Engineering Sights on Google Streetview

[NIALL HORNParticipant @niallhorn50878]

This thread reminded me that I used to enjoy seeing the stainless steel bull in front of the Avesta steelworks beside the M1 near Sheffield. All gone now, but the bull survived and Google tells me that it is now outside the Magna Science Adventure Centre at Rotherham. It was too big for my front garden anyway!

Niall

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

This is on the site of the old Thorneycroft works in Basingstoke

https://maps.app.goo.gl/z93ApvbNsEbccbDz8

Rod

Edited By Roderick Jenkins on 08/10/2020 18:30:50

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Not sure if this is a portable engine or just a boiler. It's in Box, Wiltshire on the right heading towards Chippenham on the A4.

Looks like whatever it is confused the software that stitches google street views together. The front of the boiler has been extended and there's the start of another funnel. Unreal.

Dave

[Gerry TParticipant @gerryt]

Beam Engine in Pool, Cornwall

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 08/10/2020 19:01:20:

Not sure if this is a portable engine or just a boiler. It's in Box, Wiltshire on the right heading towards Chippenham on the A4.

Looks like whatever it is confused the software that stitches google street views together. The front of the boiler has been extended and there's the start of another funnel. Unreal.

Dave

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Wot … No link !?!

I had to go searching for it

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MichaelG.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 09/10/2020 08:42:23:

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 08/10/2020 19:01:20:

Not sure if this is a portable engine or just a boiler. It's in Box, Wiltshire on the right heading towards Chippenham on the A4.

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Wot … No link !?!

I had to go searching for it

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Specially for you Michael – I know you love internet search challenges, harder the better. And your view adds more information.

Many questions unanswered. What exactly is it? Who made it and when? Where did it come from? How exactly did the owner persuade SWMBO to let him put it in her front garden?

I like to think it's a portable engine with the motion work and flywheel removed for repair. But many end-of-life machines like this, including railway locomotives, finished their working lives as low-pressure steam generators. Anything not needed sold for spares or scrap, and the boiler used to provide process steam. (Low pressure steam is still used by dozens of different industries, but they don't make it with antiques.) I bet this object has an interesting history.

Dave

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by john halfpenny on 04/10/2020 14:30:35:

The Birmingham beam engine is on the island at the centre of Dartmouth circus, where the Aston expressway goes under the Middle ring road. Not an easy place to stop!

You can walk to it, although it is pretty out of the way!

It's unusual as it is a non-rotary engine IIRC.

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I should say I've enjoyed looking at all these suggestions (when I should be focusing on getting MEW 298 finished )

Thanks for the ideas and keep 'em coming!

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Someone said they would like to see a waterwheel in action. I'm afraid this isn't very spectacular, it's from several years ago, I think near Dartmoor. If anyone recognises it I'd love to know where it is!

[Jon LawesParticipant @jonlawes51698]

While working in Colorado I was driving a mountainous route and found a random bridge span at the side of the road in a gorge. i think it was a span stood on its own, no route on it from either side. In the middle was an american steam locomotive with a tarpaulin over it, marooned. I never did find out the story. I'll try to find it.

*found it*

[JAParticipant @ja]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 09/10/2020 16:06:45:

Someone said they would like to see a waterwheel in action. I'm afraid this isn't very spectacular, it's from several years ago, I think near Dartmoor. If anyone recognises it I'd love to know where it is!

 

I thought it might be Finch Foundry at Sticklepath but the water wheel is nothing like the one I photographed a few years ago.

https://goo.gl/maps/Vj5ZDJohmU8D7CjbA

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7305728,-3.925854,3a,75y,206.76h,82.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srBTCUFDGutetfi5FxXjXpg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0

JA

I am not sure if I have got the link to work.

I wanted to see an open topped blast furnace in use. Water wheels are still two a penny, almost.

Edited By JA on 09/10/2020 18:03:14

Edited By JA on 09/10/2020 18:05:22

[iNfParticipant @inf]

If we're doing waterwheels, go big!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/oJKwfpNaDKiKG3Mp7

Apologies for the very low quality video (phone cameras weren't so good in 2007!)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/tZ8ez9b3QKb33yAg7

[GreensandsParticipant @greensands]

Seen in a park in Funchal, Maderia, 2018

[Another JohnSParticipant @anotherjohns]

Does this count? (lets see if the link works…)

**LINK**

[Another JohnSParticipant @anotherjohns]

And, if anyone wants to see what the back of a boxpok wheel casting looks like:

**LINK**

It's in front of a block of flats, on what was part of the Canadian Locomotive Companies' land; CLC built and exported locomotives all over the world; there's at least one in running condition somewhere in France/Switzerland (ex. SNCF141Rs were built in Montreal, Kingston ON, and somewhere else in the USA)

Now, why they had to mount it with the back facing up escapes me, they look better outside side out, in my opinion!

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

Ten years ago, I was visiting my son in Australia. He lives outside Darwin near a place called Humpty Doo and the subject of the photos was on private property at the side of the road, near where my son was living. I can't find it on Google street view, but I'm either looking in the wrong place or it's no longer there.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Jon Lawes on 09/10/2020 16:42:12:

While working in Colorado I was driving a mountainous route and found a random bridge span at the side of the road in a gorge. i think it was a span stood on its own, no route on it from either side. In the middle was an american steam locomotive with a tarpaulin over it, marooned. I never did find out the story. I'll try to find it.

*found it*

Bit of digging, it's the Cimarron Canyon Rail Exhibit on what's left of the Denver & Rio Grande (D&RG) Narrow Gauge Railroad. This stretch went from Gunnison via Cimmaron to Montrose.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Visit our iconic collection of artifacts online through the Google Street View captured from inside the museum.

**LINK**

https://www.thehenryford.org/virtual-visit-to-henry-ford-museum/

MichaelG.

[Gerard O’TooleParticipant @gerardotoole60348]

Once the largest telescope in existence here

[Alan VosParticipant @alanvos39612]

This turbine near Lynmouth **LINK**

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Followers of the Tallboy discussion might like this one: https://earth.app.goo.gl/ELsFkT #googleearth

Location grabbed from Post #4 : **LINK**

https://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/airfield-discussion/3068-tetney-tallboy

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 14/10/2020 18:25:15

[Alan VosParticipant @alanvos39612]

A larger steam hammer (Telford Services) **LINK**

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Gerard O'Toole on 14/10/2020 08:09:07:

Once the largest telescope in existence here

Lord Rosse discovered the spiral structure of some galaxies with it.

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by John Alexander Stewart on 09/10/2020 22:33:58:

And, if anyone wants to see what the back of a boxpok wheel casting looks like:

**LINK**

It's in front of a block of flats, on what was part of the Canadian Locomotive Companies' land; CLC built and exported locomotives all over the world; there's at least one in running condition somewhere in France/Switzerland (ex. SNCF141Rs were built in Montreal, Kingston ON, and somewhere else in the USA)

Now, why they had to mount it with the back facing up escapes me, they look better outside side out, in my opinion!

We I can definitely say we have bigger and better potholes in our roads here in the UK

[Gerard O’TooleParticipant @gerardotoole60348]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 14/10/2020 20:45:26:

Posted by Gerard O'Toole on 14/10/2020 08:09:07:

Once the largest telescope in existence here

Lord Rosse discovered the spiral structure of some galaxies with it.

Neil

If you look immediately north of the telescope you can see a hedge planted in a spiral to commemorate it. The castle still has a museum which also covers photography, by and the invention of the turbine

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