MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

What was it and where?

[Stanley]

A deathly hush.....

[chinatyke]

Is it County Brook?

[Stanley]

No China but you're right in suspecting it was in our general neck of the woods (It's been demolished). Not near, but not too far away.

[chinatyke]

Barley? I can't remember the name of the mill. Was it Narrowgates or something like that?

[Stanley]

Good memory, Narrowgates was one of the mills at Barley. But that's the wrong Mill...

[Tizer]

I thought of treadwheels but discarded the idea because the wheels in the image look too narrow - it would be a tight squeeze to get two men in a wheel. Also the wheels are very large and I doubted two men per wheel would be powerful enough to keep them turning fast enough to move a crane about or hoist big loads. And you couldn't get a horse into the wheels.

[Stanley]

It's difficult. I'll give a clue. It was once reputed to be the biggest waterwheel in the North of England.
[Just realised that you were talking about the crane Peter.... Never mind, a clue was needed.]

[chinatyke]

Last guess. Was it at Pateley Bridge? Didn't someone move it to preserve it at Masson Mills or am I getting my stories mixed up?

[Stanley]

Sorry China. One last good clue that might help. It drove a paper mill. If you don't get it I'll come clean.

[Stanley]

It was too difficult. This was the water wheel at a paper mill at Skyreholme (LINK)

Next one?

[chinatyke]

The link is very interesting. I'm surprised paper/board-making was carried out in such a remote area.

[Stanley]

There was quite a bit in the Pool/Otley area China.



Another bloody watermill! What was this and where?

[Big Kev]

That looks familiar, I'm sure we've had buildings with similar shaped roofs on here. I'll get my thinking head on.

[Big Kev]

Gunpowder?

[Stanley]

Too easy wasn't it, almost in your backyard at one time. Waltham Abbey in Essex, the Royal Gunpowder Mills. Well done.
Now I have to think of another.....

[plaques]

And while Stanley's thinking. What's this about and where is it (local)

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[Gloria]

Was it where the cannon was near Burnley Grammar School?

[Tripps]

Waltham Abbey in Essex, the Royal Gunpowder Mills......

Curses - that's what I thought immediately I saw it, since I visited the place summer before last. Didn't pursue it because I thought it too much of a coincidence. They had a WW11 re enactment thing going on. Might have some pics somewhere. Moral - don't underestimate 'spooky' .

[plaques]

Was it where the cannon was near Burnley Grammar School?

Yes the corner piece of the Old Grammar School. The junction of Colne Rd / Church St and Bankparade, the area was known as the Cannons. Can You add anything for some bonus points?

[Gloria]

The cannons were melted down for the war effort.

[plaques]

The cannons were taken away as part of the war effort but there is a whisper they finished up in someones back yard. 9½ bonus points.
The full story is here.

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Guns 1.jpg

[Gloria]

I’d heard at one time that they were taken to Townley.

[Stanley]

Fascinating! Surely nobody would melt down wonderful objects like those?



What is it?

[Big Kev]

Big gun?