRESTON      132

ARROW MILL.  ROCHDALE      65

ASH MILL.  SHAW  88

ASH SPINNING CO (1883).  SHAW  89

ASHLEY MILLS.  SHIPLEY      23

ASHTON.  NEWTON, HYDE? 127

ASHWORTH.  BACUP 44

ASKERN COLLIERY      118

ASKERN COLLIERY.  DONCASTER      118

ASTLEY AND TYLDESLEY COAL COMPANY      119

ASTLEY MILL.  DUKINFIELD      109

ATKINSON.  BRIGHOUSE      35

ATLAS MILL NUMBER 6.  BOLTON      133

ATLAS MILL.  BRADFORD      22

ATLAS MILLS.  BOLTON      102

ATLAS WORKS.  ELLAND      33

AUDLEY FLOUR MILL.  BLACKBURN      59

AVON MILL (1919) LTD.  MIDDLETON      76

BADGER HILL MILLS.   RASTRICK      35

BAILDON COMBING COMPANY.  SHIPLEY      23

BAIRSTOW NO. 2 MILL.  SUTTON      29

BAITINGS MILL.  NORDEN.  ROCHDALE      69

BALDERSTONE MILL.  FRECKLETON      60

BANCROFT MILL.  TODMORDEN      43

BANCROFT SHED.  BARNOLDSWICK      37

BANKHALL COLLIERY. BURNLEY      138

BANKHOUSE.  STAINLAND      33

BANKSFIELD DYEWORKS.  YEADON      11

BANKSIDE MILL.  SOUTH REDDISH      114

BARBER BROTHERS.  HOLMBRIDGE      41

BARCHANT MILL.  ROCHDALE      75

BARKER.  MORLEY      13

BARLOW AND JONES.  BOLTON      101

BARNES AND CO LTD.  MILNROW      83

BARRACLOUGH'S.  PUDSEY      9

BATHFORD PAPER MILL      128

BAYTREE MILL.  MIDDLETON      66

BAYTREE MILLS LTD (1903).  MIDDLETON JUNCTION      66

BEAN INGS MILL  3

BEANLAND.  CLAYTON WEST      41

BEAUMONT AND SMITH.  VALLEY MILL.  PUDSEY      8

BEAUMONT.  HUDDERSFIELD      39

BEDFORD.  LEIGH 105

BEE SPINNING CO (ROYTON) LTD.  ROYTON      98

BEECH MILLS.  KEIGHLEY      26

BEEHIVE MILL.  BOLTON      102

BELL MILL.  OLDHAM      92

BENN AND WEBSTER.  MORLEY      13

BESSBROOK SPINNING CO.  NEWRY, IRELAND      115

BESTWOOD COLLIERY.  NOTTINGHAM      119

BESTWOOD PUMPING STATION      121

BIBBY AND SONS.  FRECKLETON      60

BIBBY, OIL AND CAKE MILLS.  LIVERPOOL?      115

BIRLEY.  BURNLEY      123

BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM      112

BISHOP HOUSE.  BURNLEY      55

BLACK CARR.  TRAWDEN      45

Black Dyke Mills 27

BLACKBURN AND BRAY.  HALIFAX      30

BLACKBURN ROAD.  BOLTON      99

BLACKBURN.  BIRSTALL      17

BLEACH WORKS.  CLITHEROE      57

BLISS TWEED MILL.  CHIPPING NORTON      128

BOBBIN MILL      26

BOBBIN MILL.  STEETON      27

BOMBAY UNITED SPINNING AND WEAVING COMPANY      116

BOOTH AND SPEAK.  EARBY 36

BOOTH BROTHERS.  DRIGHLINGTON      12

BOOTH.  GILDERSOME      12

BOTTOMLEY'S.  BUTTERSHAW      31

BOTTOMS MILL.  BIRKENSHAW      11

BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION.  NEWARK      135

BOWKER AND BALL.  DUKINFIELD      109

BOWLING GREEN MILLS.  DARWEN      57

Bowling Iron Company      10

BOYES AND HALLAWELL, HOUCH END. BRAMLEY      5

Bracewell of Burnley      26, 46

BRADFORD COMBING CO.  BRADFORD      25

BRADLEYS, TONG ROAD, LEEDS.      3

BRAYTON PUMPING STATION      120

BREARLEY.  BRIGHOUSE      34

BREMNER MANUFACTURING CO LTD.  OTLEY 112

BRENNAND MILL.  BURNLEY      50

BRIAR MILL (1920) LTD.  SHAW  83

BRICK AND PIPE WORKS      35

BRICK LANE MILL.  BRADFORD      23

BRIDGE END,  ELLAND      32

BRIDGE MILL.  WHITWORTH      75

BRIDGEWATER MILL.  BLACKBURN      60

BRIERFIELD MILL COMPANY      46

Brierfield Mills 26

Brigella Mill, Bradford.      30

BRIGGS.  OSSETT      15

BRIGGS. CLAYTON.  BRADFORD      25

BRIGHT AND BROTHERS LIMITED.  ROCHDALE      77

BRIGHT.  ROCHDALE      76

BRISTOL COTTON COMPANY.  BRISTOL      110

BRITANNIA MILL.  BURNLEY      51

BRITISH OIL AND CAKE MILLS.  AVONMOUTH      132

BROADSTONE SPINNING MILL.  REDDISH      113

BROOK STREET MILL.  CHORLEY      104

BROOKHOUSE MILL.  PRESTON      59

BROOKLANDS MILL.  LEIGH      105

BROWHEAD MILL.  BURNLEY?      53

BROWNSIDE MILL.  BURNLEY      53

BUCHANAN'S FLOUR MILL.  BIRKENHEAD      115

BUCKLEY MILL.  ROCHDALE      79

BUCKLEY.  OLDHAM      134

BUCKTON      2

Buckton.      35

Burgess and Ledward of Walkden      36

BURLINGTON MILL..WOODHALL ROAD.  BRADFORD      22

BURLINGTON SHED.  KEIGHLEY      29

BURNS RING MILL.  HEYWOOD      82

BURROWS.  BURNLEY      51

BUTT END MILLS.  MIRFIELD      15

BUTTERWORTH HALL.  MILNROW      76

BUTTERWORTH.  WATERFOOT      44

BUTTS MILL.  LEIGH 106

CAIRO MILL.  BURNLEY      53

CAIRO MILL.  OLDHAM      92

CALDER MILL.  DEWSBURY      14

CALDER VALE MILL.  BURNLEY      57

CALF HALL SHED COMPANY.  BARNOLDSWICK      37

CALVERT.  ILLINGWORTH      31

CAMERON MILL.  BURNLEY      54

CANAL MILL.  CHORLEY      116

CAPE SPINNING CO.  SHAW  90

CARR PARKER AND CO LTD.  HASLINGDEN      58

CARRINGTON MILLS CO.  LEIGH 106

