Brockhall Hospital boiler house
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Brockhall Hospital boiler house by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Brockhall Hospital boiler house
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 9 Jan 1993
This is at the rear of the boiler house and power house complex of this now demolished hospital. There were six Lancashire boilers - two with original mechanical stokers and four converted to gas. This is part of a huge bank of Green's economisers with motor drive to the tube scrapers. The power house complex contained a Belliss & Morcom reciprocating engine driving an alternator, a steam turbine fire pump, a large Weir pump, turbine circulating pumps, huge calorifiers and a steam turbine alternator set that was for emergency use and not run in. This latter is now at Markham Grange Nursery and generating in anger with export to the grid.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.824796
Longitude
-2.457228