MYSTERY OBJECTS

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Some sort of tourist attraction?
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It's definitely that but why and what are we looking at?
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Zip wire through the trees?
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No Gloria. Not that.
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Nuts
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Oh you crafty bugger..... Go on, put us out of our misery. Are you using an image search on Google?
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That killed it Kev. Here's the answer LINK. It's a single cashew nut tree and reputedly the biggest in the world covering two acres.
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Wow just one tree, and I was thinking it might have something to do with monkeys. :smile:
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It grabbed me as well Cathy.
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Stanley wrote: 31 Dec 2020, 08:41 Oh you crafty bugger..... Go on, put us out of our misery. Are you using an image search on Google?
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It's a Daily Mail story - can we believe it? :extrawink:
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I picked it up from a Brazilian Pinterest page...
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Undaunted I shall try again...

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Where is it and why the shape?
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Was it twisted to create a better draw?
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Oh you're good at this Gloria... Yes that was one of the theories but to be honest nobody knows for sure, so you've got that bit, now, where was it (I have an idea it's been demolished.).
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Sorry Stanley, no idea where it is, other than maybe in a valley and that’s why it needed extra draw?
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Not really Gloria. Clue, it was a joinery works and the town has always been known for wood working....
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Is it Lancaster?
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I can see why you went for that! No, it's in Yorkshire...
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Is it near Morley, Yorkshire?
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Not really Gloria, head SE...
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No idea Stanley 😱
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Nobody else is trying Gloria. It was in Bingley and was a local curiosity. Immortalised in Walter Pickles' book 'Our Grimy Heritage'. Next one?
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I’d have been guessing all day to get that.
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Where's this. and what's is supposed to be? Localish

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