[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by rivetlad

I would guess the Lang Bridge diagonal steam engine at Bolton Steam Museum was built circa 1890.

Lang Bridges was still operating from Paradise St, in 1890, according to Mike Rothwell they made iron bedsteads, kitchen ranges, ironmongery, calico printing machinery, and tinplate work for Howard & Bulloughs. They moved to Exchange St in 1905.
Is Lang Bridges name actually cast into parts of that steam engine, or on a separate plate.
Once down in London in a museum, saw an old Metz fire engine, that was bought by Accrington Corporation, It was labled as belonging to Nelson Fire Station.
When I spoke the curator he brought out the paper work & log books, he said I was the 2nd person to comment on it, John Kelly had been in some weeks before. On examining the documents he said he would have a new sign made for the display.
Blackburn Museum used to have a display of WW1 weapons, many of those were wrongly named.
They have now been removed to Fulwood.
Retlaw.