Osborne Mills
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Osborne Mills
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 29 Jun 2010
The courtyard showing the two engine houses. The further one is the older, but in latter days had the more modern engine. Very unusually this was a steam turbine, almost certainly replacing an earlier engine. The nearer (Mill No.2) housed a 1500 hp Hicks Hargreave cross-compound engine of 1913.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.547684
Longitude
-2.13081