Browse Items (48 total)

  • Tags: Steam Power

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00197.jpg
The mill's founder, Jonathan Gledhill, supervised the cutting of the first sod in June 1907.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00191.jpg
Joshua Smith's winding room - A view of the winding room at Joshua Smith's Frostholme Mill, in Cornholme, 1913. The firm of Joshua Smith's ran the mill from 1882 until well into the 1950s, at one time employing over 700 people in the production of…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00190.jpg
Letter of quotation for looms requested by Joshua Smith's in 1892

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00189.jpg
Letter of quotation for looms requested by Joshua Smith's in 1892

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00188.jpg
View across the main weaving shed at Joshua Smith's, 1912.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00186.jpg
The horizontal cross compound steam engine, installed in 1896, was capable of driving up to 900 bhp and powered the whole of the factory by a rope pulley system.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00185.jpg
Carson Whiteside, Chief Engineer. In 1959 the steam engine became redundant and in 1960 it was dismantled by a small gang headed by Corson Whiteside, the chief engineer. The flywheel was 20 ft in diameter and each spoke weighed over 19 cwt.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00183.jpg
Built in 1860, the mill was enlarged and developed under the ownership of Joshua Smith Ltd who ran it from 1882 until well into the 1950s. At one time they employed over 700 people in Cornholme, primarily in the weaving industry.

After Joshua…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00181.jpg
A view across the 'New' shed at Waterside in 1912. Interior of the large weaving shed at Waterside in 1912. It is now the site of the Morrisons Supermarket.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00180.jpg
During the hey-day of the weaving activities the sheds were powered by a pair of steam engines of 1,000 hp, which were named 'Sam' and 'John' after the two eldest surviving Fielden sons. The photograph shows Leslie Baron who was in charge of the…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00179.jpg
The three cottages in the centre of the picture were the homes and workplaces of the entrepreneurial Fielden family who moved there from Edge End in 1782. The various stages of expansion can be seen in the five-storey building which was a spinning…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00178.jpg
The beam engine which once powered Albion Mill, Halifax Road, formerly owned by John Dawson & Sons Ltd.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00177.jpg
The Lancashire boiler at Albion Mill, showing the coal hoppers.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00176.jpg
Midgelden Clough flowing down the Bacup valley provided a ready source of water for the early cotton mills. Stoneswood Mill once formed one of the outside factories of Fielden Bros. but was given up more than a century ago, the spinning machinery…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00175.jpg
Woodhouse Mill, built in 1832, was sited directly alongside the Rochdale Canal to take advantage of the transport facilities and process water. The small engine house can be seen on the left of the mill. The chimney was detached from the mill in…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00174.jpg
Robinwood c1910, a panorama of industry and communications with the 13 arch Nott Wood Viaduct on the Todmorden-Burnley line, the so called Copy Pit Line. Robinwood Mill, built in 1834, and purchased by Fielden Bros. in 1844, became the centre of…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00173.jpg
Woodhouse Mill, seen from the towing path of the Rochdale Canal, c. 1906. The three-storey terrace of houses was called Bank View. The improvements and inventions of Hargreaves' spinning jenny, Crompton's mule, and later, Cartwright's power loom…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00171.jpg
Friths Mill, Bacup Road, built as a steam-powered cotton mill, finished its days as a sanitary pipe works.

The improvements and inventions of Hargreaves' spinning jenny, Crompton's mule, and later, Cartwright's power loom…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00170.jpg
Wood block printers at Ramsden Wood works. The man standing on the left of the table is Matthew Barr, of Walsden.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00169.jpg
Clearing the water course at Ramsden Wood Clough, about 1900.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00168.jpg
Originally built as a cotton spinning mill in the early 19th Century, the buildings were later converted to a print and dye works. The abundant water supply was the chief reason for the selection of the site, but the chimney which is situated on the…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MOT00167.jpg
Originally built as a cotton spinning mill in the early 19th Century, the buildings were later converted to a print and dye works. The abundant water supply was the chief reason for the selection of the site, but the chimney which is situated on the…
Output Formats

atom, csv, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2