Casson      34

CASSON.  ELLAND      34

CASSON.  MARSHFIELD MILL.  ELLAND      34

CASTLETON MILL. ARMLEY      3

CEDAR MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  96

CELLARS CLOUGH.  SLAITHWAITE      39

CENTRAL MILL.  OLDHAM      128

CENTURY MILL.  FARNWORTH      98

CHADWICK AND TAYLOR.  SALFORD      113

CHAMBERS.  CHURCH      57

CHARLES LANE MILL.  HASLINGDEN      58

CHARLESTOWN COMBING COMPANY      24

CHEADLE HEATH CONDENSER MILL  110

CHESHAM MILLS.  BURY      82

CITY COMBING COMPANY.  BRADFORD      21

CITY WASTE.  BRADFORD      22

CLAY PITTS MILLS.  HALIFAX      30

CLAYMILLS.  BURTON ON TRENT 121

CLOUGH END MILL.  HASLINGDEN      58

CLOUGH MILL.  BARNOLDSWICK      36

CLOUGH MILL.  SHAW  83

CLOUGH, RAMSDEN.  PUDSEY      9

CLOVER MILL.  ROCHDALE      67

COATS.  PAISLEY      116

COBDEN MILL.  SABDEN      61

COLLINGHAM AND KEIGHLEY.  KEIGHLEY      28

COLLINS BROTHERS LTD.  HEYWOOD      81

COLUMBIA STREET MILL.  BOLTON      100

CONEY LANE MILL.  KEIGHLEY      28

COOPERATIVE LAUNDRY.  ROCHDALE      79

COPPULL RING MILL.  COPPULL      104

Copyright      144

CORAL MILL.  NEWHEY      83

CORDINGLEY.  PUDSEY      7

Coronation Mill  51

CORONATION MILL.  BURNLEY      54, 126

CORPORATION MILLS, SOWERBY BRIDGE      31

COTTINGHAM PUMPING STATION      137

COTTON.  BLACKBURN      60

COTTON.  HUDDERSFIELD      39

COURTAULDS, BEDFORD NEW MILL  105

COURTAULDS.  CASTLETON      65

CRABTREE AND FARROW.  TODMORDEN      43

CRABTREE.  BINGLEY      25

CRABTREE.  BRADFORD      22

CRAMP OAK MILL.  BERRY LANE.  LONGRIDGE      63

CRESCENT MILL.  DUKINFIELD      109

CREST RING MILL.  ROCHDALE      66

CROAL SPINNING CO.  BOLTON      99

CROFT MILL.  ROCHDALE      66

CROMER MILL.  MIDDLETON      95

CROMFORD AND HIGH PEAK RAILWAY      115

CROSS AND WINKWORTH.  BOLTON      102

CROSSE HALL WORKS (WEAVING).  CHORLEY      105

CROSTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1887)      63

CROW NEST MILL.  BARNOLDSWICK      36

CROWTHER.  SLAITHWAITE      40

CUDWORTH.  NORDEN      69

CURZON MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  95

DAISYFIELD MILL.  BURY      90

DALE MILL.  NELSON      49

DALTON MILLS.  KEIGHLEY      26

DANES HOUSE MILL.  BURNLEY      51

DART MILL.  BOLTON      76

DARWEN COTTON MANFG CO LTD (1875).  DARWEN      57

DARWEN GAS WORKS 58

DAWN MILL.  SHAW  89

DEAN MILL  PLUMBE STREET      53

DEAN STREET MILL.  KIRKSTALL ROAD.  LEEDS      5

DEANE SHED.  BOLTON      103

DEE MILL.  SHAW  83

DELPH HILL MILL.  BOLTON      101

DELTA MILL.  OLDHAM      94

DELTA MILL.  ROYTON      94

DENNISON.  YEADON      11

DEPTFORD POWER STATION      141

DERKER MILL.  OLDHAM      128

DEVERON MILL.  GREAT HARWOOD      57

DEVON MILL.  OLDHAM      92

DEWHURST LTD.  PRESTON      132

DIAMOND ROPE WORKS.  ROYTON      96

DICKENSON.  DRIGHLINGTON      12

diesel engines      19

DISTRICT LAUNDRY.  ROCHDALE      79

DIXON.  STEETON      27

DOBROYD.  HUDDERSFIELD      38

DOVE SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON      103

DRAKE MILL.  FARNWORTH      97

DUCKETT.  BURNLEY      125

Duncan Smith      39

DURBAN MILL.  OLDHAM      91

DURN MILL.  LITTLEBOROUGH     64

EAGLEY MILL.  BOLTON      100

EBOR MILL.  HAWORTH      29

ECCLES SPINNING CO.  PATRICROFT      113

ECKERSLEY.  WIGAN 107

ECLIPSE MILL.  ROCHDALE      80

EDGEWICK WORKS.  COVENTRY      112

EDMONDSON.  BURNLEY      124

EDMUND HALSTEAD LTD (1903).  BURNLEY      55

EDWIN SHAW.  SLAITHWAITE      39

EGYPTIAN MILLS.  FARNWORTH.  BOLTON      103

ELDER MILL.  ROMILEY      111

ELECTRICITY WORKS 30

ELK MILL.  ROYTON      94

ELKSLEY PUMPING STATION.  LINCOLN      137

ELLAND DYEING COMPANY      32

ELLENROAD MILL.  NEWHEY      80

ELLIOTT.  BLACKO      124

ELM STREET MILL.  BURNLEY      54

ELMFIELD MILL. BRAMLEY      5

ELSWICK MILL? 61

EMMOTT.  BURNLEY      126

EMPIRE MILL(?).  BURNLEY      124

ENSOR MILL COMPANY LTD.  CASTLETON      68

ENSOR MILL.  ROCHDALE      68

ENTWISTLE.  BURY  81

ERA MILL.  ROCHDALE      79

FACIT MILL.  ROCHDALE      67

FAIRLEA.  LUDDENDEN FOOT  41

FARNLEY FORGE. LEEDS      10

FERGUSLIE THREAD WORKS.  PAISLEY      116

FERNHURST MILL.  BLACKBURN      60

FERNHURST MILL.  CHADDERTON      129

FERRANTI.  HOLLINWOOD.      129

FIELD MILL.  MORLEY      13

FIELDEN AND RIGG. TODMORDEN      43

FIELDEN BROTHERS.  TODMORDEN      42

FIELDHEAD MILL.  BRADFORD      19, 23

FIELDHOUSE MILL.  ROCHDALE      77

FINSLEY MILL.  BURNLEY      50

FINSLEY VIEW MILL.  HARLE SYKE  56

FIR MILL.  ROYTON      133

