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Title: Queen Street Mill near Burnley - FJW00298
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Title
Queen Street Mill near Burnley - FJW00298
Description
Steam is raised by two Lancashire boilers built by Tinker, Shenton & Co, Hyde. The first was installed in 1894, and the second in 1901, when a 120-tube Greens Economiser was fitted.[7] Feed water is now supplied by a Weir pump fitted in 1956. Both boilers were stoked manually, until secondhand Proctor automatic stokers were fitted in 1962. Boiler No.1 had the Shovel type and the coking type was fitted to No.2; the manually stoked 1901 boiler is the only one used today. Coal was obtained locally from Bank Hall Pit but now with pollution controls being stricter it has to be imported. At its peak it burnt 6 tonnes a day, but now uses only 10 tonnes a month. The steam raised to 100 psi in the boiler house, drives the original tandem compound horizontal stationary steam engine. The high-pressure cylinder (HP) is 16 inches (41 cm) and the low-pressure (LP) 32 inches (81 cm). It uses Corliss valves. The engine drives a 14 feet (4.3 m) flywheel running at 68 rpm. The 500 horsepower (370 kW) engine was built and installed by William Roberts of Nelson in 1895.[8] It has never been moved from this location and runs perfectly true. Power is taken from the crankshaft by a series of directly driven line shafts. Currently the mill uses coal bought from the United States and Russia.
Creator
Frank Woolrych
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
2016-03-15T14:55:21
Rights
PHDA - Frank Woolrych Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
FJW00298.tif
Collection
Citation
Frank Woolrych, “Queen Street Mill near Burnley - FJW00298,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/4292.
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