I must admit have always wondered what happens to the build up of gases, they must have had a solution as they're aren't sewer pipes or stink poles around...not exploded yet..
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On 7 Mar 2013, at 19:43, "Martin Snow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> An explosion in an unvented sewer is a better option then.
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> Martin
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> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I am editor of the Newsletter of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society (for my sins!) so am always on the outlook for such relics.
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>> Martin Snow
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>> From: Bruce Osborne
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 3:47 PM
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>> Thanks for that Martin, I will put a short piece in the next Newsletter.
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>> Best wishes
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>> Bruce
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>> Re the ‘Mysterious Iron Posts’
>> I did manage to find it (just) on google streetview, hidden in the trees!
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>> 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.
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>> Keep up the good work with the Newsletter.
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>> Martin Snow
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