The Snake Boy Mix Machine

Another of the ‘static’ machines was ‘The Snake Boy Mix Machine’. The bronzed cherub holding the pancake ‘mix’ tap balances on one leg. It is actually a 19th century copy of a sculpture of the infant Hercules wrestling a snake! Obviously the snake was removed! Fitted with a big cast iron pump from a well, a stack of musical instruments and cogs from the scrap yard and giant tailors’ scissors from Peter Von's Aunt Adelaide. A cast iron fry pan and a great cast iron fly wheel start it all up!

Over the years ‘The Snake Boy Mix Machine’ has survived many such guerilla raids, losing all the lovely gas ring burners, almost all the brass dome nuts, the ancient fire extinguisher and nearly the giant tailor's scissors, three times! Thus the heavyweight clear plastic guards are basically to keep the public OUT!