Identify This Photo

[gbb]

Can I ask a relatively specific location ?..maybe then we can look at it with google maps or earth.
Equestrianism locally ?...ive seen something very remotely similar...horse walkers. Central rotating pillar, arms to attach horses to so they can be exercised. Remote, very remote possibility. More realistically, it does look like water treatment.
Im enjoying this...

 

[Illaveago]

I would say that it is possibly post WW2. It looks similar to the ones near my home in the 60's, also the amount of corrosion on those nuts doesn't look too bad. I was wondering if it would show up on an old Ordnance Survey Map of the area.

 

[gbb]

I can't bring photos up without a lot of aggro but google 'trickling water bed'. Looks very similar.

 

[Fnaar]

I can't bring photos up without a lot of aggro but google 'trickling water bed'. Looks very similar.

 

[Globalti]

Great pic! Looks like it got pricked.

 

[classic33]

Can I ask a relatively specific location ?..maybe then we can look at it with google maps or earth.
Equestrianism locally ?...ive seen something very remotely similar...horse walkers. Central rotating pillar, arms to attach horses to so they can be exercised. Remote, very remote possibility. More realistically, it does look like water treatment.
Im enjoying this...

Horse powered water pump sprang to mind when I first saw the picture.
Water comes out the opening at the base of what can be seen, with the base further down.

 

[classic33]

Can I ask a relatively specific location ?..maybe then we can look at it with google maps or earth.
Equestrianism locally ?...ive seen something very remotely similar...horse walkers. Central rotating pillar, arms to attach horses to so they can be exercised. Remote, very remote possibility. More realistically, it does look like water treatment.
Im enjoying this...

Horse powered water pump sprang to mind when I first saw the picture.
Water comes out the opening at the base of what can be seen, with the base further down.

 

[Globalti]

I've never studied one close up.... (phew!) but I guess there's a top and a bottom hub, the top hub that's visible in that pic sits on a ball bearing and the bottom is sealed around the shaft. In between them must be a rotating reservoir that's carried by the four rods and filled by foul water welling up the axle and out of the port, thence into the arms which are supported by wires strung from the two links. The ports in the arms face the same way and the force of the water pouring out is sufficient to spin the very low-friction arrangement around. Am I roughly right?

 

[DRM]

Could some one phone the midwife, I think my waters just broke

 

[Gravity Aided]

[QUOTE 4188124, member: 76"]

Possibly the landing gear from one of these?[/QUOTE]

 

[YahudaMoon]

Candidate for the Turner Prize 2016?

 

[Thomk]

Can I ask a relatively specific location ?..maybe then we can look at it with google maps or earth.
Equestrianism locally ?...ive seen something very remotely similar...horse walkers. Central rotating pillar, arms to attach horses to so they can be exercised. Remote, very remote possibility. More realistically, it does look like water treatment.
Im enjoying this...

OK I've found this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...wwoRrBHkMC6z0oc_Q&sig2=skJaVhv9T0o-hjTWNvYgBQ

Look on page 28 and you can see the copse. If you magnify the image you can see it labeled as a disused filter bed! Well done to all those who pretty much nailed it!

 

[Thomk]

I can't bring photos up without a lot of aggro but google 'trickling water bed'. Looks very similar.

I think that is exactly what it was!!

Bit like this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trickling_filter_bed_2_w.JPG

 

[Illaveago]

I think that is exactly what it was!!

Bit like this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trickling_filter_bed_2_w.JPG

It would seem like you have found the villages old sewage works.. I think that at some time the village has been connected to a much larger system elsewhere.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

OK I've found this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwj87O6ElLPLAhXhK5oKHZhSDyAQFggoMAI&url=http://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/1581/part_2_-_rural_area_site_assessments_-_1st_section&usg=AFQjCNFKa8AoQO_cDwwoRrBHkMC6z0oc_Q&sig2=skJaVhv9T0o-hjTWNvYgBQ

Look on page 28 and you can see the copse. If you magnify the image you can see it labeled as a disused filter bed! Well done to all those who pretty much nailed it!

I didn't realize that was close to me, if I remember I'll have to have a look next time I'm down that way.