Incredible. You get your house burgled and the Police don't even bother coming out. Someone goes into a house that has been empty for 35 years and about 6 Police cars show up.
The bedstead was manufactured by Chorlton & Dugdale which was a furniture and bedstead manufacturer which existed from 1876-1891 and were based in Manchester and London. The Excelsior bedframe was manufactured for invalids (their terminology) with a patented spring design which won many awards. I bet you there's not many of these left on the planet!
Hi Colin, the cannon plunger is a posser for using when you were doing the weekly washing. I’d help my Gran by filling the tub with hot water, washing powder or a dolly blue then put in the washing & swish the clothes round in the tub, worked really well.
I thought it might be to do with that type of laundry work. I'd no idea of the real name of it though so I'm really glad that you wrote your comment 😮😊
The short wave radio reciever/ transmitter is from the 1930's the contraption by the side is a high frequency Ariel, the pieces on the top of the radio are Fuses for artillery shells,the rocket shaped one is a rarity, honestly a great find.
Good Evening Colin, the apparatus you weren’t sure about at around 16.52 mins is an old radio set and aerial for it. Your co-explorer is nearly right, the things on the top of the radio are the time fuses from old artillery shells, completely harmless but very cool, I’m sure someone will be able to enlighten you further. Great job as always, love the videos!
Yup its s a LW/MW/Shortwave SuperHeterodyne receiver made around 1925-1930 by a UK company called Igranic Electric Ltd. It sported no less than 6 valves! The antenna is some sort of DIY Rhomboid Frame aerial. Given the very approx. dimensions shown, it was likely being used for picking up SW signals in the 3Mhz to 7Mhz bands. It looks like there is no external speaker present as that would normally be attached to the screw-studs on the rightmost side of the front panel. The receiver is ultra rare and probably worth a few bob to collectors on the vintage radio forum! Other than that ..
Down in the kitchen that was an old fashioned boiler for clothes etc. My Great Grandfather had one,my mum and me lived with him when I was a baby for a short time. Then we went to live with my Mum's parents xxx
Some info on the mattress frame you found. The firm of Chorlton & Dugdale was listed in The Furniture Gazette Directory, 1876 & 1877, at 76 Higher Ormond Street, Manchester and 63 Watling Street, London. They advertised their Excelsior patent spring mattress in The Furniture Gazette, 22 January 1876, and continued to advertise in this publication until 1891.
I think that is an old radio with an antenna or cat whiskers. You would tweak the whiskers to make the station come in clearer. The metal plunger was used for laundry as an agitator. Awesome find! Enjoy your videos!
I imagine that the toilet cistern that appears wooden actually is a cover that has an old metal tank in it, covered to prevent condensation from dripping from it & ensuring the tank did not freeze & split.
The "plunger" you saw was used in a dolly tub for washing clothes, you would light the boiler under the tub, put your washing in and then use the ponch to squash them down and turn them, rather like the old twin tub agitator, I used to use it in my granny's house in the 50s
@The Bearded Explorer .. The device shown at 16m45s onwards is a LW/MW/Shortwave SuperHeterodyne receiver made around 1925-1930 by a UK company called Igranic Electric Ltd. It sported no less than 6 valves. The antenna is some sort of DIY Rhomboid Frame aerial. Given the very approx. dimensions shown, it was likely being used for picking up SW signals in the 3Mhz to 7Mhz bands. It looks like there is no external speaker present as that would normally be attached to the screw-studs on the rightmost side of the front panel. The receiver is ultra rare and probably worth a few bob to collectors on the vintage radio forum! Other than that ..
Great video, what a find. With all those armchairs in one room I would guess the Lady was a very sociable person and very knowledgeable. The set up of furniture in the lounge room was just like my Dads old place in London years ago. The thing that looked like a plunger was an old fashioned 'Washing Dolly' used inside the tub of boiling water or copper boiler to wash clothes or sheets etc, by plunging it up and down by hand it pushed the water through the material and made it so clean and white long before washing machines were used in the home. Also o vacume cleaner jyst a carpet sweeper, broom and mop. Thank you so much. 💕🇦🇺
Golly Colin, them last few minutes in the house had me sitting on the edge of my seat, so suspenseful and a great video. I see ladies shoes downstairs that you picked up, but the with only a ladder to access the upper level makes me think no lady would climb up there, so maybe the male of the house was spying on the Russian spy organization intercepting their radio signals. Great content, you surpassed yourself with this video and the Police did an excellent job responding to a eagle eyed citizen, this is probably why this old house is still not vandalized.
