Fire-plate, Station Street, Ross-on-Wye
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Fire-plate, Station Street, Ross-on-Wye
Image: © Pauline E Taken: 4 Jun 2008
So small, they often go unnoticed - if you look around on the walls of old houses you may sometimes see metal plaques, or badges, erected by insurance companies to show that a property was insured. There are two types - early plaques were mostly cast in lead and displayed either a painted or engraved number which corresponded to the number of the insurance policy. The image shows an example of the second type, known as a fire-plate, pressed from either thin copper-plate, or tinned sheet-iron.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.915704
Longitude
-2.580636