MYSTERY OBJECTS

[PanBiker]

I reckon it's a blasting job on a chimney or factory or whatever. The bloke looks to be wiring up the electrical firing mechanism.

[Gloria]

Crikey that’s made my guess look off the wall.

[Big Kev]

I thought they had just nicked the battery out of the Ford Escort Estate

[chinatyke]

The chap on the right, haven't we seen him somewhere before? Must look through the steeplejack thread.

[plaques]

The chap on the right, haven't we seen him somewhere before? Must look through the steeplejack thread.

Is the chap Robert Aram, the man who collects chimneys.? Or in this case bits of chimneys.

[Stanley]

You're all very good! Yes, Ian is right it's a blow down and yes, that's Robert.



Dee Mill at Shaw, summer 1986. Mervyn Simpson is the shot-firer, the man on his knees.
Next one?

[Stanley]

What and where?

[Tizer]

The what is terracotta ornamental parakeets but I don't know the where. There are so many real ones in London it could be there, but alternatively lots of other places.

[Big Kev]

Manchester.

[Stanley]

But where?

[Big Kev]

John Street

http://www.theskyliner.org/blog-1/john-street-birds

[plaques]

There goes anther ½ hour of my life charging round Manchester on Google looking for 'bits' of a clue.

[Stanley]

I give in even though that's not actually correct Kev. These birds are on Tib Street. (LINK)
Next one?

[Big Kev]

I give in even though that's not actually correct Kev. These birds are on Tib Street. (LINK)

I was close, only just around the corner

[Tizer]

Where and what is this?...

[Stanley]

Grwych Castle?

[Tripps]

These birds are on Tib Street.

I'm surprised I didn't know that. I've walked down it dozens of times - though more likely to be looking in the petshop windows at the puppies than up in the air at the terra cotta birds.

[Big Kev]

Looks like a tunnel entrance, is it on a disused railway line?

[Stanley]

The thing that strikes me is the fact that it's a modern tunnel form, it looks as though it ought to have an invert like a Bazalgette egg shaped sewer. My second thought was Central Park in NY.

[Big Kev]

I've found the tunnel I think it is but it looks a bit 'off'. Is this one in Otley?

[PanBiker]

Navies memorial to those that built the Bramhall Tunnel.

[Tizer]

Ian is right that it's the memorial to the tunnel builders, but it copies Bramhope tunnel entrance, not Bramhall tunnel (which is really a bridge). Kev mentioned Otley and the memorial is in Otley church yard. Wikipedia

It took you all three and a half hours to get that one, you're slowing up! Or are my objects getting too easy, I wonder.

[PanBiker]

but it copies Bramhope tunnel entrance, not Bramhall tunnel

Brain fudge while I was typing.

[Wendyf]

I'm embarrassed that I knew nothing about the Bramhope Tunnel, having lived in North Leeds for so long I should! I've driven over it thousands of times!

[Stanley]

Where is it?