So probably the boomerang was an 'in-joke' as it wouldn't have anything to
do with the Adelaide in Australia?
Or do you think some enterprising person is trying to make some money
selling a boomerang with a seemingly fictitious provenance?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Chapman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 09 September 2002 16:05
Subject: Re: Boomerang Presentation
> Peases West or Roddymoor Colliery was near Crook in County Durham from
1844
> until 1963. Adelaide was near Bishop Auckland, also County Durham, from
1830
> to 1925.
>
> See website of the Durham Mining Museum.
>
> Simon.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Shoebridge" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 1:18 PM
> Subject: Boomerang Presentation
>
>
> Hi Group
> My daughter has just drawn my attention to the following "collectors item"
> currently offered for sale on E Bay:-
>
> An Australian boomerang (!) with a brass plaque engraved "Presented to
Mr
> Linsley engineer, (together with a tea sevice to Mrs Linsley engineer from
> the workmen and friends at Peases West and Adelaide Collieries as a token
of
> esteem August 25th 1866".
>
> Can anyone tell me where these pits were and perhaps add some light to
this
> surely unusual presentation item.
> Regards
> John
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