MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Gloria]

I want a detailed description of how it works.

[Tizer]

Part of a gate hinge? There's a rod from the gate coming in from the right, into an eye on the top of a vertical rod which rotates as the gate is opened and closed?

[Gloria]

Nearly there, but what function does it perform?

[Big Kev]

Does it allow the gate to open in either direction and uses gravity to put the gate back to a central position? The hinges would be able to slide up and down on their pins to allow the vertical movement.

[Gloria]

Well done Kev.
It is on a gate to the rear of St Marys Church, Eccleston. The gate rises as it opens, and automatically closes.
Never seen one before like this.

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[Stanley]

Well done Kev. That was a good one Gloria, and very unusual. The same function as a 'rising butt hinge'.

[Stanley]

Can anyone tell me anything about these ladies?

[Steeplejerk]

Radio sound effects girls ??

[Wendyf]

Spam, spam, spam.......

[PanBiker]

Well they are all percussionists of one instrument or another.

[plaques]

Barlick rugby league eleven?

[PanBiker]

Anything to do with the Ivy Benson Band?

[Big Kev]

The rythmn section of an all female big band? 1940s?

[Big Kev]

Spam, spam, spam.......

Dressed in women's clothing and hanging around in bars?

[Stanley]

Well done Ma'am! Now you might as well tell them the whole story.......
That's a clever link Kev and pertinent but not quite the answer to the question.

[Tripps]

Spam, spam, spam......

I don't get why, but it had to be the answer. In a similar way to when there is a multiple choice question in a TV quiz, the one that looks as if it wouldn't be there unless it was the right answer, very often is the right answer.

[Wendyf]

I suppose I have to confess that I cheated, but only when no one seemed to be coming up with an answer!
The Spammettes, making Spam glamourous after the war. ☺

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/h ... rmel-girls

[chinatyke]

More like a witches coven, enough to put you off spam for life!

[Stanley]

You are forgiven Ma'am. Martha and Roger took me to the Hormel Spam Museum in Austin Minnesota and that was where I learned about the Spamettes. One of the exhibits was a video of The Flying Circus singing Spam, Spam ,Spam which I thought was brave of them. I congratulated the lady in charge but told her I was disappointed that there wasn't a fried Spam butty on sale.....
Next for shaving?

[Wendyf]

One of our regular school dinners in primary school was battered spam, I loved it.

[Stanley]

I've decided to get a tin and have a fried spam butty! I know.... but I'm feeling nostalgic!

[Big Kev]

I've decided to get a tin and have a fried spam butty! I know.... but I'm feeling nostalgic!

The chip shop where I lived 'darn sarf' served spam in batter, I loved them.

Fried spam with fried eggs is a delicacy I've not experienced for a while, I may have to change that very soon and the carb content is relatively low...

[Tizer]

I kept quiet because I knew the answer but I was tempted to write "I don't know who they are but the one on the right has big maracas!".

[StoneRoad]

Battered spam fritters was something of a speciality on one of the chippies in my misspent youth. I've gone all nostalgic ...

[Stanley]

I wrote an article for the BET on Spam yesterday..... Judging by the response on here it will hit the target....
Try this one....



Can anyone tell me what the wartime nickname for these trailers was?