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Prospect Mill Darwen 001

b05167. Steam engine in Providence Mill Co., Prospect Mill, Darwen. It is a horizontal cross compound engine. Made by Ashton Frost and Co, Blackburn, in 1906. It has 17in and 30in by 4ft Corliss slide valves cylinders and is 350 h.p. 40 r.p.m. 150 p.s.i. The engine was scrapped in the 1960s. Date of photograph 1962. M. 209.

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Image Height 475
Image Width 640
Image Copyrights Blackburn with Darwen
Image Location Blackburn Library
Date 1961-1970
Image Format Photographs - Black & White
Place Blackburn
Subjects Cotton Mills
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