MYSTERY OBJECTS

[PanBiker]

Geiger counter?

[Tizer]

No. I'll give another clue as to location. I'll bet the workmen uncovered some Viking artefacts when they dug out for the foundations.

[Gloria]

York Cold War bunker?

[Tizer]

Well done, Gloria. Here's a photo and links to more information. It was built to replace a WW2 ROC post nearby. Some were replacements and others were re-purposed WW2 posts.
Pastscape web site: LINK
Historic England web site: LINK

[PanBiker]

It has a strange metal tower contraption outside and Panbiker will probably tell us what it is!

It looks like a four section lattice antenna tower. Could be electrically operated from generator or more likely hand winched. It has a vertical, possibly VHF band antenna mounted on the top. Fully deployed it would probably be about 80 ft in height.

[Tripps]

Try this one - I am guessing t will either be easy or impossible . Good luck

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I won't make you suffer - clue Sue could make this a destination for a walk.

[Stanley]

Square chimney?

[Tripps]

Yes - square chimney.
It's a screen shot from a youtube video by a chap who calls himself Martin Zero. From an abandoned mill in Black Pits Road in Norden near Rochdale. Looks like it's not too well known.

Square chimney

Go to about 3 mins 30 secs. It's amazing how much unexplored jungle and mysterious rivers tunnels and waterfalls he finds within about 5 miles of Manchester city centre.

I think he could be used as a point of reference for an example of the Manchester accent.

[Stanley]

I feel guilty so I'll look for a replacement.



It's another chimney, a big one, but where?

[Tripps]

By he shape, the fence, and the nearness to the pavement, it has to be Schwabes chimney at Rhodes, between Blackley and Middleton. That's the exact spot we stopped for a rest on a bike ride in about 1950.

I was tempted to say propinquity for nearness, but didn't want to be thought pompous. Boris would have. . .

[Stanley]

David. Absolutely right in every respect. I thought it might be recognised from me posting it but your reason is more impressive. I shall put my thinking cap on.
Later...



This is a memory test. Can anyone remember what was significant about the ordination of my friend Fr. Armando Carandang. Big clue for you, he is a Filipino.

[Tizer]

Filipinos are usually muslems so is he the only Christian priest in the Philippines?

[Tripps]

Filipinos are usually muslims

Magandang Umaga Po

You're a bit off the track there Tizer. Or we could say without any gamesmanship 'but mainly in the South'. Stanley will get that one.

Was he ordained by Cardinal Sin?

[Tizer]

Thanks for pointing that out - I confused the Philippines with Indonesia!

[Stanley]

Nice one David on both counts. Stephen Potter and Cardinal Sin. Yes, they wanted to ordain him in the US where he trained but he insisted on going back to his home in the Philippines for the induction.
Next one?

[Stanley]

What can you tell me about this image?

[Big Kev]

Greek fire.

[Stanley]

Sorry Kev, no but you're in the right place and period.

[Tizer]

Greek fire was a flammable chemical mixture fired at the enemy, not a use of reflected and focused sunlight. It was mostly used by the Byzantine empire a very long time ago. I don't understand Stanley's response that Kev is `in the right place and period' - that ship looks much more recent, 1700s at least. There is a myth that Archimedes used a parabolic mirror to set fire to ships but he lived a couple of thousand years before that type of ship existed. Also, the setting fire to a wooden ship using such a mirror is now claimed to be near impossible LINK

[Stanley]

You've got it Peter. It is a very bad illustrator's attempt to depict Archimedes' 'death ray. Sorry about the ship being the wrong period....



What's going on here?

[PanBiker]

Seems like a bit of a pointless exercise. Unless it's for testing the gibbet for load bearing effectiveness?

[Big Kev]

Is the sphere under vacuum?

[PanBiker]

Oooh, that's a good question.

[Stanley]

Kev is on track, expand please.

[plaques]

Would never have thought of that Kev. I wonder if they did a graph of partial pressures?