MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Tizer]

It's a Queen Mary trailer carrying the fuselage of a Boulton Paul Defiant and I think it's at the RAF Hendon Museum. You can always spot a Defiant from the dorsal turret shape. (Sorry if I've spoilt it for everyone else!)

[Stanley]

Spot on. you're not sorry at all....... Next one?

[Tizer]

What's special about all these?

[chinatyke]

Jelly moulds or DESERT dishes.

Perhaps they can't spell dessert dishes?

[StoneRoad]

The lower shelf is the things you used to use to squeeze lemons or oranges for the juice, the one I have has a row of spikes to catch the pips ...

I think they are made out of coloured bakelite

[plaques]

Were they made from bakelite . Seem to remember your visit to a museum.

[Stanley]

Bakelite was the first thing that struck me also......

[Tizer]

Well done, you are all right! I wondered whether you'd remember my visit to the Bakelite Museum at Williton.
OK, who's next?

[Stanley]

Try this one.....

[Tizer]

It's an anti-GRU device. You fix it onto a hole in your front door so you can slide open the spy hole and check they aren't spraying novichok on the door.

On the other hand it might be a small-scale model of the Brexit Hole through which we will all have to pass in order to leave the EU.

[Stanley]

Curses, you have a good memory Tiz. Quite right early peep holes and from the design I'd say about the 1930s.
Next one?

[Stanley]

Try this oldie, it looks like a prototype for a Star Trek starship but has a more down to earth use.

[Gloria]

Soldering iron, I think.

[Big Kev]

Car battery voltage tester.

[Stanley]

Sorry Gloria, Kev has it. I shall have to be more imaginative!

[Stanley]

Can anyone tell me what is interesting about this beast?

[Gloria]

Australian Friesian sahiwal?

[plaques]

Don't want to spoil it but it was a bloody good swimmer.

[Stanley]

Good lad P. Follow his lead, he's on the right course.

[Wendyf]

I was distracted by the background scenery as it didn't look local, so I went looking for an Australian breed as Gloria did. It must be Buttercup then!

[Stanley]

Wendy has it as well. Here's a bit of a clue for those who have been baffled.

[Stanley]

Try another cow.....

[chinatyke]

Even I recognise that one! Is that Bolton Priory in the left background?

[Stanley]

Yes China but let's see how many get it......

[Gloria]

Largest cow ever exhibited in Britain and bred by Duke of Devonshire.....the Craven Heifer Cow??