Sutton Manor Colliery - small compressor
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The photograph on this page of Sutton Manor Colliery - small compressor by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Sutton Manor Colliery - small compressor
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 17 Jul 1980
This cross compound steam engine driving an air compressor was built by Walker Brothers of Wigan in 1912 and was good for 5000 cu feet per minute. Through the archway is the running 10,000 cu feet per minute compressor by the same firm in 1943. This latter was heavily loaded and was to suffer a catastrophic failure a few months later. This smaller engine is now languishing in the long since closed Chatterley Whitfield mining museum and is a unique survivor that is no longer on public view. Sutton Manor was a fantastic and very friendly site back in the 1980s and was home to the last working steam winder in the UK that was stopped in 1991.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.410888
Longitude
-2.728076