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All Saints Brewery, Stamford, Lincs Inverted vertical single cylinder mill engine Beer making Cefn Coed Coal and Steam Center, Twin cylinder horizontal colliery winding engine Mining Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme, Devon Cross-Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Wool Spinning Devon Colliery Cornish pumping engine Mining Brighton and Hove Engineerium Woolf compound waterworks pumping engines Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Single cylinder vertical engine Single cylinder Inverted engine Broomy Hill Waterworks, Hereford Inverted Vertical Triple Expansion Waterworks Pumping Engine Waterworks Chatterly-Whitfield Colliery Museum Twin Cylinder Horizontal Colliery Winding Engine Ironworks Crofton Pumping Station Cornish Canal Pumping Engine Pumping Water Coleham Pumping Station Woolf Compound Sewage Works Pumping Engines Sewage Pump Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme, Devon Cross-Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Wool spinning electrically driven Eastney Pumping Station, Portsmouth Woolf Compound Sewage Works Pumping Engines Pumping Sewage East Pool Mine Cornish Whim Engine Coal Mining The Engine House, Nottingham Industrial Museum, Wollaton Park Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Etruscan Bone & Stone Works, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent Single Cylinder House-Built Beam Engine Glenruthven Mill, auchterarder Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Drove Mill Erddig Estate Single Cylinder Vertical Engine Kew Bridge Pumping Station, Middlesex Cornish Waterworks Pumping Engine Maudslay 65 inch Development of Machine tools Kidwelly Tinplate Works Museum, Kidwelly, Dyfed Inverted Vertical Tandem-Compound Hot-Rolling Mill engine Horizontal Tandem-compound Cold-Rolling Mill Engine Horizontal Twin-Cylinder Colliery Winding Engine Tinplate making Lea Wood Pumping Station, Cromford Cornish Canal Pumping Engine Iron Works Leicestershire Museum of Technology Woolf Compound Sewage Works Pumping Engines Pumping Sewage Locke's Distillery, Kilbeggan, Co Westmeath, Eire Cross-compound Horizontal Mill Engine Waterwheel Markfield Road Sewage Pumping Station, London Woolf Compound Eight-Column Pumping Engine Sewage Pumping Engine Steam driven Pinchbeck Pumping Station A-Frame Engine and Scoop Wheel Repairs In Fens Middleton Incline Twin Beam Winding Engine Helped to build railways Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire Single Beam Waterworks Pumping Engines Supplied Nottungham With Claen Water Prestongrange Mining Museum Cornish Pumping Engine Pumping Water Ryhope Pumping Station Woolf Compound Waterworks Pumping Engines Well Scottish Mining Museum, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Midlothian Twin Cylinder Horizontal Winding engine Mining Tott Park Bobbin Mill, Newby Bridge, Cumbria Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Bobbin Manufacturing electrically driven Tower Bridge, London Twin-Tandem Compound Horizontal Hydraulic Power Engine Providing electricity by compressed air Stretham Pumping Station Beam Engine and Scoop Wheel Fen Drainage In Windmills Washington F Pit Horizontal Twin Cylinder Colliery Winding Engine Coal Mining 2 ENGINES IN MUSEUMS Abbot's Hall Museum, Suffolk Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Aston, Birmingham Single Beam Non-Rotative Blowing Engine From M. and W. Grazebrook Ltd Ironworks Blowing Engine Bankfield Museum, Halifax Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Powered a Saw Mill Bass Museum, Burton-On-Trent Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Bigger Gasworks, Lanarkshire Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine and Gas Exhauster Exhauster Birmingham Museum Of Science and Industry Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Uniflow Engine Inverted Vertical Central Valve Six Compound Woolf Compound Beam Engine Single Column Bean Engine Inter-Connected Single Beam Engines Semi-Portable Beam Engine Grasshopper Beam Engine Inverted Vertical Single cylinder Enclosed, Engines & Generators Inverted Vertical High Speed Enclosed Compound Engine Single Cylinder horizontal Engine Horizontal Cross Compound Engine Hypercycloidal Single Cylinder Vertical Engine Stationary Steam Engines The Black Country Museum, Dudley, West Midlands