Unidentified machine of yesteryear - a shredder perhaps?
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Unidentified machine of yesteryear - a shredder perhaps?
Image: © Des Colhoun Taken: 10 Jan 2007
The mystery object was by the northern wall of the Church at Millbrex. I suspect that something was fed downwards between the two vertical plates to the chain like teeth not visible from the outside. Not unlike the action of a shredder; for shredding draught copies of the good word perhaps?
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