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

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 6

Another engine.

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 7

Piston rods.

Industrial engines from boats or mills: 8

This one is an internal combustion engine, using petrol, made by Austin. you can see the distributor (top left) and te cables going to the spark plugs. [more...]

Caption for concrete barge

Caption explaining the history of the Ferro Concrete Barge No. 18. [more...]

Ferro Concrete Barge (detail)

A boat made of concrete.

Vintage dockyard crane

Another shot of the hand-operated crane.

Vintage dockyard crane 2

with a car in the background, sorry!

Factory windows

Arched (or rounded) windows in the side of an old mill or factory or warehouse, by a canal.

Canal lock gates

The heavy wooden beams are fastened to the top of the gates, which swing open when the water level is about equal on both sides.

Old scrap machinery

A rusting steam locomotive’s boiler, a blue-painted winch, and some other scrap.

Canal lock

The gates are closed; this is of course the low end of the lock. The water in the lock must be lowered (by letting it out downstream in this direction through [...] [more...]

Factory Window

Another arched window, this time looking out from inside the canal building, and towards a factory or mill.