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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 May 2021, 03:09
by Stanley
Sorry Ken, No.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 May 2021, 06:51
by Wendyf
A clue could lie in Forgotten Corners where you are delving into your Bracewell archive. Is it the road to Stock?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 May 2021, 07:24
by Big Kev
Was this lane mentioned back in 2012? I have a vague recollection of what Wendy has mentioned but the pic in the 2012 article is missing.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 May 2021, 08:06
by Stanley
You're right Wendy well done. It's Hall Lane from Bracewell down to the Ford and forward to the large quarry over the beck and Stock Village on the top of the hill.

Image

Here's the map showing the old quarry and the lane down from the village.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 May 2021, 09:22
by PanBiker
Big Kev wrote: ↑05 May 2021, 07:24 Was this lane mentioned back in 2012? I have a vague recollection of what Wendy has mentioned but the pic in the 2012 article is missing.
The gallery reference to the image will be wrong you can get the image back by updating the gallery syntax. The image reference number will be the same it just needs updating in the post.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 May 2021, 09:28
by Wendyf
I found the image in the gallery with a Bracewell keyword search.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 May 2021, 09:57
by PanBiker
You don't actually need to go to the gallery, just the original post and update the URL string to the new syntax. I do lots of them if I come across them while browsing. Lots of threads need the images for context.

Easiest way is to copy the URL string from any image in the gallery, this will get you the right syntax. Edit the post and paste it under the existing image string then update the image number. Delete the original string and you are done. You can keep pasting the same string for every busted one, just update with the right image reference.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 06 May 2021, 04:09
by Stanley
Image

What's going on here?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 07 May 2021, 04:20
by Stanley
If nobody makes an offer I'll come clean.... :biggrin2:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 07 May 2021, 05:29
by Cathy
I keep thinking the girl looks like a very young Elizabeth Taylor. Probably not πŸ™

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 07 May 2021, 06:17
by Wendyf
That was my first thought Cathy, the eyebrows are right but the hair isn't! The way the girl is holding the cub suggests she knows what she is doing so im guessing its a publicity stunt for a circus or a zoo.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 07 May 2021, 06:59
by Stanley
You're getting very warm Wendy. Clue, because it's really hard, Sedbergh is implicated marginally.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 08 May 2021, 03:40
by Stanley
It's obviously too difficult. See THIS for an explanation. The lady is June Mottershead and during the war she looked after some animals at home. I found a reference to Sedbergh but have lost it.
Next one?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 08 May 2021, 04:26
by Cathy
Looked it up. June Mottershead , daughter of Chester Zoo founder George Mottershead.
Her childhood featured in the BBC tv drama Our Zoo.
June died 1 May 2015 aged 88.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 08 May 2021, 04:48
by Stanley
:good:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 08 May 2021, 12:19
by Tripps
The name Mottershead takes me immediately to a Victoria Wood routine. . . . :laugh5:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 08 May 2021, 13:40
by Gloria
Tripps wrote: ↑08 May 2021, 12:19 The name Mottershead takes me immediately to a Victoria Wood routine. . . . :laugh5:
πŸ˜‚πŸ€£ Eileen Mottershead

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 08 May 2021, 14:13
by Tripps
Don't remember Eileen, but it's Victoria Wood's sort of name that may have been used more than once.

Memory is a funny thing - I now find that Pat and Margaret which is 27 years ago is the Mottershead I 'remembered'. :smile:

PS Guess who is being interviewed right now on ITV. Lee Mottershead

That's got to be spooky. :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 May 2021, 03:59
by Stanley
"There are more things in heaven and earth......"

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 May 2021, 06:16
by Wendyf
Pre Covid I started researching the family history of my maternal cousin Sue's father. His name was Harry Butler and I assumed that was the name I would be researching, however it turned out that Sue's grandfather was born out of wedlock and Butler was her gt grandmother's maiden name. There was a man in the picture though, who she lived with and married in later years....Mr Mottershead!

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 May 2021, 07:18
by Stanley
Oh Dear.... David will be going and hiding in the garden for the day, there is something in the air.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 May 2021, 07:24
by Gloria
I don’t think it was Eileen in Victoria Wood, it was Margaret Mottershead.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 May 2021, 03:11
by Stanley
Image

What's this?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 May 2021, 05:18
by Big Kev
A Jackalope, a taxidermy oddity.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 May 2021, 07:09
by Stanley
I don't stand a chance do I. Was that Googled or remembered? Don't bother answering. I shall think of something.