IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Locks Street, COATBRIDGE, ML5 3RT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Locks Street, ML5 3RT 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 (36 Images Found)
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Thomas Hudson, Sheepford Boiler Works
A hydraulic accumulator is nearest the camera. The spindly tower in the centre background is a riveting tower that allows boilers to be riveted vertically. The riveting plant would have been hydraulic, hence the accumulator. An enclosed riveting tower survives near Huddersfield. There were a couple at Cradley Heath but they have gone.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles
3
Vertical plate bending rolls, Sheepford Boiler Works
I can't see this device being for anything else, but if anybody knows better please tell me.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles
4
Machine tool, Sheepford Boiler Works
I believe this a plate edge planing machine and that it is now on display at Summerlee. If anybody knows different, please do let me know. Machine tools are not my forte.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles
5
Marshall steam engine, Sheepford Boiler Works
Now on display at Summerlee, Coatbridge Image
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles
6
Riveting tower
Yes really. Thomas Hudson, Sheepford Boiler Works. The open spindly tower was for riveting boilers while suspended vertically.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles
7
Derelict works
Thomas Hudson, Sheepford Boiler Works. I'm not sure that health and safety would allow people in to such decrepit sites today. This was 1985
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles
8
Thomas Hudson, Sheepford Boiler Works - old boiler
This shot nicely showcases an old egg-ended boiler re-used as a tank.
The egg-ended was a low pressure, externally fired design. Essentially a design from the first half of the nineteenth century, some remained in use until the middle of the twentieth century. The brick building to its left housed a Marshall steam engine.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles
10
Plate bending rolls, Sheepford Boiler Works
I've never before seen steam powered plate bending rolls. The steam engine can't have been that powerful because it seems to have been disconnected and replaced with a big manual crank handle. It is believed that Summerlee had this item but I've never seen it there.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1985
0.03 miles