Just before I was involved in the early stages of the restoration of the Astley Green colliery winder, the restoration group visited Askern to recover some parts from the Askern engines, which were being scrapped to replace some of the parts of the Astley engine which were felt to be extremely badly pitted and would not clean up - primarily the valve gear operating links. Several documents were also recovered - one being the steam engine operating manual. The Askern engines were almost identical to the Astely No.1, the HP cylinders being 1inch larger, but having continued in use longer, the installations at the time of scrapping were somewhat different.
I think I've posted all the non-text pages, but will have to check, my copies are rather buried by slate and other IA type papers!
Grahami
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The map is the territory - especially in chain scale.