Ashton Mills, Trowbridge
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Ashton Mills, Trowbridge
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 8 Jan 2012
Five storey stone mill with adjoining stone built weaving sheds and a brick engine house. Dates from 1860 and in the textile trade until 1963. This view shows the multi-storey block to the left and the sheds to the right with the apparent engine house in the middle. The booklet Power in the Trowbridge Woollen Industry by K H Rogers describes several sources of power for this mill complex and shows some confusing pictures (one referring to a vertical engine as a beam engine). The book refers to the first engine as being a twin beam engine by Hadens and of 60 horsepower. In 1908 these were replaced by an 80 horsepower Crossley gas engine and a 120 horsepower Tangye tandem compound steam engine. In 1933 the Tangye was replaced by a Davey, Paxman patent Peache two crank compound engine. This drove both a generator and lineshafting in the weaving shed.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.318054
Longitude
-2.201412