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11-08-2012, 08:07 PM
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What is it?

I came across this interesting old photograph recently and there are no details about it, anyone know what it's all about?
Suggestions welcome. I think it's the first flying Olympic Stadium.
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11-08-2012, 08:24 PM
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Re: What is it?

Jem it's the ancient sport of 'bobbin bouncing ' played only in Derbyshire by mill workers on their yearly day off .
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11-08-2012, 08:41 PM
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Your havin' me on Meg, bobbin' bouncing is a rap song by "The Grits", besides if that's the bobbin I'd love to see the size of the sewing machine.
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11-08-2012, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by jemflux ->
Your havin' me on Meg, bobbin' bouncing is a rap song by "The Grits", besides if that's the bobbin I'd love to see the size of the sewing machine.
It's off the Derbyshire version of the Spinning Jenny Jem

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11-08-2012, 09:06 PM
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Thanks for that Meg, I can put a name to it now. I knew there were all sorts of strange games played back then, like rolling a large cheese down a hill and many others.
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11-08-2012, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by jemflux ->
Thanks for that Meg, I can put a name to it now. I knew there were all sorts of strange games played back then, like rolling a large cheese down a hill and many others.
Back then they still have cheese rolling in Gloucestershire Jem not far from here and near Shirley
http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/2012_youtube_video.htm
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11-08-2012, 09:18 PM
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Jem I understand the Spinning Jenny featured above was made from a pest resistant tree which was genetically engineered at University College Dublin in 1931 by Sir Gerald Barker and a team of bright students
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11-08-2012, 10:00 PM
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That's a wheel for a giant hamster.
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11-08-2012, 10:25 PM
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Hang on now, that rings a BELL

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12-08-2012, 09:43 AM
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Is Its a weather balloon refracting the light from venus .......

Or a Victorian attempt of a UFO cover up...

probably taken in Roswell new Yorkshire

PS you can see the strings ...lol
 
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