RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted April 12, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12, 2021 (edited) Seen in many fields around here: mole hills. Oddly, they seem to be somewhat seasonal. Another piece of equipment for holding food for animals – also sometimes seen as two halves lying in hedges awaiting re-use. And another variant of the mobile feed trough, plus some Dutch sheep and lambs. I assume that this is also for feeding animals though I have not seen it in use. And the inevitable cylindrical bales wrapped in black plastic – though note at least one white one. One also sees enormous rectangular bales, though usually in barns rather than fields. Not sure why this group has a barbed wire fence around three sides (but is open on the fourth). Are they expecting walkers on the path which passes to the right to take a few with them? Perhaps next week a look walls to complement the photos already posted. Jonathan Edited August 16, 2022 by corneliuslundie 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Von Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Beautiful little bungalow complete with single glazed (possibly original) windows and a vintage van in the drive, if you ignore the enormous Tesco and Bannatyne's looming over it and the non stop traffic - you could be in the 1950s! This garage backs onto an extremely busy main road (I used to live a few doors down, and the noise only lets up between 3 and 4 am!) One resident's solution to avoid backing out into rush hour traffic? - a turntable: 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Bit of a culture clash that one! The turntable is interesting, I've seen them inside garages (and houses!) for motorcycles, but not like that. The van incidentally, is a c1955 Chevrolet. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Von Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 14 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Bit of a culture clash that one! The turntable is interesting, I've seen them inside garages (and houses!) for motorcycles, but not like that. The van incidentally, is a c1955 Chevrolet. The turntable has been there for donkeys years, the house is a stone's throw from the Hornby factory (maybe the house belonged to an inventive employee?) I remember a much smaller car being parked on it when I was a kid - Triumph or Singer, something like that. There was a box on a stick with a stop/go button on it too. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Von Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Anyone care to venture a guess as to what these brick constructions are? They are sited on a clifftop promenade about thirty yards apart, adjacent to the cliff edge railing - they have no vents, doors or access on any side, the top slab is also featureless. On the side facing away from the sea, just under the slab, there is a section of timber set into the brickwork. My initial thought was possibly a pedestal for coin operated binoculars (a common sight along the shore line) but there is no evidence that anything was ever fitted to the top slab. If it were some sort of junction box, then surely an access door would be necessary.... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWCR Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Any sign of fixings on the timbers? Is there a nearby lifeboat station? One possible is there was a vertical mortar tube fixed to this which would take a rocket. Used to launch maroons (basically a large fire work) for a lifeboat call out in the days prior to pagers & cell phones. Two maroons were launched in succession hence possibly the need for two blocks. Pete 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokebox Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 I have a feeling that they are part of the drainage system, some evidence in the last picture. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 On 07/03/2021 at 19:46, figworthy said: There were (are ?) quite a lot of them in Birmingham and Black Country giving access to the canals for the same reason. Adrian And for any steam vehicle to drop their filler hose in to take water. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Von Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 hour ago, IWCR said: Any sign of fixings on the timbers? Is there a nearby lifeboat station? One possible is there was a vertical mortar tube fixed to this which would take a rocket. Used to launch maroons (basically a large fire work) for a lifeboat call out in the days prior to pagers & cell phones. Two maroons were launched in succession hence possibly the need for two blocks. Pete Here's a close up: The timber doesn't appear to have any fixings, it's a real puzzle. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted April 18, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 18, 2021 On 12/04/2021 at 09:00, corneliuslundie said: Seen in many fields around here: mole hills. Oddly, they seem to be somewhat seasonal. Jonathan Future mountains? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted April 19, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) Inspired by some photos posted by others, some walls this time. First the side wall of what is now some lock-up garages in the road where I live, but which evidently had an earlier life in another role. For sale, a snip at £85,000 – for well over a year. Since the houses in this road are mostly getting on for 200 years old, I imagine that this structure could be partly of the same age. The rest of the photos are of the same wall, on the boundary of what is now a conference centre and school but was originally a large house. Some very odd “decorative” panels. Behind each there is a buttress, and the ground drops the other side of the wall, so that it is exposed for at least twice the height that can be seen on the road side. Evidently, it was built in two parts and they do not quite line up – has one slipped a little? Not forgetting the “statutory” fire hydrant sign and manhole cover. Also note the cable cover up the power pole. And in one place there is this section of railing in the wall, for no apparent reason. Incidentally, on the other side of the road two rows of houses retain their pre-war iron decorative railings in good condition. Probably a bit of a mixture next week. And please keep your photos coming too. Jonathan PS Glad to see the international interest. As a certain gentleman invented by Dylan Thomas said, you can never have too much Bach. Edited August 16, 2022 by corneliuslundie 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 It's been a while since this gate was used. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 Above is the End Gable of a workshop adjacent to the funicular railway at Bridgnorth but not part of it. Not been able to discover the reason for the "decorative " brickwork Another door in a wall! again at Bridgnorth. The steps lead down to the River Severn, passing the door to the Funicular Railway lower station. The building with the door opening belongs to the "Severn Hotel" and was originally the hotel's Brewery. used for delivery of sacks of Hops etc I assume. Another view below:- The steps (reputed to be 200 of them) predate the Funicular and lead up to "High Town" 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2021 (edited) On 07/03/2021 at 19:46, figworthy said: There were (are ?) quite a lot of them in Birmingham and Black Country giving access to the canals for the same reason. Adrian I think my dad could probably list every one. He was off sick for a time when in the Fire Brigade and was allowed to go back on light duties when recovering from surgery. It was at a time when a lot of slum clearance and redevelopment was happening. His task for that period was to check the location and height above water of all bridges over canals, rivers and streams and produce a city-wide map showing all available water supplies suitable for firefighting. Edited April 23, 2021 by TheSignalEngineer 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Von Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 An unfeasibly long limb: 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Definitely a case of go into the light! That would have to be climbed when I was a kid. It wouldn't take much to get me climbing it now either! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 An unfeasibly unsupported bit of brickwork? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 (edited) A varied selection of items seen today. A stone stile on a footpath up an alley at Southrop: A stone well head at Eastleach Turville, long since out of use: A clapper bridge over the Leach, leading from Eastleach Turville to Eastleach Martin: A stone marking the county boundary between Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire on a minor road 2 miles west of Holwell: Edited April 9, 2022 by eastglosmog Restore photos 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 A stone gatepost that is about as rough hewn as they come on a back lane overlooking Tebay. A prototype for everything. I suspect that if you put a 30 foot tree in the middle of a model river, someone would tell you that it was improbable. River Lune near Low Gill. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted April 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) As promised, a miscellany this week. First some rather prominent lichen on two trees. Unusually this is very white, though lichen varies greatly in colour. Secondly, what was presumably once a watering point for animals, probably sheep. Next, back on lichen, very prominent yellow lichen on a roadside hedge. Not so noticeable once he leaves have appeared but very obvious in autumn and winter. One for a waste area on a model, the stump of a tree which has fallen. The main trunk has been cut up because it crossed the path (The Severn Way in this case). Remains of another tree which has evidently been beside the lane for a very long time. We have had a grit bin. There seem to be at least two styles in our area, but they are not common outside the town and usually one simply gets a pile of grit waiting to be used – or washed away by the rain. Not a manhole, though I shall return to that topic some time. This is in the pavement just outside the entrance to Dolerw Park, a large park alongside the river, and named after an adjacent large house, now a conference centre. Another tree which has fallen across a path, though in this case it has simply had a chunk removed to clear the path. Next week: pedestrian bridges. Keep your pics coming, especially those of urban areas to complement my inevitably rural ones. Jonathan Edited October 1, 2022 by corneliuslundie 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) This is the sluice operating gear for Throop Mill, Dorset (see earlier in the thread). Manufactured by the Dorset Ironfoundry Co in Poole: Edited April 9, 2022 by eastglosmog Restore photo 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) Steps up from a lock tail at Chalford on the Thames and Severn Canal: Edited April 9, 2022 by eastglosmog Restore photo 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2021 15 hours ago, eastglosmog said: This is the sluice operating gear for Throop Mill, Dorset (see earlier in the thread). Manufactured by the Dorset Ironfoundry Co in Poole: Presumably there wouls have originally been a walkway on the other side of the sluices too - otherwise it'd be rather difficult to get the hanldes on to operate them! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Nick C said: Presumably there wouls have originally been a walkway on the other side of the sluices too - otherwise it'd be rather difficult to get the hanldes on to operate them! One would hope so, but I suspect there was no handrail and you just stood on the sluice gate frame and wound from there - definitely not compliant with current H&S practices! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Excuse the borrowed photo, but the sluice in this picture is how I learnt to swim, the alternative being drown. Luckily for me the wheel was removed decades earlier. This is how I remember the place, it is now of course a des res and greatly changed. The colouring of the brickwork and the shed are worth copying in model form. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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