Mysterious post in Endymion Road

[colin37400]

The makers' plate reads: J. Stone & co. Ltd, engineers, deptford london s.e.

 

[Kameron]

The makers' plate reads: J. Stone & co. Ltd, engineers, deptford london s.e.

Googling for these chaps shows that they made lots of stuff which has lasted an amazingly long time but records seem to cease in about 68 when it became obvious to everyone except them that making high quality products that last 100's of years and still function perfectly after that time is a recipe for going bust and they should have incorporated more shoddy workmanship into stuff that they wrote their name on. Some people huh? You try to teach them about capitalism and with they listen? Will they bollocks!

 

[pooka]

I think we've had this one before on more than one occasion - odd that google yields nothing. Best bet is vents, and that Mr Bazalgette had a hand in them. Incidentally, his great-grandson owns Endomol, producers of Big Brother. Clearly, crap runs in the family.

 

[academia]

'Referring to his famous ancestor and contemporary reality TV programmes, QI host Stephen Fry made the amusing remark that Peter Bazalgette was undoing his great-grandfather's works by "pumping shit back into our homes." '

 

[editor]

Looks like a vent to me.

I like the tall Vestry lamp post on the corner of Atlantic Rd and Brixton Road that looks like it's had several additions over the years

Related thread: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=81153

 

[fredkarno]

I was born in Helix Road and my family had lived there since the 30s. I was always told it was an air raid siren. However, it may have been adapted from a preious use. I got into trouble when I was a child for tying someone to it and leaving her there....

 

[Yetman]

I was born in Helix Road and my family had lived there since the 30s. I was always told it was an air raid siren. However, it may have been adapted from a preious use. I got into trouble when I was a child for tying someone to it and leaving her there....

Lol I did that to some girl when I was a kid too Well, my auntie shouldnt have really given a 11 year old a pair of police issue handcuffs should she....

Someone needs to climb to the top of this pole and see just what the hell in tarnation is going on up there

 

[uk benzo]

J. Stone & co. Ltd, engineers, deptford london s.e. even made posts/stink pipes that were used in Barbados!

 

[fredkarno]

And actually it could have been a WW1 air raid siren (they existed).

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Might have just been an old lamp post: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/3094040/Hulton-Archive

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Huge bumpage

 

[laptop]

It's a sewer vent.

Note: no sign of anything ever having been attached at the top. A sharp higher-res in-focus pic would help - it'd rule out scars in the paint where there used to be brackets, had there been any.

Also, the location is right - the little alley is v. likely over the path of a main sewer.

 

[netbob]

It looks like a stink pipe - here's another from Dulwich: http://www.flickr.com/photos/memespring/3960326032/in/set-72157622467623950/

 

[billythefish]

It's a stink pipe - we found quite a few on the Effra walk a couple of years back. They were usually built to prevent airlocks on gradients and had to be tall to prevent the gas igniting or stinking out the neighbourhood.
There are tributaries to the Effra river quite nearby (you can hear one under a grille in the entrance road to the Tulse Hill estate from Leander Road) - but not sure if one passes directly under here.

Here's the thread with some pictures.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/299876-Walking-the-path-of-the-River-Effra...-Sunday-27th-September/page5

 

[leanderman]

Greek myth: Leander swam the Hellespont straits (in Turkey) to get to his lover Hero. But she let the light out ... and, losing his way, he drowned. Lord Byron made it across in 1810

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Greek myth: Leander swam the Hellespont straits (in Turkey) to get to his lover Hero. But she let the light out ... and, losing his way, he drowned. Lord Byron made it across in 1810

You may as well do the rest whilst you're at it

 

[leanderman]

You may as well do the rest whilst you're at it

don't encourage me

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

don't encourage me

ah go on! I know about them, but there may be people who don't

 

[leanderman]

There's always Wikipedia -or better Ovid. Or Ovid by Ted Hughes.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

There's always Wikipedia -or better Ovid. Or Ovid by Ted Hughes.

Why bother when you're here

 

[chrisscottd1]

and what of Leander?

Leander was another Greek living in what is now Turkey - fell in love with Hero - virgin priestess living in a tower on the European side of the Hellespont and swam over to her every night until a storm blew out the light she displayed on top of a tower to guide him and he drowned. I think Byron re-created the swim in 19th century

 

[boohoo]

This is a good thread!

 

[Orang Utan]

looks like a lamp post to me

 

[Maggot]

This is a good thread!

Just needs a few murals.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Leander was another Greek living in what is now Turkey - fell in love with Hero - virgin priestess living in a tower on the European side of the Hellespont and swam over to her every night until a storm blew out the light she displayed on top of a tower to guide him and he drowned. I think Byron re-created the swim in 19th century

I know that. I meant Endymion. I know about him as well but I thought I'd let Leanderman loose

 

[boohoo]

Just needs a few murals.

No, no... I quite fine with just stink pipes. This one lines up with one on Brixton Water Lane and one near St Matthews Church.

 

[Orang Utan]

lamp post!

 

[boohoo]

lamp post!

It's not a lamp post!!!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's not a lamp post!!!!

It's a disc golf stand

 

[Orang Utan]

It's not a lamp post!!!!

it so looks like one, so i say it is.