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What are you looking at?
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Is it for water storage?
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It#s connected to water but not as storage Gloria.
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Underside and mountings of a Lancashire Boiler?
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I’m with Ian.
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You've got it, it's a side flue in a Lancashire Boiler. This was at Ellenroad after we rebuilt all the settings.
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When we were camping at easter the couple on the site behind us had visited Ellan Road last year and loved it..............small world.
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Did you tell them about the connection?
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Any idea what we are looking at?
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Route 66 comes to mind?

Reminds me a bit of the cult film Bagdad Cafe - except that was in the desert. :smile:
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Got it in one David. Original pavement on Route 66.

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No takers?
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A flooded mine adit?
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Very close Peter but slightly more commercial than that.
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Schwabbs chimney flu
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That sounds like a cough mixture, Tom! :smile:
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A Salt mine?
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Sorry but no. You've seen it before. The water in the tunnel is a clue.
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Canal tunnel?
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YES! Now then, which one?
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Standedge?
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I’m with Tripps.
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Correct. The longest in the country.

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Try this. What is it?
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Are they chop sticks
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No Tom slightly larger than that, about a metre in length....
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