INDIA
 GOKAK COTTON MILLS, BANGALORE, 
Seringapatam, Mysore. 

GEORGE  BULLOUGH  –  WORLD  TOUR  1892-1895

Written  and  illustrated  from  first-hand  research  by  

George  W.  Randall, co-founder in July 1996 and former Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends' Association. 

(Article  7  of   28)

Time of visit:

November / December 1892

George Bullough (left) and Robert Mitchell, (pictured here by a giant rubber tree in Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, near Kandy, Ceylon), continue their world tour visiting the British military station of Bangalore before heading the eighty miles south-west by train  to Seringapatam, the scene of the decisive battle in 1799 between Tipu Sultan and a combined force of the East India Company. They then headed thirty miles south to Mysore situated by the  1,500 foot peak of 

Chamnudi Hill, where they admired the fine buildings including the Maharajah's palace.

Heading north-east they returned the one hundred miles to Bangalore before catching the train to Gokak-road Station, a distance of 410 miles. 
Then by bullock gharry the remaining four miles to the bungalow of their host, Mr. Joseph Kerr, manager of Gokak Mill.

Image: George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive.

Established in 1885 Gokak Mill was managed by forty-one year old Joseph Kerr,

a Scottish born trained mechanical engineer, who had previously held important

positions in numerous Lancashire mills.

Designed and constructed by hydraulic engineer Robert Batson Joyner, 

C.I.E., M.Ins.C.E., F.R.G.S., Gokak Mill was equipped with Howard and Bullough machinery manufactured by George Bullough’s company, 

Howard and Bullough, Limited, Cotton Machinery Manufacturers,

 Globe Works, Accrington, Lancashire, England.

From: Our Company History  -  Gokak Textiles Website 2019

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ARTICLE 7 (OF TWENTY-EIGHT) RECOUNTING GEORGE BULLOUGH'S GRAND WORLD TOUR 1892-1895, 

WRITTEN BY HIS TRAVELLING COMPANION, 

ROBERT MITCHELL AND PUBLISHED IN THEIR LOCAL NEWSPAPER, 

THE ACCRINGTON GAZETTE, ON 13 JUNE 1896. 

Transcribed word for word from the published article by George W. Randall. 

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GENERAL VIEW OF GOKAK
Album II  *  Image 8  *  Reduced from full size 11 x 9 inches 
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GOKAK MILL OPERATIONS

Album II  *  Image 11  *  Enlarged portion from full size 11 x 9 inches

 (George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive ©)

Gokak Mill manager, Joseph Kerr, stands beside loaded bullock cart 

of cotton bales marked with the diamond logo of the Gokak Mill Company. 

The aerial power cable is clearly visible.

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GOKAK MILL SHOWING STAIRWAY AND PERPENDICULAR
180 FOOT PIPE TAKING THE WATER TO THE TURBINE HOUSE. 
(GWR ARCHIVE © Much enlarged sections from Image 10 Album II)

 (George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive © )

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Bangalore region of India.

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ORIGINALLY POSTED FRIDAY 22 DECEMBER 2017   
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL 14 OCTOBER 2021 BY GEORGE W. RANDALL

Copyright  ©  George  W.  Randall  Research and Photographic Archive.

All sources are gratefully acknowledged.

 George W. Randall Research Archive

Reviewed 7 April 2024 by the author.