Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Dec 2025, 08:43
You've see it before.... Think steam engine governors!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Dec 2025, 09:47
Is it a cast iron pattern for making the ratchet wheel used in the Wilby regulator on a Lumb steam engine governor?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Dec 2025, 13:21
Breathtakingly accurate Kev! Exactly right.
Now we need a new object!
Now we need a new object!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Dec 2025, 13:28
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Dec 2025, 01:04
Who was the VIP tenant of this pile at one point in WW2?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Dec 2025, 09:02
Winston Churchill?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Dec 2025, 09:42
No Gloria but that level of importance. Have you worked out where the building is?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Dec 2025, 10:51
Culzean Castle, Eisenhower's SHAEF Headquarters during WWII.
Lost a tent on the Camping Club site there a long time ago.
Lost a tent on the Camping Club site there a long time ago.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Dec 2025, 01:30
Exactly right Ian! Well done. Now we need another object.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Dec 2025, 03:14
Can you name the stack where this image was taken?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Dec 2025, 08:46
India Mill Darwen
How do the ladders first get put up? Especially when there’s an overhang at the top, I can’t imagine how it’s done.
How do the ladders first get put up? Especially when there’s an overhang at the top, I can’t imagine how it’s done.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Dec 2025, 10:39
Well done Gloria! Exactly right.
See this video by Fred Dibnah on laddering a chimney....
See this video by Fred Dibnah on laddering a chimney....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Dec 2025, 13:45
Watched it through the tv thanks to Wendy. Stanley, that is frightening 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 01:16
Where are we?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 08:38
Pure guess……Gibraltar?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 08:50
Sorry Gloria, no.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 08:58
Is it Lorelei Rock in Germany?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 14:28
Yes Kev! It most certainly is.
Now we need the next object......
Now we need the next object......
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 14:39
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 15:12
Hard luck Gloria! I'll go and look for another one.... 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Dec 2025, 02:03
What , and more pertinantly , when ?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Dec 2025, 17:51
Is it part of an access hatch?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Dec 2025, 22:52
Sort of. I think it might be bigger than the image appears to show (but I am not certain)
What might it be keeping out ? And why the design detail
What might it be keeping out ? And why the design detail
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 Dec 2025, 20:19
I have alluded to this in text of one of my recent rather long posts
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 Dec 2025, 09:49
Underground station related? Lift shaft access?