A special event, a bit of teaser about next week’s blog. Can you guess what piece of sporting equipment this is and the decade it is from?
Share your suggestions by posting a comment. All will be revealed next week!
Comments
- melissajwalsh on 1911: London
- Simon Wells on 1911: London
- steve53 on 1879: Deloraine
- TIm Walsh on 1879: Deloraine
- Hutchy on 1879: Deloraine
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Hi Melissa
Love your blog!!
I think it may be an early version of wirghtlifting (assuming that is a sport!!!) and from the early decades of last century….I have some ambit in that claim of course as it could be through to the 1940’s, preWW2 as ‘technology advanced reasonably quickly after that period
Steve
I think this might be the wheel of a roller skate or a go kart. I would guess it dates to the 1920s.
What about a ‘puck’ or whatever it is called – the device used or pushed in curling, where they sweep the ice ahead of this ‘puck’ to ensure it goes a designated distance. ‘Lawn Bowls’ on ice!
Whaaat? I just read you need a decade! That blows my suggestion out of the water. I daresay there has been limited equipment change in curling.
Perhaps it’s the axle from a penny farthing pushbike