Water Valve Sign South Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Water Valve Sign South Street by Nigel Mykura as part of the Geograph project.
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Water Valve Sign South Street
Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 20 May 2015
This water valve sign is high up on the wall of a house on the east side of South Street. The bricks appear to be hand made and a large number of the bricks have linear indentation marks on them where other bricks were stacked on top of them during the firing process. The bricks are laid in Flemish bond with headers alternating with stretchers every other brick. The length of the brick seems pretty consistent but the width seems to have considerable variation. In the mid 19th C there were seven brickyards within a mile of the town centre but they all closed by the 20th C.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.729022
Longitude
-2.75782