Xara in the 19th Centuary

[Penny O'Rorke]

Walking in London recently, I saw a Quickshape on the pavement! These coalhole covers are still all over London - Victorian relics of when coal was shot through them into the cellars below. Surprisingly few of them have any form of handle (unlike manhole covers) so they must have been levered up. They have wonderfully individual and intricate patterns. As children we made rubbings of them with brown paper and wax crayons. With this one, I've used artistic licence and dedicated it to my youngest grandson.....Penny

[Big Frank]

..of those English Heritage wall plaques you see fixed to the walls of buildings round London [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]

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Big Frank was

[stlewis]

You have to have been gone for 20 years to get one of those!

www.thelondonhouse.co.uk

[jassony]

Very nice Penny, it really looks like old bronze.

Hey Simon, I spent over an hour looking at the 1890's house on your site and found it facinating.
Judi