tarboat's photos with the keyword: cast iron

Weight restriction sign on a small bridge. These signs were once common but few now survive. How will the drivers of heavy motor cars now know whether the bridge is sufficient?

Manhole cover outside Chester Station. The lettering presumably refers to the Birkenhead Joint Railway which ran from Chester to Birkenhead and was operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway, or maybe it's Birkenhead Junction Railway. I would love to know what is the answer.

Spotted in Chesterfield protecting the corner of the churchyard wall. Spital Works will have made this in the second half of the nineteenth century.

In 1863, the Wrexham Waterworks Company was established to supply the town with clean water. By 1904 demand had increased, and the company now supplied parts of Cheshire as well as Wrexham. To meet this increased demand, a new, larger reservoir was built, named Ty Mawr (Big House), which opened in 1907. The same Act of Parliament that allowed the construction also authorised the name change of Wrexham Waterworks Company to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. A treatment works was also constructed at Legacy, where this notice protects the filter beds to this day.

Not many of these left in situ. So often stolen by collectors or scrap men. :-(