MYSTERY OBJECTS

[plaques]

Adding to Wendy's Bones I was thinking China clay. Its a big building but no chimney so it could be a working farm doing a bit of a side line.

[Tizer]

Stanley has it with grinding logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum) to make dye. The photo shows Albert Mill, Keynsham, Somerset, the last to grind logwood in the UK. The photo below shows the water-powered edge runners used to crush the logwood. There's more interesting information (especially about logwood and piracy!) in this Wigipedia page: Logwood



[Both photos are copied from Industrial Archaeology in Britain, R.A. Buchanan, 1972, Penguin Books.]

[Stanley]

Where was this watermill and what did it do?

[Tizer]

Grinding gorse to provide food for livestock over winter? But where? I know there's a gorse mill in the open air museum at Cardiff.

[Tripps]

I know there's a gorse mill in the open air museum at Cardiff

There's one in Chadderton as well Gorse Mill

[Stanley]

Sorry, no not gorse. ( I didn't know that that happened, I have never come across Gorse as animal food....)

[Tizer]

I know there's a gorse mill in the open air museum at Cardiff.

Here it is, now located at St Fagans: LINK

[Big Kev]

Snuff.

[Stanley]

He's done it again! Stainton Snuff Mill as it used to be.
Next one?

[Gloria]

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Where and what is this?

[Tizer]

A lock-keeper's cottage?

[Gloria]

Sorry Tizer, wrong.

[Big Kev]

It looks like Ackhurst Lodge in Chorley.

[Gloria]

Spot on Kev, went for a walk through Astley Park yesterday and took this. It was almost submerged in a flood in Jan 2021.
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[Tripps]

That reminds me of a favourite cartoon from the Eye a long time ago,.

Two farmers leaning over a gate "if this flood goes down any quicker - we'm going to be faced with a severe drought".

Never thought I'd ever see it in real life.

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

A pump?

[Stanley]

It shifts water but is very specialised. You've seen it before....

[Tizer]

Fire Brigade equipment?

[Stanley]

Sorry no Peter. Clue.... transport.

[Gloria]

Is it for pumping water in a spray to irrigate crops?

[Big Kev]

Bulge pump?

[Stanley]

Sorry Gloria, no.
Kev I assume for bulge read bilge and the answer to both is no.
The best clue I can give is that I never actually said it was a pump. I said it shifts water......

[Big Kev]

I did mean bilge, fat fingers.