John Henry Tattersall (1844-1905), Consulting engineer to Joseph Foster and Sons and John Petrie and Co and other companies for the design of beam engines for textile mills.
1844 Born at Haslingden the son of Ellis Tattersall, a Cotton Weaver.
1861 Living at Long Holme, Newchurch, cotton weaver, with his parents and siblings.[1]
1871 Living at James Street, Salford, Engine driver in Cotton Mill, with wife and three children.[2]
1881 Living at 16 Lauderdale Street, Preston: John H. Tattersall (age 37 born Haslingden), Boiler Inspector. With his wife Mary, sons Hedley, Herbert and Stevenson and daughter Annie.[3]
1891 Living at 70 Lauderdale Street, Preston: John H. Tattersall (age 47 born Haslingden), Consulting Engineer Mechanical. With his wife Mary Tattersall (age 46 born Bury) and daughter Anne and son Stevenson.[4]
1901 Living at 70 Lauderdale Street, Preston: John H. Tattersall (age 57 born Haslingden), Consulting Engineer on Own Account. With his wife Mary Tattersall (age 56 born Bury) and their son Stevenson Tattersall (age 22 born Preston) Engineering Draughtsman on Own Account.[5]
Buckley and Taylor of Oldham built a number of large beam engines to Tattersall's design. A photo of one of these, an 1100 HP engine at the CWS Daisyfield Mill in Bury, shows 'J. H. Tattersall Engineer Preston' cast into the main beam, but it was in fact built by Buckley & Taylor (1903). Tattersall also design the mill's boilers, which were built by Taylor of Marsden[6]
c.1898 J H Tattersall designed a particularly impressive 2400 HP beam engine for Nile Mill, Hollinwood. This was a double engine, of the triple expansion type, each beam being driven by a high pressure, intermediate, and low pressure cylinder with diameters of 32", 38" and 52"[7]
1905 March 18th. Died.
See article on his life in 'The Flywheel' (Northern Mill Engine Society) by Dave Collier April 2021