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Square and Rectangular Covers
SQ1 Square cover diagonally divided –
Exeter.
SQ2 Standard
large cover, Exeter.
SQ3 St Thomas
Pleasure Ground. Very early G & K with “Engineers”
tag. The grounds opened in 1891 so this might date from then.
There is no “Limited”.
SQ4 East Devon Water Board Stop Valve Cover.
SQ5 North Devon Water Board. 17”
width.
SQ6 Torquay
Station. Meter box Cover 19” width.
SQ7 Inspection Cover. In pavement near
Malt House Inn, Exeter.
SQ8 Large
inspection cover with skewed raised lettering and Target Style central
rings. Little Silver near St David’s Church Exeter.
SQ9
Dated lettering on top edge and no “Limited” (pre 1924) in
Crediton High Street.
SQ10 Any Ideas as to
what WO means – Water Outlet ??? Exeter.
SQ11 St Thomas Exeter – Diagonally
divided large square cover. Name only on one triangle.
SQ12 The lettering like SQ 8 is skewed but in
a mirror image to the Little Silver Cover – otherwise
identical. Exeter.
SQ13 Mucky standard Cover with central
Lettering. Sherborne, Dorset.
SQ14 Almost the
same as SQ 1 except the
“Exeter” and the raised square location in that area is
different. Exeter.
SQ15 Different
variation to pattern and lettering layout. Exeter.
SQ16 A Manhole spotters Red Letter Day
!! Two pre 1924 (without the “Limited”) side by side
adjacent to the OLD Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital in Southernhay.
Exeter. Dated old style of lettering.
SQ17 We can’t have a section on Square
& Rectangular Covers without an appearance of my shoe so here we
are just getting a look in on a CONFUSED East Devon Water Board
Meter Cover. Which way ‘round is the right way ‘round?
SQ18 Everything facing the right way for the
East Devon Water Board.
SQ19 Large Cover
– Angled corner. Exeter.
SQ20 Diagonally
divided cover – GAS on
one triangle. Exeter.
SQ21 Pre
1924 and dated lettering Airtight Inspection Cover. With the
circular grabs concreted over not so easy to get up !! Exeter.
SQ22 Slightly anglerd corner cover variant..
Butts Road, Exeter.
SQ23 The Seen
Almost Everywhere Hydrant cover. Often daubed in yellow!
Exeter.
SQ24 East Devon
Water Board “Air Valve” Cover (?) Nr
Beech Avenue, Pennsylvania, Exeter.
SQ25 Standard Water Meter Cover Exeter.
SQ26 Diagonally divided Gas cover, GAS on both
sections. A reminder that WILLEYS did not have the monopoly for
Covers - this one was most appropriately found in the middle of
Willeys Avenue, Exeter !
SQ27 Most
puzzling - on the back of the photograph of this unusual SEWER Cover is
the word JORDAN. It is possible that my father visited Jordan and found
it there.