Ashton, Frost and Co

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).

• 1907 Two engines for Nottingham Waterworks (Broughton Station)

• 1907 horizontal engine for Emerson Road Mill, Preston. Scrapped 1965

• 1911 Catalogue on pumping engines, steam engines and mill gearing

• 1914 Pumping engine for Mill Meece Pumping Station, which has been preserved and can be seen running on steam.

Sources of Information

• 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