I have the same number of lids as pots….only some of them don’t fit. I’ve not got to the bottom of that yet.
We used to go to Torquay when I was a child, because my aunts lived there (they managed the YMCA Hotel. It was a lovely building, but it got knocked down in the name of Progress and a modern block of apartments took its place). I remember Cockington well, there was a water wheel and if you waited patiently til it had got enough water in it, it used to give a few turns, then you’d wait for it to refill and turn again, (or your parents would tell you to come on, we’ve got to go and see the gardens). There was a forge, too, I think.