MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

I see no rush of replies!

[Cathy]

Is it to do with aircraft?

[Stanley]

Sorry Cathy but no. The shape is the biggest clue....

[Steeplejerk]

Looks like a pressurised bleach kier ?

[Stanley]

Same type of construction but no Tom, that's not what this one is.

[Gloria]

Thought at first it was something off a jump jet, but then thought a vat of some sort.

[Stanley]

Sorry Gloria, no, but I can see what your thinking was and that's on the right track.

[Gloria]

Is it for propelling something?

[Stanley]

No. it's a vessel for processing something very aggressive.

[Stanley]

You all need a clue.... It's a small version of the real thing being made for a museum. Think steel-making.

[Gloria]

A Bessemer furnace?

[Stanley]

A Bessemer Converter actually Gloria but you have certainly got it. Well done!
Now we need the next one.......

[Tripps]

What a strange thing memory is.

I posted that two days ago. Is it coincidence or targetting that Google has pointed me to this article today?

The man who remembered everything

I suspect happenstance rather than coincidence - but it's an interesting article anyway.

[Stanley]

When I was a lad David, one of my friends had a memory like that. As an example, we used to play a card game called Bezique which uses two packs of cards. The game was played once and then a second time without shuffling the cards. Tony always won because he could remember the order the 104 cards were in.
Despite bad health this gift served him well at school and he ended up in London submitting a doctoral thesis on proteins which focussed on the fact that it was quite difficult to decide whether they were alive or not. He had to wait for about five years for the thesis to be assessed because nobody understood it. He got his doctorate and it transpired that what he had done was predict preons before anyone knew they existed. (At least that's my understanding of it. Very important in BSE evidently.)
My point being that despite having what seemed to be a wonderful gift he didn't see it that way. He reckoned it was a curse and ruined his life.
(I think that was off piste!)

[Stanley]

Can anyone tell me where it is and what's special about it?

[Tizer]

Is it the back end of the Hoover Dam showing the falling waterline due to lack of rain?

[Stanley]

Sorry Peter no To The Hoover Dam but you're right about low water levels.....

[Stanley]

A clue.... think Dams but this one is British.

[Steeplejerk]

Is it wales ??

[PanBiker]

Is it the head water for the Dinorwig power station?

[Tripps]

Is it Thirlmere?

[Stanley]

David is closest, It serves the same city David.
I did the pics in 1975 which was a drought year and water levels were exceptionally low.

[Tripps]

Haweswater then?

I must admit I am qute ignorant about both as reservoirs for Manchester. I also knew nothing about the aqueduct which I am surprised to find terminates at Heaton Park.

[Wendyf]

I learnt about the aqueduct when I was researching someone's family history. I first picked up her gt grandfather in the 1891 census living near Grasmere, obviously in some sort camp with a number of men described as 'navvies working on waterworks'. This turned out to be the aqueduct to Manchester. In 1901 the family is living in some sort of encampment at Greenhow near Pateley Bridge, and their children are then baptised in various places following the course of the Nidd Aqueduct which served Bradford. Sadly he ended up in Skipton Workhouse and the family settled briefly in Earby before heading out to Australia.

[Stanley]

Correct David. It's Haweswater in 1976 when water levels dropped until parts of Mardale Village were once more above the surface. It was drowned when the reservoir was created to supply water to Manchester.
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