Picture(s) of the day....

[Peter.N.]

You've got it Bobbins. Its the biggest one I have ever seen. there were a lot of them still going when we moved down here 1n 1970, there was one on this farm but it had been replaced by a petrol driven piston pump. A friend of ours had a farm on Bodmin Moor in the '60s and he had a compound ram, driven by the river water but actually pumping spring water, it was pushing it up about 100 feet to a reservoir at the top of the farm.

If you were walking through the country you could hear/feel them from some distance, thump ....thump....thump.

The one in the picture is in a wooded area just off what was the A9 below wick, it was practically buried and very dark, I think it must have supplied a house/pub on the other side of the road.

Peter

[bobins]

It's a bit odd as I didn't think they were normally located at the point of delivery of the water - which that one seems to be ? As in - it looks like it delivers into the trough ?
We've got one here where I work, it's in it's own chamber on a small island where the stream splits. As far as I can tell, It took it's head of water from the mill lake. It used to pump over the fields to some farm houses - the field it crosses has always been known as 'ram field'.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Answering all these questions has taken me over the 700 posts without a celebratory car, it just won't do!!!:

Have a celebratory Bus trip on the 700!

Wick to Brighton on a bus would be as challenging as Chicago to Seattle non stop on a train! ( ah but our West Sussex correspondant may well be familiar with the Southern Wick, and indeed perhaps even the 700 bus itself!)

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REgards Neil

[Peter.N.]

It use to be 750 miles from here to Wick, only just over 700 now since they bridged the lochs and straightened the roads.

Bobbins

I don't think the trough has anything to do with the delivery as the pump itself is located a long distance from anywhere that water would be required, possibly for maintenance? It is housed very close to a river but in quite dense woodland just off a forest walk. We found it when we were walking the dog.

Peter

[bobins]

Have a celebratory Bus trip on the 700!

Wick to Brighton on a bus would be as challenging as Chicago to Seattle non stop on a train! ( ah but our West Sussex correspondant may well be familiar with the Southern Wick, and indeed perhaps even the 700 bus itself!)

REgards Neil

I have had cause to use the 700 Coastliner in the dim and distant past. Never had cause to use it from Wick, though I do know Wick well enough and know what it's claim to fame is : It's not Littlehampton

[bobins]

In the distance is Wick. No, really...... in the very far distance, just below the clouds, is Wick


1 castle arundel aerial pano 2017
Chensiyuan [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

[mickthemaverick]

Answering all these questions has taken me over the 700 posts without a celebratory car, it just won't do!!!:

Have a celebratory Bus trip on the 700!

Wick to Brighton on a bus would be as challenging as Chicago to Seattle non stop on a train! ( ah but our West Sussex correspondant may well be familiar with the Southern Wick, and indeed perhaps even the 700 bus itself!)



REgards Neil

Now that is a real result, especially if they'll accept my bus pass!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

I prefer the one on the right
nf own work

regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

"Remember the Ravens"
POTD contributors and joiners-in.
Friday 25th October 2019 saw them taking flight.

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POTD is to the forum like Ravens are to the Tower of London
If a day is allowed to pass without a POTD it would be akin to the Ravens deserting the tower!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_of ... _of_London


Jubilee and Munin, Ravens, Tower of London 2016-04-30
© User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons, via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

This morning I had to wind my study clock forward an hour to get the time right!! Who knows why?

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Own work

[myglaren]

Some mechanisms can't be wound back without damaging them.

The clock in the C5 is a bit like that - my oven too, will only go forwards.

[Hell Razor5543]

This morning I had to wind my study clock forward an hour to get the time right!! Who knows why?

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It wouldn't take more than a few moments to get used to that clock. However, the clock in Patrician Vetinari's waiting room is FAR more 'evil';

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/125641 ... ad-trained

[myglaren]

Anyone remember the Guinness clock?

[mickthemaverick]

Yes Steve I certainly do, and for those that don't you can find out all about it here: http://manchesterhistory.net/bellevue/guinness.html

[Hell Razor5543]

Cheltenham has a "Wishing Fish Clock";



while Milton Keynes has "The Bubble Clock";