FIRGROVE MILL.  MILNROW      83

FIRTH BROTHERS.  SHEPLEY      41

FIRTH.  BRADFORD      21

FIRTH.  HUDDERSFIELD      39

FISH LTD (1874).  BLACKBURN      61

Fishwick Street Mill      103

FISON.  BURLEY      18

FLASH STREET MILL.  BOLTON      100

FLAX MILL   GILDERSOME      12

FLAX MILLS.  KIRKHAM      60

FLETCHER AND SON LTD.  NELSON      49

Florence Mill  61

FLORENCE STREET.  BRADFORD      24

FORD AYRTON.  LOWER BENTHAM      111

FORRESTS. PROSPECT MILL.  PUDSEY      9

FOSTER AND CUREDALE.  BURNLEY      53

FOSTER.  DENHOLME      27

FOX MILLS.  OLDHAM      91

FRANCE.  DEWSBURY      15

Fraser and Chalmers      41

Furneval of Haslingden      37

GARFIELD MILL.  NEWHEY      81

GARFIELD SPINNING COMPANY LTD.  NEWHEY      81

GARTSIDE AND CO.  DUKINFIELD      109

GEM SPINNING COMPANY.  HOLLINWOOD      128

GEORGE STREET MANUFACTURING CO.  BURNLEY      126

GEORGE STREET MFG CO LTD.  BURNLEY      54

GIBSON.  BRAMLEY      6

GIDLOW WORKS.  WIGAN 108

GLADSTONE SPINNING CO LTD.  OLDHAM      129

GLEN MILL.  MORLEY      13

GLENFIELD MILL.  NELSON      49

GLOBE MILL. LEEDS 5

GLOBE SPINNING COMPANY.  SLAITHWAITE      42

GLOVER.  MORLEY      13

GORDON MILL.  OLDHAM      98

GORSEY BANK.  STOCKPORT      110

GOYT MILL.  MARPLE      127

GOYT SPINNING CO LTD.  HAWK GREEN 127

GR???? MILL.  BURNLEY      53

GRANE MILL.  HASLINGDEN      58

GRANGE VALE SPINNING CO.  OLDHAM      128

GRAPE MILL.  OLDHAM      93

grasshopper      33

Grasshopper      31

GREAT LEVER SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON      100

GREAVES.  BACUP 44

GREAVES.  OLDHAM      128

GREEN AND COMPANY.  PADIHAM      56

GREEN BROTHERS (1903).  WHALLEY      62

GREEN LANE MILL.  PADIHAM      56

GREEN.  BRADLEY      28

GREENBANK MILLS.  OLDHAM      126

GREENFIELD MILL CO.  DARWEN      57

GREENFIELD MILL CO.  SPRING VALE      57

GREENFIELD MILL.  SPRING VALE NEAR DARWEN      63

GREENHALGH AND SHAW.  BOLTON      116

GREENHILL COMBING COMPANY.  BRADFORD      24

GREENSIDE MILL PUDSEY      8

GREENWICH POWER STATION      110

GREENWOOD AND WALSH.  MORLEY      13

GREENWOOD.  BLACKBURN      59

GREENWOOD.  DEWSBURY      14

GREY.  BURNLEY      54

GREY?  BURNLEY      54

GROSVENOR MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  95

GUIDE MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  127

H Brown, Sons and Pickles      36

HABERGHAM MILL.  BURNLEY      53

HADFIELD, BLEACHWORKS.  CHINLEY      128

Haigh and Heppenstall, Bridgefield Mill. 34

HAIGH AND HEPSTALL[SIC].  ELLAND      34

HAINSWORTH.  STANNINGLEY      9

HALIFAX CORPORATION TRAMWAYS      30

HALL LANE      21

HALL LANE MILL.  LEIGH      107

Halliwell Mill, Bolton      116

HARDCASTLE, LEEDS 4

HARGREAVES AND NUSSEY      3

HARGREAVES.  BACUP 43

HARRIS STREET      20

HARTLEY AND COMPANY.  LITTLEBOROUGH     64

HASTON LEE MILL.  BLACKBURN      59

HATTERSLEY.  HOWARTH      30

HAWK MILL.  SHAW  89

HAWORTH HOLDENLTD (1901)  HODDLESDEN      58

HAWTHORN MILL.  OLDHAM      96

HAWTHORN.  CHADDERTON      96

HAYFIELD WOOLS.  GLUSBURN      29

HAYTHORNTHWAITE AND SON.  BURNLEY      52

HAYTHORNTHWAITE.  BURNLEY      124

HEALEY BROTHERS.  HEYWOOD      82

HEBDEN AND SONS.  BOLTON      116

HELM.  SPOUT MILL.  RASTRICK      35

HEMSWORTH COLLIERY.  PONTEFRACT      118

HENDON MILLS.  NELSON      50

HENDON ROOM AND POWER COMPANY.  NELSON      50

HENSALL PUMPING STATION      121

HERON MILL.  HOLLINWOOD      92

HERON MILL.  OLDHAM      92

HERTFORD MILL.  WERNETH  OLDHAM      134

HEY.  BRADFORD      23

HEYWOOD AND SONS (1898).  ROCHDALE      81

HIELD BROTHERS.  OXENHOPE      29

HIGHAM'S.  ROCHDALE      68

HILL.  MIDDLESBOROUGH    115

HINCHCLIFFE WRIGHT. DYERS.  HOLMFIRTH      142

HINCHCLIFFE.  DENBY DALE      40

HIRD.  KEIGHLEY      28

HODGSONS.  BRAMLEY      5

HOGHTON (BACUP).  WHITFIELD MILL  78

HOLDEN.  HOLMFIELD MILL.  BARROWFORD.      126

HOLDSWORTH.  HALIFAX      30

HOLLIN BANK.  BRIERFIELD      50

HOLLINS MILL CO.  MARPLE      127

HOLLINSHEAD MILL.  BLACKBURN      60

HOLMEBANK MILL.  MIRFIELD      16

HOLMES MANN.  BRADFORD      20

HOLMFIELD MILL.  BARROWFORD      126

HOLROYD.  DEWSBURY      14

Holroyd's      64

HOLTON.  BIRSTALL      17

HOLYROOD MILL.  OLDHAM      129

HOPE SPINNING CO.  FAILSWORTH      99

HORROCKS AND CREWDSON.  BOLTON      103

HORROCKS AND CREWDSON.  PRESTON      59

Horrocks, Crewdson & Co, Preston      103

HORSFALL.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX      32

Howarth, Tumbling Hill. 22

HOWARTH.  BRADFORD      22

