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Queen Street Mill is a former weaving mill in Harle Syke, a suburb to the north-east of Burnley, Lancashire, that is a Grade I listed building. [1] It now operates as a museum and cafe. Currently open for public tours between April and November. Over winter the café is opened on Wednesdays. It is also viewable with private bookings.
Mill engine, Queen Street Mill, Burnley. William Roberts horizontal tandem compound engine - 'Peace'. Marshall undertype steam engine. There are different patterns of stationary steam engines, distinguished by the layout of the cylinders and crankshaft: Beam engines have a rocking beam providing the connection between the vertical cylinder and ...
Only two Roberts of Nelson steam engines are known to survive, one at Queen Street Mill in Harle Syke, Burnley [5] which ran commercially from 1895 to 1982 and one at Bancroft Mill in Barnoldswick which ran commercially from 1920 to 1978. [6] These two remaining engines are preserved and run under steam for visitors at regular intervals. [5] [7]
The first is in Queen Street Mill and has never been moved, but the second is preserved in the Science Museum in London, and came from Siberia Mill, it is a cross compound engine, of 700 hp. The Queen Street Mill engine is an 1895 single tandem compound of 500 hp [18] Corliss valves driving a 14 feet (4.3 m) flywheel. The London engine which ...
Now demolished. It was powered by a Pollit & Wigzell horizontal tandem compound steam engine. Queen Street Mill SD868349 : 1894 : Standing : 131: Notes: The mill was built in 1894. It was powered by a 500hp tandem compound by William Roberts of Nelson. 300 of the original 1138 Harling & Todd and Pemberton Lancashire looms are still in situ and ...
The company produced steam engines during the 19th century and between 1899 and 1908 produced 504 large steam-driven engines. [7] The company produced engines and equipment for the coal mining industry and built a boilerworks in Westhoughton in 1900 to produce Lancashire boilers. The Westhoughton works were subject to a chancery court judgement ...
A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the US engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island. Corliss assumed the original invention from Frederick Ellsworth Sickels (1819- 1895), who held the patent (1829) in ...
A second mill, known as Roper's mill was built and this also burnt down, The fire started in the engine house. In January 1889, the "May Mill Spinning Company limited" was formed to build a new fireproof mill to replace the one destroyed. The cornerstone was laid 25 March 1889, and the engines were dedicated May 1890. They were named Louisa and ...