IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Cotswold Drive, OLDHAM, OL2 5HD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Cotswold Drive, OL2 5HD 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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Image Listing (12 Images Found)
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Elk Mill, Royton
One of the last cotton spinning mills to be built (there were one or two around 1926) in Lancashire and opened 1927. Was driven by a Parsons steam turbine. The mill cost £250,000 and employed 400. Finally closed 1998. Now demolished.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 17 Mar 1990
0.16 miles
5
Next store
Next store at 'The Centre' retail park, in Chadderton, Greater Manchester, England. The Centre is commonly known as 'Elk Mill Retail Park' or simply Elk Mill as it is built on the site of the former cotton mill.
Image: © Steven Haslington
Taken: 24 May 2011
0.19 miles
7
Elk Mill
Built 1926 and driven by a Parsons steam turbine that drove the mill by ropes and the neighbouring Shiloh Mills by electricity. Scrapped in 1983.
The mill finally closed in 1998.
It used cotton mules until 1974.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.20 miles
8
Elk Mill
Seen from the location of the demolished Shiloh Mills that received electricity from Elk, The engine house is just visible to the right of the chimney.
Awful against the light picture that I've adjusted as best I can.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.20 miles
9
Steam turbine, Elk Mill
Built 1926 by C A Parsons to produce 2600 hp. A cross compound turbine drove via reduction gears to a rope flywheel (to the right) and an alternator (to the left). The ropes powered Elk Mill and Electricity powered the adjoining Shiloh Mills. This was scrapped shortly after the photo was taken in 1983. Elk Mill has now been demolished.
When I first posted Elk Mill I was confining myself to exteriors rather than supplemental images. I have now decided that the supplementals are too rare and important not to share.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.21 miles
10
Parsons cross compound steam turbine, Elk Mill
The late George Watkins took a photograph practically identical to this but I must say there are few other pictures I'm aware of. The alternator is on the left and in the middle is the HP turbine with the starting and governor gear. The LP turbine is left of the drive shaft. The single reduction gear box is behind the two turbine casings. Looks like somebody has had the top half brass out of the bearing on the extreme left - note the top cover on the floor.
I have spent >3/5ths of my life engaged in this sort of photography and field research and it grieves me to see it all dwindling away.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.21 miles