Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Help the Science Museum identify mystery objects  (Read 476 times)

Offline IgorStrav

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,955
  • Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
    • View Profile
Help the Science Museum identify mystery objects
« on: Sunday 19 July 20 19:06 BST (UK) »
Interesting article from the Guardian/Observer today about objects donated/acquired by the Science Museum in London which they've got no idea about.....

Anyone here able to identify?

shorturl.at/bfsHK

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01pqp/

Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
Burton, East London.
Barlow, East London
Wayling, East London
Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
Thorpe, Brightlingsea, Essex

Online Erato

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 6,751
  • Old Powder House, 1703
    • View Profile
Re: Help the Science Museum identify mystery objects
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 19 July 20 19:09 BST (UK) »
Is that a link?  If so, it doesn't work.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

Offline IgorStrav

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,955
  • Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
    • View Profile
Re: Help the Science Museum identify mystery objects
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 19 July 20 19:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Erato on Sunday 19 July 20 19:09 BST (UK)
Is that a link?  If so, it doesn't work.

The second one does, Erato

Apologies, I've been using the other URL shortening method for something else, and forgot to use the Rootschat one - now added
Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
Burton, East London.
Barlow, East London
Wayling, East London
Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
Thorpe, Brightlingsea, Essex

Offline Ray T

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,502
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Help the Science Museum identify mystery objects
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 19 July 20 22:18 BST (UK) »
Do they really not know what a treadle operated fret saw is? Fretwork was popular up until the 1940s and you could by the saws for some years after that.

Offline Nick_Ips

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 543
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Help the Science Museum identify mystery objects
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 21 July 20 00:44 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Ray T on Sunday 19 July 20 22:18 BST (UK)
Do they really not know what a treadle operated fret saw is? Fretwork was popular up until the 1940s and you could by the saws for some years after that.

Would it be cynical of me to link that news story to the start of the school holidays and the ability to book tickets for their reopening on 19th August?   :-X

I used a virtually identical model (if not the same model) of that fretsaw in anger as a young hobbyist - it belonged to a neighbour who lent it to us for a while.  Great fun making jigsaws with pictures glued on to hardboard. The original drivebelt had been lost and the replacement length of string didn't have the right level of grip on the large drive wheel, so to start it going you had to give the upper pulley a spin until the string started to grip. Otherwise you just sat there treddling with nothing else happening.  :)
Pages: [1]