MYSTERY OBJECTS

[PanBiker]

Colne Road.

[David Whipp]

Colne Road.

Colder...

[PanBiker]

Calf Hall Road

[plaques]

This plaque doesn't appear to be an original terrace plaque. ie: built at the same time as the houses. I would say its a private afterthought added quite recently. Therefore at a guess I would say Wellhouse Rd. Well + Den = Wellhouse.

Of course I've been wrong before.

[David Whipp]

Therefore at a guess I would say Wellhouse Rd. Well + Den = Wellhouse.

Sorry, much colder.

Calf Hall Road

As hot as the weather, but not quite sunburnt...

[PanBiker]

Parrock Street then.

[Wendyf]

I think I've spotted it by having a walk in the Calf Hall Road area with Googleman on Street View....but that's cheating...and I can only make out the odd shape round the writing so it might be the wrong one.
Is it at the bottom of Cavendish Street?

[Stanley]

Such a relief not having to rack my brains.....

[David Whipp]

Is it at the bottom of Cavendish Street?

Wendy is hot stuff!

It's on the gable end of the bottom property of Queen Street facing Cavendish Street.

(Is it extra marks for using Street View or points knocked off?)

Back to Ian's object - is it a napkin ring?

[David Whipp]

In a similar vein - what and where is this?

[Gloria]

Not much idea but is it something to do with a gate, stile or steel hole??

[PanBiker]

Index mark on large timber construction?

Mine is not a napkin ring.

[Cathy]

Looks to me like a number 5. Maybe the wood has aged and bits have fallen off or a number 5 made of something else and fitted to the wood has fallen away.

[Stanley]

I agree with Cathy and it looks as though it was done with a router. Identification mark on a telephone or leccy pole?
Is Ian's an electrical coil embedded in plastic?

[PanBiker]

Mines not a coil but you are getting warmer.

[Wendyf]

An insulator of some sort?

[PanBiker]

No, but Col will probably know.

[chinatyke]

A magnet from the neck of a cathode ray tube like the old 12" and 14" TV "tubes"? Just a guess, it is 45 years ago that I used one when I worked at Mullard's and even then magnetic focussed tubes were old technology.

[PanBiker]

Not in the ball park yet China, but having been in the trade myself I know what you mean.

[chinatyke]

David, is it something to do with the canal lock gates?

[Tizer]

David, is it one of the carved marks that the Royal Navy used in the old days to identify which oak trees were to be felled for making ships? There are still old oak trees around with such marks.

[David Whipp]

I think China and others have got it between them.

The '5' is carved into one of several baulks of timber used at Greenberfield Locks to dam the canal by sliding them in order into grooves in the stonework of the top lock. These timbers are stacked by the tow path.

[PanBiker]

As its now on the previous page, here's mine again:



Clue, its no good on its own and its quite heavy for its size.

[chinatyke]

Exercise weights? Work out weights or whatever they are called. Completely alien to a couch potato like me.

[Stanley]

Heat sink?