Victorian Industrial Chimney construction reference

[ColHut]

As matters of Chimney construction pop up from time to time the following may be of interest. published 1885. (And long out of copyright).

 

Tall chimney construction. A practical treatise on the construction of tall chimney shafts ... in brick, stone, iron and concrete  By Bancroft and Bancroft (Manchester, 1885)

 

available at internet archive.

 

https://ia600402.us.archive.org/22/items/cu31924005018282/cu31924005018282.pdf

 

 

Full details of height batter etc etc.

 

regards

[BG John]

Oh no! I suppose that means I'll have to do the one I'm planning properly!

[teaky]

Possibly not.  There is an example in there of a chimney that took so long to build that it developed a cant of almost four feet due to the weather preventing the mortar on one side from drying.  The solution would appear to have resulted in a chimney with a different number of rows of bricks depending on the angle you view it from.

[ColHut]

I had no idea they were called "stalks"' or that they ought be a minimum in many towns of 90' tall.

 

Options on round square or octagonal.

 

The way they straightened them was extrordinary.

 

That Scottish Chimney 460' tall by Townsend must have been something to see.

 

Regards.

[Arthur]

 

I've been looking for information on factory chimney recently so this will be very useful, thanks for posting the link.

 

Whilst looking I came across prototype chimneys 1000' tall, that'd be 4 metres in 4mm which helps put them into perspective.

[allan downes]

In the the model railway world anything higher than a house shouldn't be built to scale otherwise your layout would be dwarfed by trees and chimneys !

[HeeleyBridge]

In the the model railway world anything higher than a house shouldn't be built to scale otherwise your layout would be dwarfed by trees and chimneys !

 

Must tell Ron Heggs that one  http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/28293-manchester-central-clc-gn-warehouses-castlefield-viaducts/

[Grovenor]

i do like this bit

 

to the perpendicular and finished Mr. Townsend invited
the public to go to the top, and thousands availed themselves
of the opportunity. Parties of two at a time were sent up on a
small platform without sides, and having at a convenient height
a circular cross-bar, on each side of which one person stood and
held on. It was quite dark from the time of leaving the ground
until emerging through the hatch at the top. There were
always four at the top and two going up ; when they arrived
two came down to make room. The machinery used for hoisting
visitors and materials was driven by friction gearing, an
ordinary strong rope being employed.
Between 200 and 300 persons were sometimes waiting at
the base of the shaft, so great was the rage to mount the
monster " lum," and many waited half a day before ascending.

Regards

[Perthshireman]

what an absolutely fascinating read. I don't know how you found it, but thanks for posting it. I must admit to suffering sweaty palms at times! I liked the final entry about the meal being served to the workmen at the top of the chimney. Those three women were much braver than me - even if I'd made it to the top (extremely unlikely) I would have been paralysed with fear. (Although I suspect that my bowels would have suffered the exact opposite!)

[allan downes]

WHAT a model maker !!!

 

Ron Heggs' station canopy is an absolute marvel in platic construction and I doubt very much that anyone could possibly even come close to this man's standards, skills and integrity let alone better them.

 

A legend in the making - if indeed he isn't one already.