IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Butts Court, LEIGH, WN7 3AW

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Butts Court, WN7 3AW 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 Listing (68 Images Found)

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Brooklands Mill, Leigh
Brooklands is closest and Mather Lane Mill is right background. The Brookland Mill engine house is visible and was home to a J & E Wood horizontal cross compound.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 17 Jul 1988
0.03 miles
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Brooklands Mill (Mather Number 3 Mill)
Brooklands (formerly Mather No 3) Mill, on English Street, Leigh, next to the Bridgewater Canal. The former now is now split into smaller industrial units.
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 24 Mar 2011
0.04 miles
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Brooklands Mill, Leigh
In pride of place is the projecting engine house for a 1200 horsepower horizontal cross compound mill engine built in 1893 by J & E Wood of Bolton. It was a cotton spinning mill but is now in multiple occupation.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 25 Jun 2016
0.06 miles
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Brooklands Mill, Leigh
A five storey spinning mill by the Bridgewater Canal and built in 1893 with a 1200 horsepower J & E Wood mill engine. Now in multiple occupancy. The chimney has been demolished.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 25 Jun 2016
0.06 miles
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Bridgewater Canal 1976
The derelict Bedford Mill to the left and in the distance on the right, Butts Mill, occupied at the time by Ward and Goldstone.
Image: © Chris Denny Taken: Unknown
0.07 miles
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Brooklands Mill, Leigh
A five storey spinning mill by the Bridgewater Canal and built in 1893 with a 1200 horsepower J & E Wood mill engine. Now in multiple occupancy. The chimney has been demolished.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 25 Jun 2016
0.07 miles
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Canal and mills, Leigh
Looking along the Bridgewater Canal towards former cotton spinning mills. On the left is Brooklands Mill. A five storey spinning mill by the Bridgewater Canal and built in 1893 with a 1200 horsepower J & E Wood mill engine that was in the projecting engine house with tall windows. Now in multiple occupancy. The chimney has been demolished. On the right is Mather Lane Mill. Now being converted to housing. This cotton spinning mill was built in 1882 to the design of Bradshaw, Gass & Hope. There is a partly internal engine house on the north elevation (facing). The engine was a very unusual beast being an 800 horsepower inverted vertical tandem compound by J & E Wood of Bolton. It had an ejector condenser and a specially built flywheel with a rim speed of 7000 feet/minute (usually about 5,000 feet per minute or nearly 60 mph). If I recall correctly it also had a parallel motion guide for the crosshead. A very interesting design for its day and I wish I had seen it.
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 25 Jun 2016
0.07 miles
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Bridgewater Canal
Looking west along the Bridgewater Canal at Leigh. The photograph was taken from close to the back of Image In front to the left, part of Image] can be seen; whilst ahead is the large frame of Image The large number of mill in this part of the town is a reminder of the town's industrial past; in 1911, more than 6,000 people were employed in the textiles industry in Leigh.
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 24 Mar 2011
0.08 miles
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Mills galore, Leigh 1976
Looking west along the Bridgewater Canal. From left to right Brooklands Mill, occupied by several small firms, Mather Lane Mill and Bedford Spinning Mill, which was derelict.
Image: © Chris Denny Taken: Unknown
0.08 miles
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Bridgewater Canal, Leigh
The Bridgewater Canal, passing Butts Mill in Leigh.
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 24 Mar 2011
0.08 miles
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