HOWE BRIDGE.  ATHERTON      105

HOYLE.  BACUP 42

HOYLE.  COPLEY.  ELLAND      33

HOYLES.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX      33

HUCKNALL COLLIERY NO. ONE   118

HUCKNALL NUMBER TWO COLLIERY      119

HURST MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  95

HUTCHINSON LTD (1837).  BURY  90

ILLINGWORTH AND INGHAM, LEEDS 3

ILLINGWORTH MORRISS      24

ILLINGWORTH.  BRADFORD      21

IMPERIAL MILL, GREENBANK.  BLACKBURN      59

IMPERIAL MILL.  BURNLEY      51

IRIS MILL.  HATHERSHAW.  OLDHAM      91

IRK MILL.  MIDDLETON      66

IRVING FIRTH.  KEIGHLEY      26

IVES.  YEADON      17

JACKSON BRIDGE.  HUDDERSFIELD      38

JACKSON.  ROCHDALE      68

JAMES FLETCHER.  CHORLEY      104

JAMES NELSON LIMITED.  ROCHDALE      77

JEREMIAH ROBERTSHAW      20

JESSE ROBINSON.  THONGS BRIDGE.  HUDDERSFIELD      141

JOB BEAUMONT.  HUDDERSFIELD      141

JOHN GILLETT.  CHORLEY      105

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON.  GARGRAVE      110

JOSEPH JOHNSON.  BOLTON      103

JUBILEE MILL.  CROSTON.  PRESTON      63

JUBILEE MILL.  NEWHEY      142

JUBILEE ROOM AND POWER CO.  PADIHAM      104

JUDGE WALMSLEY MILL.  WHALLEY      61

KAY AND JAGGER.  ELLAND      34

KAYE AND JAGGER.  WESTBURY.  ELLAND      34

KAYE.  ELLAND      34

KEIGHLEY'S.  BURNLEY      51

KELLET BROWN, CALVERLEY      7

KENT MILL.  OLDHAM      92

KENYON.  BURY  82

KENYON.  DENBY DALE      39

KERSHAW.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  127

KING MILL.  ROYTON      76

KING SPINNING   ROYTON      76

KINGS MILL.  HARLE SYKE      51

KIPPAX LIMITED.  BURNLEY      53

KIRKHALL LANE MILLS.  LEIGH 106

KIRKHAM AND WESHAM ROOM AND POWER COMPANY LIMITED      60

KIRKSTALL FORGE CO. LTD.  LEEDS      10

KITSON.  DENBY DALE      40

KNOWL[SIC] MILL.  KEIGHLEY      28

KNOWLES BRICK AND PIPE WORKS.  ELLAND      35

KNOWLES.  PENDLEBURY      113

KRUMLIN MILL.  BARKISLAND      35

LAIDLAW'S MILL.  DUNS      130

LAMBERT.  NELSON      49

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION      59

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  BURY  80

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  COPPULL      104

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  HOLLINWOOD      134

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  MARS MILL.  CASTLETON      78

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  OLDHAM      129

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  ROCHDALE      77

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  SHAW  89

LANCASHIRE COTTON CORPORATION.  STALYBRIDGE      109

LANCASTERS.  BURNLEY      52

LANCS. ASBESTOS COMPANY      95

LARK SPINNING CO.  HOLLINWOOD      99

last Saxon engine      128

LAW.  LITTLEBOROUGH     64

LCC.  115

LEACH.  WARDLE      76

LEAFIELD MILL.  YEADON      17

LEAN'S MILL.  GLASGOW      116

LEE BANK MILL.  NELSON      52

LEE BANK SHEETING COMPANY.  NELSON      52

LEE.  DEWSBURY      14

Leeds United Hospitals      4

LEEDS UNIVERSITY      112

LEES AND WRIGLEY.  OLDHAM      126

LEES BROOK MILL.  OLDHAM      99

LEES MILL.  HAWORTH      29

LEGOTT.  BRADFORD      24

LEIGH MILL.  COVENTRY      112

LEIGH SPINNING CO.  LEIGH 106

LEVER MILL.  BLACKBURN      60

LILY MILL b.  SHAW  90

LILY MILL.  SHAW  90

LINBY COLLIERY.  NOTTINGHAM      119

LINDEN MILL.  CASTLETON      65

LINTHWAITE      39

LION MILL.  ROYTON      133

LISTER BROTHERS. HORSFORTH      7

LISTER.  PUDSEY      6

LITTLEWOOD AND COMPANY LTD.  ROCHDALE      79

LIVINGSTONE MILL.  BURNLEY      54

LOCKWOOD. LEEDS 4

LODGE AND CROSSFIELD MILLS.  WARDLE      76

LODGE MILL.  BURNLEY      52

LODGE MILL?.  BURNLEY      123

LODGE, ARMLEY      3

LOMESHAYE BRIDGE MILL.  NELSON      49

LONGRIDGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY      62

LONGWORTH AND SONS.  WHALLY      61

LORD BROTHERS.  TODMORDEN      43

LORNE STREET MILLS.  MOSES GATE      103

LOSTOCK BRIDGE.      101

LOW BRIDGE MILL.  KEIGHLEY      27

LOW MILL, DEWSBURY      15

LOWER HOLME MILL.  SHIPLEY      23

LUPTON, LEEDS.      4

LUPTON.  CLIFFE MILL      8

LYDGATE MILL.  LITTLEBOROUGH     64

LYLE.  MIRFIELD      16

Mackrell of Elland      35

MAGNET MILL.  OLDHAM      96

MAIDEN MILL.  GILDERSOME      12

MALTA MILL.  MIDDLETON      94

MANCHESTER MILL.  PRESTON      132

MANOR MILL.  OLDHAM      93

MANOR MILL.  YEADON      17

MANOR ROAD MILL  2

MAPLE MILL.  OLDHAM      92

MARHAM PUMPING STATION      122

MARKFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION.  TOTTENHAM      130