Single Beam Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Engines Winding & Winch Engines Inverted Vertical Single Cylinder Engine Steam Pumps Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk Railway locomotives A-Frame single Beam engine Twin Cylinder Horizontal Hydraulic Pumping engine Engine powered lifts Cothey Bottom Heritage Centre, Ryde, Isle of Wight Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Single Cylinder Grasshopper Beam Engine Agriculture, Sawmill, pumped water for fountains Greater Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Lower Byrom Street, Liverpool Road, Manchester Single Cylinder House-Built Beam Engine single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Cross-Compound Horizontal Extraction Uniflow engine Inverted Vertical Cross-Compound Enclosed Generating Engine Technological musuem stationary steam engines Home Farm, Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire (National Trust) Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Steam Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Blist's Hill, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire Twin-Beam Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Inverted Vertical Blowing Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Winding Engine Ironworks and mining Bolton, Lancs, Bradshawgate Single cylinder Inverted Vertical Mill Engine from Low Bentham Silk Mill Electric Motor Bradford Industrial Museum, Moorside Road, Bradford Single Cylinder Horizontal Engines: from Oak Lee Mills, Bradford from Hearl, Heaton & Co, Liversedge from John White & Sons' Tannery, Bingley McNaught Compounded Beam Engine Textiles Machinery By-Gones Museum, Holkham Hall, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk Compound Portable Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Single Cylinder Vertical Oscillating Vertical Single Cylinder Banjo Pump Agricultural Machinery Steam Bridewell Alley, St Andrew St, Norwich Single Column Beam Engine Brewery Machinery Cheddleton flint Mill Museum, Leek, Staff Single cylinder Horizontal Engine Provided power to pottery works Dartmouth, Devon, Royal Avenue Gardens Atmospheric Beam Pumping engine Water into Canal Darwin, Lancs, Bolton Road, outside India Mill Cross Compound horizontal Mill Engine Darwin, Lancs, Blackburn Road Vertical Single Cylinder Mill Engine Foundry Forncett Industrial Steam Museum, Forncett St Mary, Norwich Cross Compound Hydraulic Power Engine from Tower Bridge, London Triple Expansion Inverted Vertical Waterworks Pumping Engine Tandem Compound Mill Engine Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Engines Steam Engines Industrial & Social History Museum, Forth House, Kirkcaldy, fife Single Cylinder A-Frame Vertical Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Linoleum Manufacturing Hamilton Museum, Hamilton, Strathclyde Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Engine Static display for Gas Works High Mill Museum, Helmshore, Lancs Six-Column Tank Bed Single Beam Engine Site preparation and Construction work Hollycombe House, Liphook, Hants Compound Overtype Semi-Portable Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Variety of stationary, portable, traction engines and railway locomotives J Holroyd & Co, Rochdale, Lancs Single Beam Mill Engine Stationary in a specially built glass-fronted engine house. To be seen from the street Launceston Steam Railway, St Thomas Road, Launceston, Cornwall Single cyolinder Horizontal Drop-Valve Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Laboratory Engine Twin Cylinder Horizontal Winding Engine Stationary operated on compressed air Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley Mills, Canal Road, Leeds Single Cylinder Uniflow Horizontal Mill engine Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Industrial steam stationary engines Loughborough University, Leics Six-Column Single Beam Waterworks Pumping Engine Static Monks Hall Museum, Eccles, Lancs Inverted Vertical High Speed Compound Enclosed Engine Steam Hammer Locally made machinery. Only open on weekdays Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Burton Road, Lincoln High speed inverted-vertical to conventional horizontal engines. Small collection of oil and gas engines locally built National Mining Museum, Lound Hall, Nr Bevercotes Colliery, Retford, Notts Twin Cylinder Horizontal Colliery winding Engine