Edge Fold Colliery
in Walkden, Lancashire
1842 'CORRESPONDENCE. SMOKE PREVENTED. To the Editor of the Leeds Times. .... The Patent Argand Furnace, of C. Wye Williams, Esq. has been applied by us at Edge Fold Colliery, Worsley, to two furnaces of a pumping engine, having a hay stack, or round boiler, and a waggon boiler. Formerly with these, only sufficient steam was obtained; since the alteration, the engine has been worked with the round boiler alone, and the steam more speedily got up and blowing off. .... We are, sir, Your obedient Servants, DIRCKS and CO. Manchester'[1]
1950 George Watkins photographed a non-condensing Bull engine at the site, which had been retained by Manchester Collieries as a pumping and escape shaft for adjacent collieries. c.1840s, maker unknown, cylinder 42" bore, 8 ft stroke, steam at 40 psi.[2]