MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

You're in the right area Gloria but wrong cave!

[Gloria]

Old Mother Shiptons cave at Knaresbrough?

[Wendyf]

Stump Cross Caverns?

[PanBiker]

White Scar Cave?

[Stanley]

Sorry, nobody has got it yet. All good suggestions in the right area but not the one I am after......

[Wendyf]

I'm going for Yordas Cave.

[Gloria]

Ingleborough cave?

[PanBiker]

White Scar Cave is in Ingleborough so are Ingleton caves but at t'other side of the same mountain.

[Stanley]

Yorda's Cave it is Wendy, in Kingsdale.



Another Victorian picnic venue. Where is it?

[Wendyf]

Is it Hardraw Force?

[Stanley]

Well done Wendy, you went straight to it.....
Can you think of another object?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Stanley]

Has this stumped you? Clue, it's very high precision tackle!

[Big Kev]

Precise granite square?

[Stanley]

Exactly Kev. Precise because it is so stable, negligible contraction or expansion with a change of temperature, unlike a metal one.....



Can you tell me what this is?

[Big Kev]

Looks Iike a bit of wood

[Tizer]

Or chocolate!

[Stanley]

None of the above!
Sorry, there isn't much information with it. It's very hard and only two inches long and has a different grade on each side, fine on one side and even finer on the other.

[Gloria]

Is it a segment from a Lumsden type grinder?

[Wendyf]

Is it a whetstone?

[Stanley]

You are both on the right track, you've got the material right, a very fine carborundum.
Now tell me what such a small fine stone was used for in the mill. There was only one purpose.....

[Gloria]

For grinding bran?

[Stanley]

Sorry Gloria but no. One particular trade in the mill used these small stones.....

[Gloria]

For sharpening chisels?

[Stanley]

Sorry no. It's obviously too difficult.... If it is still unsolved later this morning I shall reveal all. Think of the different aspects of producing cotton cloth. One trade used these small fine abrasive stones.....