Adam Explores was here 2 months ago .. he picked exactly the same book up as you did. Very freaky lol. … and why is it always you that gets collared by the fuzz 😂.. enjoyed 👍🏻
The big tin full of sugar may have been for feeding bees as there also were 2 white machines that looked like spin-dryers that I suspect were actually the machines used to seperate & clean raw honey.
Good morning Colin, great video and find, just to let you know I've seen those toilet systems before which were lead lined inside, keep up the good work
That thing you thought was an axe looks like a draughtsmans set square. I have something similar in my loft. The short bit slides along the edge of a drawing board and the long length is your accurate horizontal or vertical line.
That house is a real blast from the past, a proper time warp. It’s obviously been abandoned for many years. There’s no way I would have explored it in darkness as it was really spooky.
the thing with the stick is for washing clothes. water in a tub and always up and down. the water then flows out of the holes at the bottom under pressure.
That intro music at the start really sets the mood for the video. Good work Colin. Shame about the last part but guess they were just following up on reports.
Tazer is back! I saw him in the Irish bar explore but forgot to comment. Tazer you were almost right with those things on top of the radio...they are artillery shell fuses 👍
Love your stuff really interesting, as someone mentioned earlier that Adam Mark was there a while back and did some spooky stuff, and says it’s very haunted!!
Hi Colin brilliant video again I see your friends the police came to see you yet again my mother and grandmother had one of those plungers it for doing the washing in a tube they go back over a 100 years keep up your brilliant work and videos Bernard
How many police 😂. Didn’t even get that many when I actually was in a situation where someone was trying to get in my house with my children in it. Unbelievable. Great explore allthough the house was very creepy, FairPlay to you doing it at night
Wow 😳 Colin what an adrenaline fuelled video! Squad cars, monster spiders and scary as heck houses 🏚️ Your videos are truly the most creepy i have ever seen glad you weren't on your own. So good to see Tazer again. Thanks 👍
That plunger thing upstairs is what they would use to wash clothes. The radio was incredible. What an incredible find. Thanks Colin and glad to see Tazer, Nathan with you.
Sorry but that spider! That was a really spooky house. Loved it though!! I'm glad you weren't alone. I couldn't do what you do No way!!! The police ending was a surprise to you and to us.
Break in it’s abandoned for decades 🙄 all those police , yet we had an trespasser where we lived a couple of years ago and police didn’t bother to turn up , luckily I can hold my own, yet a rotten old house and everything is falling apart they send all resources to it 🤦♂️ other than end drama a good vid as always 😎
I'm new to your channel and have been greatly enjoying your explores. It's really wise though to protect your lungs and wear a mask, because all of the white stuff on the books, doors etc, is white mold.
I bet the cops were talking to themselves and saying well then who is going to go in there to search for the burglars lol as they might know what the house is like and did not fancy their chances of bumping into something or someone in the dark lol, Love it
That place had a lot of amazing 30's details, that's probably the last time it was modernised as the structure and windows do seem older. Either that or it's a 30's build with mock Tudor features. Love it either way! Awesome find!! 😊😊
Omg off the bloody Scales Colin, what a Outstanding house, wiv a little extra Paranormal, I can't believe all them police car and van's just for you 2 lmao, but Probably not funny at the time for yous take care stay safe 🙏🇬🇧❤️🚔🚔🚓
Yay Tazer! I love you two together. Very nice house, Lots of cool stuff. And finished off with a fine brace of police officers. Looks like it was a quiet evening and everybody wanted to get in on the only excitement of the night.