MARLAND MILL.  ROCHDALE      66

MARLBOROUGH 1&2.  OLDHAM      92

MARS MILL.  ROCHDALE      78

MARSDEN MILL.  NELSON      47

MARSHALL      2

MARTIN MILL.  BAGSLATE.  ROCHDALE      79

MARTIN'S MILL LTD.  BAGSLATE      79

MASON, WEST AND BATHER.  HARLE SYKE      51

MASON.  COLNE 45

MATHER.  LEEDS 10

MATTHEW WALKER. PUDSEY      7

MATTHEWS.  EASTBURN      111

MAUDE.  STAINLAND      33

MAVIS MILL.  COPPULL      104

MAY MILL.  WIGAN 108

MAY NUMBER 1 MILL.  WIGAN      108

MAY NUMBER 2 MILL.  WIGAN      108

MAYALL AND MASSEY.  WOODLEY      114

MAYFIELD MILL.  ROCHDALE      75

MELLISH, WORTLEY      4

MELLODEW AND CO LTD.  OLDHAM      135

MELLOR MILL.  MELLOR      61

MELLOR STREET MILL.  ROCHDALE      81

MELTHAM, WOODHEAD, UPPER SUNNYBANK      141

MERRALL.  HAWORTH      29

Merralls Syke Mill, Haworth      27

MERSEY MILL.  FAILSWORTH      98

MERSEY MILL.  OLDHAM      98

MIDDLETON TOP.INCLINE ENGINE      115

MIDGELEY.  FLEECE MILL.  KEIGHLEY      37, 38

Midland Mill, Keighley      10

MILLSTEAD MILL.  TODMORDEN      42

MILNE   SHAW      83

MILNSBRIDGE      141

Milnsbridge.  Huddersfield      39

MILTON SPINNING COMPANY.  MOSSLEY      133

MITCHELL.  OLD TOWN.  [HAWORTH?]      30

MOHUN AND SON, PUDSEY      9

MONARCH MILL.  OLDHAM      96

MONS MILL.  TODMORDEN      43

MONTON MILL.  NEAR ECCLES      115

MOON.  NEW MILL  40

MOOR MILL.  BOLTON      133

MOORBROOK MILL.  PRESTON      132

MOORBROOK SPINNING CO,  PRESTON      132

MOORLANDS MILL.  BIRKENSHAW      10

MOORSIDE MILL.  OLDHAM      135

MORRISON.  SHIPLEY      22

MOSES GATE WEAVING SHED.  BOLTON      103

MOSS BRIDGE.  ROCHDALE      78

MOSS MILL.  ROCHDALE      76

MOSSFIELD MILL.  HEYWOOD      82

Moston Mill      44

MOSTON MILL.  MANCHESTER      97

MOUNT PLEASANT MILL.  BURNLEY      124

MUNROE AND SON.  GUIDE.  BLACKBURN      63

MURGATROYD.  YEADON      11

MUSGRAVE      2

MUSGRAVE SPINNING CO.  PRESTON      133

MUSGRAVE SPINNING COMPANY.  BOLTON      102

MUTUAL SPINNING CO LTD.  HEYWOOD.      82

NAYLOR JENNINGS.  YEADON      11

NELSON BROTHERS.  TODMORDEN      42

NELSON COOPERATIVE SOCIETY      48, 54

NELSON LAUNDRY.  NELSON      54

NELSON ROOM AND POWER COMPANY      47

NEWHALL SPINNING COMPANY.  BURNLEY      126

NEWSHOLME.  BATLEY      16

Newsome's, Dewsbury      34

NEWTON MOOR MILLS.  NEWTON      127

NEWTOWN MILLS.  PENDLEBURY      113

NILE MILL.  HOLLINWOOD      90

NORMAN MILL.  OLDHAM      134

NORMANTON AND SONS LTD.  WHITWORTH      75

NORTH DALTON PUMPING STATION      140

NORTH END SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON      99

NORTON.  SCISSETT      41

NUTTALL AND CROOK.  BURNLEY      125

NUTTER AND SONS.  BARNOLDSWICK      37

O'NEILL.  ROCHDALE      65

OAK BANK MILL.  NELSON      49

OAK MILL.  MORLEY      13

OATS BROTHERS.  HALIFAX      31

OCEAN FLOUR MILL.  BIRKENHEAD      115

OCEAN MILL.  BOLTON      103

OCEAN SPINNING CO LTD.  GREAT LEVER 103

OLD MILL CO (1894), PARK ROAD.  DUKINFIELD      135

OLD MILL.  DUKINFIELD      135

OLIVER'S MILL.  BAMFORD      112

OPENSHAW. GARGRAVE      110

ORCHARD MILL.  PADIHAM      56

ORDSALL HALL PAPER WORKS?      113

ORIENTAL SPINNING AND WEAVING COMPANY.  BOMBAY      116

ORME MILL.  WATERHEAD      129

ORMROD, HARDCASTLE CO.  BOLTON      100

OSBORNE MILLS ABRAHAM STOTT.  BUSK      93

OSWALD AND DUNCAN LTD.  HAMER LANE      75

PALESIDE MILL.  OSSETT      10

PALM MILL COMPANY LTD.  OLDHAM      97

PAPER MILL, BINGLEY      25

PAPER MILL.  RAMSBOTTOM      61

PAPER WORKS.  RADCLIFFE      132

PAPPLEWICK PUMPING STATION      136

PARK PLACE MILL.  BLACKBURN      62

PARK PLACE SPINNING CO.  BLACKBURN      62

PARK ROAD.  BINGLEY      25

PARK SHED.  BURNLEY      52

PARKER'S MILL.  HASLINGDEN      58

PARKFIELD MILL.  OLDHAM      135

PEAR NEW MILL.  BREDBURY      110

PEATE.  YEADON      11

PEEL MILL NO 1.  BURY      131

PEEL MILL NO 2.  BURY      132

PEEL MILL.  BINGLEY      25

PEEL MILL.  BURNLEY      52

PENDLE STREET MILL.  NELSON      48

PERSEVERANCE MILL COMPANY.  PADIHAM      56

PERSIAN MILL.  BOLTON      105

PETER CROOK LTD.  FARNWORTH      97

Petrie, Rochdale      46

PHOENIX COMBING CO.  BRADFORD      24

PICKLES.  BURNLEY      53

PICKLES.  COLNE 45

PILLEY  BRADFORD      22

PILOT MILL.  BURY  80

PLANTATION MILL.  HASLINGDEN      58

PLUMBE STREET MILL.  BURNLEY      51

POCSON.  SLAITHWAITE      40

POMFRET.  TURTON      57

PORTWOOD MILLS.  STOCKPORT      114

PORTWOOD SPINNING CO.  STOCKPORT      114

PRENTON PUMPING STATION.  BIRKENHEAD      140

PRESTON ST COMBING CO.  BRADFORD      24

PRIESTLEY.  STANNINGLEY      7

PRIESTMAN.  BRADFORD      18, 19

PRIMET MILL.  COLNE 45

PRIMROSE MILL.  BURNLEY      53

PRIMROSE MILL.  HARLE SYKE  55

PRIMROSE MILLS.  CHURCH      57

