MYSTERY OBJECTS
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I would never have got that. A very good one.
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
That's what I kept thinking, "Surely they'll see through this one!"
Someone bring the next one up?
Someone bring the next one up?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
You appear to be waiting for manna from heaven... See whether this will do.
What can you tell me?
What can you tell me?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
That we've had it before. Is that good enough?
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Is it for oiling up jobs on the lathe? Used as a brush?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Now, some guesses/answers?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
You need a clue. Sometimes chain is better than string.
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He knows you know...... A Good Clue!!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for dusting bits off a loom?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry Gloria but no. Think of them as individual chains and look at what P said!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Something to do with heddles?
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I think that's near enough but perhaps you'd better spell it out or Gloria might shout foul! (She'd be right to actually)
So, exactly what?
So, exactly what?
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'Used instead of string'?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I think we need to hit this one over the head.
If you look at the picture above you'll see that these are sets of healds and reeds, some call them heddles, waiting to be married up to a weaver's beam. Notice the strings hung down from the top stave of the healds. These were used for attaching the head to the loom. At Bancroft we always used string but in mills where more modern healds were used chains were used instead. The mystery object is a bunch of these chains ready for use.
So the answer is they are heald chains and Wendy got there but didn't know exactly. I reckon she was good enough, it was a hard one.
Next for shaving?
If you look at the picture above you'll see that these are sets of healds and reeds, some call them heddles, waiting to be married up to a weaver's beam. Notice the strings hung down from the top stave of the healds. These were used for attaching the head to the loom. At Bancroft we always used string but in mills where more modern healds were used chains were used instead. The mystery object is a bunch of these chains ready for use.
So the answer is they are heald chains and Wendy got there but didn't know exactly. I reckon she was good enough, it was a hard one.
Next for shaving?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Can you tell me why Ernie Roberts, tackler and gent at Bancroft Shed in 1978, is fooling about with this fur hat?
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Something to do with power cuts?
Gloria
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http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Was it a cold winter in 1978, perhaps?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
A small piece of fur was used inside shuttles so maybe that was the reason he had it in the stores.
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Ah China has it! He's right, a small piece of fur was used inside the nose of the shuttle to but a brake on the yarn as it came off the cop. This stopped it from 'ballooning' and snarling up. Mill providers used to sell rabbit fur but Bancroft were too mean to spend the money and so weavers brought in old items of fur clothing. A weaver has just brought this hat in....
Next one?
Next one?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
By-the -way we've had it before. Always reminds me of the joke of when Prince Charles arrive at the Burnley steam engine renovation project in a Davy Crockett hat. "why are you wearing that he was asked". "Well I asked Camilla what I should wear when I go to Burnley and she said Wear the Fox Hat"!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Oh dear P...... My mind is so pure that it took a minute or two for it to dawn on me.... .
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!