Now just as I suspected there are lots of people out there who collect smelly Victorian sewer pipes.*
They were for venting the sewers of the more obnoxious and even dangerous gasses which could accumulate down below, and I suppose they still do the business today.
Oddly I have never come across one in Manchester, although they are all over the North East.**
But having said that, and posting the observation, quick as a flash Steven Robertson cam back with the picture of the one on Walkden Road, adding that
"There is one very close to Walkden Station, another is at the junction of The East Lancs Road and Walkden Road and another is on Eccles Old Road near to the junction of Weaste Lane."
While, Kevin Bamber told me that, in his home town of Rhyl "there was one on Sisson Street where I grew up.
Also March Road, Victoria Road and Ffordd Derwen.
The one on Sisson Street was only removed in the last 20 years".
I await more.
Location; Walken
Picture,the smelly Victorian sewer pipes, Walkden Road, 2019, from the collection of Steve Robertson
*Friends of smelly Victorian sewer pipes, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Smelly%20Victorian%20sewer%20pipes
**The Northern Echo July 2008, http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/3211527.Is_this_just_the_tip_of_the_stink_pole_/
Oddly I have never come across one in Manchester, although they are all over the North East.**
But having said that, and posting the observation, quick as a flash Steven Robertson cam back with the picture of the one on Walkden Road, adding that
"There is one very close to Walkden Station, another is at the junction of The East Lancs Road and Walkden Road and another is on Eccles Old Road near to the junction of Weaste Lane."
While, Kevin Bamber told me that, in his home town of Rhyl "there was one on Sisson Street where I grew up.
Also March Road, Victoria Road and Ffordd Derwen.
The one on Sisson Street was only removed in the last 20 years".
I await more.
Location; Walken
Picture,the smelly Victorian sewer pipes, Walkden Road, 2019, from the collection of Steve Robertson
*Friends of smelly Victorian sewer pipes, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Smelly%20Victorian%20sewer%20pipes
**The Northern Echo July 2008, http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/3211527.Is_this_just_the_tip_of_the_stink_pole_/
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