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Butterley Engineering constructed the wheel at Ripley in Derbyshire under Millennium Plans to reconnect the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal for recreational use.
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Butterley and Engineering
The company was latterley in three parts, Butterley Engineering, Butterley Brick and Butterley Aggregates ( all separate companies ).
In turn the Joint Venture appointed Butterley Engineering to design and construct the wheel.
Butterley and constructed
The Steam Horse was constructed by the Butterley Company in Derbyshire in 1813 by William Brunton ( 1777 – 1851 ).
Butterley and wheel
Butterley undertook all construction work for the wheel and set up its own team to carry out the design work.
Butterley and at
In 1795, Bejamin Outram opened the Little Eaton Gangway upon which coal was carried in wagons built at his Butterley Ironworks.
Cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company ironworks for the Cromford and High Peak Railway ( 1831 ).
William Chapman at the Butterley Company in 1812, attempted to use a steam engine which hauled itself along a cable, while, at the same company, Brunton had produced the even less successful " mechanical traveller ", or Steam Horse.
The plate rail was taken up by Benjamin Outram for wagonways serving his canals, manufacturing them at his Butterley ironworks.
Moreover, perennially short of money, they were dilatory in making decisions and providing funds, which caused Outram problems at his Butterley Works as he was having to refuse contracts, so that he could be ready to provide the canal with material, as and when it was authorised.
The Headquarters of the Derbyshire Constabulary is located on the outskirts of Ripley at Butterley Hall.
Butterley Reservoir situated at the north of the town at the bottom of Butterley Hill, has pairs of Great Crested Grebes, Coots, Moorhens and other birds to watch and platforms for anglers to use.
This would have been quite a small operation, along with another at Lower Birchwood, and it was not until the 18th century that iron working was expanded into major enterprises, centred on Riddings and Butterley in the south and south-east of the manor.
Another artistic production undertaken at this time was a 1972 collaboration between Humphries and the Australian composer Nigel Butterley.
He died at his home, Butterley Hall, on 18 November 1814.
* MCW archives at the Historical Model Railway Society, at Butterley in Derbyshire
The sign displayed at both ends of Butterley tunnel
The sign illustrated ( left ) was displayed at both ends of the Butterley tunnel, and stressed the importance of only using the narrow tunnel in any one direction at particular times.
The canal also carried limestone from the Butterley Company's quarry at Crich with a plateway to the Amber Wharf at Bullbridge.
Class 101 centre car 59303 is one of just three 101 centre vehicles remaining, seen here midway through restoration at the Midland Railway Butterley
Now preserved at the Midland Railway Butterley, it is being rebuilt back to a passenger vehicle.
In mid 2009, the original ex-Midland Railway Darley Dale footbridge was purchased from the Midland Heritage Railway at Butterley with an aim towards restoration and eventual repositioning at its original location at Darley Dale.
Butterley and Ripley
One of the earliest companies to take advantage of mineral resources around Ripley was the Butterley Company.
Ripley was also a mining community with collieries owned until the Coal Nationalization Act of 1947 by Butterley Company.
The area is grassed over and is the site of the original Ripley Colliery owned by Butterley Company and worked from 1863 until 1948.
The important features of this canal are the Derwent Viaduct, which was a single span viaduct carrying the canal over the River Derwent, and the Butterley Tunnel ( formerly the Ripley Tunnel ).
The Midland Railway – Butterley is a heritage railway, ( formerly known until 2004 as the Midland Railway Centre ), at Butterley, near Ripley in Derbyshire.
The Force Headquarters, near Ripley and close to the A38 road, is Butterley Hall, former residence of Benjamin Outram and once owned by the Butterley Company.
Butterley and Derbyshire
In 1790 Jessop founded, jointly with partners Benjamin Outram, Francis Beresford and John Wright, the Butterley Iron Works in Derbyshire to manufacture ( amongst other things ) cast-iron edge rails – a design Jessop had used successfully on a horse-drawn railway scheme for coal wagons between Nanpantan and Loughborough, Leicestershire ( 1789 ).
Although the intention was for what remained of the old awnings to be transferred to the Midland Railway-Butterley at Butterley in Derbyshire it proved impossible to save them.
Ironville in Derbyshire, England, was built about 1830 by the Butterley Company as a " model village " to house its workers.
* Riden, P. ( 1990 ) The Butterley Company 1790-1830, Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Society, 16, 2nd Ed., ISBN 0-946324-12-3
Butterley Company, Derbyshire
Butterley and under
Constructed under the premises of the Butterley Company is the 2966 yard long Butterley Tunnel for the Cromford Canal.
Butterley and Millennium
Recent major Butterley achievements were the design and construction of the Falkirk Wheel, a spectacular canal boat lift funded by the Millennium Commission and the Spinnaker Tower seen in Portsmouth Harbour as the focus of the Regeneration of Portsmouth Harbour.
Butterley and Canal
Sketch Map Showing Butterley Tunnel in Context with the Rest of the Cromford Canal
) The opening of the Nottingham Canal provided further water via the Butterley Reservoir, almost above Butterley Tunnel and on the summit level of the Cromford Canal.
Traffic suffered further decline when Butterley Tunnel on the neighbouring Cromford Canal had to be closed.
This became known as Hilt's Quarry, and the stone was transported down a steep wagonway, the Butterley Company Gangroad, to the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge.
This makes Brunton's idea seem more reasonable, given that the Butterley Company were faced with a gradient of 1 in 50 between its Limestone quarry at Crich to the Cromford Canal at Amber Wharf, some away.
Butterley and with
Nigel Butterley combined his penchant for international modernism with an own individual voice.
Together they produced First Day Covers, a collection of poems about suburbia – read in performance by Edna Everage – with accompanying music by Butterley.
In 1846 the mining beneath Wirksworth had reached such a depth that Meerbrook Sough was built, draining into the Derwent near Whatstandwell, which deprived both Arkwrights mill and the canal of water, leaving the latter with only that from Butterley Reservoir.
The line currently runs for from Hammersmith via Butterley, Swanwick Junction and Riddings to Ironville, there are plans to extend the line to Pye Bridge in the future, especially to interchange with train services on the Erewash Valley Line.
Outram became a leading advocate in the construction of tramways using L-section rails, which along with the wagons were manufactured at his Butterley Ironworks.
The waggons, built at Outram's Butterley works consisted of containers mounted loosely on a chassis, or tram, with four cast iron wheels.
It facilitated the opening of a number of new pits, for which branches were provided, along with a branch to the Butterley Company's works at Codnor Park.
* 7 March – Two prisoners, Peter Gibb and Archie Butterley, escape from the Melbourne Remand Centre with the help of prison officer Heather Parker.
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