Stinkpipe 68 in Shelford Road
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Stinkpipe 68 in Shelford Road
Image: © Tiger Taken: 24 Oct 2013
These stench poles or pipes are a feature of the street furniture on residential roads laid out between late Victorian times and the 1930s. Their function was to ventilate the sewers and allow noxious gases to escape at a level well above the upper storeys of houses so that they could disperse harmlessly in the atmosphere. The tall cast-iron columns are usually painted green, and often fitted with elaborate finials to aid the dispersion of fumes. Not far away on the other side of the road is the remnant of another such pole Image Stinkpipes and Sewers of Cambridge https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1tGa-vqWr8XI064h9UKIdCi-HU70&ll=52.184568312439175%2C0.1690385147040141&z=12
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Image Location
Latitude
52.169793
Longitude
0.114722