PRIMROSE WORKS.  CLITHEROE      57

PRINCE OF WALES COLLIERY.  CASTLEFORD      117

PRINCE SMITH.  KEIGHLEY      28, 29

PROGRESS MILL.  KIRKHAM      60

PROGRESS MILL.  PADIHAM      104

PROGRESS.  PADIHAM      56

PROSPECT MILL NO 2.  BOLTON      105

PROSPECT MILL.  DARWEN      58

PROSPECT MILL.  SOWERBY BRIDGE      31

PROSPECT MILLS.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX      32

PROVIDENCE MILL.  EARLSHEATON      141

PROVIDENCE MILL.  HOWARTH      30

PROVIDENCE MILLS.  DEWSBURY      14

PROVIDENT MILL CO LTD. DARWEN      58

PUDSEY WORSTED MILL COMPANY      8

QUARRY MILL.  ROCHDALE      81

QUEEN MILL.  ACCRINGTON      57

QUEEN MILL. DUKINFIELD      108

QUEEN STREET MILL.  HARLE SYKE  55

QUEEN'S MILL.  LONGRIDGE      62

QUEENSGATE MILL.  BURNLEY      55

QUEENSWAY.  ROCHDALE      66

RAM MILL.  OLDHAM      98

RAMSBOTHAM.  BRADFORD      24

RAMSBOTTOM AND HITCHON.      78

RAMSDEN'S LTD.  SOWERBY BRIDGE      31

RANKS.  BIRKENHEAD      115

RATCLIFFE, WORTLEY      4

RAVEN MILL.  CHADDERTON      129

RAVEN MILL.  OLDHAM      129

RAWDEN, BRIGGS.  RAVENSTHORPE      16

RAWLINGS. LEEDS 5

REDCROSS MILL.  ROCHDALE      77

REDMAYNE AND ISHERWOOD.  KIRKHAM      60

REGENT MILL.  OLDHAM      94

RENNIE, STANNINGLEY      6

Rennie's at Stanningley      20

REX MILL (1919) LTD.  OLDHAM ROAD   MIDDLETON      66

REX MILL.  MIDDLETON      66

Ribchester      41

RICHARD INGHAM. PUDSEY      8

RICHARDSON.  1909/15.  AIRTON      111

RIDGE MILLS      10

RIDGEFIELD SPINNING COMPANY.  FAILSWORTH      96

RILEY.  COLNE 46

RIPLEY.  BRADFORD      25

RIVER DON WORKS.  SHEFFIELD      114

RIVETT.  SOUTH REDDISH      114

ROACH BANK MILLS.  BURY      82

ROALL PUMPING STATION      120

Robert Aram      40

ROBERT HOWARTH.  NEWHEY      142

ROBERT HYDE.  MILLBROOK      97

Robinson and Peel, Bradford      16

ROBINSON. HOLBECK. LEEDS 5

ROCK MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  95

ROCK MILL.  BROCKHOLES.  HUDDERSFIELD      38

ROGER SHACKLETON      31

ROLLING MILL. OLDHAM      98

ROSE HILL TANNERY.  BOLTON      100

ROSEGROVE MILLS.  BURNLEY      125

ROSS MILL.  BACUP 42

ROSS MILL.  BRADFORD      22

ROUNDWOOD COLLIERY.  WAKEFIELD      117

ROUSE.  HALIFAX      41

ROY MILL.  OLDHAM      96

ROYD MILL.  HOLLINWOOD      134

ROYTON RING MILL.  OLDHAM      93

RUDKIN'S MILL, WORTLEY      4

RUGBY MILL.  CHADDERTON      98

RUGBY MILL.  OLDHAM      98

RUNTLINGS MILL.  OSSETT      15

Rushtons of Colne 37

RUTLAND MILL.  SHAW      90

RYDINGS MILL.  WARDLE      76

RYHOPE PUMPING STATION.  SUNDERLAND      138

RYLANDS AND SONS LTD.  WIGAN 108

SADDLEWORTH WOOLLEN CO.  DELPH 91

SANDFORD.  LICHFIELD      131

SANDIFORD AND SONS LTD.  WARDLE      67

SANDYGATE MILL.  BURNLEY      16

SANITARY WORKS.  BURNLEY      125

SAXON.  DROYLSDEN      98

SCHOLES.  MORLEY      13

SCOTT AND RHODES      11

SCRIM MANUFACTURING COMPANY.  BLACKBURN      60

SEFTON MILL   HEYWOOD      83

SEVERN TUNNEL      122

SEVERN TUNNEL.  GWR      123

SHARP THORNBER LTD.  BURNLEY      52

SHARPLES MILL.  BOLTON      116

SHARRATT.  ELLAND      35

SHAW SPINNING CO.  SHAW  90

SHAW.  BRADFORD      19

SHAWCLOUGH MILL (1902) LTD.  ROCHDALE      68

SHEPHERD AND BLACKBURN.  SOWERBY BRIDGE      32

SHILOH SPINNERS.  ROYTON      94

Silentnight      52

SILK MILL. COLNE 44

SLATERS.  BARNOLDSWICK      36

SLIPPER FACTORY.  WATERFOOT      44

SMITH (ALLERTON) LTD.  BRADFORD      20

SMITH AND HUTTON      21

SMITH AND NEPHEW TEXTILES LIMITED      46

SMITH AND SONS.  LONGRIDGE      63

SMITH STREET.  BRADFORD      24

SMITH.  BRADFORD      19, 21, 23

SMITH.  PRESTON      132

SMITH.  RASTRICK      35

SMITHIES.  ELLAND      32

SOUDAN MILL.  MIDDLETON      78

SOUTH SHED.  BRIERFIELD      46

SOUTH STAFFORD WATER BOARD      131

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTRICITY WORKS 110

SOUTHPORT ELECTRICITY WORKS.      141

SPARTH MILL COMPANY.  CORPORATION ROAD  67

SPARTH MILL.  ROCHDALE      67

SPEAK.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX      33

SPENCER.  BURNLEY      51, 52

Spencer. Imperial Mill. 53

SPINKWELL MILL.  DESBURY      14

Spring Bank Mills, Nelson.      107

SPRING BANK MILLS.  NELSON      48

SPRING GROVE MILLS.  MILLBROOK, STALEYBRIDGE      97

SPRING MILL.  EARBY 36

SPRINGFIELD MILL.  BLACKO      124

SPRINGFIELD MILL.  GUIDE.  BLACKBURN      63

SPRINGFIELD SHED.  BURNLEY      52

SPRINGFIELD.  GILDERSOME      17

SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION.  WILLERBY, HULL  121

SPRINGHEAD.  GUISELEY      11

STALYBRIDGE MILL.  STALYBRIDGE      109

STANDARD MILL.  ROCHDALE      78

STANLEY AND FERNDALE MILLS.  BURNLEY      126

STANLEY STREET MILL.  BURNLEY      52

STATE MILL.  ROCHDALE      67

STEWART AND LLOYD.  NEWPORT      127

