MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Wendyf]

[Stanley]

I can't remember where I got the image.....
David, I know all about Blanco! Horrible stuff but it did look smart when done properly. The Tank Corps were always round oil which is death to Blanco so they used black boot polish on their webbing.

[Tripps]

Get the cigar ready -

I've had some spooky coincidences on this site, but this one beats them all. I think I've found the mystery building.

I find that I've walked past it dozens of times, and my family two generations back lived just at the other end of the road. I have a print of an LS Lowery painting of the road. I have two books for which it is the title, and a list of every resident from the 1911 census.

Watch this space.

[Wendyf]

[Tripps]

I hope I haven't oversold it - here's the picture.

old road coop.jpg

Here's the details,

old road details.jpg

and here's the LS Lowery,

oldroadlowery.jpg

[Wendyf]

Great detective work Tripps! You were almost right with the first photo as well. I think you deserve a cigar and a wee dram.

[Gloria]

Wow well done

[plaques]

Fantastic Tripps, but just answer this "what am I going to do with the rest of the night"?

Failsworth Co op..jpg

[chinatyke]

Well done.

[Stanley]

Yet another example of the power of OG! Thanks David, that particular itch is well and truly scratched! Now I'm wondering where I got it from!

[Stanley]

Try this one.....



Can anyone tell me what this is?

[Stanley]

Hello?

[chinatyke]

It looks to be daisy-chained or plaited. Is it raw silk?

[Stanley]

You're almost there China! It's cotton. The question is why?

[Marilyn]

Surgical packing? (For packing wounds)

[chinatyke]

You're almost there China! It's cotton. The question is why?

Actually I'd decided it wasn't silk because you can see what look like cotton seeds.
To go into a package machine for bleaching and dyeing?

[Tizer]

To make a court judge's wig? Or is it the wig for Princess Leia in the Star Wars re-make where she becomes a grey-haired granny?

[Stanley]

China is so close I have to give it to him. It's a 'chain warp' made at Ellenroad and was sent out like this for finishing and dying in a continuous process before being rewound as individual threads for shuttle packages. I found it in the office and decided it was too good to be broken up for waste for wiping down. They will be thin on the ground now!
Next one?

[Stanley]

Try this one.....

[Cathy]

Is it a crumb tray that slides out of the bottom of a toaster?

(Pretty old toaster, mind. Haha.)

[Stanley]

Bugger! You got it straight away Cathy! I shall have to have a think now!

[Cathy]

Hehe

[Tizer]

How about this one? (Plaques, no cheating by automated image searching on Google!)

[chinatyke]

It looks like an instrument for spreading or opening something, bit it looks too crude to be a surgical or dental instrument. Could it be for grasping something? An animal's tongue perhaps? So a vetinary instrument?

[plaques]

Would I do anything as sneaky as that? Just because I don't know doesn't mean I always cheat. Well not always.
Looks like a portable potato waffle maker. There! I told you I didn't know.