65 - Walking the Steam Factories of Lincoln

On a visit to Lincoln I thought I'd have a walk around the original factory sites for the four big traction engine manufacturers in Lincoln
- Clayton and Shuttleworth
- Foster
- Ruston
- Robey

It's a thoroughly poorly researched video, so please pull it apart in the comments.

It's a video pulled together at short notice, poorly researched, and badly filmed. Enjoy.

[sirbrian]

Lincoln crank were in operation in steam days, probably suppliers to Traction engine manufacturers. I'm sure I've read references to them in books.
Lincoln has numerous Victorian buildings that are standing derelict and decaying. I visited there a few months back.
There's some murals/posters painted on the wall at the back of the railway station covering the manufacturing history. The museum of Lincolnshire life has a good collection of steam engines and products of Lincoln. This museum is on the top of Lincoln away from the centre. Thanks for taking us on this mini tour of places, whose history we are all proud of.

[williambinions]

Brilliant video. It would be fantastic if at some stage in the future if you were to do follow up videos on the present former sites of other steam engine manufacturers around England. It would be epic to see these as well

[Dave.w-evqn]

Not ramblings Dan, that was very interesting! Not seen any of those traction engine manufacturers building before.
It is a great pity that some of these building can’t be repurposed in some was to remind people what went on in there area years ago.
Unfortunately I could tell the same story’s hear in cornwall.
Like holman’s brothers of Camborne, once employed over three and half thousand people building mining equipment shipped all over the world.
Little to see now in camborne of the three sites they occupied.
Hope you do more of this type of video 👍

[vbmwboy]

Great bit of history you are documenting there mate. Sir Isaac Newton once said “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” this seems to be a sentiment that is lost on modern governance. Thanks for the mention too 👍🏻 Nick R

[User]

A very interesting video! Thank you for sharing

[markloving]

That large Firth road open site was only demolished a few years back. It was a giant factory building branded with large white RUSTON name on the tritton road end of the building. It’s such a shame that it wasn’t saved

[markloving]

Damn! I wish I’d known you were here!

[PhoneVidoes]

Unfortunately life and progress moves on, Councils can barely afford to keep the bare essential services going let alone trying to preserve buildings that really have long since stopped being used fior what they were orginally built for. There is still a large amount of preserved stuff I feel around the country, at the end of the day you cant save everything or the whole of the country would end up being just one massive museum LOL

[andrewbowman]

Sadly the steam enthusiast is a very small minority and the majority of the people in Lincoln now won't have a clue about any of the companies, likewise the council, unfortunately the majority of buildings are no longer fit for purpose and it's cheaper to demolish and start again, especially with the potential for asbestos in the existing buildings.
It's not just Lincoln, Carlisle, my home city was home to Cowans Sheldon (crane makers to the world) and with the exception of a pub opposite what was their works there is no references to them at all.