Oooh... I've found more bits of +100year-old wood still embedded in our streets.
Well, your honour, I was wandering along Scrutton Street, London EC2, heading in a south-easterly direction, when I happened upon this manhole cover outside No.44, opposite No.51:
Nice. So I retraced my steps and found more wood in another manhole just a few metres away outside No.48-50 – it was hard to make out the how many segments contain wood being as it was filled with rain that day:
Update November 2025 – here are both of them (No.44 on the left and No.48 on the right), this time partially obscured by leaf litter:
The wood blocks in both are very sunken, and I am surprised, in this world of H&S gone mad, that these surely qualify as potential trip hazards, so I expect them to be infilled soon to align with the street surface.
There surely must be a few more of these in the vicinity. Let me know if you spot any. To see all the woodblocks I have found so far, click here.
A guided walk on this subject should be available soon: janeslondonwalks.
Ha, I can tell, you are hoping to collect a full Set.
ReplyDeleteHa ha… but there’s no way of knowing when I’ve found them all… Jane.
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