Anson Engine Museum

[citation needed] The museum site also includes a working blacksmith's smithy and carpentry shop and a café.

Coal is found outcropping to the east of Towers Road, Poynton which corresponds to the line of the Red Rock Fault; that is at the surface.

The earliest record to be found is a lease dated 28 February 1589, which talks of the "Coal pit at Wourthe lately occupied by George Finche".

In the later 18th century, the Warrens of Poynton co-operated with the Leghs of Lyme to work the Cannel and Sheepwash seams at Norbury Hollow.

[2] The Poynton Colleries were substantial, and the coal rights were held by the Warren family who leased them the Wrights and the Claytons.

The museum is the result of years of work by Les Cawley and Geoff Challinor who began collecting and showing stationary engines for a hobby.

For many years it opened only on odd days and times to suit their hobby and the small number of visitors that dropped in to see the collection.

In July 2002 Les Cawley died and Geoff Challinor dedicated himself to making the museum into an attraction that would bring visitors from around the world.

Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day, in Hazel Grove, concentrated on developing the light and heavy oil diesel engine and L Gardner & Sons of Patricroft become known the world over for their role in bringing the small high-speed, quality diesel engines to the industrial and marine markets and Crossley Brothers in Openshaw took up Nicolaus Otto and Langen patents.