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  1. clapham_gull

    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    If you can win Mastermind by making something up, I'm first in the queue.
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    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    It's the only intelligent conversation I get on here.
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    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    My uncle did 40, did you ever visit that house in Camden near the lock to install the phone taps or is the official secrets act still in play ?
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    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    I'm an internationally renowned man hole cover historian. Straight on ignore...
  5. clapham_gull

    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    Can't beat a bit of https://www.iec.ch/world-plugs and it's companion site https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/
  6. clapham_gull

    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    It runs "down" (under) my road. If you walk down Northcote Road after the rain you can hear the river running beneath. Maybe we could hire a village hall and I can bring along my projector.
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    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    Failing that I do know a crazy Latvian odd job man who will literally do any job for a cash and small bottle of Vodka.
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    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    I bet you are all over the re-routed Falcon Brook under Northcote Road Battersea then ?
  9. clapham_gull

    [Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

    Looking at the design it's clearly a cast iron General Post Office Elkington Gatic cover with the portcullis-styled frame. If I was to take a punt, I'd say it was probably installed in the 1970s and made in Kettering.
  10. clapham_gull

    [Football] David Coote

    Exactly. As the referee appeared to be talking to "an audience", I suspect the video came from a Whatsapp group so it could have been anyone.
  11. clapham_gull

    [Football] Next MOTD Host

    Have you tried counting ?
  12. clapham_gull

    [News] Justin Welby Resigns

    Even heaven has an HR department these days, but they were too busy organising team building away days for senior angels.
  13. clapham_gull

    [Football] Next MOTD Host

    Rumour is that Dion has the gig, but the ex- Arch Bishop will replace him in a more focused "Churches Under The Hammer" format.
  14. clapham_gull

    [Football] Next MOTD Host

    I fear the revamp will see the presenters walking about a lot in front of very big screens.
  15. clapham_gull

    [News] Justin Welby Resigns

    Now favourite for MOTD2 if Chapman takes the Saturday role.
  16. clapham_gull

    [Football] Sir Gary Lineker - 25 years at the MotD helm

    Not sure Linekar needs snapping up. He has an incredibly successful podcast business.
  17. clapham_gull

    [Football] Sir Gary Lineker - 25 years at the MotD helm

    Leaving the BBC after next World Cup.
  18. clapham_gull

    De Menezes police case

    Part 2 tonight https://www.channel4.com/programmes/shoot-to-kill-terror-on-the-tube Still need to catch up on the first ep.
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    [Politics] Why wasn't Reform represented at the Cenotaph?

    Different agreement regarding devolved nations which you know very well. The rules could be updated of course, but the far right do love a conspiracy theory these days. How I long for days when it was a cover up of alien space craft locked in US military establishment and the odd crop circle...
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    [Politics] Why wasn't Reform represented at the Cenotaph?

    All we have is his denial but it does align with other comments he has publicly made.

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