A Photo Thread About Boilers & Boiler Rooms

[mookster]

One subject curiously missing from this photo threads sub-forum. I'm a big fan of boiler rooms and boilers in abandoned locations, it would seem that every medium-sized and upward place has one somewhere to provide heat and they sometimes are one of the only things left in place if somewhere is stripped.

The gorgeous brick-encased boilers are my personal favourites however I'll pretty much take any and all that come my way.

Have some boilers from over the years, this is just a selection of some of the ones I have shot and the ones that immediately sprung to my mind when typing this out - hopefully many more of you have some to add as well.

 

[HughieD]

Boilers? Now you're talking...

 

[HughieD]

These two get joint 1st prize for best old rusty boiler - the first is at Don Saw mills in Sheffield, the second at Linthwaite Mill, Huddersfield

 

[Terminal Decline]

Good idea @mookster, love a good boiler, whether it be an early hand-stoked Lancashire or Cornish type with lots of brass and thick glass gauges, large chain-grate, or the more recent oil fired ones. I've seen a fair few over the years, most of them included here:

Starting off with the fantastic upright boiler at St. Joes, what I imagine must be a very rare survival these days

Lancashire boilers converted to water tanks and covered in asbestos at Hartford Mill

International Combustion chain-grate boilers at Tullis Russell power station

The much less exiting boiler house at Lostock, originally oil-fired but later converted to coal

A nice oil-fired boiler by Ruston & Hornsby, built in 1965

Another vintage oil-fired boiler with nice control panel

The dull, characterless modern equivalent

A typical small-scale old boiler, used to heat a cinema at an airfield

Finally a few battered old boilers in Cornwall's clay country

Old Cornish boiler partly cut up for scrap in its original location. Note the sand between the inner and outer layers

The small end section of a Lancashire boiler, the boiler would have originally come up to the wall on the left

 

[Baggy trousers]

One from Milford mill in Belper sorry for the quality of the image, left the tripod in the car!

 

[stellaluna]

A couple of nicely housed boilers at Our Lady’s Mental Hospital, Ennis

 

[mookster]

A few from my American adventures. I've got a distinct lack of boiler shots from over there.

 

[Alley]

Oldham Hospital

GEC Alsthom, Kidsgrove

Royal Doulton Pottery, Burslem

 

[HughieD]

Very high quality of boilerage on here.

Here's my "Best Bijou Boiler". It's the boiler at the lido at Hayfield, Derbyshire:

 

[TheTimeChamber]

@mookster - where are shots 6&7 from? I love a good boiler room

 

[mookster]

@mookster - where are shots 6&7 from? I love a good boiler room

6 was Radford Mills in Nottingham, the boiler room there was rarely open and I got really lucky that day as it was by far the best part, 7 is East Fortune Hospital up in Scotland, again the boiler room is the best part ha.

 

[TheTimeChamber]

They're lovely, proper old coal boilers

 

[Mr Sam]

 

[Grom]

This is the only boiler I've seen during the lockdown period.

 

[mingerocket]

Milford Mill a few years ago, I must head back to this place