Brockhall Hospital boiler house
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Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 9 Jan 1993
This is the boiler house of the boiler house/power house complex of this now demolished hospital. This shows one of the six Lancashire boilers - two with original mechanical stokers and four converted to gas. There was a huge bank of Green's economisers at the rear. On the wall towards the top of the image was a steam turbine for emergency stoker drive (a more unlikely combination I would be hard pushed to come up with). We were very lucky to see this about two months before it closed down for good.
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