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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 5 mins 4 secs Credits: Ken Ellwood
Subject: Industry
Summary An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of the horizontal cross compound Corliss valve condensing steam engine in operation inside the engine house at Bancroft Mill at Barnoldswick in Lancashire.
Description
An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of the horizontal cross compound Corliss valve condensing steam engine in operation inside the engine house at Bancroft Mill at Barnoldswick in Lancashire.
Title: The Last Mill Engine in Barnoldswick
Exterior of Bancroft Shed engine house, inside the engine in operation and a man filling or lubricating the high-pressure cylinder ‘James’ with oil. General views of the engine in operation with pistons moving back-and-forth. Two other parts of the engine...
An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of the horizontal cross compound Corliss valve condensing steam engine in operation inside the engine house at Bancroft Mill at Barnoldswick in Lancashire.
Title: The Last Mill Engine in Barnoldswick
Exterior of Bancroft Shed engine house, inside the engine in operation and a man filling or lubricating the high-pressure cylinder ‘James’ with oil. General views of the engine in operation with pistons moving back-and-forth. Two other parts of the engine have been named Isabel and Nellie. A plaque on Nellie reads ‘William Rogers and Sons Engineers and Millwrights Ltd, Nelson, Lancashire’.
End title: The End