Sextus

Does anyone know what this is and its whereabouts in Wigan?

Sextus - a sixth, a sixth stop of an organ.

It is a six-pointed knuckle attached to two identical elements made from cast iron.

(There's a recent photo' of it somewhere on Wiganworld.)

Six knuckles?...Sounds like a leyther shaking his fist!

If I understood the Q Joanne, I might have a go at it!

Sorry, Nicola.

Q. Does anybody know what Sextus is:

It is described as being a six-pointed knuckle attached to two identical elements made from cast iron.


Does that make any more sense?

Sextus means sixth as you said in the original post. Hence my leyther statement. Tsk!

First thought was that it was a self-help type group.

Is the knuckle description not relating to a chemical composition?

Where's Darren when you need him?

Why do you need him?..Are you in the frame of mind to batter the living daylights out of him?

Will there be clues?

Damned coolie.

Darren will know. Or he'll know someone who has one, or was one, or was hit by a falling one, or bitten by one, or had one stolen during a trip up the Congo etc.etc.etc.

A clue:

Here's someone who made one.

Talking of being up the congo., I once went there and found no one person drinking a refreshing glasss of um bongo. I even travelled way down deep in the hope I could find some to no avail. imagine my dismay to find I had been lied to all these years.

She knew all along.

Public art Jo Anne?

Dustaf.

Charles Hadcock?....Is that a clue or just information?


Anyway...I saw a woman crying earlier and so I asked her why she was upset, to which she replied, "I'm just so sick of people using bad grammar."

I sat beside her and comforted her by saying, "They're their."

Were you taken up the Congo Gwim?

Or am I confusing it with the 'Jamaica?' joke?

No, Dustaf. I went of my own accord!

Was there no truth in the juicy gossip then?

Google says;

Drumcroon

Ah, THAT um bongo, why of course they drank THAT um bongo, it was the other sort they didn't drink...AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Yes - there is a *Drumcroon link, Dustaf, but there's no mention of Sextus on the site.

(*And TinTin?)

Charles Hadcock is both information and a clue, Gwim.

I found his name on an informative plaque displayed near to Sextus.

I've just looked properly at the website photo Jo Anne.

The fellow in my pic is Tonker.

(Captain Haydock )

I see, but there's no High sea in Haydock.


Do you know what it is yet?

See the very helpful latest comment.

And now for Part Two


What is a 'Faclice'?

18:20

It looks like a giant faclice

That made me chuckle - given the sculpture's & sculptor's name.

Probably a medical term.

OH DAA-RR-RR-EN

do you mean sexus the medical research centre in wigan jo anne.

'A medical term' - that'd be a cock and bolt story.


Mick's video of the four sculptures

Sextus
Transformation
Helisphere
Torsion

Blink and you miss 23 posts!

That's Synexus Dave.

I hadn't heard of that, Owd Dave & Dustaf.

Just looked it up to find it's in Brick Kiln Lane.

A blink, Nicola - 40 winks, more like.

Imagine, commoners knowing about medical stuff.

Has that 'Fly Boat' been moved from the Trencherfield area?

It was stood in a flowerbed if memory serves.

Sinuses are not to be sniffed at!

Would you care for a go on the inhaler mester?

Is that a faclice?

I'm sure Joseph would be aghast at such a suggestion, Dustaf.

Not sure which Fly Boat you mean, Dustaf, but there isn't one near the Mill now, as far as I know.

The Fly Boat was right on the corner of the landscaped area by the end of 'the dock'. I think the path went past it to the playground.

It had an information board by it about Fly Boats on the L&L. Can't remember the name of the boat.

To be honest, the last time I saw it it looked a bit 'tired'. You could see daylight between the planking.

Seemed sad really, as it had been rescued and preserved.

thats right dustaf, i must have sex on the brain today its the warm weather you know.

I've looked at Google Earth and the area where the Fly Boat was is lawned.

So it's been gone a while.

I'm sure I must've seen the Fly Boat, Dustaf, as we used to often walk along the canal to the playground with our children. I just can't bring it to mind though.

It was on a raised bank Jo Anne. You would have probably noticed the rudder. You couldn't really see into the thing, as you were looking up at it.

It was close to the blue thing beneath the letter k of uk here.


Similar vessel

Sextus Julius Severus ? Did he lose his bits ?

Something knocked off for cash?



Boat could have been a Short Boat



Here

Though the boat at the Trenchefield site was just painted black. (pitch?)

Interesting

I was doing a bit of gongoozling once and happened upon a group of artists with easels etc. I walked past them desperately trying not to shout 'Black'.

Probably looked like a right grinning idiot.

A group of artists with easels,I saw some with ferrets

You should have....I wouldn't have been able to help myself. Mind, I wonder if they painted a piture of you 'gongoozling', and were towels involved?

Mache is missing letters off in his head now.

Gwim, you've no idea how tempting it was.

But I thought it would have been done many times before.

Like when Father Ted shouted "I don't believe it' to Richard Wilson.

Paint it black!.

'Hadcock's sculptures are not wholly organic, but look instead as if he has taken a natural form and subjected it to some sort of unearthly torque. The resulting pieces are full of twists and movements, as if bent out of shape by a giant and then discarded, before falling heavily on earth.'
Peter Chapman The Independent

From here - the information plaque on the fence.

You can always ask a wiggin lass, mester.

Or when on Celebrity mastermind, when John Humphries asked Ian Lavender his name, Rick Wakeman shouted, Don't tell him Pike!

The very scene

Good pictures Jo Anne. Shame about those windows.

I wonder how many dogs have cocked their legs on that poor wench's legs? (The statue)

Welcome back Jo anne

He was a Roman physician and philosopher,160-210 AD (or is that ME),his full name was Sextus Empiricus,but then I reckon everybody knew that.

Yes, Sextus was a popular name in Roman times.

Thanks, Dustaf - I think I'm becoming a bit photofrenzic now.

Thank you, Sydneylass.

Roy - (or is that ME)

Bantam 25 and 69.

I wonder what became of it.

My mate's email addy is Sextusvarus@....

Hello everyone - Did you find out what a sextus was

It's a sculpture by Charles Hadcock, currently situated near Trencherfield Mill, Frances.

Sextus is a six-pointed knuckle attached to two identical elements made from cast iron.

Thank you Jo anne - I cheated I put it as a search in WW and found out what it was but didn't want to spoil it - I bet that got the old brain cells working

Jo-Anne,50 years ago I had a Bantam 150cc,65mph downhill with a trailing wind but it had nothing to do with Sextus or tug boats.

Roy.



65mph downhill with a trailing wind

I'm a bit of a lightweight, some might even say chicken, and pedalling my bike downhill on the canal towpaths is exhilaration enough for me.