Just ingenious...........

[magnoliafan89]

Came across this beaut today......
Just....wow

Because obviously it would've been even harder to have just moved it...

 

[MFS Electrical]

Old servant bell systems . Some of them are works of art.
Lead weights to keep them taught and brass pulley wheels to change directions . The boards themselves are the works of classic tradesmen . A real art.

I’ve never seen one in real life but I’d like to. Old stuff like this intrigues me and i like to wonder who actually came up with some of the genius ideas.

 

[ruston]

I’ve never seen one in real life but I’d like to. Old stuff like this intrigues me and i like to wonder who actually came up with some of the genius ideas.

This particular 'house' had 6 inch cast iron pipes running through the coach house and stables heating the coaches and loose boxes . The servants quarters were in the attic , no heating and lit by candles. The servants had written their initials on the vaulted low ceilings with the heat from the candles , the wax was still on the floor . It was very eerie.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Old servant bell systems . Some of them are works of art.
Lead weights to keep them taught and brass pulley wheels to change directions . The boards themselves are the works of classic tradesmen . A real art.

The Victorians were geniuses!

 

[MFS Electrical]

This particular 'house' had 6 inch cast iron pipes running through the coach house and stables heating the coaches and loose boxes . The servants quarters were in the attic , no heating and lit by candles. The servants had written their initials on the vaulted low ceilings with the heat from the candles , the wax was still on the floor . It was very eerie.

Shivery working in there? I’ve been in a few places like that in my time worked in the old clock belltowers and in old police stations with the old cells still intact but used as storage now the worst of them all had to be the tunnel that the executioner/funeral man used to take the bodies of the people who were hung in the public square back down underneath the town buildings in Greenock that was a very eerie place. Horrible feeling working in that tunnel unbelievably cold and strange.

 

[Silly Sausage]

This particular 'house' had 6 inch cast iron pipes running through the coach house and stables heating the coaches and loose boxes . The servants quarters were in the attic , no heating and lit by candles. The servants had written their initials on the vaulted low ceilings with the heat from the candles , the wax was still on the floor . It was very eerie.

We went down the disused tube tunnels between Borough and London Bridge. They were used as air raid shelters in WW2 and you could see the remains of the old war posters and 'graffiti' from the 'residents' at the time, where they slept, the toilet blocks etc etc. Fascinating.

 

[ruston]

Shivery working in there? I’ve been in a few places like that in my time worked in the old clock belltowers and in old police stations with the old cells still intact but used as storage now the worst of them all had to be the tunnel that the executioner/funeral man used to take the bodies of the people who were hung in the public square back down underneath the town buildings in Greenock that was a very eerie place. Horrible feeling working in that tunnel unbelievably cold and strange.

We went down the disused tube tunnels between Borough and London Bridge. They were used as air raid shelters in WW2 and you could see the remains of the old war posters and 'graffiti' from the 'residents' at the time, where they slept, the toilet blocks etc etc. Fascinating.

Yes , I don't care what anyone says , when you are working in places like that you definitely have company.

 

[MFS Electrical]

We went down the disused tube tunnels between Borough and London Bridge. They were used as air raid shelters in WW2 and you could see the remains of the old war posters and 'graffiti' from the 'residents' at the time, where they slept, the toilet blocks etc etc. Fascinating.

Places like that I could spend all day I used to love working for the council round here as your got to see places most people didn’t know existed, places that hadn’t been seen in a good few years and some real hidden gems which should have really been open to the public

 

[Squid]

Wire is wire string is string ;o))))

 

[MFS Electrical]

Wire is wire string is string ;o))))

What about wire covered with string what’s that?

 

[Silly Sausage]

Yes , I don't care what anyone says , when you are working in places like that you definitely have company.

I might still have piccies somewhere. Hard copy, pre-digital days!

 

[ruston]

Be nice to see those .

 

[MFS Electrical]

Another fascinating place I worked was a prison in Glasgow one of the maintenance guys there showed me a picture of the gallows that used to be in one of the halls. One of the last people to be hanged there turned out to be a distant relative of mine

 

[Silly Sausage]

Places like that I could spend all day I used to love working for the council round here as your got to see places most people didn’t know existed, places that hadn’t been seen in a good few years and some real hidden gems which should have really been open to the public

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[ruston]

Places like that I could spend all day I used to love working for the council round here as your got to see places most people didn’t know existed, places that hadn’t been seen in a good few years and some real hidden gems which should have really been open to the public

I would have loved to have walked around the old torpedo factory in Alexandria before they destroyed it . There is some weird and wonderful history where you live.
I used to play in Bruce's cave as a boy.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Be nice to see those .

Don't hold your breath Rus, state of my house!
Thanks for reminding me though, have to try and find them.
I'm struggling to focus on the screen now, see you later