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Description: | Textiles, heavy engineering and coal mining, plus light industry are covered through wide-ranging collection of tools, equipment, machinery and other artefacts. The main parts of the textile collection dates from the late 19th to early 20th century and relates to the cotton industry. A Steam-driven, horizontal four-cylinder triple expansion mill engine is preserved in working order in situ at Trencherfield Mill. Other equipment includes 12 cotton processing machines, 4 power looms and various yarn testing equipment. The silk industry is represented by 19th century objects ranging from a hand spinning wheel to c.600 silk patterns and c.46 volumes of silk samples.
The coal mining collections generally relate to the former Astley Green Colliery site and include the large structures (the engine house and head gear, together with the winding engine and associated machinery) and smaller items of mining equipment including lamps, hand tools, surveying equipment and winding engine control gear. Astley Green Colliery Museum is operated by the Red Rose Steam Society and subject to a lease with Wigan MBC (see separate record for Astley Green Colliery Museum.
Local heavy engineering includes equipment and products such as hand tools, bolt making and foundry equipment. There is also the steam hammer from Ince Forge and items made by Walker Brothers including a mobile crane, steam powered gas compression engine and electrically driven compressor. Other local crafts and trades include products and machinery related to shoe-making, food production, drug manufacture, brewing, tinsmithing, clogging, clock making, pewter making, glass making and joinery. | Subjects: | Science & Industry | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Wigan Pier
Wigan,
WN3 4EU | FAX: | 01942 701 927 | Telephone: | 01942 323 666 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2024 | Go to resource |
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