MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Big Kev]

I know what it is but I have cheated with Google so I wont spill the beans.

So do I now

[Stanley]

I don't know how to use Google so I am still baffled....

[Gloria]

I think Kev or Ian should come clean.

[Big Kev]

Is it the Tide prediction machines at the Liverpool Tidal Institute?

[Stanley]

That sounds like a plausible answer!

[PanBiker]

That's because it's correct.

[Gloria]

Spot on Kev, it is a Tide Prediction Machine constructed at Bidston.

[Big Kev]

That's because it's correct.

Gotta love Google

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

Looks like someone swimming in a canal.

[Stanley]

It does doesn't it! But that's not the answer....Sorry Gloria.

[Big Kev]

Part of the flue for a mill chimney?

[Stanley]

Close Kev, It's part of a mill, but not a flue.... You've seen it before....

[Big Kev]

The water supply for the engine?

[Stanley]

Not quite accurate but near enough for me to give it you Kev. Well done! It's where the Calf Half Hall beck plunges under Calf Hall Shed. (Or used to plunge under, I don't know if it is still like that.) On it's way through there it serves as the lodge for cooling water for the condenser.
Now we need another object.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

Are we looking down on the lid of something?

[Stanley]

No Gloria, you are seeing the whole object.....

[Big Kev]

Is it a functional object or decorative?

[Stanley]

I think the answer to that is functional in that it has a purpose....

[PanBiker]

Paperweight made from some kind of polished pebble?

[Wendyf]

My first thought was that it's an avocado stone.

[Stanley]

Nota paperweight and not an avocado stone either but funnily enough that's the nearest anyone has got yet. Look at the shape of it and start from there.

[Stanley]

Ask yourself what does it look like? Then go from there.

[Cathy]

It looks like a well used door or drawer knob