Powerhouse Manningham Mills
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Powerhouse Manningham Mills
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 30 Aug 1994
I believe this guano encrusted plant is now sadly a memory. It was a fascinating survivor of a brief period in the history of powering mills - between mill engines driving the machinery and electric motors powered by grid electricity. This was a set of 1930s mixed pressure, non-condensing turbines driving alternators and replaced a mixture of mill engines. In its day this was state of the art and I was really pleased to see it. I visited and photographed it following my finding a photo of it in Giles and Goodall (my favourite Yorkshire mills book).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.80839
Longitude
-1.779773