They were used for taking heavy deliveries to upper floors.
Open door, drop rope, tie thing to rope, lift thing to required level.
Well clearly a winch of some sort to get stuff up to upper floors of that warehouse. You would guess from tge spikes something agricultural maybe like hay, straw, hops?
Whatever the buildings use now it would have been a factory or warehouse and as others have said the winch would be used for moving materials for production or finished goods. I would guess moving something like bales of cotton or wool if not the hops etc. mentioned elsewhere.
If you’re desperate, it could work as a back scratcher
Escape route in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels
Wool bales.
I’m so old that I’ve actually seen these in use in West Yorkshire.
Reminds me of the houses in Amsterdam.
Because they are so tall and narrow, there’s no way of getting furniture up or down the stairs, so there is a pulley winch on the front of the apex of each roof.
This looks similar, but with the spikes, I’d guess it’s for shifting hay bales or something.
Not an expert but that looks like a door mate, hope this helps.
Could you hear an old piano (playing hot)…?
There are many in West Yorkshire on old buildings formerly used by the rag trade. Bales of rags were hoisted to the top floor of the building and graded by hand and dropped to the floor below. By the time they had reached ground level they were sorted into different quality material and ready to be recycled.
That’s where Bill Sykes was shot and then accidentally hung himself in Oliver.
The winch and high doors are obvious. The two rake like claws suggest a product that can be grabbed without causing damage. So a bale or some such that does not need a complex knot. This is a winch for simple labour. Men who can shove the prongs into the product and it will securely rise without falling.
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They were used for taking heavy deliveries to upper floors.
Open door, drop rope, tie thing to rope, lift thing to required level.
Well clearly a winch of some sort to get stuff up to upper floors of that warehouse. You would guess from tge spikes something agricultural maybe like hay, straw, hops?
Whatever the buildings use now it would have been a factory or warehouse and as others have said the winch would be used for moving materials for production or finished goods. I would guess moving something like bales of cotton or wool if not the hops etc. mentioned elsewhere.
If you’re desperate, it could work as a back scratcher
Escape route in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels
Wool bales.
I’m so old that I’ve actually seen these in use in West Yorkshire.
Reminds me of the houses in Amsterdam.
Because they are so tall and narrow, there’s no way of getting furniture up or down the stairs, so there is a pulley winch on the front of the apex of each roof.
This looks similar, but with the spikes, I’d guess it’s for shifting hay bales or something.
Not an expert but that looks like a door mate, hope this helps.
Could you hear an old piano (playing hot)…?
There are many in West Yorkshire on old buildings formerly used by the rag trade. Bales of rags were hoisted to the top floor of the building and graded by hand and dropped to the floor below. By the time they had reached ground level they were sorted into different quality material and ready to be recycled.
That’s where Bill Sykes was shot and then accidentally hung himself in Oliver.
The winch and high doors are obvious. The two rake like claws suggest a product that can be grabbed without causing damage. So a bale or some such that does not need a complex knot. This is a winch for simple labour.
Men who can shove the prongs into the product and it will securely rise without falling.