The 3 things on top of the radio in the first room upstairs were timer fuses for bombs. The long handled thing in the second room that you thought was a plunger was a posser, used to wash clothes in a large barrel
6:25 Did I see a bong on the little table by the door to the garden. It was red mostly. As much as I watched the video over and over there, my brain would not let me say it was a flashlight standing on end. 🤯
Wow what an incredible find a real time capsule it feels so sad that a nice house is left forgotten and lonely take away all the vines and I’m sure the house would be beautiful thank you Colin
Loving this colin it's like going through a museum, again why has it been left for so long has the last of any owner's family all passed, 🤣🤣I'm 60 years old and I remember toilet paper like that when I was at school it was torture 🤣
Absolutely awesome. I remember my older brother having a very similar radio and airel. He fitted the airel in the loft of our house and fell through the ceiling and landed on my parents bed. This was in the 1960's
What a little beauty that was Colin, loved it. I wonder who the lady was who lived there, nice little loft conversion she had and considering how long it's been empty, it's still doing reasonably well! Can't believe all those police for what could have just been a homeless person looking for an empty place to sleep !! That bed looked like my grans old bed, they were so well made back then with sprung bases that lasted a long time. Loved this explore, no daft ghosts or paranormal nonsense, just a brilliant explore of a very old forgotten little house ...... fantastic, thank you xx 😘👍
@ 21:08 pretty sure that copper thing is used for washing clothes, my mother had one but smaller way back in the early 60s we didn't have a washing machine at that time and only twintubs were available, so she washed everything either by hand or used a copper boiler, heated with gas from underneath, it was mainly used for boiling White's like bed sheets towels and so on the plunger was used to agitate the washing
That looks like an old WWII radio upstairs. Whether it transmits or just receives, I'm not sure. Some radio ham might be able to tell you more. But definitely a radio n areal. 👍🇭🇲🇬🇧
Colin!! This was such a COOL find and explore! I was listening to your video with ear buds in. If you go to the time 15.19. You are talking about the dust and things you might be breathing in. There was a VERY strange noise or VOICE right under yours. I listened to it a bunch of times, both with and without ear buds. I encourage everyone to give it a listen and see what YOU think?!!😁😁😁 BTW...your viewers are fantastic! So much info given about the items you all found!
The item in the loft is for washing clothes. You plunge it up and down in a wash tub. I believe it is called a clothes dolly. The short wave radio is awesome.
Incredible. You get your house burgled and the Police don't even bother coming out. Someone goes into a house that has been empty for 35 years and about 6 Police cars show up.
Well said and so true 🙊
So so true
Exactly what I was going to comment. 👍
I was thinking the exact same thing 😂 maybe they were hoping to claim some overtime 🤔
Probably someone reported lights in house, don't know why he had to go there in the dark? Still a bit of an overkill by the police though
The bedstead was manufactured by Chorlton & Dugdale which was a furniture and bedstead manufacturer which existed from 1876-1891 and were based in Manchester and London. The Excelsior bedframe was manufactured for invalids (their terminology) with a patented spring design which won many awards. I bet you there's not many of these left on the planet!
Hi Colin, the cannon plunger is a posser for using when you were doing the weekly washing. I’d help my Gran by filling the tub with hot water, washing powder or a dolly blue then put in the washing & swish the clothes round in the tub, worked really well.
I thought it might be to do with that type of laundry work. I'd no idea of the real name of it though so I'm really glad that you wrote your comment 😮😊
The short wave radio reciever/ transmitter is from the 1930's the contraption by the side is a high frequency Ariel, the pieces on the top of the radio are Fuses for artillery shells,the rocket shaped one is a rarity, honestly a great find.
Good Evening Colin, the apparatus you weren’t sure about at around 16.52 mins is an old radio set and aerial for it. Your co-explorer is nearly right, the things on the top of the radio are the time fuses from old artillery shells, completely harmless but very cool, I’m sure someone will be able to enlighten you further. Great job as always, love the videos!
Yup its s a LW/MW/Shortwave SuperHeterodyne receiver made around 1925-1930 by a UK company called Igranic Electric Ltd. It sported no less than 6 valves! The antenna is some sort of DIY Rhomboid Frame aerial. Given the very approx. dimensions shown, it was likely being used for picking up SW signals in the 3Mhz to 7Mhz bands. It looks like there is no external speaker present as that would normally be attached to the screw-studs on the rightmost side of the front panel. The receiver is ultra rare and probably worth a few bob to collectors on the vintage radio forum! Other than that ..
Good one Col catchphrase of UA-cam "a Very, Very long time" gotta love it keep up the good work
Down in the kitchen that was an old fashioned boiler for clothes etc. My Great Grandfather had one,my mum and me lived with him when I was a baby for a short time. Then we went to live with my Mum's parents xxx
The thing in the attic is a very early 1920s radio and it's aerial. Worth a little bit to a collector..
Some info on the mattress frame you found.
