Lost in Prague .... with just some street furniture .... and a song

 So today l welcome into the Street Furniture Hall of Fame another great find. *

It is one of those cast-iron objects which I love so much.

Over the years I have inducted into the “club” a host of coal cellar covers, old gas lamps, finger posts, redundant parking meters, quirky litterbins and the odd gasometer.

And so today it’s a nice piece from Prague, collected by a chum yesterday and sent back from the “City of a Hundred Spires” and it is a good one, which not only does the job of helping the water run smoothy but carries that all important coat of arms and the bold announcement that it is part of "Prague sewage system".

My Wikipedia tells me that "the coat of arms was first introduced in the 15th century (when the city of Prague corresponded to what is now the Old Town district). 

It consisted of three silver towers on a red shield. 

In 1649, after the Thirty Years' War, Ferdinand III added an armour arm in silver holding a silver sword emerging from the city gate. This symbol represents the effective defence of the city against the Swedish army during the Thirty Years war. 

The coat of arms was inherited by the modern city of Prague upon its formation in 1784, when the four boroughs (Old Town, New Town, Hradčany and Lesser Town were unified".** 

There is more, but mindful it’s someone else’s research I will just offer the link for you to read the rest.

And that is it.

Location; Prague

Picture; a little bit of Prague, 2024

*Street furniture lost and saved, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Street%20Furniture%20lost%20and%20saved

**Coat of arms of Prague, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Prague#:~:text=The%20coat%20of%20arms%20of,lesser%20and%20a%20greater%20version.&text=The%20coat%20of%20arms%20was,towers%20on%20a%20red%20shield.