Wildspur Mill engine house
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Wildspur Mill engine house by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Wildspur Mill engine house
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 20 Feb 2000
The window was into a former beam engine house that then contained a W H Allen inverted vertical compound (enclosed) steam engine. This is now at the Ellenroad Engine House in Lancashire. The wood door to the right opened to reveal a covered wheel pit that once held a breast shot wheel. The site has now been converted to apartments. I had received a tip-off that there was an engine in New Mill and spent a Sunday morning poking round looking through windows and dropping letters in letterboxes to ask mill owners if they had such a beast. I actually struck lucky at the first mill (this one) but still did the others.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.56926
Longitude
-1.756403