Jubilee Mill Disaster, Clitheroe

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iBase ID

272056

Reference identifier

ECL20150402003

Title

Jubilee Mill Disaster, Clitheroe

Place

Clitheroe

General notes

On Tues 24 Apr 1906, the engine at Jubilee Mill over-ran causing the flywheel and driving wheel to explode killing two men, injuring others and causing great damage to the mill. The photo looks across the top of the weaving sheds to show the badly damaged engine house.

The two men killed were an engineer Hammond Dawson and Boilerman Thomas Penny. They were instantly killed and the driving wheel and a mass of iron blew into the weaving shed causing six weavers to require medical attention. Some people also fainted due to shock. Jubilee Mill was a cotton weaving mill with 1200 looms at the time of the accident. Textile manufacturing carried on at the mill till 1966. There is no longer a chimney at the site, with the former weaving sheds occupied by a clothing company.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

13.18 x 18.13

Year of image

1906

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Locator

Clitheroe Cabinets C25

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