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East India Dock Entrance Lock
by Chris Allen
geograph for square TQ3980
The 65' lock built in 1879 and operated by hydraulic machinery supplied by... (more)
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Greenland Dock entrance lock - swing bridge
by Chris Allen
geograph for square TQ3679
This disused entrance lock is surrounded by the finest and most visible... (more)
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Twyford Waterworks - hydraulic haulage engine
by Chris Allen
for square SU4924
The site had its own limestone quarry with a rope hauled railway to bring the... (more)
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Lyme Bay Winery - disused hydraulic press
by Chris Allen
for square SY2596
By H Beare & Sons of Newton Abbot. Presumably used for pressing either... (more)
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Falkirk Wheel - hydraulics, end view
by Stephen Craven
geograph for square NS8580
This is where the rotating water-filled tank meets the fixed aqueduct. Hydraulic... (more)
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Falkirk Wheel - hydraulics, side view
by Stephen Craven
for square NS8580
This is where the rotating water-filled tank (right) meets the fixed aqueduct... (more)
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Albert Dock - hydraulic machinery
by Chris Allen
for square SJ3489
A portable hydraulic jigger. In London's docks this would have been termed... (more)
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Twyford Waterworks - lime mixing plant
by Chris Allen
for square SU4924
This waterworks used to use slaked lime in solution to soften the water (by... (more)
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Museum of Science and Industry - hydraulic power display
by Chris Allen
for square SJ8397
Manchester was one of several UK cities to a municipal hydraulic power system.... (more)
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St Katharine Dock - preserved hydraulic jigger
by Chris Allen
for square TQ3380
This is a re-erected hydraulic crane with a set of multiplying sheaves known as... (more)
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Enginuity - hydraulic testing machine
by Chris Allen
for square SJ6604
Enginuity is the hands on science museum part of the Ironbridge Gorge... (more)
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Remains of the Connaught Road swing bridge
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4180
The main support member, pivot and operating mechanism have been preserved... (more)
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Remains of the Connaught Road swing bridge
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4180
The main support member, pivot and operating mechanism have been preserved... (more)
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Large railway warehouse - Huddersfield
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SE1416
Enormous multi-storey goods warehouse with a hydraulic wagon lift on the side. A... (more)
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Goole Docks
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SE7422
A dry dock is in the foreground. A white hydraulic accumulator housing is to the... (more)
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Goole Docks - No. 5 compartment boat lift
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SE7422
The preserved hydraulic lift that used to lift and tip 'tom puddings'... (more)
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Gloucester Docks - preserved hydraulic capstan
by Chris Allen
for square SO8218
Outside Gloucester Antiques Centre and donated by the National Waterways Museum... (more)
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Hydraulic capstan at the entrance to Wallasey Dock
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SJ3289
El Pollock has very kindly gone to some trouble to place this photograph that I... (more)
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Hydraulic buffer at Ongar station
by Stephen Craven
geograph for square TL5503
A historic piece of railway equipment, made by Ransomes & Rapier who also... (more)
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Sheffield Industrial Museum - Bramah press
by Chris Allen
for square SK3588
Joseph Bramah patented the hydraulic press in 1795 and the principles are still... (more)
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Ford's Foundry 15 January 2012 (11)
by Robin Stott
for square SP3165
The half-dismantled structure presumed to have been a casting shop or the... (more)
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Ford's Foundry 7 January 2012 (7)
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP3165
Demolition work has resumed in the week after New Year. Two hydraulic machines... (more)
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Ford's Foundry 7 January 2012 (6)
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP3165
Demolishing Ford's Foundry – the tools for the job. At rest on the ground... (more)
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Ford's Foundry 7 January 2012 (5)
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP3165
This is the long arm of a tracked hydraulic machine equipped to take apart the... (more)
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HMY Britannia - steering gear
by Chris Allen
for square TQ3380
This is the electrohydraulic steering gear. There are two DC motor driven... (more)
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Ford's Foundry 28 January 2012 (3)
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP3165
Machine park, Saturday morning. Squibb is the name of the demolition contractor... (more)
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Ford's Foundry 17 January 2012 (2)
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP3165
Working machines: a digger, right; a concrete crusher, left; and in the... (more)
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Ford's Foundry 17 January 2012 (1)
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP3165
It's becoming a site of heaps and holes as the crusher, centre, chomps... (more)
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Active sand and gravel workings, Berkswell Quarry
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP2280
The view is roughly east from the footpath between Marsh Farm and Mercote Hall... (more)
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Machine working in a sand and gravel quarry
by Robin Stott
geograph for square SP2280
The view is from a precarious vantage point on top of a bund by Mercote Hall... (more)
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