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MLB to Celebrate Shohei Ohtani, Other Japanese Players with Custom Manhole Covers https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/101843/ #Baseball #Cardinals #ChicagoCubs #IwatePrefecture #JAPAN #KodaiSenga #LarsNootbaar #LosAngelesDodgers #ManholeCovers #MasatakaYoshida #MLB #RokiSasaki #SaitamaPrefecture #SeiyaSuzuki #ShoheiOhtani #ShotaImanaga #TomoyukiSugano #YoshinobuYamamoto #YuDarvish #YukiMatsui #YuseiKikuchi

Prismatic coal hole cover on Hope Street in Glasgow. These were were commonly used allow natural light into the otherwise pitch black cellars. Only a few of the original prisms remain in this particular example.

#glasgow #coalholecover #coalhole #prisms #streetfurniture #manholecovers #glasgowhistory

A manhole cover with a honeycomb design on it which would originally have been filled with prisms.

#manholeCovers of #Himeji

Manhole cover showing storks or cranes flying over flowers

Possiblybirds flying over a field and water

A cover showing a very happy fireman with a hose squirting water in front of a red firetruck

#Osaka #manholecovers

A manhole cover showing Osaka castle surrounded by cherry blossoms

A manhole cover depicting the eldritch horror that is the Osaka Expo 2025 monstrosity. This cover is colorful with blue and red and light yellow

#ManholeCovers #Vancouver

A silver manhole cover carved in Haida/Salish style, with four salmon making a ring, takes at the outside and faces curving in to the center, with a human-like face in the middle of each salmon's body.

Black manhole cover in Haida/Salish style, with four frogs making a ring, faces to the outside of the circle

#manholecovers
#mundaneartfulness
#manhole
A new one, with a poem, from Göteborg.

#manholecovers
#mundaneartfulness
@dillyd
Here's a favorite

@dillyd
#manholecovers
#mundaneartfulness
A couple more I've dug up

@dillyd
Here’s a couple simple ones from Spain, here at bedtime 🥱
#manholecovers
#mundaneartfulness

Prismatic coal hole cover on Hope Street in Glasgow. Coal holes in the street allowed deliveries to coal cellars without having to carry the coal through a building. Prismatic coal hole covers were commonly used allow natural light into the otherwise pitch black cellars. Only a few of the original prisms remain in this particular example.

#glasgow #coalholecover #coalhole #prisms #streetfurniture #manholecovers #glasgowhistory

A metal access cover filled with hexagonal cells. Most of these have been filled with concrete, but a few of the original glass prisms remain in place.

A couple more Japanese manhole covers :gosh:

#japan #ManholeCovers

Decorative manhole cover with a fire truck illustration and Japanese text, set in an asphalt surface with a yellow border.

Decorative manhole cover featuring a koala and baby koala in a tree.

Tokyo is getting new Sailor Moon manhole covers this March

https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/tokyo-is-getting-sailor-moon-manhole-covers-this-march-020724?mc_cid=27adbd9702

> Soon you can go searching for your favourite Sailor Guardians in Tokyo’s Azabu-Juban neighbourhood

#Japan #JapaneseCulture #SailorMoon #Anime #Manhole #Manholecovers

🪙 Bjoern Altmann's new book celebrates the overlooked beauty of manhole covers
IG: bjoernaltmann
by Dominic Carter @DomCarterWriter
at @creativeboom

#book #ManholeCovers #illustration #Editorial

https://www.creativeboom.com/features/manhole-covers-of-the-world/

Book cover.
Cover divided in half top in grey and half bottom in black.
Text on center top in black: Manhole Covers.
Text on center bottom in white: Of The World.
The title is surrounded by a patterned border like a manhole with no filled center. On the bottom of the circle: Björn Altmann.
On bottom right in white text: Niggli

Prismatic coal hole cover on Hope Street in Glasgow. Coal holes in the street allowed deliveries to coal cellars without having to carry the coal through a building. Prismatic covers were commonly used allow natural light into the otherwise pitch black coal cellars. Only a few of the original prisms remain in this particular example

#glasgow #coalholecover #coalhole #prisms #streetfurniture #manholecovers #glasgowhistory

A round cover set into a pavement with hexagonal shaped holes outlibed by iron. Most of these hexagons have been filles in with concrete, but a few retain their original glass prisms.

The water was pressurised in a pumping station at 321 High Street and supplied through thirty miles of pipes below the city's streets.

Glasgow was one of the few cities to have such a high pressure hydraulic system and it operated from the 1890s until 1964.

Can anyone confirm if this is correct? Or provide another explanation?

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #industrialhistory #accesscovers #manholecovers #pastglasgow #streetfurniture

I've come across a few of these HOP access covers on the streets of Glasgow recently, and I've been struggling to find out what they were for.

My best guess is that they're part of an old hydraulic system which supplied high pressure (HP?) water for running lifts, presses and other machinery.

Cont./

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #industrialhistory #accesscovers #manholecovers #pastglasgow #streetfurniture

An old access cover with the letters H.O.P on it, or possibky just HP with an oval design in the middle.

In my defense, I had no idea that #ManholeCoverMonday was a thing here, or I'd have been participating long ago. Bits of artistic infrastructure fascinate me. Here's the first one I could find on my phone, on the grounds of the former #ValleyForge General Hospital, a military hospital now used for a Christian college. I'm not sure which foundry the 'W' represents – it appears to say "Contractors F[oun]dry Inc", and Phila, 1942.

#ManholeCover #SewerCovers #ManholeCovers #Utilities #philadelphia

A manhole cover, as they used to be called, a cover for a underground utilities. This is round, surrounded by grass. There is an interesting pattern of lines that creates almost a waffle effect – mostly continuous vertical bars, from which horizontal bars extend, but the horizontals don't quite connect with the next vertical, so it's a broken pattern. In the center is a large sans serif W, presumably representing the name of the foundry, but I haven't figured out what foundry it would have been. Below the W in much smaller letters are two lines of type. The first is "CONTRACTORSFDRYINC" where I think they have abbreviated "foundry" as "FDRY," not so unusual – so it should mean Contractors Foundry, Incorporated. Beneath that, Phila (for Philadelphia), 1942.

Access cover with the distinctive Art Nouveau logo of the Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company on Bath Street in Glasgow.

This company was formed in 1911 and changed its name to the Automatic Electric Company in 1932, making this cover between 91 and 112 years old.

It's only the second such cover I've come across on the streets of Glasgow (but I'm sure there must be more out there!).

#glasgow #manholecovers #oldmanholecover
#streetfurniture #telephones #glasgowhistory #artnouveau

Water Manhole Cover
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

#photography #StLouis #Missouri #manholecovers

A rusty metal manhole containing the words St. Louis Water

A while ago I posted the logo of the Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company (formed in 1911) which I found on a manhole cover in Broomhill. Today, I found one in Scotstoun with the very similar logo of the Automatic Telephone and Electric Company, which ATM became in 1936. These are the only two such manhole covers I've found in Glasgow so far.

#glasgow #manholecovers
#artnouveaufont
#logos #scotstoun #automatictelephoneandelectriccompany

#ManholeCovers

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