IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Armitage Close, OLDHAM, OL8 4LG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Armitage Close, OL8 4LG by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (45 Images Found)
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Steam firepump, Royd Mill
Once a standard item of kit in a textile mill. This duplex rotative pump is now at Astley Green Colliery. The steps on the left led to the empty mill engine house and rope race.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.05 miles
2
Royd Mill boiler house
Part of three Lancashire boilers. The far one has underfeed mechanical stokers and I believe it was used in the winter for heating. There are very few Lancashire boilers left in use. Indeed, I would welcome all reports of Lancashire or Cornish boilers in use commercially (not preservation sites).
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.05 miles
3
Royd Mill, Hollinwood
The four tall arched windows mark the engine house that contained a J & E Wood inverted vertical triple expansion engine. The open doors in front mark the boiler house that still contained a row of Lancashire boilers.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.05 miles
4
Royd Mill, Hollinwood
Taken when the little steam firepump was still in situ. I'm crammed in a corner of the yard shooting across the lodge.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Jun 1983
0.05 miles
5
Royd Mill, Chamber Road, Hollinwood
This mill was built in 1907 and has now been demolished with housing built on the site. This shows the engine house that once held a J & E Wood of Bolton inverted vertical triple expansion steam engine. That was scrapped long ago but a small steam fire pump survived and is now at the Astley Green Mining Museum site. This was a fine Edwardian era mill and really deserved listing, especially as the chimney survived intact with its oversailing cap.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.05 miles
6
Royd Mill, Hollinwood
Seen from about the end of Mulmount Close. The mill was built in 1907 as a cotton spinning mill and has now been replaced by houses.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.05 miles
7
Royd Mill, Hollinwood
Built as a cotton spinning mill in 1907 and since demolished and replaced with houses. A shame it was not listed as it was one of the better Edwardian mills in Oldham. I have struggled to locate the photographer positions and not succeeded with them all.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.06 miles
8
Hawksley Street, Hollinwood
The large former cotton spinning mill was built in 1907 as Royd Mill and has now been replaced with housing.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.06 miles
9
Royd Mill from Armitage Close, Hollinwood
The mill was built in 1907 and has now been replaced by undistinguished housing. I was able to locate this shot accurately by the modern housing development. Oldham Council has now produced a plan for the surviving mill stock but this was gone before that.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.07 miles
10
Royd Mill, Hollinwood
Photographed from Hawksley Street. Spinning mill built 1907 and then owned by Raygrade. Was powered by a J & E Wood inverted vertical triple expansion engine. A small steam fire pump from here is at Astley Green Colliery Museum.
Since demolished to make way for an housing development.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 6 Aug 2006
0.07 miles