IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Heron Street, OLDHAM, OL8 4EA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Heron Street, OL8 4EA by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (67 Images Found)
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Distance
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Mills, Oldham
On the left Brook No2 and on the right Durban Mill
Image: © Alexander P Kapp
Taken: 2 Feb 2010
0.08 miles
4
Hollinwood - Heron Mill
Cotton spinning mill built 1905. Architect was P S Stott and there were 105,000 spindles turned by a 1400 horsepower inverted vertical cross compound steam engine by G Saxon of Openshaw. The engine house projects on the right and I believe the car park is the infilled lodge (cooling pond). The edge of Brook no. 2 is seen on the extreme right.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.09 miles
5
Heron Mill
Viewed from across the playing fields along College Avenue
Image: © Kevin Waterhouse
Taken: 17 Mar 2023
0.09 miles
6
Heron Mill, Hollinwood
Cotton spinning mill built 1905. Architect was P S Stott and there were 105,000 spindles turned by a 1400 horsepower inverted vertical cross compound steam engine by G Saxon of Openshaw. The engine house projects on the right and I believe the car park is the infilled lodge (cooling pond). The mill is now in other usage. Brook no. 2 Mill is seen in the background and has since been demolished.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.09 miles
7
Mill scape
Heron Mill on the left and Durban Mill on the right
Image: © Alexander P Kapp
Taken: 30 Nov 2011
0.09 miles
8
Durban Mill, Hollins
Chimney and engine house
Image: © Alexander P Kapp
Taken: 30 Nov 2011
0.10 miles
9
Durban Mill, Hollinwood - engine house and chimney
This mill was built in 1905 by the Durban Mill Co Ltd. The architect was PS Stott and its 120,000 spindles were powered by a magnificent Yates & Thom horizontal four cylinder triple expansion engine of 1750 horsepower. The mill ceased production in 1962 and was re-occupied in 1967 as a mail order warehouse. There is a new housing development on the site now.
George Watkins took a superb photograph of the engine and published in The Stationary Steam Engine, David & Charles, 1968. The cylinders all had Corliss valves, the high pressure was 28" bore, the intermediate pressure 39" bore and the two low pressure cylinders 43" bore all with a stroke of 5'. The flywheel was about 26' diameter (a typical size) and grooved for 38 cotton driving ropes that sent power to all floors of the mill. The engine took steam at 180 pounds per square inch from four Lancashire boilers, ran at about 72 revolutions per minute and was apparently overloaded up to 2200 horsepower on occasion. It was a long engine with ample space between the cylinders and the air pumps operated by piston tail rods behind the engine.
Brook No. 2 Mill is behind the wall on the left and has now been replaced by Oasis Academy.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.10 miles
