IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Blackberry Hill, BRISTOL, BS16 1XR

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Blackberry Hill, BS16 1XR by members of the Geograph project.

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Glenside Hospital chimney and tower.
This site still had three working Lancashire boilers and a disused reciprocating steam engine powerhouse with two Belliss and morcom steam engines. The boiler plant has gone but the engines will hopefully be listed as a now rare example of a private power house. The hospital is now a university campus. The church contains a museum of the hospital.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 15 Aug 1987
0.01 miles
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Glenside Hospital power house
A pair of Belliss & Morcom engines with alternators. Still survive but partly dismantled and are part of a listing by English Heritage. This is possibly the only surviving multi-engine power house left. The site shows several examples of others in the 1980 and 1990s.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Jul 1987
0.02 miles
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Glenside Hospital - power house
This is now part of the University of the West of England but when I took this it was still a working hospital with Lancashire boilers and a pair of high speed steam engines that were out of use but still in the power house. I believe the engines are still there but one at least is part dismantled. This is Belliss & Morcom No. 11381. A C-type inverted vertical compound (enclosed) engine built in 1960. This was rated at 98 brake horsepower at 600 rpm. It is coupled to a Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto alternator. On the extreme left is the small exciter that produces direct current for energising the electromagnets for the field. In this case the field is on the rotor and the generated alternating current is picked up from the stator (the opposite of the school experiment with a paper clip and magnet). Although a little rough around the edges, I still find this a very pleasing looking set up and the cream paint is quite an unusual choice of colour.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Jul 1987
0.04 miles
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Glenside Hospital boiler house
Three Lancashire boilers, oil-fired. The furthest is undergoing maintenance and the closest is definitely on load (look at the gauge). A look at an enlargement suggests that the middle boiler is also on load. Does anybody know of working Lancashire boilers in 2008?
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Jul 1987
0.07 miles
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Gardens by the mill
Whitwood Mill used to operate here on the Frome until the early twentieth century before it was demolished. To mark the site and keep the area alive, Snuff Mills walk goes from the car park nearby and follows the Frome and its history upstream. These Mill Gardens were once tended by the park keeper but became overgrown in time. Volunteers now keep the colours going.
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 13 Apr 2023
0.08 miles
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Snuff Mills
A pathway marker showing what can be reached at the ends of the path. The River Frome is in full spate in the background.
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 5 Nov 2012
0.08 miles
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Along the Frome (1)
Six weeks of continuous sunshine in Bristol seems to have brought a wonderful flowering of Foxgloves all over the city. See also Image
Image: © Anthony O'Neil Taken: 4 Jun 2020
0.08 miles
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This way to the old mill
Entry to Snuff Mills from the River View car park leads you from this cheerful character.
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 5 Nov 2012
0.08 miles
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Welcome to Snuff Mills
A suitably natural material to illustrate the wooded riverside path.
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 5 Nov 2012
0.09 miles
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Double egg-ender
Whitwood Mill was home to a particular type of steam boiler - a double egg-ended no less! To quote the information attached to it: This double egg-ended boiler was installed in about 1850 to provide power for a 12hp steam engine. It is the only one in its original working location in the country. After 1889 the mill wheel and the steam engine were used to power a six-bladed saw, which cut stone brought from the nearby quarries.
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 5 Nov 2012
0.09 miles
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