Modern drain grid, Dulwich
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Modern drain grid, Dulwich
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 2 Jun 2013
I suspect (and hope) that I'm not alone in contributors to Geograph in reading drain grids: what they say often opens up layers of a place's administrative past. In this case, rather than the writing identifying a local ironworks or the administrative body that put it there, as one would expect from a nineteenth century grid, we have a standardised drain-grid supplied by a manufacturer interchangeably to any location, whose lettering includes (the first time I've seen this on a grid) a URL.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.437643
Longitude
-0.079413