MYSTERY OBJECTS

[PanBiker]

Former Mons Mill, Todmorden. Apparently it had a white hare on the stack.

[Stanley]

Correct in that the mill was originally known as Hare Mill but when the Belgian firm of Carel Freres built the engine they subsidised it if the name of the mill was changed to Mons.
However, that isn't the unique fact I was thinking of. Mons engine was built to power two mills and only one was built, that's why there isn't a full complement of ropes on the flywheel. The designed maximum horse power of the engine was Over 3,000, the most power ever taken out of a two cylinder cross compound engine.
Next one?

[Stanley]

What and where is it?

[Steeplejerk]

I'm struggling to work out the size of the thingI'll say gate post

[PanBiker]

Due to another post I will guess that its the flue for the Cornish boiler at the former West Marton Dairy. Extended in an attempt to get more draught?

[Stanley]

No sorry. Clue, it had a nick-name and was a lot further south.

[Tizer]

A crematorium or hospital chimney?

[Steeplejerk]

After some lucky research I found itits a good one so I'll keep quiet for now

[Stanley]

Sorry Peter but no. Tom knows what it is.... Good lad for keeping stum for a while. Another clue.... it would not be popular!

[Steeplejerk]

Nobody's playing

[Stanley]

Tell them what it is Tom......

[Steeplejerk]

It's known as "the King's pipe"used to burn tobacco that was confiscated from smugglers in Falmouth

[Stanley]

Dead right Tom.....



Here's another famous stubby square chimney. Where is it and what is it?

[Stanley]

Clue... It's close to a large river.

[Steeplejerk]

Is it a tunnel vent ?

[Stanley]

Well done Tom, straight onto it. Where and who installed it.

[Steeplejerk]

I'm tempted to say Liverpool but the vent there are art-deco style so I'll say London ?

[Stanley]

It's London but I want more than that Tom..... Where and who built it?

[Stanley]

I'll let it run to dinner time and then knock it on the head if there are no takers.

[Tizer]

Was it a vent on Brunel's Thames tunnel?

[Stanley]

Correct Peter but not Isambard, his dad Marc. The Thames Tunnel.
Next one?

[Tizer]

Marc designed and started it but IK took over operations when the floods began (and almost got him drowned). So I'd say it was a joint effort!

[Stanley]

Possibly Peter but Marc built the ventilation stack......

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Stanley]

No takers?