MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Wendyf]

Not Pendle Cathy and no Stanley not Weets, we were over the border into Yorkshire.

[Stanley]

Nothing jumping out at me. I get the impression of mining/quarrying over there on the right.

[Wendyf]

Apologies, I lied, we were in Lancashire not Yorkshire. Some famous sisters walked that way from Yorkshire and a well used road runs along the ridge past that building.

This is me a bit further along our walk, look how I've shrunk! There is a clue hidden in this photo too.

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[Stanley]

Do we need to access a map of the Pennine Way?

[Gloria]

From Howarth to Wycollar?

[Wendyf]

That's right Gloria, we are on the Pendle Way heading out of Wycoller past Parson Lee Farm. From that point the path splits, one way to Haworth and the other way past Boulsworth and on to Caldwell. We follow that path for a while, over the magnificent Pennine Bridleway bridge over Turnhole Clough (which dwarfs little me) but leave it to head back down into Wycoller.
The building is what remains of the Herders Inn Stanley.

[Stanley]

Thanks Wendy, I don't know that country very well.

[plaques]

Herders Inn demolished / falling down, didn't know that. It had been empty for years but I thought someone had an idea for it. Never been on that road for ages too many speed merchants who 'know the road'??

[Tizer]

Is that stream man-made, from a mine adit or quarry perhaps? It has that look about it at the back of the photo.

[chinatyke]

I knew I should have known where it was! Those rocks below the Herders (enlarge the first photo) are known as Fosters Leap. There is a story to go with it, I think it was about a bloke called Foster Cunliffe who jumped the gap between the rocks and made it!
One of the girls in my class at Grammar School lived in The Herders. Sorry to hear it is derelict, I would have loved to live there.

[PanBiker]

Last time I was in The Herders would be 1974, it was still a functioning pub then and the local watering hole for our Denholme and District Motorcycle Club (DDMCC) Pennine Rally that year. We held it in the field next to the reservoir. I remember the walk back to the tent seemed a lot easier than the one to get to the pub.

[Wendyf]

I'm not sure the Herders is derelict, last time I took notice the building at the back had been renovated but not the pub. I wouldn't want to live close to that road China!

[Wendyf]

Is that stream man-made, from a mine adit or quarry perhaps? It has that look about it at the back of the photo.

Don't think so Tiz, it just comes downhill with some force. The recently bridge replaced an old stone bridge which was washed away in a storm.

[plaques]

Google street view of the Herders inn (June 2017), Grade 2 listed building. It had been empty for 10 years work going on for a private dwelling but the pub is still empty.

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[chinatyke]

Thanks plaques.
Wendy, I'm surprised the road is busy. We used to ride over to Howarth on our bikes. Last time I visited England I took my wife over that road and she still says it was scary because we were in the clouds! We visited a furniture place in an old house nearer Howarth and then went to the Bronte museum because she knew about the Bronte sisters. She loved Howarth.

[Stanley]

I can't remember my source, I'd have to look it up but Billycock Bracewell was a regular visitor to the Herders where he is reported to have indulged in cock-fighting and various other nefarious activities.

[Stanley]

Source was verbal, Stephen Pickles shortly before he died.



Can anyone tell me what the purpose of this lathe attachment is and what's it called?

[Gloria]

No, don't know.

[PanBiker]

No idea.

[Tizer]

No, we need another lathe nerd to tell us!

[plaques]

Just looking at it, called observation in scientific terms, the tool post appears to be hiding some kind of profile template which when you pull on the lever to the right the tool will follow the said profile as it traverses along. In engineering terms called a 'thingy'. Some lathes used hydraulics to get the same motion but now you would need a computer, stepper motors, and a PhD in programming. KISS. ?

[Stanley]

Sorry it's so difficult but P is spot on with his analysis. This is the 19th century equivalent of a modern CNC machine but was made at home in his shed by Johnny to use on this lathe. I'll come clean tomorrow I promise but in the meantime look at it and try to work out what could be done with it. Clue, this is an ornamental turning lathe.

[Gloria]

For turning barley sugar legs on furniture?

[Marilyn]

I have no idea what I am looking at...but... ...I agree with Gloria.

[Stanley]

Well done Gloria, that isn't its sole function but it can certainly do that. The correct name is it is an Ornamental Slide Turning Rest. Made by Jonny Pickles, like the lathe, it is one of the basic essentials for true ornamental turning. Using this you can do many operations and when combined with different very complicated chucks can work miracles. Manual CNC just as P suggested.



All this is done using ornamental turning.