The firm of Chorlton & Dugdale was listed in The Furniture Gazette Directory, 1876 & 1877, at 76 Higher Ormond Street, Manchester and 63 Watling Street, London. They advertised their Excelsior patent spring mattress in The Furniture Gazette, 22 January 1876, and continued to advertise in this publication until 1891.
Very interesting Thanks for writing it all down I really wanted to know more
I think that is an old radio with an antenna or cat whiskers. You would tweak the whiskers to make the station come in clearer. The metal plunger was used for laundry as an agitator.
Awesome find! Enjoy your videos!
I imagine that the toilet cistern that appears wooden actually is a cover that has an old metal tank in it, covered to prevent condensation from dripping from it & ensuring the tank did not freeze & split.
Not necessarily. Wooden cisterns were quite commonplace at the start of the last century.
@@patm8622 Thankyou, that is interesting to know.
This is a Fascinating old home.
The "plunger" you saw was used in a dolly tub for washing clothes, you would light the boiler under the tub, put your washing in and then use the ponch to squash them down and turn them, rather like the old twin tub agitator, I used to use it in my granny's house in the 50s
It was a 'copper' you had to light a fire under to do your laundry.
@The Bearded Explorer .. The device shown at 16m45s onwards is a LW/MW/Shortwave SuperHeterodyne receiver made around 1925-1930 by a UK company called Igranic Electric Ltd. It sported no less than 6 valves. The antenna is some sort of DIY Rhomboid Frame aerial. Given the very approx. dimensions shown, it was likely being used for picking up SW signals in the 3Mhz to 7Mhz bands. It looks like there is no external speaker present as that would normally be attached to the screw-studs on the rightmost side of the front panel. The receiver is ultra rare and probably worth a few bob to collectors on the vintage radio forum! Other than that ..
The thing you found in the attic was for washing clothes you had a large metal barrel and you use that to plunge in and out to wash your
clothes. 😀W
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Great vid. The stick with the copper end in the loft is called a ponch or laundry plunger. Was used with a tub for washing clothes 😀
yes a dolly tub
I love those old built in stoves that have tiles on the front.
Great video, what a find. With all those armchairs in one room I would guess the Lady was a very sociable person and very knowledgeable. The set up of furniture in the lounge room was just like my Dads old place in London years ago. The thing that looked like a plunger was an old fashioned 'Washing Dolly' used inside the tub of boiling water or copper boiler to wash clothes or sheets etc, by plunging it up and down by hand it pushed the water through the material and made it so clean and white long before washing machines were used in the home. Also o vacume cleaner jyst a carpet sweeper, broom and mop. Thank you so much. 💕🇦🇺
Wow you normally don’t get that many cops to show up to a house where people actually are living 😂
🤣😂
Yes but it’s taxpayers money - easily spent 😂
Golly Colin, them last few minutes in the house had me sitting on the edge of my seat, so suspenseful and a great video. I see ladies shoes downstairs that you picked up, but the with only a ladder to access the upper level makes me think no lady would climb up there, so maybe the male of the house was spying on the Russian spy organization intercepting their radio signals. Great content, you surpassed yourself with this video and the Police did an excellent job responding to a eagle eyed citizen, this is probably why this old house is still not vandalized.
Omg Colin what a find. No fridge unfortunately 😂 all those police just for you, mental.
Love having the bajeezes scared out of me from the safety of my home. Thanks! Really enjoyed this.
Adam Explores was here 2 months ago .. he picked exactly the same book up as you did. Very freaky lol. … and why is it always you that gets collared by the fuzz 😂.. enjoyed 👍🏻
You are really awesome! Only you could have gotten caught by police in a house so hidden! Lol
The big tin full of sugar may have been for feeding bees as there also were 2 white machines that looked like spin-dryers that I suspect were actually the machines used to seperate & clean raw honey.
That vhf radio 40s 50s used in cold war valve radio
Good morning Colin, great video and find, just to let you know I've seen those toilet systems before which were lead lined inside, keep up the good work
We enjoyed this so much! Keep up the good work Collin. We are fans from the Netherlands! 🎉🎉
Wonderful explore Colin. It seems that when Taser and you team up, the police get involved 🤔 😆.
Stay safe out there boys.
Cheers from the States 👍🤙
Well done for getting down the ladder I'd be too scared - after a ghoul chucking stuff LOL
Totally over the top response by the police and the 5 foot police woman with the torch sums it up.
