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Ellenroad Steam Museum Society

Art & Culture

We intend to rebuild a stationary steam engine built in 1860 for public display. Money will be spent on parts and contractors.

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About this cause

The Museum Society maintains the Ellenroad Engine House at Milnrow together with the historic engines and machinery. It operates the museum and opens to the public in order to educate the local community about the Heritage of the Rochdale Area. The objectives of the society are to preserve the engine house and contents and to educate the local people about their heritage. The Engine house is a Scheduled National Historic Monument but does nor receive any local or national government funding to maintain the facility. The Society is entirely voluntary and the main source of income is from the public who are charged admission to the monthly steaming's. The Engine house includes the World's Largest working Steam Mill Engine, and the Whitelees beam engine from the factory in Littleborough.

How this cause brings people in the community together

The Ellenroad Steam Museum opens to the public demonstrating historic steam mill engines working by steam. This enables the local community to access the important heritage of the area. This includes the history of the textiles industry and how local people and their ancestors worked in the industry together with the engineering heritage that built much of the textile machinery of the world.