[Brighton] Help identifying type of manhole cover

[Westdene Seagull]

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.

You must be an absolute hoot at parties !

 

[Mr Bridger]

Why did I click on this thread? What was I hoping to see?

 

[Eeyore]

The agenda for NSC today is:

How to end the Russia/Ukraine war and bring about peace
The Premier League fallout with the referee scandal
The US election and how it affects us
The best films of 2024
How to identify a manhole cover

Don't change NSC. just don't.

 

[getz]

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.

Definitely not a GPO/BT joint box cover. I know about those things.

 

[joydivisionovengloves]

Man Hole *snigger*

 

[Bodian]

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.

I think the other posters may have mistakenly taken this for a taking the piss type witty imaginative post....

You must be an absolute hoot at parties !

But probably correct.

 

[clapham_gull]

Definitely not a GPO/BT joint box cover. I know about those things.

I'm an internationally renowned man hole cover historian.

Straight on ignore...

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

I can't stand the suspense, please OP, get the cover lifted and let us know what's underneath.

 

[getz]

I'm an internationally renowned man hole cover historian.

Straight on ignore...

I did 36 years with GPO/BT mate.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Japanese inspection covers (as us woke pavement portal aficionados call them) are the most picturesque.

 

[clapham_gull]

I did 36 years with GPO/BT mate.

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 ?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Where is it located? It is on the street pavement

I was going to suggest: roughly in the middle of the photo.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

Either you're Kerry Mayo in disguise, or you're talking to yourself, mate.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Does anyone have an idea of what utility manhole cover this belongs to, I phoned BT and they have no record...any guesses?

Is it a Roman Stone glass window

 

[maffew]

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.

I'd love to see this pop up as a specialist subject on Mastermind, fascinating!

 

[driddles]

Whatever you do... do not open it!

 

[clapham_gull]

Either you're Kerry Mayo in disguise, or you're talking to yourself, mate.

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It's the only intelligent conversation I get on here.

 

[clapham_gull]

I'd love to see this pop up as a specialist subject on Mastermind, fascinating!

If you can win Mastermind by making something up, I'm first in the queue.

 

[zefarelly]

The Interweb is a strange old place - there is a website based in Israel called the "ultimate manhole covers site" - it includes an interactive map of the world showing the location of some manhole covers - unfortunately there are none in Brighton, but there is a manhole featured in Epsom and plenty in London - who'd have thought it ;-)

The ultimate manhole covers site | Home Page

The home page of the ultimate manhole covers site - The city has a lot of covers - where you can find manhole covers from different countries in different shapes and categories: sewerage, water, communication and more.

manhole.co.il

THis is something to do with those Terrorist squirrels Bush was prattling on about when his meds wore off . . . .

It could be An underground network of nutters . . . There's plenty of them about .. . . Some of them above ground, running countries

 

[Badger]

I can't believe everyone on this thread, making assumptions about the gender of the hole. How do you know it isn't a womanhole?