National Museum of Scotland Collections Centre, Granton
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National Museum of Scotland Collections Centre, Granton
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 16 Apr 2025
The National Museums of Scotland have a huge collection centre that includes several full size steam engines that are roughly assembled and allow the researcher to gain a feel for the scope of machinery collected over many years. This particular engine is a horizontal tandem compound by Hick, Hargreaves of Bolton and used in an Aberdeen textile mill. Brian Hillsdon adds the following: - The original site was Crombie's Grandholm Mills. It was first in preservation by 1975 at Scottish Society for the Preservation of Historical Machinery store at Coplawhill. In 1984 it went to the museum's [National Museum of Scotland] store at Newbattle, dismantled outdoors. In 1995 it came here [Granton] and was re-erected unrestored. In front of it is a Tangye special pump and in the background is the 1825 beam engine from Cobb's Brewery, Margate. The red lump through the flywheel is a steam navvy.
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