IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Higher Swan Lane, BOLTON, BL3 3BJ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Higher Swan Lane, BL3 3BJ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (45 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Swan Lane Mills - 7
No.2 Mill engine house. This contained a 1400hp Saxon cross-compound horizontal steam engine.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2012
0.01 miles
3
Swan Lane No. 3 Mill engine house
Was home to a massive inverted vertical triple expansion mill engine. Built by George Saxon Ltd, Openshaw, Manchester in 1915 to develop 1,800 ihp at 78 rpm. The proportions of the engine room reflect this type of engine. Long since scrapped.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Oct 1994
0.02 miles
4
Swan Lane Mills - 6
The area now occupied by parked cars is where the boiler house once stood. To the left is the engine house to No.2 Mill.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2012
0.02 miles
5
Swan Lane Mills - 1
The chimney with the Swan Lane emblem in red white and green glazed bricks.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2012
0.02 miles
6
Swan Lane Mills, Bolton
The tower immediately right of the chimney is on No. 3 Mills and the other two are on Nos. 1 & 2, which were built as a double mill in 1902 and 1905 with 210,000 spindles and at the time claimed to be the largest spinning mill in the world under a single roof.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Oct 1994
0.03 miles
7
Swan Lane Mills - 8
Coal yard entrance, Bridgeman Street.
The two large windows belong to the paired engine houses of No.1 (right) and No.2 (left) Mills. Both contained cross-compound horizontal engines built by George Saxon of Openshaw, Manchester, No.1 being of 1300 h.p. and No.2 of 1400 h.p.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2012
0.03 miles
8
Swan Lane Mills - 9
View from Bridgeman Street with Nos.1 & 2 Mills to the right and No.3 Mill behind the chimney.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2012
0.03 miles
9
Swan Lane No.3 Mill - 9
The engine house. Since Chris Allen's visit http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1063744 the windows have been boarded up. The lack of glass in other windows is not a good omen for the future of the building.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2012
0.03 miles
10
Swan Lane No.3 Mill - 8
The entrance to No.3 Mill has this impressive portico in terracotta, despite being tucked out of sight of the public road. Note that the word 'Swan' is represented by an illustration of the bird itself. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3106911 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3106912
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Aug 2012
0.04 miles