Report - Butterley Engineering - Ripley September 2018

[bmichelle]

This explore was last year before I made an account on here, once again some kinda crappy iPhone pictures as I didn’t have my camera. It was a nice little explore, pretty empty but the few bits left were cool.

Stolen History again:

The Butterley Company was an English manufacturing firm founded as Benjamin Outram and Company in 1790. Portions of it existed until 2009.
Notable patents were taken out by the company's manager, Sir John Alleyne. In December 1859 Alleyne patented a method of producing a load-bearing iron beam known as the Butterley Bulb, used in many early iron steam ships including HMS Warrior In 1861 Alleyne patented a method that allowed hot ingots to be moved around a roller after they had passed by just one person. During the production of steel sections the bar has to be repeatedly put through rollers. Allowing this to happen using just one person was a substantial increase in productivity. By 1863 the company was rolling the largest masses of iron of any foundry in the country. Among its most famous buildings are the Barlow train shed at St. Pancras in London which included 240-foot spans.

 

[Yorrick]

Good to see it's still there, the fire last year doesn't seem to have done too much damage.

 

[bmichelle]

Good to see it's still there, the fire last year doesn't seem to have done too much damage.

Yeah it didn’t do too much damage, there was still old paperwork in quite a lot of the rooms which was nice

 

[Bugsuperstar]

I like it. That place looks great. Good report!