Considering the house is so old & nobody knows it’s there that’s incredible. Good job buddy
That thing you thought was an axe looks like a draughtsmans set square. I have something similar in my loft. The short bit slides along the edge of a drawing board and the long length is your accurate horizontal or vertical line.
That house is a real blast from the past, a proper time warp. It’s obviously been abandoned for many years. There’s no way I would have explored it in darkness as it was really spooky.
This has got to be one of the best explores colin.A absolutely amazing time capsule from decades gone by.
Fantastic video Colin one of your best absolutely ridiculous the amount of police though! Shocking
Thing on top floor plunger thing is for washing clothes in a bucket my gran had one lol
the thing with the stick is for washing clothes. water in a tub and always up and down. the water then flows out of the holes at the bottom under pressure.
Fabulous so old as well ...awesome video
@04:56 that's an interesting headline on that newspaper.
Great explore the old amateur radio set up is really cool
That intro music at the start really sets the mood for the video. Good work Colin. Shame about the last part but guess they were just following up on reports.
Tazer is back! I saw him in the Irish bar explore but forgot to comment. Tazer you were almost right with those things on top of the radio...they are artillery shell fuses 👍
What is it with you and Tazer and the police 🤣 🤣 🤣
another exciting evening with Colin and tazer great video guys I think the blue lights where after you're autographs 👍😎😎🤣
Love your stuff really interesting, as someone mentioned earlier that Adam Mark was there a while back and did some spooky stuff, and says it’s very haunted!!
Brilliant house maybe the noises in house trying to warn you 😀 lol so many coppers ..
Just..... wow!! 👏
Hi Colin brilliant video again I see your friends the police came to see you yet again my mother and grandmother had one of those plungers it for doing the washing in a tube they go back over a 100 years keep up your brilliant work and videos Bernard
Awesome Colin ....creepy too ,forget the rozzers ...
How many police 😂. Didn’t even get that many when I actually was in a situation where someone was trying to get in my house with my children in it. Unbelievable. Great explore allthough the house was very creepy, FairPlay to you doing it at night
Grate find both and you had a welcome party 🥳 when leaving the house definitely was a time capsule and a bit spooky.
Wow 😳 Colin what an adrenaline fuelled video! Squad cars, monster spiders and scary as heck houses 🏚️ Your videos are truly the most creepy i have ever seen glad you weren't on your own. So good to see Tazer again. Thanks 👍
Could have been Tazer meets taser. 😂
That plunger thing upstairs is what they would use to wash clothes. The radio was incredible. What an incredible find. Thanks Colin and glad to see Tazer, Nathan with you.
I knew that I'd seen one of those plunger things before, but just couldn't remember where. Thanks 👍🇭🇲
Thanks for taking us on this adventure, another great video 👍
This place is so well preserved
Radio and aerial in the loft... Possibly a base for a standard lamp also.
Got to be the creapiest, sadest explore you've ever done. Very brave of you
Sorry but that spider! That was a really spooky house. Loved it though!! I'm glad you weren't alone. I couldn't do what you do No way!!! The police ending was a surprise to you and to us.
Break in it’s abandoned for decades 🙄 all those police , yet we had an trespasser where we lived a couple of years ago and police didn’t bother to turn up , luckily I can hold my own, yet a rotten old house and everything is falling apart they send all resources to it 🤦♂️ other than end drama a good vid as always 😎
I'm new to your channel and have been greatly enjoying your explores.
It's really wise though to protect your lungs and wear a mask, because all of the white stuff on the books, doors etc, is white mold.
Hi Colin.
That was one booky looking house.
I bet the cops were talking to themselves and saying well then who is going to go in there to search for the burglars lol as they might know what the house is like and did not fancy their chances of bumping into something or someone in the dark lol, Love it
That place had a lot of amazing 30's details, that's probably the last time it was modernised as the structure and windows do seem older. Either that or it's a 30's build with mock Tudor features. Love it either way! Awesome find!! 😊😊
Omg off the bloody Scales Colin, what a Outstanding house, wiv a little extra Paranormal, I can't believe all them police car and van's just for you 2 lmao, but Probably not funny at the time for yous take care stay safe 🙏🇬🇧❤️🚔🚔🚓
Great video as always and lovely to see you and Big Taze together…such a spooky vibe in that old place😬
Yay Tazer! I love you two together. Very nice house, Lots of cool stuff. And finished off with a fine brace of police officers. Looks like it was a quiet evening and everybody wanted to get in on the only excitement of the night.
wow great video really enjoyed it, I must say I thought it had been empty a lot longer than the date on the papers suggested.
