A ghost sign in Audenshaw, the Bolton Steam Museum and a thank you to Ron

Now here’s another ghost sign.

The once busy works of Scott & Hodgson 

It was found by Ron who says “its hard to discern now but reads Scott & Hodgson Engineers Ltd. 

These premises are in Audenshaw alongside Guide Bridge Station. 

A superb photograph of this location can be found in the Booklaw/Foxline publication - Steam Over Woodhead by E.M.Johnson (p.86). 

There is a fine example of a Scott & Hodgson Engine in a leaflet from the Bolton Museum.”

That 1914 machine on display at Bolton Museum

Scott & Hodgson Ltd, made stationary steam engines at their works and at least one example of a machine they built can be seen Bolton Steam Museum.

This was a 1914  “inverted vertical compound engine with Corliss valve gear made for  Hardman and Ingham's Diamond Rope Works, at Royton.”

Scott & Hodgson were taken over in 1938, by J & E Arnfield Ltd, makers of Mono-Pumps.

All of which just goes to show there is always a story behind every ghost sign.

Picture; Scott & Hodgson Engineers Ltd, in Audenshaw, 2014, courtesy of Ron Stubley and their 1914 machine  courtesy of the Bolton Steam Museum

*The Bolton Steam Museum, http://www.nmes.org/