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Nailsea?

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RAY:
i can remember my G grandad telling the story as he had 3 hanging on the wall when  i was a small child, the story around them was .... , really it was for smuggling spice's and tea that's why most of them are very dark blue/green glass, in the middle of the 1800's  spices from the far east had the same value as gold  in England and the same for tea, then it could be sold on the black market, it's just like smuggling drugs today and if they got caught who knows what would happen to them

Bernard C:
Ray, that's delightful.   Thanks for your memories.

Bernard C.  8)

Adam:
Bernard - Tut tut, you must mean the High Level Bridge on Tyneside.  The Tyne Bridge is the Sydney Harbour type one.  I'd love to see a train going over the latter!

Adam D.

Bernard C:

--- Quote from: "Adam" ---Bernard - Tut tut, you must mean the High Level Bridge on Tyneside.  The Tyne Bridge is the Sydney Harbour type one.  I'd love to see a train going over the latter!
--- End quote ---

It's a fair cop, Adam — guilty as charged.

Am I correct in thinking that the four bridges are the High Level Bridge, the Tyne Bridge, the Millenium Bridge, and, at the bottom, the Swing Bridge?

Also, have they arranged a regular test of the Millenium Bridge, so that you can be certain of watching it perform?

Bernard C.  8)

david31162:
Thanks for all the information folks.
Looking at some of the pictures of rolling pins it seems as though I may have had a Nailsea piece before. I hadn't realised the white thin walled glass pins with painted scences were Nailsea.
Oh and the theory about the contraband inside may be possible for some, particularlly the thin walled rolling pins. Mine is sealed at one end and has a hole the size of a pin head at the snapped pontil end, so you couldnt really get  anything in it.
Thanks again
David

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