MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Big Kev]

WW2 is when

[Stanley]

Very small pillbox for one suicide sniper?

[Big Kev]

Not a pill box but you're on the right track.

[Cathy]

An above ground Bomb Shelter?

[Stanley]

For holding a captured German prisoner?

[Big Kev]

Cathy's got its use, do you know where it is?

[Cathy]

In a forest.... no sorry I don’t know where it is.

[Big Kev]

I reckon you're close enough Cathy, it's a one person air raid shelter, the one in the pic is in Germany. They were featured in an 'Abandoned Engineering' programme that was on the other day and were used for remote outposts as it was more practical that digging a hole in the ground. Must have been terrifying to be inside in the middle of an air raid.

[Cathy]

Ooh that’s a little bit wierd , I half watched a program today called Mysteries of the Abandoned- Buildings, Towns and Bridges etc.

Didn’t notice any above ground Bomb Shelters tho.

[Stanley]

What's going on here?

[Big Kev]

Some sort of lookout post?

[Tizer]

Tree house after a wildfire?

[Cathy]

Both suggestions sound plausible, and I wonder what the arched structure is on the ground left hand side.

[PanBiker]

A method of felling / stripping a tree from the top down?

[Stanley]

Kev has it actually. Any more info Kev, where and when. Whose?

[Stanley]

Kev has it, it's an abandoned German artillery observation post on the Western Front in WW1. The tree is one that was hit by a British shell and converted by the Germans.
Next one?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Big Kev]

I have a plastic version of this, it's for applying tubular bandages on fingers.

[Stanley]

Bugger! You're right of course. As punishment, come up with an object!

[Stanley]

What can you tell me about this?

[Gloria]

A press operators chair?

[Stanley]

You're on the right track Gloria, It's industrial but not that. There's a more direct linkage.

[Big Kev]

From Bancroft Mill? Not sure specifically who would use it but generally a machine operator's chair. These are quite popular with interior designers at the monent.

[Stanley]

Sorry Kev no. You're right, they are fetching ridiculous prices. Think of a very common manufacturer who was to be found domestically as well.

[Gloria]

Weavers?