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paul stacey said:
The victorian gentleman's relief, based on the French, Paris , pissoir's, from a time when councils concentrated, on public works, for the betterment of society. They were not obsessed with, gender, leveling up, and diversity .!!
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Thank you Paul, I did not realize that is where the “slang” name came from!
 
mikejee said:
Then round metal plates high on the wall look like the sort they add to buildings to stop the walls collapsing outwards Would they have been adde dlater or installed initially?
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Usually the metal plates are tied together with a steel rod. If/when the walls buckle as Mike suggests, heat the rod which expands then they tighten the nuts. When the rod cools it contracts and pulls the wall in.
 
Richard Dye said:
Usually the metal plates are tied together with a steel rod. If/when the walls buckle as Mike suggests, heat the rod which expands then they tighten the nuts. When the rod cools it contracts and pulls the wall in.
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...or just continue tightening the end nuts as the wall buckling reduces. I cannot imagine workers trying to insert a heated rod through the constuction! Ouch!
 
They did not try to insert heated rods; they put them in place then heated with blowlamps or small coke braziers hanging from wires before tightening the nuts. The aim being just to put some tension in the rods but not over stress the building structure.
 
I was wondering when they were put in, and also where the other end is. Presumably inside one of the structures below the track. There are further arches the other side of the tunnel under the track where one might expect it to be

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mikejee said:
I was wondering when they were put in, and also where the other end is. Presumably inside one of the structures below the track. There are further arches the other side of the tunnel under the track where one might expect it to be

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I was originally planning to photograph both sides (Livery St / Constitution Hill) of the siding walls, and also underneath the arches (cue the song.....). However - lack of time, vile weather and the fact that the arches down by the Lionel St end contained some VERY undesirable-looking characters made me decide to revisit at about 06.00 on a Sunday morning when I (hopefully) can have the place to myself. This is one of the downsides of walking around with the best part of three grands worth of cameras, lenses and flashguns around your neck - you have to be careful of what is going on around you. I had the same issue when I photographed the Birmingham Brewery the second time - by the end I was "attracting attention" so to speak.....
 
Mark Tooze said:
I was originally planning to photograph both sides (Livery St / Constitution Hill) of the siding walls, and also underneath the arches (cue the song.....). However - lack of time, vile weather and the fact that the arches down by the Lionel St end contained some VERY undesirable-looking characters made me decide to revisit at about 06.00 on a Sunday morning when I (hopefully) can have the place to myself. This is one of the downsides of walking around with the best part of three grands worth of cameras, lenses and flashguns around your neck - you have to be careful of what is going on around you. I had the same issue when I photographed the Birmingham Brewery the second time - by the end I was "attracting attention" so to speak.....
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Yes, for sure you would be a target!
 
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