Ellenroad Engine House - is the only surviving, complete working example of a genuine steam cotton-mill engine together with its original steam-raising plant. Inside the buildings, erected in 1892, are the 3000 horse-power steam engines Victoria and Alexandra, a coal-fired Lancashire boiler and other steam-powered artifacts. Here also is the"Whitelees" beam engine built in 1842 and demonstrated in steam at Ellenroad.
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