STOCKHILL MILLS.  TODMORDEN      43

STONEBRIDGE MILL.  LONGRIDGE      132

STONEFERRY PUMPING STATION      120

STOTT.  ROYTON      93

STOTT'S SONS.  ROCHDALE      81

STRONG CLOSE. KEIGHLEY      28

STUART BROTHERS.  SHIPLEY      23

STUBLEY.  BATLEY      17

STUTTARD LTD (1893).  BURNLEY      53

Stuttard's      51

SUDBROOKE PUMPING STATION      122

SUMMERVALE MILL.  OLDHAM      92, 128

SUN MILL.  OLDHAM      94

SUNDERLAND AND SOUTH SHIELDS WATER COMPANY      138

SUNDERLAND, SONS AND COMPANY. NELSON      49

SUNNYBANK MILL.  KIRKHAM      60

SUTCLIFFE AND CLARKSON.  BURNLEY      53

SWAN LANE (1&2).  BOLTON      101

SWAN LANE NO. 3 MILL.  BOLTON      101

SWAN MEADOW AND WESTERN MILLS.  WIGAN 107

SWANSEY SHED.  WHITTLE LE WOOD  55

SYDNEY MILL.  BRADFORD      25

SYKE ING MILL.  DEWSBURY      14

SYKES.  BARKISLAND      35

SYKES.  HUDDERFIELD      38

SYKESIDE MILL.  HASLINGDEN      125

T Timperley and Sons, sanitary pipe makers, Sharneyford between Bacup

and Todmorden      36

TALBOT MILL.  CHORLEY      104

TALBOT SPINNING AND WEAVING COMPANY.  CHORLEY      104

TANKARD'S MILL.  BIRSTALL      17

TATTERSFIELD. DEWSBURY      14

TAY MILL.  HIGGINSHAW, OLDHAM      91

TAYLOR AND CLARKSON.  BURNLEY      50

TAYLOR BROTHERS.  SILSDEN      28

TAYLOR.  BLACKBURN      60

TEXAS MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  95

THOMAS LEACH.  ROCHDALE      79

THOMAS MELLODEW.  OLDHAM      135

Thomas Robinson of Rochdale      50

THORNBER.  BURNLEY      51, 53

THORNHAM SPINNING CO.  OLDHAM      129

THORP JOHNSON.  KEIGHLEY      26

THORPE PUMPING STATION      140

TIMES MILL  COMPANY.  MIDDLETON      76

TITANIC   LINTHWAITE      39

TITANIC MILL.  HUDDERSFIELD      141

TITANIC MILL.  LINTHWAITE      141

TITANIC.  HUDDERSFIELD      39

TOP MILL, ALLERTON      21

TOWLER.  FARSLEY      7

TRAFALGAR SHED.  BURNLEY      51

TRENCHERFIELD MILL.  WIGAN 108

TRENT MILL.  SHAW  89

TRICKETT.  WATERFOOT      44

TROY MILL, HORSFORTH      10

TRUSTEES OF J H CRAVEN      26

TUDOR MILL.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  95

TUNWELL MILL.  BRADFORD      21

Turnbull      18

TWIN MILL.  HEYWOOD      81

Uniflow engine      40

UNION BRIDGE.  ROKER LANE.  PUDSEY      9

Union Mills, Audenshaw      28

UNION MILLS.  BRADFORD      22

UNION SPINNING CO LTD.  BOLTON      105

UNITED MILL.  OLDHAM      135

UNITED SPINNING CO LTD.  WERNETH      135

UNITED THREAD MILLS.  BOLTON      100

UNITY RING MILL.  HEYWOOD      82

UNKNOWN MILL.  ROCHDALE      80

UTTLEY LTD      49

VALE MILL.  TODMORDEN      43

VALE MILL. NELSON      47

VALE ROCK MILL.  HODDLESDON      58

VALLEY ROAD.  PUDSEY      7, 8

VANTONA TEXTILES.  BOLTON      133

Varley's patent cut-off   23

VICTOR MILL.  STALYBRIDGE      109

VICTORIA MILL.  BAXENDEN      123

VICTORIA MILL.  EARBY      36

VICTORIA MILL.  MANCHESTER      142

VICTORIA MILL.  ROCHDALE      80

VICTORIA MILL. MILES PLATTING      107

VICTORIA SPINNING CO LTD.  ROCHDALE      80

VICTORIA.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX      32

VINE MILL.  OLDHAM      98

VINE MILL.  ROYTON      98

VIVARY MILL.  COLNE 45

WALK MILL.  COLNE 46

WALKER.  ALVERTHORPE      15

WALKER.  DEWSBURY      15

WALKER.  MIRFIELD      15, 16

WALKER.  OSSETT      14

WALLER BROTHERS.  WEST VALE.  HALIFAX      32

Walmsley Mill, Whalley      37

WALMSLEY'S.  BURNLEY      52

WALSHAW MILL COMPANY (1905).  HARLE SYKE      55

WALTON LTD.  NELSON      50

WALTON.  CALVERLEY      7

WARBURTON.  HASLINGDEN      125

WARDLE COTTON COMPANY.  ROCHDALE      76

WARDSEND STEEL WORKS.  SHEFFIELD      113

WARWICK MILL.  MIDDLETON      93

WASHPIT MILL.  HOMFIRTH      41

WASP MILL.  ROCHDALE      67

WATERSIDE MILL.  TODMORDEN      42

WATSON.  MORLEY      13

WELLHOUSE MILL.  BARNOLDSWICK      37

WELLINGTON MILL.  DUKINFIELD      109

WEST RIDING COLLIERY.  ALTOFTS      137

WEST RIDING COLLIERY.  WAKEFIELD      138

WEST.  TODMORDEN      43

WESTFIELD MILL  6, 11

WHITAKER, TONG ROAD, LEEDS 5

WHITE'S TANNERY.  BINGLEY      25

WHITEHEAD.  BRADFORD      20, 23

WHITELANDS.  ASHTON UNDER LYNE  95

WHITELY.  BRADFORD      21

WHITFIELD MILL.  FACIT      78

WHITHAM'S WEAVING DEPT      51

WHITHAM'S.  BURNLEY      51

WHITTLE AND TURNER LTD.  KIRKHAM      60

WHITTLES.  LONGRIDGE      132

WHITWORTHS.  LUDDENDEN FOOT  33

WIDDOWS.  CHORLEY      116

WIKE (1907).  BURY  82

WILKINSON.  BLACKLEY.  ELLAND      33

WILLIAM GREENWOOD.  EARLSHEATON      141

WILLIAM HEATON.  BOLTON      101

WILLIAM HOLLAND.  MANCHESTER      142

WILLIAM MORRISS.  SOWERBY BRIDGE      31

WILLIAM WALKER.  BOLTON      100

WILSON      2

WILSON BROTHERS.  DEWSBURY      14

WILSON.  GILDERSOME      12

WILSON.  KEIGHLEY      27

WILTON MILL.  RADCLIFFE      97

