MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Big Kev]

Coffin bell, in case you were buried alive?

[Cathy]

Wouldn’t a coffin bell be inside the coffin, for the person who is buried alive to ring

[Gloria]

I’m with Kev.

[Stanley]

Well done. That's what it is. It was rung by a piece of string going into the coffin Cathy, often tied round the corpse's ankle or wrist so that if they moved it rang the bell.

[Cathy]

Got it, ofcourse the bell probably wouldn’t be heard from 6 foot under.

[Steeplejerk]

Take a mobile phone now

[Cathy]

[Stanley]

It's a grisly subject. Let's change it!



What is it and where?

[Steeplejerk]

I know

[Stanley]

Do you know, I thought you might. Good Lad Tom, sit back and see if anyone has been taking notice.

[Tizer]

Is it India Mill in Darwen?

[Stanley]

Yes Peter, exactly right. One of the forgotten facts about the mill is that when it was opened the owners held a large art exhibition in it and the chimney is modelled on an Italian Campanile.
Next one?

[Steeplejerk]

Wrong its manningham mill in Bradford

[Big Kev]

Lister or Manningham Mill, Bradford.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lister_Mills

[Tizer]

I worked for a while in Darwen but never in Bradford!

[Stanley]

You are quite right. I jumped in without thinking! In my defence, both had chimneys modelled on campanile....
I am so ashamed, I shall go and hide in a corner for a short time.....

[Tizer]

In the meanwhile you, or A.N. Other, can tell me what's shown in this pic...

[Stanley]

Is it an overhead view of tree planting?

[Gloria]

That’s what I thought Stanley, but thought that too simple.

[Steeplejerk]

I'm going to say Nazca but I have doubts

[Tizer]

Nothing to do with tree planting and much closer to home than Nazca!

[Steeplejerk]

It looks like the back of something leather

[Stanley]

Is it an aerial view of something? And that looks like a footpath through the middle of it.

[Tizer]

Yes, you're correct on that, Tom. [See correction below]

[Tizer]

Yes, you're correct on that, Tom.

Whoops, I don't know how I got that mixed up. It was Stanley's post that is correct, not Tom's.