Potters Cottage - Janurary 2017

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The_Derp_Lane

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The third location of my recent day out.

I knew about this place for a while, As I was heading in the right direction, I decided to give it another look since the overgrown parts have died down. There is more to it than I originally thought and it was actually a decent mooch. Plenty of history and so much stuff left behind outside. The main cottage suffered a fire and is sealed up.

The last owner here was elderly, had a passion for pottery and animal keeping. Quite a sad place, I do wonder what happened here.

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Thanks for looking.
 
From the bits an pieces I can see in your excellent pics the person who lived there was a good with their hands, you have made a great post from this find Dauntless, Many Thanks
 
Interesting set of pictures and nicely recorded in detail. I noticed in Picture 10 the machine looks like a grinder and table saw in one. Picture 11 has an interesting machine, there's a lathe in the background but in the foreground looks like an engraving machine. Picture 14 is an old railway boxcar and picture 18 looks like a butcher's block.
 
Some strange butcher's shops down your way HJ, up here they like to keep them cool. More recognisable in the butcher's kitchen, it is an Aga (going by colours or Radiation etc copy] single oven, two radiant coal/coke fuelled cooking stove and hot water boiler. The back boiler is usually fitted behind the fire hole - door on the right, and the radiants are covered by the drop lids when not in use. The grinder/table saw was one of the first combined tools of this type for the DIY market, sawing wood and sharpening chisels and other tools. However many were converted to cut metal by replacing the wood saw blade with a metal cutting disc and fitting a flap abrasive disc at the other end to de-burr (as my old machine is so fitted. The lathe is similar to many sold pre war by stores such as Gamages and the like, but has had the centre height increased by mounting the head and tail stocks on wooden blocks. This; and the fact that there is a large freehand chisel rest mounted in front of the faceplate, indicates to me that perhaps the user of this lathe was also into turning wooden bowls. The so called engraving machine is a model of a vertical pedestal steam engine; however, there looks to be some serious modifications having been carried out to the crank connection under the table.

A brilliant and well deserved photographic memory of a very talented engineer and gentleman.
 
Some strange butcher's shops down your way HJ, up here they like to keep them cool. More recognisable in the butcher's kitchen, it is an Aga (going by colours or Radiation etc copy] single oven, two radiant coal/coke fuelled cooking stove and hot water boiler. The back boiler is usually fitted behind the fire hole - door on the right, and the radiants are covered by the drop lids when not in use. The grinder/table saw was one of the first combined tools of this type for the DIY market, sawing wood and sharpening chisels and other tools. However many were converted to cut metal by replacing the wood saw blade with a metal cutting disc and fitting a flap abrasive disc at the other end to de-burr (as my old machine is so fitted. The lathe is similar to many sold pre war by stores such as Gamages and the like, but has had the centre height increased by mounting the head and tail stocks on wooden blocks. This; and the fact that there is a large freehand chisel rest mounted in front of the faceplate, indicates to me that perhaps the user of this lathe was also into turning wooden bowls. The so called engraving machine is a model of a vertical pedestal steam engine; however, there looks to be some serious modifications having been carried out to the crank connection under the table.

A brilliant and well deserved photographic memory of a very talented engineer and gentleman.

That butchers block I mentioned, well it looks like one but I didn't realise it could be an AGA. My immediate thoughts about the engineering talents of the previous owner. The grinder/table saw I thought would be hand-made to suit a special task. I didn't realise it is a Gamages bought lathe, those are rare. I wasn't far off by suggesting that it could be some kind of engraving machine but for a particular purpose.
Thanks for your help DS.
 
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