The 3 things on top of the radio in the first room upstairs were timer fuses for bombs. The long handled thing in the second room that you thought was a plunger was a posser, used to wash clothes in a large barrel
The pole in the loft is a wash tub poss stick used to pummel clothes in the tub
6:25 Did I see a bong on the little table by the door to the garden. It was red mostly. As much as I watched the video over and over there, my brain would not let me say it was a flashlight standing on end. 🤯
I love your work, utterly hooked
Wow what an incredible find a real time capsule it feels so sad that a nice house is left forgotten and lonely take away all the vines and I’m sure the house would be beautiful thank you Colin
16:50 old vintage radio reciever and cross shaped thing with wires is a loop antenna for receiving low frequency radio signals
Hi Colin great explore mate
Older houses have atmosphere that just is missing from newer places.
Thanks for another great explore 👌 😀 take care my friend much love 💘❤ 💘
Great ending guys
That old mattress on the floor looks like what is called a flock mattress, filled with fleece off sheep.
Loving this colin it's like going through a museum, again why has it been left for so long has the last of any owner's family all passed, 🤣🤣I'm 60 years old and I remember toilet paper like that when I was at school it was torture 🤣
It was great as a substitute for tracing paper though!
Only torture when you had piles 😬😒
Absolutely awesome. I remember my older brother having a very similar radio and airel. He fitted the airel in the loft of our house and fell through the ceiling and landed on my parents bed. This was in the 1960's
Wow! What an amazing find! Love how your so kind and respectful of the places you explore. I wish I could do things like this. Thanks for sharing xxxx
Thank you 😊
what a place thank you ! so much old stuff i love it ! i would have ran out hearing those loud noises haha
the plunger was for washing cloths in a tub
Loved this explore Colin and Taser, one of your best , at night as well , those noises were a bit paranormal to me ,
I'm glad you took Tazer with you in this spooky house 😅
What a little beauty that was Colin, loved it. I wonder who the lady was who lived there, nice little loft conversion she had and considering how long it's been empty, it's still doing reasonably well!
Can't believe all those police for what could have just been a homeless person looking for an empty place to sleep !! That bed looked like my grans old bed, they were so well made back then with sprung bases that lasted a long time. Loved this explore, no daft ghosts or paranormal nonsense, just a brilliant explore of a very old forgotten little house ...... fantastic, thank you xx 😘👍
I am sure I have seen this house before, the exact same thing happened to the explorers when they were upstairs where things were thrown around.
@ 21:08 pretty sure that copper thing is used for washing clothes, my mother had one but smaller way back in the early 60s we didn't have a washing machine at that time and only twintubs were available, so she washed everything either by hand or used a copper boiler, heated with gas from underneath, it was mainly used for boiling White's like bed sheets towels and so on the plunger was used to agitate the washing
That is a Morse code radio!,i love your channel, i am now alsow beginning with urbexing in Belgium! Greetings martin
That was interesting👍
You should be used to being busted by now Colin! 🤣 Great video as usual 💕
Absolute epic 👏 cracking content gents
That looks like an old WWII radio upstairs. Whether it transmits or just receives, I'm not sure. Some radio ham might be able to tell you more. But definitely a radio n areal. 👍🇭🇲🇬🇧
Loved it
23:36 you did feel a coldness earlier maybe some kind of paranormal 😮
The plunger looks like something that was used for washing clothes. The other item I think was a radio. Like a ham radio hence the antenna.
Colin!! This was such a COOL find and explore! I was listening to your video with ear buds in. If you go to the time 15.19. You are talking about the dust and things you might be breathing in. There was a VERY strange noise or VOICE right under yours. I listened to it a bunch of times, both with and without ear buds. I encourage everyone to give it a listen and see what YOU think?!!😁😁😁
BTW...your viewers are fantastic! So much info given about the items you all found!
The item in the loft is for washing clothes. You plunge it up and down in a wash tub. I believe it is called a clothes dolly. The short wave radio is awesome.
That' was very interesting could watch for hours .