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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 03:23
by Stanley
Will someone please give the answer! Some people out there are still puzzling over it.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 08:17
by Big Kev
Le Pétomane

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 08:46
by Cathy
Charming... Thanks Stanley.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 11:22
by Tizer
I trust he was a professional and had an emission statement! :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 11:40
by plaques
An easy one but an unusual view what and where is it.

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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 14:15
by PanBiker
Langroyd Hall, Colne.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 14:23
by Big Kev
Currently up for sale...

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jan 2019, 14:25
by plaques
Correct PanBiker. Its been closed now for a couple of months . Lots of rumors about what's going on but I haven't seen anything definite.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 30 Jan 2019, 03:45
by Stanley
That place has had such a troubled history, As far back as I can remember it has struggled to survive and indeed, at times, failed.

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What can you tell me about this pair of beauties?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 30 Jan 2019, 10:00
by Tizer
Churns for gold top milk? :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 30 Jan 2019, 11:25
by Cathy
Moonshine kegs incognito.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 31 Jan 2019, 03:50
by Stanley
I'm going to be slightly hard on you. A churn is what you agitate cream in to make butter, these are known in the trade as kits or cans. However there's something special about these kits and that is what I am after.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 31 Jan 2019, 10:19
by Tizer
They might be known in the trade as kits or cans but everyone else knows them as milk churns! (End of popular revolt.) :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 31 Jan 2019, 22:00
by Marilyn
TGTK? (Ten Gallon Tit Kit) :laugh5:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Feb 2019, 03:07
by Stanley
No Maz, 17 gallons actually. But there's something special about that size and style of kit.
I'll give it another day.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Feb 2019, 03:55
by Cathy
Is there a Royal connection?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Feb 2019, 06:50
by chinatyke
OK, I've cheated!
It is called a churn because of its origin, except "the milk churn was also known as ( Milk Kit ) in the Yorkshire Dales."

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Feb 2019, 07:55
by Stanley
So what's the answer?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Feb 2019, 10:51
by Tizer
From the colour at the top they look made of copper.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 05:26
by Stanley
All right, I shall come clean. The alternative name for the heavy conical 17 gallon kits was 'Railway Kits' because they were used exclusively for shipping out milk on the early morning 'milk train'. Until the advent of the glass lined railway tank wagons this was the way country milk was delivered to the urban dairies. This replaced the old system of 'cow-keeping' in urban dairies where cows were milked to death in bad conditions and never saw daylight until they went to slaughter.
Next one?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 08:26
by Gloria
I remember learning about the milk plane which used to come into Blackpool airport early in the morning in the 50/60s. I think it came from the Isle of Man.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 09:33
by Stanley
I've never heard of that Gloria. It must have been very special milk!

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 10:07
by Tizer
Gloria, thanks for mentioning the `milk lift'. I hadn't heard of it before and could find only one source in a web search. I have copied that information (and it's full of detail!) into the Winged Heroes web site here: The Milk Lift I'm sure the flyers involved deserve to join the Winged Heroes! :smile:

Here's a new mystery object....

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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 11:02
by Big Kev
Water container from a coffee machine?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Feb 2019, 11:31
by Tizer
Good try, but no. :smile: