LAST week's Craven Curiosity stirred up a lot of memories, bringing a flurry of correct answers.

It was a mapograph - a cartographical tool, where a map is etched onto a rubber roller, which is then inked up and rolled onto a blank piece of paper.

Experts at Craven Museum and Gallery tell us: "Mapographs were commonly used in schools to educate children. In this case, the mapograph is a map of Ireland. Other examples within the museum’s collection include etches of the human eye and Victorian dresses."

Correct answers came from Jonathan Mosley, Philip Cox, Andrew Wilson, Christine Kewley, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Syd Smith, Moira Hepworth, Cath Cooney, Robert Binstead and HJ Hill, who added: "The item is as high-tech as geography lessons got in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

"One inking would have to suffice for several exercise books: so some poor blighters would have faint, or even absent, coastal details; whilst others had wet black ink everywhere on the facing page.

"There would then follow a ‘quiet’ half-hour whilst the class assiduously copied from the blackboard cities, railway lines, roads, geographical features, etc onto the inked map."

All items featured in this column can be viewed at the Craven District Council-run museum which is located at Skipton Town Hall.

Meanwhile, we are inviting guesses about this week’s mystery object. Suggestions can be emailed to news@cravenherald.co.uk, to arrive no later than noon on Monday.