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Description: | Photograph taken from the tank behind the furnaces. In the foreground is an engine house which formerly contained a beam blowing engine; this engine, which dated from 1870, was dismantled a few years before the furnaces were blown out. The arrangement of the downcomers from the two furnaces, and the gas main across the line of boilers, is clear. The main leading from the engine house near the chimney stack is the cold blast main from the Lilleshall engine. There were originally 7 egg-ended external fired boilers, each 45ft. long by 7ft. diameter, but only three were left at the time of dismantling, and these were used as water tanks. The steam load had been taken latterly by 6 Lancashire boilers, each 30ft. by 9ft., all fired on crude blast furnace gas, a small coal fire being kept on the grates for safety purposes as usual. A plaque is just visible at the base of the chimney stack. It carried the legend "Erected in 1870 under the direction of/The Earl of Dudley's/chief mine agent Frederick Smith/ WJ JH". | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Dudley Public Libraries | Subjects: | Steel industry | Temporal: | [c1960s] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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