Jubilee Mill After the Accident, Clitheroe

Jubilee Mill After the Accident, Clitheroe
Jubilee Mill After the Accident, Clitheroe
Jubilee Mill After the Accident, Clitheroe
iBase ID
272064
Reference identifier
ECL20150402011
Title
Jubilee Mill After the Accident, 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 shows the south side of the shed looking across the small mill pond behind the mill.

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.

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 former weaving sheds occupied by a clothing company.
Medium
Photographic print
Colour
Monochrome
Original image size
10.58 x 15.64
Locator
Clitheroe Cabinet C25
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