Photo puzzle six - what and where (again)

[Dog Star]

Here is a snap-shot of something that I spotted last weekend...



What was this is?

Where is it?

Simples or might be if most of the useful clues had not been removed by "official vandals". Fraser (@Overseer) is respectfully asked to wait a few days before joining in and then only when he can provide a photo of a complete item (my knowledge of this "thing" is limited to just one photo in a 1970s/80s photo album by Ian Allan).

 

[simond]

Where?

 

[Dog Star]

Where?

Yes... in what sort of place?

Maybe also, put there by whom?

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

It's a polar bear in a snowstorm.

 

[Dog Star]

It's a polar bear in a snowstorm.

Surely a polar "beare"?

Do I detect that some of you cannot see the image?

 

[mickoo]

Looks like good firewood to me, keep me toasty for a few hours that bit would

Other than that, pretty sure it's a drinking fountain stand or hand basin stand with a single mixer tap in the middle.

As to where, looks like the one in the GPO bike sheds at Southwald I had to relag the pipework on 35 years ago.

MD

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

drinking fountain stand

My thought as well - could be for humans or horses.

Do I detect that some of you cannot see the image?

Not initially.

 

[Osgood]

Looks like a standard mounting plate for a cast iron water hand lift pump with a lead lift chamber.

 

[simond]

Aah, there it is!

I'd go with a pump mounting, except that it's against a window. Could it be a support for a block token instrument?

Best
Simon

 

[Dog Star]

My memory, of one picture in a photo album, is that this object is the wood remains of a drinking fountain. What has been removed is the cast bowl / sink section which sat upon the boxed section and a backplate with the water outlet. Not visible in the photo is a large bore lead pipe within the box section at the front

The location is Spean Bridge, against the end screen of the covered portion of the platform.