1770s Pumping Engine for 'Ale & Cakes Mine', Cornwall
Section of pumping engine house and sections of the boiler, for the 'Ale & Cakes Mine' Cornwall.
Ale & Cakes Mine was part of the group of Cornish mines known as United Mines. This single-acting ...
1770s Pumping Engine for Chacewater Mine, Cornwall
General section of pumping engine for Chacewater Mine, Cornwall.
This was the first Boulton & Watt engine erected in Cornwall, although it was actually the second one ordered. It started work in 1777. ...
1770s Pumping Engine for Hawkesbury Colliery, Bedworth
General section of pumping engine for Hawkesbury Colliery, Bedworth, Warwickshire.
When it was set to work in 1777, this single-acting engine with a 58 inch cylinder and 8 foot stroke was the largest ...
1770s Pumping Engine for Les Mines du Nord, Nantes
General Section of pumping engine for Les Mines du Nord, Nantes, France.
This single-acting 44 inch engine with an 8 foot stroke was the first Boulton & Watt engine erected in mainland Europe, less ...
1780s Double-acting Engine for the Wheal Fortune Copper Mine
Reverse outside front view of engine for Wheal Fortune Copper Mine, Cornwall.
Cornwall continued to be a major market for Boulton & Watt during the 1780s, and they supplied larger and ever more powerful ...
1780s Double-acting Engine for Wheal Fortune Copper Mine
General section of engine for Wheal Fortune Copper Mine, Cornwall, April 1785.
Cornwall continued to be a major market for Boulton & Watt during the 1780s, and they supplied larger and ever more ...
1780s Single-acting Engine for the Hallamanin Mine
Reverse plan and section and outside view of the beam of engine for the Hallamanin Mine, Cornwall.
Cornwall continued to be a major market for Boulton & Watt during the 1780s, and they supplied larger ...
1780s 'Sun & Planet' Engine for the Prince George Mine
General Section of Sun and Planet Engine for the Prince George Mine, Cornwall.
Nearly all the engines that Boulton & Watt sold in Cornwall were large pumping engines whose beams were connected directly ...
1780s 'Sun & Planet' Engine mounted on a 4-wheeled Truck
Reverse section of portable 'sun & planet' engine for Reynolds & Co., Ketley, Shropshire.
Reynolds & Co. ordered two of these highly unusual engines for winding coal from mines. The engines were ...
1790s 3 Horse Engine for Lead Mine in Anglesey
Reverse general view of 3 horse engine for Mona Mine, Anglesey, June 1790.
This small 3 horse engine with a A-shaped framing was for the Mona lead mine, at Parys Mountain, on Anglesey. It was one ...
1790s 40 Horse Engine for Cumbrian Colliery
Reverse general view of 40 horse engine for John Christian Curwen, Workington, Cumbria, January 1794.
During the 1790s Boulton & Watt engines used a variety of arrangements to work pumps to extract ...
1790s 6 Horse Crank Engine for Cockshead Colliery
General view of 6 horse crank engine for John Sparrow & Co., Cockshead Colliery, Norton–in–the–Moors, near Burslem, Staffordshire, August 1793.
This was the second engine supplied to Cockshead Colliery ...
1790s Double-acting Engine for Hebburn Colliery
Front view and section of the pit showing the V Bob, Hebburn Colliery, County Durham, May 1798.
Another engine from the important North Eastern colliery market. These drawings show a double-acting ...
1790s Double-acting Engine for Hebburn Colliery
General view of engine for Hebburn Colliery, County Durham, January 1798.
Another engine from the important North Eastern colliery market. These drawings show a double-acting engine with a 63 inch ...
1790s Pumping Engine for Cockshead Colliery
Reverse general view of pumping engine for John Sparrow & Co., Cockshead Colliery, Norton–in–the–Moors, near Burslem, Staffordshire, May 1792.
This drawing, of an engine with a 48½ inch cylinder, ...
1790s Pumping Engine for Gateshead Park Colliery
Outline elevation and plan of proposed engine house for Sir Charles Brandling, Gateshead Park Colliery, Northumberland, circa 1794.
The collieries of the North East were another important market ...
1790s Pumping Engine for Gateshead Park Colliery
Reverse general view of engine for Sir Charles Brandling, Gateshead Park Colliery, Northumberland, February 1794.
The collieries of the North East were another important market for Boulton & Watt, ...
Adverts from the Oratory Magazine.
Two adverts for local businesses from the Oratory church magazine. Church magazines contained many adverts of this nature. Rudge, Brown and Co. were a coal merchants at Monument Lane Wharf off St Vincent ...