WINTERBURN.  SALFORD      113

WIRE WORKS.  MIDDLESBOROUGH    115

WISEMAN STREET MILL.  BURNLEY      53

WOOD AND GRIMSHAW.  DRIGHLINGTON      12

WOODHEAD.  HUDDERSFIELD      141

WORMALD AND WALKER.  DEWSBURY      16

WORSLEY.  BAXENDEN      123

WORSTHORNE MANUFACTURING COMPANY      53

Wortley Forge 39

WRAGG, FIRECLAY MINERS.  LOXLEY.  SHEFFIELD      114

WRAGG.  LOXLEY      114

WROTHAM.  HERTS 118

WYE MILL NO 1.  SHAW      90

WYE MILL NO 2.  SHAW      89

 


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Posted - 06/06/2008 : 07:35
In case you are interested....  The text was hanwritten and it took a month to transcribe and edit.  Have a look at the letters which can be found just before the index.  I think they are lovely and give a flavour of the relationship between these pioneers and how they got around the country.  I was advised by friends that it might be a mistake to publish this because it is so 'innaccurate'.  My question is what is 'accurate'?  The engines are gone and even the later experts disagree on some details.  The main value of this text is that, even though incomplete, it gives a good idea of just how widespread steam power was and how important it's contribution to society.  In this respect these blokes were pioneers and I have a lot of affection for them.  I'll be interested to see what you think........


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Definitely not a mistake to publish this Stanley, I came on here over two years ago looking for some of this information, now i have it, thanks to your hard work.


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Good lass Belle......  I need a bit of reassurance at times.  Thanks for taking the trouble to say so.


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I see that  almost 40,000 people have looked at this list in less than a year. Nice, it must be spreading! I got mail this morning from one of the readers thanking me for taking the trouble, that is even nicer! I'm still toying with publishing it on Lulu but worry about it being someone else's work. I have made enquiries but can't find any links to Arthur or his mates. I've asked this before, but what do you think? Publish or leave things as they are? It would be good if there were hard copies, OG won't last for ever......


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S, see my comment about the List in the One Guy publishing thread.


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Stanley

It is amazing how little information survives from the end of steam. George Watkins published a list of survivors in 1976 in one of his lesser known books that has been out of print for years. I have always found that useful, although his geography was never totally reliable. Publish please!
 
Incidentally, Arnold Throp, who you mentioned served his time with Cole, Marchant and Morley, and wrote a small book about it: "The Last Years of Mill Engine Building"  - well worth looking out for.

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Posted - 15/05/2009 : 07:56
Malcolm, had a look but can't find a copy for sale. I am thinking hard about the Black Book.


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Posted - 15/05/2009 : 09:00
Stanley, the book by Arnold Throp was an ISSES journal and I think they have it available still. http://www.isses.org is one place to look.

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Posted - 15/05/2009 : 16:41
Thanks for that John. I've mailed Chris Hodrien, he'll know. Sent yet another letter off today to AR's last known address. Will wait patiently.....


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Posted - 15/05/2009 : 19:03
Stanley, thanks to your list I have been able to find information on the Rylands engines at Wigan, which has eluded me for years! Many thanks, it's a fantastic resource.


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Posted - 16/05/2009 : 06:27
Remember it's Arthur's list, all I did was breathe on it. You are right, forget about absolute reliability, it gives a good idea of the scale and because it was constructed in such an oddball way, some people would say they were the stationary steam equivalent of trainspotters, it contains information that has been buried if not lost. Yours is a case in point, it can give clues and they are valuable when you are doing research.

I read something in Eco yesterday (Foucault's Pendulum) which puts it nicely, here's the opinion of a supreme academic. "No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and making the connections."  You did that, you took a tiny bit of suspect information and made a connection. That's the value of an index.


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