Calder Bank Mill, W. Yorkshire 04/11

[captain cave man]

Well myself and Mr Beady tried to hit the Brighouse swimming pool but too many peeps about and getting watched by the coach company reet next door didn't help :( Plan 'B'.....time to hit an old mill I've known about for years !
Most of this mill has now been converted but lucky some of the mill has not been touched, after bartering 3 goats and a ferret a business backing onto this site let us through his land and over the wall to our quarry wooot !

I have no info on this mill as yet (hope to update later) but we did find a nice old piece of kit !

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Part of the roof collapsed onto the compressor.

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a reet nice find !.

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[mr beardy]

nice little place that, will put mine up soon

[KingElvis]

Woah, that looks like a more modern style of beam engine, deffo what was used to power the mill via line shafting.

That's a nice find mate.

[coops]

This the mill we spotted from the bridge that time mate ?

[andym]

Interesting, doesn't look like a steam engine, and the flywheels are very small - maybe a stationary gas engine? I'm intrigued by all the pipes attached to it as well, must be some kind of pump for something or other.

[captain cave man]

reet its not a pump, the wheels were about 4 1/2 foot diameter there was a geni on it (so it's for making electwickewy) there is a big cylinder connected via the pipework, looking more close the Y pipe at the top had some form of filters attached to them as we found 2 monster filters on the floor which makes me think is also had a air compressor on as well !,the 'n' shaped pipe is some form of early water trap, strange but good contraption.....