Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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* Mill engine installations included Messrs Codling and Hodgkinson's Mill Hill Mill in Blackburn (1898), Daisyfield Flour Mill, Blackburn, and Allanby Mill, Westhoughton; two triple expansion vertical pumping engines at Elkesley Pumping Station, Lincoln (1911). <ref>'Stationary Steam Engine Makers Volume 1' Compiled by George Watkins, Catalogued by A P Woolrich, Landmark Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84306-200-3</ref>
* Mill engine installations included Messrs Codling and Hodgkinson's Mill Hill Mill in Blackburn (1898), Daisyfield Flour Mill, Blackburn, and Allanby Mill, Westhoughton; two triple expansion vertical pumping engines at Elkesley Pumping Station, Lincoln (1911). <ref>'Stationary Steam Engine Makers Volume 1' Compiled by George Watkins, Catalogued by A P Woolrich, Landmark Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84306-200-3</ref>


* 1907 Two engines for Nottingham Waterworks (Broughton Station)
* 1907 Two engines for Nottingham Waterworks (Boughton Station)


* 1907 horizontal engine for Emerson Road Mill, Preston. Scrapped 1965 <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/4611630647/in/set-72157620193230487/]Photo of engine in Preston Digital Archive - "A Lancashire Cotton Scrapbook" </ref>
* 1907 horizontal engine for Emerson Road Mill, Preston. Scrapped 1965 <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/4611630647/in/set-72157620193230487/]Photo of engine in Preston Digital Archive - "A Lancashire Cotton Scrapbook" </ref>

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of Bank Top Foundry, Blackburn

Triple Expansion Engine at Elkesley 1911, for Lincoln Waterworks
  • Mill engine installations included Messrs Codling and Hodgkinson's Mill Hill Mill in Blackburn (1898), Daisyfield Flour Mill, Blackburn, and Allanby Mill, Westhoughton; two triple expansion vertical pumping engines at Elkesley Pumping Station, Lincoln (1911). [1]
  • 1907 Two engines for Nottingham Waterworks (Boughton Station)
  • 1907 horizontal engine for Emerson Road Mill, Preston. Scrapped 1965 [2]
  • 1911 Catalogue on pumping engines, steam engines and mill gearing


Sources of Information

  1. 'Stationary Steam Engine Makers Volume 1' Compiled by George Watkins, Catalogued by A P Woolrich, Landmark Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84306-200-3
  2. [1]Photo of engine in Preston Digital Archive - "A Lancashire Cotton Scrapbook"
  • The Engineer of 24th November 1911 p550
  • The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6