MYSTERY OBJECTS

[plaques]

Well that didn't last long. PanBiker beat Gloria By a nose. 2 minutes to be precise. Either you're both well up on local history or serious imbibers of the golden nectar. Or is it that everyone's now an expert with Google street view? Either way, well done.
This window is probably the only surviving pub window in Lancashire showing Grimshaw's name.(not many people know that). All the other windows in the Commercial carry its own name.
Stanley, shame on you. The Big Window was a Duttons house.

[Gloria]

My first thought was the Admiral Lord Rodney as I knew Wendy went to Colne on wednesdays.

[PanBiker]

I was in the car park at the opposite side of the road the day before yesterday. Also drove past it for 6 years everyday when I had my business in Colne, never been in that particular house though.

[Stanley]

That'll be why it was perhaps the only pub in Burnley selling mild.

[Stanley]

It's an oldie but seasonal....

[Tizer]

The remains of an early Roman treacleware drinking vessel probably used during Saturnalia feasts and found by Time Team under flagstones in the cellar of the Commercial Hotel in Colne.

[Gloria]

A crudely formed chunk of treacle, shaped into a drinking vessel but has had the sides nibbled at.

[Stanley]

Quite close actually, give it a bit more thought. Clue, look up Jeanne Emile Serisier....

[Stanley]

No offers?

[chinatyke]

A broken bottle that you dug up in New South Wales and couldn't bear to throw away because it may have had some use left in it, and at that time you had space in your shed?

[Stanley]

Almost close enough for an answer. I'll leave it a day to see if anyone can remember the story.....

[Stanley]

It's the bottom of a wine bottle that I found when I visited Eumalga at Dubbo where my dad spent his childhood. This was where Serisier planted the first vineyard in NSW.



One of the original vines that survives at Eumalga. Now try this one....

[Gloria]

It's to put over a horse's nose to stop it biting, crib biting or eating----take your pick.

[PostmanPete]

Is it your Christmas underwear Stanley.....?

[Pluggy]

For gagging the safety valve of a steam boiler when pressure testing....

[Stanley]

Interesting theories but nowhere near apart from Gloria who is in the right area. The object on the end is about 3" long....

[Gloria]

To put over a whippet/greyhound's nose?

[Stanley]

Not going to drag this one out because I am not 100% sure that the use I was told when it was given to me is correct. I was told it was a lead weight which was strapped onto the end of a show cow's horn to adjust it downwards. Good source so it is most probably right. Now, try this....

[chinatyke]

Look like pipe clamps for fixing pipes to steelwork.

[Stanley]

Sorry, no. Have a very close look, there will be a supplementary question when they have been identified....

[chinatyke]

Chain link connectors?

[Pluggy]

For clamping steel cable. (Joining two pieces, making a loop on the end)

Posh ones in Stainless Steel :

http://www.sourcingmap.com/silver-tone- ... 37313.html

[plaques]

I agree with Pluggy. Wire cable fasteners. OK for wishing wells and static bits but lethal if used for towing.

[Stanley]

Pluggy and Gloria are right but now we come to the interesting bit which might explain why Glo thinks they are lethal for towing. Tell me exactly how they ought to be used.

[Gloria]

Gloria hasn't said anything?????