Lancaster Road, South Norwood: "stink-pipe" (detail)
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Lancaster Road, South Norwood: "stink-pipe" (detail)
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 30 Jan 2011
For years I just saw the street lights strapped to this and assumed that it was only a lamp-post, but closer examination shows it to be a vent for waste gases from a sewer below. See Image for a shot of the entire pipe, and Image for a detail of the base.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.402655
Longitude
-0.073547