History Challenge & Journal

[STEVE G]

Found it eventually, it's the buoy yard of the Blackwell Training School for Lighthouse keepers.
I knew it was something to do with Trinity House:
http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/pdfs/hori ... zon_13.pdf

[Arcadian]

Keeping to the nautical theme, can you name the British lighthouse which is one of the highest and lowest both at the same time?

[Siani]

Skerryvore is very high but not sure if it the one you are looking for

[Big Boy]

http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk ... thouse.htm

[Arcadian]

http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk ... thouse.htm

Correct BB,

[Big Boy]

I was a question that regularly cropped up when I used to go to pub quizzes.

[dtaai-maai]

Well done, Steve, but to complete the answer, what is the connection between the two lighthouses?

[STEVE G]

Well done, Steve, but to complete the answer, what is the connection between the two lighthouses?

Michael Faraday and the introdution of electric lighting for lighthouses? Apparently the first was an experimental one at Blackwall and the next was operational at South Foreland.

[dtaai-maai]

Spot on!

[Arcadian]

I was a question that regularly cropped up when I used to go to pub quizzes.

And what was the answer to the question "Big Boy"

[Big Boy]

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[Siani]

Ok historians...what is this please? Can you date it?

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[sandman67]

I would guess at a neck or ankle shackle for a prisoner or convict....neck looks more likely.

From the days of transportation so sometime in the 1700s?



ahhhhh...hang on.

Is it a "stirrup" used by the Foresters (the kings gamekeepers) for measuring the size of a hunting dog? If the whole dog ddnt fit through they would cut its legs off.....if so its early Middle Ages around the 1200s.

[Siani]

I would guess at a neck or ankle shackle for a prisoner or convict....neck looks more likely.

From the days of transportation so sometime in the 1700s?



ahhhhh...hang on.

Is it a "stirrup" used by the Foresters (the kings gamekeepers) for measuring the size of a hunting dog? If the whole dog ddnt fit through they would cut its legs off.....if so its early Middle Ages around the 1200s.

1 point for the word neck SM....not for convicts. A bit later than 1700 is the date...
Not a stirrup used by the Foresters (the kings gamekeepers) for measuring the size of a hunting dog? If the whole dog ddnt fit through they would cut its legs off.....if so its early Middle Ages around the 1200s, good try sorry no

[Siani]

SM you are on the right track with neck shackle. Here is another clue.... early anti theft