Single Cylindef Horizontal Rotative Pumping Engine Twin Cylinder Diagonal Capstan Engine Mining National Raiway Museum, York Single Cylinder Horizontal Winding Engine Single Cylinder Vertical Winding Engine Locomotives and rolling stock Newcastle-upon-Tyne Museum of Science & Engineering, West Blanford Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Six-Column Condensing Beam Engine Grasshopper Engine (from Plessey Mill) Tank Bed A-Frame Beam Engine from Glemsford Silk Mill Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical high Speed Enclosed Engine Compound Inverted Vertical High Speed Enclosed Engine (from York City Asylum) Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Engine from Gateshead Technical College Heat Engines Laboratory Steam Turbine (from Forth Bank Power Station) Single Cylinder A-Frame Vertical Engine Twin Cylinder single Column Beam Blowing Engine Single Cylinder Scotch Crank Engine Steam Turbines Twin Cylinder Vertical Hydraulic Pumping Engine from Tyne Swing Bridge Inverted Vertical Single Cylinder high Speed Enclosed Engine (sectioned) Inverted Vertical Banjo Pump Inverted Vertical Simplex direct Acting Pump Single Cylinder Cameron Pump Inverted Vertical Triple Expansion Engine Cylinder of Twin Horizontal Winding Engine Single cylinder Horizontal Engine Sincle cylinder Horizontal Engine Horizontal Duplex Direct Acting Pumps Single cylinder Horizontal 'Banjo' Tar Pump Stationary Steam turbines North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, Co Durham Single Cylinder Vertical Colliery Winding Engine Twin Cylinder Horizontal Mine Shaft Sinking Winch Mining Northern Mill engines Society Museum, Mornington Road, Bolton, Lancs Inverted Vertical compound Non-Dead-Centre Engine Cross-Compound Beam Engine Horizontal Tandem Compound Mill Engine Textile Machinery Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Staffs Tandem Compound Mill Engine Pottery Nottingham Industrial Museum, Wollaton Park Woolf Compound Waterworks Pumping Engine Well digging Penrith Steam Museum, Castlegate Foundry, Penrith, Cumbria Tandem compound Horizontal Mill engine Single Cylinder Undertype Semi-Portable Engine Road Engines and stationary steam engines Poole, Dorset. The Arndale Centre Horizontal Cross-Compound Mill Engine Sawmill Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh Single Cylinder Beam Engine Six-Column Tank-Bed Single Beam Engine Single Column Beam Engine Grasshopper Beam Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Steeple Engine Contemporary practice including engineering The Science Museum, South Kensington, London Atmospheric Beam Pumping Engine James Watt Pumping Engine Heslop rotative Engine James Watt Rotative Beam Engine from Matthew Boulton, Soho Works James Watt Rotative Beam Engine from Atkinson's Chemical Works Boulton & Watt Rotative Beam Engine Semi-Portable Engine Woolf Compound A-Frame Beam Engine Inverted Vertical Single Cylinder Engine Single cylinder Vertical oscillating engine Cross Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Table Engine Inverted Vertical single Acting High Speed Enclosed Engines Double Acting Inverted Vertical High Speed Enclosed Engine Radial Flow turbine & Alternator Axial Flow Turbine & Direct Current Generator Static machinery, certain ones turned by electric motor Sheffield Industrial Museum, Kelham Island, Sheffield Three cylinder Inverted-Vertical Reversing Rolling Mill Engine Steel armour plate for Royal Navy Most powerful steam engine surviving in the UK Somerset County Museum, Taunton Castle Woolf Compound House-Built Beam Engine Static turned by an electric motor Staffordshire County Museum, Shugborough Hall, Great Haywood, Stafford Single Cylinder Horizontal Winding Engine Fireclay mines Strumpshaw Old Hall Museum, Strumpshaw nr Norwich Single Cylinder Horizontal Drop-Valve Engine A-Frame Woolf Compound Waterworks Pumping Engine Stationary, agriculture machinery and traction engines Summerlee Heritage Museum, Coatbridge, Strathclyde Twin Cylinder Horizontal Winding Engine Mining Tolson Memorial Museum, Ravensknowle Park, Huddersfield, Yorks. Single Cylinder Horizontal Return-Rod Engine Brickworks The Thursford Collection, Thursford, Fakenham, Norfolk Twin cylinder Centre Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Engines Road Locomotives, Traction engines together with Mechanical Organs used by showmen and others. Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast Inverted Vertical Compound Mill Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Stationary engines making Ulster linen Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum, Bute Street Docks, Cardiff Twin Tandem Triple Expansion Fan Engine Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Enclosed Mine Fan Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine & Direct Current Generator Horizontal Single Cylinder Engine Inverted Vertical Tandem Compound High Speed Enclosed Engine & Dynamometer inverted Vertical High Speed Enclosed Compound Engine & Alternator Table Engine Single Column rotative Beam Pumping Engine Twin Cylinder Inverted Vertical Pump Single cylinder Horizontal Banjo Pump direct Acting Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Pump Direct Acting HoriZontal Cementation Pump Single Cylinder A-Frame Vertical Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Geared Haulage Engine Turbo-Alternator Waterworks pumping engines Wendron Forge, Helston, Cornwall Cornish Pumping Engine Tandem Compound Horizontal Engine from Pinkney's Green Brickworks Tandem Compound Horizontal Engine from Croydon Gasworks Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine from Helston Workhouse Laundry Twin Cylinder Mine Haulage Engine Twin Cylinder Diagonal Mine Haulage Engine Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Engine Triple Expansion High Speed Inverted Vertical Enclosed Engine High Speed inverted Vertical Enclosed Engines Inverted Vertical Engine Banjo Pumps Direct Acting Pumps Inverted Vertical Compound Engine Stationary Steam engines Wortley Top Forge, Thurgoland, South Yorkshire Single Cylinder Vertical Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Engine Inverted Vertical Compound Engine Inverted Vertical Compound High Speed Enclosed Engine Single cylinder Inverted Vertical High Speed Enclosed Engine Twin Cylinder Cameron Pump Vertical Simplex Boiler Feed Pump Portable Steam Pump Inverted Vertical Twin Cylinder Barring Engine Vertical Cross-Tube Boiler Water-driven forge plant plus Steam Engines 3. ON SITE PRESERVATION ACCES ON OPEN DAYS Bancroft Shed, Barnoldswick, Lancs Cross Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Cotton weaving Astley Green Colliery, Leigh, Lancs Twin Tandem Compound Colliery winding Engine Engine being restored can be visited most Sunday afternoons Carbolite Furnaces Ltd, Bamford Mill, Derbys Tandem Compound Mill Engine Steam and at other times by application Cheddar's lane Sewage Works, Cambridge Tandem Compound Differential Pumping engine One engine now steam Combe Sawmill, Blenheim Estate, Oxfordshire Four Column Single Beam Engine Diamond works, Royton, Oldham, Lancs Inverted Vertical Compound Mill Rope Making Access by prior appointment Dogdyke Pumping Station, Tattershall, Lincs A-Frame Single Beam Engine & Scoop Wheel Steam Engine used for drainage Englefield Estate Sawmill, Berkshire Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engines Access on steam open days D Gurteen & Sons Ltd, Chauntry Mill, Haverhill, Suffolk Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Textiles open on steam open days or by application Heritage Brewery, anglesey Road, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Steam Millmeece Pumping Station, Eccleshall, Staffs Horizontal Tandem Compound Waterworks Pumping Engines Electric pumps. Access on open days or by application Steam engines only on third weekend of each month Skorpos Fabrics, Providence Mills, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Textiles Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Bridgewater, Somerset Twin Cylinder Vertical A-Frame Drainage Pumping Engine Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Inverted Vertical Engine Brick and tile works Open most Sundays 4. ON SITE PRESERVATION ACCESS BY ARRANGEMENT ONLY Aller Moor Pumping Station, Burrowbridge, Somerset Twin Cylinder A-Frame Vertical Engine & Centrifugal Pump Drainage Access by arrangement Essex Water Mill, Maldon, Essex Woolf Compound Beam Mill Engine Textiles. Access by prior application Blagdon Pumping Station, Bristol Waterworks Co Woolf Compound Waterworks Pumping Engines Cast-iron. Access by application Brede Pumping Station, St Leonard's Sussex Inverted Vertical Triple Expansion Waterworks Pumping Engine Electric. Access by application to Southern Water Board