Browse Items (1668 total)

  • Tags: Mill

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00116.jpg
Plan showing tunnel from reservoir to mill.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00115.jpg
The parallel motion piston connecting rod to beam.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00114.jpg
Percy Pollard at this time was the steam engineer at Charlie Crabtree Mill in Blind Lane, Todmorden, in reserved war-time occupation. Boston Hill Cottages had been servants' quarters when the big house was still there. at this time it was all owned…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00113.jpg
This boiler ran the steam engine and, heated the mill, and washed the wool. The hopper and automatic stokers were made by "Proctors" of Burnley.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00112.jpg
The Boiler House. A lot of coal was stored outside, it was brought from Sharlston Colliery near Wakefield . The man in the picture was the boiler fireman.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00110.jpg
Mitchell Bros Mill and Old Town Hall. c1957. Situated above Hebden Bridge.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00108.jpg
The engineer's workshop situated over the Boiler House all the machines were made by Dixons of Keighley

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00107.jpg
The belt drive from the first motion shaft tothe second motion shaft. The wooden sliding door was the entrance to the battery room which was full of lead acid batteries to power the 110 volt lighting in the mill as there was no mains electricty.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00106.jpg
This mains electric motor would drive the mill. When the reservoir was full and over-flowed the water would drive the turbine near Sandy Gate. The steam engine would be disconnected but the steam boiler would still be used for washing wool.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00105.jpg
This turbine, situated near Sandy Gate, generated electricty using the water from the reservoir on Wadsworth Moor. The cables near the generator would have gone up to the mill.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00104.jpg
The wooden hut contained the large valve which controlled the flow of water in the 9” (225 mm) pipe flowing to the turbine, near Sandy Gate.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00101.jpg
Percy Pollard, mill Engineer, born 12/5/1908, and the fixed water level indicator between the two glass water gauges, the pipes and valves on the left werefor the water injector that put water into the boiler under pressure.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00100.jpg
Percy Pollard, Mill Engineer, born 12/5/1908, the engine was made by Woodhouse & Mitchell in Brighouse

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC05099.jpg
This site was occupied for much of C20 by Lindley's Beauvoir Engineering Works which made nuts and bolts. Demolished in the early 1980s it is now the site of the Bluebell Walk Estate. The new estate on the right is on the site of Carr Field House.…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC05019.jpg
At the junction with Midgely Road. Broadbents Engineers top left. The former Barclays Bank is bottom left.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC05003.jpg
Pecket Shed in the background, Pecket Well Chapel to the right.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC00545.jpg
A rare internal shot of Gibson Mill Restaurant in its hey day as a recreational venue. Probably early 1900s.
Output Formats

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