An explosion in an unvented sewer is a better option then.
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: ross parish
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:59 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Friends Newsletter
A lot disappeared my father tells when she bought his house in the 60s he
got the council to remove one outside his house...I'm sure that's not the
only one..
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On 5 Mar 2013, at 16:13, "Martin Snow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bruce
> Coincidentally, I was in Chichester yesterday and took these images of one
> in a side street near the Cathedral.
> Please feel free to use, with a credit.
>
> It is easy to miss them as they often appear to be like cat iron lamp
> posts.
> There used to be many more, indeed old large scale maps often show them.
>
> I am editor of the Newsletter of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society
> (for my sins!) so am always on the outlook for such relics.
>
> Martin Snow
>
> From: Bruce Osborne
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 3:47 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Friends Newsletter
>
> Thanks for that Martin, I will put a short piece in the next Newsletter.
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> Bruce
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Martin Snow
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Friends Newsletter
>
> Re the ‘Mysterious Iron Posts’
> I did manage to find it (just) on google streetview, hidden in the trees!
>
> Not knowing the lie of the land I would never the less suggest it may be
> a sewer vent pipe, this would explain it having survived the relentless
> ‘tidying up’ that is so prevalent these days.
> These odd survivals occur in many places, never marked with their
> purpose.
> As if designed to catch the unwary and encourage all kinds of suggestions
> as their origin.
>
> Keep up the good work with the Newsletter.
>
> Martin Snow
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