Washpit Mill - steam engine rope race
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Washpit Mill - steam engine rope race
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 29 Apr 1983
This view is on the other side of the wall from the steam engine seen in - Image The dark square space hides the large flywheel from which ropes pass to a countershaft in the casing on the bottom left. Ropes than pass from a smaller pulley on this shaft to the drive pulley on the Mather & Platt alternator seen on the right. I loved this site and used to truant from school to see it running in 1976 and 1977. The engine is now preserved at Markham Grange Steam Museum - Image - but it is nothing like the spectacle it once was.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.556644
Longitude
-1.786817