2015

SE0924 : Shaw Lodge Mills - engine house

taken 9 years ago, near to Halifax, Calderdale, England

Shaw Lodge Mills - engine house
Shaw Lodge Mills - engine house
This is a detached engine house dated 1855 and in keeping with a double beam engine. This may have been by J Wood of Sowerby Bridge. The engine probably drove by a geared shaft under the road as 1855 predates electric transmission of power for such purposes. The house later contained a Pollit & Wigzell horizontal tandem compound driving a generator. The lean to on the left is a later engine house that originally had a pitched roof, The open door shows white glazed bricks and a dark mark probably corresponding to a flywheel. There is a large bearing box at the centre of the curved mark. The mill had a variety of engines by Pollit & Wigzell and one by Cole, Marchent and Morley. The house could have held a horizontal single cylinder or tandem compound.

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Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Industry Former: Textile Mill Place: Halifax Primary Subject: Mill other tags: Engine House Beam Engine House Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Centre [25] · Shaw Lodge Mills [17] · Opened in 1855 [5] ·
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SE0924, 586 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 18 July, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 19 July, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 0973 2416 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:42.8262N 1:51.2433W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 0972 2415
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Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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