Page 321 of 871

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 25 Feb 2018, 03:57
by Stanley
You learn something every day. I think the workers were told it was gold to impress them, the respondents that gave the evidence I have seen certainly didn't know it was gilded. Thanks for that and the link.
That firm was news to me as well Wendy!
So the hut is in the mountains somewhere... Scandinavia?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 25 Feb 2018, 09:47
by plaques
Tizer's shed. When I was a kid we had a world Atlas with all the nations flags in the front pages. The challenge between myself and older brother was to draw the flag of the named country. If this is a national flag hanging on the wall its reminiscent of a old Hungarian flag. This could then be a typical country dwelling house?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 25 Feb 2018, 12:15
by Tizer
Not Scandinavia or Hungary but keep thinking high latitudes and cold. Clue: it's a designated Historic Site.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 25 Feb 2018, 12:39
by Wendyf
Arctic research station?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 18:55
by StoneRoad
Spitzbergen ?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 10:56
by Tizer
No and no. Think about the words I used: `high latitudes'! :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 11:48
by Big Kev
Is it one of Shackleton's huts?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 11:54
by Tizer
No, but at least you've got to `the other' high latitudes! :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 15:16
by Big Kev
Tizer wrote: 27 Feb 2018, 11:54 No, but at least you've got to `the other' high latitudes! :smile:
One of Scott's huts? :biggrin2:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 15:39
by Tizer
No, not as far back as that! :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 15:58
by Big Kev
1950s British Antarctic Survey heritage site?

Horseshoe Island?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 18:16
by StoneRoad
South Georgia ?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 28 Feb 2018, 09:23
by Tizer
Kev got it right with his `British Antarctic Survey heritage site'. It dates from 1975 but the huts began at the end of WW2 as part of Operation Tabarin. This one is the Damoy Hut at Wiencke Island, reached by aeroplane from the Falklands to Rothera Research Station, Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. There's plenty of information on this Geodigest web page if you scroll down about a third of the way and look out for the photos. Geodigest

Rothera Research Station details are here: Rothera
and Operation Tabarin here: Tabarin

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 04:55
by Stanley
It could be colder in Barlick than there this morning! We have -8C and wind chill. Try this one.

Image

It's a trade mark of course but who used it?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 08:46
by chinatyke
Burton tailors?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 09:33
by Tizer
Diana Dors? :extrawink:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Mar 2018, 04:24
by Stanley
China is on the right track, concentrate on the Bs.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Mar 2018, 11:02
by Tizer
Bovine Burgers? :smile: Yes, it really exists... BB

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 03 Mar 2018, 04:11
by Stanley
Image

It was a hard one. Here's the answer, it was the trademark of the Budenberg Gauge Company of Broadheath near Altrincham in Cheshire. Their pressure gauges couldn't be bettered and they were very good to me when I was doing Ellenroad, they refurbished all my gauges free of charge.
Next one?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 04 Mar 2018, 04:48
by Stanley
Image

Boring I know but here's another trade mark. Any ideas?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 04 Mar 2018, 09:13
by Bodger
Castle Kitchen ware ?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 Mar 2018, 04:41
by Stanley
No Bodge, think engineering......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 Mar 2018, 08:40
by Gloria
An aluminium extrusion company??

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 Mar 2018, 09:23
by Tizer
Steel girders, RSJs?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 06 Mar 2018, 04:51
by Stanley
All good suggestions but wrong. It's one of those annoying ones that are impossible if you don't know so I shall knock it on the head. It's the trademark of Hopkinsons of Huddersfield who made the best boiler fittings obtainable. (LINK)