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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Aug 2022, 08:11
by plaques
Adding to Wendy's Bones I was thinking China clay. Its a big building but no chimney so it could be a working farm doing a bit of a side line.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Aug 2022, 10:01
by Tizer
Stanley has it with grinding logwood (
Haematoxylum campechianum) to make dye. The photo shows Albert Mill, Keynsham, Somerset, the last to grind logwood in the UK. The photo below shows the water-powered edge runners used to crush the logwood. There's more interesting information (especially about logwood and piracy!) in this Wigipedia page:
Logwood
[Both photos are copied from Industrial
Archaeology in Britain, R.A. Buchanan, 1972, Penguin Books.]
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Aug 2022, 10:35
by Stanley
Where was this watermill and what did it do?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Aug 2022, 15:34
by Tizer
Grinding gorse to provide food for livestock over winter? But where? I know there's a gorse mill in the open air museum at Cardiff.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Aug 2022, 16:19
by Tripps
Tizer wrote: ↑09 Aug 2022, 15:34
I know there's a gorse mill in the open air museum at Cardiff
There's one in Chadderton as well
Gorse Mill
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 02:42
by Stanley
Sorry, no not gorse. ( I didn't know that that happened, I have never come across Gorse as animal food....)
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 09:25
by Tizer
Tizer wrote: ↑09 Aug 2022, 15:34
I know there's a gorse mill in the open air museum at Cardiff.
Here it is, now located at St Fagans:
LINK
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 10:07
by Big Kev
Snuff.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 10:50
by Stanley
He's done it again! Stainton Snuff Mill as it used to be.
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 11:14
by Gloria
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Where and what is this?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 11:24
by Tizer
A lock-keeper's cottage?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 11:46
by Gloria
Sorry Tizer, wrong.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 12:32
by Big Kev
It looks like Ackhurst Lodge in Chorley.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 13:26
by Gloria
Spot on Kev, went for a walk through Astley Park yesterday and took this. It was almost submerged in a flood in Jan 2021.
https://www.lep.co.uk/heritage-and-retr ... ng-3264300
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 14:09
by Tripps
That reminds me of a favourite cartoon from the Eye a long time ago,.
Two farmers leaning over a gate "if this flood goes down any quicker - we'm going to be faced with a severe drought".
Never thought I'd ever see it in real life.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Aug 2022, 03:29
by Stanley
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Aug 2022, 03:59
by Stanley
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Aug 2022, 07:15
by Gloria
A pump?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Aug 2022, 07:18
by Stanley
It shifts water but is very specialised. You've seen it before....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Aug 2022, 09:13
by Tizer
Fire Brigade equipment?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Aug 2022, 12:35
by Stanley
Sorry no Peter. Clue.... transport.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Aug 2022, 14:50
by Gloria
Is it for pumping water in a spray to irrigate crops?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Aug 2022, 16:27
by Big Kev
Bulge pump?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Aug 2022, 01:40
by Stanley
Sorry Gloria, no.
Kev I assume for bulge read bilge and the answer to both is no.
The best clue I can give is that I never actually said it was a pump. I said it shifts water......
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Aug 2022, 07:11
by Big Kev
I did mean bilge, fat fingers.