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The Great East Window St Margaret's Church, Halliwell
Added in 1937 by the firm James Powell and Sons.
Image: © Richard Hoare
Taken: 13 Aug 2005
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"Elsie", Former Mill Engine at Bolton Steam Museum
A closer look at
Image This is the most typical type of Lancashire mill engine of which many thousands were made. Originally built by J & W McNaught Ltd of Rochdale in 1902 for the Barchant Spinning Company in 1902, it was later used at Wasp Mill from 1917 until 1967.
The engine is named "Elsie"; many textile mill engines were named, often after members of the mill-owners family.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 8 Jun 2016
0.09 miles
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Steel-Tube Pressure Gauge, Bolton Steam Museum
From one of the exhibits at the Bolton Steam Museum at Atlas Mill.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 8 Jun 2016
0.09 miles
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Steam Engine Close Up, Bolton Steam Museum
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 8 Jun 2016
0.09 miles
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Wasp Mill Engine Governor
A close up of the governor which maintains a regular steam pressure in
Image] when it is operating.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 8 Jun 2016
0.09 miles
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Looking along Bentinck Street, Bolton
The mill in the distance is Atlas No. 8 Mill. There is a more modest works in the foreground at the junction with Sofa Street. Part of this complex is Opal Works, home of Metal Solutions.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 4 Mar 2012
0.09 miles
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Atlas No. 7 Mill
Looking down Sofa Street. There were 8 Atlas Mills with Nos. 5 & 8 originally in other ownership and acquired by the Musgrave empire at a later date. No. 7 was built in 1887 and was the only one built as a weaving shed. No. 6's Musgrave twin tandem compound engine powered No. 6 and No. 7. Its barring engine survives only a few yards away in the Bolton Steam Museum.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 4 Mar 2012
0.09 miles
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Bolton steam Museum 2009
The Northern Mill Engine Society's museum getting closer to a finished state. I'm stood on top of the roof over the workshop that suports a new starage area and a very nice air compressor. Bottom right is the front of a Lancashire boiler with assorted feed pumps. The big lump in the left middle distance is the inverted vertical compound from Diamond Ropeworks, Royton. The big red vessel is on the Fern Mill firepump.
This is one of the best collections of its type anywhere and an absolute must for anybody interested in stationary steam.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 11 Oct 2009
0.09 miles
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Bolton Steam Museum - small engines
This little display includes a diesel engine, Tangye horizontal single cylinder steam engine and a Browett, Lindley inverted vertical compound (enclosed) steam engine driving a dynamo (DC). There is some fine period switchgear alongside, at least some of which came from the local engineering works of Hick, Hargreaves.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 7 Mar 2010
0.09 miles
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Bolton Steam Museum, Diamond Ropeworks Engine
Looking past the Browett and Lindley electricity generating engine, towards the larger, inverted compound engine which was acquired by the NMES in 1995.
Named "Lily", the engine was built by Scott and Hodgson of Guide Bridge in 1914 and supplied to Hardman and Ingham's Diamond Rope Works at Royton near Oldham. The company manufactured a wide range of ropes and twines using a trademark of two interlocking diamonds. The mill was badly damaged by fire in 1973 and the engine never ran again.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 25 Aug 2013
0.09 miles