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Round Manhole Covers
C1 The Words
Exeter Foundry refer to the
Tan Lane or the Waterbeer Street premises so dating is difficult.
C2 Queen Street in Exeter boasted
quite a few of these Lamp Hole Covers – this one you must NOT
park on !
C3 Launceston, Cornwall.
Stop Valve Cover Right in the middle of the former A30 on the very
sharp bend as you skirted the Town. Probably only about 8”
diameter
C4 Okehampton Centre near the
Victorian Arcade. My feet feature in many of these photos!
Lamp Hole Covers were small (about 8”) diameter covers from which
a light could be slung down into the sewer below.
C5 Exmouth, Devon. This Non Rocking type
was patented by Henry Holladay in 1934. Patent No 436471
C6 The ubiquitous Stop Cock Cover
dating from the 1940s Found throughout the older residential
areas of Exeter.
C7
Reasonably commonplace
street cover – Dunsford Hill, Exeter
C9 A variation of C7 –
spotted in Kilkhampton on the A39 in the extreme North of Cornwall.
C10 Different style giving, in this
case, a particularly rough treatment to one’s vehicle suspension!
Dunsford Hill, Exeter.
C11 A
pristine condition Lamp
Hole Cover in the pavement of Haldon Road, Exeter
C12 Yet another variation of C7
but quite different from C13 of the same size. Exeter.
C13 Exeter’s Exwick Cemetery
is the last resting place of this very symmetrical variant.