OneGuyFromBarlick

I always considered a gill to be half a pint (10 fl oz - Imperial measure)

Coincidentally (again), there was a question on Tipping Point yesterday 'how many noggins make a pint? They gave the answer as ' four' - which makes one equal to half a gill.

Situation not helped by the USA pint being 16 fl oz. If you're talking whisky - then that's a different matter. Whisky noggins

I have always considered a Gill to be a quarter pint. It would seem the Noggin is the same.

Noggin

It's hard to argue with the reference you give, and I won't, but I know that if I asked for a gill in any pub in the North West - I'd be served with a half pint.

I always thought a noggin was a short piece of thick timber supporting a purlin and a rafter in roof building or between joists in floor /ceiling frames.

I think there are different noggins and gills depending on where you are. Even one on-line dictionary defines a noggin as a quarter of a pint and a gill as half a pint. But in the textile mills the gill was a quarter of a pint and a noggin was a quarter of a gill = one sixteenth of a pint. Sorry, we're going off topic. What was the milk dispenser called? (Ours was called George Lawson!)

Whyperion, you're thinking of a nogging.

Sorry, you've got close but nobody has it yet.
If you ask for a gill in a pub you'll get half a pint but it started off in life as a quarter of a pint. I always thought of a noggin as smaller than a quarter of a pint but never knew the exact quantity. Always thought of it as a spirit measure.

Piggin, nowt to do wi porcine creatures. ?

No Bodge but you are in the right area. It was a plain tin cylinder with a copper handle that was hooked so that it could hang on the rim of the kit under the lid. Called a 'lading tin' and made in different sizes. The genuine originals have a blob of solder on the side with the inspection mark of the Inspector of Weights and Measures stamp impressed in it and the year number.
I used to have a set of three, pint, half pint and gill. Don't know where they went to.....
Next one?

Ladin tin. So instead of just being a Ladle to transfer a small amount of liquid, was it made into a jug made out if tin to transfer larger amounts, a Ladin tin?

The key thing about the lading tin Cathy was that it was calibrated so that when brim full it was a definite amount. It made it easy for the customer to be sure they were getting a fair deal. In this example, a pint of milk.

Yes, this is a flower...but from what? It's about 3 inches in length.

Is it a rhododendron or azalea flower? It's that time of year.

An Iris.

String beans - those long green beans?

Courgette?

I agree....courgette.

No correct answers yet - keep trying!

A weigela?

Is it a foxglove ?

God knows.... Is it a Lily?

A lilac coloured trumpet flower.

I'll guess at an Ipomoea - the 'morning glory' ?

StoneRoad almost has it with `foxglove' but that word alone doesn't identify it fully. It's not related to the foxglove in our gardens.

Is it in your garden now Tiz?
Penstemon?

No, we picked up the flower in our local park in Taunton. Not many people will have this in their gardens!