No visit to a museum like Markfield is complete without seeing the machine fully working.
Note how getting a machine like this going, isn’t just a simple matter of flicking a switch, but often involves quite a bit of physical work and gentle coaxing.
August 29, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Engineering, Museum, Tottenham, Video
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
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These Engines are amazing . . .
In 1994 I was working at Bundaberg for a Tate & Lyle {UK} Sugar Mill {Milliquin Mill next to Bundaberg Rum Distillary} . . .
The Sugar Cane Crushers were run by Steam with Massive Fly wheels {probably 10 ft dia} and the first sight of a line of Big Crushers with large fly wheels spinning was a sight to behold . . .
A visit to any Museum to see Beam Engines should be a must for Engineers & Technocrats
Comment by Steam Lover | August 30, 2011 |
This engine is only a small one compared to those at Crossness. But it is extremely well preserved, as it was used until the 1960s and then it was mothballed and bricked up, hopefully so it could be opened as a museum.
This has now happened and it’s all free although they like donations. But it has a good cafe and sits in a public park, by the River Lea, which was London’s industrial river. It’s only about seven minutes walk from the riots.
Comment by AnonW | August 30, 2011 |