MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

This was possibly the first, a very old engineer's remedy.

[Wendyf]

My Googling has led me back to this same topic, a couple of years ago! But that is definitely cheating....

[Stanley]

Go on Wendy! Educate them....

[David Whipp]

Last guess before Wendy does...

Either gobbler whitening powder for very old engineer's teeth... or for taking high spots out of pistons...

[Stanley]

Sorry, both wrong! I shall wait and see if Wendy can help you.

[Wendyf]

The Victory Compound is a very old remedy for a hot neck, a bronze bearing that has overheated for some reason, expanded and is destroying itself, they could get so hot that molten bronze was running out as they ran and if you stopped the machine you welded the surfaces together, a classic 'seize-up'. Very common and serious with very large bearings on steam engines and water wheels. Victory Compound was actually rotten brick ground down to something very close to talc. You mixed it with very thin oil and flooded the bearing with it while it was still running. This cooled the bearing and the abrasive action, ground off the rags that had formed on the bearing surfaces and because it was very soft material it didn't embed in the bronze. Very often it was flushed with copious amounts of water. Once the bearing had cooled down it could be flooded with normal oil and you kept running. Then you could make a decision whether to leave it as it was, taking up the slack in the bearing, or go the whole hog, make a new bearing, turn of the 'roping' on the shaft and start again. Newton told me that if he had no victory powder with him he would smash up a rotten brick and use it if the bearing was a big rough one on something slow-moving like a water wheel.

[David Whipp]

Thank you Wendy - much more interesting than scouring Stanley's gobblers!

[David Whipp]

I'm looking for the very specific use...

[Tizer]

Barlick scientists announce their latest contribution to solving the energy crisis - liquorice genetically-engineered to generate light will replace all those old energy-hungry Christmas tree lights in December.

[David Whipp]

Close! BUT, no banana.

These have slashed the energy bills for Barlick's Christmas display; but what's their present use?

[Big Kev]

I'm looking for the very specific use...

LED lights for the trees in the Town Square and near the toilet block?

[David Whipp]

Not quite, Kev; wrong time of year.

At Christmas, they are used in Santa's Grotto at the Switch On event... at the moment, they are being used for a specific, time limited, purpose. What do you think it is?

[plaques]

If they have been used in Santa's Grotto I shudder to think?

[Pluggy]

Methinks they're being used in the Barlick beach.....

[Stanley]

Good lass Wendy, exactly right.

[David Whipp]

You've got there. They are of course Barlick Beach's answer to Blackpool's efforts - The Barnoldswick Illuminations!

[Cathy]

Barnoldswick versus Blackpool Ah Love It!

[plaques]

A slight diversion away from objects to location. This terrace plaque took my attention with its unusual comment. The name is a dead give a way so try to be more exact. But not to the same degree that Stanley requires on some of his mystery objects.

[Stanley]

P! Stop whingeing! One of the main benefits of this thread is getting educated about things you don't know.....
I've never seen this plaque but there is a farm on the tops near Wendy called 'Who'd have thowt it'.

[plaques]

Me whinge! "Who could have thought it". Its said that I'm the grit in life's Vaseline. Wendy's is the wrong hill, Look on the other side of Weets hill.

[Pluggy]

I thought I had it

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client= ... ught+it%22

But the two links lead nowhere. No idea.

[Wendyf]

Somewhere in Blacko?
The one up here was Bleara Hough, a gamekeepers lodge above the Earby reservoirs, both reservoirs and cottage now gone.

[Pluggy]

I found it :

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B0 ... ,,2,-24.49

Main Gisburn Road through Higherford.

[Stanley]

Sorry P! I was being a bit harsh but I thought it would be OK. I have had PMs about it! Sincere apologies if any offence was caused, Love, S.

[plaques]

Pluggy's got it. The Google picture shows a good image of the boundary stone between Barrowford and Blacko. Another little feature that tends to be ignored. Stanley. No offence taken. Enjoy a bit of banter but less of the "Love" bit or people will begin to talk.