Brereton Mill, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire Single Cylinder Horizontal Mill Engine Water Mill Prior application for access South Staffordshire Water Company, Green Lane, Walsall Horizontal Tandem Compound Pumping Engine Access by application to South Staffordshire Waterworks Broken Scar Waterworks, Tees Cottage Works, Darlington, Co Durham Woolf Compound Waterworks pumping Engine Gas suction plant Steam Bromsberrow Pumping Station, Glos Horizontal Side-By-Side Compound Pumping Engine Access by application to Severn-Trent Water Authority Chelvey Pumping Station, Bristol Waterworks Co Inverted Vertical Triple Expansion Waterworks Pumping Engine Steam. Access to organised parties only Cherry Garden Pumping Station, Folkestone, Kent Triple Expansion Duplex Pumping Engine Horizontal side-By-Side Compound Pumping Engine Twin Cylinder Horizontal Engine Inverted Vertical Twin Cylinder Donkey Pump Water Supply C & J Clark, Shoe Manufacturers, Street, Somerset Horizontal Tandem Compound Mill Engine Steam. Access by prior arrangement Clay Mills Sewage Works, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs Woolf Compound Sewage Pumping Engines Steam. Access by application only Cottingham Pumping Station, Hull, Yorks Inverted Vertical Triple Expansion Waterworks Pumping Engine Access by application to Yorkshire Water Authority Cross Lane Mill, Fray Design Marketing Ltd, Low Bradley, Skipton, Yorks Tandem Compound Mill Engine Oil-fired boiler for engine to run light. Access by prior application Curry Moor Pumping Station, Burrowbridge, Somerset Twin Cylinder A-Frame Vertical Engine & Centrifugal Pump Engines turned by electric motor. Access by prior arrangement Devenish Weymouth Brewery, Weymouth, Dorset Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine Access by application Fettykill Mills, Smith Anderson & Co Ltd, Leslie, Fife Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical Engine Water turbines and pass-out steam turbines Henwood Pumping Station, Ashford, Kent Woolf Compound Single Column Beam Engines Water Board access by prior arrangement Littleton Pumping Station, Staines, Surrey Uniflow Engine & Centrifugal Waterworks Pump Steam access by application Lound Pumping Station, Lowestoft, Suffolk Single Cylinder Grasshopeer Waterworks Pumping Engines Motorised engine access by application Lumbhole Mill, Kettleshulme, Cheshire House-Built Single Beam Engine & Waterwheel Candle making Access only by application to A.J. Sheldon Maple Brook Pumping Station, Burntwood, Lichfield, Staffs Inverted Vertical Triple Expansion Pumping Engine Well pumping Access by application No 1 Pumping Station, Duncrue Street, Belfast Horizontal Cross-Compound Engines (2) & Centrifugal Pumps Sewerage Access by prior arrangement Owston Ferry Pumping Station, South Axholme Drainage Board, Lincs Tandem Compound Engine & Centrifugal Pump Drainage Access by prior arrangement Parkandillick Clayworks, St Austell, Cornwall Cornish Pumping Engine China Clay Access by prior application Port of Bristol Authority, Underfall Yard Workshops, Bristol Twin Cylinder Horizontal Engine Vertical Single Cylinder Engine Inverted Vertical Single Cylinder Pump Steam Hammer Access by prior arrangement Princes Wharf, Bristol 35-ton Heavy Lift Crane Lifting and slewing Operating time very limited Ram Brewery, Young & Co, Wandsworth, London Woolf Compound A-Frame Mill Engines (2) Prior arrangements for viewing Runtlings Mill, Ossett, W Yorks Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Shoddy Mill application by prior arrangement Sandfield Pumping Station, Lichfield Cornish Pumping Engine Electrically operated Access by arrangement Solway Flour Mills, Silloth, Cumbria Horizontal Cross Compound Mill Engine Access by prior arrangement South Crofty Mine, Pool, Cornwall Cornish Pumping engine Mining Access restricted Springhead Pumping Station, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks Cornish Waterworks Pumping Engine Static Access by prior arrangement Twyford Pumping Station, Winchester, Hampshire Inverted Vertical Triple Expansion Waterworks Pumping Engine Drainage Access by application Turnford Pumping Station, Herts Side-lever Waterworks Pumping Engine Steam access by application Westwood Yanrns Ltd, Washpit Mill, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire Tandem Compound Horizontal Mill Engine Access by prior arrangement