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Railway bridge over Aqueduct Street
Looking along Aqueduct Street towards the railway bridge.
Image: © DS Pugh
Taken: 23 Jul 2018
0.02 miles
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Aqueduct Street bridge, Greenbank, Preston
This bridge carrying the West Coast main line between Preston and Lancaster over Aqueduct Street in north Preston, shows obvious evidence of having been widened from two tracks on the brick arches to four tracks on the steel girders. The street was so named because the Lancaster Canal once crossed it on an aqueduct, now demolished, behind the camera position.
Image: © A-M-Jervis
Taken: 9 Aug 2007
0.03 miles
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Preston Aqueduct Mill
The mill dates from 1846. Note the wheel and roller over the lintel of the low building
Image: © Alan Longbottom
Taken: 11 Aug 2007
0.04 miles
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Aqueduct Mill, Preston
This is a confusing and much knocked about mill. Dickinson's book on Preston Mills states that it was started as a weaving factory in 1842 or thereabouts, was a 'combined' mill by 1851 and suffered a fire in 1868. It is believed it was built to its current form in 1887 when new boilers were installed. It is noted to have had a large horizontal tandem compound engine of about 1000 horsepower. This was rope drive but must have replaced an earlier gear drive engine (probably a beam engine) as the bracket on the end gable is consistent with a vertical shaft, implying gear drive. The block on the closest side of the tower was originally six storeys but has been reduced to one. There is a five storey block on the far side of the italianate water tower.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 1 Aug 2010
0.06 miles
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Aqueduct Street
Viewed from a train on the West Coast Main Line, approaching Preston station from the north.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 17 Jul 2017
0.06 miles
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Aqueduct Street
Viewed from a train on the West Coast Main Line, approaching Preston station from the north.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 17 Jul 2017
0.06 miles
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Aqueduct Mill, Preston
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 1 Aug 2010
0.06 miles
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Aqueduct Street Preston
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 10 Aug 2024
0.07 miles
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Aqueduct Mill, Preston
This is a confusing and much knocked about mill. Dickinson's book on Preston Mills states that it was started as a weaving factory in 1842 or thereabouts, was a 'combined' mill by 1851 and suffered a fire in 1868. It is believed it was built to its current form in 1887 when new boilers were installed. It is noted to have had a large horizontal tandem compound engine of about 1000 horsepower. This was rope drive but must have replaced an earlier gear drive engine (probably a beam engine) as the bracket on the end gable is consistent with a vertical shaft, implying gear drive (not visible from this angle). The block on the far side of the tower was originally six storeys but has been reduced to one.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 1 Aug 2010
0.07 miles
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Aqueduct Mill, Preston - bearing bracket
This is a confusing and much knocked about mill. Dickinson's book on Preston Mills states that it was started as a weaving factory in 1842 or thereabouts, was a 'combined' mill by 1851 and suffered a fire in 1868. It is believed it was built to its current form in 1887 when new boilers were installed. It is noted to have had a large horizontal tandem compound engine of about 1000 horsepower. This was rope drive but must have replaced an earlier gear drive engine (probably a beam engine) as the bracket on the end gable is consistent with a vertical shaft, implying gear drive. The block on the closest side of the tower was originally six storeys but has been reduced to one. There is a five storey block on the far side of the italianate water tower.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 1 Aug 2010
0.07 miles