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High Street, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, BS22 6JJ

This OS cut mark can be found on No1 The Scaurs.

At the foot of The Scaurs, and partly illuminated by a lowering sun.

The late John Huish had amassed a sizable collection of stationary steam engines that were stored in a former laundry that had been a brewery originally. This is a single cylinder vertical steam engine by Thomas Rose of Burford that was used in the Brewery of Garne & Sons Ltd in Burford. It was removed in 1973/4. It was built c1850/60 and the slide valve cylinder was c8" x 14" and the flywheel 5' diameter. It is now on display at the Steam Museum, Preston, Kent. This collection has been dispersed and it looks like the building has been demolished. It was difficult to track it down as nobody seemed to have an address and it wasn't listed with an address in any book I own. I eventually found a letter from the owner with instructions and by deduction my position is pretty close.

This is a horizontal tandem compound condensing mill engine by Holborow of Dudbridge, Stroud in 1894. The slide valve cylinders are 8" & 14" x 16" and it was used to assist a waterwheel at The Pin Mill in Charfield until about 1950. The flywheel is 70" and there is an adjoining rope pulley 42" diameter. It was rated at 80 bhp at 100 rpm on steam at 100 psi. It is seen here in the collection of the late John Huish at Worle. This site has now been demolished and the engine is at the Brecon Mountain Railway - Image

A Marshall of Gainsborough inverted vertical single cylinder test engine that I recall was used at the Merchant Venturers' college in Bristol. The collection has been disbanded and I saw this engine in the open at Arreton Barns on the Isle of Wight - Image The engine is No. 45560 of c1906.

Decorations to mark the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6th May 2023.

Looking down the Maltings, the building on the left which is now a sweets and card shop was our former library, unfortunately gone with the cutbacks that all Countys seem to suffer.