UK Holiday 4: Ellesmere Boat Museum (page 3/9)

Yellow flower up close 2

Extreme closeup (macro shot) of yellow petals. Probably a yellow rose.

Boat’s lantern

A colourfully painted lantern from canal boat.

Antique Air Meter

An antique brass machine for measuring wind speed. [more...]

Factory Window

A wood-framed window with a curved top, in an old brick wall in an industrial building at a canal dockyard.

Iron tools

I’m not sure what these are for exactly, but I think for glass-blowing or for making things in a forge. Or possibly for torturing people’s ankles. Well, [...] [more...]

Forge

A fireplace at a blacksmith’s forge.

large cog-wheels

Some large iron wheels and other itoms waiting by the blacksmith’s forge to be repaired.

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 1

An old engine used in a boat or for a mill.

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 2

Old steam-powered (I think) engine, probably for a ship.

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 3

Part of an engine for a mill or ship.

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 4

An old engine made by Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd. of Southampton. I think the upper plate says Armstrong-Modeley.

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 5

Bounder’s Patent [??] oil engine.