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Street furniture

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This is outside the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton, but could be seen in Birmingham.
The Broads Manufacturing Company Ltd., historically based in London (later with a foundry in Hanwell), produced a range of cast-iron inspection hole covers and gratings under the brand name “Silent Knight”, so-called to emphasise their quiet, non-rocking operation on roads and pavements.
Silent Knight covers were widely installed across the UK—including cities like Birmingham and Wolverhampton

(Historic England also occasionally refers to notable manhole covers as “surviving examples of industrial street furniture” when listing or assessing older streetscapes.)










  • Silent Knight covers were widely installed across the UK—including cities like Birmingham and Wolverhampton







  • Silent Knight covers were widely installed across the UK—including cities like Birmingham and Wolverhampton
 
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