MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Lovely, my brain is still working!



Don't cheat and look at the title!! Look at this and tell me what you think is going on here.

[Gloria]

The machine on the right, is it a pyramid roller, for rolling steel to make boilers?

[Stanley]

My God Gloria...... You are definitely an embryo engineer. She's right folks, it's Dan Adamson's boiler making shop at Dukinfield.
Next one for shaving?

[Gloria]

Whoop whoop

[Stanley]

Never mind whooping! Put an object up!

[Tizer]

Well done, Gloria, you get a brownie point!

[Stanley]

I am sat here trying to think of another......... It's hard but here's what I have come up with.



This building opposite Bancroft Shed was once a tannery but is now the smallholding built up by the Demaine family over the years. So that isn't the question.
It's dead simple and might be too obvious but look carefully at the wall on this side of the buildings. Why did the builders make holes in the bottom of it? (I know, a bit pathetic!)

[chinatyke]

Because it was built on a Sunday, a holy day.

[Stanley]

Witty but no...... Come on, this one is pathetic, I'm ashamed of posting it! (Nice pic of the tannery though......)

[Tizer]

To let rain water flow off the road and thus prevent flooding - and perhaps the water was directed into the tannery vats?

[chinatyke]

To let rain water flow off the road and thus prevent flooding - and perhaps the water was directed into the tannery vats?

I thought of that but wouldn't it run off through the adjacent gate opening?

[Stanley]

You've got it Tiz..... The dip is prone to flooding if the culvert under the field is restricted in any way. There's a culvert under the road that carried the overflow from the dam when it was in place. The beck continues from the culvert and any water on the road drops straight into it.
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

I've taken the coward's way out. Here's an oldie. Unusual because it is brand new and unused. What is it?

[Stanley]

No responses? If you don't like it I can kill it.

[chinatyke]

Hydraulic fluid pump?

[Stanley]

You're so close I have to give it to you China. It's one of the reciprocating pumps that were fitted to the large aquarium oiler reservoirs on the engine shafts, driven by ropes on the shaft they recirculate the lubricating oil after it has drained from the bearing. The reason why this one is special is that it is brand new and was given to me by John Kirkham at Bolton when they shut down their business because of lack of demand. They specialised in making lubricators for steam engines and other large pieces of machinery like hydraulic presses and compressors. They were making their products to too high a standard and couldn't compete on price.
Next for shaving?

[Tizer]

I's a thingymajig.

[chinatyke]

How about this one?



Click on picture to enlarge it.

[Stanley]

It's for forming some malleable substance into different sized shapes but beyond that I don't know.

[chinatyke]

Sorry, that isn't its intended purpose but I can see why you suggested it.

[Bodger]

For cutting sheets of licqurice into various size Pontefract cakes

[Gloria]

Is it for embossing something?

[PanBiker]

Hole punch with different sized dies, leather, cloth?

[Tizer]

I's a thingymajig.

When I posted that there were no other replies showing. Now it shows others posted well before me. I wonder how that came about?

[chinatyke]

Sorry, nobody is anywhere near yet.